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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - 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BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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is being wiped by a US billionaire.", "Researchers used detailed images of the heart to look for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.", "The UK's second-biggest steel maker has been seeking £75m in government backing to help it stay afloat.", "David Davies, who wears a body camera, is called a liar and a traitor while giving an interview.", "An off-duty medic begged staff to unlock the door so he could help victims of the London Bridge attack.", "A Belfast woman speaks ahead of the contaminated blood inquiry hearing evidence in Belfast.", "The activists had hoped to stay in the boxes which were blocking entrances to BP's head office for several days.", "Police Scotland have asked that an external force peer review \"wholly unsatisfactory and unprofessional\" conduct.", "The UK celebrity chef says he is \"devastated\" as his restaurant group goes into administration.", "The three-time world champion is famous for a remarkable recovery from a near-fatal crash.", "As half-term holidays loom, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January.", "The chef signs a deal with Tesco for a food promotion reminiscent of his long partnership with Sainsbury's.", "The Association of School and College Leaders described it as \"pretty unethical conduct\".", "Why are chains like Byron burger and Jamie's Italian struggling?", "Streets around the famous Parisian landmark were closed as the man scaled the 1,000ft structure.", "The Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle when he was covered in milkshake.", "This video has been removed for right reasons.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The Brexit Party leader is referred to a European Parliament committee over the £450,000 sum.", "The retailer is launching a monthly subscription service for fashionistas who are happy to share.", "Theresa May says MPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back her bill.", "A conflict is more likely today than at any time since President Donald Trump took office.", "A Tesco clubcard and national insurance card were among those posted to Becca Milsom.", "The handwritten wills have been found at the Queen of Soul's Detroit home, a lawyer reveals.", "Jude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome and found becoming a dad for the first time very difficult.", "The PM wants MPs them to vote on what she says is a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly has changed?", "Businessman Eric Michels, who died last August, appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall.", "A three-time Formula 1 world champion and non-executive chairman of the Mercedes team, Niki Lauda was one of the biggest names in motorsport.", "A student is left with a bleed on the brain when a driver veers across a road in north London.", "Voters have been deciding who should represent them on 11 councils across Northern Ireland.", "Provides an overview of India, including key events and facts about the world's largest democracy.", "The Labour Party suffers a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015.", "The video-sharing site has deleted videos of citizen's arrests made by Stephen Dure.", "Caster Semenya wins the 800m at the first Diamond League meet of the season in Doha and vows to not quit the sport after IAAF ruling.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Direct links to climate change are difficult to prove but rising temperatures are increasing cyclone intensity, say scientists.", "Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson says her party is showing signs of a \"fightback\".", "Josh Dey retrieves CCTV footage of the crash in Highgate in which he suffered a bleed on the brain.", "Labour takes former Tory flagship council Trafford, but suffers significant losses elsewhere.", "News of the engagement emerged after she was seen attending a ceremony with a ring on her left hand.", "Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.", "Torrential rain and powerful winds of up to 200 km/h (125mph) cause widespread disruption.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.", "There have also been some surprising successes for Alliance and the Greens.", "The dog that attacked Frankie MacRitchie in a caravan at a holiday park was put down this week.", "Fans and football greats gather in Glasgow to pay their final respects to the Celtic and Scotland legend.", "Peer-to-peer micro-bonuses could soon change the dynamic in the UK’s workplaces.", "Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, was a \"kind and gentle man\", says Han Solo actor Harrison Ford.", "The arts prize faced criticism for the deal with a company linked to an anti-gay rights campaigner.", "The grime star breaks a rap streaming record to beat Taylor Swift to the UK chart top spot.", "A coroner says a man acted lawfully when he stabbed a burglar to death at his home in London.", "The moment Gerald Ramsden is elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.", "Ann Moore-Martin was \"like a love-struck teenager\" with a man 57 years her junior, a court hears.", "The Treasury is seeking views about the future of our coins - but what uses do 1p and 2p pieces have?", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani is due to make landfall during Friday morning, local time, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and a powerful storm surge.", "Plans for the Isle of Wight church include building on graves interred as recently as 2012.", "Stephanie Hayden and Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow are told not to mention each other online.", "Council polls will offer an insight into what the British public makes of politics right now.", "She helped the group sell more than £2.7m of cocaine with her son directing operations from prison.", "The British Film Institute is criticised for a \"provocative\" season dedicated to \"fierce females\".", "A former Conservative councillor heckles the prime minister as she addresses the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.", "A mass for football legend Billy McNeill will be held in Glasgow city centre before the cortege heads to Celtic Park.", "Counting continues after council and mayoral elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "The new international development secretary says he intends to run for the Conservative leadership.", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "Protesters have described the commemoration at Westminster Abbey as \"completely inappropriate\".", "Voters tell Tory and Labour candidates across the country: \"We don't like the way you are handling Brexit.\"", "The Tories and Labour get a thumping in the local elections.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "Graham Brady says \"dissatisfaction\" over Brexit is hitting the Conservative vote.", "Tory minister James Cleverly says the local council elections will be a \"tough night\" for his party.", "The bank's boss, John Flint, says the result is \"encouraging\" in a climate of global economic uncertainty.", "Former billionaire John Kapoor was found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers.", "Leader Vince Cable hails local election results as \"positive\" as he meets supporters in Essex.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London is mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.", "The network accused InfoWars' Alex Jones and the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan of hate speech.", "The US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.", "Beyond the headlines of misery for the UK's two major parties, smaller plot twists have played out.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "Officials say hostility to medical staff is hindering efforts to tackle the deadly disease.", "Bangladesh's foreign minister says the 19-year-old IS bride has \"nothing to do\" with his country.", "The world's largest economy added 263,000 jobs in April, while the jobless rate fell to 3.6%.", "The party stalwart blames its poor leadership, Brexit \"duplicity\" and the anti-Semitism row for his decision.", "The foreign secretary attacks \"political correctness\" as report warns the religion could \"disappear\".", "Attempts are made to trace families of Sussex veterans who filmed messages in Asia.", "The coronation of Thailand's Vajiralongkorn is an elaborate mix of Buddhist and Brahmin rituals.", "An expert says Karanbir Cheema's fatal reaction to touching cheese was \"extraordinarily unusual\".", "Both parties will now look ahead nervously to the European elections.", "A Conservative council leader who lost his majority says she should \"consider her position\".", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Police \"will not tolerate disorder\" following trouble after Tommy Robinson's visit to Warrington.", "Conservative MP Vicky Ford is visibly upset during a BBC interview as the Tories lose a comfortable majority in Chelmsford.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Séamus Lawless reached the peak on Thursday but lost contact in an area known as \"the balcony\".", "Transport Focus says tickets need to be easier to buy and recommends firms install onboard wi-fi.", "Eight of the 100 people stabbed to death in the UK have been in the West Midlands area.", "Boris Johnson reveals he will run when Theresa May quits, saying: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"", "Investors are pricing in a higher chance of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, say analysts.", "Israel Folau's contract is terminated by Rugby Australia after he said \"hell awaits\" gay people in a social media post.", "MPs in German parliament say the BDS movement uses methods reminiscent to those used by the Nazis.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Knock Marriage Introductions claims to be behind 960 marriages, but demand has dropped in recent years.", "Sources tell the BBC the prime minister will step down if she loses the vote on the Brexit bill next month.", "The singer will perform Like A Virgin and a new track during Saturday's final in Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Fans and fellow wrestlers have been paying tribute, as Ashley died after being taken to hospital.", "Could fear of a no-deal Brexit give Theresa May one last shot at achieving her \"mission impossible\"?", "The force exerted on Ateeq Rafiq by the cinema seat was equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.", "Writing the report was \"far more complex\" than originally anticipated, an inquiry solicitor says.", "The BBC has tracked the killings to uncover the stories of those who have lost their lives.", "Sarah McTernan is sent packing while favourites Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands progress.", "Shares in the travel firm plunge almost 30% after Citigroup says the company's shares have no value.", "Patients unable to have sex are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing acne drug Roaccutane.", "The prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor, after the next big vote on the Brexit bill.", "The firm will seek certification from the US regulator which grounded the jet after two crashes.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Family of baby waiting for a heart transplant asks parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.", "Jack Renshaw, who gave a Nazi salute as he was sentenced, will serve at least 20 years in prison.", "Three Britons and a South African have been killed in the crash near Dubai airport, authorities say.", "Employers should be responsible from protecting staff from harassment, says the TUC.", "Doctors say the surgery could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.", "The firm has borrowed money from its backers as it seeks a \"permanent solution\" to its financial woes.", "Helen Kennett asked the knifeman what was wrong with him before he stabbed her, an inquest hears.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after his head got stuck in a \"Gold Class\" cinema seat in Birmingham.", "Deliveroo says it is looking forward to working with \"customer obsessed\" Amazon.", "Carl Beech named only Jimmy Savile and his stepfather as abusers in his first police interview, a court hears.", "A victim of revenge porn changed her identity and moved cities to escape the shame but now she says enough is enough.", "The widow of a man killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings says the documents may help secure justice.", "Could Labour MPs and Tories with their eyes on a future leadership contest come to the PM's rescue?", "A dog that lost the use of one of its legs digs out a baby buried alive in a field in Thailand.", "I Don't Care goes straight to number one - but falls short of breaking sales records.", "Loughborough Town Hall has changed its signage following the abuse Zoe Young suffered.", "The Conservatives are accused of putting party over country on Question Time from Elgin, Scotland.", "Nick Cooke-Priest is removed following reports that he used an MoD car for personal trips.", "Australian election officials cross air, land and sea - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.", "The SNP leader says voting for her party in the European elections is a chance to \"make Scotland's voice heard\".", "A TV critic's comments about Keeping Faith star Eve Myles are criticised by her husband.", "British-Iranian nationals are advised against going to Iran because of an \"intolerable risk\" of mistreatment.", "Hers was the feline face that launched a thousand memes, but Grumpy Cat is no more.", "If the trend continues, age screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered, researchers say.", "An F-16 jet slams to the ground near a base outside Los Angeles after the pilot ejects.", "A committee cites evidence that more than 1,000 children in custody were sexually abused from 2009-2017.", "Tributes are paid to the man whose iconic buildings also include the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.", "Passengers arriving in the UK will no longer have to fill in landing cards from Monday.", "The US president reportedly tells top officials he does not want a war with Iran as tensions mount.", "Hundreds of tiny tissue samples were found on the estate of German anatomist Hermann Stieve.", "Three people on board escape with minor injuries as the plane came down on the A40 in Monmouthshire.", "Lord Lovat is accused of blocking off car parking areas near his Beauly home and leaving \"unofficial\" parking tickets on cars.", "Veteran actress and singer Doris Day is honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.", "The lorry driver was filmed by police as part of a crackdown on dangerous driving.", "A cardinal flips a switch to restore power to people in an occupied state-owned building in Rome.", "The president denies new tariffs on Chinese goods will hit consumers and says China should not respond.", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "A petition signed by 350,000 people calls for \"netting\" of trees and hedges to be a criminal offence.", "The singer turned movie star enjoyed success in such films as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk.", "A man and two women were shot with arrows in a Bavarian hotel, then more dead women were found.", "With one of the Premier League's most extraordinary title races now over, we look at the small margins that finally separated Manchester City and Liverpool.", "Bradley Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment in Edinburgh last month.", "Prosecutors recommend prison time for the actress, who paid to have her daughter's exam corrected.", "An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.", "Elizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe's 93-year-old mother was too frail to attend the first wedding.", "Mental health experts say the issue is too often overlooked but is causing people real distress.", "The director tells how he was drawn to the \"amazing\" seaside towns of England's east coast.", "People who began work between 2008 and 2011 have had lower pay and worse job prospects, says a report.", "Manchester City have a squad filled with talent but it is their staying power that has got them over the line, says Phil McNulty.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Three people escape with minor injuries after the light aircraft they were in crashed on a road.", "The Duchess of Sussex shares a photo of her newborn son's feet to celebrate Mother's Day in the US.", "Police forces have missed several chances to make facial recognition fit for purpose, finds BBC probe.", "Manchester City are the champions after holding off Liverpool. It felt like a relentless title battle but do the stats back that up?", "Police said it was a miracle no-one died in the attacks, which took place in and around Glasgow.", "Doris Day becomes the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album of new material, according to the Official Charts Company.", "The award-winning actress and singer, who embodied the archetypal all-American girl next door, dies at 97.", "The threat of a $20 fine and the lure of \"democracy sausages\" mean almost all Australians vote in elections.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "Saulius Skvernelis fails to qualify for the second round in the country's presidential election.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said extra spending could go towards providing new military capabilities.", "The copy of DH Lawrence's novel used in the 1960 obscenity trial sold for £56,000 at auction last year.", "Killing Eve's Jodie Comer is named best actress and Benedict Cumberbatch wins best actor.", "Councils in England will have a legal duty to provide secure homes for victims, the PM says.", "The deputy leader urges voters to reject \"nationalism\" and \"populism\" in the EU elections.", "Journalist and political adviser Mina Mangal was shot at close range in broad daylight in Kabul.", "James McMullan was helping Sara Zelenak to her feet when the pair were killed, an inquest hears.", "Three stories of what happens when false information is spread about you on social media sites.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "Baptist pastor Steven Anderson is the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old law.", "An ex-paratrooper breaks down in tears at the inquest into the killing of 10 people in Belfast in 1971.", "The Irish fighter was facing criminal charges after allegedly smashing a fan's phone in Florida.", "Footage obtained by the BBC gives a rare insight into life in the conflict-hit city of Taiz.", "An unnamed Iranian woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for spying for the UK.", "The upcoming elections are going to be difficult for the Conservatives, says the education secretary.", "On tax, China and treatment of women, Eric Schmidt tells BBC he will defend Google for a \"very long time\".", "All the latest news about Northern Ireland local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Daisy May Cooper explains why she took to the Bafta red carpet dressed as a rubbish bin.", "Brighton sack manager Chris Hughton after the Seagulls finished 17th in the Premier League.", "The former US president, 94, was on his way to go turkey hunting when he fell at his home.", "LGBT campaigner Melissa Ede won £4m on a scratchcard bought while filling up her taxi at a petrol station.", "Rescuers describe how they pulled three people from a burning plane that narrowly missed hitting their car.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Ex-Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell was found guilty of a health and safety charge.", "The 12-man moped gang also stole BBC equipment filming the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.", "Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions after coming from behind to beat Brighton on a dramatic final day of the season.", "China says it will raise tariffs on some US imports from 1 June, extending a mutual trade war.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Would you crawl through hundreds of metres of mud for charity?", "Labour's deputy leader says the move would counter a challenge from Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party.", "Police are carrying out a forensic examination of Emma Fauld's car, a week after she was last seen in Ayrshire.", "Police say Hungarian national Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa \"suffered multiple injuries\".", "The online estate agency apologises for its \"disappointing\" performance over the past 12 months.", "The deadly inferno at Moscow's main airport came after a very rough landing.", "The runner only discovered that the Great Stirling Run prize had been \"slashed\" to £200 after it was over.", "The Duke of Cambridge jokingly welcomes his brother to the \"sleep deprivation society that is parenting\".", "A review calls for more accountability for what happens to young people excluded from school.", "They are called to incidents like road crashes, break-ins and drug seizures which do not require an armed response.", "Lance Corporal Chad Spalding says he doesn't want animals ending up as \"just pictures in a book\".", "The Prince of Wales says relations are \"in transition\" due to Brexit, as he begins a tour of Germany.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Guinness World Record overturns an \"outdated\" decision after a row about a nurse's uniform.", "Natasha Abrahart was worried about being \"kicked off her course\", her mother tells an inquest.", "Areas with larger cuts to youth services were more likely to see a knife crime rise, a study suggests.", "A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould in Calne.", "Pamela Anderson criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.", "A California university rescinds an honour because of the singer's 2016 domestic abuse arrest.", "It comes after the government signed £100m of Brexit consultant contracts in February.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "She announced the arrival of a \"royal baby\" just after the Duchess of Sussex delivered her own son.", "Twenty years after devolution, what do people think about the Welsh Assembly?", "The wildflower meadows are being planted in 22 parks in north London to boost declining numbers.", "Multi-billion offshore wind projects hint at a brighter future for the economy in Great Yarmouth.", null, "About 30 people at Teknival had to be treated after it snowed unexpectedly in France.", "The CIA blamed bad mapping but China has never believed that the strikes were an accident.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "The government has confirmed the elections will take place on 23 May.", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "Judd Trump wins his maiden World Championship title after beating John Higgins 18-9 in a supreme display at the Crucible.", "Liverpool produce one of the greatest Champions League comebacks by scoring four goals to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate and reach the final.", "The protests come a day before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.", "Man City are one win away from the Premier League title after Vincent Kompany's stunning goal secures victory against Leicester.", "Family, friends and school life all have a greater impact on life satisfaction, researchers say.", "Dillan Brown - who died on Saturday - is described as \"warm, cheerful and loving\".", "The bodies of Jasmine Lovett and her one-year-old daughter were found in woodland on Monday.", "Pixel 3a phones are about half the cost of earlier models, while firm's smart screen gets a camera.", "From free trade agreement to no deal, find out what the key terms mean.", "The teens were attacked within 10 minutes of one another in Islington, north London.", "Scott Morrison is targeted by a protester while campaigning ahead of the Australian election.", "Talks involving five main parties were announced after murder of journalist Lyra McKee last month.", "Mathew Talbot was killed during a counter-poaching operation and is survived by his family and girlfriend.", "Celebrities reveal their interpretations of this year's theme: 'camp'.", "Police drive home the message that passing too close to a cyclist can result in three penalty points.", "Joseph McCann is suspected of carrying out \"grotesque and horrifying attacks\" across the country.", "The tree disease will cost taxpayers a third more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle in 2001.", "The environment secretary said wildlife charities had advised him to \"be cautious\".", "No 10 is trying to get talks with Labour over the line by setting out a path for future decision making.", "Police carry out a forensic examination of a detached property in Ayrshire a week after Emma Faulds is last seen.", "Neighbours say the \"huge explosion\" rattled the windows of homes further along the road.", "Mandeep Singh has been reported in connection with conditions imposed on Saturday’s independence march.", "With Theresa May announcing her departure, both No Deal and No Brexit are more likely.", "Parents and campaigners outside Anderton Park Primary give their views on the ongoing protests.", "The South Korean director won the prestigious award for his dark comedy thriller, Parasite.", "Andrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham.", "Cllr Rakhia Ismail, from Islington, London, is thought to be the first UK mayor to wear a hijab.", "The latest closures by his struggling Arcadia empire will include mostly Evans and Miss Selfridge shops.", "The Border Force was alerted to a small boat travelling across the Channel at about 06:20 BST.", "Merseyrail takes down posters for the singer's new album over concerns about his political views.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.", "Four more children are in hospital as a man and woman held on suspicion of murder are questioned.", "The club releases a statement after the conviction of ex-youth team coach Jim McCafferty on 14 May.", "Carl Beech wept as he told police how his friend \"Scott\" was killed after an MI5 boss's warning.", "The US president will join the Queen and a host of royals at a state banquet after a palace welcome.", "Jeddah Running Community is one of a growing number of mixed gender Saudi Arabian running groups.", "Station Café, which opened to customers in 1935, is closing for the last time on Saturday.", "A property group that borrowed millions has not paid some people back, a BBC investigation finds.", "The drones use lidar to create a 3D picture to assess the health of what lies beneath the forest canopy.", "It is believed that the area was once-fertile land and a township stretching for 20 miles.", "Amanda Eller, 35, had not been seen since 8 May but was discovered by rescuers on Friday.", "Education Secretary Damian Hinds rejects claims of universities going broke, ahead of tuition fee cut.", "Rules in England making it easier to build extensions of up to 8m are being made permanent.", "Ten workers are held over the alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.", "Celtic come from behind to secure a historic treble treble as Odsonne Edouard's double sinks Hearts in the Scottish Cup final.", "Jason Manford tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\".", "The chances of Moscow complying with the UN tribunal's ruling are thought to be minimal.", "A special bench, paid for by the local community, was revealed in the \"children's corner\" area of the beach at Rothesay.", "Text reminders and after-work appointments are recommended in a report on improving cancer screening.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated at an event which included a flypast and military parade.", "Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wants a prosecution of each protester.", "Theresa May became emotional as she announced she would step down as Conservative leader on 7 June.", "The 14-year-old is arrested and charged as police investigate the death of 35-year-old Daniel McGuigan in Glasgow's Castlemilk.", "Leo Latifi was with family members at an after-school swimming club when the accident happened.", "Six children were taken to hospital after Friday's incident but two boys, aged 13 and 14, died.", "No companies have been fined in the first year of tough new data laws, despite a sharp rise in breaches.", "Musician Ten Tonnes said he could not get to the Neighbourhood Weekender festival with the delays.", "\"Junk news\" has been far less prevalent on Twitter and Facebook than stories from reliable news sources.", "Cadent left some customers without supplies for more than five months and had no records for 775 tower blocks.", "The shoe was to be a tribute to Puerto Rico but featured a design from an indigenous group in Panama.", "Journalist Karen Martin told colleagues she was offered £12,000 less than a man doing the same role.", "Criticism comes from all sides after Theresa May attempts to win backing for her Brexit compromise.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "Robyn used to drink and smoke marijuana, but says her impending little girl changed her life.", "Steven Dymond was found dead days after failing a lie-detector test on the ITV show.", "Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup from 32 teams to 48 are abandoned by football's world governing body Fifa.", "UK voters electing 73 Members of the European Parliament from 12 constituencies.", "Some Tory MPs are renewing calls to oust the PM, as Labour calls her new offer \"too weak\".", "The union campaign comes as the yards look set to lose out on work for a huge EDF wind farm project off the Fife coast.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Michael Green called 999 twice after his neck got wedged between a chair and table, relatives say.", "Resident James McConnell died a week after eating chlorine tablets at the Fife care home in 2015.", "Female-voiced AIs are portrayed as \"eager to please\", suggesting women are \"subservient\" says study.", "Sepsis survivor Tom Ray wants better awareness and faster diagnosis of the potentially deadly disease.", "Consumer inflation was 2.1% in April, boosted by energy price rises and air fares.", "Firm says that Huawei's 5G phones will not be available initially.", "Anxious workers in Scunthorpe are waiting to hear the fate of the UK's second-biggest steel maker.", "The prime minister has said she will stand down on 7 June.", "Almost £50,000 has been donated as a reward for information that results in finding the Disappeared.", "Vital food aid is being diverted by some corrupt officials in Houthi-held areas, a UN official says.", "Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown says she was forced to switch schools because of bullying.", "The PM says the backstop is staying but adds a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\".", "The UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed\", says a UN-commissioned report on the UK.", "A 28-year-old man is arrested after a gun was fired near the Seven Kings Masjid in east London.", "Ian Clowes wanted to stop his ex-wife from owning their former marital home, a court heard.", "Nipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his Los Angeles clothes shop in March.", "Theresa May's attempt at offering compromise prompts anger from almost all quarters.", "Change UK has spent more than £60,000 in the past week on the platform, while UKIP spent under £100.", "One of the injured says the attackers looked like they were stalking someone when they entered a bar.", "Their battles on the track defined motor racing in the 1970s, and were immortalised in the film Rush.", "Chinese company is dealt an \"insurmountable\" blow as chip designer says it must comply with US trade ban.", "John Letts and Sally Lane deny funding terrorism after their son Jack Letts travelled to Syria.", "Andrea Leadsom's full resignation letter in which she says she doesn't believe Theresa May's Brexit approach will \"deliver on the referendum result\".", "The UK's second-biggest steel maker has been seeking £75m in government backing to help it stay afloat.", "David Davies, who wears a body camera, is called a liar and a traitor while giving an interview.", "Eight years after a similar scandal, the BBC went undercover to investigate complaints of patients being bullied and mistreated.", "The UK celebrity chef says he is \"devastated\" as his restaurant group goes into administration.", "It is not yet known if the two deaths within 24 hours are connected in any way.", "As half-term holidays loom, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January.", "Some UK citizens living abroad have received their European election postal votes late - or not at all.", "Committee hears evidence local politicians will need to be \"very brave\" to introduce a workplace parking tax.", "A top lobby group says US firms in China are worried about Beijing's response to curbs on Huawei.", "The Italian fashion house will no longer use fur from next year, joining the list of fur-free brands.", "In a non-binding vote, the General Assembly demands the UK give the islands back to Mauritius.", "Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with learning disabilities.", "The retailer is launching a monthly subscription service for fashionistas who are happy to share.", "Blackpink say their \"hearts ached\" for victims as the group performed on the venue's stage.", "Theresa May says MPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back her bill.", "A group of investors had sought to stop the firm providing its Rekognition system to police.", "Thirty-one years after he was left for dead, one of the taxi driver's victims has his day in court.", "A Tesco clubcard and national insurance card were among those posted to Becca Milsom.", "Personal details for 4,545 TalkTalk customers stolen during a 2015 data breach are accessible online.", "Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff waded into the LGBT lessons row saying they were not \"age appropriate\".", "The PM wants MPs them to vote on what she says is a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly has changed?", "Businessman Eric Michels, who died last August, appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall.", "But there's a recognition in Downing Street of how difficult it will be to get Theresa May's Brexit plan to a vote.", "James McMullan was helping Sara Zelenak to her feet when the pair were killed, an inquest hears.", "Footage obtained by the BBC gives a rare insight into life in the conflict-hit city of Taiz.", "Police believe 15-year-old Leah Heyes collapsed and died after taking the drug MDMA.", "A botched attempt to hack the iPhone of a human rights lawyer has exposed a secretive hacking group.", "Mark Edwards can only eat 6g of protein a day due to a condition affecting one in 10,000 people.", "On tax, China and treatment of women, Eric Schmidt tells BBC he will defend Google for a \"very long time\".", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said extra spending could go towards providing new military capabilities.", "The Duke of Sussex met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift.", "Richard Livett was stabbed as Khuram Butt shouted \"Allahu Akbar\", the London Bridge inquest hears.", "ITV's decision to suspended the show over the death of a guest leaves more questions than answers.", "Keya Morgan faces five counts of abuse against Lee, prior to the comic book icon's death last year aged 95.", "Uefa investigators want Manchester City banned from the Champions League for a season if they are found guilty of breaking financial rules.", "The company says a baby food product - Cheesy Broccoli Bake - may contain fragments of rubber.", "The party lifts former leader David Steel's suspension after \"clarifying\" remarks he made about an MP accused of abuse.", "Aston Villa reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley with a penalty shootout victory over West Bromwich Albion.", "LGBT campaigner Melissa Ede won £4m on a scratchcard bought while filling up her taxi at a petrol station.", "The government's Brexit negotiator will hold talks on how the political declaration might be changed if there is a cross-party Brexit deal.", "The singer turned movie star enjoyed success in such films as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk.", "Rescuers describe how they pulled three people from a burning plane that narrowly missed hitting their car.", "Still going strong at the age of 83, Larry Barilli has managed amateur football teams in Greenock since the 1950s.", "\"If we do not have a signed contract she cannot perform on our stage,\" say contest organisers.", "The T2 Trainspotting actor died after being shot on the steps of his basement flat in Edinburgh last month.", "The RSPCA says the frog, nicknamed Lloyd, turned up in a Nottingham supermarket.", "The unemployment rate north of the border hits a record low of 3.2% - well below the UK figure of 3.8%.", "High Court judges order a fresh case be brought against the former English Defence League leader.", "The latest figures show Northern Ireland still has the highest economic inactivity rate in the UK.", "The steelmaker says it is seeking another government loan amid reports it is close to administration.", "Omar Ashfaq left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda in the shoes of Muslim worshippers.", "The UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11bn items of waste a year, say campaigners.", "The two leaders will share the views of their cabinets, as weeks of talks show little sign of progress.", "Customers across the UK had struggled to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.", "Bradley Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment in Edinburgh last month.", "China says it will raise tariffs on some US imports from 1 June, extending a mutual trade war.", "The family of a Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has moved after they received death threats.", "Prosecutors recommend prison time for the actress, who paid to have her daughter's exam corrected.", "Carl Beech is accused of lying about child murders and abuse by a group of powerful public figures.", "An American explorer finds plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.", "Aaron Campbell is given permission to appeal against his 27-year sentence for killing the six-year-old on Bute last July.", "Oritse Williams denies attacking the woman in his hotel room after a gig.", "A mum-of-three says she put her life at risk while sleepwalking.", "The prime minister sets a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal.", "Olly Robbins heads to Brussels as cabinet ministers discuss the future of talks with Labour.", "The changes come as violence in India is blamed on rumours of child abductions, spread via WhatsApp.", "A former runner on the show gives us a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes.", "Six vulnerable young victims had to ask permission to use drug money to buy food.", "Inequalities are damaging health and trust in democracy, the IFS think tank says.", "The chat app will only allow users to forward messages five times to limit the spread of false news.", "The firm will offer its next-generation mobile network to businesses and the public in seven cities.", "Jim McCafferty, who worked with the Celtic youth team and Celtic Boys Club, abused teenage boys over 26 years.", "Mark Sewell is the third man to be charged with killing the 45-year-old in a Belfast street in January.", "The presenter issues a lengthy apology a day after the BBC sacked him for a royal baby chimp tweet.", "Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister says.", "The officer did not properly investigate reports by Shana Grice who was later killed, a panel finds.", "Pupils in England are missing out on valuable time to exercise and make friends, researchers suggest.", "The US and China are trying to hammer out a trade deal. But will an agreement end their rivalry?", "The 10-year city centre transformation project would see the tram extend between Haymarket and University of Edinburgh.", "The former England captain admits using his mobile while driving through London's West End.", "Forestry expert tells of the devastating impact of disease and the drastic measures needed to stop it.", "Rubbish Party councillor Sally Cogley has hailed the East Ayrshire scheme as a UK first.", "MPs from various parties write to the US biotech firm behind Kuvan, a drug the NHS says is too expensive.", "A class of six and seven-year-olds will not sit the exams as \"they should be out playing\".", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "A teacher battling breast cancer has to pay $200 a day for her own substitute under California law.", "The ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the range expected.", "The head of the CBI calls for a lower minimum salary for immigrants because of Scotland's ageing workforce.", "But the ex-US intelligence analyst may be held again over her refusal to testify in a Wikileaks probe.", "The 62-year-old who is said to be worth $50b has bought over the world's oldest toy retailer.", "Detectives said Emma Faulds' family face a \"harrowing time\" after a man was charged with her murder.", "The \"witty and profound\" writer's work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths.", "Home secretary tells BBC he is criticised for being \"too brown\" or \"not brown enough\".", "Dentists say the products risk tooth decay and damage to the enamel from abrasive brushing.", "The government's official number-crunchers realise that we need new ways to measure living standards.", "William, Kate, Harry and Meghan are backing the Shout initiative with a £3m grant from their charity.", "The Home Office is criticised for failing to deliver a new radio network for emergency services.", "Orkambi has been licensed for use in the UK, but is still not available to all patients with the condition.", "The BBC says it is \"inappropriate\" to feature political party leaders in an election period.", "Eden Hazard scores the winning penalty as Chelsea edge past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.", "Sharon Patterson and Lee Pollard ditched work and faked forms while carrying out investigations.", "The former Young Ones and Bottom star is moving to Albert Square.", "A Norwegian woman is thought to have been infected by a stray while on holiday in the Philippines.", "The 39-year-old man will appear in court later although the body of Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds has not been found.", "Survivors say the boat left Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.", "Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "Changes to the handling of sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", says retired judge.", "Delays in introducing a new radio system for emergency services could cost £475m a year, MPs warn.", "The True Cancer Bodies campaign was set up after what campaigners said were \"misleading\" adverts.", "Anna Sorokin \"was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City\", a judge says.", "The wild cat is encouraged down by workers with a cherry picker truck.", "Claimants who fail to follow rules can now only have payments halted or reduced for up to six months.", "Nobody has faced the maximum penalty since new guidelines were introduced in 2014, analysis shows.", "A gunshot is heard shortly after a man was ushered out of Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford, east London.", "Online sports betting is worth billions of pounds – but it's being described as a \"curse\" for some young Kenyans.", "UK financial compensation scheme says investors could have grounds for a claim, reversing earlier stance.", "Joseph McCann, who faces 21 charges including eight rapes, has refused to appear in court.", "A \"childish action\" saw Karanbir Cheema die from a severe allergic reaction, a coroner says.", "Programme host Fiona Bruce intervenes as politicians on the panel clash over Brexit.", "An armed PC tells how he treated dying Chrissy Archibald, initially thinking there had been an accident.", "A court heard Natalie McGarry was in debt when she embezzled money from pro-independence groups.", "Researchers plan for new centre to explore refreezing the poles, sucking out CO2 and ocean greening.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "Chrissy Archibald's fiance tried to revive her despite knowing she had died, the London Bridge attack inquests hear.", "Maya Bay, a huge tourist draw, was closed last year amid concerns over environmental damage.", "A former archbishop's compassion for a paedophile bishop did not extend to victims, a report says.", "The High Street fashion chain, with 169 stores across the UK, falls into administration.", "The BBC sacks the presenter over his \"royal baby\" image of a chimp in a suit holding hands with a couple.", "Bobby Davro, Amanda Holden and Jim Davidson are among those remembering his comedic talents.", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "English clubs create European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent's two major competitions.", "Celtic secure an eight consecutive Scottish title with a convincing victory away to third-top Aberdeen.", "She helped the group sell more than £2.7m of cocaine with her son directing operations from prison.", "Josh Dey retrieves CCTV footage of the crash in Highgate in which he suffered a bleed on the brain.", "Beyond the headlines of misery for the UK's two major parties, smaller plot twists have played out.", "Head teachers demand better support for schools facing protests over lessons on same-sex marriage.", "Visitor numbers at Snowdon and Pen y Fan are going up - leading to overflowing car parks and bins.", "The two agreed there was \"no collusion\" between the Trump campaign and Russia, said the White House.", "King Vajiralongkorn begins three days of traditional rites to symbolically transform him into a living god", "Officials say hostility to medical staff is hindering efforts to tackle the deadly disease.", "A former Conservative councillor heckles the prime minister as she addresses the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.", "The new Sky/HBO mini-series doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.", "Bangladesh's foreign minister says the 19-year-old IS bride has \"nothing to do\" with his country.", "The Labour Party suffers a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015.", "Nadia Sparkes, 13, was shown a knife and punched following taunts about her litter-picking.", "It was a bad night for the Tories and for Labour, while the Lib Dems, Greens and independents prospered.", "Final results show DUP and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties but Alliance and others make gains.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.", "Torrential rain and powerful winds of up to 200 km/h (125mph) cause widespread disruption.", "The man was killed after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car on the A709 west of Lockerbie.", "There have also been some surprising successes for Alliance and the Greens.", "Alan Simpson was a pilot in a plane which crashed into a mountain during bad weather.", "Alliance and the Greens were not the only winners in an election full of surprises.", "Health Secretary says he will \"consider all options\" to boost child immunisation uptake in England.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford says the party have been polling strongly in the council election.", "The compensation and legal bill for newspapers that hacked phones has already reached nearly £500m.", "The party stalwart blames its poor leadership, Brexit \"duplicity\" and the anti-Semitism row for his decision.", "Caster Semenya wins the 800m at the first Diamond League meet of the season in Doha and vows to not quit the sport after IAAF ruling.", "Alliance's surge is the most striking development of the NI council election results so far.", "Fulham's Harvey Elliott becomes the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.", "A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon.", "George Perrot, freed from a life sentence after his rape conviction was quashed, is accused of rape.", "The firings took place early on Saturday from the east of the country, says South Korea.", "Police investigate separate incidents where thieves forced their way into homes in Kilmarnock and Paisley to steal a safe.", "Israel carries out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants fired more than 200 rockets into Israel", "Manchester City beat West Ham to win the Women's FA Cup for the second time in three years at Wembley.", "An Edinburgh scientist warns not enough is known about predicting major volcanic eruptions.", "Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "An expert says Karanbir Cheema's fatal reaction to touching cheese was \"extraordinarily unusual\".", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Both parties will now look ahead nervously to the European elections.", "Direct links to climate change are difficult to prove but rising temperatures are increasing cyclone intensity, say scientists.", "The grime star breaks a rap streaming record to beat Taylor Swift to the UK chart top spot.", "The disqualified driver was recognised by a police officer who had dealt with him previously.", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann returns to politics, two years after losing his Northern Ireland Assembly seat.", "Keepers at Woodside Wildlife Park managed to move the eggs from a nest to an incubator.", "A Conservative council leader who lost his majority says she should \"consider her position\".", "Leader Vince Cable hails local election results as \"positive\" as he meets supporters in Essex.", "The jet carrying 143 people slid off a runway after landing in Jacksonville during a thunderstorm.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "The All Under One Banner event in Glasgow city centre has been organised by supporters of Scottish independence.", "The moment Gerald Ramsden is elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.", "Liverpool ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day of the season as Divock Origi's late winner sees them beat Newcastle in a thriller.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London is mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.", "Scientists in the Antarctic are monitoring seal poo to keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Ministers urge the Conservative party to unite - while Matt Hancock urges Tory MPs \"to compromise\".", "The Scottish Conservative leader warns the Tories will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".", "US President Donald Trump awards the \"President's Cup\" at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.", "The South Korean director won the prestigious award for his dark comedy thriller, Parasite.", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Losses for major centre-right and centre-left parties amid record high turnout across all 28 member states.", "Six children were taken to hospital after Friday's incident but two boys, aged 13 and 14, died.", "Andrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham.", "A report on the hospital where patients were allegedly abused presented \"warning bells\", says the author.", "Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a tornado which caused at least two deaths in El Reno.", "Fire safety experts warn that 1,700 buildings in England are likely to fail new fire tests.", "Sonita Alleyne, who will take up the post in October, is a graduate of Cambridge herself.", "Michael Gove has said he will enter the race for Tory leader, challenging his former Vote Leave ally Boris Johnson.", "The Border Force was alerted to a small boat travelling across the Channel at about 06:20 BST.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.", "Two boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen.", "The highest turnout since 1994 creates a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.", "Dozens of stars take to the stage for the three-day event in Stewart Park in Middlesbrough.", "Jeddah Running Community is one of a growing number of mixed gender Saudi Arabian running groups.", "The Lib Dems also see a surge in support, while the Tories and Labour suffer heavy losses, as voters split along Leave and Remain lines.", "The Scottish government has pledged cash to help organisations work more closely with families affected by the issue.", "The Spitfire was doing aerobatics near Biggin Hill Airport, south-east London, a report finds.", "Jodie Chesney, 17, was stabbed to death in an east London park in March.", "Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen, and survives a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.", "The drones use lidar to create a 3D picture to assess the health of what lies beneath the forest canopy.", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.", "Amanda Eller, 35, had not been seen since 8 May but was discovered by rescuers on Friday.", "Shops in Scotland's hospitals will not be allowed to sell high-energy drinks to anyone under 16.", "A 29-year-old man died when two yachts collided off the coast of Cannes, France.", "Rules in England making it easier to build extensions of up to 8m are being made permanent.", "The department of tourism said other factors such as weather conditions were involved.", "The chances of Moscow complying with the UN tribunal's ruling are thought to be minimal.", "Thousands of supporters spilled onto the roads as an open-top bus took players from Hampden after the Scottish Cup final.", "Dominic Raab wants to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table, but Chancellor Philip Hammond says ignoring MPs would be \"dangerous\".", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "Find results for your area and follow the others as they come in.", "Brexit Party gains 29 seats, with the Lib Dems second, while Tories and Labour suffer losses.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated at an event which included a flypast and military parade.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "The twin blasts also injured seven others, police say, but the cause is not yet clear.", "Philip Hammond says Parliament voted \"very clearly\" to oppose a no-deal Brexit and a future PM must listen.", "Referendum voters overwhelmingly back changes to the constitution to make divorce easier.", "Eight of the 100 people stabbed to death in the UK have been in the West Midlands area.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Labour MP Chris Bryant's constituency office in Tonypandy was targeted by vandals on Friday evening.", "MPs in German parliament say the BDS movement uses methods reminiscent to those used by the Nazis.", "The next Tory leader should not call a general election before Brexit is complete, the health secretary says.", "All the highs and lows from the contest in Tel Aviv, which saw the Netherlands win as the UK came last.", "Actor Taron Egerton captures Sir Elton's humour but fails to bare his soul, Will Gompertz says.", "Minute-by-minute coverage of Australia's election, with reporting and analysis from across the country.", "Racehorse owner plans legal action after request to appeal against the disqualification of Maximum Security as Kentucky Derby winner is rejected.", "Kevin Mallory, 62, is sentenced to 20 years in prison for disclosing military secrets.", "Tyler, The Creator was due to play in London after a ban on him entering the UK was overturned.", "Nicki Chapman will not host the Chelsea Flower Show following surgery to remove a brain tumour.", "Manchester City round off an outstanding season by dismantling Watford in the FA Cup final to clinch a historic domestic treble.", "The force exerted on Ateeq Rafiq by the cinema seat was equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.", "Veterans gather across the UK to oppose the prosecution of former British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland.", "A farewell parade in Windsor draws large crowds along the route.", "The 3rd Century coin was minted by an ill-fated Roman emperor who reigned for just two months.", "Footage appears to show the official offering government contracts in exchange for political support.", "Sara Canning, partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee, spoke at a rally demanding same-sex marriage.", "Heinz-Christian Strache resigned a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.", "Baroness Grey-Thompson says her parents might have had an abortion had they known about her disability.", "Britain's Johanna Konta comes from behind to beat Kiki Bertens and reach the final of the Italian Open against Karolina Pliskova.", "The actor says he will not press charges after being attacked at a public event in South Africa.", "Provides an overview of Austria, including key dates and facts about this central European country.", "Victims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, a victims group says.", "Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemns reports that Martin Sellner put a swastika on a synagogue in 2006.", "The latest blaze comes a month after another significant fire on Ilkley Moor.", "The findings of an investigation by the university says the doctor abused athletes from 1979-1997.", "Manchester City bid to become the first men's team to win the domestic treble in England when they face Watford in the FA Cup final on Saturday.", "The voting age could be lowered - but a polling expert is sceptical about its advantages.", "I Don't Care goes straight to number one - but falls short of breaking sales records.", "Stephen Fry and Little Mix among the celebrities honoured for supporting the LGBT community.", "The flame shell reef at Loch Carron was \"devastated\" by intensive scallop dredging two years ago.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he felt \"pain like no other\" after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.", "Australian election officials cross air, land and sea - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.", "Scotland's chief medic says Zholia Alemi may have prescribed ECT and wrongly detained mental health patients.", "A school is leading the way to make the daily commute better for the environment and for health.", "Dominant Lyon win a fourth straight European title as Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg nets a hat-trick against Barcelona.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says Mrs May should agree to another referendum to \"break the impasse\".", "Duncan Laurence wins the contest with his song Arcade, but the UK's Michael Rice comes bottom.", "An F-16 jet slams to the ground near a base outside Los Angeles after the pilot ejects.", "McDonald's staff in Edinburgh were told not to sell milkshakes or ice cream following a spate of throwing incidents.", "It is thought the wall collapsed inside a former factory in Birmingham where builders had been working.", "Police say Hungarian national Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa \"suffered multiple injuries\".", "The Duke of Cambridge jokingly welcomes his brother to the \"sleep deprivation society that is parenting\".", "The arrangement gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to keep news of their baby's birth secret - but why?", "The Prince of Wales says relations are \"in transition\" due to Brexit, as he begins a tour of Germany.", "The comedian said he struggles with anxiety and depression and social media can make it worse.", "The bodies of Jasmine Lovett and her one-year-old daughter were found in woodland on Monday.", "Video of a five-year-old Afghan amputee joyously dancing after being fitted with a new leg is widely shared.", "The storm swept over Mildura in Australia with wind gusts reaching up to 87km/h (54mph).", "The former Atomic Kitten singer sometimes had to take the child to work with her, a court hears.", "Police found parts that could have been made into more than 100 weapons, a court hears.", "The agreement guarantees free movement across the Irish border and access for study and health care.", "Natasha Abrahart was worried about being \"kicked off her course\", her mother tells an inquest.", "Pamela Anderson criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.", "Footballers past and present are among the mourners at the funeral of Celtic's 1967 European Cup-winning goal scorer.", "Khuram Butt was seen on CCTV cleaning his knife in a restaurant, shortly after eight people were killed.", "Lucas Moura scores a dramatic winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "Steel structures have been appearing in Stonehaven over the past 10 years, but the artist responsible was a mystery - until now.", "A video shows a Free Presbyterian minister criticising the DUP for selecting an openly gay politician.", "'None of us saw either of these names coming,' says one royal expert as the baby's name is revealed.", "Families of Grenfell Tower victims say witnesses were allowed to answer \"I don't recall\" too often.", "Experts uncover a painting within a painting that had been covered over after the artist's death.", "Schoolchildren suggest names for Harry and Meghan's new son, amid speculation he might be named later.", "Women and ethnic minorities are being disproportionately targeted, the Met Commissioner says.", "England captain Steph Houghton will lead a 23-strong squad to the Women's World Cup in France this summer.", "Prince Harry and Meghan have presented their newborn son to the world.", "Council officers say they will not be reinstated to Rose Street as they are \"no longer fit to withstand current use\".", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "A former student donated the Demerara Bell to St Catharine's College in Cambridge in 1960.", "The government has confirmed the elections will take place on 23 May.", "Liverpool produce one of the greatest Champions League comebacks by scoring four goals to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate and reach the final.", "The protests come a day before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.", "A timeline of the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy in photos.", "There are more doctors, but fewer are choosing to work full time, says the Royal College of GPs.", "The Las Vegas tech show organisers faced outrage in January after banning the vibrator.", "Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn support for the PM over the historical prosecution of veterans.", "A reader complained after reading the paper's \"awful\" reporting of the suicide of a girl in 1912.", "Recent figures showed just under a fifth of patients waited longer than a fortnight.", "The number of GPs per head of population in Scotland is higher than rest of the UK, BBC research finds.", "Talks involving five main parties were announced after murder of journalist Lyra McKee last month.", "A coroner says there was not enough evidence to say singer Keith Flint had taken his own life.", "Samuel Thomas, from Hertfordshire, was halfway out of the taxi in Sydney when it drove off, an inquest hears.", "Mathew Talbot was killed during a counter-poaching operation and is survived by his family and girlfriend.", "Who is getting the most and what's the average amount? National survey results reveal all.", "MPs debated funding for replacing cladding on private tower blocks and treatment for acquired brain injuries.", "The procedure is becoming more successful, the UK's fertility regulator says.", "Diageo wants to restore whisky production at Port Ellen on Islay as part of a £35m investment programme.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "No-one knew where it was until an Englishman now living in Florida decided to return it 60 years on.", "Organisers of more than 60 festivals say calling them 'festival tents' just encourages people to leave them behind.", "At least nine people die in a bomb attack next to a major shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore.", "British scientists undertake a new aerial survey of one of the most radioactive locations on Earth.", "Neighbours say the \"huge explosion\" rattled the windows of homes further along the road.", "A 17-year-old boy remains in custody on suspicion of murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould.", "The Met is offering a £20,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Joseph McCann.", "Head teachers demand better support for schools facing protests over lessons on same-sex marriage.", "Police say there is no evidence Joseph McCann, wanted over three attacks, has left the country.", "Belfast City Marathon organisers apologise after admitting Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.", "King Vajiralongkorn begins three days of traditional rites to symbolically transform him into a living god", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "North Korean state media said Saturday's drill was to test long-range multiple rocket launchers.", "Final results show DUP and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties but Alliance and others make gains.", "Arsenal's focus is now on the Europa League after their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton, says Unai Emery.", "Kieran Benson is polishing bus stops and road signs in the town in a bid to keep it tidy.", "The Scottish Conservative leader warns the Tories will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".", "Alan Simpson was a pilot in a plane which crashed into a mountain during bad weather.", "The grave where some of Joseph Merrick's remains were buried has been traced, an author claims.", "The shadow chancellor accuses Theresa May of an \"act of bad faith\" in cross-party Brexit talks.", "The call comes as investigations continue into the Easter Sunday attacks, which left 253 people dead.", "With the final results confirmed, here's our highlights reel of the 2019 council polls.", "Tom Lucking found a £145,000 pendant in Norfolk in 2014 - and has uncovered more hidden treasure.", "Fulham's Harvey Elliott becomes the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.", "A 52-year-old man was killed after being hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.", "He was airlifted to hospital after a 999 call reporting a person in the water off Llandudno.", "George Perrot, freed from a life sentence after his rape conviction was quashed, is accused of rape.", "A 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon.", "Deputy leader Stephen Farry welcomes success, but says being fifth party is still \"not good enough\".", "Israel carries out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants fired more than 200 rockets into Israel", "Joseph McCann - who police wanted in connection with three rapes and two abductions - is arrested.", "Calls grow for inquiry into accusations that families are inventing children's illnesses.", "More than £1m has been recovered from Scottish fraudsters selling puppies without paying tax.", "The feline fashionista dodged models on the runway of a Christian Dior event in Marrakesh.", "The disqualified driver was recognised by a police officer who had dealt with him previously.", "Full coverage of the results of the NI local elections as counting took place across NI's 11 councils.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann returns to politics, two years after losing his Northern Ireland Assembly seat.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "The jet carrying 143 people slid off a runway after landing in Jacksonville during a thunderstorm.", "The scale of the Tories' local election losses means the PM must go now, Iain Duncan Smith says.", "Victims of crime - including rape complainants - have been asked to hand their phones to police.", "Liverpool ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day of the season as Divock Origi's late winner sees them beat Newcastle in a thriller.", "More than £5m in lost taxes is recovered from hundreds of breeders selling dogs on the black market.", "Those who allege bullying or misconduct should not be silenced, universities minister says.", "Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.", "Adam Sky, 42, was involved in a fatal accident while trying to help an injured friend in Bali.", "Ministers urge the Conservative party to unite - while Matt Hancock urges Tory MPs \"to compromise\".", "Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames in Moscow.", "A number of Edinburgh's city centre streets were closed to traffic in an attempt to reduce air pollution.", "Lyra McKee's sister offers to meet the unknown gunman who shot the 29-year-old during rioting in Derry.", "US President Donald Trump awards the \"President's Cup\" at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.", "Max McDougall tripped and tumbled his way down Cooper's Hill to take the title.", "The count will resume later on Tuesday, with just three of 13 MEPs elected in the Republic of Ireland.", "The home secretary makes the announcement on Twitter, saying: \"First and foremost, we must deliver Brexit.\"", "All the latest news about European elections 2019 from the BBC", "Losses for major centre-right and centre-left parties amid record high turnout across all 28 member states.", "Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says some of their rivals are envious of the Premier League champions' success.", "There has been a surge in support for the Green Party as counting continues in the Irish local elections.", "A report on the hospital where patients were allegedly abused presented \"warning bells\", says the author.", "Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a tornado which caused at least two deaths in El Reno.", "Stacey Porter, 20, didn't know she was pregnant until she realised she was about to give birth on her bathroom floor.", "President Trump meets Emperor Naruhito, who was crowned only weeks ago when his father stepped down.", "Sonita Alleyne, who will take up the post in October, is a graduate of Cambridge herself.", "Tory contender promises \"open and generous\" offer to EU nationals if he becomes prime minister.", "Two boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen.", "The highest turnout since 1994 creates a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.", "The deputy Labour leader says the lack of clarity on Brexit policy led to \"catastrophe\" in the EU elections.", "The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage took to the stage after being elected an MEP in the South East.", "Dozens of stars take to the stage for the three-day event in Stewart Park in Middlesbrough.", "The Lib Dems also see a surge in support, while the Tories and Labour suffer heavy losses, as voters split along Leave and Remain lines.", "Voters shake up the old EU establishment, turning to nationalists and Greens in great numbers.", "The Tories and Labour tried to paint shades of grey when the referendum choice was between black and white.", "Leadership hopeful Boris Johnson says the EU election results are a \"crushing rebuke\" for the Tory party.", "Lewis Hamilton fulfils his own \"miracle\" by taking a win in Monaco on \"0% rubber\" tyres that would have made Niki Lauda proud.", "Lewis Hamilton holds off Max Verstappen, and survives a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.", "This year's contestants include the brothers of boxer Tyson Fury and Strictly star AJ Pritchard.", "Tristen and Blake Barrass, aged 13 and 14, were found dead at a house in Shiregreen, Sheffield, on Friday.", "British number one Johanna Konta earns her first victory in the French Open main draw with a straight-set win over Germany's Antonia Lottner.", "Romanians living abroad faced long queues at polling stations to cast votes in the European Parliament election and a national referendum.", "Police believe Julia Rawson, 42, from Dudley, is dead although her body has not been found.", "A 29-year-old man died when two yachts collided off the coast of Cannes, France.", "The department of tourism said other factors such as weather conditions were involved.", "A bereaved dad's fundraising bid went viral after a tweet by Jake Humphrey.", "Opposition parties backed the vote after the collapse of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's coalition.", "Dominic Raab wants to keep a no-deal Brexit on the table, but Chancellor Philip Hammond says ignoring MPs would be \"dangerous\".", "Philip Hammond says Parliament voted \"very clearly\" to oppose a no-deal Brexit and a future PM must listen.", "Nigel Farage's party sweeps to victory, taking two seats and winning in 19 of the 22 council areas.", "Anthony Albanese will lead the Labor party after its bruising defeat in Australia's general election.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "The newly formed party won 31.6% of the votes in the European elections.", "Brexit Party gains 29 seats, with the Lib Dems second, while Tories and Labour suffer losses.", "After the party's success in the European elections the SNP leader predicted victory in a second independence vote.", "Find results for your area and follow the others as they come in.", "All the latest news about The UK’s European elections 2019 from the BBC", "The twin blasts also injured seven others, police say, but the cause is not yet clear.", "Fiat said the proposed tie-up would create a \"world leader\" in the rapidly changing auto sector.", "The UK comedy about two male \"losers\" is set for a female reworking on US TV.", "Rules on temporary release are being eased in order to improve prisoners' job prospects.", "Aston Villa are promoted to the Premier League after beating Derby County 2-1 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.", "The Trump administration must see its goal - the collapse of the accord - as now being in sight.", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "Archaeologists begin excavating the remains of an abandoned settlement where a massacre took place.", "Nobody has faced the maximum penalty since new guidelines were introduced in 2014, analysis shows.", "Survivors say the boat left Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.", "Mark Sewell is the third man to be charged with killing the 45-year-old in a Belfast street in January.", "The RSPCA is calling for tougher sentencing after BBC research found fewer than a tenth of convicts were jailed.", "The Russian president was in the midst of a victory lap when he tripped and fell.", "The Prison Service is investigating alongside Nottinghamshire Police.", "Alvin Sargent won two Oscars for Julia and Ordinary People before penning the Spider-Man films.", "One politician was carried out on a stretcher after a fight broke out in Hong Kong's legislature.", "Here's what Iran and world powers agreed on its nuclear programme, and why it is now in crisis.", "Police say the victim has suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\".", "Jeremy Corbyn unveils plans for under-18s to be paid £10 an hour, rather than the current £4.35.", "UK financial compensation scheme says investors could have grounds for a claim, reversing earlier stance.", "They say they are no longer allowed to fish near Gwadar port because of a new road link to China.", "Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady says he expects to learn Theresa May's departure timetable within days.", "Police say Gerald Corrigan suffered \"horrendous\" injuries after the bolt went through his upper body.", "Police say 74-year-old Gerald Corrigan has been moved to another hospital due to his injuries.", "Detectives said Emma Faulds' family face a \"harrowing time\" after a man was charged with her murder.", "Countess of Chester Hospital had been refusing to accept patients from Wales in a payments dispute.", "Get to grips with the basics of Yemen's three-year civil war with our short explainer.", "The \"witty and profound\" writer's work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths.", "Former team captain Kevin Bennett tracked down 15 of his school friends using social media.", "Gerald Corrigan, 74, suffered \"horrendous\" injuries when he was shot outside his Holyhead home.", "Two years on from the start of the Saudi-led offensive, the BBC's Mai Noman returns to her home country.", "Householders putting wrong items in the bins get letters saying they can get them back in six months.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Twenty pharmaceutical companies are accused of artificially inflating the cost of medicinal drugs.", "People are risking their lives to catch a glimpse of the world-famous locomotive, rail bosses say.", "The recently sacked defence secretary says negotiations with Labour over a Brexit deal will \"fail\".", "A founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees is alleged to have made illegal contributions in 2012.", "Witnesses posted images on social media showing the swirl near the Marina Bay Sands hotel.", "Orkambi has been licensed for use in the UK, but is still not available to all patients with the condition.", "Saracens come from behind to claim their third Champions Cup with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the final at St James' Park.", "Signature Living's boss says investors will be paid after complaints over delays and unanswered calls.", "The BBC says it is \"inappropriate\" to feature political party leaders in an election period.", "Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.", "Cameron Hoffman, who watches with his grandma, said it was important as \"she isn't getting any younger\".", "Josh Beinn says he has made the highest recorded jump in Wales after leaping from 2,500ft up Snowdon.", "MPs from various parties write to the US biotech firm behind Kuvan, a drug the NHS says is too expensive.", "The UK's leading child protection police officer says action is needed to force firms to act.", "\"No sane person needs this much art, but it's a hugely successful trade show-cum-visitor attraction.\"", "Pakistan needs to face unpleasant truths if it's to tackle extremism, writes Ahmed Rashid.", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "The corporation's 50:50 project has seen a boost in female contributors both on-air and online.", "The Duke of Sussex met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift.", "Aston Villa reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley with a penalty shootout victory over West Bromwich Albion.", "From secret recipes to special boots, training for the tug-of-war at Balmoral is a serious business.", "The worst locations for \"stubbornly high\" levels of children in poverty are revealed.", "American Airlines pilots reportedly raised concerns months before the second deadly 737 Max crash.", "A judge rules there is insufficient evidence against the woman who had been accused of killing Annalise Johnstone,", "Carl Beech is accused of lying about child murders and abuse by a group of powerful public figures.", "Melissa Ede's fiancee says the lottery-winning rights campaigner died from a heart attack.", "Oritse Williams denies attacking the woman in his hotel room after a gig.", "The prime minister sets a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal.", "The Chinese telecoms firm has drawn international scrutiny amid concerns it poses a security risk.", "Internet, pay-TV, and phone subscribers in the UK must be told when their lock-ins are about to end.", "The workers in Oklahoma City were trapped about 50-storeys up as the lift began to swing out of control.", "A new report claims extracting remaining North Sea oil and gas will result in the UK breaking its Paris agreement promise.", "Steven Dymond was found dead after appearing on the ITV programme and taking a lie detector test.", "The busy North Circular road in London was closed in both directions because of the fire.", "Damaging front-page headlines and fresh evidence around the death left ITV with little option but to end the show permanently.", "Carl Beech, who accused public figures of child sex abuse, is guilty of the crimes himself, it has emerged.", "Derby County come from 2-0 down in the tie to stun Leeds United and set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa.", "Laura suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum where women can be left vomiting up to 100 times a day.", "The remains of Mohamed Megherbi were found nearly two months after he vanished.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "The RSPCA says the frog, nicknamed Lloyd, turned up in a Nottingham supermarket.", "Karen Bradley says the government cannot take forward legislation to compensate historical abuse victims.", "The programme has been permanently cancelled after the death of a guest who took part in the show.", "Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett allowed a 17-year-old to buy diet pills, a BBC investigation finds.", "Customers across the UK had struggled to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.", "The family of a Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has moved after they received death threats.", "Four children have been killed since 2014 by a parent given access to them by a court.", "Hannah is one of 5,000 UK women to share their experience of extreme pregnancy sickness with BBC News.", "Kate Miller-Heidke makes it through the first semi-final - but Finland get a Darude awakening.", "Mark Edwards can only eat 6g of protein a day due to a condition affecting one in 10,000 people.", "David Macdonald urges voters to back the Lib Dems instead of the party he was selected to stand for.", "The behaviour of some loan firms is deemed 'unacceptable' by the watchdog, the Financial Ombudsman Service.", "Analysis suggests more than half of children in 200 parliamentary constituencies live below poverty line.", "Historical abuse survivors are being used as leverage in the Stormont talks process, campaigners say.", "Walmart considers listing its Asda business after its merger deal with rival Sainsbury's was blocked.", "The All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wants to define it to help tackle the \"social evil\".", "The city voted against the emerging technology amid fears of invasion of privacy and unreliability.", "It is not known how many people from Wales paid Scottish income tax rates in April after a code error.", "Festival jury president highlights immigration and climate change issues on political first day.", "The firm behind the UK's energy networks says the move would delay the switch to green energy.", "Lawyers for the five women had claimed families are left unable to afford necessities.", "After The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, MPs and regulators will examine the support given to TV guests.", "The House of Commons held a debate on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.", "Angling journalist David Lewis said a group drove 4x4 vehicles through the River Usk.", "Detectives say the movement of two black cars on the A714 is key to tracking down the body of the missing 39-year-old.", "Richard Livett was stabbed as Khuram Butt shouted \"Allahu Akbar\", the London Bridge inquest hears.", "Many of the children at the Amaranta school in Chile have dropped out of other schools after transitioning.", "App executives are questioned by MPs two days after the apparent suicide of a Malaysian teenager.", "Keya Morgan faces five counts of abuse against Lee, prior to the comic book icon's death last year aged 95.", "It's not what you earn, it's the way that you spend it, say statisticians, but health's what gets results.", "A 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO that once belonged to Eddie Irvine is driven off by a prospective buyer.", "Oritse Williams is accused of raping the woman at a Wolverhampton hotel in December 2016.", "A former runner on the show gives us a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes.", "Six vulnerable young victims had to ask permission to use drug money to buy food.", "Hormone treatment for mild underactive thyroid problems will not benefit most patients, experts say.", "Jamie Webb quit his life as a professional footballer after being abused by Bob Higgins.", "A top Chinese diplomat tells the BBC there could be \"substantial\" repercussions if the UK bars Huawei.", "Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush is awarded A$2.9m over allegations printed in an Australian newspaper.", "BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains why the PM is expected to step down - and why now.", "A video of Katelyn Ohashi performing a 'perfect 10' gymnastics routine went viral in January, but the joyfulness of the performance told nothing of the difficult journey she had been on.", "Research says late-night online access to credit means people borrow more than they can afford to repay.", "Interpol believes 100 more children have suffered abuse and is working to identify them.", "Carl Beech told police his dog was taken as a warning when he missed a meeting with his abusers.", "Cwm Taf health board's chief executive calls the experiences of some families \"heartbreaking\".", "The mental health hospital charity cares for those with mental health and learning difficulties.", "How Bob Higgins was able to groom and abuse young footballers over the course of two decades.", "A 102-year-old is thought to have battered and strangled her 92-year-old female neighbour.", "In a non-binding vote, the General Assembly demands the UK give the islands back to Mauritius.", "An NUS official says the students are turning to social media, as they feel universities are not listening.", "Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with learning disabilities.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "Inspectors, council staff and NHS officials went in twice week on average in the year before Panorama expose.", "The wreck of the Clotilda, which smuggled slaves to the US, is found after a year-long search.", "The skaters of Middlesbrough Roller Derby team want to encourage more women to get involved in sport.", "Students include some who have dropped out of mainstream education.", "UK Christian leaders are accused of failing to speak out as an ancient community faces annihilation.", "Some 60% do not choose their local secondary school as their first option, shows major study.", "Air traffic controllers took part in a 24-hour strike following a dispute over pay with their employer Hial.", "Mark Zuckerberg hits back at calls to break up Facebook, as it reveals it removed a record number of hateful posts.", "The new combined company will boast 3,200 stores worldwide with a presence in 100 countries.", "Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup from 32 teams to 48 are abandoned by football's world governing body Fifa.", "The competition regulator says that four drugs firms forced the price of an anti-nausea tablet up by 700%.", "It is claimed the officer in charge of warship HMS Queen Elizabeth misused an MoD car.", "UK voters electing 73 Members of the European Parliament from 12 constituencies.", "Richard Ashcroft says Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have relinquished their claim on the song.", "Four men are in the running to succeed George Hamilton as chief constable in a £207,000-a-year job.", "The Whorlton Hall abuse - uncovered by BBC Panorama - is \"appalling\", says Caroline Dinenage.", "A group of investors had sought to stop the firm providing its Rekognition system to police.", "Court sees image of the moment a police shot comes through pub window, striking another man in the head.", "Dean Radford was one of the former footballers who gave evidence at Bob Higgins' trial.", "A 28-year-old man is arrested after a gun was fired near the Seven Kings Masjid in east London.", "Stonewall says it is \"not a new rule\" but a campaigner says the policy is \"absolutely disgusting\".", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "Tributes flood in for the hugely popular children's author, who has died at the age of 95.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.", "Check candidates standing in the UK in the 23 May European Election.", "Contest organisers revise the final scores after admitting they miscalculated the jury voting.", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "Lionel Messi's second-half double, including a stunning free-kick, earns Barcelona a handsome advantage against Liverpool in their Champions League semi-final.", "BBC Arabic found videos of bodies being desecrated by fighters loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar.", "Tottenham need to overturn a one-goal deficit to reach the Champions League final after losing at home to Ajax in the first leg of their semi-final.", "Researchers collected samples from rivers in Suffolk and found the drug when testing for chemicals.", "Several ministers deny being involved in leaking information from a National Security Council meeting.", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Alex Hepburn was involved in a \"pathetic sexist\" conquest game he helped set up on WhatsApp.", "Homes in the city of La Paz were destroyed, but no casualties were reported.", "A group of 87 MPs say the Home Office unlawfully discriminated against the Windrush generation.", "Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook at a speech in San Francisco", "Martin was one of thousands of NHS patients infected with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s and 80s.", "The show is renewed for a sixth season but it's unlikely the actor's character Jamal will come back.", "The UK's largest ATM network is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote machines free of charge.", "A year after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol, ministers are hopeful Scotland's drinking habits have changed.", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen's injury in the Champions League semi-final first leg.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "The steelmaker asked for help after the EU froze UK companies out of its carbon credits scheme.", "Theresa May says her aims are \"very similar\" to Labour's when it comes to customs talks.", "Investigative art, works that blur fact and fiction and pieces exploring oppression make the list.", "Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape.", "Smartphone revenue falls at its steepest-ever rate, but the technology giant is upbeat on the future.", "A full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal finally starts hearing first-person testimony.", "Ben McDonald was \"really fit\" but died at the finish of the the Cardiff Half Marathon.", "A Labour MP says the Welsh Government should look at its part in the Cwm Taf maternity crisis.", "MPs call for more than £3bn for children's services in England to end a funding crisis.", "Police staff accused of domestic abuse are less likely than the general public to be convicted.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "Gerard Batten attacks Nigel Farage's \"ego-driven\" Brexit Party as he launches UKIP's European campaign.", "The supermarket chain reveals the cost of its failed Asda merger as it reports a slip in sales.", "From a rape allegation in Sweden to jail in the UK, the key dates in the Julian Assange case.", "Defendant is in a critical condition in hospital after incident during fraud case sentencing.", "Caster Semenya unsuccessfully challenged a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in a case about athletes with differences of sexual development.", "Police say the teenager has suffered serious injuries while on a footpath near a secondary school.", "Clashes broke out between police and protesters as 'yellow vests' and labour unions held a march.", "The Wikileaks co-founder deliberately put himself out of reach by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy, a judge says.", "Shadow minister Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".", "The United Nations says plans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels, put forward by athletics' governing body, \"contravene international human rights\".", "Pete Wishart said he would have a \"solid agenda of reform\" if he is chosen to replace John Bercow as Speaker.", "A mother who lost her baby after maternity unit failings says she has \"lost all confidence\".", "BabaBing says the supermarket chain copied a bag the firm worked on for two years.", "Simon Hayes was part of a plot to abandon the man in the UK so he could be treated on the NHS.", "Karanbir Cheema, 13, died two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, an inquest hears.", "Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been giving testimonies about how it affected their lives.", "Two of the youngest candidates in the local council elections are still studying for their A-levels.", "A profile of Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "Some see the man behind Wikileaks as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others think he's a campaigner for truth.", "A church warden and magician are accused of plotting to kill Peter Farquhar to inherit his home.", "Fiona Onasanya was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.", "John Worboys, now known as John Radford, is due to appear in court later this month.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "Customers of Gill's Motorhomes say they lost large sums of money after the company ceased trading.", "Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain's richest man and owner of Ineos, says ministers should look at the science.", "The Welsh and Scottish governments have also declared an emergency - along with dozens of towns and cities.", "The group's leader quits but says the decision was not made for political or financial reasons.", "High Court judges rule in favour of the government's decision to approve airport expansion plans.", "The new legislation makes it illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams without a licence.", "The girl, 2, is seriously injured in hospital after being hit at a house in Liverpool.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has been cleared to run again but she is collateral damage in a scientific dispute, writes Matt Slater.", "As Indonesian orangutans come into closer contact with humans, they are at increasing risk of capture.", "Feuding rappers have been jailed for life for the gang-related murder of an Ipswich teenager.", "There was a lot of frustration with how Gavin Williamson - now sacked from his role of defence secretary - had sometimes behaved.", "Reaction after Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is sacked following an investigation into a National Security Council leak.", "Stephen Coxen had been ordered to pay his victim £80,000 in damages after he was sued for rape in the civil courts.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are closing every month as operators shut unprofitable ones.", "Many young adults have unrealistic expectations of buying a home with the money, a survey suggests.", "A shellfish consignment is carried across the busy North Sea by an Uncrewed Surface Vessel.", "Brexit talks are \"difficult\", says Jeremy Corbyn, as he launches his party's European election campaign.", "The former Atomic Kitten singer sometimes had to take the child to work with her, a court hears.", "The former England captain admits using his mobile while driving through London's West End.", "Lee Jackson thought he was \"invulnerable\" before he became plagued with night sweats and flashbacks.", "Giving progesterone could to some women with early bleeding could save babies' lives, research suggests.", "Christine Delcros says she had tried to deter her boyfriend from going to the Shard on the day he died.", "More than 400 buildings in England still have dangerous cladding in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.", "Climate advisors say coastal communities must \"get real\" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.", "Khuram Butt was seen on CCTV cleaning his knife in a restaurant, shortly after eight people were killed.", "The fallout over the Mueller report into Russian interference is getting more poisonous by the day.", "Lucas Moura scores a dramatic winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.", "Emma Faulds, from Kilmarnock, was last seen on Sunday 28 April in the Ayrshire village of Monkton.", "The ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the range expected.", "'None of us saw either of these names coming,' says one royal expert as the baby's name is revealed.", "As many as 530 key infrastructure sites across England are vulnerable to flooding, according to a government review.", "The move comes as the number of inmates at Scottish jails approaches record levels.", "But critics say the plan for Northampton \"feels like deja vu\" with similar proposal in the past.", "Prince Harry was presented with a baby-gro for his newborn son Archie at an Invictus Games event.", "Prince Harry and Meghan have presented their newborn son to the world.", "Eden Hazard scores the winning penalty as Chelsea edge past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.", "The former Young Ones and Bottom star is moving to Albert Square.", "The Environment Agency's boss asks whether it is cheaper and safer to relocate communities than defend them.", "At least £1bn a year needs to be spent on defences and some communities may have to move, a report warns.", "The group, including a 15-year-old boy, is detained over the violence on the night of Lyra McKee's murder.", "Online retailer Zavvi apologises for telling all its customers they had won a VIP football trip to Madrid.", "The ex-work and pensions secretary says she has enough support from MPs to launch a campaign.", "Changes to the handling of sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", says retired judge.", "Passengers are required to submit up to 24 pieces of information to make a claim, says Which?.", "Anna Sorokin \"was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City\", a judge says.", "Claimants who fail to follow rules can now only have payments halted or reduced for up to six months.", "The Las Vegas tech show organisers faced outrage in January after banning the vibrator.", "At 21, Ernie the duck has reached more than double the average age for his breed.", "A gunshot is heard shortly after a man was ushered out of Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford, east London.", "Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn support for the PM over the historical prosecution of veterans.", "Child safety campaigners are worried about an app that lets Snapchat users post anonymous messages.", "Joseph McCann, who faces 21 charges including eight rapes, has refused to appear in court.", "\"He's going to tell the teacher, 'just call me Prince Archie,\" says the mother of one Archie Harrison.", "Samuel Thomas, from Hertfordshire, was halfway out of the taxi in Sydney when it drove off, an inquest hears.", "Artists including Stormzy and Adele back calls to remove dangerous cladding from buildings.", "Joy Worrall, 82, was found dead in a quarry near her home last November, an inquest hears.", "The procedure is becoming more successful, the UK's fertility regulator says.", "Ministers had previously said owners of private residential tower blocks in England should foot the bill.", "Joseph McCann, of Aylesbury, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.", "A study found some content for terror groups was being generated by Facebook's own systems.", "A former archbishop's compassion for a paedophile bishop did not extend to victims, a report says.", "It was told it would face a bill of up to £20m if sued over its no-deal Brexit ferry services last year.", "Australia's A$50 note has a blunder in the small print - and it took more than six months to spot.", "An independent review of allegations of bullying at NHS Highland says staff spoke of \"fear and intimidation\".", "The BBC sacks the presenter over his \"royal baby\" image of a chimp in a suit holding hands with a couple.", "Expert witnesses at an inquiry into the tower block blaze have detailed how the fire took hold, minute by minute, through the building one year ago.", "The large bomb was caught by a fishing vessel about one mile (1.6km) off the Needles", "Leah Heyes' mother says she is \"overwhelmed\" by the support shown by people.", "Dutee Chand says she was encouraged to speak out after India decriminalised gay sex in 2018.", "All the highs and lows from the contest in Tel Aviv, which saw the Netherlands win as the UK came last.", "Ireland's deputy prime minister says \"the personality might change\" but the Brexit deal will not.", "The 19-year-old responds to claims he tried to turn straight men gay.", "One girl tells how \"random men\" would pick her up from the home then think she \"owed them something\".", "England complete a 4-0 series victory over Pakistan with a 54-run victory at Headingley.", "The SNP leader believes her party has articulated a consistent and clear anti-Brexit message.", "Rail firms and regulators say there will be no repeat of the chaos which hit the network in 2018.", "After more than 40 years of service, the old InterCity 125 trains have made their last journey.", "Deontay Wilder retains his WBC world heavyweight title with an emphatic first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in New York.", "Tyler, The Creator was due to play in London after a ban on him entering the UK was overturned.", "Nicki Chapman will not host the Chelsea Flower Show following surgery to remove a brain tumour.", "Multi-millionaire make-up artist Pat McGrath says it is \"fantastic\" the beauty industry is more diverse.", "The Labour MP rejects the Cold War claims and says he did not have access to such sensitive material.", "Four youths are arrested and the club in Lincolnshire says a \"hurricane would have done less damage\".", "Officials believe they were dumped in a river in Nairobi after an illegal abortion was carried out.", "Captain Vincent Kompany leaves Manchester City to become player-manager at former club Anderlecht.", "The French film producer was murdered in Ireland in 1996 and a trial will soon begin in Paris.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Heinz-Christian Strache resigned a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.", "Baroness Grey-Thompson says her parents might have had an abortion had they known about her disability.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex post new pictures on Instagram to mark their first anniversary.", "The Liberal Democrats leader Sir Vince Cable says his party believes in stopping Brexit in a \"proper and democratic way\".", "The actor says he will not press charges after being attacked at a public event in South Africa.", "Provides an overview of Austria, including key dates and facts about this central European country.", "The story of how a quarry in north Wales was used to store priceless works of art during World War Two.", "The international development secretary says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "Activists and the film crew of Que Sea Ley documentary wore green and chanted \"solidarity\" in a pro-choice protest.", "Victims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, a victims group says.", "Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemns reports that Martin Sellner put a swastika on a synagogue in 2006.", "British racing driver Billy Monger claims his first victory since having both legs amputated after a crash two years ago.", "Could Labour MPs and Tories with their eyes on a future leadership contest come to the PM's rescue?", "Brexitcast, You, Me and the Big C and My Dad Wrote A Porno also won at the British Podcast Awards.", "The flame shell reef at Loch Carron was \"devastated\" by intensive scallop dredging two years ago.", "About 80 trains a day were significantly late and another 660 trains per day were cancelled.", "Austin Eubanks, who became an advocate for fighting addiction, died at his Colorado home aged 37.", "Nursing chiefs want to see safe staffing rules enshrined in law as 40,000 posts remain vacant.", "Jeremy Corbyn says the British media is obsessed with defining people on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.", "Singer Chrissy Chambers describes how her life changed when her ex posted an explicit video online.", "Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says Mrs May should agree to another referendum to \"break the impasse\".", "Duncan Laurence wins the contest with his song Arcade, but the UK's Michael Rice comes bottom.", "Extra protections for workers could get \"sensible\" Labour MPs on board with Brexit, a minister says.", "A 17-year-old boy remains in custody on suspicion of murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould.", "Police say there is no evidence Joseph McCann, wanted over three attacks, has left the country.", "Belfast City Marathon organisers apologise after admitting Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.", "It comes after the government signed £100m of Brexit consultant contracts in February.", "She announced the arrival of a \"royal baby\" just after the Duchess of Sussex delivered her own son.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "The 18-year-old was chased by a man wearing a blue or grey hoodie, murder detectives say.", "A firm in Coventry is trialling exoskeleton suits to support the health of its workforce.", "World record officials are reviewing a nurse's marathon record attempt \"as a priority\".", "The teens were attacked within 10 minutes of one another in Islington, north London.", "Judd Trump wins his maiden World Championship title after beating John Higgins 18-9 in a supreme display at the Crucible.", "Arsenal's focus is now on the Europa League after their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton, says Unai Emery.", "Celebrities reveal their interpretations of this year's theme: 'camp'.", "The grave where some of Joseph Merrick's remains were buried has been traced, an author claims.", "Man City are one win away from the Premier League title after Vincent Kompany's stunning goal secures victory against Leicester.", "The firm says it uncovered a problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the first fatal crash.", "A timeline of the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy in photos.", "The shadow chancellor accuses Theresa May of an \"act of bad faith\" in cross-party Brexit talks.", "The collapse of the firm responsible for collecting NHS clinical and human waste in Scotland has sent costs soaring.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have chosen to keep news of their baby's birth secret - but why?", "Joseph McCann is suspected of carrying out \"grotesque and horrifying attacks\" across the country.", "The Scottish Borders village features as the fictional New Asgard in the movie blockbuster Avengers: Endgame.", "A 52-year-old man was killed after being hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.", "The tree disease will cost taxpayers a third more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak in cattle in 2001.", "People living nearby describe the fire as being like the \"set of a disaster film\".", "Prince Harry says he and Meghan are \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of their first child.", "Adam Sky, 42, was involved in a fatal accident while trying to help an injured friend in Bali.", "Joseph McCann - who police wanted in connection with three rapes and two abductions - is arrested.", "More than nine million tune into a final episode critics call \"breathtaking\" and \"deeply satisfying\".", "The incident happened on farm land between Falkirk and Linlithgow near the village of Whitecross.", "It's thought up to one million different species of animals and plants are facing extinction.", "They are accused of \"moral harassment\" following a spate of suicides among staff in the late 2000s.", "The Duchess of Sussex gives birth to her first child, Prince Harry announces.", "Police are appealing for information over the crash between the scooter and a Ford Fiesta.", "The Electoral Commission says online political adverts should clearly indicate who paid for them.", "University of Edinburgh research indicates heatwaves may become more severe, especially in the northern hemisphere.", "The new Royal Family member will take on its mother's US citizenship and need to file US tax returns.", "Joseph McCann's case was not referred to parole officials before he was released from prison.", "Aerial views of the \"disaster film\" blaze at the former Fisons warehouse near Ipswich.", "Backpacker Elisha Greer, 24, was repeatedly attacked during the 1,000-mile trip in Australia.", "Norwich City are forced to park the bus after their parade vehicle breaks down as they celebrate reaching the Premier League.", "A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murdering Year 12 student Ellie Gould in Calne.", "The Met is offering a £20,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Joseph McCann.", "London Marathon winner Eliud Kipchoge will attempt to break the two-hour barrier in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge later this year.", "Key moments in the cases against the producer, who has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.", "There were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, versus 1,031 in the whole of 2018.", "The Home Office should have done more to protect people who did not cheat in their English tests, says watchdog.", "Four more children are in hospital as a man and woman held on suspicion of murder are questioned.", "Robyn used to drink and smoke marijuana, but says her impending little girl changed her life.", "The US president will join the Queen and a host of royals at a state banquet after a palace welcome.", "All the BBC's coverage of the 2017 UK General Election including news, analysis and results.", "The ONS said sales were flat in April, as clothing sales offset declines in other sectors.", "Breaking news, sport, travel and weather updates from across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.", "Ten workers are held over the alleged mistreatment of hospital patients following a BBC investigation.", "Theresa May became emotional as she announced she would step down as Conservative leader on 7 June.", "Look back at the reaction after Theresa May announced she would step down as party leader on 7 June", "Oxford University student Rebecca Henderson died in February from transplant complications.", "The gold sovereign from 1819, being offered via a ballot, is one of only 10 left in the world.", "BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains why the PM is expected to step down - and why now.", "A string of actresses have claimed he harassed or assaulted them in hotel rooms and offices.", "Libraries now put community hubs and computers alongside books but people are still at their heart.", "Merseyrail takes down posters for the singer's new album over concerns about his political views.", "The club releases a statement after the conviction of ex-youth team coach Jim McCafferty on 14 May.", "The prime minister has said she will stand down on 7 June.", "The UK PM's departure leaves EU leaders wondering how finishing the Brexit process will be affected.", "The baby goods retailer says it is on a \"sounder footing\", even though UK sales fell nearly 9%.", "The prime minister says she will leave office on 7 June, having failed to deliver the UK's exit from the EU.", "From Australia to Europe, school children are skipping classes to call for action on climate change.", "Mark Zuckerberg hits back at calls to break up Facebook, as it reveals it removed a record number of hateful posts.", "The hierarchical power dynamic of the casting couch.", "Six per minute are expected in one day, with a bank holiday and half-term contributing to the spike.", "Text reminders and after-work appointments are recommended in a report on improving cancer screening.", "Students include some who have dropped out of mainstream education.", "David Cameron tells reporters Theresa May is \"a dedicated public servant\" after she announced her resignation.", "Seriously ill children have the chance to swim with mermaids in Aberdeen, thanks to local business.", "Lance Armstrong says he \"wouldn't change a thing\" about the doping that helped him win and then saw him stripped of seven Tour de France titles.", "At least 20 people are dead after fire tore through a building in the city of Surat, Gujarat state.", "Stonewall says it is \"not a new rule\" but a campaigner says the policy is \"absolutely disgusting\".", "Leo Latifi was with family members at an after-school swimming club when the accident happened.", "Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wants a prosecution of each protester.", "With Theresa May announcing her departure, both No Deal and No Brexit are more likely.", "A top Chinese diplomat tells the BBC there could be \"substantial\" repercussions if the UK bars Huawei.", "A satellite spotted an oil slick trailing from a tanker mysteriously attacked off the UAE on 12 May.", "Police were attending a security alert close to a polling station in Londonderry when they were attacked.", "Irish PM Leo Varadkar says Theresa May's resignation could lead to a \"Eurosceptic\" prime minister.", "Carl Beech wept as he told police how his friend \"Scott\" was killed after an MI5 boss's warning.", "A woman whose home was raided by police on the night Lyra McKee was killed denies links with dissidents.", "A lawyer representing those abused by Bob Higgins says he hopes a civil trial can be avoided.", "Ibrahim says it is a place where he can find peace for himself.", "The 'life-changing' injection has been approved for use in Scotland, but not yet in England.", "A Cornwall dog owner had the skin torn off her middle finger by a lead wound tightly round her hand.", "Brexit came to define her time as prime minister, but Theresa May had a long and varied political career.", "Richard Ashcroft says Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have relinquished their claim on the song.", "Scots singer hopes to \"make some money finally\" after his debut record goes straight to number one.", "Court sees image of the moment a police shot comes through pub window, striking another man in the head.", "Sir Vince Cable confirms he will hand over to his successor on 23 July.", "The Nunthorpe & Marton Knitters are welcoming the stars of Radio 1's Big Weekend.", "Police start a murder inquiry after Gerald Corrigan, 74, dies three weeks after being shot.", "Police crackdown on gay rights demonstrators amid clashes at unauthorised pride march in Havana.", "People who began work between 2008 and 2011 have had lower pay and worse job prospects, says a report.", "The bank says plans to raise £350m are \"well advanced\" as it tries to quell rumours about its financial health.", "Killing Eve's Jodie Comer is named best actress and Benedict Cumberbatch wins best actor.", "The upcoming elections are going to be difficult for the Conservatives, says the education secretary.", "Rangers secure back-to-back home wins over Celtic for the first time in seven years with a determined display against the Scottish champions.", "Three people on board escape with minor injuries as the plane came down on the A40 in Monmouthshire.", "Daisy May Cooper explains why she took to the Bafta red carpet dressed as a rubbish bin.", "The Duchess of Sussex shares a photo of her newborn son's feet to celebrate Mother's Day in the US.", "A cardinal flips a switch to restore power to people in an occupied state-owned building in Rome.", "Senior Tory Sir Graham Brady says he expects to learn Theresa May's departure timetable within days.", "Manchester City are the champions after holding off Liverpool. It felt like a relentless title battle but do the stats back that up?", "The Sunday Times' list of the UK's 1,000 richest people includes its first ever black female entrepreneur.", "The vehicle was found wrecked at the bottom of 100ft cliffs, below Marine Drive, Brighton.", "The National Crime Agency says it needs \"significant new investment\" to fight the ever-changing threat.", "Hotel employees discovered the three bodies in the room alongside two crossbows.", "Former team captain Kevin Bennett tracked down 15 of his school friends using social media.", "Gerald Corrigan, 74, suffered \"horrendous\" injuries when he was shot outside his Holyhead home.", "Henry McLeish believes scrapping constituency seats would force parties to work together at Holyrood.", "Manchester City are crowned Premier League champions after coming from behind to beat Brighton on a dramatic final day of the season.", "With one of the Premier League's most extraordinary title races now over, we look at the small margins that finally separated Manchester City and Liverpool.", "Lucha Libre star Cesar Barron, known as Silver King, collapses mid-performance at the show in Camden.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Twenty pharmaceutical companies are accused of artificially inflating the cost of medicinal drugs.", "People are risking their lives to catch a glimpse of the world-famous locomotive, rail bosses say.", "Would you crawl through hundreds of metres of mud for charity?", "The former Labour MP and political interviewer was known for his grilling of Margaret Thatcher.", "Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal is a \"new European treaty\", the Brexit Party leader says.", "There have been anti-government demonstrations in the country for the last three months.", "The recently sacked defence secretary says negotiations with Labour over a Brexit deal will \"fail\".", "Witnesses posted images on social media showing the swirl near the Marina Bay Sands hotel.", "Saracens come from behind to claim their third Champions Cup with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the final at St James' Park.", "North Yorkshire police issue a warning after the teenager collapses in a Northallerton car park.", "Elizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe's 93-year-old mother was too frail to attend the first wedding.", "Mental health experts say the issue is too often overlooked but is causing people real distress.", "The fact the talks have gone on for so long hint there is serious merit in finding some kind of accord.", "Officials in north-east India guided an elephant calf to safety, after it became separated from its mother.", "Maysie McLeod spent her 90th birthday in hospital after fracturing her hip in a fall.", "Two men are charged with rioting in Londonderry on the night the journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead.", "It comes after probation reforms in England and Wales which cost taxpayers almost £500m.", "Former family courts head Sir James Munby says they are \"shamefully\" behind in victim support.", "The console rivals have a struck a deal designed to fend off threats from Google, Amazon and others.", "Kering, the company behind Gucci and Alexander McQueen, said it was \"conscious of its influence\".", "The Guardians of the Galaxy director speaks for the first time since being fired and rehired over tweets.", "The firm will seek certification from the US regulator which grounded the jet after two crashes.", "The first treatments could be available within a decade, say scientists setting up a research centre.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Family and friends of a teenage victim of 2017's Manchester Arena attack are to take part in the city's Great Run.", "Dame Glenys Stacey said 'much more needs to be done to protect the public'.", "HS2 does not offer value for money and could \"short change\" the North, warns Lords committee.", "The workers in Oklahoma City were trapped about 50-storeys up as the lift began to swing out of control.", "Tributes are paid to the man whose iconic buildings also include the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after his head got stuck in a \"Gold Class\" cinema seat in Birmingham.", "The sandwich chain is reported to be in talks to buy rival Eat to turn its 94 stores into vegetarian outlets.", "Boris Johnson reveals he will run when Theresa May quits, saying: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"", "Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard highlights comments made by the niece of a man who took his life.", "Steven Dymond was found dead after appearing on the ITV programme and taking a lie detector test.", "His replacement on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show Zoe Ball maintained a listenership of about 9m.", "The European Commission fines five banks a total of €1.07bn for forming cartels to rig currency trading.", "Damaging front-page headlines and fresh evidence around the death left ITV with little option but to end the show permanently.", "Carl Beech, who accused public figures of child sex abuse, is guilty of the crimes himself, it has emerged.", "Derby County come from 2-0 down in the tie to stun Leeds United and set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa.", "Splash news agency used a helicopter to take pictures of living areas and directly into a bedroom.", "Prosecutions are announced in four countries over the scam, which hit thousands of bank accounts.", "Employers should be responsible from protecting staff from harassment, says the TUC.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "Carl Beech named only Jimmy Savile and his stepfather as abusers in his first police interview, a court hears.", "Christopher Lowson says he is \"bewildered\" to have been suspended by the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "The presenter is 'devastated' following the death of a guest on his ITV show, which has now been cancelled.", "Italy's Matteo Salvini is gathering an array of right-wing leaders, but can such an awkward alliance work?", "Hannah is one of 5,000 UK women to share their experience of extreme pregnancy sickness with BBC News.", "The singer will perform Like A Virgin and a new track during Saturday's final in Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Sources tell the BBC the prime minister will step down if she loses the vote on the Brexit bill next month.", "The three-time Wimbledon champion's home was targeted by serial burglar Asdrit Kapaj in 2013.", "Viewers react to Nadiya Hussain's journey to get help for \"extreme anxiety\" in a BBC One documentary.", "Errors meant exams were delayed and pupils could not answer one of the questions, parents say.", "Giving the Chinese firm a role in the UK's 5G network could threaten national security, ex-MI6 chief says.", "Cambridge historians are digitising some unusual medical records from the 17th Century.", "Helen Kennett asked the knifeman what was wrong with him before he stabbed her, an inquest hears.", "Protests began at schools in Birmingham where the No Outsiders programme was being taught.", "Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne lost three of their four children in the Sri Lanka bombings in April.", "The firm behind the UK's energy networks says the move would delay the switch to green energy.", "Poor communication contributed to the death of a newborn at a hospital, an inquest hears.", "Passengers arriving in the UK will no longer have to fill in landing cards from Monday.", "Fashion brand Oh Polly had created a separate account for larger models, but has since deleted it.", "After The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed, MPs and regulators will examine the support given to TV guests.", "The tennis star says he is \"very proud\" to receive the honour at Buckingham Palace.", "A record number of footballers are seeking mental health support, says the Professional Footballers' Association.", "The prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor, after the next big vote on the Brexit bill.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "Family of baby waiting for a heart transplant asks parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.", "The firm has borrowed money from its backers as it seeks a \"permanent solution\" to its financial woes.", "Darcy-May Elm was described as a \"fun ray of sunshine\" by her family.", "They ordered a £260 bottle but were accidentally served up the pricey 2001 Chateau le Pin Pomerol.", "Oritse Williams is accused of raping the woman at a Wolverhampton hotel in December 2016.", "Three Britons and a South African have been killed in the crash near Dubai airport, authorities say.", "The banking group says it is responding to a shift in customer behaviour towards digital services.", "Those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for a week, it is claimed.", "Huawei is facing opposition to its 5G expansion from the US - but which other countries allow it to operate?", "Robert F Smith made the commitment to graduates at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Children in a housing development had been banned from using chalk to draw grids on a path.", "Ireland's deputy prime minister says \"the personality might change\" but the Brexit deal will not.", "The SNP leader believes her party has articulated a consistent and clear anti-Brexit message.", "One girl tells how \"random men\" would pick her up from the home then think she \"owed them something\".", "Steve Clarke says he wants to \"emulate the success\" of the Scotland women's team after being named the country's new head coach.", "The Electoral Commission will visit the party's offices on Tuesday amid a row over donations.", "Schoolchildren join the Duchess of Cambridge at the Chelsea Flower Show, after her family visited.", "Vulnerabilities in Italy could have given the Chinese firm access to people's home networks.", "News, sport, travel and weather updates from across the North West of England on Friday 24 May.", "Streets around the famous Parisian landmark were closed as the man scaled the 1,000ft structure.", "A lack of support in schools and the community in England is contributing to the problem, says a report.", "Four youths are arrested and the club in Lincolnshire says a \"hurricane would have done less damage\".", "This video has been removed for right reasons.", "The judge said the subsequent fire caused £1.6m of damage and was an \"act of sheer stupidity\".", "Foreign spies could have to register their presence under a new bill, the home secretary says.", "China's tech giant leads the market for telecoms infrastructure, and is second only to Samsung in smartphone sales.", "More women are seeking surgery, possibly to get a body that looks good in trendy gym clothing, says surgeon.", "Researchers used detailed images of the heart to look for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.", "Jess Phillips calls for an exclusion zone outside a primary school at the centre of the protests.", "Young people in Singapore say they would be wary of buying Huawei phones after Google's decision.", "One teenager describes being \"paralysed with fear\" when she was followed onto a bus by men.", "The BBC’s Paul Adams looks at what's behind the rising tension between the US and Iran, including the Iran nuclear deal.", "The Tory peer has been disciplined after saying he would back the Lib Dems in European elections.", "Europe's biggest discount airline says fares are \"artificially low\" after profits fall by a third.", "An off-duty medic begged staff to unlock the door so he could help victims of the London Bridge attack.", "The international development secretary says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "A conflict is more likely today than at any time since President Donald Trump took office.", "Tory MPs to call for action amid reports No 10 has blocked move to limit scope for prosecutions.", "British racing driver Billy Monger claims his first victory since having both legs amputated after a crash two years ago.", "Thousands come out to celebrate and cheer on the Manchester City treble-winning team.", "A Belfast woman speaks ahead of the contaminated blood inquiry hearing evidence in Belfast.", "Brooks Koepka holds off Dustin Johnson's challenge to retain his US PGA Championship and win a fourth major after a dramatic day at Bethpage Black.", "A fan confronted Chris Smalling on the pitch during Arsenal's home game with Manchester United.", "Police are investigating the messages while an MP calls for a protest exclusion zone \"to protect children\".", "Troubled travel firm has been reassuring customers who flooded the firm with concerns about holiday trips.", "The activists had hoped to stay in the boxes which were blocking entrances to BP's head office for several days.", "About 80 trains a day were significantly late and another 660 trains per day were cancelled.", "Nursing chiefs want to see safe staffing rules enshrined in law as 40,000 posts remain vacant.", "Austin Eubanks, who became an advocate for fighting addiction, died at his Colorado home aged 37.", "Jeremy Corbyn says the British media is obsessed with defining people on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.", "The boss of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland made the comments as he confirmed the creation of 500 new technology jobs.", "The health secretary says they should support it in June's vote and worry about the detail afterwards.", "The Wikileaks founder is facing extradition requests from Sweden and the US over separate accusations.", "Extra protections for workers could get \"sensible\" Labour MPs on board with Brexit, a minister says.", "Customers will be able to post parcels in the same way as letters, as long as postage is pre-paid.", "Jude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome and found becoming a dad for the first time very difficult.", "The world's biggest salmon farming company is under investigation for possible misreporting of chemical use.", "The boy ran into a shop pleading for help saying he had been stabbed, an eyewitness says.", "Voters have been deciding who should represent them on 11 councils across Northern Ireland.", "Prince Harry and Meghan send best wishes to their niece, who is seen in new photos taken by her mother.", "One of the official pacers at the London Marathon says runners were treated \"horrifically\".", "No 10 says Theresa May had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" in his role.", "Scientists find evidence an ancient human species called a Denisovan lived at high altitudes in Tibet.", "Male nurses suggest it is still seen as a feminine career and there are not enough role models.", "Pooches and hounds are at polling stations as people vote in local elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "All the latest news about England local elections 2019 from the BBC", "Police officers stop relatives of Henry Vincent from stapling tributes to garden fences in Hither Green.", "The London Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.", "No-one has been allowed to leave the US ship, reportedly owned by the Church of Scientology.", "Leeds striker Patrick Bamford is banned for two matches after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\".", "Zarhid Younis, 34, faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.", "A fire chief says some people see nice weather \"as opportunities to burn\".", "Beyond Meat's stock market value hits $3.8bn as shares in the US firm start trading on Wall Street.", "Theresa May's letter to Gavin Williamson outlining why he was being dismissed, and his reply to her.", "The Wikileaks co-founder's extradition hearing relates to the leak of US government secrets.", "Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, was a \"kind and gentle man\", says Han Solo actor Harrison Ford.", "Fatiha is the grandmother of six children kept in a camp in Syria, but she hopes she'll be able to welcome them back to Belgium soon.", "Olympic champion Caster Semenya loses her appeal against new rules from athletics' governing body restricting testosterone levels in female runners.", "Euro elections can draw a line under \"grief\" over the lack of political leadership, says Plaid's leader.", "The rapper thanks his mum for her \"relentless effort\" as he picked up 12 awards at Wednesday's event.", "Nellie and Joe Graham, who are both in their 100s, share their secrets to a long marriage.", "Ella Kissi-Debrah, 9, suffered a fatal asthma attack thought to have been brought on by pollution.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "A coroner says a man acted lawfully when he stabbed a burglar to death at his home in London.", "The Treasury is seeking views about the future of our coins - but what uses do 1p and 2p pieces have?", "Labour also suffers losses in the local elections, as resurgent Lib Dems gain more than 700 seats.", "Stephanie Hayden and Catholic journalist Caroline Farrow are told not to mention each other online.", "The Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people in Northern Ireland.", "Council polls will offer an insight into what the British public makes of politics right now.", "Clashes broke out between police and protesters as 'yellow vests' and labour unions held a march.", "Counting continues after council and mayoral elections in England and Northern Ireland.", "The new international development secretary says he intends to run for the Conservative leadership.", "Athletics South Africa (ASA) says it is \"reeling in shock\" after Caster Semenya lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.", "Karanbir Cheema, 13, died two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, an inquest hears.", "Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have been giving testimonies about how it affected their lives.", "The men were killed in two separate accidents in the space of less than 10 hours on the A74(M).", "The Scottish government is warned its staff have no clear understanding of what is needed to implement new welfare benefits.", "Elections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.", "Fiona Onasanya was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.", "The network accused InfoWars' Alex Jones and the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan of hate speech.", "Reaction as Gavin Williamson insists he is not the source of a leak from a National Security Council meeting on Huawei.", "The US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.", "More than 1,700 cash machines started charging a fee in the UK between January and March this year.", "The Welsh and Scottish governments have also declared an emergency - along with dozens of towns and cities.", "Network Rail only considered tenants \"late in the process\" of selling its commercial property, says watchdog.", "A video of Ella Markham dancing at a Spurs match attracted trolls and huge support for her.", "Nicola Sturgeon signals she could ditch plans to cut air departure tax during first minister's questions.", "The surprise announcement comes days before elaborate coronation ceremonies begin for him.", "Attempts are made to trace families of Sussex veterans who filmed messages in Asia.", "The Cabinet Office minister has resigned amid accusations of bullying.", "Richard Osborn-Brooks had been held on suspicion of murder after an intruder was stabbed in his home.", "There was a lot of frustration with how Gavin Williamson - now sacked from his role of defence secretary - had sometimes behaved.", "Pedro scores an away goal as Chelsea recover from an early setback to draw with Eintracht Frankfurt in the first leg 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happened\".\n\nThe inquest is examining the shootings in Ballymurphy in August that year.\n\nMr Doyle and his brother have told the inquest that they found a wounded man in their garden and wanted to help but were arrested and beaten by soldiers.\n\nHe and his brother were teenagers at the time and were held at Girdwood Barracks for several days.\n\nIn its latest phase, the inquest is looking at the deaths of John Laverty, 20, and Joseph Corr, 43, on 11 August 1971.\n\nThe inquest is examining the deaths of 20-year-old John Laverty and 43-year-old Joseph Corr\n\nThe fatal shootings happened on the Upper Whiterock Road as soldiers of the Parachute Regiment moved into the area.\n\nThe family of Joseph Corr believe it was him the brothers had wanted to help, although the boys had not known him.\n\nAnswering the barrister's questions, Mr Doyle said: \"I got beat relentlessly for trying to help some fellow who'd been shot.\"\n\nMoD barrister Mr Rooney said he was not suggesting that the beatings had not taken place and added that they should never have happened.\n\nMr Doyle said he and his brother were initially put in an Army vehicle to be taken to the nearby Henry Taggart base on the Springfield Road.\n\nHe told the court he thought to himself: \"'I'm dead, I'll never see nobody ever again.'\n\nBernard Doyle says he and his brother were arrested and beaten\n\nHe added: \"See, when you go to Henry Taggart, the things they done in Henry Taggart were unreal and I thought: 'I'm dead, I'm dead.'\"\n\nThey were instead put into a lorry with other detainees and taken to Girdwood Barracks.\n\nHe later told the inquest that he went to hospital for treatment for his injuries after his release some days later.\n\nHe said the doctor looked at him and asked if he had been run over by a bus.\n\nThe sport-mad teenager had suffered a fracture to his lower back and says he still has back pain.\n\nAll charges against Mr Doyle were dropped and he was later awarded compensation for the months he was unable to work.\n\nLater at the inquest on Tuesday, a man who had watched the beatings also described seeing a wounded man lying face down in the road outside his home.\n\nEdward McCourt, who is aged 86, was a joiner and lived in Dermott Hill Park in 1971.\n\nHe said he woke early on 11 August and looked down to the junction of the Whiterock Road and Springfield Road.\n\nMr McCourt said he saw a group of about 20 men spread-eagled against a wall, being beaten by soldiers with batons.\n\nLooking up the road, he told the court, he watched the Doyle brothers being beaten.\n\nHe said that he then heard shots and went to the front of his home and saw a man lying on the road at the entrance to Dermott Hill Park.\n\nHe thought he was about 40 to 45 years old and was wearing a white singlet or shirt.\n\nHe believes the wounded man was Joseph Corr.\n\nMr McCourt saw a bloodstain the size of a dinner plate on the man's back and a smaller one on his front as two paratroopers turned the man over.\n\nHe told the court that the man was empty-handed and nothing was lying near him.\n\nTwo soldiers were crouched near him and took the man and moved him out of sight by dragging at his clothes.\n\nHe explained to the inquiry that the soldiers did not seem to offer the man any kind of medical attention.\n\nMr McCourt told the court he was upset by what he had seen and then noticed two paratroopers with black camouflaged faces in his garden.\n\nHe said he opened the window and angrily shouted to the soldiers to leave his garden and go back to their own country.\n\nHe recalled that they both smashed in his front door and ran up the stairs of his home.\n\nHe said one soldier told him: \"I'll blow your effing head off.\"\n\nWhen he confronted them and told them his children were in convulsions, he said, the soldiers turned and left.\n\nShortly afterwards he noticed a convoy of Army vehicles come down from Black Mountain, driving past the end of his street.\n\nLater the court heard from Joseph Marley, who also was a teenager at the time.\n\nHe said he had joined his father and many other men keeping a lookout for the possibility of loyalists attacking the area down the Upper Whiterock Road.\n\nHe said their family had lived in nearby New Barnsley Grove.\n\nHe said they heard activity early on the morning of 11 August and, thinking it was \"Orangemen\", they decided to chase them off.\n\nThere had been shouting and the rattling of bin lids and someone suggested: \"Let's charge them.\"\n\nAs the crowd ran up the pavement shouting, gunfire broke out down the road beside them.\n\nIt was then, Mr Marley said, that they realised it was, in fact, paratroopers coming down the road.\n\nHe said none of the crowd had a weapon of any kind, unless they picked up a stone to throw it.\n\nHe added that he did not see any of the soldiers actually firing at the crowd.\n\nHe described how one young man was shot in the arm.\n\nHe believed many more would have been shot if the pavement had not been raised up from the level of the road.\n\nAs they took cover at a nearby house, he said they used a cigarette lighter to help look at the young man's wound in the dawn light.\n\nThe young man was taken away by some of them for first aid he said, and the rest crawled back away down the road from the soldiers.\n\nHe later concluded that the two men who took him away were Joseph Corr and his son, also Joseph.\n\nJoseph Corr and his father took an injured man away, Mr Marley believes\n\nHe said the soldiers spread out into neighbouring streets sometimes using back gardens for cover.\n\nLater he said he had gone home to New Barnsley Grove, when his mother spoke to a soldier and was struck by him.\n\nWhen he complained, said Mr Marley, the soldier lifted his rifle and fired an un-aimed shot which missed.\n\nThe court also heard from a Ministry of Defence barrister that the headquarters logs of 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment in cannot be located for the period.\n\nA barrister for the Corr family pointed out that the relevant logs had been available to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo groups of Tory MPs have launched campaign groups aimed at shaping the future direction of their party.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Esther McVey has launched Blue Collar Conservatism, aiming to target \"working people\".\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd is among those backing One Nation Conservative Caucus, a group opposing a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe contest to replace Theresa May has - unofficially - begun, with several figures already saying they will run.\n\nThe prime minister has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next vote on her Brexit plan.\n\nMPs are due to vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - required to put the PM's deal into UK law - in the first week of June.\n\nMs McVey, who quit as work and pensions secretary last November in protest at Mrs May's deal, has already announced she will stand in the forthcoming leadership contest.\n\nLaunching the Blue Collar Conservatism group at an event in Westminster, she said the next leader of the party must be a \"Brexiteer who believes in Brexit\".\n\nShe added that the Tories' \"failure to deliver Brexit\" meant the party had failed to capitalise on winning over voters who abandoned Labour at this month's local elections.\n\n\"A majority of these voters voted to leave the EU, and on this we have broken their trust,\" she said.\n\nThe Leave-supporting MP added it was \"essential\" for the UK to leave the EU before the new deadline of 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nShe also called for international aid spending to be lowered to 2010 levels, which she said would free up £7bn in extra funding for schools and the police.\n\nDoing so would allow the Conservatives to \"match people's needs and priorities\", she added.\n\nAccording to the Mail on Sunday, Ms McVey will embark on a \"pub tour\" campaign, where she will also call for the HS2 rail project to be scrapped.\n\nMeanwhile, the One Nation Conservative Caucus has said it expects to be involved in the debate over the party's future and have a say in whoever wins the Tory leadership race.\n\nThe group is reportedly aiming to block any candidate who backs a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe unofficial contest to replace Theresa May is already up and running, with candidates declaring their desire for the job and policy platforms being set out.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has not - yet - thrown her hat in the ring but spearheads a 60-strong block of Tories called the One Nation Caucus.\n\nOn Monday, it will launch a declaration of values that seeks to cement the post-Theresa May Tory Party in the centre ground.\n\nSources deny it's a \"stop Boris Johnson\" effort, but the group is emphatic there must be no future coalition between the Conservatives and The Brexit Party and is stressing the importance of issues like the environment.\n\nAmber Rudd, who spoke at an event to launch the group, has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nSpeaking at the launch she said: \"The Conservative Party is entering a new phase and we here in this room are determined to shape that phase.\"\n\nMs Rudd added: \"Sometimes our voices aren't heard quite as vocally as they should be.\"\n\n\"Part of the launch today is to say we are going to be stepping up, making ourselves heard because we are proud and honest and strong about what we believe in.\"\n\nThe group also includes MPs such as International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who has confirmed he will put himself forward to be next Tory leader.\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Nicky Morgan and Damian Green, as well as backbencher Sir Nicholas Soames, also made speeches at the event.\n\nMr Green told the BBC the group would hold \"hustings\" to find out how leadership candidates would seek to find a way out of the current Brexit deadlock.\n\n\"One of the things that we all agree on is that it would be massively better for this country to have a deal, so we don't see no deal as a good option for this country\", he said.\n\nHe added that the group would promote internationalism, the environment, as well as protecting consumers from corporations and an \"over-mighty state\".\n\n\"Obviously at some stage over the next few months we will have a new leader as well, so we want to make sure that the leader ascribes to these values\", he added.\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has also said he will run for the leadership, telling an event last week: \"I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss have also spoken also at a Daily Telegraph event on the future of the Conservative Party. All three have been tipped as contenders.\n\nMs Truss said her party needed to be bolder on issues such as housing while Mr Raab called for cuts to income tax.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining Tory MPs launch rival campaign groups the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members.", "John Finucane received the chains of office on Tuesday evening\n\nBelfast's new Lord Mayor John Finucane has rejected claims he was fast-tracked to the top post to boost his chances in the next Westminster election.\n\nMr Finucane came close to defeating the DUP MP Nigel Dodds in the North Belfast constituency two years ago.\n\nNow the Sinn Féin councillor has become lord mayor, despite having only just been elected to the council.\n\nSome of his political opponents at City Hall have suggested it is a political ploy by Sinn Féin to raise his profile.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Finucane denied this and said: \"That's not something that's in my mind at all.\n\n\"I want to be a mayor for everybody.\n\n\"It's a city that I love and feel very strongly about and I'm looking forward to my time in office.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Finucane is the son of murdered Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane, who was shot dead by loyalists during the Troubles.\n\nNow 39 years old, the new lord mayor is the same age his father was when he was killed in north Belfast 30 years ago.\n\nSpeaking of his family background, he said: \"It's no secret that I am the product of a middle-class Protestant mother from east Belfast and a working-class Catholic father from the Falls Road.\n\n\"I think diversity in my personal background has made me stronger.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's not just a sound bite from me to say I am here to represent everybody. I will be doing that.\"\n\nJohn Finucane said he would be a mayor for all of Belfast's citizens\n\nMr Finucane explained that he had relations on his mother's side who were members of the Orange Order, and he recently discovered that his grandfather served in the Royal Navy during World War Two.\n\n\"My office and my hand will always be extended, especially to the Orange Order,\" he said.\n\n\"Certainly I won't be found wanting should a request come in.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Finucane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Finucane said he would have \"no difficulty\" meeting members of the Royal Family on one of their regular visits to Belfast.\n\nThe new lord mayor also said that his party's long-standing boycott of the Remembrance Sunday commemorations would be again reviewed ahead of November.\n\nHe said he was \"very cognisant of my own family history\" in World War Two and added that he would deal with such issues in a \"very sensitive\" manner.\n\nHe said that he would not allow his year as mayor to be \"dominated\" by his own past, but he added that he hoped his late father would be \"proud\".\n\nHe was aged eight when he witnessed the murder of his father in February 1989.\n\nLike his father, John Finucane is a lawyer.\n\nJohn Finucane was elected to Belfast City Council for the first time this month\n\nHis legal career will be put on hold for the next 12 months but he will stay involved in a small number of cases, including one in which he represents boxer Carl Frampton in a legal dispute with his former manager Barry McGuigan\n\nThe role of lord mayor in Belfast is largely ceremonial.\n\nBelfast City Council met on Tuesday night for the first time since the recent council election.\n\nNo party has overall control of the 60-seat council.\n\nThe four largest parties are:\n\nThe position of lord mayor will rotate annually, with the DUP expected to be given the role next year.\n\nMr Finucane will replace his Sinn Féin colleague Deirdre Hargey, who has held the post for the past 12 months.\n\nJohn Finucane is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989 by loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nLike his father, he trained as a solicitor and now works at a Belfast-based law firm.\n\nThe Finucane family has been campaigning for a public inquiry into claims of collusion in the murder.\n\nPat Finucane was a prominent solicitor in Belfast at the time of his death\n\nIn February the Supreme Court ruled that there had been no effective investigation to date into the circumstances.\n\nBut the judges stopped short of ordering an inquiry, saying it was a matter for the state.\n\nSinn Féin Belfast councillor Ciaran Beattie has described his party colleague as a \"fearless defender and promoter of human rights and social justice\".\n\nIt is not unprecedented for a newly-elected councillor to immediately become lord mayor.\n\nIt happened when Sinn Féin's Niall Ó Donnghaile gained the position in 2011.\n\nThe rotation of Belfast's lord mayor post will see the DUP take the spot in 2020, the Alliance Party in 2021 and Sinn Féin again in 2022.\n\nIt is thought that the SDLP will be granted the post of deputy lord mayor next year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How climate change is sinking an Indian island\n\nScientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica.\n\nThe long-held view has been that the world's seas would rise by a maximum of just under a metre by 2100.\n\nThis new study, based on expert opinions, projects that the real level may be around double that figure.\n\nThis could lead to the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, the authors say.\n\nThe question of sea-level rise was one of the most controversial issues raised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), when it published its fifth assessment report in 2013.\n\nIt said the continued warming of the planet, without major reductions in emissions, would see global waters rising by between 52cm and 98cm by 2100.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UN chief: Political will is fading even as the situation worsens, Antonio Guterres said\n\nMany experts believe this was a very conservative estimate.\n\nIce scientists are also concerned that the models currently used to predict the influence of huge ice sheets on sea levels don't capture all of the uncertainties about how these are now melting.\n\nTo try to get a clearer picture, some of the leading researchers in the field carried out what is termed a structured expert judgement study, where the scientists make predictions based on their knowledge and understanding of what is happening in Greenland, West and East Antarctica.\n\nIn the researchers' view, if emissions continue on the current trajectory then the world's seas would be very likely to rise by between 62cm and 238cm by 2100. This would be in a world that had warmed by around 5C - one of the worst-case scenarios for global warming.\n\n\"For 2100, the ice sheet contribution is very likely in the range of 7-178cm but once you add in glaciers and ice caps outside the ice sheets and thermal expansion of the seas, you tip well over two metres,\" said lead author Prof Jonathan Bamber from the University of Bristol.\n\nA small boat in the Illulissat Icefjord in western Greenland, dwarfed by icebergs that have calved from Greenland's largest glacier, Jacobshavn Isbrae\n\nThe IPCC report in 2013 only considered what is \"likely\" to happen, which in scientific terms means they looked at 17-83% of the range of possibilities.\n\nThis new study looks at a broader range of results, covering 5-95% of the estimates.\n\nFor expected temperature rises up to 2C, Greenland's ice sheet remains the single biggest contributor to sea-level rise. However, as temperatures go beyond this, the much larger Antarctic ice sheets start to come into play.\n\n\"When you start to look at these lower likelihood but still plausible values, then the experts believe that there is a small but statistically significant probability that West Antarctica will transition to a very unstable state and parts of East Antarctica will start contributing as well,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\n\"But it's only at these higher probabilities for 5C that we see those type of behaviours kicking in.\"\n\nAccording to the authors, this scenario would have huge implications for the planet.\n\nThey calculate that the world would lose an area of land equal to 1.79 million square kilometres - equivalent to the size of Libya.\n\nMuch of the land losses would be in important food growing areas such as the delta of the Nile. Large swathes of Bangladesh would be very difficult for people to continue to live in. Major global cities, including London, New York and Shanghai would be under threat.\n\n\"To put this into perspective, the Syrian refugee crisis resulted in about a million refugees coming into Europe,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\nA German supply ship moored at the edge of an ice shelf in West Antarctica\n\n\"That is about 200 times smaller than the number of people who would be displaced in a 2m sea-level rise.\"\n\nThe authors emphasise that there is still time to avoid these type of scenarios, if major cuts in emissions take place over the coming decades. They acknowledge that the chances of hitting the high end of this range are small, around 5%, but they should not be discounted, according to the lead author.\n\n\"If I said to you that there was a one in 20 chance that if you crossed the road you would be squashed you wouldn't go near it,\" said Prof Bamber.\n\n\"Even a 1% probability means that a one in a hundred year flood is something that could happen in your lifetime. I think that a 5% probability, crikey - I think that's a serious risk.\"\n\nOther experts in the field said that the findings of the expert group were significant.\n\n\"This kind of survey of experts is important, because computer models are not perfect at predicting the future,\" said Dr Tamsin Edwards from King's College London.\n\n\"Here they took the eight most accurate of 22 experts on Antarctica and Greenland and combined their judgements about the future. The ice sheets are losing ice at increasing rates, and we can't rule out high values of sea level rise, though it's also important to note they're unlikely - especially as we are starting to put policies in place to avoid such a high level of warming.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "Patients with mental health problems, autism and learning disabilities are being let down by a \"broken\" care system, a report warns.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) says it knows of at least 62 adults and children that have been living in segregation in mental health hospitals for long periods of time.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who commissioned the work, said he was appalled by the distressing stories.\n\nHe promised cases would be reviewed.\n\nThe report presents the CQC's initial findings on the use of long-term segregation on mental health wards for children and young people and wards for people with a learning disability or autism.\n\nThe CQC has so far visited and assessed the care of 39 people in segregation - most had a diagnosis of autism.\n\nThe most common reason given for segregating was to keep other patients safe or a belief the patient would be unable to cope around others.\n\nThe CQC found some of the wards were not suitable environments for people with autism and many staff lacked the necessary training and skills to work with patients with complex needs and challenging behaviour.\n\nSome of the hospitals visited had \"features of institutions that are at risk of developing a closed and even punitive culture\".\n\nIn the case of 26 of the 39 people, staff had stopped attempting to reintegrate them back in to the main ward environment, usually because of concerns about violence and aggression.\n\nOften, a suitable alternative place of care, such as a community placement, could not be found.\n\nDr Paul Lelliott, of the CQC, said: \"The people we have visited have had contact with health, care and education services for many years, pointing to missed opportunities that may have prevented admission to hospital in a crisis because there was nowhere else for them to go.\n\n\"These people have been failed by the current system of care and that system must be changed.\"\n\nMr Hancock said: \"At its best, the health and care system provides excellent support to people, backed by a dedicated workforce.\n\n\"But a small proportion of some of the most vulnerable in society are being failed by a broken system that doesn't work for them. They deserve better.\"\n\nHe said the government would fund specialist, independent advocates to work with families, join up services and try to move people to the least restrictive care and then out into the community.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"We welcome the CQC's call for urgent action and we are looking at what more we can do to ensure those in the most vulnerable situations get the care they need close to home.\n\n\"This must include people with learning disabilities and autism in mental health hospitals.\"\n• None 'Too many' young in mental health hospitals\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Like gigantic lawnmowers, more than a dozen twisters hit Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, including two at once.", "The peer insists the Conservative Party remains his \"natural home\"\n\nThe veteran Conservative politician Lord Heseltine has had the whip removed after saying he will vote for the Lib Dems in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThe former deputy prime minister said he would not back the Tories because of the party's pro-Brexit stance.\n\nA Tory Party spokesperson said the peer's views on European matters were \"longstanding and sincerely held\".\n\nBut he added that endorsing another party was \"not compatible with taking the Tory whip\".\n\n\"As a result, the Chief Whip in the House of Lords has informed Lord Heseltine that he will have the Conservative whip suspended. This will be reviewed if he is willing to support Conservative candidates at future elections,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHaving the whip taken away means a parliamentarian is effectively expelled from their party and that they must sit in Parliament as an independent until the whip is restored.\n\nLord Heseltine revealed he would be voting for the Lib Dems in an article for the Sunday Times.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live that he was \"lending\" his support to the Lib Dem candidate in his area as he was \"not prepared to indulge in this act of national sacrifice by voting for Brexit\".\n\nThe 86-year old, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was also an adviser to David Cameron, said he was following his conscience and the Conservative Party remained his \"natural home\".\n\nReacting to his sanction, he told Sky News: \"They can take away the whip but they cannot take away my integrity, my convictions or my experience. I am a Conservative.\"\n\nHis announcement angered Brexiteers in his party, with MPs suggesting he had broken internal rules by endorsing another party.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 live, Andrew Bridgen suggested \"there really is no place for someone with his views in the Conservative Party\".\n\n\"I find Lord Heseltine's arrogance that he knows better than the majority of the electorate really quite breathtaking.\"\n\nHowever Conservative former minister Sir Nicholas Soames told Channel 4 News withdrawing the whip from Lord Heseltine was \"a really stupid, bovine thing to do\".\n\nHe said he would make his feelings about the matter known to chief whip Julian Smith.\n\nLord Heseltine has been a vocal opponent of Brexit and has spoken at a number of rallies in favour of another referendum.\n\nIt is not the first time he has been at odds with his party over Brexit. In March 2017 he was sacked as a government adviser after rebelling in a Brexit vote in the Lords.\n\nThe UK will take part in the elections for the European Parliament on 23 May after the government was unable to agree a Brexit deal.", "Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has remained defiant towards US moves against his company, saying the US \"underestimates\" its abilities.\n\nSpeaking to Chinese state media, Mr Ren downplayed the impact of recent US curbs and said no-one could catch up to its 5G technology in the near future.\n\nLast week the US added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a licence.\n\nThe move marked an escalation in US efforts to block the Chinese company.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young people in Singapore say they are now wary of buying Huawei phones\n\n\"The current practice of US politicians underestimates our strength,\" Mr Ren said, according to transcripts from state media.\n\nHuawei faces a growing backlash from Western countries, led by the US, over possible risks posed by using its products in next-generation 5G mobile networks.\n\nThe potential fallout from the US decision to place Huawei on its \"entity list\" was drawn into focus on Monday after Google barred the Chinese tech giant from some updates to its Android operating system.\n\nLater on Monday, the US Commerce Department issued a temporary licence that enabled some companies to continue supporting existing Huawei networks and devices.\n\nThe US said it would issue the 90-day licence that \"will allow operations to continue for existing Huawei mobile phone users and rural broadband networks,\" said US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre has published advice for Huawei phone owners on its site.\n\nIt said the licence should mean that Huawei customers can \"update their handsets as normal\". It added that it was continuing to assess the situation and planned to provide advice in the future for users.\n\nThe Huawei founder is proud of the firm's lead in 5G technology\n\nStill, Mr Ren played down the significance of the move, saying that Huawei had already made preparations ahead of the US restrictions.\n\nHuawei has been at the epicentre of the US-China power struggle for months.\n\nConsumers are worried about what this all means for them, while the implications for Huawei are also likely to be significant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kirk Ellis said he was 'absolutely devastated' to find he had infected blood\n\nWelsh victims of the contaminated blood scandal have said it is not fair they get less financial help than people affected in England and Scotland.\n\nKirk Ellis, 38, from Caerphilly, receives £18,500 a year after he contracted hepatitis C when he was given infected blood as a child.\n\nBut in April, Theresa May increased funding to patients in England, worth an extra £10,000 in Mr Ellis's case.\n\nThe UK government said it was liaising with Welsh ministers on greater parity.\n\nA public inquiry into the scandal is looking at why thousands of people with haemophilia were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nEach of the UK nations has its own financial support scheme for infected patients. In Wales, 175 people receive payments.\n\nMr Ellis said the UK government should increase the funding, not the Welsh Government, as \"we were under one government when infected\".\n\n\"How can it be fair? We were infected under the same system,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"I've got the same medical condition, same damage done to my body, living with the same anxiety and depression as somebody living in those places.\"\n\nThe father of one, who was diagnosed with haemophilia as a toddler, believes he was infected by his first dose of the clotting agent Factor VIII.\n\nBut he did not find out until he was a teenager.\n\n\"I was devastated, absolutely devastated,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellis is classed as having hepatitis C at stage two because he has cirrhosis of the liver.\n\nSince April, patients in England in the same position as Mr Ellis have been entitled to £28,000 a year.\n\nIn Scotland it is £27,000 after it made changes to its payments in 2017, although Northern Ireland has the same payment scheme as Wales.\n\nCampaigners met ministers from the UK and devolved governments, including Cabinet Office minister David Lidington, in January.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the meeting agreed there would be a UK-wide approach to support for patients.\n\nBut in April, at the start of the public inquiry, the prime minister announced an extra £29m for English patients.\n\nAbout 50 people in Wales are in Mr Ellis's situation with stage 2 Hepatitis C.\n\nNorman Hutchinson, of Benllech, Anglesey, cares for his wife Jennifer who developed Hepatitis C as a result of the scandal - a diagnosis that \"devastated\" her health and \"turned both our lives upside down\", he said.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"This is the problem of the Welsh Government. It's about time they stopped political bickering and took a hard look at the people who are suffering.\"\n\nBut Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd, a GP, said Westminster governments had \"run away\" from their responsibility to patients.\n\nThe Scottish government had more money to spend than Wales, he told BBC Radio Cymru.\n\nLynne Kelly, chair of Haemophilia Wales, said there was a \"patchwork\" of support payments across the UK, but victims had not been compensated as no government has ever accepted it was at fault for the scandal.\n\nThe Infected Blood Inquiry is hearing evidence around the UK. It is in Belfast this week, and will come to Cardiff in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said additional support was announced in March for infected patients.\n\nAs well as money, it provided \"extensive wrap around services, which include psychological support\" for victims, a spokesman said.\n\nHe added the government was \"committed to working across the UK to ensure parity of the schemes\", although there were no extra resources for Wales as a result of the English announcement.\n\nThe UK government said it was liaising with the Welsh Government about \"how greater parity can be achieved between infected blood support schemes across the UK\".", "Gourmet Burger Kitchen said it would shut 17 sites\n\nThe number of restaurant businesses becoming insolvent jumped by a quarter in 2018 as consumers shunned the High Street, new figures show.\n\nAccountancy firm Moore Stephens said there had been 1,219 insolvencies, ranging from standalone restaurants up to large investor-backed chains - up from 985 in 2017.\n\nIt blamed overcapacity at a time when Britons are eating out less.\n\nRestaurant critic Jay Rayner said more operators could struggle next year.\n\nIn 2018, a spate of big restaurant chains were forced to strike rescue deals - known as company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) - with their creditors as they faced unsustainable debts.\n\nGourmet Burger Kitchen earmarked 17 sites for closure while Carluccios is shutting 34 outlets. Prezzo said it would close 94 - about a third of the chain - including all 33 outlets of its Tex-Mex brand Chimichanga.\n\nMoore Stephens said that insolvencies were at their highest level since it began tracking the sector in 2010.\n\nIt blamed an influx of private equity investment that had led to some restaurant chains opening too many sites that were now failing to break even.\n\nIt also said interest rate rises and Brexit concerns had \"put a dent\" consumer spending growth, as operators faced rising overheads such as the minimum wage and ingredient costs.\n\nHead of restructuring and insolvency Jeremy Willmont said: \"Restaurants have always been prone to high failure rates but vacant restaurants used to be rapidly replaced by a new contender. For now, that process seemed to have stalled and many sites are empty.\n\n\"Under such tough trading conditions, restaurants should be cautious about building up debt. They can very quickly become overextended as costs continue to rise.\"\n\nRestaurant critic Jay Rayner told the BBC that many restaurants - and particularly mid-market chains - operated on \"extremely tight profit margins\".\n\n\"They might be worth a lot but their margins are so tight that they are subject to real pain if there are sudden changes in the market place.\"\n\nHe said that while an independent, standalone restaurant might be able cut its costs and struggle on, investor-backed businesses had to cut their losses fast.\n\n\"I don't believe in crystal-ball gazing, but I think the last few months of the year will be good for restaurants, but in January many are going to find themselves staring down the barrel of Brexit.\n\n\"I think we could see a lot more businesses go to the wall and a lot of jobs lost.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Join police officers as they raid an address in Hastings\n\nNearly 600 suspected members of county lines drugs gangs have been arrested across the UK in the past week, the National Crime Agency has said.\n\nPolice forces led by the National County Lines Coordination Centre also seized cocaine worth £176,780, £312,649 in cash and 46 weapons.\n\nThe NCA estimates there are about 2,000 city-based gangs exploiting young people to sell drugs in smaller towns.\n\nIt says tackling the gangs is a \"national law enforcement priority\".\n\nIn the operation between 13 and 20 May:\n\nCounty line drugs gangs - linked by a network of mobile phone lines and often coercing children and vulnerable adults - travel out of their usual urban territory and into rural areas to sell drugs.\n\nMost come out of London, Birmingham and Merseyside, said NCA County Lines lead Nikki Holland.\n\nSome raids were on so-called cuckooed houses, which is a home taken over by drugs gangs from a drug user or vulnerable person.\n\nMs Holland likened gangs' exploitation of children to grooming for sex, saying these children often did not see themselves as victims because they enjoyed the attention and the gifts of drugs.\n\nGangs then used coercion, intimidation and violence to control the children, to keep them involved in running the drugs and to act as a \"shield\" from arrest and violence by rival gangs, she added.\n\nMs Holland appealed to parents and the public to trust their instincts and look out for children travelling long distances with older people or children going missing and having new and older friends.\n\nThe NCA said it did not have details yet of the ages of the 364 children who were picked up in the raids.\n\nBut they could be dealt with in a number of ways, it said, including being returned home if missing, referred to local services, referred to the National Referral Mechanism - which identifies victims of human trafficking or placed under a protection order.\n\nThis is the third week that police forces across the UK have co-ordinated raids.\n\nThe latest police operation \"demonstrated the power of a whole-system response to a complex problem that we're seeing in every area of the UK\", said Ms Holland.\n\nMs Holland called on professionals working with people at risk of being involved in county line operations to assist, saying: \"It's the nurses, teachers, social workers, GPs, and anyone who works with young or vulnerable people, that can really help to make a difference.\"\n\nNathaniel Peat, founder of the Safety Box, an organisation which delivers programmes to young people to reduce violence, notes that many young people who serve prison sentences for drugs are exposed to more violence in prison.\n\n\"They can become even more vulnerable in prison, they're often under pressure to beat people up or will be beat up themselves. They go in for drugs and come out violent, and that's when the knife crime rises.\"\n\nLast week three drug dealers from London and Kent who used vulnerable teenagers to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth were jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nThey are believed to have been the first to have been charged with modern slavery offences.\n\nOther recent cases before the courts include two brothers from Birmingham who ran a network supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Hereford, while a police operation on 1 May resulted in 24 arrests and raids in Newcastle, Stevenage, Norwich, Glasgow and London.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the charity had heard \"shocking stories of children being groomed with money and drugs before the life of glamour they have been promised quickly descends into a nightmare\".\n\nShe said while it was good to see police are stepping up their fight against the gangs \"too many children exploited through county lines are still... failing to get help from an independent advocate to ensure they are supported as victims\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study.\n\nThese female helpers are portrayed as \"obliging and eager to please\", reinforcing the idea that women are \"subservient\", it finds.\n\nParticularly worrying, it says, is how they often give \"deflecting, lacklustre or apologetic responses\" to insults.\n\nThe report calls for technology firms to stop making voice assistants female by default.\n\nThe study from Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is entitled, I'd blush if I could, which is borrowed from a response from Siri to being called a sexually provocative term.\n\n\"Companies like Apple and Amazon, staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams, have built AI systems that cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch-me-if-you-can flirtation,\" the report says.\n\n\"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are... docile helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like 'hey' or 'OK'. The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility,\" the report says.\n\n\"In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.\"\n\nPeople are increasingly asking voice assistants such as Alexa a whole range of questions\n\nResearch firm Canalys estimates that approximately 100 million smart speakers - the hardware that allows users to interact with voice assistants - were sold globally in 2018.\n\nAnd, according to research firm Gartner, by 2020 some people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses.\n\nVoice assistants now manage an estimated one billion tasks per month, according to the report, and the vast majority - including those designed by Chinese tech giants - have obviously female voices.\n\nMicrosoft's Cortana was named after a synthetic intelligence in the video game Halo that projects itself as a sensuous unclothed woman, while Apple's Siri means \"beautiful woman who leads you to victory\" in Norse. While Google Assistant has a gender-neutral name, its default voice is female.\n\nApple did make a male Siri voice available in 2013 and that is the default voice in languages including British, Arabic and French.\n\nThe report calls on developers to create a neutral machine gender for voice assistants, to programme them to discourage gender-based insults and to announce the technology as non-human at the outset of interactions with human users.\n\nA group of linguists, technologists and sound designers are experimenting with a genderless digital voice, made from real voices and called Q.\n\nThe report also highlights the digital skills gender gap, from lack of internet use among girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, to the decline of ICT studies being taken up by girls in Europe.\n\nAccording to the report, women make up just 12% of AI researchers.", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is closing six of his 42 UK Jamie's Italian restaurants.\n\nThe Aberdeen, Cheltenham, Exeter, Tunbridge Wells and in London, the Ludgate and Richmond outlets are all scheduled to close soon.\n\nThe move will affect 120 staff, whom the company said it would try to place in other parts of the chain.\n\nThe company said that the market was \"tough\" and the uncertainties caused by Brexit had intensified the pressures.\n\nThe price of ingredients bought in Italy has gone up because of the fall in the value of the pound against the euro since the vote to leave the EU.\n\nChief executive Simon Blagden said: \"As every restaurant owner knows, this is a tough market and, post-Brexit, the pressures and unknowns have made it even harder.\"\n\nHe said each restaurant in the chain needed to attract 3,000 diners a week to be profitable.\n\nJamie's Italian has 28 overseas outlets and the company also said it planned to open another 22 outside the UK.\n\nLast year, Jamie Oliver said he would buy back the Jamie's Italian restaurants business in Australia.\n\nHe moved after Keystone Group, which ran the operation, went into receivership and put the franchise up for sale.\n• None 'Your paella is an abomination'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage said his party was mostly funded via donations of £25\n\nThe Electoral Commission is visiting the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.\n\nA spokesperson said Tuesday's visit was part of its \"active oversight and regulation\" of donations.\n\nEx-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesman said if there was \"evidence that the law may have been broken\", it would consider it \"in line with our enforcement policy\".\n\nThe watchdog said the visit was arranged on Monday, adding that it does meet regularly with parties both during and outside campaigns to verify their processes.\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with those requirements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown wants the Electoral Commission to investigate Brexit Party funding\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system was being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.\n\n\"You can pay to this party in Russian roubles or American dollars,\" Mr Brown said.\n\n\"Democracy is ill served, and trust in democracy will continue to be undermined, if we have no answers as to where the money is coming from,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant has also said the system is open to abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Mr Brown's comments, Mr Farage said: \"Most of our money has been raised by people giving £25 to become registered supporters.\"\n\n\"And over 110,000 of them now have done that. And frankly, this smacks of jealousy because the other parties simply can't do this.\"\n\nWhen asked if the party took donations in foreign currency, Mr Farage replied: \"Absolutely not, we only take sterling - end of conversation.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell called for \"a full and open and transparent, independent inquiry into the funding of Mr Farage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons.\n\nOn Monday, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice told Radio 4's Today programme the party applied \"the appropriate Electoral Commission rules\" to amounts above £500.\n\nAsked if he could confirm whether the party takes cash from foreign citizens, Mr Tice said: \"I don't sit in front of the PayPal account all day so I don't know what currencies people are paying in, but, as I understand it, the PayPal takes it in sterling.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it required people to give their name and address before contributing £500 or more.\n\nChange UK said: \"We identify all donors, including those under the £500 threshold, so that we can conduct a permissibility check should the aggregate of donations per donor exceed the £500 threshold.\"\n\nIn 2013, the Electoral Commission issued guidance to parties that \"if a donor makes regular payments for an unspecified donation and towards an unspecified total amount, our view is that these payments should be treated as separate donations.\"\n\nAs you might expect, the world of party funding and finance is a complicated one. But an interesting element to pin-point is this issue of smaller donations.\n\nUnder UK law a donation to a political party that's under £500 does not have to be reported to the Electoral Commission. In fact, that kind of financial contribution doesn't even count as a donation. So, for example, the usual rules around the money having to come from a UK elector or UK-registered company don't apply.\n\nWhat wouldn't be allowed are repeated small donations, from the same source, in order to dodge the donation limits.\n\nSignificantly, these rules originate from legislation that's nearly 20 years old - the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Back then, they probably didn't worry about the risk that parties might be able to crowdfund from foreign donors, and one academic's told me that the law is no longer \"fit for purpose\".\n\nMeanwhile, when it comes to the Electoral Commission's plan to visit The Brexit Party's offices - I understand that officials and the party have been in dialogue for several weeks and that's it's not necessarily unusual for the commission to meet parties to ensure that their systems are up to scratch. However, it appears that the commission hasn't yet visited any others during this particular campaign.\n\nDuring his speech, Gordon Brown also attacked Mr Farage for receiving £450,000 from Leave campaigner Arron Banks while still a member of the European Parliament.\n\nMr Brown said The Brexit Party leader should have declared the payments he was receiving \"to avoid a conflict of interest\".\n\nAsked about it following an investigation by Channel 4 News, Mr Farage said he did not declare it to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nLib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder has written to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani calling for an investigation into the matter. Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said she had also referred Mr Farage to the European Anti-Fraud Office.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been charged with assaulting Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when the incident happened.", "Despite being known for its heavy industry, there is only one foundry left in Middlesbrough.\n\nWilliam Lane Foundry has been struggling for orders in recent years but 24-year-old Sam is hopeful that will change.\n\nHe is the foundry’s youngest team member and is determined to keep the skills alive and pass them on to future generations.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled what she called her new Brexit deal\n\nThe backstop is perhaps the most controversial part of the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nIt is an insurance arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic under all circumstances.\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nSome MPs fear it could trap the UK in a customs union with the EU while Northern Ireland unionists think it would diminish their place in the union.\n\nIn her speech on Tuesday, the prime minister said she had listened to unionist concerns.\n\nBut she was also clear that the backstop would be staying in the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nInstead, she promised to give legal force to commitments that she has already made and proposed an enhanced role for the Northern Ireland Assembly - should it ever be reconstituted.\n\nFirstly, Theresa May said there would now be a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\" for the Irish border by December 2020.\n\nAlternative arrangements basically mean technological solutions for the Irish border which would allow trade to flow across it unimpeded, even if the UK is outside the EU's customs union and single market.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nBrexit supporters see this as being key to avoiding the backstop.\n\nHowever, a government commitment to seek alternative arrangements by the end of 2020 is not new - it was laid out in a joint statement with the EU in March.\n\nThe prime minister also said that if the backstop was applied and Northern Ireland had to continue to follow EU rules, then the rest of the UK would voluntarily follow those same rules.\n\nThat is also not new - it was part of a package of commitments announced by the UK government almost six months ago.\n\nHowever, the government would claim that moving from political promises to legally binding commitments should be seen as significant.\n\nWhat was new in the prime minister's speech was the role that Stormont would play if the backstop was ever implemented.\n\nIn January, the UK government said that if any new areas of Northern Ireland-specific alignment were to be added to the backstop, then it would \"seek the agreement of the Northern Ireland Assembly\".\n\nNI's devolved government collapsed in January 2017 following a bitter dispute between Sinn Féin and the DUP\n\nThat stopped well short of a Stormont veto - Westminster was only required to seek agreement, not to get it.\n\nThis has now been toughened up.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to give their consent on a cross-community basis for new regulations which are added to the backstop.\"\n\nThe words \"cross-community basis\" are important as it means that a simple majority vote of the assembly would not be enough.\n\nIt is possible that unionists, who dislike the very concept of the backstop, could use a blocking mechanism known as the petition of concern.\n\nWhat would happen if Stormont did veto any addition to the backstop is not entirely clear.\n\nAll we can say for sure is that there is a mechanism in the Withdrawal Agreement that ultimately allows the EU to take \"appropriate remedial measures\" if the UK does not update the backstop.\n\nThere is also the question of how to define a new regulation - under the Withdrawal Agreement a regulation is not new if it is replacing or amending an existing regulation.\n\nSo it is likely that Stormont would only, very rarely, get an opportunity to wield its veto.", "The exact figure was not given, but Amazon is the biggest investor in Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nDeliveroo said it would use the money for international expansion, improving its service and to grow its delivery-only kitchens business.\n\nSeveral existing US investors also contributed to the fund raising.\n\nThe amount of capital invested in Deliveroo since it was founded in 2013 now totals more than $1.5bn, and the firm is one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies.\n\nDeliveroo founder and chief executive Will Shu said he was looking forward to working with \"such a customer-obsessed organisation\" like Amazon.\n\nAmazon said it was attracted by Deliveroo's \"innovative technology service\".\n\nThe backing from Amazon gives Deliveroo a boost against rivals such as JustEat and Uber Eats.\n\nThe online retailer briefly had its own UK food delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\n\"They [Amazon] weren't able to compete within the market so they've gone for the buying option instead. They've got the money behind them to do that,\" Louise Dudley, fund manager at investment firm Hermes, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"It [Deliveroo] is not just a food delivery company it's very much a tech company. They have this tech platform that is seen is very attractive. They are able to expand into new areas and think about how people's tastes are evolving and be able to predict what stores will be successful. That predictive growth is very attractive to Amazon\".\n\nAmazon had previously been reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo over buying it.\n\nIt was already a fierce contest - now the battle to dominate the food delivery business in the UK just moved to a whole new level.\n\nIn a rare failure Amazon decided last year to pull its Restaurants food service out of a UK market where Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats were scrapping to be top dog. Now it's put its firepower behind Deliveroo, which was already confident that its technology platform gave it the edge.\n\nThe company will now use some of its extra cash to build more of its \"super kitchens\" expanding its offering beyond traditional restaurants and invest more in machine learning to speed up delivery times.\n\nWhether the market for food deliveries is quite as big as all the firms believe - and whether it stretches far beyond London twenty-somethings - remains to be seen but they all seem prepared to spend big money to win the lion's share.\n\nThe question is why did Amazon not just buy the whole business? Perhaps the ecommerce giant wanted to sample a starter before swallowing the whole three course meal.\n\nDeliveroo now operates in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK, but has a much smaller share of the market than rival Just Eat which dominates the food delivery sector.\n\nJust Eat's shares fell 8% in early trading, but analysts at Liberum said that despite the extra funding, Deliveroo was unlikely to become a serious competitor.\n\n\"Just Eat's market leading position will be incredibly difficult to overcome, especially given its strength in smaller towns.\n\n\"In the UK, it has an estimated 3-4 times greater share than Uber Eats and Deliveroo combined and, crucially, 60%+ of its customers are in small towns where it is effectively the only option for restaurants and where the Uber Eats/Deliveroo model just doesn't work because of the economics,\" Liberum said.\n\nMr Shu came up with the idea for the firm after he moved from New York to London as a banking analyst. He was working long hours and was frustrated by the fact so few restaurants delivered, a service he had used daily in the US.\n\nIn the firm's early days, Mr Shu delivered all the food himself on a motorbike, while Greg Orlowski, his co-founder who has since left the business, developed the booking technology from his home in the US. Mr Shu still claims to get on his bike once a week to deliver an order to customers in London, as a way of staying in touch with riders.\n\nAs well as the UK, Deliveroo now operates in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.\n\nGlobal sales at the firm more than doubled in 2017, jumping to £277m, but its losses continued to increase, doubling to nearly £185m as it invested in global expansion.\n\nThe firm uses more than 60,000 couriers - mostly using bikes or moped - to deliver food from restaurants to customers.\n\nDeliveroo does not employ its riders directly, but pays them per delivery.\n\nLast year, a group of 50 UK Deliveroo couriers won a six-figure payout after claiming they had been unlawfully denied holiday and minimum wages.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson described protests over lessons at her school as aggressive\n\nA head teacher at a primary school giving lessons on LGBT equality has received threatening emails and phone calls.\n\nPolice are investigating messages sent to Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.\n\nThere have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept away on Monday.\n\nBirmingham MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone at the school to limit where people can demonstrate.\n\nThe city council is looking into Ms Phillips' request, with the authority's leader saying some outside the school are \"peddling hatred\".\n\nThe complaints at Anderton Park, mainly from Muslim protesters, focus on lessons for which pupils have been given books featuring cross-dressing children and gay families.\n\nThe protests' leader says that amounts to \"social engineering\".\n\nSimilar teaching has been opposed in letters sent predominantly by conservative Muslims to schools across England, BBC Newsnight reported last week.\n\nRailings at Anderton Park Primary School have been adorned with heart-shaped messages of support\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said of the protests: \"There's a whole variety of emotions: embarrassment for lots of our community and our parents who think this is just awful what's happening; frustration that it's going on so long; frustration that great British laws like 'you can protest peacefully' actually are causing us a problem.\n\n\"It's interesting what a normal person on the street would think peaceful means and what actually is peaceful outside here.\"\n\nShe described the scene in the Sparkhill area of the city as \"very loud, it's very aggressive, it's tiresome\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she was \"meeting lots of parents\", with a series of 12 meetings set up between now and the end of June.\n\nShe also denied a claim from some parents that she is Islamophobic, saying she believed in \"equality for everybody\".\n\nIn England, relationships education will be compulsory for all primary pupils from September 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and campaigners have been protesting for seven weeks.\n\nShakeel Afsar is the leader of the Anderton Park protests, although he has no children at the school.\n\nHe said the school had pulled \"the shutters down\" on parental engagement and was promoting LGBT lifestyles to children.\n\nHe said 600 pupils were kept from school on Monday \"to make it crystal clear we will not have our children indoctrinated or participating in any social engineering programmes which undermine our family values by promoting child sexualisation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park said more than half of the 700-strong student body had attended school. The council has been contacted to confirm attendance figures.\n\nOvernight, counter-protesters adorned the site with heart-shaped messages featuring the words \"love is the answer\".\n\nWest Midlands Police, which is investigating the threats against Ms Hewitt-Clarkson, said officers were also looking into \"disorder\" outside the school in which eggs were thrown at the counter-protesters.\n\nThe force said it was investigating three reports of assault and two of criminal damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside the school earlier, Mr Afsar was involved in a stand-up disagreement with Ms Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley.\n\nShe said protesters could not \"pick and choose\" which equality they could and could not have.\n\nSaying the worst thing about the protests was damage \"to the reputation of a peaceful\" community, she called for an exclusion area \"to protect the 700 children in this school\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he had asked authority officers to see whether they could use a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to counter the protests.\n\nHe said: \"If a PSPO is not appropriate, then we will look at alternative options, because the children and staff at Anderton Park have a right to attend school without this daily disruption.\n\n\"It's one thing for parents to ask questions about elements of a school curriculum, it's quite another for others to pounce on the situation as an excuse to peddle hatred and misinformation.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said PSPO proposals would normally go out to public consultation and, based on response, a decision made by the authority and \"police leads\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May is setting out the details of a series of compromises designed to try and win the support of Labour MPs for her Brexit plan.\n\nThe cabinet earlier agreed the idea of a temporary customs relationship until the next general election, and measures on the environment and workers' rights.\n\nThese will be included in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, to be put to a vote in the Commons in early June.\n\nThe SNP and some Tory Brexiteers have already said they will vote against.\n\nThe PM briefed MPs and ministers on the contents of the speech - entitled \"A new Brexit deal - seeking common ground in Parliament\" - beforehand.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill is legislation required to bring the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU into British law.\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement three times, and talks with Labour on finding a compromise deal acceptable to their MPs broke down last week.\n\nDowning Street said there was a \"shared determination\" in cabinet to find a way of passing the legislation although it conceded \"strong opinions\" had been aired on how best to do this.\n\nAt the meeting, Mrs May told her ministers: \"The Withdrawal Agreement Bill is the vehicle which gets the UK out of the EU and it is vital to find a way to get it over the line.\"\n\nNo 10 said the bill, when it was published, would contain \"some significant new aspects\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart suggested on Sunday that the government and Labour were \"half an inch apart\" on key issues and \"sensible\" Labour MPs could be won round.\n\nBut shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said she believed her colleagues would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill as she had heard there was \"no radical difference\" in what was being offered.\n\nTheresa May is hoping to win over enough Labour MPs to counteract Tory rebellion\n\nFor Theresa May getting her cabinet behind her plan for another push towards a Brexit deal was the easy bit.\n\nMinisters agreed legislation to deliver Brexit should be the vehicle for compromises to bring enough Labour MPs on board to counteract the still strong rebellion by those on her own side.\n\nThe plan supersedes the idea of so-called indicative votes in the Commons on Brexit options.\n\nThe problem is that opposition on the Conservative side has probably hardened, not softened, since her last failed attempt.\n\nThe hope in Downing Street is that those wanting another referendum or a form of Brexit that keeps us closer to the EU may back this bill and try and get their way during later detailed debate.\n\nThe emphasis now is on hope and perhaps not very much of it.\n\nMs Thornberry told BBC Radio 4's Today that She said Labour was still pushing for a customs union with the EU and close alignment with the single market after Brexit.\n\nHowever, Commons leader and Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom said she would back the bill \"so long as it continues to be leaving the European Union\", which she defined as being outside both of those structures.\n\nShe also stressed the need to be prepared for a no-deal Brexit, telling Today: \"What I do think is that for any negotiation to succeed, you have to be prepared to walk away.\"\n\nRemaining within a customs union would avoid the need for tariffs (taxes) to be imposed on goods moving between the UK and the EU, but many Brexiteers feel it would also prevent Britain making the clean break from Brussels that they want.\n\nIf the bill passes its first parliamentary hurdle - known as second reading - in early June, MPs will then have an opportunity to propose changes as they examine it in detail.\n\nIt is thought some Labour MPs who oppose Brexit and want another referendum might be tempted to back the bill in the hope of inserting another public vote into it later on.\n\nHowever, several Tories - including former Brexit Secretary David Davis - have said they will vote against the bill at the first opportunity precisely to stop this happening.\n\nEx-minister Mark Francois, a vocal critic of the prime minister, said if the vote was held today the bill would be defeated by a huge margin.\n\nHe told the BBC that MPs who had backed the PM in the past would be \"more reluctant\" to do so if the party got a drubbing in the European elections and she would have to rely on Labour votes to get her way.\n\n\"Unless she is rescued by a Marxist, the Withdrawal Agreement Bill is dead on arrival,\" he told Radio 4's World at One.\n\nMr Francois dismissed comments to be made later by Philip Hammond, who will warn prospective Conservative leadership contenders against \"hijacking\" Brexit by \"knowingly inflicting\" a damaging no-deal exit on the economy.\n\nThe chancellor will tell business leaders that there is \"no mandate\" for such a no-deal exit and that even with \"all the preparation in the world\" it would be highly damaging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is the UK in a crisis over leaving the EU?\n\nMr Francois said the chancellor was a \"Remain fanatic\" and he suggested the public increasingly backed leaving with a deal and trading with the EU using World Trade Organization rules.\n\nOn Sunday, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said that was now \"the only way the democratic will of the people can be delivered\".\n\nThe UK was originally due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back when MPs failed to approve Mrs May's deal.\n\nWhen the new deadline was announced, the government said it would \"continue to make all necessary preparations\" for a no-deal Brexit, after it was reported that departments had stood down their planning.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Facial recognition: 'Law has not caught up with technology'\n\nThe first major legal challenge to police use of automated facial recognition surveillance has begun in Cardiff today.\n\nEd Bridges, whose image was taken while he was shopping, says weak regulation means AFR breaches human rights.\n\nThe civil rights group Liberty says current use of the tool is equivalent to the unregulated taking of DNA or fingerprints without consent.\n\nSouth Wales Police defends the tool but has not commented on the case.\n\nIn December 2017, Mr Bridges was having a perfectly normal day.\n\n\"I popped out of the office to do a bit of Christmas shopping and on the main pedestrian shopping street in Cardiff, there was a police van,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"By the time I was close enough to see the words 'automatic facial recognition' on the van, I had already had my data captured by it.\n\n\"That struck me as quite a fundamental invasion of my privacy.\"\n\nThe case could provide crucial guidance on the lawful use of facial technology.\n\nIt is a far more powerful policing tool than traditional CCTV - as the cameras take a biometric map, creating a numerical code of the faces of each person who passes the camera.\n\nThese biometric maps are uniquely identifiable to the individual.\n\n\"It is just like taking people's DNA or fingerprints, without their knowledge or their consent,\" said Megan Goulding, a lawyer from the civil liberties group Liberty which is supporting Mr Bridges.\n\nHowever, unlike DNA or fingerprints, there is no specific regulation governing how police use facial recognition or manage the data gathered.\n\nLiberty argues that even if there were regulations, facial recognition breaches human rights and should not be used.\n\nSouth Wales Police is the biggest user of facial recognition technology\n\nThe tool allows the facial images of vast numbers of people to be scanned in public places such as streets, shopping centres, football crowds and music events.\n\nThe captured images are then compared with images on police \"watch lists\" to see if they match.\n\n\"If there are hundreds of people walking the streets who should be in prison because there are outstanding warrants for their arrest, or dangerous criminals bent on harming others in public places, the proper use of AFR has a vital policing role,\" said Chris Phillips, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.\n\n\"The police need guidance to ensure this vital anti-crime tool is used lawfully.\"\n\nFacial recognition's usefulness for spotting, for example, terrorist suspects and preventing atrocities is clear but Liberty says the technology is being used for much more mundane policing, such as catching pickpockets.\n\nMr Bridges had his image captured by facial recognition for a second time at a peaceful protest against the arms trade.\n\nHis legal challenge argues the use of the tool breached his human right to privacy as well as data protection and equality laws.\n\nThree UK police forces have used facial recognition in public spaces since June 2015:\n\nLiberty believes South Wales Police has used facial recognition the most of the three forces, at about 50 deployments, including during the policing of the Champions League final in Cardiff in June 2017, where it emerged that, of the 2,470 potential matches made, 92% (2,297) were wrong.\n\nSouth Wales Police has gone to considerable lengths to explain its use of facial recognition and last year described it as \"lawful and proportionate\".\n\nWhen the technology was tested recently in London, one man was fined for a public order offence.\n\nBBC News also reported that at least three chances to assess how well the systems dealt with ethnicity had been missed by police over five years.\n\nCivil liberties groups say studies have shown facial recognition discriminates against women and those from ethnic minorities, because it disproportionately misidentifies those people.\n\n\"If you are a woman or from an ethnic minority and you walk past the camera, you are more likely to be identified as someone on a watch list, even if you are not,\" said Ms Goulding.\n\n\"That means you are more likely to be stopped and interrogated by the police.\n\n\"This is another tool by which social bias will be entrenched and communities who are already over-policed simply get over-policed further.\"\n\nLiberty says the risk of false-positive matches of women and ethnic minorities has the potential to change the nature of public spaces.\n\nLast week San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of the technology, following fears about its reliability and infringement of people's liberty and privacy.\n\nThe information commissioner and the surveillance camera commissioner have both become involved in Mr Bridges's case, as has the Home Office, indicating the high level of interest and concern about the parameters within which facial recognition can lawfully operate.\n\nThe case is expected to last three days, with judgment reserved to a later time.", "Did the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nAfter she finished, public rejections from almost all quarters started to pour in.\n\nOf course, the vote itself on this bundle of measures won't be for at least a week - a lifetime in this hyper-speed world. A lot could change.\n\nBut the diplomatic way of describing the situation tonight? Compromising when no one else is interested in consensus is impossible.\n\nThe more brutal political interpretation - Theresa May's mishandling of this whole situation has, over many, many months, pulled her deeper and deeper down into a quagmire of her own creation.\n\nAn attempt at this stage to ask others for understanding to help her escape is just too late - far, far too late. Now some Conservative minds are turning to whether she can stay on to have this vote at all.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda produced the \"most courageous act of any sportsman\" in returning to racing so soon after a horrific crash, says former team-mate John Watson.\n\nAustrian Lauda, who won the drivers championship in 1975, 1977 and 1984, died aged 70 on Monday.\n\nHe almost died following a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.\n\nDespite suffering severe burns and inhaling hot toxic fumes, he resumed racing 40 days later.\n\nWorld champion Lewis Hamilton said he was \"struggling to believe you are gone\". The Briton added on Twitter: \"I will miss our conversations, our laughs, the big hugs after winning races together. God rest your soul.\n\n\"Thank you for being a bright light in my life. I'll always be here for your family should they ever need me. Love you man.\"\n\nWatson was a team-mate of Lauda at Brabham and McLaren in the 1970s and 1980s and was one of the first people to attend to him after the crash.\n\n\"I came around shortly after the accident and the other drivers that were there managed to get him out of the cockpit and walked him away,\" Watson told the BBC.\n\n\"We lay him down and I put his head in my lap and he was able to communicate.\n\n\"Nobody realised the actual damage to Niki. The real danger he was in was not from the superficial injuries that we could see but from the deeper injury which was that to his lung.\n\n\"He'd suffered inhalation of toxic fumes from the burning fibreglass and we didn't appreciate the severity of the injury that he'd suffered.\n\n\"It was only after two or three days that the story came out that it was the lung damage that was the injury putting his life in danger.\n\n\"Racing 40 days after that accident was the most courageous act of any sportsman I've ever seen in my life.\"\n\nWatson, 73, added: \"What was really more remarkable was the speed of his recovery and what he was able to achieve.\n\n\"His courage, his commitment, focus, determination and bloody-mindedness. All the naysayers were saying that 'Lauda is finished' but his health and condition at Monza was just remarkable.\n\n\"He was winning the world title in 1976 by a country mile up to that accident and it was this year where there was this battle between Niki and James Hunt, so there was a lot of motivation to get back into the car.\"\n\nThree-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: \"During that accident he died twice and was resuscitated.\n\n\"Recovering from that accident, he came to Monza [for the Italian Grand Prix], which I was doing commentary for. He shouldn't have been there but wanted to get back to racing.\n\n\"I will never forget him putting his helmet on and he was suffering so much pain. When he came out from driving at the end I was there and the blood was running down out of his helmet.\n\n\"It's very sad news. I've known Niki for a long time and he was just entering grand prix racing when I was retiring. We had a season together. He always had great integrity and was one the smoothest, best drivers I've ever seen.\"\n\n'One of the greatest legends'\n\nAs non-executive chairman of Mercedes, Lauda helped them win both the drivers' and constructors' title in each of the past five seasons.\n\nTeam principal Toto Wolff said: \"First of all, on behalf of the team and all at Mercedes, I wish to send our deepest condolences to Birgit, Niki's children, his family and close friends.\n\n\"Niki will always remain one of the greatest legends of our sport - he combined heroism, humanity and honesty inside and outside the cockpit.\n\n\"His passing leaves a void in Formula 1. We haven't just lost a hero who staged the most remarkable comeback ever seen, but also a man who brought precious clarity and candour to modern Formula 1. He will be greatly missed as our voice of common sense.\n\n\"Our Mercedes team has also lost a guiding light.\n\n\"As a team-mate over the past six and a half years, Niki was always brutally honest - and utterly loyal. It was a privilege to count him among our team and moving to witness just how much it meant to him to be part of the team's success.\"\n\nNico Rosberg, who won the world title in 2016 with Mercedes, tweeted: \"Dear Niki. Thank you for everything that you did for me. I learned so much from you.\n\n\"Your passion, your fighting spirit, to never give up, you belief that you always meet twice in life, and even your patience with us youngsters.\n\n\"Myself and all of your 100 million fans around the world whom you also so strongly inspired to never give up in the hardest of times are thinking of you and your family and wish that you rest in peace.\"\n\nActor Daniel Bruhl played the role of Niki Lauda in the film 'Rush', which focused on the 1976 Formula 1 title battle between Lauda and Briton James Hunt.\n\nOn Tuesday, Bruhl paid tribute to Lauda and wrote on Instagram: \"The bravest man, I've ever met, not only because he was an F1 world champion in the crazy '70s and had the most incredible comeback in sport's history, but also because of how he treated people.\n\n\"Always honest, straight forward, blunt. Niki told you the truth in your face, no matter how uncomfortable. He was totally unpretentious and incredibly funny. I learned a lot from him and deeply admired him.\n\n\"I know how much you enjoyed flying. Race the sky in peace immortal champ, we'll miss you.\"\n\n'A sad day for the entire motorsport community' - reaction from the rest of F1\n\nFerrari: \"Everyone at Ferrari is deeply saddened at the news of the death of our dear friend Niki Lauda.\n\n\"He won two of his three world championships with us and will always be in our hearts and in those of all Ferrari fans.\n\n\"Our sincere condolences go to all his family and friends.\"\n\nFormer world champion Damon Hill: \"He was a remarkable individual in every way. I was certainly one person that looked at Niki and thought 'I'll never be half the man he was.\n\n\"His career was stylised and characterised by his intelligent approach. When he came up against Alain Prost, he knew he couldn't beat him on speed so he beat him on tactics.\n\n\"He was thoughtful, intelligent, pragmatic and just got the job done.\"\n\nFormer world champion Jenson Button: \"A legend has left us. Rest in peace Niki.\"\n\nRed Bull driver Max Verstappen: \"Shocked by the loss of Niki Lauda. He was a true legend in our sport and someone I had great respect for. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nRed Bull team principal Christian Horner: \"Rest in peace to an F1 legend that I was lucky enough to call a friend. A very sad day for the entire motorsport community.\n\n\"All at Red Bull Racing share their thoughts with Niki's family and friends at this time. Godspeed Niki.\"\n\nMcLaren: \"Niki will forever be in our hearts and enshrined in our history.\"\n\nFormer driver Johnny Herbert: \"A real loss to sport and a big hole in our hearts. Courageous, chatty, and extremely funny.\n\n\"I am going to miss you being around the F1 paddock but the legend of Niki Lauda will live on, because you were a very, very special man. Thanks for all the memories.\"", "Jamie Oliver's two flagship London restaurants have gone into administration, although the celebrity chef immediately bought one back.\n\nHis upmarket Barbecoa steak restaurant in London's Piccadilly will close a year after it was re-launched.\n\nThe other outlet, near St Paul's Cathedral, has been saved after the chef bought it for an undisclosed sum via a newly-created subsidiary.\n\nThe move comes as Mr Oliver makes cuts in other parts of his business.\n\nBarbecoa St Paul's was bought back under a so-called pre-pack arrangement, which allows the purchase of the best assets of a business before it actually goes into administration.\n\nThe Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group was already cutting costs in other areas, despite the chef putting £3m of his own money into the business in December.\n\nLast month it announced that it was shutting down 12 of its 37 Jamie's Italian restaurants - the mainstay of the group - as part of a rescue plan with creditors that would enable it to continue trading.\n\nThe closure of the 12 restaurants will affect at least 200 jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Oliver's two flagship London restaurants have gone into administration.\n\nCourt documents revealed that Jamie's Italian had debts of £71.5m.\n\nHowever, £47m of the debts are covered by loans from HSBC Bank and Jamie Oliver's other companies.\n\nThe chain also closed down six Jamie's Italian restaurants in January 2017.\n\nAt the time, the company said that the closures were due to uncertainties caused by Brexit and a \"tough\" market.\n\nOther British restaurant chains have been struggling in recent months.\n\nIn January, burger chain Byron announced that it too had entered into a company voluntary arrangement, which would mean that up to 20 Byron burger restaurants would need to close.\n\nMr Oliver has seen several setbacks to his business in recent years.\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn 2015, he admitted that about 40% of his business ventures had gone wrong and cost him money, but said those mistakes had taught him \"powerful\" lessons.\n\nOther parts of his business empire have been trading strongly.\n\nJamie Oliver Holdings, which controls his media businesses, including books, made profits of £5.4m in 2016 (the most recent year of accounts available).\n\nMeanwhile Jamie Oliver Licensing, which makes money from ranges of products carrying his name made £7.3m.", "Shetland has been named as one of the top 10 destinations in Europe.\n\nIt is the only UK place to feature - at number six - in the new Lonely Planet list for international travellers this summer, which is headed by the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia.\n\nThe guide praises Shetland's wildlife-spotting opportunities and its natural beauty.\n\nIt also highlights the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival as one of the reasons to visit Shetland.\n\nLonely Planet's vice president of experience Tom Hall said: \"Nature rules this stirring setting, which features towering cliffs, rolling hills, sky-blue lochs and spectacular birdlife.\n\n\"Travellers will be captivated by the island's rugged beauty and welcoming locals.\"\n\nIt said visitors to Shetland would be rewarded with \"awesome coastal trails, wicked wildlife watching, and fabled fish and chip shops\".\n\nThe entry adds: \"Spot otters and orcas from craggy headlands, then ease into the evening at one of Lerwick's local pubs. That is until the Viking-inspired Up Helly Aa festival bursts into fiery life each January.\"\n\nSteven Coutts, leader of Shetland Islands Council, said: \"Shetland has long been known as a welcoming destination for travellers, and it's great to have made Lonely Planet - and Europe's - top 10 this year.\n\n\"Those of us who live here know how fantastic the islands are, with stunning scenery and incredible wildlife on our doorstep.\"\n\nPreparations for the 2019 event have been under way since October last year\n\nVisitScotland chief executive Malcolm Roughead added: \"Shetland's appearance as the only UK destination in Lonely Planet's prestigious Best in Europe 2019 is testament to the islands' strong pull for visitors.\n\n\"It boasts breathtaking scenery, unparalleled opportunities to see amazing wildlife and birds, a stunning coastline, delicious local food and drink, unique culture and heritage and an incredible historical and archaeological story to tell.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe Austrian will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nOne of the best-known figures in motor racing, his on the track rivalry with British driver James Hunt during the 1970s was immortalised in the film Rush.", "Dwytt Lewis is one of the 400 Morehouse College graduates whose entire student loan debt is being wiped by billionaire philanthropist Robert F Smith.\n\nMr Smith, 56, is the founder of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and one of the nation's most prominent African-American philanthropists.\n\nHis net worth is estimated to be around $5bn - making him the wealthiest black American, ahead of Oprah Winfrey.", "Fabrice Muamba collapsed while playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012\n\nScientists say a new scan technique could identify people at risk of collapsing and dying suddenly from a hidden heart condition.\n\nNormally, in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, signs of structural changes in the heart can only be picked up after death.\n\nBut University of Oxford researchers used microscopic imaging to spot the same patterns in living patients.\n\nThe condition is the top cause of sudden cardiac death in young people.\n\nIt is a common, inherited condition, affecting one in 500 people in the UK, which can be fatal in small numbers of people.\n\nYet many of those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, have few or no warning symptoms - and some are able to lead perfectly normal lives.\n\nThe research team focused on detecting those at risk of sudden death, by looking for abnormal fibre patterns in the heart which could lead to potentially deadly heart rhythms.\n\nThis is thought to affect around 1% of people with the condition.\n\nThey can then have a small device implanted in their heart to kick-start it into beating again when an abnormal heart rhythm is detected.\n\nDr Rina Ariga, study author and cardiologist at University of Oxford, said: \"We're hopeful that this new scan will improve the way we identify high-risk patients, so that they can receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator early to prevent sudden death.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now need to work on making this scan shorter and faster for patients so that we can test its utility in a large multi-centre study.\"\n\nAn almost complete ring of muscle fibres in a normal heart (yellow on the left) is broken or missing in a heart with HCM because of fibre disarray\n\nCurrently, calculating a patient's risk is based on the thickness of their heart wall, their family history, plus any unexplained collapses and abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe difference with the Oxford researchers' approach is that they used MRI scans to look at detailed images of the structure of the heart muscle to check for \"muscle fibre disarray\".\n\nThis suggests that heartbeats are not allowed to spread evenly across the heart's muscle fibres.\n\nThe study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, scanned 50 patients with HCM and 30 healthy volunteers and were able to see \"disarray\" in living patients with the heart condition that had previously only been found in patients after sudden cardiac death.\n\nThese patients were also more likely to have abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe technique, called diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging, is normally used on the brain - but advances mean it can now be used on the heart.\n\nDr Steven Cox, chief executive of charity Cardiac Risk in the Young, said: \"It is fantastic to think in the future these clinical findings could be identified in patients living with HCM and used to help in their routine diagnostic and treatments pathways.\"\n\nDr Cox said the key to identifying those at risk in the general population was through cardiac screening \"using the cost effective and non-invasive ECG [electrocardiogram] test\".\n\nThis is available to book for under 35s via the charity's Test My Heart website.\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped to fund the research, said: \"Although further work is needed to refine and test this scan, its potential benefit to patients with HCM is huge.\n\n\"This work is an excellent example of cutting-edge, research-led technology that could change the way we diagnose and treat heart and circulatory diseases.\"\n• None How it feels to have a faulty heart gene and how to find out if you have a problem - BBC Newsbeat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel in order to protect jobs and the steel industry.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the collapse of British Steel would have a \"devastating impact\" on Scunthorpe.\n\nBritish Steel is on the verge of administration as it continues to lobby for government backing, sources say.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the cash it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\n\"If an agreement cannot be struck with British Steel, the government must act to take a public stake in the company to secure the long term future of the steelworks and protect peoples' livelihoods and communities,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry.\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Business Minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"I can reassure the House that, subject to strict legal bounds, the government will leave no stone unturned in its support for the steel industry.\"\n\nUK Steel's director general, Gareth Stace, said: \"The statement from the business minister today provided a glimmer of hope for the Scunthorpe site.\n\n\"This does provide some breathing space for the company, its employees, and the wider steel sector, providing a potential route towards a stable and sustainable future.\"\n\nThe request for emergency financial support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nReports have said that British Steel shareholder Greybull Capital and lenders have agreed to pump new money into the firm.\n\nHowever, unless a deal is reached by Tuesday afternoon, the firm could go into administration within 48 hours. EY would be expected to be appointed as administrators on Wednesday.\n\nIf a company goes into administration, then the insolvency practitioners appointed to run the business will try to rescue it by selling it, or parts of it, as a going concern.\n\nBut if that is not possible it will be liquidated, meaning that it will be closed down and its saleable assets will be sold.\n\nFor staff in Scunthorpe, it's a waiting game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's consumer affairs correspondent Colletta Smith spoke to a British Steel staff member who was too worried to be named. He said that two of his colleagues have just got mortgages and are petrified they won't be able to make payments.\n\nNews that the company is in trouble isn't a surprise though, as there are piles of finished steel on the factory floor, with no customers to send it to, he said.\n\n\"We're doing a bit at work, but it's mostly sitting around doing nothing as the orders just aren't there\".\n\nHe said staff feel let down by the owners.\n\n\"They've just stripped this company and now they're putting nothing back. Our only hope is a government bailout, but this time it feels different. I don't think they'll save us.\"\n\nSources close to Greybull Capital say its lenders have told them that unless they can secure a £30m lifeline they will pull the plug on British Steel tomorrow.\n\nThe timing of this could hardly be worse for the government coming as it does right before the European elections.\n\nCynics might suggest that Greybull is not unhappy with the timescale of the plea.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has a very tough decision, as I've already written.\n\nThe question may be whether the government can put this down to Brexit mitigation and tap the same source of contingency funds Chris Grayling disastrously used to procure emergency ferry capacity.\n\nAt least there would be an immediate dividend - to stave off the collapse of a firm that employs 4,500 people directly and has 20,000 more at risk in the supply chain.\n\nHowever, having already lent £100m to cover a genuinely Brexit-related carbon emissions bill - further assistance to a private company struggling in a deeply challenged industry may be a precedent they would rather not set.\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market after it bought the Anglo Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nOn Monday, the government, trade unions and employers signed a UK Steel Charter in Parliament. The charter calls on the government and large companies to buy British to boost UK industry.", "David Davies says he uses a body camera because of the abuse he gets.\n\nThe pro-Brexit MP for Monmouth has voted for Theresa May's deal.\n\nDuring an interview on the subject, a member of the public called him a liar and a traitor.", "The victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAn off-duty doctor begged to be let out of a restaurant on lockdown during the London Bridge attacks so that he could help injured victims, an inquest heard.\n\nStaff at Lobos tapas bar locked the door to the restaurant as three men stabbed people on Borough High Street on 3 June 2017, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nBut junior doctor Jonathan Moses said he persuaded staff to let him out when he said: \"I can't watch them die.\"\n\nDr Moses said he then told one of the wounded: \"I'm going to save you.\"\n\nThe medic, who at the time had four months' experience as an accident and emergency medic, had been having dinner with a friend when he heard people \"shouting and screaming\" in the street outside.\n\n\"I could hear people saying 'Oh God, oh God, help, help, they've been stabbed, they've been stabbed',\" he told the inquest into the deaths of eight people killed in the attacks.\n\nDr Moses said he ran downstairs to the restaurant door after seeing two people lying on the pavement outside.\n\n\"The place was in a panic - people running away from the door, people screaming,\" he said.\n\nHe said he told a member of staff who was guarding the door to let him out because he was a doctor.\n\n\"He said 'There's people being attacked, I can't let you out',\" Dr Moses said.\n\n\"I said 'I can't watch them die. You have to let me out and just lock the door after me to keep people safe'.\"\n\nThe court saw footage of Ignacio Echeverría on a Santander bike moments before he was killed\n\nDr Moses looked visibly relieved as he finished giving his evidence. He had only been a junior doctor for about 18 months when he found himself at the centre of the horror unfolding at London Bridge.\n\nHe briefly became upset as he shakily recounted persuading the manager of Lobos to let him go and help.\n\nThe court heard him recall that he was calm and on \"autopilot\" when he rushed out of the restaurant.\n\nHe went on to treat other victims including Ignacio Echeverría. He helped to carry him across London Bridge and continued chest compressions while running.\n\nHe then remembered being told by an air ambulance doctor at the scene: \"You have to treat this like a warzone.\"\n\nThe court was shown a triage sheet from the scene, listing the victims and grading their priority for being taken to hospital.\n\nIt was a stark reminder of the decisions doctors had to take that night.\n\nOnce outside, Dr Moses approached a wounded woman, now known to have been Marie Bondeville.\n\n\"She kept saying she's going to die,\" he told the court.\n\n\"I held her hand. I told her 'You are not going to die. I'm going to save you',\" he said.\n\nMs Bondeville was one of 48 people hurt when Rachid Redouane, Youssef Zagbha and Khuram Butt drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people at random.\n\nDr Moses said he spent about four or five minutes with Ms Bondeville before moving on to help perform CPR on Ignacio Echeverría.\n\nMr Echeverría, 39, had run towards the attackers and tried to beat them with his skateboard when he saw one of them stab Ms Bondeville, according to testimony from his friend Guillermo Sanchez-Montisi.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My son did what he had to do'\n\nMr Echeverría, Mr Sanchez-Montisi and another friend were cycling along Borough High Street after a day's skateboarding on the South Bank when they saw an injured man running away from London Bridge.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Spaniard Mr Echeverría getting off his bike and running to join PC Wayne Marques and off-duty PC Charles Guenigault who were trying to intervene as the attackers stabbed Ms Bondeville and Oliver Dowling.\n\nMr Echeverría, who worked for HSBC as part of a team fighting money laundering, could then be seen swinging his skateboard at Redouane.\n\nRedouane made a stabbing motion towards Mr Echeverría, who fell to the ground. The footage then showed Zagbha and Redouane attacking him.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said in a statement read in court: \"From the way they were attacking people it was clear that their intentions were to kill everyone.\"\n\nHe said there was a woman, now known to be Ms Bondeville, on the floor being stabbed repeatedly.\n\nMr Echeverría's parents accepted their late son's George Medal from the Queen in October last year\n\nDescribing the moment Mr Echeverría grabbed his skateboard and approached the attackers, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said: \"It was like he didn't even think about it, but reacted immediately.\"\n\n\"One of the attackers was covering his head as Ignacio was hitting him with the skateboard... then suddenly Ignacio was on the floor,\" he added.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said his friend then attempted to fend off the attackers' blows with his skateboard before one of them stabbed him.\n\nMr Echeverría was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his actions.\n\nHis father, Joaquín Echeverría, said the family has not attended the inquest as \"a gesture to show we have complete faith in the justice system in England\".\n\nContinuing his evidence, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said the knifemen looked \"prepared, professional\".\n\nHe said he had to run away because he felt he might become their next target after one attacker \"looked straight at me\".\n\n\"When he was looking at me, his face, he looked like the devil,\" he added. \"It was very painful to leave my friend but we were going to be next.\"\n\n\"I would not wish the feeling impotence, of not being able to do anything, on anyone, even my worst enemy\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Belfast woman has said her life was ruined after she was given infected blood in a transfusion.\n\nMarie Cromie found out she had hepatitis C in 2005 and has had to have two liver transplants.\n\nShe spoke ahead of the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal starting to hear evidence from people in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nThousands are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products.\n\nOthers who had blood transfusions after surgery in the 1970s and 1980s were also exposed to contaminated blood.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Ms Cromie described her shock and anger at being told she was infected and said it \"took away part of my life with my children, with my grandchildren\".\n\nThe public inquiry into contaminated blood arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, a letter has been sent by party leaders and senior MPs to the prime minister, calling for compensation.\n\nAmong those who signed it are Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Nigel Dodds.\n\nThe public inquiry will hear evidence in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast over four days.\n\nSome of the Northern Ireland victims and their families will give evidence - among them will be Mrs Cromie's daughter Danielle Mullan.\n\nMrs Mullan said the family's world had been \"turned upside down\" by the diagnosis.\n\nShe said: \"It was really hard because I was no longer a daughter, I was more a carer to my mum.\"\n\nShe said that as the years went on it became harder as she saw the complications her mother was having to endure.\n\nMrs Cromie has traced the hepatitis back to a blood transfusion she had to have when her son was born in 1981.\n\nUntil she began to feel very unwell in 2005, she was unaware she had been infected.\n\nAfter testing, a consultant told her she had hepatitis C, that it had already begun to affect her liver and that she would eventually need a transplant.\n\nShe has since undergone two transplants, the second of which took place in 2015 at King's College Hospital in London.\n\nMrs Cromie described being at \"death's door\" waiting for a suitable liver and said it was \"horrible\" having to say goodbye to Mrs Mullan in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I just looked at her and thought: 'I mightn't see you again.'\"\n\nMarie Cromie has had two liver transplants\n\nThe problem dates back to the 1970s when blood-clotting products imported from the US caused some patients to be infected with HIV and hepatitis.\n\nThat is because some of the human blood plasma used to make the products came from donors such as prisoners and prostitutes, who sold their blood.\n\nThe blood products were made by pooling plasma from up to 40,000 donors and concentrating it.\n\nWarnings were raised as early as 1974.\n\nEight years later as the Aids crisis unfolded, the Department of Health in Westminster received expert advice that they should be withdrawn but that was not heeded until 1986.\n\nFamilies want to know why and who within the NHS and the government knew what and when.\n\nFor Mrs Mullan, the seriousness of her mother's condition became clear after a particularly frightening incident when she began to vomit up blood at home.\n\nShe said: \"I went into the bedroom and turned on the light and there was just gallons of blood. Blood after blood. It just kept coming up, wouldn't stop.\n\n\"We phoned for an ambulance, got her to the hospital.\n\n\"They told us it was touch and go for the night and that for me was when it really hit home.\"\n\nDanielle Mullan will give evidence to the inquiry\n\nShe said at that moment she realised her mother was battling something \"way beyond\" a normal infection.\n\nThe public inquiry into what's been called the \"biggest treatment scandal in NHS history\" was announced in 2017.\n\nThe first witness evidence began to be heard in London in April 2019.\n\nBoth women said they would like answers and for someone to take responsibility.\n\nMrs Cromie said: \"Why did somebody take the decision to buy infected blood? To take infected blood from America, from prisoners, drug addicts and give it to us innocent people who needed the blood?\"\n\nMrs Mullan said she would also like better understanding.\n\nShe said: \"I want to kill the stigma that comes with the disease, so many people over the years, you mention the word hepatitis and automatically people think - they must have been a drug user, they were an alcoholic.\n\n\"That's not the case, my mum and all the people who were involved in this inquiry were victims in this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Derek Martindale's brother was also infected with HIV: \"He knew he was dying... I wasn't there for him\"\n\nFor Mrs Cromie, the public inquiry hearings in Belfast are another step on a long road.\n\nShe said: \"At the start when I got it I was told by a couple of nurses, hepatitis nurses, not to tell too many people.\n\n\"I just had to say: 'Oh I caught a virus.'\n\n\"That's what I said instead of being able to say: 'I got hepatitis C through infected blood.'\"\n\n\"But now, I will say to people when they say about, you know, your transplants and things, I say: 'Yeah I got it through contaminated blood.'\n\n\"And my husband says the same to people. Through no fault of my own, I got it.\"", "The activists were calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nA climate change protest which blocked entrances to BP's head office in central London has now ended.\n\nThe Greenpeace activists had placed five large steel containers outside each of the entrances to the building in St James's Square.\n\nKitted out with food, a chemical toilet and internet access, each box contained two protesters who were expected to remain in place for several days.\n\nBut Met Police officers removed them in the early evening, making 10 arrests.\n\nEarlier, four people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters abseiled down side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nThe aim of the protest was to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said.\n\nThe company's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nActivists want BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency was based at Osprey House in Paisley\n\nPolice Scotland have requested that another force examine \"unprofessional\" conduct within the former Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he would ask the external force to peer review an internal Police Scotland investigation which has taken place.\n\nThe development was revealed in papers going before Wednesday's Scottish Police Authority board.\n\nThe misconduct relates to issues raised in a civil claim by a former officer.\n\nA judge agreed that the officer, referred to as Mrs K, had not been fairly treated by the force after raising concerns that a colleague had compromised covert operations.\n\nMrs K had been a detective sergeant working in the special operations unit (SOU) at the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA).\n\nThe agency no longer exists as it was incorporated into Police Scotland, which replaced the old eight-force model in April 2013.\n\nThe officer told the Court of Session in Edinburgh she was left \"extremely concerned\" after uncovering evidence which suggested that covert operations and individuals involved in them may be compromised.\n\nAn internal investigation was launched and, as part of it, Mrs K was questioned by detectives.\n\nThe case was heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh\n\nDuring a further meeting with more senior officers, she was told she was being suspended from her role as an undercover operative.\n\nShe said she could not understand why this was happening as she was the innocent party.\n\nMrs K brought the court action because she was left feeling as if she had done wrong and maintained that she was a whistleblower.\n\nA 59-page judgement issued in January said further procedures may be required to assess the compensation Mrs K was due.\n\nIn a paper published on the SPA website, Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the \"assertions... regarding unprofessional practice\" made during the court case had generated \"legitimate interest\" into what had gone on at the SCDEA.\n\nHe instructed Police Scotland's Anti-Corruption Unit to review the chronology, previous investigations and actions. This review is now complete.\n\nMr Livingstone has requested a review by an external force\n\nMr Livingstone added: \"It is clear that the events which took place... were wholly unsatisfactory and unprofessional.\n\n\"While I am entirely satisfied that the review [by Police Scotland's Anti-Corruption Unit] was a thorough, robust and appropriate response, I recognise the legitimate interest that exists about what took place in 2011, and the importance of public confidence in the vital area of covert policing.\n\n\"To that end, I have requested that an external force, which has significant knowledge and experience in the area of covert policing, carry out a peer review to provide independent assurance.\"\n\nHe added that the purpose of the \"independent peer review\" was to make sure that all lines of investigation had been pursued.\n\n\"On completion and receipt of the peer review, I will determine what steps, if any, are required to ensure the integrity of the Police Scotland response and provide further public reassurance over this episode\", he added.", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is \"devastated\" after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost.\n\nThe group, which includes the Jamie's Italian chain, Barbecoa and Fifteen, has appointed KPMG as administrators.\n\nTwenty two of the 25 restaurants in Jamie Oliver's restaurant group have now closed.\n\nMr Oliver, who put in £4m cash this year, said: \"I appreciate how difficult this is for everyone affected.\"\n\nTwo Jamie's Italian restaurants and Jamie Oliver's Diner at Gatwick Airport will continue to trade in the short term while the administrators explore options for the outlets.\n\n\"The group had recently undertaken a process to secure additional investment into the business and, since the beginning of this year, Jamie Oliver has made available additional funds of £4m to support the fundraising,\" said the administrators in a statement.\n\n\"However, with no suitable investment forthcoming and in light of the very difficult current trading environment, the directors resolved to appoint administrators.\"\n\nJamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay, which operates under a franchise, is unaffected. The international restaurants trading as Jamie's Italian, Jamie's Pizzeria and Jamie's Deli will also continue to trade as normal.\n\nMr Oliver tweeted that: \"I'm devastated that our much-loved UK restaurants have gone into administration.\"\n\nAnd in a statement he added: \"I would also like to thank all the customers who have enjoyed and supported us over the last decade, it's been a real pleasure serving you.\n\n\"We launched Jamie's Italian in 2008 with the intention of positively disrupting mid-market dining in the UK High Street, with great value and much higher quality ingredients, best-in-class animal welfare standards and an amazing team who shared my passion for great food and service. And we did exactly that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNotices have appeared in the windows of the 22 branches which have already closed.\n\nThe Unite union said the development was a \"devastating blow for the chain's hardworking and loyal workforce\".\n\n\"Restaurants are not being helped by the current economic uncertainty, although those businesses like Jamie Oliver's that dashed for expansion in recent years seem particularly precarious. As ever, it is the workers at the restaurant and in the supply chain who bear the heavy cost of boardroom decisions.\"\n\nThe union also asked for assurances that staff will be \"protected and paid all the money they're owed, including wages, holiday and redundancy\".\n\nOne Jamie's Italian worker in Birmingham, Valentine Balbinot, said: \"It was just so devastating, we were not expecting this... it is really brutal.\"\n\nMr Oliver is known for his Naked Chef books and TV shows, broadcast in dozens of countries, after first being shown in the UK 20 years ago.\n\nHe has also campaigned for healthier eating, including in school meals.\n\nHis chain is the latest victim of a tough trading environment on the UK High Street.\n\nEarlier this year, cafe chain Patisserie Valerie fell into administration, and 70 outlets closed, with the loss of 920 jobs, although 96 shops were saved.\n\nOther mid-market chains that have struggled in recent years have included Byron Burger, Prezzo and Carluccio's.\n\nMr Oliver's business has faced difficulties over the past two years, with a number of Jamie's Italian and Barbecoa restaurants shutting.\n\nClosed notices have been posted on a number of outlets, including Jamie's in Glasgow\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn December of that year the chef also put £3m of his own money into his restaurant businesses.\n\nSimon Mydlowski, a partner at law firm Gordons and an expert in the hospitality industry, said Jamie's had failed to keep up with changing trends.\n\n\"To be successful in this sector you have to be constantly evolving - from the menus and the drinks choice, to the way you engage with customers.\"\n\n\"Faced with higher rent, rising food prices and increased competition, restaurants need a point of difference - it's no coincidence that smaller brands with the freedom and flexibility to keep things fresh are currently the ones performing well.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nThree-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nLauda, who underwent a lung transplant in August, \"passed away peacefully\" on Monday, his family said.\n\nThe legendary Austrian, one of the best-known figures in motor racing, took the title for Ferrari in 1975 and 1977 and McLaren in 1984.\n\nFor many, he will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nA new generation of fans was introduced to Lauda in the acclaimed 2013 film Rush, which detailed his rivalry with British driver James Hunt, the 1976 world champion.\n\nLauda, who was born in Vienna in February 1949, was a motor racing legend who went on to be a successful businessman following his retirement from the sport.\n\nHowever, he was probably best-known for surviving a crash during the 1976 season which left him scarred for life.\n\nLauda (right) and his rival, British driver James Hunt, in 1974\n\nOn 1 August 1976, one year after winning his first title, he suffered third-degree burns to his head and face and inhaled toxic gases that damaged his lungs after his vehicle burst into flames at Nurburgring.\n\nHe was given the last rites in hospital but made an almost miraculous recovery and returned to racing, still bandaged, just 40 days later.\n\nThe aftermath of the 1976 crash\n\nAfter his career as a racing driver, he became an airline entrepreneur and, most recently, a non-executive chairman for the Formula 1 Mercedes team, instrumental in bringing in British driver Lewis Hamilton, who has won five world championships.\n\n\"His unique achievements as an athlete and entrepreneur are and will remain unforgettable, his tireless zest for action, his straightforwardness and his courage remain a role model and a benchmark for all of us,\" his family's statement said.\n\nHowever, ill health followed him into his later years and he underwent a lung transplant in August 2018.\n\nHe had previously had two kidney transplants, the second donated in 2005 by his then-girlfriend Birgit Wetzinger, a former flight attendant for his airline whom he married in 2008.\n\nIn January 2019, Lauda spent 10 days in hospital while suffering from influenza.\n\nLauda leaves behind his wife, their twins born in 2009, and three sons from previous relationships.\n\nNiki Lauda was perhaps the most heroic and simply remarkable figure in the history of Formula 1, and yet the striking thing about him was how down-to-earth he was.\n\nHere was a man who had cheated death, been given the last rites, and raced a Grand Prix car again a few weeks later with blood seeping into the bandages still covering the burns on his face.\n\nBut in person, Lauda was humble, practical, matter-of-fact and straightforward. There was no arrogance about him. He was warm, friendly, direct and wickedly funny, his humour often directed at himself, or at puncturing some of the pomposity that can sometimes infect Formula 1.\n\nLauda simply said it as it was, often in salty language. He was a man of integrity, and he was respected as much for his character as for his achievements. Which is really saying something.\n\nHe was a titan of the sport who lived a life beyond compare. A legend, in the truest, most absolute sense. He will be profoundly missed.\n\nMercedes said the passing of their \"irreplaceable\" chairman \"leaves a void in Formula 1\".\n\n\"We haven't just lost a hero who staged the most remarkable comeback ever seen, but also a man who brought precious clarity and candour to modern Formula 1,\" Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said.\n\n\"It was our honour to call you our chairman - and my privilege to call you my friend,\" he added.\n\nMcLaren - the team behind his 1984 victory - said he would be \"enshrined in our history\" in a tweet.\n\nFerrari's Formula 1 team, with which Lauda won two world championships in 1975 and 1977, said he would \"remain forever in our hearts\".\n\nFellow drivers have also been adding their tributes throughout the morning.\n\nBritish former F1 champion Jenson Button has called him a \"legend\" while Nico Rosberg, another former F1 champion, paid tribute to Lauda's \"passion\", \"fighting spirit\" and \"your patience with us youngsters\".\n\n\"Myself and... 100 million fans around the world whom you also so strongly inspired to never give up in the hardest of times are thinking of you and your family. Rest in peace,\" he said in a statement.", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level for five months just as many UK holidaymakers get ready to head off for the late-May half-term break.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January on Tuesday. It also fell early in the day against the euro.\n\nBut it picked up again later in the day in a sign of its current volatility.\n\nCabinet backing for Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit plan led to the rebound.\n\nCurrency experts say Brexit uncertainty and the US-China trade war have both contributed to the pound's recent fall.\n\nSterling had gained some ground in recent months, but in recent days rates have fallen back to the kind of levels seen during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is a very different picture from March 2008, when the pound was briefly worth more than $2.\n\nHolidaymakers heading off for an early summer break in Europe or the US may be saving money by avoiding the even higher costs of travelling in July and August.\n\nHowever, they are finding that their money will not go as far as it did a few years ago.\n\nAnyone leaving it to the last minute and changing money at the airport will always get the worst rates. At some airports, they will find an exchange rate little better than parity between the pound and the euro.\n\nJames Hickman, chief commercial officer at currency traders FairFx, said that the best rates were given to those who ordered their holiday money ahead. He suggested that would also be a good plan for anyone thinking about their holiday money for later this summer.\n\nAt present, the best rates on pre-loaded currency cards sees a pound buy just over $1.27 and just over €1.13.\n\nFor those collecting from an exchange bureau, the best deals will see the pound get slightly less than $1.26 and just under €1.13.\n\nThe Post Office - the most popular bureau for UK holidaymakers - sees anyone changing more than £400 receiving slightly over $1.24 and just over €1.11 for their pound.\n\nThe recent drop in the value of the pound has come amid speculation over the future of Brexit.\n\n\"When sentiment moves towards a higher likelihood of a hard Brexit, then we see a fall in the pound,\" Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe reverse is also true, shown by the rebound after the cabinet gave its backing to Mrs May's plan for her Withdrawal Agreement Bill, including compromises intended to attract the support of Labour MPs.\n\nSterling is also affected indirectly by the continuing trade war between the US and China.\n\nHamish Muress, currency analyst at OFX, said the pound was \"suffering from the renewed uncertainty of Brexit, while investors flood to the relatively safer US dollar amidst the ongoing trade war\".\n\n\"Looking forward, headwinds look stronger than tailwinds for the pound, particularly with another Brexit vote not set to take place for a few weeks yet. But perhaps the only real hope would come from Donald Trump pressing the pause button with regards to the trade war,\" he added.\n\nAlana Parsons, from foreign exchange firm Caxton, said: \"Getting the most value for your travel money can be tricky, but not if we spend as much time planning our finances as we do researching our holiday destinations.\"", "Chef and author Jamie Oliver is teaming up with Tesco for the first time to promote the company's food products.\n\nHe has created a series of recipes and tips for Tesco, which will include \"healthier\" recipes from scratch.\n\nHis fee has not been disclosed. Mr Oliver earned more than £10m from a previous 11-year deal with rival store chain Sainsbury, which ended in 2011.\n\nHis restaurants, in common with many other High Street chains, have been closing branches to curb costs.\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times newspaper last week, he revealed he had put £13m of his own money into his Jamie's Italian restaurant business.\n\nLast month, Mr Oliver said he was considering selling his Barbecoa steakhouses and he is in the process of shutting about a third of his Jamie's Italian outlets as part of a rescue plan with creditors that would enable it to continue trading.\n\nJamie Oliver in his first 1999 \"Naked Chef\" series\n\nTesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, said the campaign would see Mr Oliver promote \"helpful little swaps\" in stores, suggesting healthier alternatives with reduced levels of sugar, salt and fat.\n\nThe retailer said a basket of these swaps would cost about 12% less than a regular basket.\n\nIndependent retail adviser, Richard Hyman, said the tie-up was unlikely to bring in many new customers, but added that this was not necessarily the intention: \"It's a positive move but not a game changer.\n\n\"I'm not sure there's any single thing that is a game changer in what is a vastly rougher game than ever. What it does do is provide reassurance to customers, like celebrities do in fashion retailing. And he will help draw existing customers to a broader range of products.\"\n\nJamie Oliver left school with just two GCSEs but was \"discovered\" by a film crew while working at the River Cafe restaurant in west London.\n\nHis Naked Chef TV series in 1999 made him a household name and he has written more than 20 books.\n\nHe has campaigned on a number of health issues, including school meals and battery farmed chickens and eggs, and he was awarded an MBE in 2003.", "Students at an academy in London have been withdrawn from A-level exams after they did badly in mock exams.\n\nStudents at UCL Academy said they now feared having to defer their university applications, while others worry that they may have to pay about £450 to sit an exam elsewhere.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders described it as \"pretty unethical conduct\".\n\nThe school said it has \"robust plans in place\" to support students.\n\n\"In some cases this takes the form of an additional year in the sixth form to overcome whatever barriers there are,\" it added.\n\n\"Our very experienced careers adviser and our student wellbeing service is core to this support.\"\n\nZehra - whose surname we are not using - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that she and other students had been emailed during the Easter holidays saying they had been withdrawn from their chemistry exams.\n\n\"I have health problems, but they didn't care. There was no consideration.\"\n\nShe said she had offers to go to university in September, but now she was facing rejecting these or deferring for another year.\n\n\"I already have anxiety and health problems and this made it a lot worse,\" she added.\n\nShe said there were \"genuine reasons\" why her February mock exam had not gone \"as well as it could have\", and that it was unfair to withdraw her.\n\nUCL Academy, which is based in Swiss Cottage, said \"any decision to withdraw a student from an exam is a difficult one for us to take and is one we make working with a student and their family\".\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was \"pretty disturbing and pretty unethical conduct\" by the academy.\n\n\"It seems discourteous being done through email,\" he added.\n\n\"All that preparation has suddenly come to nothing.\n\n\"Schools will always have entry requirements to attend to, and they will have continuation grades at the end of Year 12 to proceed to 13, but here [the students] have got to the 11th hour and been told this. This seems totally unacceptable.\"\n\nThe academy said \"any student at risk of not passing was identified early in the school year. This led to meetings with parents and teachers to flag the concern and agree a plan of support and action. Targets were agreed and action necessary to fulfil them were put in place\".\n\n\"If a student felt they were still in a position to achieve a pass we continued to support them to a final assessment in April.\n\n\"In special circumstances we agreed to extend this into the Easter holiday to give students the best chance possible.\n\n\"We continue to offer support and guidance to individual students.\"\n\nThe pupils affected said it had disrupted their revision at an important time of year\n\nA second student, Neville, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme he was being withdrawn from his maths exam as he was \"underperforming in the mocks\".\n\n\"Two weeks later they then did it for chemistry, too,\" he added.\n\nHe said he was having to pay to do the exams externally, at a cost of at least £450 per subject.\n\n\"It's messed up my revision. All of this has caused so much stress for me to try and just find somewhere to sit my exams, and I haven't been able to revise as much.\n\n\"The school didn't provide any support on what to do next. It's awful.\n\n\"It's really knocked my confidence. I've started doubting myself.\"\n\nUCL Academy said 97% of its A-level exams would be taken as planned.\n\n\"Only in individual circumstances would a decision be taken to withdraw a student from an examination, or recommend a switch to an AS exam.\n\n\"We make decisions based on the individual needs of students. If a student's assessments demonstrate over time that they are not passing the course, or if a student raises personal circumstances that mean a deferral is more appropriate, then withdrawal might be considered.\n\n\"Not to do so could potentially restrict future university applications.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The restaurant sector is hardly sizzling at the moment.\n\nLast month burger chain Byron agreed a rescue plan with lenders and landlords which could lead to the closure of up to 20 restaurants.\n\nAlso in January, Jamie Oliver's restaurant group said 12 of its 37 outlets would shut their doors - the second wave of closures in the space of a year.\n\nAnd since the beginning of 2015, shares in the Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Bennys and Garfunkels, have lost two thirds of their value.\n\nSerial entrepreneur Luke Johnson, who helped expand Pizza Express in the 1990s, says the whole of the food sector in the UK is under pressure at the moment.\n\nBusinesses in the sector are having to pay the new living wage, the apprenticeship levy, and deal with \"upwards-only rent reviews\", he says.\n\nMr Johnson, who among his many business interests is the chairman of casual-dining chain 3Sixty Restaurants, adds that \"food and ingredients costs are affecting the whole eating-out market\".\n\nThat is certainly the case for Jamie's Italian, which said the rising price of ingredients was partly behind its troubles.\n\nIt buys many ingredients from Italy and they have become more expensive due to the slide in the value of the pound since Britain's vote to leave the European Union.\n\nRoger Tejwani, head of consumer sector at stockbrokers Finncap, says there are just too many restaurants.\n\n\"There is too much capacity in the market with consumers having a considerable amount of choice,\" he says.\n\nHe says there needs to be a big decrease in the number of outlets some chains have.\n\nCustomers have so much choice that there is little loyalty, and social media lets people be more aware of a wider range of food, Mr Tejwani says.\n\nFast-casual restaurant firms have to work hard to persuade people to spend - especially as people are already spending more on experiences.\n\n\"They are all competing against each other and other forms of entertainment,\" he says.\n\nSo to win customers restaurant chains have had to discount, making life even tougher.\n\nMr Tejwani argues that restaurants need to move with the times and start taking account of consumer technology.\n\nYounger customers expect to be able to document what they are doing and \"want to be seen in a cool place\", which means restaurants have to be \"Instagrammable\", he says.\n\nCreating that cool environment will require investment, and there's less of that to go around, says Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The banks are pulling in debt lines where they can,\" he says, while private equity is also getting harder to come by.\n\nUncertainties caused by the Brexit process are having an impact on the casual dining sector as a whole, according to consultancy firm Deloitte.\n\nConsumer confidence steadily fell throughout 2017, putting a squeeze on spending on non-essential items, says Deloitte.\n\n\"2018 is going to be a challenging year for restaurants, and they will need a tightly-run ship to survive,\" says Sarah Humphreys, lead partner for casual dining at Deloitte.\n\n\"Consumer tastes such as healthy eating, sustainable food sourcing and informal or experiential dining should not be ignored.\n\n\"Operators should consider how adaptable their models are to changing tastes, or else face the risk of missing out,\" she says.\n\nConsumer spending in general took a hit in 2017, having its worst year since 2012, according to payments processor Visa.\n\nThat's partly because wages have been rising at a slower pace than inflation, leaving consumers worse off.\n\nFood delivery firms such as Just Eat and Deliveroo are a double-edged sword for the sector. They can increase sales, and on balance, they increase profit, says Ms Humphreys.\n\nBut they can put pressure on restaurants if there's not enough staff to fill the takeaway orders and keep the customers in the restaurant happy, says Mr Tejwani.\n\nThere are other downsides. Food delivery firms charge a high commission for delivery, and also restaurants lose the opportunity to sell profitable extras like drinks.\n\nHowever, Luke Johnson says that while the market is \"tough\" at the moment, he remains hopeful for the sector.\n\n\"Generally speaking the industry remains in reasonable health … I'm sure it will remain profitable in five to ten years time.\"", "Rescue workers with the man, whose motivation was unclear\n\nA man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on Monday was taken into custody by police after reaching the top.\n\nThe tower and the esplanade at its base were closed after the man was spotted scaling the structure in the afternoon.\n\nVideo footage showed him close to the observation deck at the top of the tower. His motivation for climbing the 1,000ft (300m) tower was unclear.\n\nThe man, who has not yet been identified, clung to the Parisian landmark for more than six hours.\n\nAn Eiffel Tower spokeswoman told Reuters: \"The man entered the tower normally and started to climb once he was on the second floor.\"\n\nStreets surrounding the landmark were cleared and closed to the public.\n\nThe first two floors of the tower can be reached by lift or stairs, but to go higher than that visitors need to take a lift.\n\nThe tower will reopen to the public at 09:30 local time on Tuesday.", "The politician had just given a speech at the city's Monument when he was covered in milkshake\n\nA man has been charged with assaulting Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when a drink was thrown at him.\n\nPaul Crowther, 32, of Throckley, Newcastle, has been charged with common assault and criminal damage relating to Mr Farage's microphones.\n\nHe is due to appear at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court on 18 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nNew footage has emerged showing the moment Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of the country ahead of the European elections.\n\nA man was taken away by a police community support officer and later seen in handcuffs.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "The European Parliament's advisory committee will look at whether Mr Farage broke rules by accepting funding from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.\n\nNigel Farage said he did not declare the £450,000 sum to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nThe committee will examine the case before advising the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani.\n\nThe committee can meet on 4 June.\n\nMEPs found to have acted improperly can be reprimanded, their parliamentary allowance can be withheld or they can be banned from some activities.\n\nThe payments from Arron Banks to Nigel Farage were revealed by a Channel 4 News investigation.\n\nMr Farage confirmed that he was not talking to Channel 4 News, describing them as \"political activists\", and said he would not allow the broadcaster to attend Brexit Party events.\n\nThe editor of Channel 4 News, Ben de Pear, said on Twitter he hoped \"to resolve our access ban... ASAP\".\n\nSeparately, the Electoral Commission has defended visiting The Brexit Party's offices to review the party's online fundraising activities.\n\nParty leader Nigel Farage accused the watchdog of acting \"in bad faith\" and \"interfering in the electoral process\".\n\nBut the watchdog said there had been \"significant public concern\" about the way the party raises funds.\n\nResponding to Mr Farage's comments, an Electoral Commission spokesperson said there was no evidence of electoral offences, but added: \"We want to satisfy ourselves that the party's systems are robust.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage: Electoral Commission are part of the establishment\n\nThe Brexit Party said it was \"pleased, but not surprised\" by the commission's announcement that it had not seen evidence of electoral offences.\n\nOn Monday, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked The Brexit Party for receiving a large amount of money via what he called \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nHowever, Mr Farage dismissed that attack as a \"smear\" and suggested there might be collusion between the Electoral Commission and Mr Brown.\n\n\"I'm certain of it - I'm certain the establishment are working together,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe said the commission had declared itself \"absolutely happy with our system\" last week, but had changed position \"in an act of bad faith, beautifully timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's speech\".\n\nThe watchdog said in response: \"Our regulatory work during this campaign - for the European parliamentary elections - has not deviated from our usual approach.\n\n\"Our decision to visit is not related to comments made by the former prime minister.\"\n\nThe commission said it was \"independent and impartial\", and regulated \"proportionate to the issue, regardless of a party's politics\".\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore he suspected the system was being abused.\n\nDefending his party's practises, Mr Farage said: \"We make it very clear, we only want your money if you're on the UK electoral roll.\"\n\n\"We're looking for irregularities, if we see things that have come from overseas, we simply send it back,\" he said.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website since Mr Brown's speech to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with the permissible donor requirements.", "The sharing economy is now making its way into the fashion industry as Urban Outfitters looks to rent clothes to younger fashionistas.\n\nThe retailer is launching an online subscription service allowing people to borrow six items to wear for a month before swapping them.\n\nThe firm says that in terms of clothing, millennials in particular want variety and sustainability.\n\nThe womenswear service, called Nuuly, will launch in the US this summer.\n\nUrban Outfitters Inc declined to say if and when it will be offered in the UK, stating: \"The brand is looking forward to the opportunity to further evolve and expand both their offering and geographic footprint over time.\"\n\nThe nascent market for online clothing rental is set to grow to $2.5bn by 2023, according to research firm GlobalData.\n\nOne of the more well-known firms in this space is Rent the Runway, a New York company which began in 2009, where women can borrow designer clothes for a monthly payment.\n\nUrban Outfitters' chief digital officer David Hayne told the Wall Street Journal that he expects Nuuly to have 50,000 subscribers and generate $50m in sales in its first year.\n\nUrban Outfitters said: \"Interest in sharing-economy platforms and recurring subscription relationships has grown across industries.\n\nIn womenswear, typically only high-end fashion is on offer to rent\n\n\"In apparel, the millennial consumer, in particular, is seeking out platforms that provide novelty, variety and breadth, while also supporting sustainability.\"\n\nAs well as Urban Outfitters clothing, people can also pay a monthly fee to borrow womenswear from its other brands including Anthropologie, as well as labels such as Levi's, Gal Meets Glam, Anna Sui and Fila.\n\nSubscribers can choose to buy an item or return all the clothing they borrowed before they receive anything else. The returned garments are washed or dry cleaned and inspected before they are loaned out again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has said MPs have \"one last chance\" to deliver Brexit, urging them to back what she called a \"new deal\".\n\nMPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, she said.\n\nThe bill also contains new guarantees on workers' rights, environmental protections and the Northern Irish border, as well a customs \"compromise\".\n\nLabour said it was a \"rehash\" of existing plans and Tory Brexiteers took to social media to vent their anger.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg said what was on offer was \"worse than before\", while Boris Johnson said the proposals contravened the party's 2017 general election manifesto, which ruled out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We can and must do better and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.\n\nIn what is seen as a last roll of the dice, Mrs May is now bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring the agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn a speech in London, the PM implored MPs to come together, saying a negotiated exit from the EU would be \"dead in the water\" if they rejected the plan.\n\n\"I have compromised, now I ask you to compromise too,\" she said, adding that she had even \"offered to give up the job I love earlier than I would like\".\n\nMrs May said the deadlock over Brexit was having a \"corrosive\" impact on political debate in the country and was stopping progress in other areas.\n\n\"The majority of MPs say they want to deliver the result of the referendum... and I believe there is now one last chance to do that,\" she said.\n\nThe key points of the PM's revised plan are:\n\nWhile she personally opposed another referendum on the terms of Brexit, the PM said she recognised the \"genuine and sincere\" feelings on the issue in Parliament.\n\nShe urged MPs to back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill at its first parliamentary hurdle and then \"make the case\" for another public vote when the bill was examined in detail later.\n\nDid the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nMembers of the cabinet, which earlier backed the plan, said they hoped the fresh concessions would galvanise Parliament.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said it was \"crunch time\" and by backing the bill, MPs would be able to shape \"what sort of Brexit they want\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Bill is \"a rehash of what was discussed before\"\n\nBut there was an under-whelming reaction from Labour MPs whom the PM was hoping to win over.\n\nLisa Nandy, the Wigan MP who has said she could be persuaded to back a deal which maintained frictionless trade and employment rights, said the offer was \"very weak\".\n\n\"What she seems to be offering is for Parliament to go round the same track that we have been round before,\" she said.\n\nAnd Peter Kyle, who has made his support conditional on a referendum, said Mrs May's promises could easily be reversed by her successor.\n\nHe said what was being offered was a \"strange complex process\" rather than a \"clean, simple confirmatory ballot on her deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn questioned whether any of it could be delivered given Mrs May had a short time left in office.\n\n\"It's basically a rehash of what was discussed before and it doesn't make any fundamental moves on market alignment or the customs union or indeed protection of rights,\" he said.\n\nTory Brexiteers responded with dismay. Conor Burns, a former ministerial aide to Boris Johnson, said the bill should not now be tabled.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dominic Raab This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIain Duncan Smith said it left the EU \"firmly in control of our destiny\" while Anne-Marie Trevelyan accused Mrs May of \"trying to ram her botched deal through on Labour votes by keeping us in the customs union and allowing Brussels to dictate our future trade policy\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who keep Mrs May's government in power, said the plans were still \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nThe SNP said they could not support any plan which took the UK out of the single market while the Lib Dems said Mrs May did not have the political authority to guarantee any of her proposals would ever happen.\n\nSpeaking at a Brexit Party European election rally in London, Nigel Farage said the PM had \"surrendered almost everything\".", "The US has deployed the aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe message to Tehran is clear: any attack on a US target from whatever source, be it Iran or one of its many proxies or allies in the region, will be met by a significant military response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nIran - not surprisingly - holds to this view, but so too do many domestic critics of the Trump administration's approach.\n\nIndeed, to varying degrees many of Mr Trump's key European allies share some of these concerns.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity.\n\nTheir goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran. And if maximum economic pressure does not work then they believe, military action is not ruled out in the appropriate circumstances.\n\nReinstated US sanctions have pushed Iran's economy towards a deep recession\n\nThese two narratives reflect different interpretations of the reality and, as so often, they play up certain facts and ignore others to make their case.\n\nBut perceptions here matter just as much as reality. Indeed, in many ways they produce the reality.\n\nAnd that reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nTensions in the Middle East are certainly mounting.\n\nIran, its economy suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, is pushing back.\n\nIt has warned that it may no longer abide by the restrictions on its nuclear activities.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has said it does not want to pull out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe arrival of Mr Trump was a turning point.\n\nThe president pulled the US out of the nuclear deal a year ago and embarked upon a policy of maximum pressure against Tehran.\n\nIran has had enough. It is pushing the Europeans to do more to help its ailing economy and threatening if they do not - and it is hard to see what they can do - it will go ahead and breach the nuclear deal.\n\nThat would only give the Trump administration additional ammunition.\n\nJohn Bolton, the US national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran\n\nMuch now depends upon the dynamics inside the Trump administration and also on Tehran's assessment of what is going on there.\n\nThe president himself has sought to play down the idea that his officials are divided regarding Iran, and reports indicate that he has little enthusiasm for war.\n\nHis opposition to military entanglements abroad is well-known. However Mr Trump is unlikely to back down if US forces or facilities are attacked.\n\nHowever this is not necessarily the way things may be seen in Tehran.\n\nMight Iran think that it can play off Mr Bolton against his boss; raising tensions enough for the national security adviser's perceived designs to be revealed perhaps precipitating his downfall?\n\nIf that is Tehran's assessment, then it is a high-risk strategy.\n\nSpain withdrew a frigate from the US carrier strike group amid differences over Iran\n\nWhile Washington's key Middle Eastern allies - Israel and Saudi Arabia - may be applauding from the sidelines, Mr Trump's European partners are uneasy at the way things are heading.\n\nSpain, Germany and the Netherlands have all taken steps to suspend military activities in the region alongside the Americans, citing the rising tensions.\n\nThis is not the moment to rehearse what a conflict between Iran and the US would look like. But comparisons between such a conflict and the 2003 Iraq war are unhelpful.\n\nIran is a very different proposition to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nA full-scale invasion of Iran is not going to be on the cards.\n\nRather, this would be an air and maritime conflict with a huge dose of asymmetry in Iran's responses. It could set the whole region ablaze.\n\nThere were those who predicted a major foreign policy catastrophe when Mr Trump took office.\n\nInstead, there is an unfolding and multi-dimensional crisis that has many elements and the Iran situation illustrates them all: an antipathy to international agreements; an over-reliance on regional allies with their own agendas to pursue; rising tensions with long-standing Nato partners; and, above all, an inability to determine and to prioritise Washington's real strategic interests.\n\nWith the revival of great power competition, when the US is seeking to re-orientate its deployments and to bolster its armed forces to face a rising China and an emboldened Russia, where should Iran rate in Washington's strategic priorities?\n\nThe US sees the thousands of Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary fighters in Iraq as a threat\n\nDoes the Iran threat really merit a major conflict? Many US strategic pundits would say no.\n\nMany accept that containing Tehran and, yes, threatening severe reprisals if US interests are attacked, may be necessary. But the steady drumbeat towards war is not.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.", "George said in the note he hoped some cards would come in handy\n\nA woman who had her purse stolen 10 years ago has had the contents returned.\n\nBecca Milsom, from Cardiff, said she was \"gobsmacked\" after she was sent a letter signed by a man called George who had found the lost items.\n\nBecca, 28, said the purse was stolen from her car when she was walking up the Wenallt in Rhiwbina.\n\nGeorge's note joked: \"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts.\"\n\nBecca told BBC Wales: \"My dad said I had a letter through the post from my old home which had just been delivered - and in the letter was all my cards. I was gobsmacked.\"\n\nBecca says she hopes to track George down to thank him\n\nThe note reads: \"I hope this finds you well. I came across your wallet whilst supervising vegetation clearance on a site north of Llwyn Y Pia Road in Lisvane.\n\n\"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts, but hopefully the driver's licence and NI card come in handy again.\"\n\nBecca added: \"I haven't had a national insurance card since then. I've been okay because I had the number but I was always a bit wary about it.\n\n\"I want to thank the person who sent it - does he know any more detail and where was it where he found them? I'd just like to thank him.\"\n\nShe said on Facebook she hopes to track George down so she can thank him.", "Three handwritten wills have been found at the home of Aretha Franklin, months after the \"Queen of Soul's\" death.\n\nFranklin died from pancreatic cancer in August and family members said at the time that she had left no will.\n\nBut three documents were found earlier this month. Two from 2010 were recovered from a locked cabinet after a key was located.\n\nOne, dated March 2014, was hidden under living room cushions, a lawyer for Franklin's estate said.\n\nThe will, which was written inside a spiral notebook, appears to leave her assets to her family, said the lawyer, David Bennett.\n\nSome of the writing is very hard to decipher and the four pages have words scratched out and phrases written in the margins.\n\nBennett, who was Franklin's lawyer for more than 40 years, filed the wills on Monday. He told a judge that he's not sure if they are legal under Michigan law.\n\nHe added that the wills had been shared with Franklin's four sons or their lawyers, but they had not reached a deal on whether any of them should be considered valid.\n\nA statement from the Franklin estate said two sons object to the wills.\n\nIn a separate court filing, Franklin's son Kecalf Franklin said his mother wanted him to serve as representative of the estate in the 2014 will but the estate statement confirmed that Sabrina Owens, an administrator at the University of Michigan, will continue to serve as its representative.\n\nMr Franklin is currently objecting to plans to sell a piece of land next to his mother's Oakland County home for $325,000 (£255,960).\n\nAretha Franklin was one of the most celebrated soul vocalists of the 60s and 70s.\n\nShe was recently honoured with a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.; and a previously unseen 1972 movie of the star recording her gospel album Amazing Grace, has just hit cinemas.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jude Morrow found it difficult to understand his son Ethan's facial expressions.\n\nBecoming a parent for the first time is a life-changing moment for anyone but it can pose extra challenges when you have autism.\n\nJude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, and he struggled with becoming a father when his son Ethan was born.\n\nThe Londonderry man has trouble interpreting and expressing feelings, as well as experiencing sensory issues and he dislikes disruption to his routine.\n\nThat posed a big challenge when he found out he was going to be a father.\n\n\"Adapting to and managing change isn't easy for me at the best of times,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I would always try to avoid any change but I couldn't avoid becoming a dad.\n\n\"I just wanted to know everything right away that was going to happen. I spent hours dwelling on it and thinking about what I could do to prepare for it.\n\n\"It was a drastic life change - it was a downward spiral and I had a very tough time.\"\n\nJude Morrow had just qualified as a social worker when his son was born\n\nAn unpredictable sleeping and eating pattern is expected with a newborn but some people with autism like Mr Morrow depend on a strict sense of order.\n\n\"The constant change with a new baby is something I really had difficulty with because it went against my routine and it really unsettled me.\n\n\"The worst thing is it was hard for me to tell how Ethan was feeling by looking at him because I don't pick up facial cues.\n\n\"I kept staring at him and wondering if he was OK.\"\n\nAlthough becoming a parent was one of the darkest times in his life, it helped the 28-year-old to accept his autism.\n\n\"At that time, my condition was so difficult to live with and I was so difficult to live with that Ethan could see it,\" he said.\n\n\"I kept thinking I would grow out of it but I had to come to terms with it and make peace with myself.\n\n\"I now see it as a difference to be celebrated - I'm proud of my autism now.\"\n\nHe has developed many coping mechanisms since becoming a dad but he still experiences daily challenges with parenting.\n\nJude Morrow hopes sharing his experiences can help new parents who have autism\n\n\"It's things most people don't even consider but I can't handle chaotic situations like children's play areas because of my sensory issues.\"\n\nHe said he still finds it difficult to explain how he is feeling.\n\n\"It can overwhelm me,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't always have an appropriate response to a situation.\"\n\nAlthough his family and friends have been very supportive, Mr Morrow found very few resources for autistic parents.\n\n\"There is a wealth of information for parents of children with autism but not much for parents with autism themselves.\n\n\"I couldn't find anyone who is on the spectrum using their voice to support other people like them so I decided to write a book about my story.\"\n\nMr Morrow has dedicated the book to his son and took the title from something Ethan asked his grandmother.\n\n\"My mum was looking after Ethan and he asked her: 'Why does daddy always look so sad?'\n\n\"I decided to use that as the title for the book.\n\n\"Even at the age of five, Ethan had picked up that I have trouble showing emotion and often have a blank face.\n\n\"Autism is something I never thought I would talk about but I am glad I did because I want it to be a beacon of hope for parents who have autism.\"\n• None 'I was diagnosed with autism at 32'", "Theresa May has urged MPs to back what she has described as a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly is different in this updated withdrawal agreement?\n\nThe prime minister's \"new Brexit deal\" isn't all that new.\n\nFor a start, the withdrawal agreement itself - which includes the backstop plan for the Irish border - remains exactly the same.\n\nThat was always going to be the case. The EU has insisted that there will be no further negotiation on the text.\n\nInstead, the government will seek changes to the accompanying political declaration, which focuses on the future relationship after Brexit.\n\nBut, as we've said many times before, it is not a legally binding document.\n\nWhat Mrs May has offered for the first time is the prospect of a vote on holding a second referendum, and a vote on a temporary customs union.\n\nBut she says that will only be the case if MPs are willing to approve the withdrawal agreement bill in the House of Commons in the first week of June.\n\nThere are also promises on workers' rights and environmental protection - measures designed to appeal to Labour MPs. But similar promises, albeit in different form, have been made before.\n\nAs for Northern Ireland, the PM has said that the government would be under a legal obligation \"to seek to conclude alternative arrangements\" to the backstop by the end of 2020.\n\nBut note the word \"seek\" - it is an aspiration not a guarantee, and finding alternative arrangements, through the use of technology or other means, has so far proved very challenging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nMrs May also spoke of a commitment, should the backstop have to come into force, to ensure that Great Britain will stay aligned with Northern Ireland to prevent new checks at the border.\n\nAgain, this is something that has been said before.\n\nNevertheless, the government is portraying this speech as a genuine effort to find compromise.\n\nOthers see it as a last roll of the dice.\n\nThe trouble is that Brexit has become a binary issue, and almost no-one in politics - whether they voted to leave or remain - seems to want to give up on their vision of how all this should be resolved.\n\nThat's why much of the initial reaction to the PM's speech from MPs, from all sides of the House of Commons, including her own backbenches, has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile.\n\nShe will continue to warn that anyone voting against her latest plan risks losing Brexit altogether.\n\nBut the biggest problem for Mrs May is that there doesn't appear to be a majority in the Commons for any Brexit option.\n\nThat has been clear for many months now.\n\nAnd nothing in this speech is likely to move the goalposts.", "Eric Michels, who made a brief appearance in the Bond film Skyfall, was found dead at his home in Chessington in August 2018\n\nA businessman who appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall was murdered with a GHB drug overdose after being targeted by a serial thief who used gay dating apps to find victims, a court heard.\n\nGerald Matovu, 25, denies murdering Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his Chessington home on 18 August.\n\nMr Matovu, of Southwark, is on trial at the Old Bailey with co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 23, from Forest Gate.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC, said the two defendants often worked together and took advantage of hook-ups arranged via apps like Grindr to steal property and take photos of bank cards for the purposes of fraud.\n\nHe said the case involves 26 charges relating to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nJurors were told eight of the men were drugged in order to \"render them unconscious\" of whom five had their drinks \"spiked\" and one had drugs injected into his backside.\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nOne son - Sam - lived with Mr Michels in Bolton Road, Chessington, and last saw him alive at 19:00 BST on 16 August.\n\nThe court heard he met Mr Matovu in central London after they found one another on Grindr and took a cab back to Chessington.\n\nGerald Matovu is on trial at the Old Bailey\n\nThe prosecution allege that during the course of the following morning, Mr Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence, and various passwords, before leaving the property in a taxi carrying stolen items including a laptop and mobile phone.\n\nThat night Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter was unable to get a response from her father when she sent him a text asking if he would like to meet, the court heard.\n\nShe sent him a further text on 18 August and received a response from her father's phone saying: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nMr Rees told the court Mr Michel's daughter felt the reply was \"totally uncharacteristic of her father\" and she decided to phone him.\n\nHowever, an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling.\n\nAt the time of the call, Mr Michels' phone was in the general area of Mr Matovu's Southwark address, jurors were told.\n\nThe teen and her mother then went to Mr Michel's home, where his daughter was the first to venture inside and found him lying motionless in bed with the duvet pulled up over his nose.\n\n\"She attempted to rouse him by shouting his name, but to no avail,\" Mr Rees said.\n\nMr Rees said evidence points to use of the drug GHB to drug them, which is often used in context of \"chemsex\" in order to \"facilitate sexual activity.\"\n\nThe jury was told large doses \"can induce coma\" and \"in some cases death can arise\".\n\nAlong with the murder charge Mr Matovu denies six counts of administering a poison or noxious substance to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration and one count of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nHe is further charged with five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, seven counts of theft and possession of a controlled drug of class C - all of which he pleaded not guilty to.\n\nMr Dunbar has pleaded not guilty to five counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration, one count of ABH, seven counts of theft, five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, two counts of fraud and one count of unlawfully retaining a wrongful credit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Niki Lauda, who has died aged 70, was a three-time Formula 1 world champion, non-executive chairman of the world champion Mercedes team, and one of the biggest names in motorsport.\n\nHe was also a pilot and successful businessman, who set up two airlines and continued to occasionally captain their planes into his late 60s.\n\nBut he will be remembered most for the remarkable bravery and resilience he showed in recovering from a fiery crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the fearsome Nurburgring.\n\nLauda - leading the World Championship, having won his first title a year earlier - suffered third-degree burns to his head and face that left him scarred for life, inhaled toxic gases that damaged his lungs, and received the last rites in hospital.\n\nYet he returned to racing just 40 days later - finishing fourth in the Italian Grand Prix. By the end of the race, his unhealed wounds had soaked his fireproof balaclava in blood. When he tried to remove the balaclava, he found it was stuck to his bandages, and had to resort to ripping it off in one go.\n\nIt was one of the bravest acts in the history of sport.\n\nAt the time, Lauda played down his condition. Later, in his disarmingly frank autobiography, he admitted he had been so scared he could hardly drive.\n\n\"I said then and later that I had conquered my fear quickly and cleanly,\" Lauda wrote in To Hell And Back. \"That was a lie. But it would have been foolish to play into the hands of my rivals by confirming my weakness. At Monza, I was rigid with fear.\"\n\nLauda drove that weekend because he felt it was the \"best thing\" for his physical and mental wellbeing. \"Lying in bed ruminating about the 'Ring would have finished me,\" he said.\n• None 'The most courageous act of any sportsman' - tributes paid to 'legend' Lauda\n\nThe accident ended the notorious Nurburgring's time as a Formula 1 circuit.\n\nLauda had been warning for some time that the circuit was too dangerous for F1. Its 14 miles twisting through the Eifel mountains meant the emergency services were stretched too far, he said, and any driver who had a serious crash was therefore at a disproportionately high risk in an era that was already extremely dangerous.\n\nWhat happened on 1 August proved him right. For unknown reasons, Lauda lost control at a flat-out kink before a corner called Bergwerk, hit an embankment and his car burst into flames.\n\nTrapped in the wreckage, but conscious, he was dragged clear by four fellow drivers - but not before he had suffered severe injuries.\n\nLauda carried the scars, including a mostly missing right ear, for the rest of his life and always had a matter-of-fact approach to his disfigurement. It didn't bother him, he said, and if others felt differently, that was their problem.\n\nHis injuries, in fact, were often the butt of his merciless wit.\n\nOnce it was pointed out to him that, owing to the rule that says the original start of a race does not count if there is a restart, he had not officially taken part in the 1976 German Grand Prix. \"Oh yes,\" he said, in his clipped tones. \"So what happened to my ear?\"\n\nThe accident came at a time when Lauda appeared to be cruising to a second consecutive world title for Ferrari, and his determination to return was founded in his desire to shore up a lead that was rapidly diminishing in his absence from competition, under assault from British McLaren driver James Hunt.\n\nThe compelling narrative of that season was effectively the kick-start for F1's current global popularity. The storyline had something for everyone - the ascetic Austrian racing driver-cum-engineer, renowned for his clinical approach and lack of emotions, driving for Ferrari; the handsome, playboy Englishman bon vivant for McLaren. Lauda's crash and awe-inspiring recovery only added to the frisson.\n\nBy the final round in Japan, Lauda was only three points ahead, and when raceday brought torrential rain, he pulled out after two laps, saying it was too dangerous.\n\nLauda admitted he was \"panic-stricken\" - feelings rooted in his crash - but later said he regretted the decision. Ferrari remonstrated with him and tried to convince him to race, but he refused, and Hunt took the third place he needed to win the title by one point.\n\nTheir battle has been turned into a Hollywood film, but it misrepresented them as enemies - in fact, Lauda and Hunt were close friends. So much so they had next-door rooms that weekend in Japan and, on race morning, with Hunt in bed with a girlfriend, Lauda goose-stepped into the room and barked out: \"Today, I vin the Vorld Championship.\"\n\nIt was unarguably the most dramatic, inspiring and fascinating part of Lauda's career, but his life was one lived in Technicolor, and remarkable in its entirety.\n\nHe was a singular personality, brusque and matter of fact, but with a wicked sense of humour and independent mind.\n\nAfter success in the lower categories, Lauda bought his way into F1 in 1971, against the wishes of his well-heeled family, by way of a bank loan secured against his life insurance policy, and started his career with March. He needed a second loan to move to BRM two years later. It was the move that made his career.\n\nHe impressed team-mate Clay Regazzoni, and when the Swiss was signed by Ferrari for 1974, he recommended Lauda.\n\nThe legendary Italian team had been in the doldrums in 1973, but were about to start a strong recovery under the management of the brilliant Luca di Montezemolo. In 1974, Lauda lost out on the title to McLaren's Emerson Fittipaldi only through inexperience, but that was the precursor to dominating in 1975 in the now legendary Ferrari 312T.\n\nAfter narrowly missing out on the title in 1976, Lauda won again in 1977, despite falling out with Enzo Ferrari, whose lack of support following the Nurburgring crash fatally fractured their relationship.\n\nThe atmosphere chilly, amid Lauda's fall-out with the owner and distaste for his new team-mate Carlos Reutemann, Lauda stayed at Ferrari in 1977 only long enough to clinch the title, and pulled out of the final two races before a move to Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team for 1978.\n\nThe Brabham was beautiful to look at, but its Alfa Romeo engine was uncompetitive, and Lauda began to lose interest in F1. At the Canadian Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the 1979 season, he got out of his car part-way through a practice session and told Ecclestone he was retiring, saying he was \"bored of driving around in circles\".\n\nHe returned to Austria to run his airline, Lauda Air, full-time. But just over two years later he was back in F1, tempted out of retirement by McLaren boss Ron Dennis, on a $3m salary - by far the largest in the sport at the time.\n\nLauda won his third race back - in Long Beach, California - and in 1984 the team were dominant with the new MP4/2, powered by a Porsche engine funded by McLaren's new backer TAG.\n\nLauda was out-paced by new team-mate Alain Prost but won five races to Prost's seven, most as a result of the Frenchman's bad luck or retirement, and clinched the title by half a point, the closest margin in history.\n\nHe stayed for one more year, 1985, when he was uncompetitive but still managed to win in the Netherlands - holding off a charge from Prost - before finally calling it a day for good, aged 36.\n\nThrough both his periods in F1, his driving was characterised by elegant stylishness, all economy of effort and fluidity, which matched his belief it was the driver's job to work as hard as possible on the technical aspects of the car, to make it work for him, and let it do the work. It was not spectacular, but it was certainly effective - as proved by Prost himself, and Jackie Stewart, who shared a similar approach and won a further seven titles between them.\n\nThe end of Lauda's driving career, though, did not mean the end of his links with F1.\n\nIn 1993, Montezemolo offered him a consulting role at Ferrari, though that did not last long into the management of the team's new boss that year - Jean Todt, who went on to mastermind the dominant Michael Schumacher era.\n\nIn 2001, Lauda took charge of the Ford-owned Jaguar team, only to be sacked at the end of 2002 along with 70 other key figures when the performance failed to improve.\n\nFrom then, he largely combined running his new airline Niki - founded in 2003, after the sale of Lauda Air to Austrian Airlines in 1999 - with an analyst's role on the German TV channel RTL's F1 coverage.\n\nBut then, in September 2012, he was appointed a non-executive director of the Mercedes F1 team, a decision made by the Mercedes board, who were unhappy at the team's lack of competitiveness under Ross Brawn, and wanted Lauda as an effective spy in the camp.\n\nAlong with Brawn, Lauda played a key role in the signing of Lewis Hamilton to replace Schumacher at the end of 2012. And in early 2013, he became a 10% shareholder in Mercedes, at the same time as Toto Wolff took on 30%.\n\nWolff, initially appointed executive director, replaced Brawn as team boss in 2014, and after that - as Mercedes dominated the sport in the era of turbo hybrid engines - Lauda had attended races and acted as an adviser to Wolff and the Mercedes board.\n\nIn July 2018, he was diagnosed with a severe lung infection and had a double lung transplant. In November, he and the team posted a message on social media with a video of Lauda saying he would be back at work \"soon\".\n\nBut in January he was diagnosed with pneumonia and taken back into hospital in Vienna.\n\nLauda leaves his second wife Birgit, their twins Max and Mia - born in 2009, two sons from his first wife Marlene Knaus - Mathias and Lukas, and a son - Christoph - born from a third relationship.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver who left him lying in a road in north London with a head injury.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey was hit on Swain's Lane in Highgate on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "India is the world's largest democracy and, according to UN estimates, its population is expected to overtake China's in 2028 to become the world's most populous nation.\n\nAs a rising economic powerhouse and nuclear-armed state, India has emerged as an important regional power. But it is also tackling huge, social, economic and environmental problems.\n\nHome to some of the world's most ancient surviving civilisations, the Indian subcontinent - from the mountainous Afghan frontier to the jungles of Burma and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean - is both vast and varied in terms of people, language and cultural traditions.\n\nDroupadi Murmu was sworn in as president in July 2022. A teacher and former governor of Jharkhand State, she is the first person from a tribal community to serve as India's head of state. She is a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. The presidency is largely ceremonial, but can play a significant role if, for example, no party wins an outright majority in elections.\n\nHindu nationalist Narendra Modi stormed to power on a surge of popular expectation and anger at corruption and weak growth.\n\nDespite Mr Modi's polarising image, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) scored an unprecedented landslide victory in the May 2014 parliamentary elections.\n\nIt was the first time in 30 years that a single party had won a clear parliamentary majority.\n\nMr Modi fought on his record as chief minister of the economically successful state of Gujarat, promising to revitalise India's flagging economy.\n\nBut his time in Gujarat was overshadowed by accusations that he did too little to stop sectarian riots in 2001 that saw more than 1,000 people - mainly Muslims - killed.\n\nThe Himalayan region of Kashmir has been a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for over six decades.\n\nSince India's partition and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the nuclear-armed neighbours have fought two wars over the Muslim-majority territory, which both claim in full but control in part.\n\nToday it remains one of the most militarised zones in the world. China administers parts of the territory.\n\nIndia has a burgeoning media industry, with broadcast, print and digital media experiencing tremendous growth.\n\nThere are around 197 million TV households, many of them using satellite or cable. FM radio stations are plentiful but only public All India Radio can produce news.\n\nThe press scene is lively with thousands of titles. India has the second largest number of internet users in the world, after China.\n\nIndian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi with Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten and his wife in 1947\n\n2500 BC - India is home to several ancient civilisations and empires.\n\n1600s - The British arrive and establish trading posts under The British East India Company - by the 1850s they control most of the subcontinent.\n\n1920 - Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi heads a campaign of non-violent protest against British rule which eventually leads to independence.\n\n1947 - India is split into two nations at independence - Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.\n\n1971 - India and Pakistan go to war over East Pakistan, leading to the creation of Bangladesh.\n\n1990s - Government initiates a programme of economic liberalisation and reform, opening up the economy to global trade and investment.\n\n2014 - Hindu nationalist BJP party scores biggest election victory by any party in 30 years.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "Stephen Dure, also known as Stevie Trap, was jailed in September\n\nA self-styled paedophile hunter has said his channel has been permanently banned by YouTube.\n\nStephen Dure, who is also known as Stevie Trap, previously posted videos of himself confronting alleged sexual offenders in Hampshire.\n\nHe said he has been prohibited from ever owning or using a YouTube account.\n\nThe website said the channel had been terminated because of \"multiple or severe violations\" of policies against bullying and harassment.\n\nPreviously, YouTube said it made a \"mistake\" when it deleted the account in April.\n\nMr Dure, from Southampton, said the channel had been deleted and reinstated three times in the past.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know what YouTube's problem is but I'm actually disgusted by the way they're treating me.\"\n\nThe campaigner said he was moving forward with plans to create his own website.\n\nIn a statement, YouTube said: \"We terminate the accounts of repeat offenders.\"\n\nMr Dure featured in a regional edition of a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017\n\nIn September, Mr Dure was jailed for 15 weeks for falsely accusing a man of grooming teenagers.\n\nHis wrongly-accused victim said he had been sacked and his home had been attacked as a result.\n\nMr Dure appeared in a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017, when he explained how he posed as children on the internet to \"trap\" sex offenders.\n\nHis YouTube and Facebook pages have shown videos of him making citizen's arrests after arranging meetings with suspects.\n\nThe TRAP Community Facebook page has more than 240,000 followers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, said she is \"hopeful\" that the Liberal Democrats can make gains in the local council elections.\n\nShe said there is a \"Lib Dem fightback\", adding: \"People are absolutely disillusioned on the doorsteps with the job the government's making.\n\nMs Swinson said the \"only thing that unites the country\" is \"everybody's view\" that the government is dealing with Brexit badly.\n\n\"Doesn't matter if people were Leave or Remain, everyone can agree on that pretty much,\" she said.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he is \"very sorry\" the party has lost control of three heartland councils in the North despite a significant victory in Trafford.\n\nLabour took full control of the former Conservative flagship council, gaining six seats as the Tories lost nine.\n\nBut he said the party should have done better in Hartlepool, Wirral and Bolsover where they lost control.\n\nSo far Labour has lost 83 seats across the country.\n\nBut the victory in Trafford is the first time Labour has taken control there since 2003.\n\nSir Graham Brady, Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West, indicated the Brexit deadlock in Westminster had been a factor for the Tories.\n\n\"It has undoubtedly been harder for us to get our vote out because of dissatisfaction with the national scene,\" said Sir Graham, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee, which represents Conservative backbenchers.\n\nHe added: \"I think the overwhelming view on the doorsteps has been 'for heaven's sake, get on with it'.\n\n\"I think there is massive frustration that we have yet to see the whole thing through.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Phil McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in Sale, Labour leader Mr Corbyn told the BBC: \"We have won Trafford to an overall majority.\n\n\"We have had swings to Labour across a number of councils across the whole of the country and that gives us a basis on which we can win marginal seats in places such as Swindon, Thurrock and other places.\"\n\nHe said the achievement in Trafford was \"amazing\" but added that he was \"very sorry\" about losing so many councillors across the country.\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"We will fight back and we will win them back.\"\n\n\"Of course we wanted to do better. We always want to do better. That's what we are in politics for.\"\n\nIn Trafford, Labour gained Ashton-upon-Mersey, which has always voted Conservative, while the Greens took a seat from the Tories in Altrincham and the Liberal Democrats also added two seats.\n\nSean Anstee, the former Tory leader of the council, told the BBC: \"We need to rethink who we are. The prime minister has to think about her position.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was a very painful night overall. Not just for the party as a whole, but for those dedicated and hardworking councillors who have served the community for a number of years, but lost out tonight.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said: \"It's a stunning set of results tonight. We've won a ward that we've never won before.\n\n\"I think this is an endorsement of our first year in office and I could not be happier with the result.\"\n\nThe new Labour leader of Trafford Council Andrew Western said it was a \"stunning\" night for his party\n\nThe story was not so positive for Labour in Bolton, where the party lost seven seats and its grip on the council which now has no overall control.\n\nIndependent groups Farnworth and Kearsley First and Horwich and Blackrod First Independents took four of those, promising to fight for their area.\n\nIn Wigan, Labour won 20 out of 25 available seats but saw their number in the council chamber reduce by three.\n\nIndependent candidates won seats in Bryn, Atherton and Hindley while the Conservatives took Orrell from Labour.\n\nLabour lost seats in Bolton to the Lib Dems, Conservatives and four independent candidates\n\nElsewhere in Greater Manchester, Labour held on to Tameside, Oldham, Bury, Salford and Rochdale.\n\nLabour maintained its tight grip on Manchester City Council, despite losing one of the 33 seats it was defending to the Lib Dems.\n\nIn Stockport, both Labour and the Lib Dems made small gains at the expense of the Conservatives but the council remains in No Overall Control.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford are now engaged\n\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is engaged to her long-term partner, television presenter Clarke Gayford, a spokesman has confirmed.\n\nNews of the couple's engagement emerged after Ms Ardern was seen at a ceremony on Friday wearing a diamond ring on the middle finger of her left hand.\n\nA hawk-eyed journalism intern spied the new addition and asked the prime minister's office about it.\n\nHer spokesman then confirmed that the pair got engaged over Easter.\n\nLast year, Ms Ardern gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Neve Te Aroha.\n\nEarlier this January, Ms Ardern was asked by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire if she would ever propose to Mr Gayford.\n\n\"No I would not ask, no. I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonise about that question himself,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern was the second world leader to give birth while in office. The first was the late Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's two-time prime minister.\n\nThe couple have one child together, a baby girl named Neve Te Aroha\n\nShe said at the time that Mr Gayford would assume the role of a stay-at-home dad.\n\n\"I'm very, very lucky,\" she told Radio NZ.\n\n\"I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility because he's a parent too, he's not a babysitter.\"\n\nAccording to local media outlets, Ms Ardern and Mr Gayford first met at an awards event in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: 'It takes strength to be an empathetic leader'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Frankie MacRitchie's family said the \"wonderful\" nine-year-old boy \"will be so very missed\"\n\nA nine-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog died from a loss of blood caused by multiple bites to his head, an inquest opening has heard.\n\nFrankie MacRitchie from Plymouth, Devon, was attacked in a caravan at a holiday park in Looe, Cornwall, last month and died at the scene.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the dog involved in the attack was put down this week.\n\nThe inquest in Truro has been adjourned to allow further inquiries.\n\nHis body was identified by his mother in the following days.\n\nThe inquest heard a post-mortem examination showed the preliminary cause of Frankie's death was severe loss of blood, caused by multiple dog bites to the head.\n\nFlowers and messages were left at Frankie's school in Plymouth after his death\n\nEmergency services were called to a caravan at Tencreek Holiday Park at 05:00 BST on 13 April after reports of a boy being \"unresponsive\".\n\nA woman described by police as a family friend was later arrested at a railway station near Plymouth.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who was initially held on suspicion of manslaughter and having a dog dangerously out of control, has since been released but remains under investigation.\n\nDet Insp Steve Hambly from Devon and Cornwall Police said: \"Officers are working closely with Frankie's parents at what is clearly a most distressing time.\n\n\"The dog involved in the incident was put down earlier this week with the full consent of his owner, having previously been housed by police since the day of the incident.\"\n\nActing Senior Coroner for Cornwall Andrew Cox told the hearing Frankie's body was identified by his mother Tawnee Willis at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital five days after his death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of fans paid their last respects to the former Celtic captain and manager\n\nFans and football greats have paid their final respects to Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA funeral mass for the first British man to lift the European Cup took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow.\n\nAfterwards the cortege made its way to Celtic Park, where thousands of fans gathered to remember the club's former captain and manager.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nThe funeral service was attended by many famous names from the world of football, including former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalglish and the surviving members of the Lisbon Lions.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon and club captain Scott Brown were joined by the first team squad and members of the board, including chief executive Peter Lawwell and largest shareholder Dermot Desmond.\n\nFormer Celtic managers Brendan Rodgers, Gordon Strachan and Martin O'Neill also turned out to pay their respects to the man known as Cesar.\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish and wife Marina arrive for the service\n\nAlex Ferguson was among those paying tribute\n\nPlayers from the current Celtic team also attended\n\nOld Firm rivals Rangers were represented by Ibrox legend John Greig, Gordon Smith, Willie Henderson and former boss Walter Smith.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by other figures from Scottish football, players who were managed by McNeill, and mourners from the world of politics.\n\nArchbishop Philip Tartaglia began his homily by offering \"heartfelt and prayerful sympathies\" to McNeill's wife of 56 years, Liz, and children Susan, Carol, Libby, Paula and Martyn.\n\nHe told the congregation the former defender, who had eight grandchildren, endured his ill health with \"dignity and courage\".\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia added: \"As Glasgow Celtic's most famous captain, Billy also belonged to another family, the Celtic family, who adored him as their hero and who mourn his passing.\"\n\nMcNeill's son Martyn described his parents as the \"the original Posh and Becks\" and shared anecdotes of a loving family life.\n\nHe concluded: \"We are not here to mourn the passing of a legend.\n\n\"We are here to say thank you for having so much more.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBroadcaster Archie Macpherson, who worked with McNeill for the BBC, recalled watching him lift the European Cup in Lisbon in May 1967.\n\nMacpherson told the congregation: \"When I saw him appearing he looked slightly dishevelled, a bit weary also, I think, wearing a puzzled look as if he had not really taken in what these local lads from around Glasgow had achieved in reaching the pinnacle of European football.\n\n\"It just did not seem real until he had his hands on the cup.\n\n\"And, believe you me, even the most talented Hollywood agency could not have cast a better man for that particular role of lifting the cup.\n\nThe mass took place at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow\n\n\"Tall. Handsome. Now you can be plug ugly and still lift a cup. Nevertheless, he did have the looks.\n\n\"As soon as he got the cup in his hands he was enlivened. It was as if he had been transfixed.\"\n\nMacpherson said McNeill believed the Celtic story was \"part fairytale\".\n\nHe also described McNeill and manager Jock Stein as \"one of the most powerful duos in the history of the British game\".\n\nAnd he added: \"He was simply a decent human being.\"\n\nThe service was broadcast on a screen outside Celtic Park\n\nMacpherson said McNeill seemed to rise above the rivalry of the Old Firm and he could not recall anyone in the media having a bad word to say about him.\n\nThe congregation was also told McNeill's daughters used to use his medals as currency when they played a grocery game with the neighbours.\n\nMacpherson joked: \"I had visions of the European medal being changed for a couple of chocolate biscuits.\"\n\nThousands of fans gathered at Celtic Park on Friday\n\nAfter the service the cortege was greeted with a standing ovation as it passed through Glasgow city centre.\n\nBut the loudest reception of all was reserved for Celtic Park where fans had gathered to watch the service on a big screen.\n\nSupporters clapped and cheered as the coffin was driven past the front of the stadium and down Celtic Way to McNeill's bronze statute, which is surrounded by hundreds of floral tributes.\n\nThere was also a rousing chorus of In the Heat of Lisbon before the McNeill family stepped out of the funeral cars to applaud the crowd.\n\nThe Bellshill-born defender enjoyed a glittering career and led the Parkhead club to nine successive league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups.\n\nMcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nBut his finest hour came in Lisbon on 25 May 1967 when Celtic defeated Italian giants Inter Milan 2-1 to become the first British team to lift the European Cup.\n\nMcNeill went on to have two spells at the club as manager and led the club to eight honours.\n\nThese included a league and cup double in 1988, the club's centenary year.\n\nTributes have been paid at the statue outside Celtic Park\n\nHis nickname was a nod to actor Cesar Romero, who starred as the getaway driver in the original Ocean's Eleven, as McNeill had the same car at the time.\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his bronze statue outside Celtic Park, which was unveiled in 2015.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "\"We normally tip around £2, but if someone does something really good, then they might get a fiver. It's a really tangible way of saying, 'You know what, I really liked that.'\"\n\nBecky Thornton is one of a growing number of UK workers whose bosses have introduced \"peer-to-peer micro-bonuses\" - or what some people might view as tips.\n\nThere's been a sharp increase in schemes where co-workers are given the power and a budget to tip each other small amounts of money for good work.\n\nTwo of the main providers of these schemes told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up To Money that they had seen a big rise in the number of UK businesses signing up to give their staff the power to hand out small cash rewards.\n\nUS-based firm Bonusly says it has seen a 75% increase in UK customers in the last 12 months alone, meaning there are now 250 UK-based firms using its scheme to reward more than 10,000 employees.\n\nAnd Reward Gateway told Radio 5 live it had seen a 100% increase in the number of UK businesses using its services to allow staff to give small amounts of cash to their colleagues.\n\n\"It's quite a nice way of giving feedback, it feels like a positive way to show you appreciate someone's work. I save up my tips and withdraw them when I've got over £100, then I treat myself,\" says Becky.\n\nRaphael Crawford-Marks, one of Bonusly's co-founders, says the idea is \"ensuring that employees receive timely and meaningful recognition\".\n\nHe doesn't like to think of it as \"tipping\", which he says has a different connotation in the US, where tips form a sizable chunk of some workers' pay.\n\n\"The monetary aspect of it exists to help employees form good habits about giving recognition to each other,\" he says.\n\n\"When every employee has a pot of money and all they can do with it is give it out to their colleagues, then that works as a nudge to encourage them to give it out.\"\n\nBut not everyone who has experienced it is a fan. Victoria Davies used to work at a company that managed bonuses this way and found it hard.\n\n\"If you're the type of person who normally goes above and beyond, you don't want to be seen to be doing that just to get tips,\" she says.\n\n\"It's open to abuse, isn't it? As someone who went through popularity contests at school, it was quite weird to think, 'Oh, do I need to ingratiate myself with people to be part of this community of tip-giving?'\n\n\"It was one extra level of stress that I didn't need.\"\n\nThe amount of money and the way the rewards work varies from employer to employer. Some even display charts showing who has received the most from their colleagues.\n\nBecky's employer gives staff £15 a month to assign to their colleagues, which is taken back if it is not used in time. Victoria was given a pot of £100 a year to dish out as and when she chose.\n\nJurgen Appelo, founder of Agility Scales and author of several books on management, introduced the scheme for his employees who award one another points. The value of those points is determined by the profit the company has made each month.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a risk that this scheme becomes a popularity contest: \"You cannot prevent this becoming a bit of a contest, but we already have a contest in place with the traditional system and that is sucking up to the boss.\n\n\"It is a popularity contest of who is most popular with the boss and that has proven to be a very bad system.\n\n\"So I am just replacing that part with the crowd, so people see they are liked, appreciated, valued by [their] colleagues. We did the research on our own team, we know who the introverts and the extroverts are, we try to check if it correlates with the points they get and it doesn't.\"\n\nJulie Wacker, business psychologist at workplace wellness consultancy Robertson Cooper, says businesses must be careful of unintended consequences.\n\n\"I can see how this could have a huge impact and be fun. But if it's not set around a work culture with good values in place, it could end up being cliquey, it could be quite negative,\" he says.\n\n\"The intention is no doubt good, it's to motivate people and give instant feedback. It means you're not reliant on a manager for recognition, which could release people from the negative impact of bad managers. But there are risks it's just a popularity contest.\"\n\nWhatever the reasons behind it and whether you love it or hate it, the professional association for people in HR, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, has told the BBC it has seen an increase in members talking about these schemes.\n\nThere's a good chance this very American import could soon be coming to a workplace near you. Best start smiling at those colleagues.\n\nYou can hear more about this story on the Wake Up To Money podcast\n• None Who is worst hit by the decline in cash?", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply missed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The artists shortlisted tackle issues such as oppression and marginalised communities\n\nThe Turner Prize has ended a sponsorship deal with Stagecoach South East - a day after it was announced.\n\nThe firm was to support an exhibition of the four shortlisted artists at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate.\n\nBut there was criticism as the chairman of its parent company had backed a ban on teaching LGBT issues.\n\nThe local bus company said the decision had been \"mutually agreed\" and while it was committed to diversity did not want anything to distract from the artists.\n\nThe bus company says the decision to end its partnership was mutually agreed\n\nGay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was among those against the prize's partnership with Stagecoach South East. He told the Daily Telegraph he was \"surprised and disappointed\" when he heard the announcement.\n\nSir Brian Souter, who backed a failed campaign 19 years ago to keep Section 28 - a law banning teachers discussing gay rights in schools - is the co-founder and chairman of the Stagecoach Group.\n\nIn a statement, Turner Contemporary and the Tate gallery - which organises the annual prize - said its priority was to \"show and celebrate\" artists and their work.\n\nIt said: \"The Turner Prize celebrates the creative freedoms of the visual arts community and our wider society.\n\n\"By mutual agreement, we will not proceed with Stagecoach South East's sponsorship of this year's prize.\"\n\nIn a later statement, Tate said it didn't know about Sir Brian's views on gay rights when it agreed the deal.\n\n\"The corporate agreement was between Turner Contemporary and Stagecoach,\" it said.\n\n\"The relevant legal and financial due diligence was observed. Neither Turner Contemporary nor Tate were aware of the wider issues.\"\n\nStagecoach South East said: \"We are absolutely committed to diversity in our company, however we do not want anything to distract from celebrating the Turner Prize artists and their work.\"\n\nThe winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on 3 December.\n\nThis year's Turner Prize nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.\n\nThe shortlist of artists was announced on Wednesday and their work tackles issues including oppression and marginalised communities.\n\nLast year's Turner Prize was won by artist Charlotte Prodger for her film on her experience of coming out as gay in rural Scotland.\n\nLife has never been easy for arts fundraisers. Typically sport takes the lion's share of corporate sponsorship, with arts organisations feeding off any scraps of company cash that might be left over.\n\nThere is not a history of companies queuing around the block to financially support exhibitions and gallery refurbishments. It is a small pool in which fundraisers have to fish, and it's now in danger of evaporating altogether.\n\nThe public scrutiny museums, theatres, orchestras and other arts bodies now find themselves under is unprecedented. The effect is two-fold.\n\nFirstly, corporate sponsorship deals nowadays must be able to withstand forensic examination by stakeholders and the media, which Turner Contemporary's deal with Stagecoach could not.\n\nSecondly, the negativity surrounding arts sponsorship - from the Sackler Trust controversy to BAE Systems withdrawal from supporting the Great Exhibition of the North - is extremely off-putting for companies that might be thinking of entering the arts arena.\n\nWhat has also become absolutely clear over the past 12 months is that arts organisations have to up their game when it comes to basic due diligence before accepting a sponsor's money.\n\nIt is no longer good enough to check the credentials of the sponsoring company. They now have to make sure the personal values of those who run and own it are compatible with their own charitable objectives.\n\nA quick Google search won't do. Twitter feeds, Instagram posts and other platforms for public comment all have to be rigorously checked.\n\nAll of which means more work for already hard-pressed fundraising departments operating in arts institutions that are still feeling the chill wind of austerity. Theirs is a difficult and thankless job that has now become much, much harder.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "Ann Moore-Martin died of natural causes in 2017\n\nA church warden plotted for an 83-year-old woman to die during sex or by her choking on her dentures, a court heard.\n\nBenjamin Field began a sexual relationship with Ann Moore-Martin, 57 years his senior, as part of a plot a few months after murdering her neighbour Peter Farquhar, 69, prosecutors allege.\n\nA jury heard Mrs Moore-Martin acted if she was \"hypnotised\" by him.\n\nMr Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nMr Farquhar, who died in October 2015 and Miss Moore-Martin, who died in May 2017, lived in the Buckinghamshire village of Maids Moreton.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham\n\nOliver Saxby QC, prosecuting, told an Oxford Crown Court jury: \"Ann Moore-Martin was gushing about Benjamin Field.\n\nJurors were told Mr Field bought her a sex toy and took a picture of a sex act.\n\nMr Field, the son of a Baptist minister, is accused alongside Mr Smith of plotting to make the church-going pensioner's death look like an accident, such as dying during sex, falling down the stairs or choking on her dentures, the court heard.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury that Mr Field suffocated Mr Farquhar and tried to kill Miss Moore-Martin \"by a manner of means\".\n\nShe died of natural causes, the court was told.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nMr Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nHis brother Tom Field, 24, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies a single charge of fraud.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani is due to make landfall during Friday morning, local time, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and a powerful storm surge.\n\nFor more on this story click here", "Colin Wilcox said several of his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow Baptist Church between 1932 and 1964\n\nPlans to build homes on the graves of people buried as recently as 2012 have been branded \"appalling\" by their relatives.\n\nWellow Baptist Church on the Isle of Wight has not been used in two years and has been earmarked for development.\n\nTony Daniell, whose wife died seven years ago, said he had been assured he could be buried alongside her behind the chapel.\n\nSo far, 46 objections against the plans have been raised.\n\nMany residents who have relatives buried at Wellow are among the complainants, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nColin Wilcox, from Brighstone, discovered his great aunts and uncles were buried at Wellow when researching his family history.\n\n\"I think it's appalling really, that they want to build houses here. These are my relatives,\" he said.\n\nThe church said it was taking concerns seriously but was confident \"agreeable responses\" could be reached.\n\nThe church said Wellow Baptist Church was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation\n\nAccording to the plans, Wellow Baptist Church - which was built in 1815 - would be replaced by two semi-detached houses and a further disused property next to Colwell Baptist Church would be knocked down and three houses built in its place.\n\nThe profit from the sale of the new housing would go towards redeveloping the church at Colwell.\n\nSusan Aggio, from Newport, said: \"My nan, Sylvia Fitzgerald, was buried here in 2010 and my granddad has a letter giving him permission to be buried with her. This is already causing the family upset — my granddad especially.\n\n\"I feel very sad that this is even being considered due to the amount of pain it is causing, and will continue to cause.\"\n\nAccording the plans up to 50 graves could be built on if the plans are approved\n\nColwell Baptist minister Dave Burton said the chapel was in need of urgent structural repair and renovation.\n\nHe said: \"Understandably, there are many legal restrictions around what can and can't be built over, or near to, a private burial ground and the project would, obviously, have to comply with all these restrictions if it were to proceed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's Death Becomes Her is among the films on the bill\n\nThe British Film Institute (BFI) is facing accusations of misogyny over a season dedicated to \"fierce females\".\n\nThe programme includes films featuring \"some of the most wickedly compelling female characters on screen\".\n\nIn December, more than 330 academics and critics signed a letter warning that it risked \"uncritically parroting\" the misogyny of Hollywood.\n\nThe Playing the Bitch season was programmed by Anna Bogutskaya, who said she hoped to \"start a conversation\".\n\nIn a blog explaining the project, Ms Bogutskaya said she realised the title had \"powerful connotations\" that made it \"offensive to many\".\n\nShe wrote: \"My intention is not to provoke but to pose a question I can't answer by myself: what makes a screen 'bitch'?\"\n\nFilms starring Rosamund Pike and Nicole Kidman will also be screened\n\nThe protest letter, led by Dr Erika Balsom and Dr Elena Gorfinkel, senior lecturers in film studies at King's College London, was sent after an outline of the season, then simply titled Bitches, was announced.\n\nThey said the characters in question \"do not subvert gender norms, they inhabit stereotypes\". In this context, they said the word was \"insulting, not empowering\".\n\nThe season also reinforced a \"woeful status quo\" by featuring \"male representations of crazy, damaged, spiteful women\", they wrote.\n\nDr Balsom and Dr Gorfinkel met the BFI in January to discuss their complaints, and the full line-up was announced on 1 May.\n\nOn Friday, the pair told BBC News: \"It appears the only change they made was altering the title slightly.\n\n\"The BFI has failed to listen to over 330 scholars, film-makers, curators, artists, critics, etc, who expressed doubts about their season with ample time for them to reflect on their choices.\"\n\nThe film screenings and panel discussions will take place in June.\n\nThe season is advertised as a \"thought provoking analysis\" of \"tough, difficult women\" that aims to celebrate \"self-determining, independent, defiant, but always charismatic anti-heroines\".\n\nAll the films featured were made by male directors, but the BFI said more than half of the work was taken from source material written by women, and that the point of the season is to celebrate female actors.\n\nA BFI statement said: \"We thought very hard about using the word 'bitch' for the programme and appreciate that it is a provocative term, infused with different meaning by people from different genders, generations, backgrounds and cultures.\n\n\"This is a really interesting and important conversation, and we are going to directly address the word and its meaning in this season through our events programme.\"\n\nA BFI spokeswoman also pointed to a wider programme of screenings, events and releases exploring the work of women in front of and behind the camera.\n\nThere's a meme that's recently been reblogged on Tumblr. It's of Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil in the 1996 film 101 Dalmatians.\n\nShe says: \"More good women have been lost to marriage than to war, famine, disease, and disaster. You have talent, darling. Don't squander it.\" A comment underneath says: \"Patriarchy is that they gave this line to a villain.\"\n\nIt's a conversation that film students have had for decades - does the male gaze result in one-dimensional women on the screen? Particularly the heartless, icy woman who assumes cartoonish traits that further perpetuate gender-based stereotypes?\n\nA prime example? An ambitious woman is a bitch. Critics of the BFI season take exception to this word and the connotations around it.\n\nThe BFI says the word is a vehicle to explore female characters. But in an age where social media users criticised Brie Larson's Captain Marvel role by telling her to \"smile more\" (to which she responded by Photoshopping smiles onto Superman, Iron Man and Captain America), we still aren't quite there with appreciating a female hero - or a \"bitch\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "Fans have paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park\n\nThousands of people are set to line the streets of Glasgow for the funeral of Celtic and Scotland legend Billy McNeill.\n\nA mass for the former Celtic player and manager will be held at St Aloysius' Church in Glasgow city centre at 11:30.\n\nThe cortege will then make its way to Celtic Park, where fans will be gathered, before heading for a private family interment.\n\nMcNeill, who had lived with dementia since 2010, died aged 79 on 22 April.\n\nNcNeill lifted the European Cup as Celtic captain in 1967\n\nAhead of the funeral service, which will be broadcast live on a large screen outside Celtic Park, the McNeill family thanked everyone who had sent kind messages over the past week.\n\nA statement said: \"They have cheered us up tremendously at this difficult time.\n\n\"The love and affection shown towards our father is nothing short of amazing and is something we will never forget.\n\n\"Our father always made time for the fans and knew how important they are so we would like to send an open invite to help us pay our respects to him.\"\n\nThe former Hoops captain enjoyed a glittering career at the Parkhead club, where he became the first Briton to lift the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Inter Milan in Lisbon in 1967.\n\nHe led Celtic to nine successive league titles and won seven Scottish Cups and six League Cups, before having two spells as manager.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'Billy was the top man; he'll never be forgotten'\n\nThe former Scotland defender, who won 29 caps for his country, also managed Clyde, Aberdeen, Manchester City and Aston Villa in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nTens of thousands of fans have already paid their respects to McNeill at his statue outside Celtic Park.\n\nFootball clubs around the country also staged a minute's applause as a tribute before matches last weekend.\n\nCeltic's players will wear McNeill's former number five on their shorts when they face Hearts in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden Park on Saturday 25 May.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "The Duke of Cambridge arrives at Westminster Abbey with John Hall, Dean of Westminster\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has been booed as he arrived at a service marking 50 years of the UK's nuclear deterrent.\n\nMembers of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) greeted Prince William with chants of \"shame on you\" as he arrived at Westminster Abbey.\n\nHe was joined at the service by Penny Mordaunt, in her first official engagement as defence secretary.\n\nEarlier, Ms Mordaunt praised the \"incredible crews\" who had manned the UK's nuclear submarines over the years.\n\nShe also announced the fourth of the new Dreadnought class submarines - which are replacing the existing Vanguard class submarines - would be called HMS King George VI.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has previously been criticised over its failure to dispose of nuclear submarines\n\nAnti-nuclear campaigners gathered outside the abbey and staged a \"die-in\" - lying on the ground pretending to be dead - to commemorate victims of nuclear war.\n\nOmar Ahmed, an activist from Nelson, Lancashire, said: \"I'm surprised that he would come and support something that could destroy our planet.\"\n\nCND's head Kate Hudson has described the commemoration as \"disappointing\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today Programme, she said: \"A thanksgiving for nuclear weapons is completely inappropriate, and we're not alone in thinking this.\"\n\nThe memorial service was organised under Gavin Williamson before he was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a security leak.\n\nIn a packed Westminster Abbey, with the Duke of Cambridge and newly installed Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt seated close to the High Altar, the dean delivered a brief but pointed address.\n\nAcknowledging that he had received a large amount of personal correspondence and emails asking him to cancel the service, he said he was \"proud that it is taking place here in the abbey\".\n\nPenny Mordaunt replaced Gavin Williamson as defence secretary after he was sacked this week\n\nIt was not a celebration of nuclear power, he said, for \"we cannot celebrate weapons of mass destruction\". But he added: \"We do owe a debt of gratitude to those responsible for maintaining the peace.\"\n\nAcross the road from Westminster Abbey, a cluster of about 200 protesters stood quietly - holding banners which read \"Trust in God not in Nuclear Weapons\" and \"Blessed are the peacemakers\".\n\nMusician Brian Eno joined protesters and asked: \"Why are we wasting so much of our resources on weapons that we're never likely to use?\"\n\nThe Chaplain of the Fleet, the Venerable Martin Gough, who offered the Naval Prayer during the service, said: \"This was an opportunity to acknowledge the sheer sacrifice that naval personnel and their families have to make when they join the sea deterrent service.\"", "It's not over - it's far, far from over.\n\nMany hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.\n\nBut at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.\n\nLocal elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.\n\nOr more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.\n\nThe beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.\n\nBut as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.", "Why Are The Police Putting Down Their Guns?\n\nHundreds of firearms officers hand in their permits to carry weapons.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Tory MP Graham Brady has said \"dissatisfaction\" over Brexit is hitting the party's vote, with voters on doorsteps having told him \"for heaven's sake, get on with it\".\n\nAsked whether Theresa May's name has come up much in canvassing, Mr Brady - chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee - said \"it does from time to time, but it's more an overwhelming frustration\" that Brexit is yet to happen.\n\nHe added he suspects there may be more spoiled ballot papers than usual.", "Brexit minister James Cleverly has tried to play down Conservative expectations for the local elections.\n\nAfter nine years in government you would expect the party to \"lose lots and lots of seats\", he told the BBC. \"That's the normal situation.\"\n\nMr Cleverly said Swindon was an area where Tory local councillors \"work hard and deliver good council services\".\n\n\"I hope they are judged on that delivery, but it would be unrealistic for me to pretend, that nine years in government, and with Brexit as a backdrop, this is going to be anything other than a really, really tough night for us.\"", "HSBC has reported a 31% jump in pre-tax profits for the first quarter as it cut costs and incomes from Asia grew.\n\nEurope's largest bank made $6.2bn (£4.8bn) before tax in the three months to March, up from $4.8bn in the same period a year earlier.\n\nIt beat the $5.58bn average of analysts' estimates compiled by HSBC.\n\nChief executive John Flint said the results were \"encouraging\" against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty.\n\nShares closed more than 2% higher in Hong Kong trading after the earnings release.\n\nIn London, the bank's shares added 2.7% in Friday morning trading.\n\nIn a statement, HSBC said growth in Asia was strong during the first quarter and reported a 7% rise in revenue for the period, compared with a year earlier.\n\nThe bank makes three-quarters of its profits in Asia.\n\nThe earnings release also showed HSBC had made progress in efforts to cut costs, with operating expenses down 12% during the first quarter. Earnings per share rose 40% to 21 cents.\n\nHSBC has moved to rein in spending while trying to boost investment in retail banking and wealth management.\n\n\"These are an encouraging set of results, particularly in the context of heightened economic uncertainty globally,\" said Mr Flint.\n\nThe bank's US business continued to disappoint, but saw a return to profit, bringing in $379m, compared with a pre-tax loss of $596m in the first three months of 2018.\n\nThe bank said its \"US turnaround\" was progressing, but remained its \"most challenging strategic priority\".\n\nEarlier this year, HSBC warned profits would be hit by a slowdown in China.\n\nIn 2018, the lender said it would invest up to $17bn over three years in areas including in China and technology, without affecting profitability.", "The founder of Insys Therapeutics John Kapoor has become the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted in a case linked to the US opioid crisis.\n\nA Boston jury found Kapoor and four colleagues conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, often to patients who didn't need them.\n\nThe former billionaire was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for his role in a scheme which also misled insurers.\n\nTens of thousands of deaths have been caused by opioid overdoses in the US.\n\nIndian-born Kapoor founded drugmaker Insys Therapeutics in 1990 and built it into a multi-billion dollar company.\n\nThe jury found Kapoor had also misled medical insurance companies about patients' need for the painkillers in order to boost sales of the firm's fentanyl spray, Subsys.\n\nThe court heard that Kapoor - who was arrested in 2017 on the same day President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a \"national emergency\" - ran a scheme that paid bribes to doctors to speak at fake marketing events to promote Subsys.\n\nDuring the 10-week trial, jurors were also shown a rap video made by Insys for its employees on ways to boost sales of Subsys.\n\nKapoor and his co-defendants - Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan - face up to 20 years in prison.\n\nA statement from Kapoor's lawyer said he was \"disappointed\" with the verdict. The men had denied the charges and have indicated that they plan to appeal.\n\nForbes listed Kapoor's net worth as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) in 2018, before dropping off the publication's billionaire rankings this year.\n\nHis conviction marks a victory for US government efforts to target companies seen to have accelerated the opioid crisis.\n\nThe US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that opioids - a class of drug which includes everything from heroin to legal painkillers - were involved in almost 48,000 deaths in 2017.\n\nThe epidemic started with legally prescribed painkillers, including Percocet and OxyContin. It intensified as these were diverted to the black market.\n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in the use of illegal opioids including heroin, while many street drugs are laced with powerful opioids such as Fentanyl, increasing the risk of an overdose.", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest since December 1969.\n\nHowever, the fall was due to a large number of people - 490,000 - leaving the labour force during April.\n\nThe data also showed that the world's largest economy added a stronger-than-expected 263,000 jobs during last month.\n\nWage data showed that average earnings grew at an annual rate of 3.2%.\n\nAnalysts said the figures indicated that the economy remained healthy, but was not running at a pace that might cause the US Federal Reserve to alter interest rates.\n\nHiring gains were seen in nearly all sectors of the economy during April.\n\nHowever, there was little change in the numbers of involuntary part-time workers. The number of people working part time because their hours had been reduced or because they were unable to find full-time jobs remained at 4.7 million.\n\nIan Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, called it a \"strong\" jobs report, \"but payroll gains can't continue at this pace\".\n\n\"What can continue, though, is the downshift in unemployment, and that means more power to scarce labour and faster wage gains in due course.\"\n\nHe added that while there were no immediate implications to monetary policy, it would be possible that similar data in future could \"prompt something of a rethink at the Fed\".\n\nIt's a strong jobs report and certainly undermines the concerns expressed in recent months that the US might be heading for a recession soon.\n\nThe unemployment rate puts the US close to, though not at, the top of the international league table. That is a little flattering however. It reflects not just job creation, but also the number of people not seeking to work. They are classified not as unemployed but as \"not in the labour force\".\n\nThe percentage who are either working or trying to get work (known as the participation rate) puts the US much closer to mid-table, as does the percentage who do have jobs.\n\nThe Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, (speaking to CBS television) has referred to \"an unusually large number of people in their prime working years who are not in the labour force\". There are a number of factors behind that but one possible contributor is a major US public health problem; the misuse of opioid drugs.\n\nNancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Close Brothers Asset Management, said: \"Unemployment is at a multi-decade low, the trade talks with China are progressing well, and Chinese stimulus is in place, which should boost global demand. All of this bodes well for the US economy continuing to build momentum.\"\n\nDespite the strong jobs growth, US inflation remains below the Fed's target of 2%.\n\n\"Business spending is going towards digital transformation rather than investment in labour, which is proving deflationary,\" said Ms Curtin.\n\n\"What this means for expansion is unclear, but so long as [US Fed chairman] Powell remains pragmatic and flexible with his policy the US is in a good position for the second half of the year.\"\n\nThe US Federal Reserve indicated earlier this year that it would not change rates for the rest of 2019.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Fed voted to hold interest rates, keeping borrowing costs at between 2.25%-2.5%.\n\nA day earlier, US President Donald Trump had tweeted that the Fed should reduce rates by 1% to help the US economy \"go up like a rocket\".", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "The report comes less than two weeks after bombings at three churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday\n\nThe persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near \"genocide\" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nThe review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution.\n\nChristians were the most persecuted religious group, it found.\n\nMr Hunt said he felt that \"political correctness\" had played a part in the issue not being confronted.\n\nThe interim report said the main impact of \"genocidal acts against Christians is exodus\" and that Christianity faced being \"wiped out\" from parts of the Middle East.\n\nIt warned the religion \"is at risk of disappearing\" in some parts of the world, pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5% of the population, while in Iraq they had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.\n\n\"Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,\" the Bishop wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: \"It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East''\n\n\"In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary commissioned the review on Boxing Day 2018 amid an outcry over the treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced death threats after being acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan.\n\nIts findings come after more than 250 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in attacks at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.\n\nAsia Bibi's husband pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada\n\nMr Hunt, who is on a week-long tour of Africa, said he thought governments had been \"asleep\" over the persecution of Christians but that this report and the attacks in Sri Lanka had \"woken everyone up with an enormous shock\".\n\nHe added: \"I think there is a misplaced worry that it is somehow colonialist to talk about a religion that was associated with colonial powers rather than the countries that we marched into as colonisers.\n\n\"That has perhaps created an awkwardness in talking about this issue - the role of missionaries was always a controversial one and that has, I think, also led some people to shy away from this topic.\n\n\"What we have forgotten in that atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet.\"\n\nIn response to the report, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said Jews had often been the targets of persecution and felt for Christians who were discriminated against on the basis of their faith.\n\n\"Whether it is in authoritarian regimes, or bigotry masked in the mistaken guise of religion, reports like the one launched today remind us that there are many places in which Christians face appalling levels of violence, abuse and harassment,\" she said.\n\nThe review is due to publish its final findings in the summer.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "An elaborate three-day coronation is taking place for the king of Thailand, and sacred water plays a key role in the consecration rites.\n\nThe official ceremonies, a mix of Brahmin and Buddhist rituals, begin on 4 May in the capital, Bangkok.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, inherited the throne upon the death of his revered father King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2016. But in Thai royal tradition only after a king is consecrated does he become a Devaraja, or God king, and the upholder of Buddhism.\n\nThis is the first coronation in living memory for most of the Thai population and big crowds are expected to attend.\n\n\"This is a significant occasion where Thai people can reassure ourselves that we have long history, rich culture and close ties between the monarchy and the people,\" says Prof Tongthong Chandransu from Chulalongkorn University - a researcher in Thai culture.\n\nVajiralongkorn (pictured) is the son of Bhumibol who reigned for almost 70 years\n\nHistorically, Thai society was established around the banks of its rivers which provided staples like rice and fish. So many of its ceremonies and traditions revolve around water.\n\nFor weeks leading up to the coronation, officials collected water from more than 100 sources across the country between 11:52 and 12:38 - deemed an auspicious time in Thai astrology.\n\nThe water was then blessed in Buddhist ceremonies at major temples before being combined in another consecration rite at Wat Suthat - one of Bangkok's oldest temples.\n\nThe sacred water has been kept in ornate ewers ahead of the coronation\n\nThe consecrated water is used in two rituals at the Grand Palace. The first is the bath to \"purify\" the king, where the water is poured over his body while he wears a white robe.\n\nThe second is to anoint the monarch. The king changes into his full regal vestments and is seated on an octagonal throne made of fig wood.\n\nEight people pour the water on his hands - this time that will include Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn - the king's younger sister - Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, as well as Brahmins and royal court pandits (scholars).\n\nThe use of water is based on a Brahmin tradition dating back centuries, experts say.\n\nAll the previous kings in the Chakri dynasty\n\nThe king then goes to the Bhadrapitha Throne and sits under the nine-tiered umbrella, where he is presented with the Royal Regalia.\n\nThe crown is a more recent addition to royal tradition in Thailand, a concept popularised by European courts.\n\nCreated in the reign of King Rama I in the 1782, it is made of gold and adorned with diamonds.\n\nIt weighs 7.3kg, symbolising the weight of the responsibilities the king carries, according the Prof Tongthong.\n\nThe Royal Sword of Victory represents wisdom in governing the country. According to legend, it was found at the bottom of the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia and given as a gift to King Rama I. It's said that when it arrived in Bangkok, seven lightning strikes hit the city simultaneously.\n\nAfter the crowning and investiture ceremonies King Vajiralongkorn - who holds the titles Rama X, or the 10th king of the Chakri dynasty - will present his first royal command.\n\nHis father had said at the time of his coronation in 1950: \"I will reign with righteousness, for the benefit and happiness of the Thai people\".\n\nAfter the coronation rites, the king takes up ceremonial residence at the Grand Palace - referred to in simple terms as a housewarming party.\n\nIn a private ceremony, at the Chakrapat Biman Royal Residence, he is escorted in by the women of the royal family.\n\nThey bring with them a cat and a white rooster, a grinding stone, a tray of green gourd, a tray of rice seeds, a tray of beans and a tray of sesame seeds. The grains represent abundance and fertility in Thai agriculture.\n\nThe significance of the cat is less straightforward. Some believe the owner of a new house should have a cat to chase away rats. Others believe the custom comes from a belief that cats expel demons and evil spirits, according to the Bangkok Post newspaper.\n\nHe's also given a golden key to signify his ownership of the palace.\n\nIn the days after the main ceremonies, the newly anointed king will take part in processions around Bangkok and make a public appearance on his balcony to give ordinary Thais an opportunity to pay their respects.\n\nImages courtesy of Ministry of Culture and Thailand PR department.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice have started an investigation into a number of assaults in Warrington following a visit by the founder of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson.\n\nMr Robinson, who is standing as a candidate for the European Parliament, had a milkshake thrown over him in the town centre on Thursday.\n\nTwo people were taken to hospital in the hours that followed.\n\n\"We will not tolerate disorder... whatever the motivation,\" said Ch Insp Simon Meegan of Cheshire Constabulary.\n\n\"We are aware there has been a lot of talk, videos and speculation about what happened on social media but we need to hear from people who were there at the time and witnessed what happened.\n\n\"In particular, we want to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and recorded any of the incidents on their mobile phone,\" he said.\n\nIt was the second time in two days Mr Robinson had a milkshake thrown over him on the campaign trail.\n\nHe is running as an independent to become an MEP for the north-west England, one of eleven candidates in the constituency.\n\nFootage posted on social media appeared to show Mr Robinson arguing with another man before a milkshake is thrown.\n\nThere is then an altercation.\n\nOther footage showed a further altercation between a number of people in central Warrington later that afternoon.\n\n\"This is a complex investigation, which involves a large number of people and we are treating this matter seriously and asking for the public's help in tracing those responsible,\" said Ch Insp Meegan.\n\nNo arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative MP Vicky Ford became visibly upset during a BBC interview as the Tories lost a comfortable majority in Chelmsford to the Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the count in Essex, Ms Ford became emotional as she reflected on \"a very disappointing night\".\n\nShe said voters' frustration with Brexit was the cause of the Tory losses.\n\n\"I think it is really disappointing when you look at some of the individuals who have lost their seats tonight,\" she said.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Séamus Lawless is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin\n\nA County Wicklow man on a climbing expedition to Mount Everest has been reported missing.\n\nSéamus Lawless, 39, from Bray, was part of a team of climbers who reached the peak on Thursday.\n\nThe search for Mr Lawless has become a recovery operation, the company that organised the climb told Irish broadcaster RTÉ .\n\nMr Lawless is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin.\n\nIt has been reported that he went missing at an altitude of 8,300 metres, in an area known as \"the balcony\", near the mountain's summit.\n\nMingma Sherpa, the owner of Seven Summits Treks which organised the trip, told RTÉ: \"It is a very difficult situation. We are searching for a body.\"\n\nHe said that conditions descending the mountain were \"very good\" but that Mr Lawless appears to have fallen accidentally.\n\nThe GPS worn by Mr Lawless has been found almost 500m from where he fell, but experts have said it is possible the device became detached.\n\nStaff at Trinity College issued a statement expressing concern for their colleague.\n\n\"Séamus and his family are in our thoughts during this extremely distressing time,\" said a statement from the university.\n\n\"This morning his family, friends and colleagues shared his joy on reaching the peak of Mount Everest.\n\n\"We hope that Seamus is found safely as soon as possible and until then we will be offering any support we can to his family.\"\n\nThe university had earlier tweeted congratulations to Mr Lawless after he reached the peak of Everest on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bus tickets need to be cheaper and easier to buy using contactless and smart phones to attract young people, according to the UK transport watchdog.\n\nDespite being the biggest users of buses 16-18 year-olds are also the least satisfied, Transport Focus found.\n\nThe watchdog also recommended companies should install wi-fi and USB charging points on board, to encourage younger people to travel on buses.\n\nBus companies said they were investing in services young people expect.\n\nGraham Vidler, chief executive of CPT UK, the trade association which represents bus and coach operators, said the industry recognised the importance of meeting the expectations of younger travellers.\n\nOnboard facilities including contactless and mobile ticketing, wi-fi, USB charging points and leather seating were now \"commonplace\" on many services, he added.\n\nTransport Focus director David Sidebottom agreed more bus operators and local authorities were pursuing initiatives that encouraged young people to catch the bus.\n\nBut he added that young people didn't feel services were designed for them.\n\n\"Young people want using the bus to be as simple and intuitive as ordering pizza. Bus operators and local authorities must seize the opportunity to cater for their customers of the future.\"\n\nIn its report Making Bus a Better Choice For Young People Transport Focus recommends bus companies should introduce:\n\nTransport Focus gave the example of a flat fare of £2.20 for unlimited travel in and around Liverpool, which it said had led to a significant rise in the number of under 18-year-olds using buses.\n\nCPT UK's Mr Vidler welcomed the report's recommendations and said the latest satisfaction statistics \"clearly demonstrate that the industry is moving in the right direction\".\n\nHowever, he added there was \"always room for improvement\".\n\nThe organisation looked forward to \"continuing to work closely with its members, central and local government to further improve the experience of all bus users\", he said.\n\nBuses minister Nusrat Ghani said the Transport Focus research was \"vital\" in showing how to encourage young people to continue to use buses in the future. \"Both councils and bus companies should follow this best practice,\" she said.\n\n\"We're also funding a new open data platform so companies can develop apps to help passengers find out where their bus is, how long it will take, and how much it will cost, giving them more confidence to take the bus,\" Ms Ghani added.\n• None What has been happening to bus travel?", "The three teenagers stabbed to death in 12 days: (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nOne hundred people have been stabbed to death across the UK since the beginning of 2019. Three of those were teenagers in the West Midlands, all killed within the space of 12 days. People are now asking whether austerity is to blame.\n\nOn the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 February, just outside the gates of a sixth form college in east Birmingham, an A-Level student is stabbed in the chest.\n\nParamedics and police rushed to the aid of Sidali Mohamed, an aspiring accountant who fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a toddler.\n\nTwo days later, surrounded by his family in hospital, the 16-year-old Joseph Chamberlain College student's life support machine was switched off and he died from his injuries.\n\nA week after Sidali was stabbed, West Midlands Police launched another murder investigation as a second teenager was knifed to death.\n\nYards away from a nearby primary school, in Small Heath, south-east Birmingham, Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest.\n\nAbdullah, also aged 16, died at the scene - a park close to where he lived.\n\nThe majority of those stabbed to death in the West Midlands in 2019 have been teenagers\n\nBy the end of the week detectives had begun a third murder investigation, the time into the death of an 18-year-old boy.\n\nElectrical engineering student Hazrat Umar was found injured on a road in Bordesley Green on 25 February.\n\nA relative of Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, Mr Umar became another victim to Birmingham's knife crime.\n\nEight of the 100 victims to have been stabbed to death in 2019 have been killed in the West Midlands - but Mr Afzal fears the knife crime problem is far bigger.\n\n\"The statistics show murders, but do not show the attempted murders and GBHs,\" Mr Afzal says.\n\n\"Hundreds of people have survived violence because of the skilled work of paramedics and medical staff. It masks a bigger problem.\"\n\nOne hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nLast month, Jack Harley, a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties from Halesowen, almost became another statistic.\n\nThe teenager was attacked with a knife and robbed while sitting on a bench in a park in Dudley.\n\nReceiving a deep gash to his right arm, Jack needed 14 staples and underwent a series of operations.\n\n\"He was very close to the artery being cut,\" says his mother, Diane. \"We've got to stop it.\"\n\nJack Harley was stabbed as he was robbed in Birmingham\n\nThe spate of killings has led the chief constable of West Midlands Police to describe knife crime as \"an emergency\" as pressure mounted for solutions to be found fast.\n\nBut for former police officer Kirk Dawes, the solution is obvious: he partly attributes the rise in knife crime locally to the axing of a mediation service he had run, which settled disputes between gangs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"Every time I hear a murder where some kind of conflict resolution service could have been utilised, it hurts in here,\" he says, pointing to his heart.\n\n\"Something that was working so well was literally thrown away.\"\n\nIn 2004, Mr Dawes - then a police detective - was tasked with setting up a unit that would mediate conflicts and stop them from becoming deadly.\n\nMr Dawes helped pioneer a new approach to combating serious violence in the wake of the killing of teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting as they left a party in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.\n\nCharlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot with a sub-machine gun in Aston, Birmingham, in 2003\n\nThey were the innocent victims of a dispute between two notorious gangs in the city.\n\nDrawing on conflict resolution tactics used to defuse disputes in Northern Ireland and among gangs in the US, Mr Dawes worked with trained mediators as part of a body called Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence (BRGV).\n\nThey shuttled between feuding groups, finding ways to settle conflict without violence.\n\nKirk Dawes ran The Centre for Conflict Transformation (TCFCT) between 2004 and 2012\n\nIt seemed to work: Mr Dawes says there were 27 gang-related murders in 2004. By 2010 there were three.\n\nThen the scheme was scrapped.\n\nBy the end, he says, the 35 trained mediators, who specialised in sitting face-to-face with possible killers, were being asked to work on a zero-hours contract.\n\n\"The catalyst for that was austerity,\" Mr Dawes says now. \"The draconian way in which money was taken away from community organisations has led to where we are now.\"\n\nSince the BRGV was axed, knife crime has steadily risen in the West Midlands, with the number of people being stabbed to death spiking in the last two years.\n\nThere is no agreement on what is driving the recent increase.\n\nSenior police officers blame drug dealing, robberies and young people feeling like they have to defend themselves. Elsewhere, social media is in the frame.\n\nThe current chief constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, was not in charge when the decision was made to axe Mr Dawes' mediation unit.\n\nDave Thompson has been the chief constable of West Midlands Police since January 2016\n\nHe says the force has faced \"some very tough choices\".\n\n\"You can't make the level of reductions by keeping everything the same,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he concedes that \"with hindsight\" it would have been better to retain the unit.\n\nLater this year a new mediation service will be introduced at a cost of £100,000 a year - seven years after BGRV was scrapped.\n\nResearch published last week found that councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to have seen an increase in knife crime.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime said that the average council cuts to youth services was 40%, but for some services in the West Midlands it was closer to 90%.\n\nAusterity makes itself felt in another way too, according to Mr Thompson, serving to slow down some of the more detailed investigations which are often launched following a homicide.\n\n\"In some cases of violence, the investigation won't move at the same pace as it would have in the past.\n\n\"The leg work of detective work in some of these cases, the examination of phones, the digital media that takes time, effort of skilled resources.\"\n\nBirmingham is a young city. Almost half of its one million population is under 25, so the policing priority is to reduce street violence among that group.\n\n\"It has got the appearance that those people who are inclined to violence are actually becoming more violent,\" says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson.\n\n\"If you'd asked me the question about the common themes in the violence four or five years ago a lot of it was around gangs.\n\n\"That is still true today. Some of it is around gangs but it's across all people now. We're seeing what used to be a small act of violence - perhaps a slap or a punch - turn into something far more serious.\"\n\nNationally, a lot of hope has been pinned on the so-called \"public health approach\" to tackling violence.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAt Coundon Primary School, in Coventry, a class of lively Year 6 pupils learn about being \"mentors in violence prevention\", as part of a new scheme in the region.\n\nUsing scenarios they teach each other the resilience needed to stand up to the challenges they will face in life.\n\nThey learn about bullying, grooming and dealing with the pressures not to \"snitch\".\n\nIt is another demand heaped onto busy teachers.\n\nHead teacher Jayne Ellis says there was a stabbing just around the corner from the school the night before she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"Some of these children we've had since they were three,\" she says.\n\n\"If we can give them those messages at least we've given them the skills to deal with whatever predicament they find themselves in.\n\n\"They trust us implicitly. They trust each other. We are like a family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on Tory leadership bid: \"Of course I'm going to go for it\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May stands down.\n\nAsked at a business event in Manchester if he would be a candidate, the former foreign secretary replied: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"\n\nMrs May has said she will resign once MPs back her Brexit deal.\n\nA decision on her exit timetable will now take place after the House of Commons votes on her Brexit bill early next month.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, made the announcement following a meeting between the prime minister and his committee's executive on Thursday. He said it would bring \"greater clarity\" to Mrs May's intentions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral senior Conservatives are expected to enter the contest for the leadership, with the winner also becoming prime minister.\n\nAsked at the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester whether he wanted to be in charge of his party, former London mayor Mr Johnson said: \"I'm going to go for it. Of course I'm going to go for it. I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody. But you know there is no vacancy at present.\"\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU has been rejected three times by the Commons. And she has come under increasing pressure to go after the Conservatives lost more than 1,300 councillors in recent local elections.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are also unhappy that Mrs May is holding cross-party talks with Labour in an effort to get her withdrawal agreement through the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMr Johnson, a leading Brexiteer who quit the cabinet last year over the terms of the agreement, said: \"I do think there's been a real lack of grip and dynamism in the way we approached these talks [with the EU].\"\n\nThe MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip added: \"We've failed over the last three years to put forward a convincing narrative about how we can make sense of Brexit and how to exploit the opportunities of Brexit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey have announced they will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the cabinet, including Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nPublisher William Collins has announced that the biography of David Cameron - whom Mrs May replaced at Conservative leader and prime minister following the EU referendum - will be released in September.", "The pound has sunk to a four-month low against the dollar after cross-party Brexit talks between the Conservatives and Labour collapsed.\n\nOn Friday evening, the pound was 0.52% lower against the dollar at $1.273, having had its worst week in a year.\n\nThe pound was 2% lower this week, its steepest decline since February last year when it fell by more than 2%.\n\nIts fall reflects investors pricing a higher chance of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, analysts said.\n\n\"While talks with Labour were ongoing, the market was slightly more reassured that an EU customs union or something similar to the status quo would be the outcome,\" said Eimear Daly, a foreign exchange strategist at Macquarie Bank.\n\n\"Now the focus turns to the Prime Minister's ability to retain leadership of the Conservatives, or perhaps a more eurosceptic Tory Party leader,\" she said.\n\nAgainst the euro, the pound fell 0.46% to €1.140.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nRBC Capital Markets chief currency strategist Adam Coles said there was growing uncertainty over whether the Brexit bill would pass, as well as doubts over who will replace Theresa May as Prime Minister.\n\n\"It looks increasingly likely she will be replaced by a pro-Brexit PM with no election, and that automatically increases the chances of a no-deal Brexit,\" said Mr Coles.\n\nSince the UK's departure from the EU was delayed in March, the pound has broadly traded above $1.29 against the dollar.\n\nMrs May will try once again to win the support of MPs for her Brexit deal in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down on three occasions the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nIsrael Folau's contract has been terminated by Rugby Australia after he said \"hell awaits\" gay people in a social media post.\n\nThe full-back, 30, was sacked in April but requested a hearing, which was heard by a three-person panel.\n\nThe panel found him guilty of a \"high level breach\" of RA's player code of conduct and upheld the dismissal.\n\nFolau, who had a RA deal until 2022, has 72 hours to appeal against the ruling and is considering his options.\n\nAn appeal would mean a second code of conduct hearing with the same evidence but a new panel, while he could also try to take his case to a regional Supreme Court, or even the High Court of Australia.\n\nThe fundamentalist Christian posted a banner on his Instagram account in April that read: \"Drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators - Hell awaits you.\"\n\nNew South Wales Waratahs' Folau, who escaped punishment for similar comments last year, said he was \"deeply saddened\" by RA's decision.\n\n\"It has been a privilege and an honour to represent Australia and my home state of New South Wales, playing the game I love,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"As Australians, we are born with certain rights, including the right to freedom of religion and the right to freedom of expression.\n\n\"The Christian faith has always been a part of my life and I believe it is my duty as a Christian to share God's word.\n\n\"Upholding my religious beliefs should not prevent my ability to work or play for my club and country.\"\n\nFolau, RA chief executive Raelene Castle, Wallabies coach Michael Cheika and New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU) chief executive Andrew Hore all gave evidence at the three-day hearing earlier this month.\n\nThe panel then took written submissions before deciding on Folau's punishment.\n\n\"This outcome is a painful situation for the game,\" said Castle.\n\n\"Rugby Australia did not choose to be in the situation, but Rugby Australia's position remains that Israel, through his actions, left us with no choice but to pursue the course of action resulting in today's outcome.\"\n\nFolau was expected to play at this year's World Cup in Japan but Cheika has said he is unlikely to be selected for Australia again.\n\n\"This issue has created an unwanted distraction in an important year for the sport and for the Wallabies team,\" added Castle.\n\n\"But our clear message for all rugby fans is that we need to stand by our values and the qualities of inclusion, passion, integrity, discipline, respect and teamwork.\"\n\nNSWRU boss Hore said: \"While NSWRU is disappointed to lose a player of Israel's calibre, rugby has a code of conduct and values that we must adhere to ensure that our game remains a game for all, no matter people's background or beliefs.\"\n\nIn addition to his rugby union career, Folau has also played professional rugby league and Australian rules football.\n\nIn April, Australian rugby league's governing body ruled out Folau returning to the NRL.\n\nHe has recently lost sponsorship deals with Land Rover, who withdrew a car issued to him, and sportswear brand Asics.\n\nRugby Australia is a foundation member of Pride in Sport Index (PSI), which is a programme in Australia set up to help sporting organisations with the inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community.\n\n\"We commend Rugby Australia, as well as New South Wales Rugby Union, for their leadership and courage throughout this process,\" said PSI co-founder Andrew Purchas.\n\n\"Their swift and decisive actions shows that homophobic and transphobic discrimination is not acceptable in sport and individuals - irrespective of their social or professional stature - will be held accountable for their words and actions.\"", "Protesters call for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv\n\nGermany's parliament has condemned as anti-Semitic a movement calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.\n\nLawmakers in the Bundestag said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group uses anti-Semitic methods to promote its political goals.\n\nThe BDS movement described the decision as \"a betrayal of international law\".\n\nIt comes after the group called for artists to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest held in Tel Aviv this week.\n\nIn Friday's resolution vote, which took place on the eve of the show's final, Germany's lower house said the actions of the BDS were reminiscent of the \"terrifying\" Nazi campaign against Jewish people under Adolf Hitler.\n\n\"The 'don't buy' stickers of the BDS movement on Israeli products [could be associated] with the Nazi call 'don't buy from Jews', and other corresponding graffiti on facades and shop windows,\" the non-binding resolution said.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously said that the BDS movement opposes his nation's very existence, welcomed the \"important\" decision in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\n\"I hope that this decision will bring about concrete steps and I call upon other countries to adopt similar legislation,\" the statement said.\n\nThe motion, submitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Greens and Free Democrats, pledges to reject all financial support for the BDS movement.\n\nCondemning the move, the BDS group said the \"unconstitutional resolution\" was anti-Palestinian and unhelpful in the fight against \"real anti-Jewish racism\".\n\n\"BDS targets complicity not identity. The academic and cultural boycott of Israel is strictly institutional and does not target individual Israelis,\" the movement said in a statement posted online.\n\nAhead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the BDS movement called on artists and broadcasters to distance themselves from the event, which they said was being used to \"distract attention from [Israel's] war crimes\".\n\nMadonna was among those facing calls to boycott the contest, but she confirmed on Thursday that she would be performing.", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "In its heyday, the service was responsible for 30 marriages a year\n\nA matchmaking service for Catholic couples is closing after 50 years following a decline in demand.\n\nThe Knock Marriage Introductions in County Mayo claims to have been responsible for 960 marriages.\n\nThe service, based at the Knock Shrine, was set up by Fr Michael Keane in 1968.\n\nCurrent director, Fr Stephen Farragher, said online dating agencies and apps have now made it possible to meet someone \"at the touch of a button\".\n\n\"Back in 1968, Ireland was a different place than it was today,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Fr Michael Keane saw the extent of loneliness and isolation, particularly as a result of emigration and also due to the fact that people didn't even have phones and landlines.\"\n\nSingles applying to take part in the service filled out two questionnaires answering questions about themselves.\n\nApplicants provided details on their hobbies and the kind of qualities you would look for in a partner.\n\nSingles were looking for love for a range of reasons, said Fr Farragher.\n\nToday's couples admit to Fr Farragher that they met through dating apps\n\n\"One woman applied saying she wasn't really interested in marriage as such, but that the heating bills were going up and she was living on her own, so she felt a little bit of company might help cut back on the bills,\" he said.\n\nPeople who took part were paid a yearly subscription, which entitled you to \"any number of introductions\".\n\nIn its heyday, the service was responsible for 30 marriages a year, said Fr Farragher.\n\nBut in recent years, there had been a noticeable decline in demand for the service which made it no longer viable, he added.\n\n\"Seven years ago, we had 10 marriages in the course of a particular year. In the last few years, it has varied from three to four marriages a year,\" he said.\n\nAs the money from annual client subscriptions decreased, the service had to be supplemented in recent years by donations from dioceses around Ireland.\n\nBut rather than indicating a turn away from Catholic society, Fr Farragher said that it is a symptom of advanced communication technologies.\n\n\"The vast majority are still church marriages,\" he said.\n\n\"In the last year or two, the couples had no problem admitting that they met through Tinder or a similar type of app or dating agency.\n\n\"If that need is being fulfilled elsewhere, we are quite happy for others to fulfil that need.\"", "Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nThe agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street.\n\nIf she loses the vote on her Brexit plan, already rejected three times, sources told the BBC she would resign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will run for leader once Mrs May goes.\n\nThe prime minister survived a confidence vote by Conservative MPs at the end of last year and party rules mean she cannot formally be challenged again until December.\n\nBut Mrs May has come under increasing pressure to leave Downing Street this summer, amid the Brexit impasse and poor results for the Conservatives in the recent local elections in England.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said senior sources had told her it was \"inconceivable\" the prime minister could remain in office if MPs rejected her Brexit plans for a fourth time.\n\nBut the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nThe chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he had reached an agreement over the prime minister's future during \"very frank\" talks in Parliament.\n\nHe said the committee's executive and Mrs May would meet again to discuss her future following the first debate and vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nSir Graham said there was now \"greater clarity\" about the situation.\n\nAsked if that meant the prime minister would quit immediately if MPs rejected her Brexit plans once more, he said that scenario went \"beyond\" what had been agreed.\n\nMPs have rejected the prime minister's Brexit agreement with the EU three times.\n\nBut she will have another go at gaining their support in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Boris Johnson has joined the growing list of Conservatives who say they will stand for leader when Mrs May announces her departure.\n\nHe told a business conference in Manchester: \"Of course I am going to go for it.\"\n\nConservative MP Grant Shapps welcomed the announcement that a timetable would be set out for Mrs May's departure, suggesting it would inject greater ambition and dynamism into the Brexit process.\n\nThe former party chairman told BBC News the Brexit bill had no chance of passing in its current state but holding another vote would allow Mrs May to demonstrate she had \"tried everything\".\n\n\"It is right to bring this whole saga to a conclusion,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nBut fellow Tory Phillip Lee, who backs another Brexit referendum, said replacing the prime minister would not \"solve the crisis\" the UK found itself in or build a parliamentary majority for the terms of the UK's departure.\n\n\"Forcing the PM's resignation and spending this summer locked in a leadership election where candidates trade ever more fantastic visions of unicorn Brexits…is neither in the interests of the Conservative Party nor of the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the 1922 Committee executive narrowly decided against changing the party's leadership rules to allow an early challenge to Mrs May.\n\nLocal Tory associations have confirmed they will hold a vote of confidence in her leadership on 15 June, although its result will not be binding.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on the prime minister's talks with Labour, aimed at reaching a cross-party compromise to get her deal through the Commons.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said he understood the talks will \"soon be drawing to a close\" adding that Tory whips had \"given up on this phase of the negotiations and are looking to pack the legislation with goodies for Brexiteers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not support the Withdrawal Agreement Bill unless it guaranteed membership of a customs union with the EU, and protected workers' rights, consumer rights and environmental rights.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said his party would \"happily support\" the legislation, provided it was subject to a \"confirmatory public vote\".", "Madonna's latest album, Madame X, comes out in June\n\nMadonna will perform during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, it has finally been confirmed.\n\nThe singer will perform two songs: her 1989 hit Like A Prayer and new single Future, featuring US rapper Quavo.\n\nAn announcement was made ahead of the contest's second semi-final on Thursday, ending days of speculation over whether she would indeed appear.\n\nEarlier this week organisers said a contract had yet to be signed and that she could not perform without one.\n\nYet the singer was seen arriving in Israel on Tuesday and has reportedly been rehearsing at a secret location.\n\nEarlier on Thursday she posted a cryptic video on social media that appeared to be filmed on the stage of the Expo Tel Aviv.\n\n\"We are pleased to finally confirm that the incomparable music icon Madonna will join us at this year's Eurovision Song Contest,\" said Jon Ola Sand, the event's executive supervisor.\n\n\"We know that it will be an evening to remember and can't wait to share it with everyone watching.\"\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April, but it has taken weeks for it to be announced officially.\n\nOrganisers said she would be accompanied by a 35-strong choir during Like A Prayer, which was released 30 years ago this spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the hunt for Madonna at Eurovision\n\nEarlier this week, Madonna appeared to respond to those critical of Israel hosting the contest and her participation in it.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nThe decision to hold Eurovision in Israel is not popular with critics of the country's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Madonna 'to play two songs' at Eurovision\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former WWE star Ashley Massaro has died at the age of 39 after being taken to hospital from her home in Long Island.\n\nThe wrestler and model, who competed in WWE between 2005 and 2008, died of \"non-criminal causes\", Suffolk County Police say.\n\nWWE says it's \"saddened to learn of the tragic death of former Superstar Ashley Massaro\" and offers its condolences to her family.\n\nAshley joined the WWE in 2005 after winning its Raw Diva Search.\n\nTwo years later she went on to compete in the most high-profile match of her career, against Melina at Wrestlemania 23 for the WWE Women's Championship.\n\nShe fought at Wrestlemania again the following year.\n\nWrestlers old and new paid tribute to Ashley and shared memories of their time with her in WWE.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAshley, who has an 18-year-old daughter, also appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine during her career - as well as on the reality TV series Survivor.\n\nShe passed away ten days before her 40th birthday.\n\nHer cause of death is currently not known.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "For all the talk of the negotiations between Team May and Team Corbyn being \"constructive and serious\", Labour's leader always seemed somehow more likely to back away from a Brexit compromise with the prime minister than embrace one.\n\nSome of his Labour critics still suspect - though he and his close aides deny it - that he's a lifelong Eurosceptic who would be content with a Brexit that also taints the Conservatives and takes him closer to power.\n\nMrs May's options are, of course, all but exhausted. Another, final, round of voting to see if any solution gains traction is one of them.\n\nBut will Tory rebels suddenly change their minds after three defeats?\n\nOr will Labour MPs, feeling the pressure to deliver Brexit, break ranks and ride to Mrs May's rescue? Some maybe, but enough?\n\nThe prime minister has yet to name the date for her departure, but the Tory leadership contest is running at full tilt, as it has, in truth, for some time.\n\nThe next leader is more than likely to promise a harder Brexit - maybe with no deal at all. Parliament might oppose that but only the government could, at a single stroke, stop it happening.\n\nSo Mrs May's last remaining hope of achieving her \"mission impossible\" before leaving may just be that heightened fear of a no-deal Brexit changes Tory and Labour minds when the legislation to take the UK out is voted on in early June.\n\nStubbornness. Duty. A steady diet of faint hope. They'll all feature strongly in Theresa May's soon-to-be-written political epitaph. The chapter about the UK and its future place is the world is still being penned.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March last year\n\nA cinema worker who tried to help a man trapped under a seat \"froze\" and \"didn't know what to do\", an inquest has heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, died a week after becoming stuck while reaching for his belongings at the Vue multiplex at Star City in Birmingham in March last year.\n\nThe inquest in Birmingham earlier heard he was crushed by a force equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nAdam Bharoochi told the hearing he could not release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema worker, who was on his first shift in one of the \"Gold Class\" screen lounges, said he \"froze-up for a second because I didn't know what to do\".\n\nMr Bharoochi said Mr Rafiq, who was from Aston in Birmingham, was \"making groaning noises\".\n\nHe added: \"I tried to lift the bar but it wouldn't lift at all.\n\n\"I'm sorry for what happened.\"\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), earlier said he found it \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nHe said the seats only work when a customer was seated and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, Mr Simmons-Jacobs told the inquest.\n\nThe seats were controlled by a double \"push-pull\" actuator mechanism, which meant the footrest could not be lifted by hand.\n\nMr Simmons-Jacobs said had it been fitted with a single push mechanism, Mr Rafiq would have been able to use his hands to lift the footrest to get back out from under the seat.\n\nMr Bharoochi, who left the cinema the following month, said he called his colleagues for assistance, none of whom were able to release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema's duty manager, Elliot Stapley, said staff used a wrench to loosen the footrest from the chair, releasing Mr Rafiq.\n\nEmergency services performed CPR before taking him to hospital, where he died a week later.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq, who had been with his wife at the cinema, died from catastrophic brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An interim report into the fire was due to be released this spring\n\nThe first report following the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has been delayed until October, an inquiry solicitor has said.\n\nSurvivors and those who lost loved ones in the blaze were told about the delay in a letter from Caroline Featherstone.\n\nShe said writing the first phase of the report proved to be \"far more complex and time-consuming\" than anticipated.\n\nGrenfell campaigners, who expected the report to be published this spring, said the delay was \"disgraceful\".\n\nThe report will follow the first phase of the inquiry, which looked at what happened on the night that 72 people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe council, the tower's tenant management organisation, the police and the fire service were all quizzed during the inquiry's first phase.\n\nThe letter, written to participants of the inquiry, says: \"The chairman will be in a position to write to the prime minister with his final report after the parliamentary recess, for publication most likely in October.\"\n\nAccording to the letter, the second phase is still due to go ahead in January 2020.\n\nThe families of the 72 victims contributed to the report\n\nNatasha Elcock, chairwoman of Grenfell United, the group for survivors and bereaved families, said it was disgraceful that the inquiry had \"underestimated the complexity of the evidence\" that was produced in the first phase.\n\nShe said: \"That we are only finding this out now, when we were expecting the report to be published ahead of the two-year anniversary, shows how they continue to disregard survivors and bereaved through this process.\"\n\nElizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said the news will be \"very disappointing\" to the families and the communities in the borough.\n\nShe said: \"We all want to get to the truth of what happened nearly two years ago, and we hope the inquiry can still move forward despite the delay to this report.\n\n\"I want to reiterate that our approach to the inquiry has been to provide the witnesses they have asked for and the documents they require. We are serious about our role in making sure a tragedy like this never happens again.\"\n\nThe news comes as some from the Grenfell community said they wanted an independent panel to be put in place before hearings resume next year.\n\nThey also called for a venue layout for the inquiry that puts families at the centre of proceedings, and for the government to help workers attend the inquiry without losing their annual leave.", "One hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year.\n\nThe first death was 33-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins, who died in London just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year.\n\nThe 100th death was John Lewis, 32, who died in Middlesbrough on the evening of 14 May.\n\nThose killed in 2019 range in age from 14-year-old Jaden Moodie, who was stabbed in Leyton, east London in January - to 80-year-old Barbara Heywood, who was attacked at her home in Bolton in March.\n\nAlmost half of the victims were under 30 and were overwhelmingly male.\n\nThere has been one fatal stabbing every 1.45 days so far this year in England and Wales. If killings continued at that rate for the rest of the year, the total would be slightly lower than the 285 stabbing deaths recorded in 2017-18.\n\nThirty of the fatal stabbings were in London, 10 in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nThe police have made arrests in nearly all of the cases and have charged suspects in 86.\n\nBelow are the details and, where available, photos of those who have lost their lives so far this year.\n\nYou can filter the list using the categories below\n• Thirty-three-year-old mother Charlotte Huggins died just a few hours after celebrating the start of the new year. She was stabbed at a residential address in south London and died at the scene. In a message posted on Facebook shortly before being attacked, Ms Huggins had wished her friends and family a \"healthy, happy 2019\". Her boyfriend Michael Rolle is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July after pleading not guilty to Ms Huggins’ murder.\n• Tudor Simionov, 33, had recently moved from Romania to east London with his girlfriend. On New Year’s Eve, he was working as a doorman at a private party in Mayfair. Mr Simionov was stabbed to death in the early hours of 1 January when a group of men tried to gatecrash the party. A woman and two of his male colleagues were also found with stab injuries. Haroon Akram, Adham Khalil, Adham Elshalakany, and Nor Aden Hamada will appear at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of Mr Simionov’s murder, as well as two counts of attempted murder and two counts of GBH.\n• Computer programmer Lee Pomeroy, 51, died after being attacked on a South Western Railway train bound for London Waterloo. Described as a “devoted family man”, Mr Pomeroy had been heading to London from Guildford for a day out with his 14-year-old son when he was stabbed nine times on the train. Darren Pencille is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 24 June to face charges of murder.\n• Jaden Moodie became the first teenager to be stabbed to death in the UK in 2019 when he was knocked off a moped and attacked in Leyton, east London. The 14-year-old boy had moved to London from Nottingham with his mother for a \"new start\" six months before he died. His sister, Leah Moodie, said: \"No one should have to go through the traumatic experience my family are going through.\" Ayoub Majdouline, 18, and Yousuf Dubbad, 21, have been charged with Jaden’s murder.\n• Gavin Moon, 31, died from a stab wound he suffered at his flat in Washington, Tyne and Wear. His family paid tribute to the 31-year-old father, describing Mr Moon as \"a devoted dad to his children and a loving son\". Brian Goldsmith, 47, from Sunderland and Luc Barker, 28, from Washington, have been charged with Mr Moon’s murder and will face trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Przemyslaw Cierniak was found with stab wounds shortly after midday on 10 January in a street in the centre of Boston, Lincolnshire. The 41-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Lincolnshire Police say the victim and two suspects were known to each other. Mariusz Skiba, 32, and Dariusz Kaczkowski, 33, have both been charged with murder and will face the charges at Lincoln Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Thirty-two-year-old Bashir Abdullah was found dead inside a block of flats in Bristol. A post-mortem revealed Mr Abdullah died after being stabbed. Avon and Somerset Police said the stabbing was being treated as an isolated incident. On 15 January, Jamal Sheik-Mohammed, 51, was charged with Mr Abdullah’s murder. He will stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 8 July.\n• Asma Begum, 31, was found with a neck injury at an address in Tower Hamlets. Police were called to the address in Poplar, but Ms Begum was pronounced dead at the scene. Jalal Uddin, 46, has been charged with her murder.\n• Paul Dickson was stabbed at a house in Bolton, Lancashire, on 30 December. The 49-year-old died nearly two weeks later in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by Greater Manchester Police. No one has been charged with Mr Dickson’s murder, but a 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault at the time of the stabbing. She has been bailed pending further police enquiries.\n• Alison Hunt’s body was found at a property in Swinton, Greater Manchester, on 16 January. The 42-year-old had been stabbed to death, police confirmed. Described as a “wonderful mum”, Ms Hunt’s family and friends paid tribute to her in a statement, saying: “The light in our lives has been forever extinguished. The way she brightened up every day with her laughter and sense of humour will always be with us.\" Vernon Holmes, 48, from Irlam, was charged with Ms Hunt’s murder and will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 1 July.\n• Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Annie Sowerby, known as Annie, was a \"devoted wife\" who \"filled her life with joy and happiness\", her family said. Ms Sowerby, who was married with two children, was found stabbed at a property in Dearham. She was treated by paramedics but died of her injuries. Her son Lee Sowerby, 45, has been charged with her murder and will stand trial at Carlisle Crown Court on 24 June.\n• The 33-year-old was taken to Warrington General Hospital where he later died. Adrisse Gray, 23, admitted to Mr O’Donnell’s murder and will be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on 20 May. Gray is the first person to be convicted of a 2019 fatal stabbing.\n• Community worker Ian Ogle, 45, died after being stabbed 11 times and beaten in the street near his home in East Belfast on 27 January. The father-of-two had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community in East Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a gang of at least five men were involved in the attack. Jonathan Brown, 33, and Glenn Rainey, 32, have been charged with murder.\n• Kamil Malysz was found dead in a shared residential building in Acton on 27 January. The 34-year-old was a Polish national who had been living in west London. A post-mortem examination found he died as a result of haemorrhaging because of a stab injury. A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but later released with no further action being taken. The Metropolitan Police are yet to charge anyone in connection with Mr Malysz’s death.\n• Teenager Nedim Bilgin died after being attacked on Caledonian Road in Islington on 29 January. Speaking at the scene after the stabbing, Islington Councillor Paul Convery said the area had been blighted by tensions between gang rivalries for years. An investigation was launched by police, but nobody has been charged with the 17-year-old’s murder.\n• Michael Liddell, 35, was found by paramedics suffering from a stab wound at a home in Longlevens, Gloucester, on 31 January. Mr Liddell died a short time later and his 65-year-old mother, Joy, was charged with his murder. Joy Liddell had been due to stand trial at Bristol Crown Court on 29 July, however, Avon and Somerset Police said she died in April. An inquest date for both deaths is yet to be set.\n• Reece Ottaway, 23, was found dead at a social housing complex in Northampton on 1 February, following a \"disturbance\". A post-mortem examination confirmed that Mr Ottaway, from Daventry, had died as a result of a stab wound. His family said his death \"will haunt us for the rest of our lives\". Five men have been charged with his murder and will face trial in September.\n• Kevin Byrne's body was discovered at an address in Alison Street, Kirkcaldy, on 5 February. The 45-year-old, who had had his left leg amputated and used crutches, was also known locally as Kevin Forrester. Leslie Fraser appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court charged with assault and murder.\n• Jurijs Paramonovs was stabbed inside his home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 3 February. The 46-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene and a murder investigation was launched by Cambridgeshire police. Olegs Titovs, 49, pleaded not guilty at Cambridge Crown Court to murdering Mr Paramonovs and was told a trial would start on 8 July.\n• Lejean Richards became the third teenager to be stabbed to death in London in 2019 when he was attacked near his home in Battersea. In a tribute, Mr Richards' mother said her 19-year-old son was “turning his life around”. Roy Reyes-Nieves and Roger Reyes-Nieves have both been charged with Mr Richards' murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Mum-of-four Aliny Mendes had been picking up her children from school when she was attacked and stabbed in a street in Ewell, Surrey, on 8 February. A JustGiving page raised more than £58,000 for her family and to repatriate the 39-year-old’s body back to her native Brazil. Her estranged husband, Ricardo Godinho, 41, has admitted manslaughter but denied murdering Ms Mendes. He will stand trial at Guildford Crown Court on 17 June.\n• Dennis Anderson was attacked in a street in Dulwich, south London, reportedly after a row about cigarettes in an off-licence. The 39-year-old, who was a painter and decorator, was stabbed in the neck outside the Food and Wine shop on Lordship Lane. Jahmal Michael Riley was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon. The 24-year-old will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Wesley Adyinka died after being stabbed in the heart near his home in Maidstone on 10 February. The 37-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. His partner Amanda Francis was also injured but survived the attack. Four people have been charged with murder and causing grievous bodily harm.\n• Carl Hopkins, 49, was stabbed in his lung near Colchester’s Castle Park on 11 February. A friend described in a newspaper interview how he and Mr Hopkins were both sleeping rough in Colchester at the time. Andrew Whitten reportedly said Mr Hopkins “was a loveable pain in the neck and we argued like cat and dog. But we were close and we had each other’s back. He was always there for me and I love him to bits”.\n• Paramedics were called to a shared property in Coventry and found 22-year-old Patrick Hill suffering from a stab wound. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries three days later. Levi Whitmore-Wills, 18, was initially charged with wounding, but was later charged with murder after Mr Hill died. Mr Whitmore-Wills has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial at Warwick Crown Court on 24 June.\n• Dorothy Bowyer, 77, was found dead at a house in the Derbyshire village of Buxworth on Valentine’s Day. She had been stabbed in the chest. A dog was also found dead at the property. The mother-of-three had worked at a sweets factory and was “loved by the community”, according to friends and neighbours. William Blunsdon, 25, of Buxworth, who was arrested shortly afterwards, has been charged with her murder and criminal damage.\n• Sixteen-year-old Sidali Mohamed was attacked outside Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Highgate, Birmingham, on 13 February. He died two days later. The teenager had fled war-torn Somalia with his family when he was a toddler. Family members said Sidali had \"many ambitions and goals\" and wanted to be an accountant. His college principal described him as \"a wonderful young man\". A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder.\n• Abdul Deghayes was found stabbed in a car in Brighton after a crash on 16 February. He died from his injuries the following day. He was the brother of two British teenagers killed while fighting for Islamist militants in Syria. Another brother, Amer, is believed to be still alive in Syria. His uncle, Omar Deghayes, was detained at Guantanamo Bay for almost six years. Daniel MacLeod, 36, will stand trial at Hove Crown Court on 24 June to face a charge of murdering Abdul Deghayes.\n• Bright Akinleye was stabbed in the leg during a row at a party near Euston railway station on 18 February. The 22-year-old staggered into a nearby luxury hotel and collapsed. He later died at the scene. Seven men and seven women were arrested on suspicion of murder. Only one person - Tashan Brewster - has been charged with Mr Akinleye’s murder. The 30-year-old is set to appear at the Old Bailey on 12 August for trial.\n• Sixteen-year-old Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest in a Birmingham park on 20 February. He was the second teenager to be stabbed to death in the city in a week. Abdullah had been studying to memorise the Koran at the Green Lane Mosque. His teachers said he was “a young man with ambition and potential\". Three people - Demille Innis, Amari Robinson, also known as Amari Tullock, and a 17-year-old boy - have all been charged with murder and will appear at Birmingham Crown Court for a trial on 27 August.\n• Alasdair Forsyth was discovered with serious injuries at an address in Clearburn Road, Prestonfield, Edinburgh, on 21 February. The 67-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service. Three males - aged 15, 16 and 19 - have been charged in connection with the death and were remanded in custody following a court appearance in February.\n• Glendon Spence, 23, died after being attacked at the Marcus Lipton Youth Centre in Brixton on 21 February. The Metropolitan Police said a fight had started outside the youth centre and Mr Spence had run inside, where he was stabbed. A football training session for children was taking place in the centre at the time. Two 17-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been charged with Mr Spence’s murder and will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 12 August.\n• Courtney Valentine-Brown died after being stabbed in the leg in Southend just before midnight on 21 February. The 36-year-old was taken to hospital, but later died from his injuries. His family said he was \"ambitious, cheeky and extremely creative with his whole future ahead of him\". Three men and a woman have been charged with Mr Valentine-Brown's murder.\n• Kamali Gabbidon-Lynck died after he was stabbed by a gang riding bikes in Wood Green, north London. The 19-year-old was chased into a hair salon and attacked by men armed with a firearm, knives and a samurai sword. A second man was shot but survived. Detectives said the attack would have been witnessed by several people, including children. Tyrell Graham, 18, and Sheareem Cookhorn, 20, have been charged with murder, attempted murder and robbery.\n• Philip McMillan, 26, died in Wishaw General Hospital, in North Lanarkshire, after being stabbed during a fight in a street in Holytown on 22 February. Mr McMillan, who was a Rangers fan, had a son. Three men, in their 20s, have been charged in connection with the incident.\n• Father-of-two, Phillip Rooney, 32, was found dead at a house in Leigh, Greater Manchester, after being stabbed in the stomach. His family said he was \"witty, caring and had a heart of gold\". Stephen Brocklehurst, 48, will stand trial at Manchester Crown Court after being charged with Mr Rooney’s murder.\n• Gary Cunningham became the third person in ten days to die from a stabbing in Birmingham. The 29-year-old was attacked at a flat in Harborne on 23 February and died at the scene. Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow was arrested and charged with Mr Cunningham’s murder. The 26-year-old will appear at Birmingham Crown Court on 22 July for trial.\n• Teenager Connor Brown died in hospital after being attacked behind The Borough pub in Sunderland city centre in the early hours of 24 February. The 18-year-old was a student at the local Farringdon Community Sports College. England footballer and Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson, who went to the same school as Mr Brown, was among those who expressed their sympathy to his family. Ally Gordon, 19, and Leighton Barrass, 20, were charged with Mr Brown’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Newcastle Crown Court for a trial on 1 July.\n• Spanish national David Lopez-Fernandez was found stabbed at an address in Stepney, east London. Police and paramedics treated the 38-year-old at the scene, however, he later died from his injuries. Jairo Sepulveda-Garcia, 36, was charged with Mr Lopez-Fernandez’s murder and will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court on 19 August.\n• Hazrat Umar became the third teenager within 12 days to be stabbed to death in Birmingham. The 18-year-old, who was a student at the South and City College in Birmingham, suffered fatal stab injuries in Bordesley Green. Mr Umar was studying electrical engineering. His family and friends said they could not understand why he was targeted. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to stand trial at Birmingham Crown Court on 10 June.\n• Jodi Miller was found suffering from serious injuries inside a home in Harehills, Leeds, on 25 February. The 21-year-old was taken to hospital but died a short time later. It is believed she had been stabbed. Karar Ali Karar, 29, has been charged with Ms Miller’s murder and is set to appear at Leeds Crown Court for a trial on 12 August.\n• Che Morrison was stabbed to death outside Ilford railway station in east London on 26 February. His family described the 20-year-old as \"very ambitious\" and said he \"had many aspirations for his future\". Mr Morrison had studied at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. Florent Okende, 20, is due to stand trial over Mr Morrison’s murder, at the Old Bailey on 15 July.\n• St John Lewis died after being attacked in Broadlea Terrace in Bramley, Leeds, on 26 February. Mr Lewis worked as a chef at a pizza restaurant in the city. His father, Alfie Lewis said he was a “gentleman who was very keen to help people. He wouldn’t hurt a fly\". Dean Dagless, 48, of Broadlea Terrace, is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 8 July to face charges of murder and possession of an offensive weapon.\n• Emergency services were called to an address in Paignton, Devon, on 27 February where 74-year-old Peter Flux was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem revealed that Mr Flux - who was an artist - died from a stab wound to the neck. Faye Burford, 40, was charged with Mr Flux’s murder and remanded in custody to appear at Exeter Crown Court on 12 August for a trial.\n• Lance Martin, 24, was found with life-threatening injuries in Normanton on 28 February, and died in hospital. A friend paid tribute to him, saying he was a \"gentle giant at heart\" who \"loved his little boy\". Mr Martin's death had shaken everyone he knew, she added. Three people have been charged with murder and one with manslaughter. All four have pleaded not guilty.\n• Jodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill, Havering, on 1 March. The 17-year-old died after being stabbed in the back. Former classmates described her as a \"bundle of joy and such a good person\" and said she was \"so beautiful - inside and out\". Jodie, who was a girl scout – was said to be a “wonderful student “ by the Principal at Havering College. Manuel Petrovic, 20, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 18, and a 16-year-old boy have all been charged with Jodie’s murder and are set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 2 September.\n• Yousef Makki, from Burnage, died after being attacked in Gorse Bank Road, near Altrincham on 2 March. The Manchester Grammar School student had been stabbed in the street. Yousef's parents described him as a \"loving and caring son and brother\", and said he had phoned hours before his death to say he would be home for tea. Two 17-year-old boys - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were charged in connection with Yousef’s death. The pair are set to stand trial at Manchester Crown Court on 18 June.\n• Mother-of-three Elize Stevens was stabbed to death at a house in Hendon, north-west London on 2 March. The 50-year-old worked as a welfare officer for the S&P Sephardi Community. A spokesman said she had impressed everyone with her \"friendly nature, warmth and dedication to the job\". Ian Levy, 54, was charged with Ms Stevens’ murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 5 August.\n• Spanish national David Martinez-Valencia,26, was stabbed in the chest, legs and back inside a flat in Leyton, east London, on 6 March. The police said his death \"is not believed to be gang-related\". Carlos Rueda Velez, 18, has been charged with Mr Martinez’s murder and is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Luciano Dos Santos was struck by a vehicle in Oxford and stabbed several times. The 22-year-old victim was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he later died on 6 March. His mother, Carla Dos Santos, said he was \"a sweet, loving and strong-willed young man\". Four men have been charged in connection with Mr Dos Santos’ death and are set to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 2 September for trial.\n• Mohamed Elmi was one of two men stabbed in linked attacks in central London on Sunday 3 March. The 37-year-old was found with stab wounds early in the morning in Soho. Hours later, police were called to another incident in Camden, in which a 16-year-old boy had been stabbed. The teenager survived the attack but Mr Elmi died three days later. Joe Gynane, 32, will stand trial at the Old Bailey on 1 July to face charges of murder, attempted murder, possession of a bladed article and two counts of assaulting emergency service workers.\n• Ayub Hassan, 17, was stabbed three times in the chest in Lanfrey Place, West Kensington, on 7 March. The teenager, who was a student at Hammersmith College, had dreamed of becoming a barrister, a relative said. A 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with murder and will appear for a trial at the Old Bailey on 19 August.\n• Mother-of-five Rachel Evans, 46, was stabbed multiple times at a house in Hignett Avenue, St Helens, on 11 March. Carl Harrison, 46, has pleaded guilty to murder. He is due to be sentenced on 14 June.\n• Reece Leeman was stabbed following an argument at a house in Sydenham, East Belfast. The 21-year-old staggered into the street where he was found collapsed. He later died in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been charged with Mr Leeman’s murder.\n• Nathaniel Armstrong, 29, was stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning on 16 March in Fulham, west London. Mr Armstrong's cousin Alex Beresford, Good Morning Britain's weatherman, said the victim was a \"bright young man\". Lovel Bailey, 29, was arrested at Gatwick Airport on 2 April and charged with Mr Armstrong’s murder. He is due to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 18 November.\n• Kumarathas Rajasingam, 57, was stabbed to death at his home in Wymondham, Norfolk. His wife, Jeyamalar Kumarathas, 54, has been charged with his murder and is set to stand trial at Norwich Crown Court on 19 August. Norfolk Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.\n• Mother-of-three Debbie Twist was stabbed to death at her home in Leigh, Manchester, on 17 March. Greater Manchester Police said the stabbing of the 47-year-old was being treated as an “isolated” incident. A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed.\n• The body of Alison McKenzie, 55, was found inside a flat in the Berwick Hills area of Middlesbrough on 20 March. Her son, Ian McKenzie, 34, was charged with murder and has been remanded to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• On the evening of 22 March, teenager Abdirashid Mohamoud had been in Syon Park, Isleworth, when he was chased to a block of flats by a group of men. The 17-year-old from Brentford was stabbed several times and died at the scene. A relative said Abdirashid had dreamed of becoming an engineer. A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and bailed. A 23-year-old was also arrested and released under investigation.\n• Jonathan Roper, from Glastonbury, was stabbed on the afternoon of 23 March. The 34-year-old died at the scene in Wells, Somerset. He was described as a \"devoted family man\", who would be much missed. Seven men and three women were arrested in connection with Mr Roper’s death.\n• Ravi Katharkamar, 54, was stabbed in the chest as he went to open his newsagents in Pinner, north-west London, on a Sunday morning. Alex Gunn, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder, robbery, possession of a bladed article, and theft of a motor vehicle. Mr Gunn is due to appear at the Old Bailey on a date to be set.\n• Richard Astin, 42, died from his injuries after being stabbed on a road outside the nearby Highgate pub in Oakes, Huddersfield. Shaun Waterhouse, 39, has been charged with Mr Astin’s murder and is due to stand trial at Leeds Crown Court on 23 July.\n• The 80-year-old great-grandmother was fatally stabbed at her home in Bolton on 27 March. A family statement described Mrs Heywood as a “generous, kind-hearted lady who loved life\". An 88-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and later detained under the Mental Health Act.\n• Zahir Visiter, a Chechen refugee, was stabbed in St John’s Wood, London, on the evening of 28 March. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital, where he died a short time later. It is thought that those involved fled in the direction of the London Central Mosque, near Regent’s Park, which was put in lockdown while it was searched by armed police. Three people were arrested by police at an address in Whitechapel, east London. Subsequently, Kamal Hussain, 21, and Yosif Ahmed, 18, were both charged with murder.\n• Hassan Ahmed Mohamoud, from Toxteth, Liverpool, was stabbed in the neck in broad daylight on 28 March. The 29-year-old was taken to hospital where he later died from his injuries. A 28-year-old man, also from Toxteth, was arrested and has been detained under the Mental Health Act, Merseyside Police have said.\n• Father-of-three Gavin Garraway was attacked in his car while he was driving near Clapham Common tube station. The 40-year-old was stabbed and pronounced dead at the scene outside The Belle Vue pub. Zion Chiata,18, has been charged with Mr Garraway’s murder and is set to stand trial at the Old Bailey on 14 October.\n• Father-of-one Leneto Kellengbeck was stabbed near his home in Solihull, on 29 March. The 24-year-old’s mother Jasmine described her son as \"kind and thoughtful\". Mr Kellengbeck was a keen boxer. Demus Marcus, 24, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on 19 April.\n• Damian Banks was found unconscious and with stab wounds to his chest at a property in Durham on 30 March. The 34-year-old was taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but died. His brother Vincent Bell, 35, was arrested and charged with Mr Banks’ murder and is due to appear at Teesside Crown Court.\n• Paul Taylor, 45, from Hebburn, South Tyneside, was pronounced dead by emergency services after he was found at a house in Jarrow. Nicola Lee, 44, was charged with his murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Calvin Bungisa was chased and repeatedly stabbed in Gospel Oak, Camden, in what was described by the Met as a “brutal and merciless attack”. The 22-year-old former Haverstock School pupil was pronounced dead at the scene, despite the efforts of paramedics. No one has been charged or arrested in connection with Mr Bungisa’s death.\n• Jordan O'Brien, 25, died in hospital after suffering serious injuries at a house in Gainsborough on 27 March. Doctors tried to save the father-of-two by amputating a leg but he later died of his injuries on 2 April. Kieron Walker, 22, was charged with Mr O’Brien’s murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• John Carroll, 52, died on 2 April after being stabbed at a house in Selly Oak, Birmingham. His 53-year-old wife, Deborah Carroll, was arrested and subsequently charged with Mr Carroll’s murder. She has been remanded to appear at Birmingham Crown Court.\n• Tyrelle Burke died in hospital after being stabbed in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, on 5 April. In a statement paying tribute to the 20-year-old, his family said he was a “funny, caring son, who always had time for his family”. A 17-year-old boy was charged with Mr Burke’s murder and possession of an offensive weapon. He has been remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court.\n• Alexandru Constantinescu died at a caravan park in Dunkirk near Canterbury after being stabbed in the heart. His family, who live in Romania, described him as a music lover and a “beautiful son\". Dumitru Palazu, 48, has been charged with the 30-year-old's murder and has pleaded not guilty.\n• Odessa Carey was found injured inside her home in Ashington, on 8 April. The 73-year-old's daughter, also called Odessa Carey, was arrested after being found a few miles away in the village of Guide Post. Ms Carey, 35, was charged with her mother’s murder and is due to stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 2 October.\n• Noore Bashir Salad was shot and stabbed in Newham, east London, on 8 April. Police believe the 22-year-old was attacked by three men. The post-mortem examination gave his cause of death as a stab wound to the leg.\n• Yet to be named Police Scotland launched a murder investigation on 13 April after a 25-year-old man was found dead in Dalry, Ayrshire. A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder.\n• Steven Brown, 47, was stabbed in the heart outside a builder’s merchants in north London. The father-of-five had recently been reunited with relatives from the United States, his family said. Eleven people have been arrested by the police but there have been no charges yet.\n• Anthony Ferns was stabbed in the neck in his car in Glasgow. Police believe he had been approached by a man who spoke to him through the driver’s window before the attack. The 33-year-old tiler managed to drive to his home where he collapsed and died in front of his mother and friends. His was the second killing in the city in the space of 24 hours.\n• Simon Jones died in hospital after being stabbed near Chaddesden Park, Derby, on the evening of 20 April. The 57-year-old, who lived in Belper, was described as a “true gentleman” by his family. A number of people have been arrested and charged in connection with Mr Jones’ death.\n• Barrister’s clerk Joe O’Brien, 24, was stabbed during a brawl outside a pub in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, at about 3am on Easter Sunday. “His friends, his family and Manchester United were his life,” said his mother Roz McDonald. She said her son loved his job at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester. A 21-year-old man was treated at hospital for stab wounds but has recovered. Momodou Jallow, 21, has been charged with murder.\n• Saima Riaz, who was a nurse, was found stabbed to death at her home in Rochdale. Her family said she was “an amazing mother to three wonderful children” and was “dedicated to helping others\". Mohammed Abid Choudhry, 36, has been charged with murder.\n• Twenty-five-year-old Katheeskaran Thavarasa – better known as Karan – was found seriously injured in a flat in Hitchin on 23 April. He was pronounced dead at the scene having “suffered knife wounds”, according to Hertfordshire Police. Eswaran Sinnathurai, 24, has been charged with Mr Thavarasa’s murder.\n• Sammy-Lee Lodwig was killed at a house in Swansea on 23 April. Following her death, the 22-year-old's sister Miakala paid tribute to her, saying she would \"always remain in my heart\". Jason Farrell, of Swansea, has been remanded in custody after being charged with Ms Lodwig’s murder. The 49-year-old will appear at Swansea Crown Court on 14 October for a trial.\n• Meshach Williams was fatally stabbed on High Street, Harlesden by a gang who used two cars to block traffic on 24 April. The 21-year-old was attacked and fled into a betting shop to seek help, but later died in hospital. Dominic Calder, 19, has been charged with murder, possession of an offensive weapon and possession of cannabis.\n• Teenager Jordan Moazami was stabbed to death in a street in Harborne, Birmingham, on 24 April. The 18-year-old, from Quinton, was described as \"an excellent young man\" and role model by his former youth football club. Moshood Giwa, 19, has been charged with Mr Moazami’s murder as well as a public order offence in connection with the teenager’s death. Hamed Hussein, 18, of no fixed address, is also charged with Mr Moazami’s murder.\n• A murder inquiry was launched by Bedfordshire Police after grandfather Meuric Roberts was found dead inside his flat on 24 April. His family said Mr Roberts, 51, will be \"missed every day\". Simon Lewis, 39, of Chapel Street, Luton, has been charged with Mr Roberts’ murder and remanded in custody.\n• Joshua White died from injuries after being stabbed in Homerton, Hackney, on 26 April. A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man have been charged with Mr White's murder.\n• Niall Magee was stabbed at a house in the Cairn Walk area of Crumlin, County Antrim. The following day the 21-year-old died from his injuries in hospital and a murder investigation was launched by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Michael McManus, of Cairn Walk, Crumlin, was charged with Mr Magee’s murder – a charge which he denied at Limavady Magistrates' Court on 1 May.\n• Teenager Tashaun Aird died in Hackney after being stabbed in the street on 1 May. The 15-year-old's death came on the day the Met Police announced a drop in homicides in the latest financial year compared to figures from 2017-18. Commissioner Cressida Dick said the teenager’s death was “truly, truly terrible”. Romaine Williams-Reid, 18, has been charged with murder. A 16-year-old boy has also been arrested.\n• Alex Davies, 18, was reported missing from his home in Skelmersdale on April 30. His body was found in woodland the next day in Parbold, Lancashire. He had been stabbed and suffocated. Mr Davies worked in a shop. His boss said he was “an energetic, kind and helpful lad, who loved working with customers\". A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder and will stand trial in October.\n• Michael Dale died from a stab wound to the chest. The 46-year-old was found inside a property on Charles Lane, Haslingden, on 2 May and died in the early hours of the morning. Mr Dale ran a tattoo shop in the town and was said by a niece to have prided himself on being “a punk for life”. Shahid Hussain, 37, of no fixed address, has been charged with murder.\n• Year 12 pupil Ellie Gould died after being stabbed at a house in Calne, Wiltshire, on 3 May. Hardenhuish School head teacher, Lisa Percy, paid tribute to the 17-year-old, saying “the students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects\". A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with her murder and is due to stand trial in October.\n• Hamze Ibrahim Ismail, 21, died in hospital after being stabbed in the street. His father said the \"mindless act of violence\" had \"broken\" his family. Mohamed Khashkhush, 24, has been charged with murder.\n• McCaulay Junior Urugbezi-Edwards, 18, was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London. Paramedics treated him at the scene but he died just over an hour later in a south London hospital. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. A 33-year-old woman was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n• Daniel Pitham, 33, was found dead by police officers after they forced their way into a house in Bedworth. His family paid tribute to him saying: \"Danny was a very out outgoing young man who loved to party with his friends, travel, and keep fit\". Scott Warner, 35, and John Allison, 33, have been charged with his murder.\n• Murdoch Brown, 31, was stabbed to death at an address in Colchester. In a statement his family said he was a \"much-loved partner, son, brother and uncle\" and a \"devoted father to his children\". A second man was hurt but not seriously injured.\n• Nadeem Uddin Hameed Mohammed, 24, was stabbed in the chest in a Tesco car park in Slough. A 21-year-old witness said he was in the car park when he \"heard shouting\" and saw \"lots of blood on the floor\". Mr Mohammed was rushed to hospital but later pronounced dead. Aqib Pervaiz, 26, has been charged with murder.\n• Thomas Abraham, 48, was found with stab wounds at an address in Gloucester, by police and paramedics who had been called to a disturbance. Despite strenuous efforts to save him, he died at the scene. Tobias Hayley, 51, has been charged with murder.\n• John Lewis, 32, was found stabbed at an address in Middlesbrough. He died later in hospital. A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe number of people being taken to court for possessing a weapon has been rising.\n\nThere's a bit of a time lag when it comes to getting figures from the criminal justice system, so the latest ones we have, published on Thursday, only take us up to the end of last year.\n\nIn 2018, the Ministry of Justice recorded 21,587 cases of people in England Wales being prosecuted for possessing a weapon, of which 13,350 cases led to a conviction - compared with 17,669 cases in 2013 - with 10,026 leading to a conviction.\n\nThis was mostly driven by a rise in the offence of \"having possession of a bladed article in a public place\".\n\nFor adults, the maximum sentence for possessing a knife is four years.\n\nKnife possession is now making up a bigger share of all weapons offences - two-thirds compared with half 10 years ago.\n\nAnd a bigger proportion of knife and weapons possession offences now result in jail time - 36% compared with 20% in 2008.\n\nThese figures cover both adults and children aged 10-17. For adults only, 42% of weapons offences resulted in an immediate custodial sentence last year.\n\nWhile knife possession offences have been rising since 2013, they are still lower than a decade ago.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nFigures are correct at time of publication but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.", "Ireland was one of eight countries eliminated at the end of Thursday's semi-final\n\nSarah McTernan has become the fifth Irish act in six years not to get past the semi-final stage at Eurovision.\n\nThe 25-year-old singer from County Clare failed to impress with her retro pop tune 22, becoming one of eight acts to be sent packing.\n\nIn contrast, contest favourites Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands progressed to the final with ease.\n\nAzerbaijani representative Chingiz also went through, with a little help from two laser-pointing robot arms.\n\nThursday's second Eurovision semi-final followed official confirmation that Madonna will perform during Saturday's final in Israel.\n\nMcTernan gave a confident performance against a backdrop of colourful comic book imagery inspired by US artist Roy Lichtenstein.\n\nYet the singer, who has spoken openly about her struggles with post-natal depression, still did not make the final - unlike Ryan O'Shaughnessy, her country's 2018 representative.\n\nAustralia's Kate Miller-Heidke, who qualified for the final on Tuesday, has also spoken candidly about her battles with the condition.\n\nIreland has won Eurovision more times than any other country - seven in all - but has not notched up a victory since 1996.\n\nNo great milkshakes: McTernan on stage with her two backing dancers\n\nOther acts left disappointed included Croatian singer Roko Blazevic, who wore a pair of golden angel's wings during his performance.\n\nThis was despite his dramatic number The Dream being written by Jacques Houdek, Croatia's representative in 2017, and Charlie Mason, co-writer of Austria's 2014 winner Rise Like a Phoenix.\n\nThere was little love for this year's Austrian entry, a wispy, whispery ballad performed by a blue-haired singer dubbed Paenda - real name Gabriela Horn.\n\nAnd having acclaimed Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova create an artwork during her performance did not help Anna Odobescu from Moldova.\n\nAnna Odobescu of Moldova was accompanied by a sand artist\n\nBut there was better luck for Danish singer Leonora, who performed her song Love is Forever perched on a giant blue chair.\n\nNorth Macedonia also went forward, just a few months on from its new name being approved by the international community.\n\nAlbania, Norway and Switzerland also advanced thanks to a combination of jury and public votes.\n\nMaltese teenager Michela, meanwhile, was left crying tears of joy when the final spot available in the final went in her direction.\n\nThe 10 qualifying acts will join Miller-Heidke and nine others that went through on Tuesday in Saturday's final.\n\nThe line-up will be completed by the \"big five\" nations who bypass the semi-final stage - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom - and host nation Israel.\n\nA pair of angel's wings didn't help Croatian singer Roko fly to the final\n\nThursday's show, broadcast live in the UK on BBC Four, featured a performance from The Shalva Band, a group of eight musicians who all have disabilities.\n\nThe band were favourites to represent host country Israel but pulled out when the dress rehearsal was scheduled for Friday - the Jewish holy day of rest.\n\nTheir performance of A Million Dreams, from hit musical Greatest Showman, was warmly received by the audience in Tel Aviv's International Convention Center.\n\nThe semi-final also featured a trick from \"world-famous mentalist\" Lior Suchard, who appeared to correctly predict a series of numbers apparently chosen at random by four of this year's hopefuls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did The Shalva Band, a group of disabled musicians from Israel, quit Eurovision?\n\nThe countries who made it through the second semi-final were:\n\nAustrian singer Paenda turned out to be an endangered species\n\nThe countries eliminated in the second semi-final were:\n\nMichael Rice, the UK's representative in Tel Aviv, made a brief appearance on Thursday alongside German duo S!sters and Italian rapper Mahmood.\n\nAustrian drag queen Conchita Wurst, winner of the 2014 contest, also appeared - with an impressive leather train - in advance of a special performance on Saturday with other previous participants.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in Thomas Cook have plunged 30% after analysts at a bank said the travel firm's shares were \"worthless\".\n\nThomas Cook's tour operations and airline are worth £738m, but its debt is around the same \"and implies zero equity value\", according to Citigroup.\n\nCitigroup's damning conclusion comes a day after Thomas Cook issued its third profit warning in less than a year and reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nIts outlook was \"significantly weaker than expected,\" Citigroup said.\n\nThe analysts also pointed to a warning from auditor EY on Thomas' Cook's results which warned of \"material uncertainties\" over the group's sale of its airline, on which a new £300m bank facility depends.\n\n\"Like the auditors we see material uncertainties around the airline sale and the new debt facilities,\" said Citigroup.\n\nIt also warned that the firm's recent poor performance could \"unsettle consumers and drive further weakness in bookings\".\n\nCitigroup's concerns were shared by analysts at Morgan Stanley, which said its worst-case (bear) forecast was also that the firm would be worth zero. However, it said if things went well (bull case), the firm's shares could rise from their current price of around 20p a share to 50p.\n\n\"With the share price at 20p, the valuation is discounting something towards in the middle, but we think the bear case is more likely than the bull case,\" it said.\n\nThomas Cook is in the process of seeking bidders for its fleet of 105 jets as it tries to raise funds for the business. The travel firm said on Thursday that it had received \"multiple bids\".\n\nThe company is seeking to cut costs. It has closed 21 of its High Street stores, its currency arm Thomas Cook Money is under review and more \"cost efficiencies\" are planned.\n\nIt has blamed a series of problems for its profit warnings, including political unrest in holiday destinations such as Turkey, last summer's prolonged heatwave and customers delaying booking holidays due to Brexit. But it has also suffered from competition from online travel agents and low-cost airlines.\n\nThomas Cook declined to comment on the analysts' notes.", "Ed Henthorn says the drug has \"turned my life upside down\"\n\nThe parents of young people who have killed themselves and patients unable to have sex are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing acne drug Roaccutane.\n\nEd Henthorn said it had caused him erectile dysfunction, psychosis and suicidal thoughts.\n\nAnd one man who believes his son killed himself after taking the drug said the risks \"are just too high\".\n\nManufacturer Roche said \"millions of patients worldwide have benefited from taking the drug\".\n\nThe majority of those who take the drug have a positive experience.\n\n\"I used to think about girls... but my feelings, thoughts, just faded away,\" Ed Henthorn told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nHe was 19 when he took Roaccutane. He describes his acne as mild but bad enough to want to treat.\n\nAfter three weeks he started to experience side-effects, including reduced energy and sex drive.\n\n\"That was why I decided to stop taking it,\" he said.\n\nWhat does the NHS say about Roaccutane?\n\nIn its guidance about the options available for acne treatment, the NHS says Roaccutane (isotretinoin) is only recommended for severe cases of acne that haven't responded to other treatments.\n\nThe NHS acknowledges there have been reports of people experiencing mood changes while taking the drug. Its advice says, while there is no evidence these changes were caused by Roaccutane, patients should speak to their doctor immediately if they feel depressed or anxious, or if they have feelings of aggression or suicidal thoughts.\n\nRoaccutane, the brand name the drug isotretinoin is most commonly marketed under, is used by about 30,000 people in the UK each year.\n\nCampaigners want it banned from NHS prescriptions, arguing its continuing side-effects mean its risks outweigh the benefits.\n\nMr Henthorn said he still suffers five years after his last dose.\n\nHe said it had thwarted his hopes of completing university and pursuing a career.\n\n\"I had psychosis, psychotic symptoms, suicidal thoughts. It was pretty overwhelming,\" he added.\n\n\"My life now is not the best. I'm just kind of at home. The drug's just turned my life upside down.\"\n\nDerek Jones believes the drug is too dangerous to be prescribed on the NHS\n\nWarnings about depression and other psychiatric side-effects were added to the drug's patient information leaflet in 1998.\n\nTwo years ago, a new warning was added to say some people would be affected by problems getting or maintaining an erection and lower libido.\n\nBut Roche said while Roaccutane had side-effects - \"like most medications... millions of patients worldwide have benefited from taking the drug\".\n\nIt added: \"Isotretinoin was a prescription-only medicine and therefore can only be safely used under the care and supervision of suitably qualified healthcare professionals.\n\n\"This way, specialists with the most experience can advise patients about the important safety issues associated with isotretinoin.\"\n\nAnother version of the drug is marketed by Alliance.\n\nIt said it continually assessed the benefits and risks of its medicines.\n\nMany people say it has boosted their self esteem and mental health by treating the acne.\n\n\"I would go as far as to say it's a wonder drug,\" she says. \"I feel so much happier. I'm confident in my own skin.\"\n\nDermatologist Dr Juber Hafiji said it was a very effective treatment for acne.\n\n\"In experienced hands it's a very safe treatment, providing the patient is monitored closely, with regular supervision and blood tests at intervals,\" he said.\n\nDavid Healy, professor of psychology at Bangor University, said there were many other drugs that could affect someone's ability to have sex.\n\nBut the issue with Roaccutane, he added, was how serious the problem could be and how long it could last for.\n\n\"It's very, very, important the label makes it clear that these problems can be enduring and also makes it clear that they may only appear after you stop the drug,\" he said.\n\nThe safety of drugs is governed by the MHRA, and the NHS drug approval body NICE follows its advice.\n\nNICE is planning to publish guidance on all acne treatments by 2021 and said it always considered the safety of drugs in its guidelines.\n\nThe drug can be prescribed in Scotland, although the Scottish Medicines Consortium said it would not have assessed Roaccutane because it predates the creation of the SMC.\n\nDerek Jones's son Jesse had two courses of Roaccutane, and experienced side-effects in relation to his sex drive.\n\nIt led him to take Viagra, aged 24.\n\nThe coroner at Jesse's inquest recorded a narrative verdict. His use of Roaccutane was not considered as a contributing factor.\n\nBut Mr Jones believes his son took his own life.\n\nIn a draft email found by his parents, Jesse had written: \"Roaccutane seems to have changed the way my mind and body works in a big way.\n\n\"I can barely bring myself to type its name because I hate it so much.\"\n\nMr Jones, like other campaigners, believes the drug is too dangerous to be prescribed on the NHS.\n\n\"A minority get these terrible, terrible side-effects that affect them for the rest of their lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Should we just ignore this minority group? I think the risks are just too high.\"\n\nRoche said: \"Isotretinoin product information carries a clear warning that some patients may experience loss of libido and mood changes, including an increase in depression.\"\n\nIt added research by the British Medical Research in 2010 had not established \"an observed increased risk of suicide\" and that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [MHRA] had concluded in 2014 it was not possible to identify a clear increase in risk of psychiatric disorders.\n\nIt also said continuing safety reviews in Europe had suggested a causal relationship between isotretinoin, sexual dysfunction and depression was still unclear.\n\nAn MHRA spokeswoman said it kept the safety of the drug under review, with only consultant dermatologists who had a full understanding of its risks and monitoring requirements able to prescribe it.\n\nThey added: \"As with all medicines, isotretinoin can cause side effects and these are detailed in the product information provided with the medicine. The possible side effects should be discussed with patients before they are prescribed it.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Concern over rise in acne drug use", "But the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nOne source said it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that she could stay on in those circumstances.\n\nA cabinet minister told me it would be \"out of the question\".\n\nAnd one of her fiercest allies said: \"I don't want her to, but the pressure will be absolutely immense.\"\n\nOne insider close to Mrs May told me they hoped under this timetable that the prime minister could avoid the humiliation of the grassroots of her party meeting to express their lack of confidence in her at a huge meeting planned for the middle of June, which would be \"horrendous\".\n\nA minister said all they wanted now was to make sure \"they find a dignified exit for her\".\n\nGiven that politics moves at hyperspeed, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the prime minister will find some way of passing the Brexit bill.\n\nMrs May has survived through almost impossible circumstances, time and time again.\n\nAs you know, if you've been paying attention to what we've been discussing here in the last couple of weeks (!), some of her inner circle still believe that there is a chance, even if it's slim, of agreeing some kind of process with the Labour party that allows the bill to pass.\n\nAnd some ministers hope that terrible results for both the main parties in the European elections could spook MPs, somehow, into getting behind the bill in the end.\n\nBut, given that one of the main obstacles to Labour agreeing a deal with Mrs May was its fear that she wouldn't hang around for long, the fact that she has all but confirmed her departure before the summer makes an agreement even harder to see.\n\nWe are witnessing, therefore, the Tories' decades-old agonies over Europe ending the time in Number 10 of another prime minister.\n\nAnd like it or not, it's the issue that's likely over the next few months to shape how the party selects the next.", "Boeing has completed development of a software update for its 737 Max plane which was grounded following two fatal crashes within five months.\n\nThe US firm announced that it had flown the 737 Max with the updated software on 207 flights.\n\nIt added it would provide data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on how pilots interact with controls and displays in different scenarios.\n\nThe FAA expects Boeing to submit the upgrade for certification next week.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed in March, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nIt followed the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October, in which 189 people died.\n\nBoth crashes were linked to the Boeing 737 Max's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System - a new feature on the aircraft which was designed to improve the handling of the plane and to stop it pitching up at too high an angle.\n\nBoeing said that once information on how pilots work with the upgraded system is submitted to the FAA, it will work with the regulator to schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 people on board\n\nThe company also said it had completed associated simulator testing on the upgraded system and had developed training and education materials that are now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and its airline customers.\n\nThe FAA said earlier this week that it would hold a meeting on 23 May with air regulators from around the world to provide an update on reviews of Boeing's software fix and new pilot training.\n\nAviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC that the US regulator was not the only one that Boeing had to satisfy.\n\n\"You also have other national authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom and in Europe who have said they would like to have their own tests and their own evaluation before certifying this aircraft for flight,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unclear whether or not there will be approval, let's say from Canada, to have this aircraft fly, which could directly affect US carriers, since many routes - even domestic US routes - overfly Canadian airspace.\n\n\"If the authorities there don't certify the 737 Max, they'll have to avoid that airspace.\"\n\nPilots are expected to undergo extra training on the new system once it receives certification. Mr Curtis said it would take a lot to convince them and other flight crew members that the aircraft was safe.\n\n\"They probably will have a fairly high bar to be satisfied before they'll give the seal of approval, as it were, that the aircraft is safe to fly,\" he said.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of a County Down baby waiting for a heart transplant are asking parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.\n\nSeven-month-old Ollie Grant has spent most of his life in hospital after being diagnosed with a heart condition.\n\nHis mother Riona Grant said they will do \"everything we can to get him a new heart and a new life\".\n\nSome 181 children in the UK are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and 42 are waiting for a new heart.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said 17 children died in 2017/18 while waiting for an organ donor.\n\nOllie's father Damien said thinking about registering a child was something many parents would not think about.\n\n\"But from the point of view of a child needing a transplant, maybe people would consider it,\" he added.\n\nWhile not wishing such a tragedy on any family, Riona said she never thought they would be in this position.\n\n\"No one ever does, but we have to do everything we can for Ollie because he's just a baby and we have to speak for him,\" she added.\n\nPaediatric surgeon Tim Jones said more needs to be done to increase availability of organs\n\nAbout 57 donors were found last year leading to 200 transplant operations.\n\nTim Jones, a consultant paediatric surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital who has been treating Ollie, said more had to be done to increase the availability of organs.\n\n\"The biggest problem we have is that there are far fewer children donating organs,\" he explained.\n\n\"If we had more, then children like Ollie would have a better chance.\n\n\"The problem is we are asking families to do that at a time of great tragedy so we would appeal to people to have the conversation now.\n\n\"For most people it will never be an issue, but it would make a difference.\"\n\nOllie has already had two heart operations and suffered a stroke but his family said he has fought back.\n\n\"We have been on that tightrope so many times,\" said Mr Grant.\n\n\"He is a happy and smiling baby and such a character, but we know that it could go the other way.\n\n\"That's always in the back of your mind and it means you can never settle,\" he said.\n\nMrs Grant said the condition was diagnosed at her 20-week scan and they have been in shock since, experiencing the highs and lows of looking after a sick baby.\n\n\"It's the rollercoaster but the staff at the hospital and our families have been brilliant.\n\n\"It's Ollie who keeps us going,\" she explained.\n\nYou can find out more information about organ donation on 0300 123 23 23 or at nidirect.gov.uk.\n\nSee more of Ollie's story on BBC Newsline on BBC One NI at 18:30 BST on 16 May.", "Renshaw, pictured at a National Action rally, was also jailed for 16 months in 2018 for four counts of grooming adolescent boys\n\nA neo-Nazi who planned to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper has been jailed for life.\n\nJack Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, must serve at least 20 years in prison.\n\nA judge at the Old Bailey said Renshaw, who earlier admitted preparing an act of terrorism, wanted to \"replicate\" the murder of Jo Cox.\n\nRenshaw made a Nazi salute towards supporters as he was led to the cells from the dock.\n\nHe pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to buying a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.\n\nA jury twice failed to reach a verdict on charges relating to his membership of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Justice McGowan said Renshaw's \"perverted view of history and current politics\" led him to \"an attempt to damage our entire system of democracy\".\n\nShe said: \"You praised the murder of Jo Cox in tweets and posts in June 2017. In some bizarre way you saw this as a commendable act and set out to replicate that behaviour.\"\n\nThe judge added Renshaw had made \"detailed arrangements\" and studied Ms Cooper's itinerary.\n\nThe knife Renshaw bought was described by the online seller as offering \"19 inches of unprecedented piercing and slashing power at a bargain price\"\n\nGiving evidence during his first National Action trial last summer, he said he wanted to murder the MP \"to send the state a message\".\n\nHe got as far as buying a 19in (48cm) Gladius knife and told members of National Action about his plan during a meeting in a Warrington pub in July 2017.\n\nThe plot was foiled by whistleblower and former National Action member, Robbie Mullen, who was secretly passing information to anti-racism charity Hope not Hate, which informed police.\n\nPolice arrested Renshaw and found the machete hidden in an airing cupboard at his uncle's house.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Ms Cooper said it was \"like something out of a horror movie\".\n\nFriends and family had encouraged her to stand down from Parliament but she refused because \"that would allow tyranny to prevail\".\n\nAfter the sentencing, Ms Cooper said \"justice has been served\".\n\nJack Renshaw wearing a mask at a National Action rally in Liverpool in 2016\n\nRenshaw was also jailed for 16 months in June 2018 for four counts of grooming adolescent boys.\n\nDet Con Henderson, who was investigating the child sex offences, said she \"had sleepless nights\" until he was arrested.\n\n\"I am not prepared to let Jack Renshaw ruin my everyday life,\" she said.\n\nThe judge praised the two women and told Renshaw: \"You have not defeated them.\"\n\nShe said he had acted in a polite manner towards Det Con Henderson while planning to kill her in an act of revenge.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it presented evidence that persuaded Renshaw to plead guilty, including online research on cutting the jugular artery and how long it would take someone to die from the wound.\n\nJenny Hopkins, CPS head of counter terror, said: \"Jack Renshaw was prepared to act on his white supremacist world view and plotted to kill a Member of Parliament - a plan reminiscent of the abhorrent murder of Jo Cox MP.\"\n\nRenshaw was also jailed for three years in 2018 for stirring up racial hatred in two anti-Semitic speeches in 2016.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four people have been killed after a small plane crashed three miles to the south of Dubai International Airport.\n\nThree Britons and a South African were aboard the UK-registered DA42 plane, UAE authorities said.\n\nThe four-seat plane was owned by Flight Calibration Services which is based at Shoreham Airport, in West Sussex.\n\nThe firm flies staff around the world to inspect and calibrate navigation aids - which include radars and landing systems for airports and airfields.\n\nThe General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says an investigation is under way.\n\nAccording to local media reports, the plane came down at approximately 19:30 local time, killing a pilot, a co-pilot and two passengers.\n\nFlights were delayed and diverted as the airport - one of the world's busiest, based on international passenger traffic - was closed for 45 minutes.\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"We are working closely with the Emirati authorities following reports of a small aircraft crash in Dubai.\"\n\nUS engineering and aerospace company Honeywell said it had hired Flight Calibration Services and the DA42 plane for work in Dubai.\n\nIn a statement, Honeywell said: \"We are deeply saddened by today's plane crash in Dubai, and our heartfelt condolences are with the victims' families.\"", "More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests.\n\nOf 1,151 LGBT people polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% saying colleagues had made unwanted comments about their sex life.\n\nMore than a quarter (27%) said they had received unwelcome sexual advances.\n\nThe government said it was planning to shortly consult on how to strengthen existing laws on harassment.\n\nThe survey - released on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - was conducted by the Trade Union Congress and is believed to be the first major study into LGBT sexual harassment at work in the UK.\n\nAccording to the survey, of the 68% who said they had experienced sexual harassment, 66% did not tell their employer, sometimes because they were afraid of being \"outed\" at work.\n\nThe figure of 68% for LGBT people in the TUC's survey compares with a figure of 37% for the wider population in a BBC survey carried out in 2017.\n\nOf the 2,031 British adults questioned for BBC Radio 5 Live 53% of women and 20% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nHelen describes herself as pansexual. She works as a psychologist and says she regularly experiences sexual harassment at work.\n\n\"Recently I was working out in the gym at work and two male colleagues were standing behind me. One said, 'She's such a waste of a woman,' referring to the fact I am in a relationship with a woman.\n\n\"When I was leaving the gym one of them asked me, 'Is it because you've never had a real man?' He laughed and then they both wolf-whistled at me. I haven't been back to the work gym since.\"\n\nHelen said the sexual harassment she has experienced hasn't only been verbal.\n\n\"I returned home early from my work Christmas party because a colleague asked to see a picture of my partner.\n\n\"When I showed him my Facebook profile picture, he said, 'I would pay £100 to watch you two.' I was really upset and he said, 'Don't be touchy,' and slapped my bum as I walked off.\"\n\nHelen also has concerns about what reporting sexual harassment would mean for her at work. She said: \"I worry what it might do for my reputation and my chances of career progression to report these incidents.\"\n\nFor some people who have suffered sexual harassment at work, reporting their experiences did not make things easier.\n\nPatrick, not his real name, works in the public sector. He says he has endured years of sexual harassment.\n\n\"After a colleague found out I was gay, he asked me how much I charge as a rent boy. I reported it but nothing came of it.\n\nAfter an investigation into his experiences, Patrick's work life impacted his personal life too.\n\n\"All of my team were preparing for an away day, which was going to involve different sports activities.\n\n\"A few weeks before the away day, I was pulled into an office and told that the others didn't want to do the activities with me as they'd be uncomfortable about taking showers with me there.\n\n\"I was told I wouldn't be going on the away day. I reported it and I was off work for over a year during the investigation. The investigation outed me to my family.\"\n\nPatrick says he went on to try to take his life twice.\n\nThe TUC survey also suggested LGBT women were more likely to experience unwanted touching and sexual assault at work than men.\n\nOver a third of the women (35%) surveyed had experienced unwanted touching, for example placing hands on their lower back or knee. One in eight (12%) had been seriously sexually assaulted or raped at work.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the research revealed a \"hidden epidemic\" of LGBT abuse.\n\nShe said: \"In 2019 LGBT people should be safe and supported at work. But instead they're experiencing shockingly high levels of sexual harassment and assault.\"\n\nShe said the government needed to \"change the law to put the responsibility for preventing harassment on employers, not victims\".\n\nLaura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at Stonewall, said the figures were \"shocking\", but added: \"We know from our own research and this report that LGBT people still face abuse and discrimination in Britain's workplaces.\"\n\nA Government Equalities Office spokesperson said: \"It is appalling LGBT people are suffering this harassment. Workplaces should be safe, supportive environments for everybody.\n\n\"The government will consult shortly on how we can strengthen and clarify existing laws on third-party harassment, as well as making sure employers fully understand their legal responsibility to protect their staff.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sherrie Sharp says her son Jaxson is a miracle\n\nIn a UK first, doctors have used keyhole surgery to successfully repair the spine of a baby with spina bifida while it was still inside the womb.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital say the procedure is not a cure, but could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.\n\nSherrie Sharp and her son Jaxson had the operation 27 weeks into the pregnancy.\n\nSpina bifida was diagnosed after the routine 20-week pregnancy scans.\n\nThey showed Jaxson's spine and spinal cord were not forming correctly.\n\nGaps in the developing spine meant the cord was bulging out of his back and was left exposed to the amniotic fluid in the womb.\n\nThis damages the crucial nerves in the spinal cord and could lead to paralysis, a loss of sensation in the legs and problems controlling the bladder and bowels.\n\nThe longer the spinal cord is left exposed, the greater the damage.\n\nSherrie, 29, and from West Sussex, said the news was a shock, but an abortion was a \"definite no\".\n\nBaby Jaxson arrived at 33 weeks and was cared for in neonatal intensive care at King's College Hospital.\n\nShe decided to have pioneering surgery to correct the defect, although there was the risk of the baby arriving prematurely.\n\nSherrie told the BBC: \"I wanted to do the best for my baby, I wanted him to have a better life and there's nothing wrong with that.\"\n\nDoctors sedated Sherrie, and the anaesthetic also crossed the placenta to prevent Jaxson, who was still a tiny foetus at this point, from wriggling.\n\nSurgeons made three small incisions in Sherrie's bump and then a thin camera and small surgical tools were inserted into her womb.\n\nThen, during a three-hour operation, surgeons put the exposed spinal cord back in place and used a patch to cover Jaxson's spinal cord.\n\nDr Marta Santorum-Perez, a consultant at the Fetal Medicine Unit at King's, told the BBC: \"We are operating on very delicate structures - the foetus's nerves.\n\n\"The foetus is very small and inside the womb, so obviously it's a very delicate operation.\"\n\nUntil recently, parents had to wait until a child was born for corrective surgery or find treatment abroad.\n\nBut the evidence suggests that operating during the second trimester reduces nerve damage and the long-term health consequences of spina bifida.\n\nAt the end of last year, the first in-womb surgery for spina bifida took place in the UK. It involved invasive surgery of opening the mother's abdomen and uterus to perform the operation.\n\nMr Bassel Zebian, a consultant neurosurgeon at King's, said the keyhole approach was better for the mother and reduced the risk of the uterus rupturing in subsequent pregnancies.\n\nHe said that operating in the womb also reduced the risk of complications later in life, but could not remove them entirely.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's quite important, because improving the function of the lower limbs may be the difference between someone walking and someone not walking later in life.\n\n\"So a significant improvement in a significant number of patients, but not a cure.\"\n\nBaby Jaxson arrived early, at 33 weeks, and was looked after in neonatal intensive care at King's.\n\nBut Sherrie hopes the operation has given Jaxson the best start in life.\n\nShe said: \"He's got movements in his legs, we were told he'd have minimal movements if we didn't have the surgery and he wouldn't be able to move at all.\n\n\"I've got high hopes for him, from day one he's done things, he's amazed us all.\n\n\"He makes me proud every day, he's just a miracle.\"", "Talks to avert the collapse of British Steel will resume later on Friday after the firm secured funds to stay afloat until the end of May.\n\nSources close to owners Greybull Capital say its future will be discussed at \"ministerial level\".\n\nBritish Steel has admitted it needs further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nOne possibility is a £75m government lifeline to the company.\n\nOtherwise, ministers can decide to nationalise the firm or see it fall into administration.\n\nOn Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations continued as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" to its financial troubles.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"As the business navigates the significant uncertainties caused by Brexit, and explores options to strengthen the business for the long term, we are pleased to confirm that we have the required liquidity while we work towards a permanent solution.\"\n\nBritish Steel is the UK's second largest steel firm, employing 4,500 people and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nIn April, the firm was forced to borrow £100m from the government to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nHowever, concerns about its future were raised this week after Sky News reported that insolvency experts had been lined up in case the firm could not secure further government funding.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nGreybull Capital, a private equity firm, rescued Tata Steel's long products business during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt has since rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nThe concerns come days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata, which admitted it is facing tough operating conditions in the UK, promised to keep its UK plants running, but only if they could be profitable.", "Helen Kennett said she spoke to a knifeman with \"evil\" in his eyes after he stabbed a waiter\n\nAn off-duty nurse asked one of the London Bridge attackers what was wrong with him before he stabbed her in the neck, an inquest has heard.\n\nHelen Kennett told the Old Bailey she was trying to help Alexandre Pigeard, who was fatally wounded, when she was confronted by his \"evil-eyed\" attacker.\n\nWhen she spoke to him, he replied, \"no, what's wrong with you?\" before wounding her too.\n\nEight people were killed in the attacks on the night of 3 June 2017.\n\n\"I was convinced I was going to die but I didn't want to die there,\" Ms Kennett told the court.\n\n\"I wanted to die round the corner with my family.\"\n\nMs Kennett had been drinking prosecco to celebrate her birthday with her mother and sister in the courtyard of Boro Bistro, at the southern end of London Bridge.\n\nMinutes after she saw the attackers' van plough into railings above where they were sitting, she noticed a waiter, Mr Pigeard, was bleeding.\n\nShe told the court she then saw the man holding a knife behind Mr Pigeard, describing him as having an \"empty\", \"soulless\" and \"evil\" look in his eyes.\n\n\"Before I could process what I was seeing was happening... he stabbed me in the neck to the left side,\" she said.\n\nAlexandre Pigeard had been working as a waiter\n\nAlthough she escaped with her family, she did not get to an ambulance for two hours, the inquest heard.\n\nEight people, including Mr Pigeard, who were killed by three men who drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAnother witness told the court he believed the man who killed Mr Pigeard was Rachid Redouane.\n\nGeoffrey Huet said he locked eyes with the attacker as he dealt what looked like the fatal blow to Mr Pigeard.\n\n\"He had this craziness in his eyes, this anger. He was furious,\" Mr Huet added.\n\nThe witness ran away and tried to get help, the court heard.\n\nRedouane, 30, was shot dead by police minutes later, alongside his accomplices Khuram Butt and Youssef Zaghba.\n\nAnother witness told the court she too saw Mr Pigeard being wounded as she celebrated a friend's birthday.\n\nAndzelika Abokaityte said in a statement read to the court that she watched as the \"evil and smiling\" attacker grabbed hold of Mr Pigeard before stabbing him from behind.\n\n\"As he was stabbed, the attacker was looking around as if to find the next person to stab.\"\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'I'm going to die'\", the court heard.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March 2018\n\nA cinemagoer died after his neck got trapped in an electronic footrest as he searched for his phone and keys, an inquest heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, had been in a \"Gold Class\" seat at the Vue multiplex at Star City, Birmingham, last March.\n\nHis wife and staff spent 15 minutes trying to free him from the mechanism, a jury heard.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq died from \"catastrophic\" brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nAyesha Sardar told the inquest her husband \"went fully under the seat with just his legs sticking out\" while reaching for his possessions at the end of the film.\n\nJurors heard the footrest was initially in a raised position but started to come down \"very quickly\".\n\nMrs Sardar noticed it descended and tried unsuccessfully to hold it up before running for help.\n\nCinema staff then attempted to release Mr Rafiq for 15 minutes while she was taken outside, she said.\n\nStaff eventually managed to free Mr Rafiq by removing a bolt from the seat, which had trapped either the back or right side of his neck, the inquest was told.\n\nMrs Sardar said she \"ran back in\" when she heard he was not breathing, and \"saw that he was blue\".\n\nMr Rafiq, from Aston, Birmingham, died in hospital a week later.\n\nHis cause of death was confirmed as a cardiac arrest following compression of the neck.\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said he found it was \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nThe seats only work when a customer was seated, he said, and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, he said, adding that the force that came down on him would have been the equivalent of three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nMrs Sardar said her husband was \"always happy and positive\".\n\n\"His smile was the kindest and his heart was the greatest,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest, due to last a week, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The exact figure was not given, but Amazon is the biggest investor in Deliveroo's latest round of fund raising, which in total raised $575m (£450m).\n\nDeliveroo said it would use the money for international expansion, improving its service and to grow its delivery-only kitchens business.\n\nSeveral existing US investors also contributed to the fund raising.\n\nThe amount of capital invested in Deliveroo since it was founded in 2013 now totals more than $1.5bn, and the firm is one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies.\n\nDeliveroo founder and chief executive Will Shu said he was looking forward to working with \"such a customer-obsessed organisation\" like Amazon.\n\nAmazon said it was attracted by Deliveroo's \"innovative technology service\".\n\nThe backing from Amazon gives Deliveroo a boost against rivals such as JustEat and Uber Eats.\n\nThe online retailer briefly had its own UK food delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\n\"They [Amazon] weren't able to compete within the market so they've gone for the buying option instead. They've got the money behind them to do that,\" Louise Dudley, fund manager at investment firm Hermes, told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"It [Deliveroo] is not just a food delivery company it's very much a tech company. They have this tech platform that is seen is very attractive. They are able to expand into new areas and think about how people's tastes are evolving and be able to predict what stores will be successful. That predictive growth is very attractive to Amazon\".\n\nAmazon had previously been reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo over buying it.\n\nIt was already a fierce contest - now the battle to dominate the food delivery business in the UK just moved to a whole new level.\n\nIn a rare failure Amazon decided last year to pull its Restaurants food service out of a UK market where Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats were scrapping to be top dog. Now it's put its firepower behind Deliveroo, which was already confident that its technology platform gave it the edge.\n\nThe company will now use some of its extra cash to build more of its \"super kitchens\" expanding its offering beyond traditional restaurants and invest more in machine learning to speed up delivery times.\n\nWhether the market for food deliveries is quite as big as all the firms believe - and whether it stretches far beyond London twenty-somethings - remains to be seen but they all seem prepared to spend big money to win the lion's share.\n\nThe question is why did Amazon not just buy the whole business? Perhaps the ecommerce giant wanted to sample a starter before swallowing the whole three course meal.\n\nDeliveroo now operates in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK, but has a much smaller share of the market than rival Just Eat which dominates the food delivery sector.\n\nJust Eat's shares fell 8% in early trading, but analysts at Liberum said that despite the extra funding, Deliveroo was unlikely to become a serious competitor.\n\n\"Just Eat's market leading position will be incredibly difficult to overcome, especially given its strength in smaller towns.\n\n\"In the UK, it has an estimated 3-4 times greater share than Uber Eats and Deliveroo combined and, crucially, 60%+ of its customers are in small towns where it is effectively the only option for restaurants and where the Uber Eats/Deliveroo model just doesn't work because of the economics,\" Liberum said.\n\nMr Shu came up with the idea for the firm after he moved from New York to London as a banking analyst. He was working long hours and was frustrated by the fact so few restaurants delivered, a service he had used daily in the US.\n\nIn the firm's early days, Mr Shu delivered all the food himself on a motorbike, while Greg Orlowski, his co-founder who has since left the business, developed the booking technology from his home in the US. Mr Shu still claims to get on his bike once a week to deliver an order to customers in London, as a way of staying in touch with riders.\n\nAs well as the UK, Deliveroo now operates in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.\n\nGlobal sales at the firm more than doubled in 2017, jumping to £277m, but its losses continued to increase, doubling to nearly £185m as it invested in global expansion.\n\nThe firm uses more than 60,000 couriers - mostly using bikes or moped - to deliver food from restaurants to customers.\n\nDeliveroo does not employ its riders directly, but pays them per delivery.\n\nLast year, a group of 50 UK Deliveroo couriers won a six-figure payout after claiming they had been unlawfully denied holiday and minimum wages.", "A man accused of making false claims of abuse and murder against a string of public figures named just two people - his stepfather and Jimmy Savile - when he first told police, a court heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, said in a police interview in 2012 - which was shown to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court - that he had been abused by a \"group\".\n\nBut he did not name all those he later accused at that point.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nBeech, who has been described in court as a \"committed and manipulative\" paedophile himself, claimed he witnessed three child murders and had been sexually abused by a dozen senior figures.\n\nThe allegations prompted a Metropolitan police investigation between 2014 and 2016 costing £2m that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those he accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, one-time Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, and the former heads of MI5 and MI6.\n\nHe also named former head of the armed forces Lord Brammall and two other senior generals.\n\nThe court has heard that detectives from the Met Police, which investigated his account between 2014-2016, publicly described the claims as \"credible and true\".\n\nFootage of Beech's first police interview showed him telling a detective from Wiltshire police he had been abused by a group as a schoolboy and that Savile had joined in on occasion.\n\nOperation Yewtree - an investigation into the now-disgraced TV presenter who died in 2011 - was under way at the time and had referred Mr Beech to the Wiltshire force.\n\nDuring the interview, Beech said his alleged abuse started with his stepfather, Major Raymond Beech, who has since died.\n\nBeech said his stepfather introduced him to a \"Lieutenant Colonel\" in an army office, who later raped him on many occasions.\n\nAccording to the footage, when asked if he knew the identity of the Lt Col, Beech responded: \"I don't know names. I don't know how to describe him really.\"\n\nHe said the man was \"white, but not white, white but not suntanned. Just normal\".\n\nAsked how he knew Savile was one of those who allegedly abused him, Beech said: \"It was his voice\".\n\n\"He had a gold necklace. It's quite a long necklace,\" the defendant said.\n\nHe said there were about 20 people in the group, but when asked how many he could name, he replied: \"Definitive names? Two then I think. I don't know the others.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were any others he could describe, the defendant had replied: \"A lot of them just blur into one really. I don't know which goes with which.\"\n\nThe jury has previously heard that Beech told police an \"extraordinary tale\" when he made the accusations of abuse against a group of powerful figures.\n\nDuring his trial it has been revealed that Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.", "A woman who changed her name and moved cities to escape the scourge of revenge porn has issued a warning.\n\nMikala Monsoon has waived her right to anonymity as a victim of crime after discovering her images on a website containing folders full of women \"from every city in the UK\".\n\nShe says enough is enough and she wants the crime taken seriously.\n\nPolice Scotland are now investigating the file sharing website containing explicit images of women.\n\nMega.nz is a file-sharing website where people can share large collections of images, files and videos.\n\nThe website says it does not tolerate any illegal activity and its standard procedure is to disable the link and close the user's account.\n\nMs Monsoon was sent a link to the site by a concerned former school friend.\n\nThe site featured folders named by UK towns and cities\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There were two links. The first was girls in Scotland and had 146 names - one of which was my old name.\n\n\"Some had more images than others.\n\n\"There was another folder and instead of 146 names it had every city in the UK as an individual folder with sub-folders inside there. So this could be hundreds or thousands of people.\"\n\nMs Monsoon did not give her consent for the photos to be shared and is concerned others may not have either.\n\nThe photographs were not explicit, and she says she was oddly relieved.\n\n\"I was relieved because it was my old name and the photos were old and quite unrecognisable,\" she said. \"But I was very angry for the other people involved. I felt the need to speak out about it because it has happened so many times and some attention should be brought to this.\n\n\"It is not being dealt with properly.\"\n\nThe shared content included selfies, but also intimate, nude content. Some of the folders give away full names and locations of the women.\n\nMs Monsoon decided to speak out because it was the latest in a number of incidents she has endured over the past six years.\n\nIntimate images taken of her when she was 17 were shared and the pictures kept reappearing in different places. She changed her name by deed poll and started a new life in a different city to escape them.\n\nShe said: \"I've been featured on many websites, including this new one called Mega. I have been featured on a porn site, and on a forum board on reddit.com, one of the biggest sites on the internet.\"\n\nShe said she has experienced anxiety and felt ashamed and degraded in the past but now she is angry that the issue is not being dealt with properly.\n\n\"This first happened when I was very young and I thought my life was over. I worried about my family and what other people would think because the victims are blamed rather than the people spreading it. Lives are being torn apart by this.\"\n\nMs Monsoon is trying to help other victims and has set up the website revengeonrevengeporn.com to highlight the issue.\n\nThis isn't just fun and games and leaking some saucy pictures. This is stuff that will make people lose their entire will to live. It's serious\n\nThrough this, women featured on the Mega site have contacted her.\n\n\"It does - for many people - follow them around for their entire lives,\" she said.\n\n\"It affects their relationships, their careers, their opportunities.\"\n\nShe revealed: \"I've had people message me who are lawyers, nursery school teachers, and they say their lives are going to be ruined by this. And I've had people message me to say their friends have taken their own lives because of things like this.\n\n\"This isn't just fun and games and leaking some saucy pictures. This is stuff that will make people lose their entire will to live. It's serious.\"\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland, revenge porn is a specific criminal offence. (Northern Ireland is preparing amendments to include it in its Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill.)\n\nIt's described as \"the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress\".\n\nThe offence covers photos or videos showing people engaged in sexual activity which would not usually be done in public, or with their genitals, buttocks or breasts exposed or covered only with underwear.\n\nIt includes sharing the material as well as posting it online.\n\nIn England and Wales, the maximum punishment is two years in prison - in Scotland, it's five years.\n\nAnyone who discovers they have photos should report it to police.\n\nAnd Ms Monsoon believes those affected have to stop blaming themselves.\n\nShe said: \"It's not your fault. The shame should rest only with the culprits.\n\n\"A lot of the content is taken by someone else, completely unbeknownst to the victim in question. This ties in with all rape culture, and that should be highlighted - consent is being ignored more and more.\n\n\"We can't allow them to win.\"\n\nDet Supt Gordon McCreadie from Police Scotland said: \"Perpetrators often share, or threaten to share images as a way of trying to impose power and control over their victims in what can be an absolute betrayal of trust. There is under-reporting of non consensual sharing of intimate images, perhaps because people may feel embarrassed.\n\n\"What I would say to victims is don't be embarrassed - the police are not here to judge the way in which you conduct your personal life.\n\n\"Police Scotland remains committed to robustly investigating these matters. We encourage victims to come forward early which will better enable us to get evidence from any devices, or provide support to them, and advise how best to minimise impact.\"", "The aftermath of the Talbot Street bombing in Dublin\n\nThe widow of a man killed in one of the deadliest attacks of the Troubles has called on the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) to release \"secret\" files about the atrocity.\n\nEdward O'Neill was among 33 people killed in a series of loyalist bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in 1974.\n\nFriday marks the 45th anniversary of the attacks.\n\nMartha O'Neill said \"secret documents \" in Leo Varadkar's office could assist families in their search for justice.\n\nThe files were deposited with the taoiseach's office by the McEntee Commission, which investigated the Garda inquiry at the time.\n\n\"I personally ask the taoiseach to consider this reasonable and fair request,\" said Ms O'Neill.\n\nMs O'Neill's sons, Billy, then aged seven, and Eddie junior, aged five, were badly injured in the blast, but survived.\n\nThey had been with their father having a haircut before Billy's first communion the following day.\n\nThe families of those killed in the attacks are expected to mark the anniversary at a gathering in Dublin.\n\nIn the past, some of the relatives have used the anniversary to call on the British government to release classified security files on the attacks.\n\nThe Justice for the Forgotten lobby group has fought a long-running campaign for an open inquiry into allegations that British security agents colluded with the terrorists to plot the co-ordinated and sophisticated attacks.", "Bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament is the last roll of the dice for the prime minister\n\nLabour has finally pulled the plug on the Brexit talks with the government, at the end of a week in which they appeared to be on life support.\n\nSo is it, as some suggest, time to read the last rites on Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement Bill?\n\nLet's be clear - it will be challenging, to say the least, for the legislation to get through the Commons.\n\nBut reports of its demise may well have been exaggerated. It may not go down to immediate defeat. And this is why.\n\nA leaked memo from the government side, not agreed by Labour or the cabinet, contained a wheeze that could have been attractive to both leaderships.\n\nEven before the Withdrawal Agreement Bill makes its appearance, the memo suggested there could be a \"free vote\" in Parliament on another referendum.\n\nThis is rather different from what the shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, was suggesting - that there ought to be a \"confirmatory\" vote, as part of a package, on any agreed deal.\n\nThe leaders of both the main parties aren't keen on another public vote, to say the least. So a stand-alone Commons vote on the issue, divorced from the deal, would be more likely to go down to defeat - as it has on previous occasions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn could say to People's Vote supporters in his ranks: \"Oh, I did try for a referendum, but oops, it didn't work - so now let's just leave with the best possible deal.\"\n\nBut it would seem that this approach has been scuppered by Labour's wider negotiating team and, presumably, by the cabinet. I have had a strong steer that this proposal in the leaked government memo won't go ahead in this form.\n\nBut this might not be the setback it seems for the prime minister because supporters of another referendum may have no option but to vote initially for her bill.\n\nThere will be a vote at what's called, in parliamentary speak, second reading in the first week in June. If the prime minister is defeated at this point, it's basically the end of the road for her deal and her premiership.\n\nTheresa May's immediate fate could be in the hands of Labour MPs\n\nBut if MPs vote for the bill at second reading, they then get an opportunity to change it - and that would include an amendment on another referendum.\n\nSo it's not impossible that some people who hate Theresa May's deal give it their temporary backing so they can discuss improving it, or putting it to a public vote.\n\nTalks with Labour are over - but efforts to win over individual Labour MPs are not. Note the wording of Downing Street's statement that \"complete agreement\" hasn't been reached.\n\nSo expect to see some incentives in - or around - the Brexit bill for opposition MPs to back the government. For example, a commitment to stay in step with the EU on workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nAllies of Sir Keir have blamed the breakdown of the talks on the PM's inability to get a customs union compromise past her cabinet.\n\nBut if she keeps Conservative MPs on board in the legislation by eschewing a customs union but delivers a \"comprehensive\" (trust me, this word is important to some Labour MPs) temporary arrangement to last until the next election, some soft opposition to her deal may crumble.\n\nThen there is the argument put forward by the former Conservative minister Nick Boles, echoed off the record by some in Downing Street.\n\nIf the prime minister's bill gets shot down in flames there is no other readily available vehicle to prevent the default option of no deal. Indeed, No 10 insiders expect to see \"vociferous\" arguments for no deal if Theresa May's legislation falls.\n\nSome unions, such as the GMB and Unison, favour another referendum. But the leadership of Unite, which is closest to Mr Corbyn, essentially favours leaving with a deal - and Labour MPs will be made well aware of this.\n\nSo even if Labour formally opposes the bill at second reading, there could be a sizeable rebellion from those former Remainers representing Leave areas - safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't exactly be upsetting some powerful forces in the party.\n\nAnd the MPs who support what's called Common Market 2.0 could be crucial to the outcome. These are, broadly speaking, Labour MPs who are neither Corbynistas nor in favour of another referendum - such as Lucy Powell and Stephen Kinnock - and they are very keen to avoid no deal.\n\nHowever, if the Labour whip is to oppose, expect it to be rigorously enforced irrespective of the views of the party leader's office. So Mrs May's immediate fate may still be in the hands of opposition MPs\n\nThe forthcoming leadership contest may firm up opposition to Theresa May's bill on the Conservative benches\n\nBy putting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill out of its misery almost as soon as it appears, the prime minister's critics know she will vacate office sooner rather than later.\n\nBut some candidates will be keener for her to get Brexit over the line, even with a less than optimal deal, so they don't immediately get bogged down with difficult votes. It would also allow them to make their pitch based on the future relationship with the EU.\n\nSo could some of their supporters - irrespective of their public criticism of the deal - quietly vote to get it over the line?\n\nSet against all this, there is plenty of analysis in the public domain which will tell you how impossible it is for a deal to go through.\n\nBut right now, No 10 might well see \"highly improbable\" as grounds for optimism. Hope dies last, does it not?", "The dog helped raise the alarm after discovering the baby\n\nA dog in northern Thailand has rescued a newborn baby after it was buried alive, allegedly by its teenage mother.\n\nThe baby boy is said to have been abandoned by his mother, 15, to hide her pregnancy from her parents.\n\nPing Pong the dog was barking and digging in a field in Ban Nong Kham village. Its owner says he then noticed a baby's leg sticking out of the earth.\n\nLocals rushed the baby to hospital where doctors cleaned him up and declared he was healthy.\n\nPing Pong's owner, Usa Nisaikha, says it lost the use of one of its legs after being hit by a car.\n\nHe told Khaosod Newspaper: \"I kept him because he's so loyal and obedient, and always helps me out when I go to the fields to tend to my cattle. He's loved by the entire village. It's amazing.\"\n\nPing Pong is disabled since being hit by a car\n\nThe newborn's mother has been charged with child abandonment and attempted murder.\n\nPanuwat Puttakam, an officer at Chum Phuang police station, told the Bangkok Post she was now in the care of her parents and a psychologist.\n\nHe said that she regrets her actions.\n\nThe girl's parents have decided to raise the baby.", "Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran previously collaborated on the single Love Yourself\n\nEd Sheeran and Justin Bieber have scored a joint number one with their single I Don't Care.\n\nThe buoyant pop song amassed 123,825 combined sales, after being downloaded 22,000 times and streamed 13m times, said the Official Charts Company.\n\nIt takes Sheeran's tally of number ones to six, and Bieber's to seven, equalling acts like Kylie and U2.\n\nHowever, the duo didn't manage to topple Ariana Grande's record for the year's biggest-selling single.\n\nHer song 7 Rings notched up 126,240 combined sales when it was released in January.\n\nSheeran and Bieber could see a sales boost next week, though, after they released a new video in which Sheeran dances in his dressing gown and sings into a hair dryer; while Bieber dresses up as an ice cream cone.\n\nThe single marks their first duet - although Sheeran previously wrote Bieber's number one hit Love Yourself.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Lil Nas X stays put at number two with the country-rap crossover Old Town Road, while Stormzy's Vossi Bop drops from number one to number three.\n\nOn the albums chart, Pink spends a third week at number one with Hurts 2B Human, claiming the highest physical sales and digital downloads of the last week.\n\nHowever, she was beaten on streaming services by noir-pop star Billie Eilish, whose debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the week's most-played record.\n\nNext week will see Lewis Capaldi mounting a challenge for the top spot, with his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.\n\nHe faces competition from US pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, indie band The National and hip-hop producer DJ Khaled, who also release high-profile albums this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Love Yourself was for Sheeran's album\n• None Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Miss Young said it was her first night out with the stoma bag\n\nA theatre has changed its signage after a woman with Crohn's disease was berated by a group of women for using a disabled toilet.\n\nZoe Young was at Loughborough Town Hall when she was verbally abused.\n\nAfter raising the issue on Facebook, the 44-year-old received thousands of messages of support, including from the venue.\n\nIt has now placed signs on the doors of the accessible toilets reading \"Not Every Disability Is Visible\".\n\nMiss Young said: \"I was totally mortified by the reaction of these women and felt like breaking down in tears.\n\n\"People think if we're not in a wheelchair we shouldn't be using it.\"\n\nThe theatre has added extra signage after Miss Young was abused\n\nMiss Young has had Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and has a Radar key to use accessible toilets.\n\nLast month, she had an ileostomy, which is surgery to fit a stoma bag.\n\nIt was during the interval of a production of Rent that she was twice confronted for using the disabled toilet.\n\n\"This was my first evening out after having the surgery,\" she said.\n\n\"I was worried about whether anyone can see the bag, am I wearing the right clothes, worried about the bag leaking.\n\n\"I had all of those concerns and then to be faced with that was such a knockback.\"\n\nLoughborough Town Hall said it \"does not discriminate against anyone\" and \"recognises the need to make good quality facilities available to all of our guests\".\n\nA spokesman added Charnwood Borough Council was also considering similar action across its sites.\n\nMiss Young is hoping to get other venues and public places in Loughborough to follow suit.\n\n\"I know it's only a sign, but for people like me it means so much more,\" she added.\n\n\"This has got people thinking now.\"\n\nCrohn's & Colitis UK has also started a campaign to change people's perceptions of disabilities and end the stigma around using disabled toilets.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservatives have been accused of putting party over country as they look for a new leader with the Brexit deadline looming.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer.", "The captain of the Royal Navy's warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been removed from his command following reports that he misused an MoD car.\n\nThe Royal Navy confirmed Commodore Nick Cooke-Priest had been reassigned to a new role, without giving a reason.\n\nBut navy sources told the BBC that his removal was over his use of an official car for personal trips.\n\nA new commanding officer has been appointed to the £3bn aircraft carrier.\n\nThe BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said that \"while the offence may appear relatively minor, it was felt that his position had become untenable and that the commanding officer must be beyond reproach\".\n\n\"It is not the end of Cdre Cooke-Priest's naval career but it is a black mark and a humiliation to lose the command of Britain's largest and most expensive warship,\" our correspondent added.\n\nAnyone who has use of an MoD vehicle can only use it for official business, with each mile needing to be recorded.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"We can confirm Captain Nick Cooke-Priest has been reassigned to a new role.\n\n\"We can only say that management action is ongoing and it would therefore be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nCdre Cooke-Priest, who joined the Royal Navy in 1990, had been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October.", "Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election\n\nIn a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.\n\nThe task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.\n\nMost Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.\n\nIt's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.\n\nHere are four of the most challenging locations to reach.\n\n\"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them,\" says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.\n\nHis team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.\n\nIn many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.\n\nTwo voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010\n\nLarger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.\n\nAlthough voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, \"democracy sausages\" are less likely.\n\n\"Some [people] are off hunting and fishing when we arrive,\" he says.\n\nBut nonchalance is less common than engagement: \"Often, community members are waiting patiently for us. This is important to them because of the hard-fought right to vote.\"\n\nIndigenous Australians weren't granted the right to vote until 1962, and indigenous enrolment rate today is lower than the general population, at 76.4%.\n\nThe Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been sending mobile voting teams out to remote indigenous communities since 1984.\n\nThe places visited, such as Arnhem Land, are often so remote, postal services are unreliable or not commonly used, which is why AEC representatives undertake remarkable journeys to reach them.\n\n\"One of my team recently travelled 100km [60 miles] on a dirt road to a small community,\" Mr Bloom says.\n\nVoters line up in Warruwi, Northern Territory, in 2013\n\n\"Torrential rain had washed the road out - rivers ran across it. They still got there - just 90 minutes late.\"\n\nYes, really. Forty-nine Australian expeditioners are registered \"Antarctic electors\" in 2019. They're a mix of technicians, tradespeople and scientists.\n\nMore than 500 Australians go south to Antarctica every year. Travel is possible only between October and March, via an icebreaker ship or a plane which lands on an ice runway.\n\nVoting in the Australian general election even takes place in Antarctica\n\nOutside of those months, numbers drop right down; there are currently 74 Australians there. They'll stay for 12-14 months.\n\nBallot boxes are already at the stations, which are recognised as official polling places under Australian legislation. At each station, an expeditioner is appointed Antarctic Returning Officer.\n\nMark Horstman from the Australian Antarctic Division tells the BBC: \"There's no way for ballot boxes to be transported between Antarctica and Australia. The voting procedure is completely paper-based. Once the poll closes, the returning officer reads each vote over the phone.\"\n\nThere are at least 274 Torres Strait islands off Australia's northern coast; 17 are inhabited.\n\nA total of 4,231 Torres Strait Islanders have registered to vote this year. That's 16 more than in the 2016 election.\n\nOfficially, the islands are part of Queensland - so AEC staff travel out to many of these islands, too. But before they do, they must write to the traditional owners of the land and ask permission to visit.\n\nMasig Island, one of an estimated 274 Torres Strait islands\n\nIt's granted with enthusiasm, says David Stuart, who runs the indigenous electoral participation programme, and says three teams will head out by boat and helicopter.\n\nAnd they face particular challenges when they're there.\n\n\"When you're flying around, they look picture postcard perfect. But on the ground they can be very tropical, windswept and absolutely torrential. We have to waterproof everything.\"\n\nTo give a sense of how far the islands are from metropolitan Australia, from some of the more northern ones, he says, you can actually see Papua New Guinea.\n\nIt isn't just indigenous communities that are remote in Australia - the AEC also sends out representatives to rural farms and mining sites such as Leinster - a remote mining village of 500 residents, 1,000km north-east of Perth. Only employees of mining company BHP live there.\n\nAccording to Mr Bloom, fewer miners attend polling booths than used to be the case: \"The postal vote tends to be their preference, so we're not mobile polling them as much these days.\"\n\nRemote mines and farms are visited by Australian election officials to make voting accessible to everyone\n\nThey could be missing out on election day fun, though.\n\n\"One of my team leaders was setting up in central Queensland and a dog was under the table,\" Mr Bloom says. \"They set up the booth around it, not wishing to wake it from relaxing in the sun.\n\n\"Then suddenly someone shouted, 'There's a dingo under the table!' The issuing officer jumped up and knocked the electronic tablet into the dirt!\n\n\"The dingo woke up, and ran off.\"\n\nDingoes, flooded roads, interpreters: nothing deters these teams from encouraging voting.\n\n\"As far as voting options go, we're one of the most open and accessible systems in the world,\" says the AEC's Evan Ekin-Smyth.", "Ms Sturgeon said the SNP has set out a \"positive, progressive\" vision in its manifesto\n\nNicola Sturgeon has insisted there is a \"real chance\" for Scotland to stay part of the EU as she launched the SNP's manifesto for the European elections.\n\nThe SNP leader said voting for her party in next Thursday's election would be an opportunity to \"make Scotland's voice heard\".\n\nShe claimed Westminster had \"ignored the overwhelming vote in Scotland\" to remain in the EU.\n\nAnd she described the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming PM as a \"nightmare\".\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is Scotland's first minister, has backed calls for another referendum on Brexit - a so-called People's Vote.\n\nShe has also said she wants another referendum on Scottish independence within the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nAmong the manifesto's key pledges are:\n\nSpeaking at the manifesto launch in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon urged voters to back the SNP in order to \"send the powerful message that Scotland is for Europe\".\n\nShe added: \"We can stand up for Scotland's right to be heard, and we can proclaim our determination to remain a European nation.\n\n\"On 23 May people can send Theresa May - or whoever comes after her - a strong and resolute message: Stop Brexit and let's keep Scotland at the very heart of Europe.\"\n\nThe party's six election candidates joined Ms Sturgeon at the manifesto launch\n\nMs Sturgeon said her party was willing to work with others across the UK to give people a \"final say\" on whether the UK should leave the EU, and insisted that there is now \"a real chance to keep Scotland in the European Union.\"\n\nShe said: \"Any Brexit deal agreed by Westminster must be put to the people with Remain on the ballot paper. If no deal is the only alternative, Article 50 must be revoked.\n\n\"Scotland must have the choice of becoming an independent, European nation - and we can proclaim our determination to remain a European nation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon went on to accuse the UK Government of having \"ignored the overwhelming vote in Scotland\" from the 2016 EU referendum, when 62% of Scottish voters backed the UK remaining in the EU.\n\nShe claimed the Conservative government at Westminster had \"dismissed all attempts at compromise from the Scottish government\" and had also \"disregarded, time and again, the views of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nThe SNP leader added: \"Taking Scotland out of the EU against our will does not deliver on the result of the referendum.\n\n\"For people in Scotland, pressing ahead with Brexit doesn't deliver on the referendum, it overturns that referendum.\n\n\"And Brexit does something else: it gives the lie to the notion that Labour and the Tories see the United Kingdom as a partnership of equal nations.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is widely seen as the favourite to replace Theresa May as prime minister after she stands down\n\nWith Theresa May having outlined plans to leave Downing Street, Ms Sturgeon said the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming the next prime minister was now \"a deadly serious possibility and for Scotland it would be a nightmare\".\n\nThe first minister said: \"Faced with Brexit - and very possibly an extreme Farage-Johnson style Brexit - people in Scotland deserve the right to decide whether Scotland should become an independent member of the EU instead.\"\n\nAnd she said the SNP's \"positive, progressive\" manifesto for the vote \"makes clear our determination to stay in the EU\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In this manifesto you will see strong and unequivocal support for free movement. It is good for Scotland and it is good for Europe.\n\n\"The SNP celebrates and values all those who choose to make Scotland their home, and SNP MEPs will take that welcoming message to the heart of Europe.\"\n\nThe SNP won two of Scotland's six seats in the European Parliament at the last EU election in 2014.", "Eve Myles stars in Keeping Faith, which had 17 million BBC iPlayer requests for the first series\n\nA TV critic's comments about Eve Myles's legs have been called \"bigoted\" and \"creepy\" by the actress's husband.\n\nBradley Freegard, who stars with Ms Myles in the drama Keeping Faith, criticised the comments of a columnist of Welsh language magazine Golwg.\n\nHuw Onllwyn reviewed the opening episode of the drama's second series, which aired on S4C in Welsh on Sunday.\n\nMr Onllwyn said he was questioning why producers had dressed Ms Myles in \"high heels and a short skirt\".\n\nIn this week's edition of Golwg, Mr Onllwyn wrote: \"There's no doubt that Eve Myles has lovely legs - which look even better in a pair of high heels.\"\n\nHe also said Ms Myles's legs were one of the only things in the first episode that would make him watch the second.\n\nThe English version of the drama's new series will be on BBC One in the summer.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Mr Onllwyn said he believed Ms Myles had been dressed specifically to boost ratings and had used an \"ironic and satirical approach\" to \"highlight the issue\".\n\nHe apologised that \"this element of satire was not conveyed clearly enough\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Onllwyn's comments were criticised by some social media users, including Mr Freegard who plays Evan Howells in the TV series.\n\nMr Freegard tweeted: \"Such bigoted views are totally unacceptable and lets be honest down right creepy.\"\n\nMiriam Isaac said she felt \"upset\" and \"angry\" when she read the column\n\nMiriam Isaac tweeted after she read the article that it \"objectified women\".\n\nMs Isaac, 30, who lives in Cardiff said: \"Straight away I felt upset and I was angry, embarrassed because I thought - really?\n\n\"For too long women have accepted that this sort of behaviour is OK and I thought no, it is time to speak out.\"\n\nShe added the hundreds of likes and re-tweets to her post was \"amazing to see so many different people who didn't want to stand for it\".\n\nDylan Iorwerth, editorial director of Golwg, said: \"Columnists express personal opinions, but myself and Golwg's editor will discuss the content of this column and will seriously consider the comments that have been made.\"", "The case of Aras Amiri, who was this week jailed in Iran, is one trigger for the change in travel advice, says BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins\n\nThe Foreign Office has hardened its travel advice for Iran, advising British-Iranian dual nationals not to travel there.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said dual nationals face an \"intolerable risk of mistreatment\" and arbitrary detention.\n\nAnd Iranians with links to British institutions are also at risk of falling under suspicion in Iran, the advice adds.\n\nIt comes after British Council worker Aras Amiri was jailed for spying.\n\nThe Iranian national, who was arrested while on a visit to see her ill grandmother, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran on Monday.\n\nThe Foreign Office updated its advice on Friday.\n\nMr Hunt also warned that Iranian nationals living in the UK should exercise \"caution\" when returning to Iran to visit family and friends.\n\nMr Hunt also issued a message of caution to Iranians living in the UK\n\n\"Dual nationals face an intolerable risk of mistreatment if they visit Iran,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Despite the UK providing repeated opportunities to resolve this issue, the Iranian regime's conduct has worsened.\n\n\"Having exhausted all other options, I must now advise all British-Iranian dual nationals against travelling to Iran.\"\n\nMr Hunt added: \"The dangers they face include arbitrary detention and lack of access to basic legal rights, as we have seen in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been separated from her family since 2016.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual British-Iranian national, is serving five years in prison for spying - a charge she denies.\n\nAccording to the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, the Foreign Office seems to have concluded that prospects for her release have worsened, and that people who live in Britain who have connections to the country are now at even greater risk of being arrested and then jailed for long periods.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nFor British nationals, the advice is to consider carefully the risks of travelling to Iran.\n\nThe Iranian government does not recognise dual nationality, considering dual British-Iranian nationals as Iranian citizens.\n\nThe new travel advice comes as tensions between Tehran and the West - in particular the US - have heightened in recent times.", "The owners of Tardar Sauce confirmed she died on Tuesday\n\nGrumpy Cat, the feline famous on the internet for her permanent scowl, has died aged seven, her owners say.\n\nA statement says she died on Tuesday following complications from a recent urinary tract infection.\n\nThe cat from Arizona had \"helped millions of people smile\".\n\nGrumpy, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, went viral in 2012 after photographs of her sour expression emerged online. Her image quickly spread as a meme.\n\nAccording to owner Tabitha Bundesen, her facial expression was caused by feline dwarfism and an underbite.\n\nGrumpy Cat travelled the world making television appearances and in 2014 even starred in her own Christmas film.\n\nMadame Tussauds in San Francisco unveiled a waxwork of her in 2015.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grumpy Cat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2018, the cat's owners won a $710,000 (£555,000) payout in a copyright lawsuit.\n\nGrumpy Cat Limited sued the owners of the US coffee company Grenade for exceeding an agreement over the cat's image.\n\nThe company only had rights to use the cat to sell its \"Grumppuccino\" iced drink, but was also selling other Grumpy products.\n\nMs Bundesen previously worked as a waitress before her beloved pet gained internet stardom. She told the Express newspaper that she quit her job \"within days\" of Grumpy's first appearance on social media.", "More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, two studies of the disease in European and high-income countries have found.\n\nAlthough total numbers of cases in young people remain low, the studies highlighted a sharp rise in rates in 20 to 29-year-olds.\n\nResearchers are not clear why this is happening, but say obesity and poor diet could be factors.\n\nExperts urged doctors not to ignore symptoms in young people.\n\nIn most of Europe, bowel cancer screening programmes start at the age of 50 because cases of the disease are much higher among this older age group.\n\nAs a result, countries with established programmes, like the UK, have seen bowel cancer rates in the over-50s fall.\n\nBut recent research suggests rates are now rising more steeply among under-50s - and there have been calls for screening to start at 45 instead, in the US particularly.\n\nIn a study in the journal Gut, Dutch researchers analysed trends in 20 European countries, including the UK, Germany, Sweden and France, using data from more than 143 million people.\n\nThey found a rise in cases of bowel cancer between 1990 and 2016 in most countries - with the most significant increase among people in their 20s.\n\nFor them, bowel cancer incidence increased from 0.8 to 2.3 cases per 100,000 people over 26 years - with the sharpest rise in rates, of 7.9% per year, occurring between 2004 and 2016.\n\nBut there was no increase in deaths from bowel cancer for this age group, the study found.\n\nAmong people in their 30s, rates of bowel cancer also rose - but less steeply - and among 40-somethings rates fluctuated.\n\nThe researchers, from the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, said if the trend continued, screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered.\n\nAnother study, in the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, appeared to confirm the trend among young adults in high-income countries, including the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.\n\nIt found a 1.8% increase in colon cancer cases and 1.4% rise in rectal cancer cases in people under 50 in the UK between 1995 and 2014 .\n\nOver the same period, there were decreases in bowel cancer cases of 1.2% in the over-50s.\n\nThe findings were similar in many of the countries studied.\n\nDr Marzieh Araghi, lead study author from International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, said the findings highlighted the need for action.\n\n\"While population-based screening in people under 50 years old is not considered to be cost-effective due to relatively low incidence numbers, family history could help to identify younger people at high risk of genetic susceptibility to colorectal cancer, for further assessment,\" she said.\n\nDr Araghi added that more studies were needed \"to establish the root causes of this rising incidence to enable the development of effective preventive and early-detection strategies\".\n\nAndrew Beggs, consultant colorectal surgeon from the University of Birmingham, said rising rates of bowel cancer among young patients \"must be urgently investigated\".\n\n\"This means the age at which bowel cancer screening needs to start may have to change to screen people at a younger age, and people under the age of 50 with any 'red flag' symptoms (bleeding, a change in bowel habit, weight loss or tummy pain) should get it checked out as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nDr Marco Gerlinger, from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, said he had noticed increasing numbers of young patients with bowel cancer for some time.\n\n\"These large and high-quality studies provide solid data to support this trend,\" he said.\n\nAnd he added: \"These results are a call to action to raise awareness among staff in GP practices and hospitals to consider bowel cancer as a diagnosis when young people come to them with pain, changes in bowel habits or blood in their stool.\n\n\"The new studies show a clear need to dedicate more efforts to understanding the lifestyle factors that trigger bowel cancers in young people and to rethink how screening may need to be adjusted to prevent such devastating cancers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An F-16 fighter jet has crashed into a warehouse near a base outside Los Angeles, leaving the pilot and workers on the ground with minor injuries.\n\nThe pilot ejected before impact, and the small fire that broke out was quickly suppressed by the building's sprinkler system.\n\nThe US Air Force says five people on the ground were injured. They have not confirmed if ammunition was onboard.\n\nOne warehouse worker captured the aftermath in a Facebook post.\n\n\"That's a military airplane in our building,\" Jeff Schoffstall said in his mobile phone video.\n\n\"So the turbines are spinning, there's no roof on the building so you're looking through the roof, the walls are gone,\" he continued.\n\nA hole in the warehouse roof was filmed by news helicopters\n\nThe crash happened at about 15:45 local time (23:45 GMT) outside the March Air Reserve Base in Perris.\n\n\"It just shook the whole building,\" employee Baldur Castro told CBS, adding that one worker had been knocked to the ground.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Jeff This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nRoads to the warehouse have been blocked off as hazardous materials crews examine the rubble.\n\nAccording to the Air Force Reserve, the jet was based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was flying a training mission for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.\n\nThe pilot's parachute was located in a nearby field", "Grave concerns have been raised about the sexual abuse of children in detention in the UK by independent experts at the United Nations.\n\nReviewing the UK's record, the United Nations Committee Against Torture cited a report into the abuse of some 1,000 children in custody from 2009-2017.\n\nFew cases of such sexual abuse seem to have been investigated, the UN said.\n\nThe government said it would note the recommendations, adding that the UK had a tradition of protecting human rights.\n\nThe UN committee called on the UK to ensure all allegations of violence against children in detention were promptly and impartially investigated, adding that the information provided by the UK about the problem was insufficient.\n\nIt said historical claims of torture by security services in Northern Ireland must be addressed, too.\n\nThe committee also called for the age of criminal responsibility, currently 10 in England and Wales and 12 in Scotland, to be raised.\n\nIt added that the UK must report back on the abuse of children in custody and on Northern Ireland within a year.\n\nThe UN committee, which is meeting in Geneva, published its recommendations on Friday following the review.\n\nIn particular, it raised evidence from the UK's own Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) of the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children in detention between 2009 to 2017.\n\nCommittee member and lead UN expert for the review of the UK Felice Gaer said the IICSA's report was \"stunning in detail and in the horror that it sets forth\".\n\nThe IICSA looked at young offender facilities, secure training centres and secure children's homes as part of a wider investigation into child abuse in England and Wales.\n\nMany of the incidents involved staff inappropriately touching detainees during body searches or instances of restraint.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said it was already conducting an urgent review into safeguarding in the youth estate following the IICSA.\n\nIn the last decade the number of children in youth custody has fallen by over 70%, it said.\n\nResponding to the committee recommendations, an MoJ spokesperson added: \"The UK has a longstanding tradition of ensuring rights and liberties are protected domestically and of fulfilling our international human rights obligations.\n\n\"We note the recommendations of the United Nations Committee Against Torture and will respond in due course.\"\n• None Children in custody 'not safe from abuse'", "I M Pei, the architect behind buildings including the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris, has died aged 102.\n\nTributes have been pouring in, remembering him for a lifetime of designing iconic structures worldwide.\n\nPei's designs are renowned for their emphasis on precision geometry, plain surfaces and natural light.\n\nHe carried on working well into old age, creating one of his most famous masterpieces - the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar - in his 80s.\n\nIeoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou in 1917, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard.\n\nHe worked as a research scientist for the US government during World War Two, and went on to work as an architect, founding his own firm in 1955.\n\nOne of the 20th Century's most prolific architects, he has designed municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures across North America, Asia and Europe.\n\nQatar's Islamic Museum of Art is one of Pei's most famous designs\n\nThe architect also designed the Suzhou Museum in China, which was completed in 2006\n\nHis style was described as modernist with cubist themes, and was influenced by his love of Islamic architecture. His favoured building materials were glass and steel, with a combination of concrete.\n\nPei sparked controversy for his pyramid at the Louvre Museum. The glass structure, completed in 1989, is now one of Paris' most famous landmarks.\n\nHis other work includes Dallas City Hall and Japan's Miho Museum.\n\n\"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity,\" he once said.\n\nHe was won a variety awards and prizes for his buildings, including the AIA Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture.\n\nIn 1983 Pei was given the prestigious Pritzker Prize. The jury said he had he \"has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms\".\n\nHe used his $100,000 prize money to start a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study architecture in America.", "All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday.\n\nLanding cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area.\n\nBorder Force director general Paul Lincoln, in a letter to staff, said it would \"help meet the challenge of growing passenger numbers\".\n\nAround 16 million landing cards are issued every year and they are used to record what is said to border staff on arrival, as well as the reasons for travel and conditions of entry.\n\nThe Home Office had agreed to scrap them for seven countries, including the US and Australia, from June, but has now decided to go further.\n\nA document from officials to Border Force staff, seen by the BBC, says much of the data collected by paper landing cards will soon be available digitally.\n\nIt adds that the withdrawal of the cards will enable staff to \"focus more on your interaction with passengers\".\n\nBut Immigration Service Union general secretary, Lucy Moreton, accused the Home Office of \"ignoring\" warnings from experienced staff as to the longer-term impact of getting rid of landing cards.\n\nShe said that the union had been assured that scrapping them would not happen until new technology was in place to record international arrivals.\n\n\"Although in most cases landing cards are retained for purely statistical reasons they do contain the only record of what was said to an officer on arrival,\" she said.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Lincoln said he recognised concerns about the scheme.\n\nBut he added: \"These changes will enable frontline officers to focus their skills and time on border security issues and on cohorts who present the greatest risk of immigration abuse.\"\n\nThe decision to scrap landing cards comes after the government announced it was extending the use of e-gates at UK borders to citizens of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.\n\nCurrently the gates, which scan e-passports, are reserved for European Economic Area citizens.", "Tensions have risen between Iran under President Hassan Rouhani and the US under President Donald Trump\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he does not want a war with Iran amid rising tensions between the two countries, according to senior officials.\n\nIn a meeting on Wednesday the president told aides he did not want US pressure to turn into a conflict.\n\nThe US has deployed warships and planes to the Gulf and withdrawn diplomatic staff from Iraq in recent days.\n\nOfficials cited threats from Iran for the moves.\n\nThe latest frictions come after Iran suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, and threatened to resume production of enriched uranium.\n\nThe accord aimed to cut sanctions on Iran in exchange for an end to its nuclear programme, but the US unilaterally withdrew from the agreement last year and imposed new sanctions.\n\nTehran has allegedly placed missiles on boats in the Gulf, and US investigators reportedly believe the country damaged four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates - claims Iran has denied.\n\nBut when asked by reporters on Thursday if the US was going to war with Iran, Mr Trump answered: \"I hope not.\"\n\nThe president's National Security Adviser John Bolton warned Iran there would be \"hell to pay\" if they harmed the US or its allies last September.\n\nIran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday called on China and Russia to protect the 2015 nuclear deal with \"concrete action\".\n\n\"So far the international community has mostly released statements rather than taking action,\" Mr Zarif said at a meeting in Beijing with China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi.\n\nA Twitter account linked to Iranian MP Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh meanwhile reportedly called for a \"red desk\" in a third country to attempt to manage current tensions between Iran and the US.\n\nThe UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the tensions on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nIn the US, the New York Times reports Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reaching out to allies in Europe and elsewhere for help to lower tensions.\n\nA state department release says Mr Pompeo spoke with Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said on Wednesday about \"Iranian threats to the Gulf region\".\n\nThe ruler has long served as an intermediary between Iran and the West, including during nuclear deal talks under President Barack Obama.\n\nThe call followed Mr Pompeo's trip to Russia, where he said his country \"fundamentally\" did not seek a conflict, but added that the US would \"certainly respond in an appropriate fashion\" if US interests were attacked.\n\nSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this week stressed there would be no conflict.\n\n\"We don't seek a war, nor do they,\" he said in remarks carried on state media.\n\nReports say two US destroyers passed through the Strait of Hormuz without incident on Thursday.\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity. Their goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran.\n\nThe reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.\n\nIn just a few days, the US has deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to the region and reportedly drawn up plans to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East.\n\nDiplomatic staff have been ordered to leave Iraq, and the US military have raised the threat level in the region because of alleged intelligence about Iran-backed forces - contradicting a British general who had said there was \"no increased threat\".\n\nDutch and German soldiers said they had suspended their military training programmes in the country.\n\nOn Friday, Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of a drone attack on a pipeline, alleging that Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted the strike on Iran's orders.\n\nA state-aligned Saudi newspaper called for the US to launch attacks on the country.", "The tissue slides were buried together in one small coffin\n\nMore than 300 tiny pieces of human tissue from prisoners executed by the Nazis have been buried in Berlin.\n\nThe samples were found in microscopic slides at a property that belonged to Hermann Stieve - an anatomy professor at the Charité university hospital.\n\nHeirs of the doctor, who died in 1952, discovered the collection in 2016.\n\nResearchers say Stieve systematically collaborated with the Nazis to receive the bodies of 184 people, mostly women, executed for political resistance.\n\nSome of the women whose bodies were used by Stieve (pic: GDW)\n\nThe tissue pieces - most less than a millimetre long - were discovered at Stieve's estate, stored in small black boxes, including some labelled with names.\n\nOnce found, they were handed to Berlin's Charité university hospital, who tasked staff at the German Resistance Memorial Center (GDW) to research their history.\n\nThe burial ceremony on Monday took place at Berlin's Dorotheenstadt Cemetery. The grave is near an existing memorial to victims of the Nazis.\n\nThe samples were interred in one small coffin measuring 30cm x 30cm x 40cm (12ins x 12ins x 16ins), GDW director Johannes Tuchel told the BBC.\n\nSome of the people dissected by Stieve were high-profile - including 13 women from the Red Orchestra anti-Nazi resistance group.\n\nResearch under Prof Tuchel shows that bodies were picked up by a driver and taken to Stieve, sometimes just minutes after they were killed at Berlin-Plötzensee prison.\n\nHe then dissected them for research, before discreetly cremating and interring their bodies anonymously.\n\nProf Tuchel told the BBC that Stieve's dissections took place in 1942-1943. He sent the bodies to Wilmersdorf for cremation and later sent the victims' ashes to Parkfriedhof Marzahn, a Berlin cemetery.\n\n\"He did not deal with concentration camp victims,\" Prof Tuchel said, adding that Stieve \"did not work with Nazi doctors\".\n\nAlmost 3,000 people were executed at Plötzensee by beheading or hanging while Hitler was in power.\n\nHermann Stieve used the bodies of executed prisoners\n\n\"We have discovered that (Stieve) systematically aided the (Nazi) Reich justice ministry in obliterating the traces of these criminal acts,\" Prof Tuchel told German newspaper Bild.\n\nStieve served as the director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 until he died following a stroke in 1952.\n\nThe anatomist's use of the prisoners' corpses had been kept almost in plain sight, because he kept meticulous records of his work.\n\nHe had a particular interest in reproductive anatomy.\n\nHis work was some of the first research to suggest that stress - in the form of being sentenced to death - could disrupt a woman's menstrual cycle.\n\nOne of the Charité researchers, Andreas Winkelmann of Brandenburg Medical School, told the AFP news agency that burial of such small specimens was highly unusual.\n\n\"But this is a special story, because they came from people who were actively denied graves, so that their relatives would not know where they are buried,\" he added.\n\nDr Sabine Hildebrandt is a German-born anatomist who published a book about ethical transgressions and anatomical science in the Nazi period.\n\nIn 2013 she explained to the BBC that Stieve exploited their policies, including the increased use of the death penalty as a punishment.\n\nTens of thousands of political opponents were murdered by the Nazis\n\n\"Before 1933, he was able to source the bodies of executed men, but no women; Germany was not executing women,\" she said.\n\n\"Then, suddenly, during the Third Reich, women were being executed too.\"\n\nBecause he was not a member of the Nazi party, Stieve was not prosecuted after World War Two.\n\nIn a statement, Dr Karl Max Einhäupl, CEO of the Charité, said the burial was part of an effort by the hospital to confront its - and German medicine's - difficult relationship with Nazism.\n\n\"By burying the microscopic specimens at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, we want to help restore to the victims some of their dignity,\" he said.", "Thick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nA light aircraft has crashed on to a main road but managed to avoid hitting any cars.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the three people on board survived the incident on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nThe service was called to the crash at about 11:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said the three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nTwo motorists, Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, a former army bomb disposal officer, helped to rescue those on board the aircraft.\n\nMr Nicholson, who was first on the scene, said the plane was upside down.\n\nHe said: \"We could only see two people at first - they were screaming as the plane was on fire.\"\n\nMr Nicholson added that he was \"worried we weren't going to be able to get them out\".\n\nHe went on to say that without Mr Snarr's help, he probably would not have been able to rescue those on board.\n\nMr Snarr explained he saw the plane appear \"out of nowhere\" and \"burst into smoke and some flames\".\n\n\"It was a miracle no one else was on the road,\" he said.\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from Daniel Nicholson. The plane crashed on the A40 near Abergavenny\n\nThe fire service said three people were treated for minor injuries at the scene\n\nRhodri Jones, who lives about two miles from the scene at Llanover said: \"I was in the house and heard a loud explosion.\n\n\"Initially we thought it was rail crash because the line is nearby. There was thick smoke.\"\n\nBBC reporter Rhodri Tomos' train from Cardiff to Manchester had to make an emergency stop just before Abergavenny.\n\nHe said: \"The guard said that a light aircraft has crashed into some power cables and the cables have hit the train.\n\n\"We could smell some burning and we were at a stop for about 15 minutes.\"\n\nThe smoke could be seen by motorists on the A40\n\nGwent Police said in a statement: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\n\n\"Three occupants of the light aircraft were treated by paramedics at the scene. Their injuries are not life-threatening.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch is aware of the incident and is making initial inquiries.\n\nIt is the second time in three years in which a light aircraft crashed on the same stretch of road.\n\nThree people sustained minor injuries when the four-seater Piper Warrior II came down in 2016.", "Traffic cones and rocks have been used to discourage parking\n\nA Scottish aristocrat has been accused of making \"strenuous efforts\" to stop people from using a popular riverside walk near his Highlands home.\n\nLord Lovat, Simon Fraser, has blocked off car parking areas at Lovat Bridge near Beauly, making the walking route inaccessible for many people.\n\n\"Unofficial\" parking tickets have also been left on cars parked in the area.\n\nA spokesman for Lovat estates said it welcomed walkers but asked that they used public parking.\n\nRocks and traffic cones have been used to block lay-bys and other areas used for parking, local residents have said.\n\nLord Lovat recently returned to live in his ancestral lands but has upset local people by the moves.\n\nWalkers say he has removed a well-used car park and blocked up other areas.\n\nA walking group for older people and families with young children are among those affected.\n\nLord Lovat's estate has asked that people use public parking and not park on a private road\n\nLiz Hoey, a local resident who has been walking in the area for the past 20 years, said she had enjoyed the previous ease access to her walk because of arthritis.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"They want you to park in Beauly but that would add on so much of a walk and it's a single track pavement with big lorries rushing past.\n\n\"This pavement is not good for either dog walkers or small children. A lot of people I know that used to walk there just can't now, including a friend who leads the Beauly Walking Group which is a walking group for older people who are trying to exercise to keep healthy and they can't park anywhere near.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed about the whole thing because it's a beautiful walk that people have used for years.\"\n\nA spokesman for Lovat Estates said: \"We are asking people not to park down a private road, they are very welcome to walk, as is their right.\"\n\nHe said this was because the estate had to pay for the maintenance and upkeep costs of the road which were \"considerable\".\n\nThe spokesman also said a number of verges were being ruined by cars parking on them and cars were blocking access for the estate's farm vehicles.\n\nLocal people say they previously had unrestricted access to the riverside walk\n\nHowever, he said the estate had made improvements to benefit walkers, including installing a fence alongside a core path to help walkers who were worried about walking through livestock and by replacing dead and dying trees.\n\nA Highland Council spokesperson said: \"The River Beauly - Lovat Circuit is not on the Catalogue of Rights of Way maintained by Scotways, no-one has provided the council with evidence that any of it is a public right of way and, as a circuit, it is unlikely to meet the requirements of a public right of way. The council has received several complaints about it.\n\n\"The complaints have been about the diversion of the path by the river; and the closure of a car park near the Dutch Barn at the junction of the A862 and A831 (notices being placed on cars and walkers being approached while out walking).\"\n\nDavie Black, access officer at Mountaineering Scotland, which represents the interests of outdoor pursuits enthusiasts including walkers, said Scotland had some of the best land access legislation.\n\nBut he said car parking was not protected under the Land Reform Act.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme: \"Where you don't have a right of vehicular access this is where we come into a problematic area.\n\n\"Where do you put your cars when you want to take to the hills?\"\n\nHighland Council said the River Beauly was not on the Catalogue of Rights of Way", "Day starred in films with the likes of Rock Hudson and Clark Gable\n\nVeteran actress and singer Doris Day has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the LA Film Critics Association (LAFCA).\n\nThe organisation's president, Brent Simon, described Day as \"the biggest female star of the 1960s\".\n\n\"Doris Day is still arguably the template to which Hollywood turns when trying to quantify and capture 'girl next door' appeal,\" he added.\n\nLAFCA will vote for the winners of its 2011 awards on 11 December.\n\nDay left the world of showbusiness more than 30 years ago to found the Doris Day Animal Foundation.\n\nBut she has continued to be recognised, receiving a Golden Globe for lifetime achievement in 1989 and an honorary Grammy in 2008.\n\nIn September, Day became the oldest artist to score a UK top 10 hit with an album featuring new material.\n\nMy Heart entered the chart at number nine, 62 years after the 87-year-old's debut album was released in the US.\n\nDay had more than 20 Top 10 hits in the UK and US during her career, including Que Sera, Sera and Secret Love.\n\nShe scored her first hit record in 1945 with Sentimental Journey as vocalist for the Les Brown Big Band Orchestra.\n\nDay went on be one of the most popular actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, starring in 39 films opposite the likes of Clark Gable and Rock Hudson.\n\nShe also recorded more than 600 songs and fronted two US TV series during her career.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police footage shows the moment a lorry driver makes a card payment on his phone at the wheel.\n\nThe West Mercia force spotted the trucker on the M40 in Warwickshire.\n\nHe was among more than 3,000 drivers filmed from three unmarked lorries in the past year.\n\nFrom the high vantage point of the \"super cabs\", police can look into the windows of passing trucks and gauge how well they are being driven.\n\nThe measures form part of a crackdown on dangerous driving on fast roads.\n\nSome drivers have been spotted with their feet up on the dashboard and watching TV.", "Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said he felt the need to intervene\n\nA cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.\n\nCardinal Konrad Krajewski said he acted in \"desperation\" because the occupants of the state-owned property had spent a week without power and hot water.\n\nActivists have been using the building to provide shelter for the homeless.\n\nThe electricity supplier cut the power due to debts of €300,000 (£260,000).\n\nThe sum is believed to have accumulated in the years since the unused building was taken over in 2013. It now houses more than 400 people, including nearly 100 children.\n\nMatteo Salvini, Italy's populist deputy prime minister, has said he now expects the papal aide to pay the overdue utility bills, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.\n\nOn Sunday, Cardinal Krajewski described how he had climbed down a manhole and removed seals covering a switch in order to turn the building's power supply back on.\n\n\"I intervened personally last night to reattach the meters. It was a desperate gesture. There were over 400 people without electricity, with families, children, without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators,\" he told Italy's Ansa news agency.\n\n\"I didn't do it because I was drunk,\" he reportedly added.\n\nThe building on Via di Santa Croce not only provides shelter, but today also houses workspaces, including a craft beer laboratory and a carpentry shop, Italian media report.", "US President Donald Trump has denied that US consumers will pay for higher tariffs on Chinese imports and has warned China not to follow suit.\n\nThe US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) of Chinese goods on Friday, in a sharp escalation of their trade war.\n\nBut in a series of tweets, Mr Trump said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\n\"Therefore, China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" he added.\n\nMr Trump said US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, Mr Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said \"both sides will suffer\" from the trade dispute.\n\nBut Mr Trump downplayed the impact of the tariff hike on the US.\n\n\"We are right where we want to be with China. Remember, they broke the deal with us & tried to renegotiate,\" Mr Trump wrote in another post on Twitter.\n\n\"We will be taking in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from China. Buyers of product can make it themselves in the USA (ideal), or buy it from non-tariffed countries.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Mr Kudlow admitted that it was American businesses that paid the tariffs on any goods brought in from China, and that US consumers would also foot the bill if firms passed on the cost increase.\n\nMr Kudlow said he thought the tariffs would also have an impact on China's economy, as the higher cost would reduce US demand for Chinese goods.\n\nOn Friday, the US increased a 10% tariff on $200bn worth of Chinese goods - including fish, handbags, clothing and footwear - to 25%.\n\nThe Office of the United States Trade Representative has also said it has been ordered to \"begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China, which are valued at approximately $300 billion\".\n\nChina has said it will retaliate but has not announced any details, including when it would take action.\n\nThe higher tariffs will be paid by American companies importing goods from China.\n\nEconomists have said a 25% tariff will be much harder for businesses to absorb than 10%, which means they are more likely to pass on some of the cost to consumers.\n\nAsked in an interview with Fox News Sunday whether it was correct to say that it was US businesses and US consumers who pay for the tariff, Mr Kudlow said: \"Yes, to some extent. I don't disagree with that.\"\n\n\"Both sides will suffer on this.\"\n\nMr Kudlow also said there was a \"strong possibility\" that Mr Trump would meet China's President Xi Jinping at a G20 summit in Japan in late June.\n\nChina said on Friday it \"deeply regrets\" the US decision to hike tariffs and that it will have to retaliate with the \"necessary countermeasures.\"\n\nIn the past, the Chinese have introduced retaliatory tariffs almost immediately after US tariffs have gone into force.\n\nChina has responded saying it will not swallow any \"bitter fruit\". The commentary is due for publication on Monday in the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies. It also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "The practice of putting nets over trees and hedgerows to prevent birds from nesting should stop or at least be regulated, MPs have said.\n\nLabour MP Diana Johnson said \"netting\" puts \"fragile life systems at risk\" and \"we must look very seriously at ending the practice.\"\n\nTory Bill Grant added: \"We cannot evict the birds, we have to embrace them.\"\n\nMPs are debating a petition, signed by 350,000 people, that called for \"netting\" to become a criminal offence.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says developers do it to make it easier for them to remove greenery when the time comes, because although it is an offence to destroy an active nest, there are no laws to prevent the installation of nets to stop birds nesting in the first place.\n\nThe petition, started by Margaret Moran, says netting \"facilitates the uprooting of hedgerows which aid biodiversity and provide the only remaining nesting sites for birds, whose numbers are in sharp decline\".\n\nIt \"threatens declining species of birds, presents a danger by entrapment to wildlife, and produces large amounts of plastic waste\", the petition adds.\n\nSNP MP John McNally told the Parliamentary Petitions Committee that netting should stop, or at the very least be subject to regulation.\n\n\"Even with some safeguards in place, my feeling is that this practice is in no way acceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"If we treasure our precious wildlife then netting simply has to stop.\"\n\nMr Grant said it was \"disappointing to learn of the practice\" that is used by developers during building work.\n\nHe said he understood some developers have banned the practice and he hoped others would follow suit.\n\n\"Birds and wildlife are part of our ecosystem and part of our planet,\" he said.\n\nLabour's Jenny Chapman, MP for Darlington, said netting was \"being used more and more as a safeguard\" and developers were \"far too relaxed\" in using the procedure.\n\nShe said there seemed to be \"little regulation\".\n\nConservative Dame Cheryl Gillan, MP for Chesham and Amersham, agreed the government \"needs to regulate\" to prevent the practice spreading further.\n\nThe RSPB has said \"careful consideration\" will be needed to develop rules around netting \"that really help birds, and allow legitimate activity to continue\".\n\nWhile it might be legal, the organisation said, \"we cannot stand by and let the current practices spread unchallenged.\"\n\nResponding to the petition, the government said \"developers must fulfil their obligation to safeguard local wildlife and habitats.\n\n\"Netting trees and hedgerows is only appropriate where genuinely needed to protect birds from harm during development.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you might not know about Doris Day\n\nHollywood legend Doris Day, whose films made her one of the biggest stars of all time, has died aged 97.\n\nThe singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).\n\nHer screen partnership with Rock Hudson is one of the best-known in the history of romantic movies.\n\nIn a statement, the Doris Day Animal Foundation said she died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California.\n\nIt said she had been \"in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia\".\n\n\"She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed,\" the statement continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DDAF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.\n\nInstead she began her singing career at the age of 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.\n\nHer films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.\n\nBut she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.\n\nHonours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2008.\n\nHer last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in 2011.\n\nDay's real life was not as upbeat as her on-screen persona\n\nDay's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.\n\n\"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin,\" the musician Oscar Levant once remarked.\n\nDay herself said her \"Miss Chastity Belt\" image was \"more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played.\"\n\nHer life was certainly not as sunny. She married four times, was divorced three times and was widowed once.\n\nShe also suffered a mental breakdown and had severe financial trouble after one husband squandered her money.\n\nIn the 1970s, she turned away from performing to focus her energies on her animal foundation.\n\nAccording to the organisation, she wished to have no funeral, memorial service or grave marker.\n\nIn later life she became an advocate for animal welfare\n\nDick Van Dyke, another Hollywood legend from the same era although he never worked with Day, said she had an \"energy about her\".\n\n\"She wasn't trying to act. It was just who Doris Day was, I think, a great energy and exhilaration, and she seemed to love life, at least that's the impression you got,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It was a great era.\"\n\nStar Trek actor William Shatner remembered Day on Twitter as \"the World's Sweetheart,\" saying she was \"beloved by all\".\n\nFellow Star Trek cast member George Takei said she was \"synonymous with Hollywood icon\", while Spanish actor Antonio Banderas wrote: \"Thank you for your talent.\"\n\nNovelist Paulo Coelho marked her passing by quoting lyrics from Secret Love, one of her numbers in Calamity Jane.\n\n\"We've lost another great Hollywood talent,\" tweeted Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, while actor Luke Evans said he had \"always loved\" her voice and \"beautiful\" songs.\n\nFormer Beatles member Paul McCartney paid tribute to Day on his website, describing her as \"very funny lady who I shared many laughs with\", adding: \"I will miss her but will always remember her twinkling smile and infectious laugh\".\n\nAnd his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, shared a photo of her and Day alongside words which read: \"The one, the only, the woman who inspired so much of what I do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Stella McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A property in Wittingen was sealed off by police after the latest gruesome discovery\n\nGerman police probing the deaths of three people shot with crossbow arrows in a rural Bavarian hotel near Passau have found two more female bodies in a flat 650km (400 miles) away.\n\nThe flat in Wittingen had been occupied by a 30-year-old woman who was one of the victims found in the hotel room.\n\nThe other two in the hotel room were a man and woman found in bed, hand-in-hand, impaled with several arrows.\n\nThere was no sign of a fight, nor of another participant, police said.\n\nAll five victims were resident in Germany.\n\nThe hotel is in a popular hiking location near Passau in Bavaria\n\nTwo crossbows were found lying in the hotel room and a third in a bag belonging to the group.\n\nThe couple found in bed were a man aged 53 and a woman aged 33, both from the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nPublic prosecutor Walter Feiler told a news conference that the man had been shot twice in the head and three times in the chest, while the woman lying next to him had one wound in the head and another in the chest.\n\nThe third victim, the 30-year-old woman, \"was lying in front of the double bed and had one shot from a crossbow between the throat and the chin\", he added.\n\nThe German daily Merkur said that the 30-year-old woman was reportedly the sister of one of the women found in Wittingen. Merkur identified her only as \"C\" and said she had registered as an occupant of the flat in March.\n\nUndertakers removed the bodies from the flat in Wittingen\n\nThe Wittingen discovery came on Monday, as police investigated the hotel room deaths.\n\nMr Feiler said it was not yet clear how long the bodies had been in the flat.\n\n\"The corpses were found because one of the neighbours heard about the reports from Passau and told police that the letter box of the flat was overflowing and that a strange smell was coming from the flat,\" he said.\n\nThe relationship between the three victims in the hotel also remains unclear. They had booked a room with a double bed and single bed for three nights, checking in on Friday, without ordering breakfast.\n\nThe hotel is by the Ilz river near Passau, about 650km (400 miles) south of Wittingen.\n\nCrossbows can fire either bolts or short arrows. Hunting with bows or crossbows is banned in Germany.\n\nThree crossbows were found in the hotel room with the three bodies\n\nThe first results of an autopsy are expected on Tuesday.\n\nAnother hotel guest, who was staying in the hotel for a short break, told local newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that it had been a \"completely quiet night\".\n\nPolice have seized a white truck, parked outside, which has stickers reportedly linked to a hunting club. It was registered in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nGerman media say one sticker has the letters FMJ - believed to be a reference to Full Metal Jacket crossbow arrows made by a US firm, Easton Hunting.\n\nA hotel guest said the man had a long white beard and the women were dressed in black, and described them as \"strange\".\n\nOn arrival on Friday evening they simply wished other guests a \"good evening\", then went upstairs to their second-floor room with bottles of water and Coca-Cola, said the guest, quoted by Merkur.\n\nIn Wittingen a neighbour quoted by Merkur described the 30-year-old woman as \"always a bit odd - always dressed in black, sort of gothic\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNever before have the Premier League top two amassed so many points, never before have they suffered so few defeats.\n\nThe battle for the title has gone to the final day seven times in the Premier League era but, the Aguerooooooo season aside, few have been as compelling as the one between Manchester City and Liverpool this year.\n\nLiverpool were even top for 21 minutes on a nervy final day. So just how close did the Reds come to winning their first title in 29 years?\n\nDepending on how you look at it, the fine margin between success and failure, becoming heroes or remaining nearly men, was just the width of a paracetamol...\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining amid the pain for Klopp and Liverpool\n• None The long wait to be champions: Tales of Liverpool's title near-misses\n\nNine grains of sand away from the title?\n\nAll credit to BBC Sport reader Dan Middlehurst, who tweeted back in January: \"I've got a sneaky suspicion that the John Stones clearance might be one of the defining moments of the season.\"\n\nHow right he was.\n\nLiverpool came to Etihad Stadium on 3 January with a seven-point cushion at the top of the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp's side were unbeaten and knew that a win would put the defending champions 10 points behind them and potentially out of sight.\n\nAfter 18 minutes, with the score locked at 0-0, Sadio Mane poked a shot past Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson that hit the post, only for Stones' attempted clearance to rebound off the keeper and come agonisingly close to crossing the line, before the defender hooked it away.\n\nIt was a moment Stones would describe as \"something special\" as he celebrated on the pitch at Brighton after the final-day victory that clinched the title by a single point.\n\nSo how close was it? Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...\n\nIfs, buts, and maybes. But had Liverpool taken the lead would they have gone on to win? Ten points is an awful lot to make up in the remaining 17 games of the season.\n\nAs it was, goals from Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane gave City the win and inflicted Liverpool's only defeat of the whole campaign.\n\n11.7mm from the title, 11.7mm from an Invincibles season.\n\nFast forward a few months and Pep Guardiola's side were grateful for another bit of sharp work from the goalline technology cameras.\n\nWith Liverpool on top of the league again, City were being held to a frustrating draw at Burnley when Aguero squeezed off a shot in the 63rd minute.\n\nClarets defender Matthew Lowton blocked it on his chest and hoofed it away. But it was over the line. By 29.51mm this time. A comparative chasm. But still only half as long as a golf tee. We're talking 2% of Danny DeVito.\n\nWould an assistant referee have given it? Maybe not. But that's what technology is for, right?\n\nIn a title race so tight and so intense, the two head-to-head games were always going to be massively significant. City may have landed a crucial blow with that win in Manchester in January, but they missed a chance in October that would have helped them out even more.\n\nChampions City had not won a league game at Anfield in 15 years. They had a great chance to end that run but Riyad Mahrez fired an 85th-minute penalty high over the bar. The game ended 0-0.\n\nWhy was Mahrez taking it? The £60m summer signing had missed three of his previous five penalties and unsurprisingly hasn't taken one since.\n\nLiverpool had a few helping hands on the way, certainly from opposing goalkeepers.\n\nEverton and England number one Jordan Pickford served up a howler in the Merseyside derby back in December, inexplicably shelling a hopeful punt on goal by Virgil van Dijk and allowing Divock Origi to head in.\n\nA month later and Julian Speroni caught the bug, or rather failed to catch it, juggling a routine cross from James Milner back over his own head to gift Mohamed Salah a tap-in. A needed tap-in too, as Liverpool scraped a 4-3 win.\n\nFulham's Sergio Rico got in on the act in March, dropping a Salah effort at the feet of Sadio Mane and then hauling the Senegal striker over for a penalty just when it looked like a costly draw was on the cards. Milner converted from the spot to give the Reds another win.\n\nLose one game and lose the title?!\n\nLiverpool fans, players, and management have a right to feel cheesed off.\n\nNo team had finished as Premier League runners-up with more than 89 points before now. In the top five European leagues, the runners-up to finish with the most points were Real Madrid in the 2009-10 La Liga season (96 points), an unwanted record Liverpool can now claim as their own.\n\nWhen Arsenal's 'Invincibles' went unbeaten en route to the title in 2003-04 they picked up 90 points, while only one other side has gone through a whole season losing just once - Jose Mourinho's Chelsea team who were champions in 2004-05.\n\nPremier League sides to have lost three games or fewer in a season\n\nBernardo Silva's performance in the game between the title rivals in January was one of the standout individual displays of the season - former England winger Chris Waddle told BBC Radio 5 Live that night that he \"was everywhere and kept dragging the team forward\".\n\nSilva and fellow forward Raheem Sterling both made it on to the six-man shortlist for the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award, while along with Aguero and Sane they have formed a devastating attacking line-up.\n\nYet it could all have been very different.\n\nIn January 2018, Manchester City and Manchester United were involved in a transfer tug-of-war over Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.\n\nThe Chile striker eventually moved to Old Trafford, after City pulled out of a deal over fears his wage demands might affect team spirit.\n\nSince then Sanchez has scored five goals in all competitions for United, while City's forwards have thrived. Eight City players have scored more this season than Sanchez has managed in 16 months at Old Trafford.\n\nGoals in 2018-19 in all competitions\n\nHow much less game time would they have got if Sanchez had moved to Etihad Stadium? We will never know - but perhaps that decision not to sign a player was just as important as the ones to sign the likes of Silva, Sterling and Sane in the first place.", "Writer Irvine Welsh was among those who paid tribute to Bradley Welsh after his death last last month\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh outside his Edinburgh home.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment on Chester Street on 17 April.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the 28-year-old will appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nThe suspect has also been charged with the attempted murder of a 48-year-old man and the serious assault of a 22-year-old man in a house in Pitcairn Grove, Edinburgh, on 13 March.\n\nDuring this incident the older victim was left with serious arm and head injuries while the younger man suffered a cut to his hand.\n\nA car was later found set on fire in nearby Oxgangs.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Members of the public are thanked for their assistance with both of these investigations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Felicity Huffman was silent as she left court\n\nUS actress Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently conspiring to win a college place for her daughter.\n\nIn a Boston court, the Desperate Housewives star admitted paying $15,000 (£11,500) to have her daughter's exam answers secretly corrected in 2017.\n\nIn a statement last month, she said she was in \"full acceptance\" of her guilt.\n\nProsecutors recommended a four-month prison term and a $20,000 fine. Huffman, 56, was among 50 charged in the college admissions scandal.\n\nThe wealthy parents charged in the investigation allegedly paid bribes, had exams altered, and even had their children edited into stock photos to fake sporting talents.\n\nThey managed to fraudulently secure spots for the teenagers at elite US universities including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.\n\nParents and college athletics coaches were charged in the scheme, but none of the children were indicted.\n\nHuffman did not speak to reporters outside court as she arrived to Monday's hearing holding hands with her brother.\n\nShe admitted one count of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.\n\nThe Emmy-winning actress cried while speaking to the judge, according to reporters in the courtroom.\n\nHer plea deal recommendation of four months in prison was at the lower end of sentencing guidelines, which could have carried a custodial term of up to 20 years.\n\nAccording to court documents, she was secretly recorded by the scam's confessed mastermind, William Singer, after he began co-operating with investigators.\n\nWhen Sophia's school initially wanted to invigilate as she sat her test, Huffman expressed concern to Singer.\n\nThe actress emailed to him, \"Ruh Ro!\" - the catchphrase of cartoon dog Scooby-Doo when he was in trouble.\n\nActress Lori Loughlin pleaded not guilty to her role in the scam\n\nSinger arranged so that Sophia could complete the SAT, which is the US college entrance test, elsewhere.\n\nSophia scored an SAT score of 1420 out of a possible 1600 on the doctored test, about 400 points higher than a preliminary SAT she had taken a year earlier.\n\nThe actress made arrangements to cheat a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so, according to prosecutors.\n\nHer husband - actor William H Macy - also had contact with Singer, though Mr Macy was spared charges.\n\nHuffman said her daughter was unaware of the cheating, and that she felt \"regret and shame\" for having \"betrayed\" her.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 13 September.\n\nLast month, Netflix announced it would postpone the release of a movie, Otherhood, starring Huffman that was originally set for release on 26 April. It did not specify a new premiere date.\n\nThough Huffman was among the most high-profile figures indicted, the $15,000 she parted with was among the smallest sums allegedly paid by any of the other parents charged in the scandal, according to court documents.\n\nLori Loughlin, another Hollywood actress ensnared in the scandal along with her husband, has pleaded not guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to have their daughters accepted to the University of Southern California as members of the rowing team.", "The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves - a new record\n\nAn American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.\n\nVictor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.\n\nHe spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible, built to withstand the immense pressure of the deep.\n\nHe found sea creatures, but also found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.\n\nIt is the third time humans have reached the ocean's extreme depths.\n\nThe explorers believe they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods\n\nThe first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench took place in 1960 by US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard in a vessel called the bathyscaphe Trieste.\n\nMovie director James Cameron then made a solo plunge half a century later in 2012 in his bright green sub.\n\nThe latest descent, which reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves, is now the deepest by 11m - making Victor Vescovo the new record holder.\n\nDon Walsh (left), who dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, congratulated Victor Vescovo (right)\n\nIn total, Mr Vescovo and his team made five dives to the bottom of the trench during the expedition. Robotic landers were also deployed to explore the remote terrain.\n\nMr Vescovo said: \"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did.\n\n\"This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving - rapidly and repeatedly - into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean\n\nWitnessing the dive from the Pacific was Don Walsh. He told BBC News: \"I salute Victor Vescovo and his outstanding team for the successful completion of their historic explorations into the Mariana Trench.\n\n\"Six decades ago, Jacques Piccard and I were the first to visit that deepest place in the world's oceans.\n\n\"Now in the winter of my life, it was a great honour to be invited on this expedition to a place of my youth.\"\n\nThe team believes it has discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods, saw a creature called a spoon worm 7,000m-down and a pink snailfish at 8,000m.\n\nThey also discovered brightly coloured rocky outcrops, possibly created by microbes on the seabed, and collected samples of rock from the seafloor.\n\nHumanity's impact on the planet was also evident with the discovery of plastic pollution. It's something that other expeditions using landers have seen before.\n\nMillions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year, but little is known about where a lot of it ends up.\n\nVictor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench\n\nThe scientists now plan to test the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics - a recent study found this was a widespread problem, even for animals living in the deep.\n\nThe dive forms part of the Five Deeps expedition - an attempt to explore the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans.\n\nIt has been funded by Mr Vescovo, a private equity investor, who before turning his attention to the ocean's extreme depths also climbed the highest peaks on the planet's seven continents.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high DSV Limiting Factor submersible was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines\n\nAfter the record dive, the submersible was brought back on the expedition's main vessel - the DSSV Pressure Drop\n\nAs well as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, in the last six months dives have also taken place in the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean (8,376m/27,480ft down), the South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean (7,433m/24,388ft) and the Java Trench in Indian Ocean (7,192m/23,596ft).\n\nThe final challenge will be to reach the bottom of the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean, which is currently scheduled for August 2019.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines, with the aim of having a vessel that could make repeated dives to any part of the ocean.\n\nAt its core is a 9cm-thick titanium pressure hull that can fit two people, so dives can be performed solo or as a pair.\n\nIt can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.\n• None 2,146Higher than Mount Everest in metres, if inverted\n\nAs well as working under pressure, the sub has to operate in the pitch black and near freezing temperatures.\n\nThese conditions also made it challenging to capture footage - the Five Deeps expedition has been followed by Atlantic Productions for a documentary for the Discovery Channel.\n\nAnthony Geffen, creative director of Atlantic Productions, said it was the most complicated filming he'd ever been involved with.\n\n\"Our team had to pioneer new camera systems that could be mounted on the submersible, operate at up to 10,000m below sea level and work with robotic landers with camera systems that would allow us to film Victor's submersible on the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\"We also had to design new rigs that would go inside Victor's submersible and capture every moment of Victor's dives.\"\n\nAfter the Five Deeps expedition is complete later this year, the plan is to pass the submersible onto science institutions so researchers can continue to use it.\n\nThe challenges of exploring the deep ocean - even with robotic vehicles - has made the ocean trenches one of the last frontiers on the planet.\n\nOnce thought to be remote, desolate areas, the deep sea teems with life. There is also growing evidence that they are carbon sinks, playing a role in regulating the Earth's chemistry and climate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A newly-wed couple re-ran their wedding two weeks after the original ceremony so the bride's 93-year-old mother, who lives in a care home, could attend.\n\nElizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe was devastated that her mother Jean, who lives in Warrington, Cheshire, was unable to attend their Yorkshire wedding in April due to illness.\n\nShe re-staged the event with her mother's carers as bridesmaids.", "Concerns about body image are making large numbers of people depressed and even suicidal, a survey suggests.\n\nThe poll of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies, with one in eight experiencing suicidal thoughts.\n\nThe Mental Health Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the issue could affect anyone at any age.\n\nThe charity wants advertising and social media firms to take more care with the way bodies are portrayed.\n\nThe issue of body image is one of the main theme's of this year's Mental Health Awareness week.\n\nThe charity is promoting a number of personal stories as part of its push to raise awareness about the issue.\n\nThey include one from Justyn Bravescar, 25, from Croydon, south London.\n\nJustyn was left with scarring on his body after a childhood accident\n\nHe is a film-maker, blogger and mental health advocate, and has adopted Bravescar as his surname.\n\nAs a toddler he accidentally poured a pan of boiling water over his body, resulting in severe burns all over the upper half of his body, including his neck.\n\nHe was always very self-conscious about this and thought he would never find love or be at peace with himself.\n\nWhen he was older he started looking into reconstructive surgery, but says he had an epiphany when a skin camouflage tattoo artist told him that his scars were beautiful.\n\n\"As my scars were covered much of the time, it was very much an internal battle for me\" said Justyn.\n\n\"I worried about my scarring and what people would think. It has only been in the last few years that I have really accepted them. They are part of me.\"\n\nHe now has tattoos that highlight and celebrate his scarring.\n\nMental Health Foundation chief executive Mark Rowland said there needs to be greater awareness of the issue.\n\n\"Our survey indicates that millions of adults in the UK are struggling with concerns about their body image. For some people this is potentially very severe.\n\n\"Women, and particularly young women, are showing the highest rates of distress.\n\n\"Significant numbers have felt feelings of disgust and shame or changed their behaviour to avoid situations that make them reflect negatively about their bodies.\"\n\nBut he warned it was not just young people who were affected - one in five people aged over 55 and over said they had felt anxious because of body image.\n\nHe also said more needed to be done by social media companies and the advertising industry to promote a diversity of body types. He said there needed to be clear ways to report abuse and bullying online - something the government is looking into.\n\n\"Many people identified social media as an important factor causing them to worry about their body image - and the majority of respondents felt the government needed to take more action,\" he added.", "Danny Boyle (left) was taken along the east coast by Richard Curtis, who lives in Suffolk, in search of the right locations for their forthcoming film Yesterday\n\nDirector Danny Boyle has told of his desire to capture the \"forgotten\" side of England's east coast for his new film with writer Richard Curtis.\n\nYesterday premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival last weekend, before an audience including event co-founder Robert De Niro.\n\nThe Beatles-inspired film features scenes in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex.\n\nBoyle said he was drawn to \"amazing\" seaside towns such as Lowestoft and Gorleston that were a \"bit forgotten\".\n\nHimesh Patel, as Jack Malik, was filmed on the rooftop of a Norfolk hotel\n\nThe film tells the story of Suffolk singer-songwriter Jack Malik, played by Himesh Patel, who claims The Beatles' hits as his own after an event in which the Fab Four are wiped from memory.\n\nIn Gorleston, Patel - who grew up in Cambridgeshire - was filmed on a hotel rooftop performing a punk-rock version of Help! to a crowd of 6,000 extras.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Yesterday's nationwide release in June, Boyle said of Gorleston: \"It was huge in Edwardian times, like Brighton - it was the place - yet it's fallen off the radar.\n\n\"This was all filmed at the Pier Hotel, working port behind, with ships coming and going, giving a fitting industrial landscape to that song.\n\n\"The lads did also come from a great industrial port, after all.\"\n\nMore than 6,000 extras gathered on Gorleston beach last year\n\nLowestoft is among the \"amazing\" seaside towns Boyle found himself drawn to\n\nYesterday was shot last summer along the coast from Gorleston down to Clacton, where the first two days of the shoot involved Patel busking on its streets.\n\nLocation supervisor Camilla Stephenson said Boyle \"didn't want chocolate box\" settings but was keen to authentically reflect the area's beauty.\n\n\"By choosing Gorleston, we've got an Edwardian seaside town that's charming but also has a real edge,\" she said.\n\n\"He wanted it real but didn't want it gritty.\n\n\"Danny wanted to see the beauty, but not the quaint, English-village prettiness.\"\n\nScreenwriter Richard Curtis, who has a house in Walberswick, Suffolk, showed Boyle around and said the extensive search for locations - such as The Reedcutter pub in Cantley, Norfolk, where Jack plays a gig - went beyond the rural scenes he had envisioned.\n\n\"It's a lovely little pub which has this extraordinary sugar-refining factory in the background,\" said Curtis.\n\n\"It becomes a more definitive version of what I originally intended.\"\n\nTribeca Film Festival co-founders Robert De Niro (left) and Jane Rosenthal (far right) greet Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle on stage at Tribeca Film Festival\n\nCurtis said the film was partly drawn on his friend Ed Sheeran's rise to global fame\n\nCurtis said the story was partly drawn from the unlikely rise to global fame of his friend and fellow Suffolk resident, Ed Sheeran, who appears in the film.\n\n\"I write in a little room facing out toward the creek at the beach and the sea,\" he said.\n\n\"This is very much where I wanted to set the film. It's a little part of England that you wouldn't expect a massive pop star like Ed to come from, had it not happened to him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Carole Farish left school 11 years ago, she thought it would be quite easy to find a job in retail or hospitality.\n\nBut like many of her peer group, she found it was not so straightforward.\n\nCarole belongs to a generation that, according to a new report, has been \"left scarred\" by joining the workforce just as the financial crisis hit.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says this \"crisis cohort\" has suffered from lower pay and worse job prospects for up to a decade since the downturn.\n\nCarole's early optimism over job seeking faded when it took her five months just to get an interview, only to find she was competing against candidates with business degrees.\n\n\"It was a bit disheartening,\" she says. \"It took a lot of perseverance to keep applying. I didn't expect it to be as tough.\"\n\nSince then, she has worked in a leisure centre, in catering and looking after children. Although she has in the meantime been to university, she is now working as a carer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says those who entered the world of work between 2008 and 2011 bore the brunt of the sharp economic decline, when compared to young people entering work before or after the downturn.\n\n\"Low-skilled workers faced a higher risk of unemployment, while graduates were more likely to trade down the types of jobs they did, with their pay and prospects stunted as a result,\" said Stephen Clarke, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These scarring effects have stayed with the crisis cohort for up to a decade, reducing their living standards at a time when they may be facing the additional financial strains of buying a home, or bringing up kids,\" he said.\n\nPolicy makers should look at ways to mitigate the impact, he added.\n\nAlthough unemployment did not rise as sharply as in previous recessions, in 2012 it was still twice the rate for the population in general, the report says.\n\nThose who \"trade down\" to a low-paying occupation because they are struggling to find work rarely move into a higher-paying occupation, even after the economy has picked up, the report adds.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions highlighted new jobcentre programmes which it said were examining ways to support people to change jobs and improve their pay and career progression.\n\n\"Employment is at a record high, with youth unemployment having halved since 2010. And we believe every worker should be in a job which reflects their skills and offers opportunities to progress,\" the DWP said.\n\nIn 2018, analysis carried out for the BBC by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showed that people in their 30s were earning £2,100 a year less than people in the same age group in 2008.", "Manchester City let Liverpool dream for 83 seconds before slamming the door shut on any possibility that the last day of the Premier League season would provide one final dramatic twist in the tale.\n\nThis was the time it took for Sergio Aguero to put Manchester City level after Glenn Murray had stunned the visiting fans basking in glorious Sussex sunshine in Brighton's Amex Stadium. And for the moment to arrive when this compelling battle for the title finally swung decisively in City's favour.\n\nManchester City had been sleepwalking into trouble. It had arrived. Liverpool's lead over Wolves at Anfield already had them on top of the time-honoured 'as it stands' table and now City had an added obstacle to overcome.\n\nThe team Pep Guardiola has built is too strong, mentally and when measured in talent, and had come too far to be denied so close to the finishing line - and so it proved. Murray's moment actually turned out to be the shock to the system they required - the push towards glory they needed.\n\nAnd yet, for those few seconds, Manchester City supporters were silent. Manchester City's players stood still, shocked. They feared the worst. They, rather like those who had travelled to watch them, were lethargic, lacking in urgency and suddenly left facing the nightmare.\n• None Balague on the unseen moments behind triumph\n• None City come from behind to beat Brighton and retain title\n\nHow those 83 seconds must have dragged for those thousands, for Manchester City's players and for manager Guardiola who instantly cast aside his trademark grey cardigan. Superstition? The soaring temperatures? Or simply the stress of the possibility that this thrilling story was to have the most painful of conclusions for the Catalan?\n\nBrighton's supporters, with Premier League status safely assured, revelled in City's brief suffering. It may have only been 83 seconds but that is time enough for the worst-case scenario to form even in minds now so accustomed to victory and success. It was the first time they had trailed in the Premier League since they lost at Newcastle United on 29 January, their last league defeat.\n\nAnd then, as he has done so famously before against Queen's Park Rangers in 2012 to win the title, Manchester City's greatest goalscorer Aguero made a defining final day contribution, pouncing with an angled finish to change the mood, the mindset and most significantly the destiny of the Premier League title.\n\nYes, Guardiola's side still needed to score again to secure the victory they required to finally keep Liverpool at bay - but there was a sense of the inevitable once Aguero proved once more he is Manchester City's man for all occasions.\n\nAymeric Laporte, Riyad Mahrez and Ilkay Gundogan delivered the final blows in a title battle with Liverpool that has turned into a season-long face-off between two teams - and two managers in Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - of the highest calibre.\n\nIt was a tightrope walk for less than two minutes but City kept their balance and eventually strolled imperiously to the three points that continues their domestic supremacy.\n\nManchester City can now add the Premier League to the League Cup. The prospect of an unprecedented domestic treble is on the table when they face Watford in the FA Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday, 18 May.\n\nThe Premier League table tells the story and for all Liverpool's brilliance they came up against a team that proved to be one point better than them.\n\nIt was a suitably miniscule measure of victory after a campaign settled on the finest margins, from the 11.7mm separating John Stones from an own goal against Klopp's side in January to the 29.51mm that ensured Aguero scored the winning goal at Burnley to put City back on top with two games left.\n\nManchester City went into the history books by racking up 100 points to win the title last season, but when the celebrations died down and they made their way back north to Etihad Stadium for their title celebration on Sunday night this may have proved to be an even sweeter, more satisfying triumph.\n\nThe statistics build a monument to Manchester City's brilliance over these two stellar, title-winning seasons.\n\nIn the last two campaigns they have amassed 198 points, scoring 201 goals. This was their 14th straight victory and their 32nd this season, equalling their own record set last season.\n\nCity were the first since Manchester United a decade ago to retain their crown and they did it without the comfort blanket they made for themselves last season. This was a dogfight as Liverpool and Klopp tracked them every inch of the way only to end the smallest step behind.\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining for Liverpool\n\nManchester City are decorated in compliments about their style, elegance and creation - and yet this title triumph was the result of players with abundant natural gifts mining every facet of their character and quality.\n\nLiverpool's relentless pursuit forced City into a sudden death quest to retain their title where they could not afford to blink in their last 14 games as they assembled a remarkable sequence of success to retain their crown. If City had slipped in just one of those games, the title would have gone to Anfield. It was a remarkable run to claim the prize.\n\nKlopp's Liverpool were on their shoulder or ahead of them in a call-and-response race to the tape, which finally came into view for Guardiola and his players here in the Sussex sunshine. When the challenge of Murray's goal was thrown down, City answered it in emphatic, ruthless fashion.\n\nWhen City went out of the Champions League quarter-final to Tottenham in agonising fashion, it was a shattering blow.\n\nThe questions were posed. How will they react? How will it hit Manchester City mentally and physically? Will it derail their title challenge?\n\nThe answer - they locked down even more.\n\nCity ground out 1-0 wins against Spurs, Burnley and Leicester City and brushed aside Manchester United. Not many marks for artistic merit but maximum for the fortitude of champions.\n\nIt says much about Liverpool that they assembled 97 points and lost only once in a season which, in every other year, would have ensured their first title since 1990.\n\nIt says even more about Manchester City that they demonstrated the concrete-clad mentality and quality to ensure Liverpool finished second.\n\nGuardiola's City have shown that artistry alone does not make champions. It must be bolted on to heart, character and a refusal to yield even in the face of opponents as outstanding and enduring as Liverpool.\n\nThe 3ft 5in Premier League trophy hoisted high by Vincent Kompany has been dwarfed by the scale and quality of this title pursuit as Guardiola and Klopp traded blows before City delivered the coup de grace at The Amex Stadium.\n\nManchester City have responded when the stakes and jeopardy were at their highest, particularly when they faced Liverpool at Etihad Stadium on 3 January.\n\nLiverpool knew victory would put them 10 points clear, a gap that would have surely been insurmountable.\n\nGuardiola knew defeat for City would be decisive and they secured a 2-1 victory that became their most important of the campaign. It kept them in a race they would eventually win.\n\nCity's title triumph is also of huge significance psychologically, both now and in the future.\n\nThey will surely feel as if a layer of invincibility has been added to their armoury. If they have survived this sustained season-long assault Liverpool have mounted on them and prevailed, City will feel they can come out winners in any domestic circumstances.\n\nAnd Liverpool, whose season has been almost flawless, could be forgiven for feeling that if 97 points cannot navigate them around Manchester City, what must they do to end that 29-year wait for the trophy they crave most of all?\n\nCity are built on the old reliables such as Kompany, Aguero and David Silva, but this season the full bloom of Raheem Sterling has provided an added dimension to a star-studded squad.\n\nBrazilian goalkeeper Ederson and the flawless Laporte have made key contributions and it is a title win brought back home without the services of arguably their finest player, the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, for long periods when he suffered so many injury problems.\n\nThe gifted teenager Phil Foden, a key component of City's future, made his mark with the vital winner against Spurs at Etihad Stadium.\n\nLiverpool are not going away under Klopp but City may still feel they have just seen off as big a challenge to their supremacy on home soil that they will face.\n\nThis has been a golden season in the Premier League as the lead changed hands 32 times before the final day, but in the end continuity was the order of the day as the champions put back-to-back triumphs in the record books.\n\nThe Premier League has provided a special season. Manchester City have proved, by leaving Liverpool in second place, that they are a very special team.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A few more seconds and it would have hit us'\n\nA man said it was \"absolutely unbelievable\" that he and his family walked away from a plane crash.\n\nThe light aircraft came down on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on Sunday morning.\n\nJack Moore, who was on board, thanked the passing motorists who helped pull them from the burning wreckage.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out.\n\nStuart Moore (right) was the pilot and his nephew Jack Moore (left) and niece Billie Manley were on board\n\nAll three on board were treated for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe plane was being piloted by Stuart Moore, with his nephew, Jack Moore, and niece Billie Manley on board.\n\n\"Absolutely unbelievable that me and my family have walked away from this,\" Mr Moore wrote on Facebook.\n\n\"Just want to say thank you to the passers by that helped us at the scene and also the emergency services.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are very lucky, lucky people.\"\n\nThe family said they were \"overwhelmed\" but \"grateful\" the three were unharmed, and wanted privacy \"to come to terms with what's happened\".\n\nRescuers Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, on the right, ran to the crashed plane to help\n\nTheir rescue heroes described how they were driving separately along the dual carriageway when the crash unfolded.\n\n\"There was no build-up - I didn't hear it coming in - didn't see it come in - it just appeared - smoking and on fire,\" said former Army bomb disposal officer Mr Snarr.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nHe managed to break a cracked rear window and drag the two passengers to safety, while the other rescuer focused on the pilot.\n\n\"The pilot reached out through the cracked window and I just managed to grab hold of both is hands and tear him through,\" added Mr Snarr.\n\nThe two men said the events happened \"so quickly - and it's your nature that takes over\".\n\n\"At the time, all I was thinking was to see if we could get them out - you can't walk away from a situation like that - I did what I did,\" added Mr Nicholson.\n\nThick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nThe six year-old Cirrus SR22 light aircraft, registered in Guernsey but owned by an Irish company, flew regularly between County Kerry and the UK.\n\nOn Sunday, Stuart Moore had flown from London and landed in Abergavenny to pick up his niece and nephew.\n\n\"I saw the crash happen,\" said Frank Cavaciuti, who owns the private airstrip where the plane had taken off from.\n\n\"But by the time I got there the fire was so intense I could have done nothing. The aircraft exploded as I approached it.\n\n\"I didn't realise at first that they had already been rescued.\"\n\nHe praised the bravery of the two rescuers - saying he thought Mr Snarr had saved lives.\n\n\"A million other people wouldn't have done what he did.\n\n\"There was such a narrow window of time to get them out. It's just brilliant that he was there.\"\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nGwent Police said: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\"\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch is aware and is making inquiries.", "The Duchess of Sussex has celebrated her first US Mother's Day as a parent by posting a picture of her son Archie's feet.\n\nThe SussexRoyal Instagram account shared an image of Meghan, who is American, holding her son's heel.\n\nIn the caption, the account paid tribute to \"all mothers today, past, present, mothers-to-be, and those lost but forever remembered\".\n\nWhile Mother's Day is in March in the UK, it was marked in the US on Sunday.\n\nIt was also celebrated in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya and Japan.\n\nThe photo was accompanied by the poem Lands, by writer Nayyirah Waheed.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first son is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police facial recognition systems have been shown to do poorly when analysing non-white faces\n\nBlack and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners.\n\nAt least three chances to assess how well the systems deal with ethnicity were missed over the past five years, the BBC found.\n\nCampaigners said the tech had too many problems to be used widely.\n\n\"It must be dropped immediately,\" said privacy rights group Big Brother Watch.\n\nSeveral UK police forces have been trialling controversial new facial recognition technology, including automated systems which attempt to identify the faces of people in real time as they pass a camera.\n\nDocuments from the police, Home Office and university researchers show that police are aware that ethnicity can have an impact on such systems, but have failed on several occasions to test this.\n\nThe Home Office said facial recognition can be an \"invaluable tool\" in fighting crime.\n\n\"The technology continues to evolve, and the Home Office continues to keep its effectiveness under constant review,\" a spokesman told the BBC.\n\nThe ability of facial recognition software to cope with black and ethnic minority faces has proved a key concern for those worried about the technology, who claim the software is often trained on predominantly white faces.\n\nMinutes from a police working group reveal that the UK police's former head of facial recognition knew that skin colour was an issue. At an April 2014 meeting, Durham Police Chief Constable Mike Barton noted \"that ethnicity can have an impact on search accuracy\".\n\nHe asked CGI, the Canadian company managing the police's facial image database, to investigate the issue, but subsequent minutes from the working group do not mention a follow-up.\n\nMet police boss Cressida Dick said she use of facial recognition was \"lawful and appropriate\"\n\nFacial recognition was introduced on the Police National Database (PND), which includes around 13 million faces, in 2014.\n\nThe database has troubled privacy groups because it contains images of people subsequently cleared of any offence. A 2012 court decision ruled that holding such images was unlawful.\n\nThe \"unlawful\" images are still held on the PND. The government is currently investigating ways to purge them from the system.\n\nDespite this, the PND facial recognition system, provided by German company Cognitec, has proved very popular.\n\nThe number of face match searches done on the PND grew from 3,360 in 2014 to 12,504 in 2017, Freedom of Information requests to the Home Office have revealed.\n\nIn 2015, a team of assessors from the Home Office tested the PND facial search system, using about 200 sample images. They had identified ethnicity information about the sample photos but, once again, failed to use this opportunity to check how well the system worked with different skin colours.\n\nThe same Home Office report also estimated that, across the entire PND, about 40% of the images were duplicated.\n\nIt noted that this meant the UK government has overpaid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Cognitec, because the company charges more once the number of images (or \"templates\") on the database exceeds 10 million.\n\nThe Home Office assessment also found the facial recognition system was only half as good as the human eye. It said: \"Out of the initial 211 searches, the automated facial search of PND identified just 20 true matches, whereas visual examination by the tester identified a total of 56 matches.\"\n\nCognitec declined to comment on costs, but said its matching technology had improved since the Home Office report, and that facial recognition results always required review by a human.\n\nA spokesman for the National Police Chiefs Council said the technology had the potential to disrupt criminals, but said any roll-out must show its effectiveness within \"sufficient safeguards\". It added that work is being done to improve the system's accuracy and remove duplicates.\n\nAnother chance to check for racial bias was missed last year during trials by South Wales of real-time facial recognition software, which was used at sports events and concerts. Cardiff University carried out an assessment of the force's use of the technology,\n\nThat study stated that \"due to limited funds for this trial\", ethnicity was not tested.\n\nCardiff's report noted, however, that \"during the evaluation period, no overt racial discrimination effects were observed\", but said this may be due to the demographic make-up of the watch lists used by the force.\n\nIn addition, an interim report by a biometrics advisory group to the government considering ethical issues of facial recognition highlighted concerns about the lack of ethnic diversity in datasets.\n\nUnder-representation of certain types of faces, particularly those from ethnic minorities, could mean bias \"feeds forward\" into the use of the technology, it said.\n\nSilkie Carlo, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: \"The police's failure to do basic accuracy testing for race speaks volumes.\n\n\"Their wilful blindness to the risk of racism, and the risk to Brits' rights as a whole, reflects the dangerously irresponsible way in which facial recognition has crept on to our streets.\"\n\nThe technology had too many problems to justify its used, she said.\n\n\"It must be dropped immediately,\" Ms Carlo added.\n\nBig Brother Watch is currently taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police over its use of automated facial recognition systems.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City have sealed the Premier League title, needing a 14-game winning run to keep themselves above Liverpool - the best second-placed team in English top-flight history.\n\nIt felt like an absolutely relentless battle between two great Premier League sides. But do the stats back that up?\n\nThe best top two ever\n\nIt has been a title race of unparalleled quality and the numbers bear that out.\n\nThis is the form guide for the second half of the season:\n\nThe top two have amassed 195 points - a top-flight record for the champions and runners-up. They actually passed the previous Premier League record in their 36th games of the season. They also recorded the most combined wins (62) for a top two.\n\nIn both those instances, the previous record was last season, although City had provided a much greater share of the combined figures than second-placed Manchester United.\n\nCity and Liverpool have also broken the record for the fewest combined defeats - five. The top two in 2004-05 (Chelsea and Arsenal) and 2008-09 (Manchester United and Liverpool) had six defeats between them.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nAll season the title race has seemed too close to call, not least because the lead at the top has changed so many times.\n\nIn fact, it has never changed hands so many times in a season.\n\nBy the time the title was won, it had switched 32 times at the end of a day this season, although plenty of those came as a result of staggering City's and Liverpool's games.\n\nThe previous record had been 2001-02, when the lead changed 28 times. Arsenal won the title that season, but both Manchester United and Liverpool had led in the final 10 games - and Newcastle and Leeds were both top over the festive period.\n\nLiverpool have spent 141 days top of the Premier League - 16 more than Manchester City. Chelsea spent nine days top - and Manchester United were top for one day, beating Leicester 2-1 in the first game of the season.\n\nThe last time Liverpool spent more days on top in a season was 1990-91 (163 days), when they also finished second. They are far away from the Premier League record for a team spending the most time top without winning the league though - Newcastle United's 212 days in 1995-96 may never be surpassed.\n\nCity's points haul in itself was not record breaking - mostly because of their 100-point tally in 2017-18. But they have broken plenty of other records.\n\nOnly five top-flight title-winning teams have ever won 30 games in a season, including football before the Premier League and 42-game seasons. City's record 32 wins last season put them on the list, and this season's vintage are on it again with the same figure.\n\nAnd they are the first team in English Football League history to win 30 games in three different seasons (2001-02 First Division, 2017-18 and 2018-19 Premier League).\n\nCity have also scored more goals than any English top-flight team in a season. They have managed 163 in all competitions. They also had the previous record, 156 in 2013-14. In fact City have three of the top five scoring seasons, with 143 in 2017-18.\n\nSo near, yet so far for Liverpool.\n\nThe Reds have the highest points tally of any team to finish second in the English top flight. Their 97 beat the previous record of Leeds United in 1970-71 (91) - adjusted to three points for a win. The previous highest Premier League total which failed to secure the title came when Manchester United finished behind Manchester City on goal difference with 89 points in 2012.\n\nLiverpool's 97 points would have won them every single Premier League title apart from last season and this season.\n\nThey are one of only 10 teams in the Premier League era to pick up 90 or more points. Unfortunately for them City this season are one of the others.\n\nLiverpool have won 18 English titles, but only once have they ever picked up more points than they did this season - 98 in 1978-79, adjusted to three points for a win. And that was from 42 games, making this Liverpool's best-ever points per game return.\n\nIn fact, the Reds have the highest tally of a runner-up in any of Europe's top five leagues - eclipsing Real Madrid's 96 in 2009-10. The champions that season? Guardiola's Barcelona.\n\nFor two such attacking sides, it is only right that players from both teams recorded historic goalscoring feats this season.\n\nCity's Sergio Aguero, with 21 goals, became only the second player to score 20 or more Premier League goals in six different seasons. Alan Shearer managed it in seven - three for Blackburn and four times for Newcastle.\n\nAguero also becomes the second man to score 20 Premier League goals in five consecutive seasons, level with Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.\n\nLiverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane have also hit at least 20 league goals. That is only the fourth time two players in the same team have reached that landmark in a Premier League season.\n\nThey shared this season's Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals.\n\nTeam-mates to score 20 goals or more in a Premier League season", "The guilty men included (clockwise, from top left) Peter Bain, Brian Ferguson, Andrew Gallacher and John Hardie\n\nSix men who tried to turn Glasgow into a \"war zone\" during a feud with a rival gang have been jailed for a total of 104 years.\n\nThe associates of the Lyons criminal family were found guilty of plotting attempts to kill five men linked to their rivals, the Daniel family.\n\nPolice said it was a \"miracle\" that no-one died in the violent attacks.\n\nThe judge, Lord Mulholland, said the \"sophisticated plot\" was foiled by \"good, old-fashioned detective work\".\n\nBrian Ferguson, 37, Andrew Gallacher, 40, Robert Pickett, 53, Andrew Sinclair, 32, John Hardie, 35, and Peter Bain, 45, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder last month.\n\nFerguson, Gallacher and Hardie were each jailed for 20 years; Picket was jailed for 16 years; Bain was jailed for 15 years; and Sinclair was jailed for 13 years and three months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Mulholland sentenced the men to 104 years in jail\n\nLord Mulholland told them: \"You sought to turn Glasgow into a war zone for your feud.\n\n\"This is a civilised city, which is based on the rule of law. There is no place for this type of conduct, retribution or the law of the jungle.\"\n\nThe men had targeted Robert Daniel, Thomas Bilsland, Gary Petty, Ryan Fitzsimmons and Steven Daniel between June 2016 and September 2017 at locations in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Manchester.\n\nTheir attackers were tracked down during Operation Engagement, the latest investigation linked to the feud - which has been connected to dozens of tit-for-tat attacks, including a murder.\n\nThe trial heard that victim Steven Daniel knew Kevin \"Gerbil\" Carroll, who was shot dead in the car park of Asda, Robroyston, in January 2010.\n\nThe first murder trial, which later collapsed, heard that Carroll's killer, William Paterson, visited a member of the Lyons family in prison, two days after the supermarket murder.\n\nThe latest 14-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow, which was held amid tight security, focused on five attempted murders in five months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe murder bids included an attack on Steven Daniel on 18 May 2017.\n\nAfter a high-speed car chase which ended with a crash on an off-ramp of the M8, he was attacked with a cleaver and a hammer.\n\nHis nose was almost severed from his face, and his injuries were so severe that police initially thought he had been shot at close range.\n\nThe Audi S3 used in the attack was set on fire, but a bloodied machete was discovered in the back seat.\n\nMr Daniel was badly injured in the attack in May 2017\n\nThe first attack was on Robert Daniel, whose car was rammed by another vehicle before he was chased into a house in Robroyston on 8 December 2016.\n\nOnce inside the house he was struck twice on the back of the head with what he later told police was a hatchet or a machete.\n\nA month later, Thomas Bilsland suffered a fractured skull after he was set upon in Glasgow's Cranhill.\n\nGary Petty was targeted after he visited an Italian takeaway in Maryhill on 7 March 2017.\n\nA Landrover Discovery was found after the attack on Robert Daniel\n\nFormer soldier Ryan Fitzsimmons was left unconscious and brain-damaged after being ambushed in the street by a masked gang on 28 April 2017.\n\nThe 34-year-old was attacked with a sword and a hammer outside the home he shared with his mother in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nHe told jurors: \"It felt like death was coming.\"\n\nHis mum Geraldine, 61, was so affected by what happened that she suffered a heart attack in the street.\n\nMr Fitzsimmons told jurors he had \"no enemies\" but jurors heard his older brother Martyn had once been charged with shooting Ross Monaghan, the man cleared of murdering Carroll outside Asda.\n\nLast year soldier turned gun-runner Martyn was jailed for 10-and-a-half years after admitting having a Glock and ammunition, and hiding £36,000 of crime cash.\n\nHe was part of a nine-man crime gang - described as Scotland's most dangerous - jailed for 87 years after Operation Escalade, a massive probe into violence, drugs and firearms offences.\n\nA machete was found in the back of the burnt-out car\n\nLord Mullholland described Ryan Fitzsimmons as \"a hard-working man living peacefully with his mother\".\n\nHe said: \"As a result of the extensive injuries sustained during the attack upon him he has had to give up work and is dependent on his mother for his care and support. The need for care and support will persist for the rest of his life.\"\n\nLord Mulholland said Steven Daniel had told the trial that he was not aware of a feud between the Lyons and Daniel families.\n\n\"I did not believe a word and, more importantly, neither did the jury,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said the \"sophisticated\" murder plot had involved high-tech tracker devices and encrypted mobile phones.\n\nBut he told the six men: \"You were caught by good, old-fashioned detective work, identifying DNA on a tracker - and everything followed from there.\"\n\nDet Insp Jim Bradley described the level of violence as \"horrific\"\n\nDet Inp Jim Bradley said it was a \"miracle\" that no one died.\n\n\"It's been documented in the trial that if it hadn't been for medical intervention and the expertise of medical staff that a couple of our victims would have died,\" he said.\n\n\"The level of violence in such a planned and premeditated manner was horrific.\n\n\"There's no other word for it - just totally horrific.\"\n\nHe added that there had been repeated attempts to \"calm things down\" and stop the violence.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be a deterrent to anybody that's going to involve themselves in this kind of activity,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no winners in this type of crime.\"", "Doris Day, pictured here in 1955, has not performed for more than 25 years\n\nDoris Day has become the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company.\n\nDay's My Heart has gone in at number nine, 62 years after the 87-year-old's debut album was released in the US.\n\nMy Heart is a selection of recordings produced by her son, Terry Melcher, before his death in 2004.\n\nPlaying In The Shadows, the third album by British pop artist Example, entered the chart at number one.\n\nMercury-winner PJ Harvey's Let England Shake is this week's number 24 in the album chart.\n\nThe critically-acclaimed record has leapt 151 places from last week.\n\nIn the singles chart, Pixie Lott has secured her third number one with All About Tonight.\n\nFormer X Factor-winner Leona Lewis and Swedish DJ Avicii's collaboration Collide has charted at number four.\n\nThe track found the pair at the centre of a copyright dispute after the producer claimed the singer had used a piano sample without his permission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a career spanning more than 50 years, Day - Hollywood's \"girl-next-door\" - has appeared in 39 films and recorded 28 other albums.\n\nBritish singer Vera Lynn topped the UK album chart in August 2009, at the age of 92, but that was with a greatest hits album, We'll Meet Again - The Very Best Of Vera Lynn.", "Doris Day was the fresh-faced, all-American girl who became one of the world's most bankable film stars.\n\nHer glittering singing career included timeless classics like Whip Crack Away, Qué Será Será and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.\n\nOn screen, the wholesome, girl-next-door never failed to find love. Off screen, she could not have had less luck: she married four times. One of them beat her and another one robbed her.\n\nLater in life, she suffered the agony of watching her beloved only child die of an untreatable tumour. She retreated to a house in California, surrounding herself with animals and campaigning for their welfare.\n\nDoris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff came into the world in Cincinnati, Ohio - the descendant of German immigrants - in April 1922.\n\nBut for decades, she would insist she was actually born in 1924. In 2018, her birth certificate was dug out of the state Office of Vital Statistics to settle the dispute.\n\nShe was wrong, but shrugged it off.\n\n\"I've always said that age is just a number,\" she said. \"I've never paid much attention to birthdays.\"\n\nHer father, who worked as a music teacher, left his wife for another woman when Doris was 12. The future star was brought up by her mother.\n\nShe attended dance classes from an early age and, by the time she entered her teens, was performing regularly with her dance partner, Jerry Doherty, winning prizes at local pageants.\n\nThe pair had dreams of trying their luck in Hollywood but, the night before they were due to depart, Day's car was hit by a train. One of her legs was badly broken; her dancing career in ruins.\n\nIt took months to recover. She passed the time singing along to the radio and, as she put it, \"discovered a talent I didn't know I had\". She was particularly enamoured with the sound of Ella Fitzgerald.\n\nHer mother arranged singing lessons for her which led to sessions on a local radio station, where she was heard by the bandleader Barney Rapp.\n\nAccording to Rapp, he auditioned about 200 singers before signing the young Doris Kappelhoff.\n\nThe song that bowled him over was Day by Day. Rapp suggested she took inspiration from the title and change her name. Kappelhoff was too long to display on the scrolling marquees outside concert venues.\n\nHer breakthrough came while she was working with the Les Brown Orchestra, with whom she had her first hit, Sentimental Journey, in 1945.\n\nBy this time she had met, married and quickly divorced her first husband, the musician Al Jorden, who sadly proved physically abusive. The couple had one child, her son Terry.\n\nHer second marriage, to actor George Weidler in 1946, lasted just eight months after he failed to come to terms with the success of her career.\n\nBy the time she left Les Brown in 1946 she had become one of the highest-paid female vocalists in the world with a string of chart hits.\n\nAfter singing at a party given by songwriter Sammy Cahn, Doris Day was given a Warner Brothers contract and the lead in the 1948 film, Romance on the High Seas.\n\nOver the next few years, she played in a series of musicals, including Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon and I'll See You in My Dreams.\n\nHer roles were undemanding, but as Miss American Pie, the tomboy girl-next-door who morphed into the beautiful blonde, audiences found Doris Day irresistible and US soldiers serving in the Korean War voted her their favourite star.\n\nIn 1952 she formed her own production company, in partnership with third husband, Martin Melcher, and a year later starred in the film musical Calamity Jane, which contained a string of hit songs including the Oscar-winning Secret Love.\n\nShe surprised the critics with the strength of her performance in Love Me or Leave Me, a fictionalised account of the life of nightclub singer Ruth Etting, who suffered the violent attacks of her gangster husband, played by James Cagney.\n\nShe starred with Rock Hudson in 1959's Pillow Talk\n\nThere was also a performance in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much, which spawned one of her biggest hits - Qué Será Será.\n\nHer biggest cinema hit came in 1959, with Pillow Talk, where her on-screen partnership with Rock Hudson, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.\n\nShe continued to make films in the 1960s, some of them such as Glass Bottom Boat and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out, did reasonably well at the box office.\n\nBut as the sexual revolution of the 1960s stormed Hollywood, Doris went out of fashion. Critics poked fun at the wholesome image: one declaring himself \"so old, I remember her before she became a virgin\". Audiences found it increasingly hard to connect.\n\nShe turned down the Sound of Music, declaring herself too American to play a nun from Salzburg. But nor was she ready to change her image and embrace the times: rejecting the role of Mrs Robinson in The Graduate. She said she found the script to be \"vulgar and offensive\".\n\nHer husband, who had been managing her career, died suddenly in 1968 and Day was horrified to discover he had squandered all her earnings, leaving her bankrupt.\n\nPrior to his death, and without her knowledge, he had also committed her to a television series; Day was exhausted but honoured the contract and The Doris Day Show ran successfully for five years until 1973.\n\nDoris Day and her only son, Terry Melcher, in the late 1980s\n\nDay fought a long battle in the courts against her husband's business partner, the lawyer Jerome Rosenthal. She was eventually awarded more than $22m, then the biggest civil settlement in Californian legal history - although she eventually settled for a quarter of that sum.\n\nIn 1976, she was married for the fourth time, to Barry Comden, who was a waiter at one of her favourite restaurants. The union ended in 1981.\n\nThere was a brief comeback when she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which contained songs she had recorded but never released during the 1980s. It reached the UK Top 10 in September 2011.\n\nDoris Day had been a strong advocate for animal welfare since founding Actors and Others for Animals in 1971, which campaigned against the fur trade. She collected furry things wherever she found them, becoming known on set as the \"Dog Catcher of Beverley Hills\".\n\nFollowing her retirement she ran the Doris Day Animal League at her home in Carmel, California, her house filled with stray animals rescued from the streets.\n\nShe repeatedly turned down the offer of a lifetime achievement Oscar but, in 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W Bush for her work as an entertainer and her commitment to animal welfare.\n\nShe devoted the latter part of her life to animals\n\nHer fear of flying prevented her attending the ceremony in person. In the same year, her only child Terry, who had tasted success as a songwriter and producer, died of melanoma.\n\nShe remained active in choosing which films, adverts and TV shows got to play the Doris Day hits, but resisted all attempts to lure her out of retirement. She chose dogs and cats over fame and fortune, but had no regrets.\n\n\"I've always believed things work out exactly as they're supposed to,\" she told one interviewer.\n\nOr in the words of her song, Qué Será Será.", "More than 90% of eligible Australians are expected to vote in the election on 18 May - because it's one of the few countries to have compulsory voting.\n\nThe BBC's Australia correspondent Hywel Griffith explains how this works - and whether people like it.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Skvernelis, seen here with his partner and children, said he would resign his post on 12 July\n\nLithuanian PM Saulius Skvernelis says he will step down after failing to qualify for the second round in the country's presidential election.\n\nMr Skvernelis, who was one of the expected frontrunners in the vote, said he planned to resign as PM in July.\n\nPartial results suggest that prominent economist Gitanas Nauseda topped the first round, followed by former Finance Minister Ingrida Simonyte.\n\nThe pair will face each other in a run-off at the end of the month.\n\nThe winner will succeed the popular President Dalia Grybauskaite after her second and final five-year term.\n\nMs Grybauskaite has been a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which borders Lithuania, and has focused on tackling corruption in her country.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Sunday, Mr Skvernelis admitted defeat but said he had \"really believed\" he would get through to the next stage.\n\n\"The failure to get into the second round is an assessment of me as a politician,\" he said.\n\nThe run-off is due to take place on 26 May.\n• None From Brexit with love: Lithuania sees its chance", "The UK should consider \"decisively\" increasing defence spending after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHe told the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London the threats facing the UK had changed \"markedly\" since the Cold War.\n\nHe said any extra money should be spent on \"new capabilities and not simply plugging gaps\".\n\nLabour said real-terms funding for defence had been cut by £9bn since 2010.\n\nThe government will decide its spending commitments up to 2021 and potentially beyond in the Comprehensive Spending Review this autumn.\n\nThere has not been a full-scale Strategic Defence and Security Review, looking at future defence challenges and capabilities since 2015 and one is expected in 2020.\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"not sustainable\" to expect the US to spend 4% of its GDP on defence while other Nato allies spent between 1% and 2%.\n\nThe UK already spends 2% of its economic output on defence but many European countries do not - although all Nato members have agreed to do this by 2024.\n\n\"So for these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next Strategic Defence and Security Review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years' time.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the UK currently accounted for almost 20% of total EU defence spending, and British forces contributed a \"hugely disproportionate share\" of some key capabilities.\n\nBut he added that the UK had entered a \"multipolar world\" without the \"assurance provided by unquestioned American dominance\".\n\n\"We face a more aggressive Russia and a more assertive China. We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years time,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit Mr Hunt said the UK must leave the EU \"cleanly and properly\", and to fail to do so \"would betray the promise of a democracy\".\n\nThe foreign secretary is among those expected to stand to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party when she steps down.\n\nMrs May has already promised to go once the first stage of Brexit is over. Pressure has grown on the PM to set out a date for her departure following the Conservatives' drubbing at the local elections.\n\nShadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Hunt had sat in successive cabinets since 2010 which had cut defence spending.\n\nShe tweeted: \"If he was so bothered, you'd have thought he might have said something a bit sooner?\"", "The sale included the judge's damask bag and notes compiled by his wife\n\nThe government has temporarily blocked the export of a book used by the judge in one of Britain's most famous trials.\n\nDH Lawrence's controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was at the centre of an obscenity trial in 1960.\n\nThe paperback copy includes sexually explicit passages marked up by judge Sir Laurence Byrne's wife Lady Dorothy.\n\nThe new owner of the book, which sold for £56,250 last year, plans to take it abroad but UK buyers now have until October to match that sum.\n\nThose who want to export items of cultural significance from the UK must apply for a licence.\n\nThe government's new temporary block means potential purchasers, including collectors and museums, have until 9 August to declare their intention to buy it and then up to three months longer to find the funds.\n\nArts minister Michael Ellis said he hoped a buyer could be found in order to \"keep this important part of our nation's history in the UK\".\n\nSir Laurence Byrne who presided over R v Penguin Books Ltd in the 1960 case focusing on the novel, which was dramatised in a BBC series starring Holliday Grainger in 2015\n\nLady Chatterly's Lover was the last novel English author Lawrence wrote before his death in 1930.\n\nIt focuses on a passionate affair between an aristocratic woman and a gamekeeper.\n\nIt was first published in Italy in 1928 and in France the following year but was not published in the UK until 1960 for fear of prosecution over its explicit content.\n\nWhen it finally was the publishing house, Penguin Books, was put on trial for obscenity.\n\nBefore the trial, Lady Dorothy compiled a list of significant passages on the headed stationery of the Central Criminal Court, noting the page number and adding her own comments, such as \"love making\", \"coarse\" and so on.\n\nThe trial caused a sensation when the publisher was found not guilty.\n\nThe case, which was seen as a test for the 1959 Obscene Publications Act, came to encapsulate the clash between the old establishment and the new wave of liberalisation in the 1960s.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch won the top two acting awards\n\nBBC thriller Killing Eve was the big winner at the Bafta TV Awards, scooping three trophies including best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and Britain's Got Talent also picked up prizes, despite Ant McPartlin taking time out from both series last year.\n\nBGT won best entertainment show and I'm A Celebrity won the reality prize.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his drama Patrick Melrose, which was also named best mini-series.\n\nThe Sherlock star, who received his first of seven previous Bafta nominations in 2005 but hasn't won until now, told the audience: \"Oh gosh, I think I'm going to fall over, I'm very used to being a bridesmaid not the bride.\"\n\nThe ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.\n\nIn Killing Eve, Comer played offbeat assassin Villanelle, who was pursued by intelligence agent Eve, played by Sandra Oh. Both were nominated for best actress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars of the small screen chatted to BBC's Lizo Mzimba ahead of the ceremony\n\nAccepting the award, a tearful Comer - who dedicated her award to her late grandmother - said: \"Thank you so much. Sorry, I'm the only one who's turned on the waterworks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sandra Oh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Sandra Oh\n\nPaying tribute to the show's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she said: \"I feel so lucky to say I worked with you, also to call you a friend. You're the most talented person I know, also an inspiration.\"\n\nFiona Shaw was named best supporting actress for playing spy boss Carolyn Martens, a role she said had been \"probably the greatest pleasure of my life\".\n\nFiona Shaw won best supporting actress - the first Bafta of her career\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to Waller-Bridge and her \"glass-shattering genius and wayward imagination\".\n\nKilling Eve's inclusion this year was unusual, in that Bafta bent the rules to allow it to be nominated.\n\nIn the entertainment programme category, BGT triumphed despite the fact Declan Donnelly had to host the live shows solo after Ant McPartlin's drink-drive conviction.\n\nAnt and Dec were together on the Bafta red carpet\n\nAnt missed last year's I'm A Celebrity completely, with Dec joined by Holly Willoughby for hosting duties.\n\nSpeaking backstage, Dec said: \"It's been a tough year personally and professionally. I was just trying to do my best, and just keep the shows warm for him for when he was ready to come back.\n\n\"And they have both won Baftas, so how cool am I?\"\n\nBut the duo lost out on the best entertainment performance award to Lee Mack, who scooped the prize for his appearances on comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch (left) and winners of the mini-series award for Patrick Melrose\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won his first Bafta for Sky's Patrick Melrose, adapted from novels by Edward St Aubyn, 14 years after his first nomination.\n\nCumberbatch, who played a man grappling with the ghost of his abusive father, thanked his wife, writer and theatre director Sophie Hunter, saying: \"You're my rock, I had to go pretty weird for this one and it was nice to come home and feel stable again.\n\n\"It's all right, I've got one [award] and I'm going to bring it home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Daisy May Cooper, who was nominated for the best female comedy performance award for This Country, turned up on the red carpet wearing a dress made from bin liners.\n\nIt cost \"about £5\", she said. \"The reason I'm wearing this is if I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I'd donate that money to a local food bank and wear bin bags instead.\"\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nShe told the ceremony she had been inspired by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 12, and had been determined to make it in a male-dominated industry.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, and along the way I've had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to [have] as much a chance as men. And possibly earn as much. That would be nice.\"\n\nHappy Valley and Queer As Folk producer Nicola Shindler was presented with a special award in recognition of her contribution to the television industry.\n\nThe Bafta Craft Awards - which recognise behind-the-scenes talent like writers and sound editors - took place last month, with A Very English Scandal going home with the most trophies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At present, support for victims in England varies depending on the area\n\nCouncils in England will have a legal duty to provide secure homes for victims of domestic abuse under new plans announced by Theresa May.\n\nPeople seeking refuge from abuse and violence can receive varying levels of support depending on their location.\n\nBut Mrs May has vowed to end the \"postcode lottery\" for victims and their children, creating a legal duty for councils to provide refuge.\n\nOne victim described the move as \"absolutely momentous\" news.\n\nCharlotte Kneer, who stayed in a refuge herself and now runs one in Surrey, told the BBC she cried when she heard the news.\n\nHaving a refuge space can be \"life-saving\" - but some women cannot get one, because local authorities' budgets have been \"squeezed\", she said.\n\n\"This is something Women's Aid and lots of other campaigners have been asking for, for years and years,\" she added.\n\nThe prime minister said the \"abhorrent crime\" had \"no place\" in the UK.\n\nIn a message to victims, she added: \"Whoever you are, wherever you live and whatever the abuse you face, you will have access to the services you need to be safe.\"\n\nThe prime minister spoke to a case worker and domestic violence survivor at a London centre on Monday\n\nMrs May's new plans are backed by funding.\n\nThe prime minister visited a London charity that helps women and children who have survived domestic abuse on Monday and said she hoped the bill would be of \"real benefit\" to people.\n\nOne woman told her that her support for the issue \"makes a world of difference\".\n\nBut while charities and councils say the government's moves are positive, they want to know how much money will be provided in the face of cuts to local authority budgets.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill will also introduce the first ever statutory government definition of domestic abuse to specifically include economic abuse and controlling and manipulative non-physical abuse.\n\nThe legislation will establish a new Domestic Abuse Commissioner and prohibit the cross-examination of victims by their abusers in family courts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlotte Kneer on why the plan is important\n\nMs Kneer, who runs Reigate and Banstead Women's Aid, said having a safe place to go is a human right, adding: \"For me and many other women, having a refuge is literally life-saving.\"\n\nShe added people fleeing domestic abuse had to seek refuge in a place outside their hometown, to avoid seeing their attacker or their acquaintances. Because they weren't services for local people, refuges had often been \"easy cuts\" for local authorities to make.\n\n\"Hopefully this is the start of securing the future for refuges,\" she said.\n\nDiana James is optimistic about the plans - but has concerns about how they will be implemented\n\nDiana James, a domestic abuse survivor who works with refuge services in south-west England, said she was \"optimistic\" about the plans but concerned about how it would be put into practice, particularly for LGBT people.\n\n\"Some refuges accept LGBT people, others say they do but filter them out, and some just don't,\" she said. \"This is a step forward, but it's about the implementation.\n\n\"I hope [the government's] heart is in the right place and that they want to make this work.\"\n\nNicki Norman, acting co-chief executive of Women's Aid, said many of her organisation's member services were providing support on a \"shoestring budget\", so a move to consistent, dedicated funding was \"desperately needed\".\n\n\"We look forward to working with the government to ensure that this important move to fund refuges is safe, sustainable and delivers the resources that services urgently require to support all women and children fleeing domestic abuse,\" she said.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, also welcomed Mrs May's announcement, which she said could secure \"life-saving services\".\n\n\"This has the potential to end the postcode lottery for refuge places and could put these life-saving services on a secure financial footing for the first time,\" Ms Horley said.\n\nMinisters have launched a consultation to determine how much funding is needed and where it should go by talking to victims and survivors, as well as organisations supporting victims and their children every day.\n\nFunding totalling £22m has already been made available to local authorities to buy more than 2,000 beds in refuges and other safe accommodation - and to provide access to education and employment.\n\nLocal government secretary James Brokenshire said it was estimated an extra £90m a year would be needed for local authorities to provide accommodation for victims.\n\nThe details on funding would be settled through the Spending Review process, he added.\n\nCouncillor Simon Blackburn of the Local Government Association welcomed extra support but said councils could not tackle the issue alone.\n\n\"Our ambition must be to reduce the number of victims, with greater investment in early intervention and prevention schemes that helps stop domestic abuse occurring in the first place,\" he said.\n\nThe plans only apply to England and not councils in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, which do not currently have directly comparable systems in place.\n\nFor information and support related to domestic abuse, visit the BBC Action Line.", "The deputy leader of the Labour Party has urged voters to reject \"nationalism\" and \"populism\" in the EU elections.\n\nTom Watson told the Today programme that Labour is a \"remain and reform\" party.", "Afghan politicians and women's rights activists are demanding justice after a political adviser and former prominent TV presenter was murdered in broad daylight.\n\nMina Mangal, who worked as a television presenter before entering politics, was shot dead at close range in Kabul on Saturday.\n\nChief Executive Abdullah Abdullah vowed her killers would be caught.\n\nThe motive remains unclear but one line of inquiry is a family dispute.\n\nIn a statement released on Saturday, the interior ministry said that Ms Mangal, who was on her way to work as an adviser for the Afghan parliament's cultural affairs commission, was shot dead around 07:20 local time.\n\nAfghanistan's Supreme Court and civil society groups including the commission into violence against women have called for a serious investigation into her killing.\n\nMs Mangal had recently posted on Facebook that she had received threats and feared for her life, prominent women's rights activist Wazhma Frogh said on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Madam Frogh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Mangal separated from her husband two years ago, with her family filing a complaint alleging domestic violence at the time, Jamshid Rasooli, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, told the BBC.\n\nHe said the case had been referred to a family violence court and later dropped in a decision criticised by Ms Mangal's family.\n\nPolice are continuing their investigation into the murder and have not identified any suspects.\n\n\"I have lost an intelligent and active daughter because of a family dispute issue,\" Ms Mangal's father told the BBC. \"I am asking the government why they could not protect my working daughter and I have lost her. I urge them to protect my other daughters and other women like them who come out of home and serve our society.\"\n\nSince Ms Mangal's death, Afghan social media users have been vocal about the levels of violence against women in the country.\n\nSome pointed out that some of Afghanistan's most high-profile crimes against women have taken place in busy areas of the capital, Kabul, including the high-security Green Zone.\n\n\"A woman has been killed in daylight because a man thought she deserves to be killed,\" women's rights activist Wazhma Frogh wrote.\n\nThe killing of Mina Mangal has sent shockwaves through Kabul. She was killed in daylight in a busy area not far from police positions and it appears the attackers were able to flee the scene easily.\n\nWorking women inside and outside the government have called for special measures to protect those who are seen as at risk.\n\nAs a TV presenter, Mina Mangal hosted mostly cultural shows but also a programme about women's rights. In her last post on Facebook she expressed anger against those \"who threatened to suppress or kill women\".\n\nNow, as police continue their investigation, people are talking about safety and vulnerability. Breshna, a mother of five, said she feared for her daughters, who are studying and working in Kabul.\n\n\"Active and working women who leave home for work every day are not safe,\" she said.\n\nThe killing has focused attention once again on violence against women in Afghanistan. It comes at a time when many women fear that hard-won rights and freedoms could be jeopardised by any peace agreement with Taliban militants, who are currently in negotiations with the US.\n\nThe killing took place in broad daylight in the Afghan capital, Kabul\n\nRights groups have documented increasing cases of gender-based violence, particularly in areas dominated by the Taliban.\n\nReporters Without Borders also listed Afghanistan as the deadliest country for journalists in 2018.", "Sara Zelenak was stabbed during the attack at London Bridge and Borough Market\n\nAn Australian au pair was being helped up by a passer-by after slipping over in her high heels when they were both fatally stabbed, the inquest into the London Bridge attack has heard.\n\nSara Zelenak, 21, was on a night out with a friend when she was set upon by men armed with 12in (30cm) blades on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nBriton James McMullan, 32, was also targeted as he tried to help Ms Zelenak to her feet, a witness said.\n\nThe inquest is in its second week.\n\nMs Zelenak and Mr McMullan were among eight people killed when Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before jumping out and stabbing people.\n\nWitness Erick Siguenza told the Old Bailey Ms Zelenak jumped out of the way of the crashing van before being stabbed by the driver.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the victims' families, said she was wearing high heels and the ground was \"quite wet\" on the night of the attack.\n\nWhen asked if Ms Zelenak had lost her balance, Mr Siguenza said: \"Yes. She was completely on the ground. He [Mr McMullan] just grabbed her left arm and gently tried to pick her up.\n\n\"But by then the attackers were in close proximity and that's when they started attacking.\"\n\n\"There was no time for him to be able to help her up because the driver and the other terrorists were already running towards them,\" he added.\n\nJames McMullan was stabbed to death as he tried to help Ms Zelenak up, the inquest heard\n\nMs Zelenak was stabbed in the neck while Mr McMullan was stabbed in the chest.\n\nThe court heard Ms Zelenak and her friend, Priscila Goncalves, had left the London Grind bar minutes before the attack to continue their night out and \"have fun\".\n\nMs Goncalves told the inquest they were crossing the bridge when they spotted another bar, with red lights and tables outside.\n\nThey had started down the steps towards it when they heard the van crash.\n\nThe friends went back up the steps to see what had happened but became separated in the chaos as people ran away.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV of Ms Zelenak before she was killed\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on,\" Ms Goncalves said.\n\n\"We were together. People said 'Run', I started to run. I thought she was with me and then I looked, she was not. Everybody was running,\" she added.\n\nCCTV shown to the court showed Ms Goncalves among a crowd of people who were running away.\n\nMr Siguenza filmed people fleeing the scene as Ms Zelenak and Mr McMullan were attacked.\n\nMr Siguenza described how the three attackers reached the area outside the bar below the bridge, where people threw glasses and a chair at them.\n\nThe attackers realised they were outnumbered and fled, he said.\n\nThey continued their attack elsewhere. Eight people were killed and 48 injured. The attackers were later shot dead by armed police.\n\nJulie and Mark Wallace, Ms Zelenak's mother and stepfather, also attended the inquest\n\nQuestions over why it took so long for paramedics to arrive became the focus for much of the fifth day of the inquest.\n\nMs Zelenak's mother and stepfather, Julie and Mark Wallace, watched from the courtroom as the details of her death were laid out.\n\nTheir expressions remained composed during a morning of gruelling evidence.\n\nTwo of the first police officers on the scene, PC Clint Wallis and PC Richard Norton, explained how they had performed CPR on Ms Zelenak CPR for about 10 minutes - but PC Norton agreed that they had been \"desperately in need of paramedics\".\n\nThey continued to provide treatment to victims despite the sound of gunfire.\n\nThe court heard that paramedic Gary Edwards was one of the first medics to arrive. As a tactical response paramedic, he had received specialist training for a situation such as this.\n\nHowever, reports of a gunman meant he couldn't enter the market as it had become a \"hot zone\" and wasn't \"safe enough\".\n\nThe court heard this refusal led to an angry exchange with a police officer demanding help - but Mr Edwards said that even with hindsight, he would still have responded in the same way.\n\nPC Richard Norton told the court he asked members of the public to try to flag down paramedics as he and PC Clint Wallis performed CPR on Ms Zelenak.\n\nPC Norton said he was trained to treat minor injuries but paramedics had more equipment and were better trained to deal with the kind of injuries Ms Zelenak had suffered.\n\nHe said he later heard medics were being held back until the scene was made safe.\n\nThis was part of standard protocol for dangerous areas or \"hot zones\", the court heard.\n\nThe inquest heard there were three paramedics on the scene at about 22:24 BST, some 15 minutes after the attack started.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nLast week, Ms Zelenak's mother told the inquest her daughter was \"the happiest she had ever been\" in the lead-up to the attack.\n\nAnd Mr McMullan had been celebrating securing financial backing for his online education company on the night he was killed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ethan Lindenberger, Tun Khin and Jessikka Aro have all had false information spread about them on social media sites, which has led to harassment and even death threats.\n\nThey spoke about their stories as they came face-to-face with tech companies in Silicon Valley to try and tackle the problem.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Steven Anderson has previously called for the death of Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in a gay night club attack in Florida\n\nA controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power.\n\nSteven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views.\n\nHis website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May.\n\nHowever, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures.\n\nMr Anderson has previously called for the death of former US President Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay night club in Florida in 2016.\n\nSteven Anderson is one of America's most controversial preachers.\n\nHe was born and raised in Sacramento, California, and started the Faithful Word Baptist Church in December 2005 from his Arizona living room.\n\nAccording to the church's website, he met his wife Zsuzsanna \"while soul-winning\" as an 18-year-old on the streets of Munich in Germany.\n\nThe couple have been married for more than 17 years and have 10 children.\n\nThe church's website says Mr Anderson has memorised \"well over 140 chapters of the Bible\".\n\nThe website describes the church as an \"old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church\".\n\nMr Anderson claims to have his materials translated into more than 115 languages.\n\nIrish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an exclusion order for Mr Anderson with immediate effect on 10 May under the Immigration Act 1999.\n\nIt is the first time an exclusion order has been granted since the creation of the act 20 years ago.\n\nMr Anderson has been banned from a number of countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Flanagan said he had signed the order \"under my executive powers in the interests of public policy\".", "An inquest is examining the deaths of 10 people killed in shootings at Ballymurphy in August 1971\n\nA former paratrooper has broken down in tears at an inquest into the deaths of 10 people in west Belfast, saying that \"rogue soldiers\" were \"out of control\" and \"shot innocent people\".\n\nThe inquest is looking into shootings in August 1971, amid disturbances in Ballymurphy sparked by the introduction of internment without trial.\n\nRelatives of the 10 people fatally shot insist that none of them was armed or involved in any terrorist activity.\n\nHe said he was in the Henry Taggart Army base shortly after an incident in which four people were fatally shot.\n\nThe base was occupied by B Company but M597 said he knew many of the soldiers from their training in Aldershot in England.\n\nA Company is a military unit consisting of scores of soldiers.\n\nM597 told Belfast Coroners' Court on Monday that many of the paratroopers he knew were honest, professional soldiers who did the right thing.\n\nBut he added that some were \"psychopaths\" who were dangerous to be around.\n\nHe wept briefly as he described seeing three or four bodies in the hall and recalled what the soldiers there told him had happened.\n\nHe said the soldiers were on a high, excited, and had clearly enjoyed what they had done.\n\nHe said they told him that B Company officers had lost control and that the Army would give them cover for whatever they had done.\n\nM597 said they felt they could \"shoot anything that gets in the way\".\n\nSoldiers from the Parachute Regiment were based at Henry Taggart Army base\n\nHe said the soldiers made a joke about the bodies and seemed to show no respect for those they had killed.\n\n\"It was a joke to them,\" he told the court.\n\nThose killed in Ballymurphy included a mother of eight and a priest.\n\nM597 also said the B Company soldiers had told him that, in their view, \"any man or woman walking the street was in the IRA or associated with the IRA and for that reason alone could or would be shot\".\n\nHe said the soldiers he met \"revelled in what happened\".\n\nLast week, the inquest heard claims that paratroopers had used a man's skull as an ashtray and that soldiers held a sweepstake on who would kill a gunman first.\n\nThey had featured in the book Killing Zone, written by a former fellow soldier, the barrister Henry Gow.\n\nAs he was about to leave the court, M597 told the families of the Ballymurphy victims that the claims were false.\n\n\"I am truly sorry for any part I played in this and I would like you to leave here not believing what [Henry] Gow told you last week, because it's not true,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd hate for you guys to go through the rest of your life thinking that - it's just not true.\"\n\nM597 had earlier described being handed the book while working in the Middle East, reading it and saying to himself: \"This is absolute garbage.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, he explained that on 9 August 1971, he had shot and wounded a petrol bomber on the Falls Road in west Belfast and had accompanied him to hospital.\n\nHe said the incident was not properly investigated, but that the battalion adjutant had called him into his office some days later and given him \"literally a pat on the back\".\n\nHe said the officer had told him \"the only mistake you made was not killing the...\" and said that the officer then swore.\n\nM597 said he had no memory of making a proper statement.\n\nHe said that many months later in court he agreed to drop the charge of petrol bombing against the man because he had nothing against him.\n\nHe also described a separate occasion when he was given photographs of shooting victims by a medic or doctor but refused to keep them.\n\nHe said he thought: \"God, these are real people from here.\"\n\nOf those weeks in 1971 he said: \"It was sheer bravado - rogue soldiers were out of control, killing people in the street and knowing they would be protected.\"\n\nHe also rejected the suggestion from a Ministry of Defence barrister that he had not been at the Henry Taggart base at all, because he could not identify the name of anyone who had discussed the shootings with him.\n\nAsked why he had not raised what he had heard at the time, he said the Parachute Regiment was not much different now to 50 years ago.\n\n\"It's like the Ku Klux Klan, like a brotherhood - they are sticking together.\"\n\nHe later added: \"It wasn't an organisation where you go to an officer and say that kind of thing.\n\n\"You would've been in real, deep trouble.\"\n\nM597 said he was shocked by what he had found about the Parachute Regiment on social media.\n\nHe told the court it was not right that instructions had been posted online urging former soldiers not to cooperate with the inquest - instructions such as \"dementia, delay, death\".\n\nHe added that he did not \"want any part of that\".\n\nEarlier on Monday, a former Royal Military policeman told the court he had been at the Henry Taggart base a day after the deaths and had heard stories from the soldiers there about what had happened.\n\nSoldier M928 said that soldiers told him about the shooting of the priest Father Hugh Mullan and heard the rumour that he had been moving a weapon or weapons at the time.\n\nFr Mullan was shot near Springfield Park, some distance away from the base.\n\nThe soldier was asked why he had told investigators three years ago that he had witnessed that incident.\n\nM928 said he had mixed two separate incidents up in his head and when he realised his mistake he had corrected it at the time.\n\nHe also denied witnessing the abuse of prisoners at Girdwood Barracks in north Belfast where he often delivered prisoners arrested by the Army.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The incident was captured on CCTV\n\nFlorida prosecutors have dropped all charges against UFC star Conor McGregor after he was arrested for allegedly smashing a fan's phone.\n\nThe Irish fighter had been charged with strong-armed robbery and misdemeanour criminal mischief.\n\nBut on Monday state prosecutors said the alleged victim had gone abroad and stopped co-operating with police.\n\nThe incident took place on 11 March as McGregor, 30, left the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.\n\nAccording to a police report filed at the time, the fan was trying to take pictures when the fighter knocked it out of his hand, before stamping on it, picking it up and leaving with it.\n\nThe phone was valued at $1,000 (£760).\n\n\"The victim of the crime does not wish to return to the United States and prosecute this case,\" Prosecutor Khalil Madani told the Miami court on Monday.\n\nMcGregor had already settled a civil lawsuit with the victim out of court.\n\nThe former two-weight UFC champion was arrested in Florida in March\n\nVideo of the incident captured by CCTV cameras appears to show the fighter getting into an altercation outside the luxury hotel.\n\nThe former two-weight champion had been in Florida preparing for his UFC comeback after losing his last fight to Khabib Nurmagomedov of Russia in 2018.\n\nThat came a year after McGregor lost a boxing match, thought to be the most lucrative in history, to multiple world champion Floyd Mayweather.\n\nAmerican Mayweather earned a reported $100m (£76m) from the bout, with McGregor thought to have pocketed $30m.\n\nLast year, McGregor was ordered by a court to have anger management training and perform five days of community service in return for the dropping of criminal charges for attacking a bus containing rival UFC fighters.", "Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a civil war which has been going on since 2015.\n\nTaiz, the country’s third largest city, has seen some of the worst fighting. Snipers haunt the streets and open spaces, meaning civilians in the city are constantly at risk of being shot.\n\nTaiz is extremely dangerous for journalists to visit. The BBC recently obtained some exclusive footage showing the extent of the destruction and the level of fear that the residents live with.", "British diplomats in Tehran are seeking further information from Iranian authorities\n\nAn Iranian woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for spying for the UK, officials say.\n\nJudiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said the woman had been \"in charge of the Iran desk\" of the British Council, a cultural organisation.\n\nShe confessed to \"co-operating\" with British intelligence, he alleged.\n\nMr Esmaili did not identify the woman. But a relative named her as Aras Amiri, a London-based British Council employee who was detained in Iran in March 2018.\n\nMs Amiri's cousin, Mohsen Omrani, said last May that she had been accused of \"acting against national security\".\n\nThis charge has been laid by Iranian authorities against a range of activists, journalists and a number of dual citizens and foreign nationals detained in recent years.\n\nMr Omrani said his cousin, a student at London's Kingston University, had made frequent trips to Iran in the past without any problems.\n\nThe UK is currently engaged in a protracted effort to free another woman, the dual British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from prison in Tehran. She is serving a five-year sentence for spying - a charge she denied.\n\nMr Omrani says her cousin is being held in the same section of the prison as Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, Mr Esmaili said \"an Iranian female student\" who had been \"in charge of the Iran desk at the British Council\" had been sentenced for spying.\n\n\"The person travelled to the country [Iran] using a false name in order to implement design, plan and lead various projects regarding the implementation of the cultural objectives of the old colonialism [UK] inside Islamic Iran,\" he added.\n\n\"The person was involved in contacting theatre and art groups to implement that very issue of cultural infiltration or cultural ambush.\"\n\nMr Esmaili said such actions \"drew the attention of Iran's security and intelligence services\", which led to the woman's arrest last year.\n\nFiles presented at her trial showed she \"very quickly and clearly confessed\" to passing information to British intelligence agents, he added.\n\nThe British Council is the UK's international organisation working in arts and culture, English language, education and civil society. It is a charity governed by Royal Charter and receives a 15% core funding grant from the UK government.\n\nIt does not have offices or representatives in Iran and does not work in Iran.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC that Ms Amiri, whose \"UK-focused\" role involved connecting Iranian writers with translators, did not travel to Iran on British Council business.\n\nShe said the British Council had not had contact with Amiri since her arrest, which happened while she was visiting a family member.\n\nIts chief executive, Sir Ciarán Devane, earlier said: \"Our colleague's safety and wellbeing remain our first concern, as it has been throughout their detention.\"\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office is seeking further information from Iran.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Damian Hinds: 'This is not about the leader of the party'\n\nThe European Parliament elections will be seen as an opportunity for the ultimate protest vote, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the elections would be difficult for the Conservatives and that \"for some people this is the second referendum\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the show there had been a breakdown in trust between people and politicians.\n\nElections for 73 MEPs to the European Parliament will take place on 23 May.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nThe government is continuing to talk to the Labour party about progress in the Brexit process, and those cross-party talks are due to continue on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has told the Guardian that he doubts a cross-party deal lacking a confirmatory referendum could pass Parliament.\n\nMr Hinds said: \"I don't think anyone is in any doubt these are going to be difficult elections for us - that much has been clear from the very start.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he added.\n\nMr Hinds said he would have preferred the government \"didn't have to go into talks with Labour\" but asked: \"What's the alternative?\n\n\"I disagree with Labour on many things... but there is some commonality of interest here.\n\n\"This is about our democracy, about our system and to repay the trust that people put in us we need to get things done for our constituents.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour had put forward alternatives in its negotiations in the Brexit process.\n\n\"We're trying to negotiate that with the government, as I say it's not getting very far, but we are still engaging in those negotiations in good faith.\"\n\nIn a tense interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Farage said that if the Brexit Party was successful in the European Parliament elections, he would ask for the party's MEPs to become part of the government's EU negotiating team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MEP Nigel Farage says immigration \"isn't the burning issue of the time\" now\n\n\"We've got a two-party system that now serves nothing but itself,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and our politicians and frankly they revealed themselves to be grossly incompetent.\"\n\nAhead of European elections, two separate polls - by ComRes and Opinium - give Mr Farage's Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nFormer prime minister Tony Blair expressed frustration with Labour's position on Brexit saying it was \"clear they are not Remain in an unequivocal sense\".\n\nOn Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the former Labour leader urged Labour supporters who can no longer vote for the party to endorse one which backs Remain.\n\nHe said it was \"important the anti-Brexit side is larger and stronger than the Farage side\" in the European elections.\n\n\"I do come across people who cannot vote for Labour, in which case I say 'don't stay at home - vote for any of the other parties',\" he said.", "Eric Schmidt is to leave Alphabet's board in June\n\nFormer Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s record on multiple controversies: its work in China, its treatment of women, and its tax affairs.\n\nThe 64-year-old executive, who sits on the board at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said the tech giant was right to pursue opportunities in China, despite heavy criticism from senior US officials.\n\n\"The world is a very interconnected place,” Mr Schmidt told BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis.\n\n\"There are many, many benefits interacting, among other things, with China.”\n\nGeneral Joseph Dunford, who as chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff is the highest ranking American in uniform, said Google’s work \"indirectly benefits the Chinese military and creates a challenge for us in maintaining a competitive advantage\".\n\n\"That's like saying America makes pencils and pencils are used by the Chinese.”\n\nGoogle has had a tumultuous history in China. It left the country in 2010 over concerns it was being by censored and cyber-attacked by Beijing, and instead set up an operation in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Schmidt said he disagreed with that move.\n\n“I believed they would be better to stay in China, and help change China to be more open.”\n\nMore recently, the company has been building a presence in the country once again, with an estimated 700 employees now working on advertising and other development. In 2017, it established the Google AI China Center, in Shanghai.\n\nLast year, reporting from The Intercept and New York Times revealed Google had been working on a project named Dragonfly, a search engine that would reportedly fall in line with Beijing’s requirements.\n\nIt was highly controversial, and prompted high-profile resignations, and a letter of protest signed by 1,400 Google employees.\n\nThe company has since said it was no longer working on the project.\n\nWhen asked why most Google employees only learned of Dragonfly via media reports, Mr Schmidt said he had no direct involvement in the project, but that “I can tell you that certainly the people who were building all these products knew about it”.\n\nMr Schmidt ran Google as chief executive and chairman from 2001 to 2011, then executive chairman until 2015. He then became executive chairman of Alphabet, the company set up as Google’s parent.\n\nIn that time, the Google's motto transitioned from, famously, “Don’t be evil” into “do the right thing”. Over the past 12 months, employee discontent has challenged that notion both internally and externally. Last November, staff at Google offices globally staged a walk-out over issues surrounding gender equality at the firm.\n\nThe protest took place after a New York Times investigation discovered Google had quietly paid former executive Andy Rubin $90m in severance, despite there being a credible claim of sexual harassment made against him.\n\nMr Schmidt told Newsnight the firm’s employees protested because they felt empowered.\n\n\"And the fact of the matter is that if we had tried to suppress this stuff it would have come out anyway. It's much better to encourage people to express their opinions.\n\n\"We would argue that [the protests show] our culture at work. Google is famously empowering of its employees and we want to hear from them. These are cases where the employees collectively felt very strongly about the decisions that the company had made.”\n\nA follow-up protest took place last month after organisers of November’s walk-out claimed they were being punished for their activism.\n\n\"My manager started ignoring me,” wrote Clare Stapleton, a Google employee in New York, in an internal memo obtained by Wired magazine. “My work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick.”\n\nMr Schmidt stepped down as Alphabet’s chairman in 2017, but remained on the board. Last month, he said he would be leaving the firm altogether in June.\n\nThroughout his tenure, the tax affairs of Google - like other tech giants - have been under close scrutiny. The company has always maintained that it adheres to the tax laws in all of the countries that it operates in.\n\nDocuments filed in the Netherlands showed Google moved 19.9 billion euros (£17.9bn, $22.7bn) to a shell company in Bermuda, a tax haven. Mr Schmidt told the BBC he was happy the company’s tax affairs were ethical.\n\n“We are required to follow the tax rules, and the tax rules allow that,” he said.\n\n\"When those tax rules change of course we will adopt them. But there is a presumption that somehow we're doing something wrong here. We’re following the global tax regime.”\n\nHe added: “Would you like us to give more, voluntarily, to these governments?\n\n“I will defend the company and the way it works for a very long time.\"", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "This Country writer and actress Daisy May Cooper took to the Bafta TV Awards red carpet wearing a dress made from bin bags and rubbish, made by her mother.\n\nShe told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba she donated the money she would have spent on a proper dress to her local food bank.", "Brighton have sacked manager Chris Hughton after they finished 17th in the Premier League.\n\nThe Seagulls won just three of their last 23 league games and none of their final nine.\n\nChairman Tony Bloom said that run \"put our status at significant risk\".\n\nHughton, who joined Albion in December 2014, led the club to the Premier League for the first time in 2017, and they finished 15th in their first season back in the top flight.\n\nSwansea boss Graham Potter, 43, who joined the club from Swedish side Ostersunds in 2018, is the favourite with the bookmakers to replace Hughton.\n\nHughton, 60, who was contracted until 2021, also took the club to the FA Cup semi-final this season, where they lost 1-0 to Manchester City.\n\nBloom said: \"Our run of three wins from 23 Premier League matches put our status at significant risk. It is with that in mind, and the performances during that period, that I now feel it's the right time for a change.\n\n\"Undoubtedly, this has been one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make as chairman of Brighton, but ultimately one I have made due to how we struggled in the second half of the season.\"\n\nHughton won 40.93% of his 215 games in charge and was named the Premier League's manager of the month in March 2018.\n\nHe is the seventh Premier League manager to be sacked this season.\n\nBloom praised Hughton for an \"excellent job\" in stabilising the club, achieving promotion and retaining their Premier League status.\n\n\"Chris will always be very fondly remembered by Albion staff and fans as one of our club's finest and most respected managers,\" he added.\n\nFan website wearebrighton.com said most would \"feel pity for Hughton\" and that the sacking represented a \"huge gamble\" for Bloom in the \"cut-throat world of modern day football\".\n\n\"There are countless tales of woe of clubs getting rid of managers in favour of trying something new, only for it to end in tears,\" it added, citing departures such as that of Alan Curbishley from now-League One Charlton Athletic.\n\nBut it said Hughton's record in the second half of the season meant there could only be one outcome: \"There is no getting away from the fact that since Christmas, they have been nowhere near good enough - and not many clubs would stick with a manager who was delivering so little over the course of five months.\"\n\nFormer player Kerry Mayo, who made more than 400 appearances for the club, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"I don't think it's a great surprise. He's a great manager and has done a fantastic job for Brighton with the resources he had, but results from Christmas tell a story.\n\n\"Football is a results game and he hasn't been able to keep Brighton mid-table where they should be with that squad. They're still a Premier League club, which they would have taken that at the start of the season, but in the second part of the season they've gone from playing positively to trying to pick up the odd point to get them over the line.\"\n\nIt is the third time the former Republic of Ireland defender has been sacked - he was dismissed by Newcastle in 2010 and Norwich in 2014.\n\nBrighton achieved Premier League safety with one game remaining when Cardiff, who finished two points behind them in 18th, were relegated on 4 May.\n\nThe Seagulls lost 4-1 at home to Manchester City on Sunday, as Pep Guardiola's side retained the Premier League title.\n\nBrighton appointed Football Association technical director Dan Ashworth in the same role earlier this year and in February he said his aim was to keep Hughton in a job for as long as possible.\n\nIt doesn't come as a total surprise. Do Brighton want to stay in this position next season? Tony Bloom has decided they've got to go down another route.\n\nThe frustration for the fans this season has been that they started so well and then tailed off and they may have learned a lesson from that, but clearly the chairman doesn't want to risk that again next season.\n\nThey are going through a change, with Dan Ashworth coming in to overhaul the recruitment and academy side of things, and now clearly they want to go in a different direction with the manager as well.\n\nI'm sure they will want someone in place as quickly as possible as the summer recruitment plans will have already started.", "Former US President Jimmy Carter has undergone surgery for a broken hip after falling at his home in Georgia, his office says.\n\nThe 94-year-old, the oldest living former US president, was on his way to go turkey hunting when he fell.\n\nMr Carter was recovering comfortably at a medical centre in Americus, near his home in Plains, with his wife, Rosalynn, a statement said.\n\nHis surgeon was quoted as saying that the operation was successful.\n\nA Democrat from Georgia, Mr Carter was a relative unknown in the US political world when he was elected president in 1976. He served from 1977 to 1981.\n\n\"President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit. He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year,\" the Carter Center said.\n\nSince leaving the White House, Mr Carter has remained active, carrying out humanitarian work with his Carter Center in recent years.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Carter - who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 - disclosed that cancer that had been found on his liver had also been discovered on his brain.\n\nAt the time, he said: \"I've had a wonderful life... I've got thousands of friends and I've had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence.\"", "A transgender LGBT rights campaigner and former taxi driver who won £4m on a lottery scratchcard has died.\n\nMelissa Ede bought the winning card when she stopped for petrol on her way to work in December 2017.\n\nBefore her win the 58-year-old, from Hull, was known for her online videos and TV appearances and had thousands of followers on social media.\n\nHumberside Police confirmed she died on Saturday night and said her death was not suspicious.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Ede, posted a message on Facebook thanking paramedics and hospital staff \"for looking after me\" when she was suffering from chest pains.\n\nMs Ede once described her lottery win as a \"fairytale ending\"\n\nWhen she had her big win, Ms Ede explained how she went into a local garage for fuel and could not decide whether to also buy cigarettes or the £10 National Lottery Blue Scratchcard.\n\n\"What a fairytale ending,\" she said.\n\n\"It is all just like a dream.\"\n\nThe lottery millionaire said she wanted to concentrate on helping others experiencing gender challenges and to write her autobiography.\n\n\"The transgender fight to where I am now has been a very difficult path,\" she said.\n\nShe underwent surgery nearly nine years ago and said she was \"really proud of who I am today\".\n\nMs Ede is famous for posting online videos of herself, mostly featuring her singing and dancing in skimpy outfits.\n\nAmong her TV appearances include the ITV court show, Judge Rinder, and The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nShe described how she used to work up to 15 hours a day as a taxi driver and lived in one room in a shared house.\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was called to reports of \"concern for safety of a woman outside a property on Cleminson Gardens at 22:40 BST\" who was pronounced dead after receiving \"immediate medical attention\".", "Having narrowly missed being struck by a light aircraft that crashed on a dual carriageway, two motorists leapt into action to save those on board.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out with just minor injuries.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nThe pair have been called heroes for their actions.\n\nThis video contains footage filmed by eye-witness Daniel Nicholson.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell had responsibility for safety at Hillsborough stadium\n\nThe stadium safety officer in charge at the time of the Hillsborough disaster has been fined £6,500.\n\nFormer secretary of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, Graham Mackrell, is the first person to be convicted of an offence relating to the tragedy.\n\nMackrell, 69, of Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, failed to ensure there were enough turnstiles to prevent large crowds building up.\n\nHe was also ordered to pay £5,000 towards the prosecution costs.\n\nNinety-six Liverpool fans died following the crush in the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.\n\nThe people who lost their lives in the Hillsborough disaster\n\nMackrell sat in the well of the court rather than the dock for the sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court.\n\nHe was found guilty last month after an 11-week trial of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act in respect of ensuring there were enough turnstiles to prevent unduly large crowds building up outside the ground.\n\nThe jury in the trial was unable to reach a verdict over match commander David Duckenfield, 74, who denied the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans.\n\nThe court heard there were seven turnstiles available for the 10,100 Liverpool fans with standing tickets.\n\nJudge Sir Peter Openshaw said: \"He should have realised there was an obvious risk that so many spectators could not pass through seven turnstiles in time for kick-off.\"\n\nBut Judge Openshaw said Mackrell's offence did not directly cause the disaster inside the ground.\n\nHe said: \"The defendant's offence was at least one of the direct causes of the crush at the turnstiles outside the ground but it was not a direct cause of the crush on the terraces inside the ground that resulted in the deaths of 96 spectators and injury to many more, to which the crush outside the ground did no more than set the scene.\"\n\nThe jury heard 96 men, women and children died as a result of a fatal crush on the Leppings Lane terrace\n\nIn a statement, Mackrell said he was \"grateful\" the judge had recognised \"my conduct did not cause or contribute to the death of any person or cause any person to be injured on that tragic day\".\n\nHe added: \"Despite that, I do wish to take this opportunity to make clear my sympathy to all those impacted by this appalling tragedy.\n\n\"No-one should have to go through what the families have experienced.\"\n\nOutside court, Louise Brookes, whose brother Andrew died at Hillsborough, called the sentence \"shameful\" and said the fine amounted to £67.70 per life lost.\n\n\"Our 96 deserve better than this and us families deserve better than this. We are all getting on in age and enough is enough,\" she said.\n\n\"My weekly shopping costs more than £67.70.\"\n\nChristine Burke, whose father Henry died in the disaster, added: \"When Hillsborough happened he [Mackrell] was in charge of the safety certificate at the time and he should have been sacked straight away.\n\n\"He went on to bigger and better things, he was promoted. This is a man who has been paid very well and gone on to do other things. That should not have happened.\"\n\nThe court heard Mackrell made £700 a week in his job as administrator for the Football League Managers' Association and earned an additional £670 a week from pensions.\n\nA hearing to decide whether Mr Duckenfield will face a retrial is expected to be held next month.\n\nUnder the law at the time, there can be no prosecution for the 96th victim, Tony Bland, as he died more than a year and a day after the disaster.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The footage of the attempted robbery was caught on CCTV\n\nMembers of a moped gang who threatened to hurt a woman's three-year-old son in a \"shocking\" attempted robbery have been jailed.\n\nThe mother was grabbed in June in Richmond, London, by a man, saying \"give me your rings - I'm going to hurt your child and take him away\".\n\nShe dragged her child into the road before builders chased the gang away.\n\nThe gang of 12 were also involved in stealing BBC camera equipment from the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.\n\nThe men were all sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Monday.\n\nThe gang attempted to steal cameras from Putney Bridge during the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race\n\nThe court heard how the woman had been walking hand-in-hand with her son in Sandpits Road on 21 June when gang member John McFadyen, 24, grabbed her arm.\n\nShe pulled away into the road and builders brandishing scaffolding poles then chased the gang away.\n\nFootage of the mother dragging her son into the road went viral after being tweeted by TV presenter Amanda Holden.\n\nJudge Georgina Kent said it was an \"exceptionally serious and shocking attempted robbery\" which had \"a degree of planning\".\n\nThe judge noted that \"fortunately there were no cars in the vicinity at that moment\" but added the mother was now \"afraid for her children's safety when she takes them to and from school\".\n\nThe defendants, all aged between 18 and 36, also used their mopeds to block traffic before taking an angle grinder to cameras rigged up to capture the 2018 Boat Race on 22 March.\n\nThe gang were pictured attempting to steal the BBC camera equipment\n\nAfter one attempt on Putney Bridge failed, a highly-specialised camera worth an estimated £170,000 was stolen from Lonsdale Road by Barnes Bridge.\n\nThe gang, whose leader was Terry Marsh, 32, had previously been involved in two thefts of the same high-end outdoor clothing shop in Kensington, violently assaulting a security guard during the second raid.\n\nOverall, it cost the business £43,000 in lost goods and a total of £80,000 including damage.\n\nSince then other offences have included stealing an officer's bag from an unmarked police car, spraying a police car with fire foam extinguishers as officers waited for a stolen moped to be collected and the theft of £83,000 worth of MacBooks and other Apple products from another Kensington business.\n\nThe gang were all linked to ringleader Terry Marsh, who was jailed for 13 years and two months\n\nFour defendants also travelled to Redditch, Worcestershire, in January 2018 where they stole three motorbikes worth a total of £30,000 after spotting the owner's address on an eBay advert.\n\nThree of the gang, Omar Tafat, 22, Josh Myers, 19, and Kian Taylor, 20, were caught following a high-speed police chase lasting more than 90 minutes. All three piled on to the same bike, which was driven the wrong way on the A40 on 7 May 2018.\n\nJudge Kent said many of the gang's offences used motorbikes or mopeds, often stolen with false number plates.\n\nShe added: \"The motorbike helmets and clothing, often all in black, were an effective disguise and created an intimidating appearance. The motorbikes provided a quick getaway.\n\n\"Many of these offences were committed in public view because you were confident you could get away with it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City retained their Premier League title and finally ended Liverpool's magnificent challenge after surviving a scare to come from behind and outclass Brighton at the Amex.\n\nPep Guardiola's side started the day knowing victory would ensure they would be the first team to retain the crown since Manchester United 10 years ago - but any slip-up could let in their relentless pursuers Liverpool, who were hosting Wolves at Anfield.\n\nAnd when Glenn Murray gave the Seagulls the lead with a glancing header from a corner after 27 minutes, anxiety rose in Sussex and hopes rose at Anfield that Liverpool might win their first title in 29 years.\n\nManchester City's response was instant, emphatic and ruthless as they swept Brighton aside to end the campaign with a record 14 successive league victories, making it 32 in all, which equals the record they set last season.\n\nSergio Aguero pounced in the area to equalise inside 83 seconds and Aymeric Laporte arrived unmarked on the end of a corner to put City ahead before half-time.\n\nBrighton had no way back and City completed the formalities in spectacular style as Riyad Mahrez fired high past Mat Ryan just after the hour and Ilkay Gundogan's spectacular 72nd minute free-kick sparked wild celebrations.\n\nCity may not have repeated the 100 points that won the title last season but this was arguably an even sweeter success given the season-long battle with Liverpool.\n\nThey will now aim to complete a unique domestic treble when they face Watford in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 18 May.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nCity knew their task at kick-off in Sussex - but whether it was a combination of nerves or unwitting complacency, it took the fright of going behind to kick them into action.\n\nCity were careless and lacking in urgency until Murray bundled in a near-post header.\n\nIt was the signal for the last assault on the title.\n\nAguero swiftly put the show back on the road and once Laporte escape the attentions of Murray to head home, this was job done.\n\nIt was a fitting decoration that the final two goals of City's season were thunderous efforts from Mahrez and Gundogan, demonstrating the quality that is spread so liberally through this squad.\n\nBrighton, to their credit, did not simply stand aside and allow the party to take place: Chris Hughton's side were organised and resilient but once they levelled matters up, City were irresistible.\n\nAnd even the home fans accepted the inevitable by the final whistle, rising to first give a standing ovation to City captain Vincent Kompany when he was substituted and then to Guardiola and his team once referee Michael Oliver had sounded the final whistle that confirmed they were were Premier League champions for the fourth time and for the sixth time in total.\n\nCity's achievement, completed with that astonishing 14-game win towards the winning post, is underscored by the fact they saw off a Liverpool side that lost just once this season - to City - and amassed 97 points.\n\nThis is a magnificent feat by Guardiola and Manchester City.\n\nThe best team always ends as Premier League champions - and no matter how superbly Liverpool have performed, they came up against a truly outstanding team that was just one point better.\n\nThis was a day of celebration for Manchester City - and also one of satisfaction for Brighton as they look forward to another season in the Premier League.\n\nIt was a particularly special day for their iconic 38-year-old Spanish defender Bruno, who was making his final appearance. He was cheered throughout and made an emotional farewell when he was taken off.\n\nBruno, clearly loved down here, was also acclaimed during a post-match speech.\n\nThe Brighton fans left for summer in good heart after surviving late worries they may be hauled into the relegation fight and now shrewd manager Hughton will start plotting again to ensure they are in position for another season of consolidation when it all starts again in August.\n• None Manchester City have won their fourth Premier League title - only Manchester United (13) and Chelsea (5) have ever won more in the competition.\n• None Overall, City have won their sixth English top-flight title. They're the first side to retain the title since Manchester United in 2008-09.\n• None This was the eighth time the Premier League title has been decided on the final day of the season, with Manchester City winning it on three of those occasions (2011-12, 2013-14 and 2018-19).\n• None City's haul of 98 points is the joint-second highest for any team in English top-flight history (converting to three points for a win) - only City themselves have ever earned more (100 in 2017-18).\n• None City conceded the first goal in a Premier League game for the first time since their 2-0 defeat at Chelsea in December - they were behind for just 83 seconds before Sergio Aguero's equaliser.\n• None City have won their last 14 Premier League games - only City themselves (18 in December 2017) have had a longer winning run in the competition.\n• None City have won 32 Premier League games this season - equalling their own record in the competition from last season for most wins in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 32 goals in all competitions for Man City this season - only in 2016-17 (33) has he scored more in a single campaign for City.\n• None City's David Silva has provided 18 assists for Sergio Aguero in the Premier League - only three players have ever assisted another for more goals in the competition (Frank Lampard to Didier Drogba, Darren Anderton to Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman to Robbie Fowler).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 36% of Brighton's overall Premier League goals (25/69), the highest proportion of any team's goals in the competition's history.\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We have to say congratulations to Liverpool and thank you so much, they pushed us to increase our standards.\n\n\"It's incredible, 98 points, to go back-to-back. We made the standard higher last season and Liverpool helped us. To win this title we had to win 14 (league games) in a row. We couldn't lose one point.\n\n\"It's the toughest title we have won in all my career, by far.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I'm just delighted, this is exactly what I came to the club for, to win trophies and be in these moments.\n\n\"The manager here... his mentality is the best. It's always about winning. It's the way he sets us up. I'm happy to be here learning and winning.\n\n\"As a manager, he's got multiple players in each position challenging each other. No one is comfortable here but everyone is ready to take their chance - like Riyad today. He's not played much recently but I knew he was going to score today.\n\n\"It's been a lovely season after a difficult World Cup. Hopefully I can go one better next year.\"\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton, speaking to Sky Sports: \"The next step for us is to learn from the disappointment we had in periods this season.\n\n\"We need to score more goals, that's the biggest thing. There are really good parts of our game that we can hold on to, but goals are the most important thing.\"\n\nOn Bruno's retirement: \"Bruno's an exceptional individual. It's not just about him being a great captain. The way he looks after himself and gets in the shape he is, it's great dedication.\n\n\"He's a fantastic individual and a person. That's why he's held in such high esteem here.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "China has said it will raise tariffs on $60bn (£46bn) of US goods from 1 June, extending a bilateral trade war.\n\nThe move comes three days after the US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports.\n\nThe escalation hit stock markets, with Asia markets falling on Tuesday after Wall Street closed with sharp losses.\n\nUS President Donald Trump had warned China not to raise levies but Beijing said it would not swallow any \"bitter fruit\" that harmed its interests.\n\nItems affected include beef, lamb and pork products, as well as various varieties of vegetables, fruit juice, cooking oil, tea and coffee.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news briefing in Beijing that China would \"never surrender to external pressure\".\n\nThe move hit stock markets in the US on Monday, with the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 closing down 2.4%, while the Nasdaq index lost 3.4%.\n\nThe latest round of US-Chinese trade negotiations ended in Washington on Friday without a deal.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies.\n\nIt also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.\n\nAs well as ordering a tariff increase on $200bn worth of Chinese imports, Mr Trump also directed the US trade department \"to begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China\", estimated to be valued at around $300bn.\n\nThough on Monday, Mr Trump said that he had \"not made a decision\" on whether to go ahead with those additional levies.\n\nDespite failing to reach a deal last week, Mr Trump said on Monday that the US has \"a very good relationship\" with China. He said the two sides would talk at the next G20 summit which takes place in Japan on 28-29 June.\n\n\"Maybe something will happen,\" he said. \"We're going to be meeting, as you know, at the G20 in Japan and that'll be, I think, probably a very fruitful meeting.\"\n\nEarlier, the president had warned China against a tit-for-tat response to the US's actions last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" Mr Trump tweeted shortly before news of the Chinese decision came.\n\nMr Trump also said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\nHe added that US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" he said.\n\nMr Trump's approach in the dispute has put him at odds with his own top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who has said \"both sides will suffer\".", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "Hundreds of hardy competitors have battled their way across a muddy riverbed to raise money for charity.\n\nThe Maldon Mud Race sees participants run, leap and crawl across a 400m (1,312ft) stretch of the River Blackwater in Essex at low tide as they look to be crowned the winner.\n\nThe annual springtime event attracts people from across Europe and regularly raises tens of thousands of pounds for good causes.\n\nRace chairman Brian Farrington said: \"We are hoping to raise even more money for the charities.\"", "Labour must promise another Brexit referendum to counter the electoral challenge posed by Nigel Farage, the party's deputy leader has said.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Tom Watson said his party could not \"sit on the fence\" about the biggest issue to face the UK for a generation.\n\nBut ex-UKIP leader Mr Farage said a new referendum would be \"a total insult\" to five million Labour Leave voters.\n\nThe UK has been given an extension to the Brexit process until 31 October.\n\nThis means the UK is likely to hold European Parliament elections on 23 May.\n\nMr Farage launched his new Brexit Party last week and said it had a list of 70 candidates to fight the May elections.\n\nMr Watson warned that Labour would not defeat Mr Farage \"by being mealy-mouthed and sounding as if we half agree with him\".\n\n\"We won't beat him unless we can inspire the millions crying out for a different direction,\" he added.\n\nHe said a \"confirmatory\" referendum and \"final say\" on any deal was \"the very least\" voters deserved, now they knew more about what Brexit would mean.\n\nHe added: \"They deserve a Labour Party that offers clarity on this issue, as well as the radical vision for a new political economy achieved by working with our socialist allies inside the EU.\n\n\"And, above all, they deserve better than Nigel Farage's promise of a far-right Brexit that would solve nothing.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Farage accused Mr Watson of breaking promises to the British people and said he intended to \"wholeheartedly target Labour lies and dishonesty in the weeks ahead\".\n\nTalks with the Conservatives aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock have re-opened Labour's divisions over a possible further referendum.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry wrote to cabinet colleagues to warn that striking a deal with the prime minister that ditched the commitment to a public vote would breach party policy.\n\nA survey earlier this year found that 70% of Labour members support another referendum, but nine of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's top team are sceptical or opposed.\n\nNigel Farage described 23 May as the \"first step\" for his party\n\nMr Farage's Brexit Party also poses a threat to the Conservative Party, according to a survey for the Mail on Sunday.\n\nThe Survation poll of 781 Conservative councillors found that 40% were planning to back the Brexit Party at the May European elections.\n\nJust over half - 52% - said they would vote for their own party. If Brexiteer Boris Johnson was prime minister this figure would rise to 65%, the survey found.\n\nSome 15% said they believed Mr Farage would be the best leader of the Conservative Party - only Mr Johnson was ahead of him, on 19%.\n\nNigel Farage relishes the opportunity to put a cat among the pigeons - and once again the two biggest parties are questioning how to deal with his unambiguous pro-Brexit message.\n\nTom Watson's case is that Labour needs to be different. He's not impressed with the idea of \"sounding as if we half agree\" with Mr Farage, urging his party to strengthen its message on another referendum and provide a natural home to those on the other side of the Brexit debate.\n\nThe problem is that some in the Labour completely disagree. They think it would an historic mistake to ignore Labour voters who backed Leave in 2016 and believe it may actually encourage those voters to side with Mr Farage.\n\nThe Conservatives are grappling with how to fight the European elections too. Today's poll in the Mail on Sunday suggests some Conservative councillors are prepared to turn their back on the party - at least temporarily - and support Mr Farage.\n\nThat will only feed into fears in the Tory leadership that these elections could be a disaster for the party - and strengthen resolve to try to stop them happening by getting a deal through Parliament.\n\nThe picture isn't the same everywhere. In Scotland, for example, the pro-referendum SNP appear to be maintaining strong support.\n\nBut Mr Farage will continue to argue that the main parties have failed to honour the referendum result. And his allies suspect that message will prove a powerful one for Brexit supporters if the European Parliament elections go ahead.\n\nAlthough Theresa May has said she still wants the UK to leave the EU as soon as possible, she is yet to get her withdrawal deal - which has been rejected three times by MPs - approved by Parliament.\n\nCross-party talks between the government and the Labour Party are continuing, to find a way through the impasse.\n\nLabour wants a new permanent customs union with the EU, which would allow tariff-free trade in goods.\n\nThe government has repeatedly ruled out remaining in the EU's customs union, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nThe EU has said the UK must hold elections to the European Parliament in May or leave on 1 June without a deal.\n\nMarch 2018 - Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Owen Smith sacked for supporting second referendum on final deal\n\nSeptember - Labour agrees if a general election cannot be achieved it \"must support all options… including a public vote\"\n\n18 November - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says a new referendum is \"an option for the future\" but \"not an option for today\"\n\n28 November - Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says Labour will \"inevitably\" back a second referendum if unable to secure general election\n\n6 February - Mr Corbyn writes a letter to Mrs May outlining five changes with no mention of a \"People's Vote\"\n\n28 February - Labour says it will back a public vote after its proposed Brexit deal is rejected\n\n14 March - Five Labour MPs quit party roles to oppose a further referendum\n\n27 March - The party backs a confirmatory public vote in Parliament's indicative votes on a way forward for Brexit", "Emma Faulds has been missing for more than a week\n\nPolice believe a woman missing from her home in Kilmarnock for over a week may have come to harm.\n\nEmma Faulds was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in the Monkton area of Ayrshire.\n\nPolice said it was \"alarming\" that the 39-year-old had not been in touch with friends and family, and that she had left behind her beloved pet dog.\n\nOfficers are carrying out a forensic examination of her car and searching properties in Monkton.\n\nThey said family and friends were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she is or what might have happened to her.\n\nAnd they appealed for help from anyone who saw Ms Faulds or her car in the lead-up to her disappearance.\n\nPolice said she normally drives a blue BMW 1 Series M Sport with the distinctive registration number F5 EMA.\n\nHer car has been removed by officers and is undergoing a full forensic examination.\n\nPolice are asking the public if they remember seeing Ms Faulds' car\n\nSpecialist officers have been searching areas and properties in the Monkton area, including two cars which are also being examined.\n\nMs Faulds is described as white, around 5ft 3in tall, with a slim, athletic build, long blonde hair, a pale complexion and blue eyes.\n\nDetectives are also searching CCTV footage for any sightings of the missing youth worker or her car.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus from Police Scotland's major investigations team said: \"Emma is in constant contact with her family and friends and the fact that she has not been heard from is alarming.\n\n\"Emma also has a dog, a west highland terrier, and she would never leave it for any length of time without ensuring someone is able to look after it.\n\n\"We are liaising with Emma's family and we now believe that she may have come to harm.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Emma's car has been removed for examination and I am appealing to motorists, taxi drivers or members of the public who may have seen it being driven in the Monkton and Kilmarnock areas late Sunday night into Monday morning.\n\n\"I would ask people with dashcams to check their footage as they may have captured the car and not realise its significance. You may have noticed the registration number but thought nothing of it at the time, but now where and when you saw it could be vital.\"\n\nHe added: \"Emma is a sociable outgoing person who enjoys seeing her family and friends.\n\n\"They are distraught at not knowing where she is or what may have happened to her.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who may have information or knowledge as to her whereabouts to contact us.\n\n\"If you saw Emma a few days before she was reported missing, you may have information which could assist us so please do contact us, did you see her with anyone, did you speak her, any small piece of information could be highly significant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henriett Szucs was a Hungarian national who had lived in London for \"several years\", police said\n\nA woman who was found dead in a freezer along with another female has been named by police as Henriett Szucs.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close in Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nHungarian national Ms Szucs, 34, is the second woman to be identified after Mihrican Mustafa, 38, was confirmed as the first victim on Friday.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe Met Police said post mortems had been carried out and no formal cause of death had been established.\n\nBut the force said both women \"suffered multiple injuries\" and further tests were being carried out.\n\nMihrican Mustafa, also known as MJ, was a mother-of-three\n\nThe Met said Ms Szucs had been in the UK for several years but was of no fixed address.\n\nHer next of kin had been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place, a spokesperson added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said Ms Szucs was last heard from in the summer of 2016 when she spoke to somebody she knew in Hungary on the phone.\n\nOfficers are trying to establish if this was the last known contact anyone had had with her.\n\nMs Mustafa, a mother-of-three who was also known as MJ, was reported missing on 10 April last year.\n\nAs she was a missing person, the Met has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nOfficers were called to the flat after receiving concerns for the welfare of a male occupant.\n\nThe Met said the property was used by people who moved from address to address and that it was frequented by drug users.\n\n\"We need to build up a full picture of both of these women's lives, whether they knew each other, who they associated with and what they were doing in and around Vandome Close and the Canning Town area,\" Det Ch Insp Harding said.\n\n\"The way in which they died is truly shocking and our heart goes out to these women's friends and families.\"\n\nA 50-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Bruce and his brother Kenny founded Purplebricks in 2012\n\nShares in online estate agent Purplebricks have dropped more than 5%, after founder and chief executive Michael Bruce left the company.\n\nVic Darvey, who had been the firm's chief operating officer, will succeed Mr Bruce as chief executive.\n\nPurplebricks also said it was pulling out of Australia and placing its US business under review.\n\nChairman Paul Pindar apologised to shareholders for its recent \"disappointing\" performance.\n\n\"With hindsight, our rate of geographic expansion was too rapid,\" he said.\n\nThe company has operated in Australia for two-and-a-half years, but said the prospective returns from the country were \"not sufficient to justify continued investment\".\n\nPurplebricks is also cutting back investment in the US, although its Canadian business continues to flourish.\n\nHowever, the firm is optimistic about its UK performance, saying in a statement: \"Whilst the UK property market remains challenging, the company continues to outperform the market and the board remains confident about the future of the business.\n\n\"Having established a market-leading position, there remain many opportunities for further profitable growth and this will be a key area of focus going forward.\"\n\nShares in the company fell in February after it cut its sales forecast. from between £165m and £175m to between £130m and £145m.\n\nIt confirmed these figures in Tuesday's trading update, adding that cash balances at 30 April 2019 would not be less than £62m.\n\nMr Bruce and his brother Kenny, who grew up on a council estate in Larne, County Antrim, founded the online estate agent in 2012.\n\nThe company charges a flat rate to market a property, with fees differing around the country. For example, homeowners in London and surrounding postcodes are charged £1,399 and elsewhere £899.\n\nViewings can be booked online at any time and people can arrange visits themselves, or pay the company extra to do it for them.\n\nSpeaking about Mr Bruce's departure, Mr Pindar said: \"Michael's vision in creating the UK's leading hybrid estate agent has been deeply impressive, as has his relentless energy in developing the business both in the UK and internationally.\"\n\nMr Darvey said: \"Going forward, we have a very clear understanding of the levers available to us to achieve growth.\"\n\nProperty expert Henry Pryor told the BBC that Mr Bruce's departure was unexpected.\n\n\"It's a shock to the industry, although I don't know if Michael was expecting it,\" he said.\n\n\"He and his brother have done an extraordinary job commercially driving the company forward and I hope that this is his decision, rather than it coming about as a result of shareholders' frustration.\"\n\nOnline companies' share of the estate agents' market is at about the 7% mark, according to data from analysts TwentyCi.\n\nAnd data from Zoopla's 2018 State of the Property Nation report indicated that 24% of consumers used an online agent in the previous year.\n\nPurplebricks and similar companies have definitely made their mark, Mr Pryor says.\n\n\"Their impact has been significant. The estate agents' sector is not prone to innovation, so when Purplebricks came along - although they were not the first online agent - they had a cleverer and more imaginative way of delivering the hybrid model.\"\n\nPaula Higgins, chief executive at pressure group HomeOwners Alliance, warned that consumers need to be careful that they choose the correct estate agent for them.\n\n\"It's so important for people to do their research,\" she told the BBC. \"Not all agents are the same and not all online agents are the same.\n\n\"Purplebricks have been a massive innovator in a market, where one-third of agents used to refuse to give ballpark figures for commission and issue non-transparent, dodgy contracts.\n\n\"They and others opened up the market and encouraged transparency.\n\n\"Purplebricks' fee is charged up front, but other online and High Street agents have up-front or pay-later options, so people do need to shop around to get the right agent.\n\n\"Local independent agents who are more professional in their area might be a good option for certain people.\"", "The plane wreckage: the blaze totally incinerated the rear half of the Superjet\n\nRussian investigators are considering pilot error as a possible cause of the crash which killed 41 people on board an Aeroflot airliner at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.\n\nCrew members and passengers say the Sukhoi Superjet-100 was struck by lightning in the air, which knocked out communications with ground control.\n\nBut the high-speed landing of a fuel-laden jet was not normal practice.\n\nMeanwhile a video reveals officials joking while watching the burning jet.\n\nIt is not clear who the unidentified Russian officials are, in the clip broadcast on Twitter.\n\nA statement from the Sheremetyevo airport management said the officials belonged neither to the airport company - called AO MASH - nor to Aeroflot.\n\nThe statement demands punishment for the officials in the clip, accusing them of breaching professional ethics.\n\nAmid laughter one of them is heard saying \"it landed all right, with a little flame\" while the TV monitor shows the jet engulfed in an inferno.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Телеканал \"Звезда\" This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe airliner made a hard landing 30 minutes after take-off on Sunday and burst into flames. It had taken off normally, bound for Murmansk in the far north.\n\nVideo showed a ball of flame engulfing the rear of the plane, but 37 people, including four crew members, managed to flee via escape chutes in the front section.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers used emergency exit slides to escape and run away\n\nTwo black box flight recorders were recovered in reasonable condition, and are being examined. But the results will not be known for a few weeks.\n\nRussia's transport ministry has decided against grounding Superjet-100s, saying there is no obvious sign of a design fault.\n\nBut some aviation experts are asking why a lightning strike knocked out the plane's communications - something that should not normally happen, as modern jets are designed to withstand storms.\n\nThe crash jet was relatively new, it had not had a heavy flight schedule and had undergone a routine service in April.\n\nKommersant daily, quoting unnamed sources close to the investigation, says pilot error is seen as a strong possibility in the crash. Several factors are under scrutiny:\n\nPilot Denis Yevdokimov, quoted on the Russian Telegram channel Baza, said \"the fire (came) after landing, I understand... because of the landing; that was probably the reason\", and he noted that its fuel tanks were full.\n\nAeroflot owns at least 50 Superjets and has ordered 100 more. The planes first entered service in 2011.\n\nThere have been sporadic concerns over the reliability of Superjets. An Aeroflot internal document from February 2018 classed the type's safety level as \"average\", whereas all the airline's Airbus and Boeing jets had a \"high\" safety level.\n\nSunday's disaster was the first crash of a Superjet on a commercial flight. But in 2012 a Superjet on a demonstration flight slammed into a volcano in Indonesia, killing all 45 people on board. The crash was blamed on human error.\n\nThe jet returned to the airport within 30 minutes of departing", "Jennifer Wetton said she was \"disappointed\" that the prize money had been cut from £1,000 to £200\n\nThe women's winner of the Great Stirling Run marathon has criticised organisers after the event's £1,000 prize money was \"slashed\" to £200.\n\nJennifer Wetton said she only found out about the \"insulting\" award after completing last month's race.\n\nShe said the smaller prize would \"definitely have been a consideration\" in deciding whether to compete.\n\nOrganisers, Great Run, said it was an \"oversight\" that the information was not made available ahead of the race.\n\nMs Wetton, who lives in Stirling, told BBC Scotland's John Beattie Programme that she checked the Great Run website the day before the event for information on the prize money.\n\nShe said: \"It said there was prize money available for British athletes, but it was yet to be confirmed for 2019.\n\n\"It would have been nice if they had communicated things properly from the start, so we had all the information before we made the decision to take part.\"\n\nMs Wetton explained that she was not a professional athlete but she takes her running seriously and fits training around working full time and looking after her young son.\n\nHer decision to take part in the Stirling marathon - which had a winning cash prize of £1,000 last year - was made in January so she could establish a training schedule.\n\nShe said she opted for her \"home\" run rather than the London marathon which was on the same day.\n\nIt cost her £58 to enter the Stirling marathon while the half marathon event fee was £36.\n\nHowever, the winners of the two races were awarded the same £200 prize.\n\nMs Wetton believed a reasonable cash prize goes some way to reflect the time and effort needed to produce \"an under-three-hour marathon performance\".\n\nShe understood that £1,000 was \"the going rate\" for a marathon prize in Scotland.\n\nMs Wetton said the Loch Ness Marathon awards £1,500 to the winner, while the Edinburgh Marathon's prize is £1,000 plus a £500 donation to charity.\n\nShe said: \"While £200 is a reasonable prize if you're running a 10k race, it's lower than a lot of half-marathons.\n\n\"But for a marathon it was a little bit insulting to be honest.\"\n\nMs Wetton pointed out that on finishing second in a local half marathon earlier this year she was awarded £200.\n\nA Great Run Company spokeswoman said the Stirling prize money was brought in line with its other non-televised events this year.\n\nShe said that the website statement that the 2019 prize money was yet to be confirmed \"made it clear that we were changing the structure for this year\".\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"We apologise that this information was not publicly available sooner and it was an oversight on our part that it was not posted on the website before the event.\"\n\nA Stirling Council spokesman said the prize money was \"decided exclusively\" by the event organisers and was \"not a matter\" for the local authority.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal baby: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge congratulate the Sussexes on their first child\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has welcomed his brother to \"the sleep deprivation society that is parenting\" after the birth of the Duke of Sussex's son.\n\nPrince William said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" for Prince Harry and Meghan, whose child was born at 05:26 BST on Monday.\n\nThe father-of-three added he looked forward to seeing the new parents \"when things have quietened down\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was also \"delighted\" by the birth.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were congratulated and given presents during a four-day trip to Germany.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born on Monday\n\nShortly after he arrived in Berlin, he said: \"We couldn't be more delighted at the news and we're looking forward to meeting the baby when we return.\"\n\nBefore a private meeting with the prince, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented him with a teddy bear wearing blue clothes.\n\nLater, when members of the public in Berlin offered their congratulations on his fourth grandchild, Prince Charles said: \"Thank you, I'm collecting a rather large number of them.\"\n\nPrince William was at an event at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHe said: \"I'm very pleased and glad to welcome my own brother into the sleep deprivation society that is parenting.\"\n\n\"I wish him all the best and I hope in the next few days they can settle down and enjoy having a newborn in their family and the joys that come with that,\" he added.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed where the baby was born, but it is believed Meghan gave birth in hospital rather than at home.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"We're looking forward to meeting him and finding out what his name's going to be... these next few weeks are always a bit daunting the first time round so we wish them all the best.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's such a special time, obviously with Louis and Charlotte just having had their birthdays it's such a great time of year to have a baby, spring is in the air.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan's son, who has not been named yet, is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nCamilla was handed presents to take back to the UK from German wellwishers\n\nIn Berlin, the Duchess of Cornwall visited a clinic for victims of domestic violence, where staff members gave her a onesie with German art on it and a balloon for the baby boy.\n\nThe duchess said: \"As soon as we return I will deliver it to them, direct from Germany.\"\n\nThe royals' words followed messages of congratulations from around the globe.\n\nRoyal fans lined the streets near to Harry and Meghan's home on the Windsor Estate\n\nFormer US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack Obama were \"thrilled\" at the news, while Meghan's former colleague Patrick J Adams sent love to the \"incredible parents\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow opened the House of Commons on Tuesday by saying: \"I am sure the whole House would want to join me in sending their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex our warmest congratulations on the birth of their son.\"\n\nA wellwisher and her dog dressed up for the occasion outside Windsor Castle\n\nMeanwhile celebrations were under way in the town near to Frogmore Cottage - the Sussexes' home on the Windsor Estate.\n\nLocal fans dressed up in their finery to mark the occasion while Windsor's shop window displays were crammed with royal merchandise.", "Schools in England will have to stay accountable for pupils they exclude, a government-backed review has said.\n\nIt could mean school league table rankings having to include the exam results of pupils who have been excluded and moved elsewhere.\n\nThe intention is to stop so-called \"off-rolling\", where schools remove difficult or low-achieving pupils.\n\n\"Exclusion from school should never mean exclusion from education,\" said review author Edward Timpson.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds, endorsing the report, promised \"greater clarity\" for schools over the appropriate use of exclusions.\n\nMr Hinds said a consultation in the autumn would consider how accountability measures, such as league tables, could be used to keep schools responsible for the future outcome of excluded pupils.\n\nMr Timpson, a former education minister, said there was \"clear room for improvement\" in arrangements for pupils who have been excluded.\n\nThis includes concerns about the quality of some \"alternative provision\" places, where pupils are taught if they are removed from mainstream schools.\n\nMr Timpson warned there was \"too much variation in the use of exclusions and too many missed opportunities\".\n\nOn average about 2,000 pupils are excluded from school each day - with 40 being permanently excluded.\n\nBut the review says despite numbers rising since 2014, the current rates of exclusion are not unusually high, and are lower than a decade ago.\n\nThere were calls for more scrutiny of how exclusions tend to be concentrated in some \"vulnerable\" groups.\n\nMore than three-quarters of permanent exclusions are among pupils who either have special needs or are eligible for free school meals.\n\nBlack Caribbean pupils are more likely to be excluded than White British, but children from Indian and Bangladeshi backgrounds have lower rates of exclusion.\n\nWhile 43% of secondary schools had no permanent exclusions, in 0.2% of secondary schools there were more than 10 pupils permanently excluded per year.\n\nMr Timpson's review called for a more consistent approach to \"make sure no child slips through the net\".\n\nThere were warnings of a \"worse trajectory\" for excluded pupils, including an increased chance of becoming a young offender or being out of work.\n\nIn the recent wave of knife attacks, there have been questions about the links between such crimes and young people excluded from school.\n\nThe education secretary said it was important \"not to draw a simple causal link between exclusions and knife crime, as there is no clear evidence to back this up\".\n\nBut Mr Hinds said that education could provide a \"protective factor\", which made it a priority to improve the quality of alternative provision.\n\nThe government has promised to try to recruit more \"high-quality staff\" to work in alternative provision settings.\n\nIt will also ask the education watchdog Ofsted to tackle \"off-rolling\" where schools might try to remove pupils who cause problems or who might lower exam league table performance.\n\nThe education secretary also emphasised the need to back head teachers in maintaining \"safe and orderly\" environments in school.\n\nMr Hinds said the adviser on behaviour, Tom Bennett, will help to rewrite the guidance on behaviour and discipline in school.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, welcomed that the review and government response supported the right of head teachers to exclude pupils, even though that would be a \"last resort\".\n\nBut in terms of schools remaining accountable in league tables for excluded pupils, he asked whether it would be \"reasonable\" if it was several years after the pupils had left the school.\n\n\"It is vital that any new accountability measure is trusted and supported by schools,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nThe National Education Union called for more attention to be paid to what was behind exclusions, which it said included funding cuts to special needs budgets.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers' leader Paul Whiteman said exclusions of troubled youngsters had to be seen in the context of a \"double whammy\" of funding pressures on schools and social services.\n\n\"More support for schools, rather than more sanctions, is what will make the difference for pupils at risk of exclusion,\" he said.", "Firearms officers are equipped with a handgun and a Taser\n\nFirearms police were sent to everyday incidents which did not require an armed response more than 5,000 times in the past year, BBC Scotland can reveal.\n\nPolice Scotland's firearms officers were banned from attending such routine calls until last May.\n\nSince then they have dealt with more than 5,250 routine incidents like car crashes and missing people.\n\nCritics say the figures are alarming but the force insists its officers are saving lives.\n\n\"Our armed response officers are extremely highly trained,\" said Chief Superintendent Matt Richards, the commander in charge of Police Scotland's Specialist Services Division.\n\n\"Overall they're providing a higher level of service - and more quickly - to the public.\"\n\nArmed officers pulled over a car with a broken rear light in Edinburgh\n\nFirearms officers are equipped with a handgun and a Taser, which they carry while attending routine incidents.\n\nThey also have access to a semi-automatic G36 carbine rifle, which can be deployed during firearms incidents, and a launcher for baton rounds - sometimes called \"rubber bullets\".\n\nFigures obtained by BBC Scotland's The Nine reveal that the specialist skills of armed officers have been required at 5,140 incidents since last May.\n\nOf these, 415 were \"armed operations\" like sieges.\n\nThe remainder were incidents where an armed response was not required but another specialism, such as deploying a stinger, may have been needed.\n\nMore controversial were the thousands of deployments to routine incidents where there was no need for an armed officer.\n\nGreen MSP John Finnie is a former police officer who served in the Northern Constabulary and Lothian and Borders forces for more than 30 years. His constituency was one of the first in Scotland where armed police were routinely deployed.\n\n\"I think it's very significant that 5,000 incidents which did not require an officer to be armed had nonetheless officers turning up fully equipped with firearms,\" he said.\n\n\"That's 5,000 members of the public who have been confronted - albeit they would welcome the police officer being at the scene - by somebody who was armed who didn't need to be armed.\n\n\"The people who are deployed with firearms are highly-trained individuals - the challenge is always going to be that if an officer has a Taser they're perhaps more likely to use it.\"\n\nHe added: \"For over 10 years I was a police dog handler and that's the argument - should you be dealing with routine road traffic offences?\n\n\"Every police officer has the same obligation - that's to protect life and property - and no one, least of all me, is going to suggest that an armed officer should drive past an incident.\n\n\"I don't doubt for one minute that Police Scotland are acting in good faith, but it's a very difficult situation to not argue that this is normalising the routine patrolling of armed police officers.\n\n\"The population want to see a community-based police service, not a routinely-armed police service.\"\n\nMr Richards said the use of firearms was always a \"last resort\", adding that in his experience even the presence of a Taser had \"caused a huge drop in violence and in particular injuries to the public\".\n\nThat runs counter to a recent study by criminologists at the University of Cambridge, who examined police officers in London and found those visibly armed with a Taser used force 48% more than those who were unarmed. They were also more likely to be assaulted.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales has challenged the study's conclusions and Mr Richards insists they do not match the experience in Scotland.\n\n\"Certainly our findings are that where officers are deployed with that obvious a deterrent it is just that; a deterrent,\" he said.\n\nConcerns about armed policing in Scotland first hit the headlines in 2014 after officers were photographed carrying handguns on the street in Inverness.\n\nAmid mounting public and political pressure, then Chief Constable Sir Stephen House announced armed police would only be deployed to life-threatening incidents.\n\nThat decision was overturned in May 2018, with police chiefs claiming it was necessary to protect officers in the face of increasing violence.\n\nWhile violent crime in Scotland has halved over the last decade, Police Scotland claims assaults on officers have risen.\n\nThere is widespread support for armed policing among rank-and-file officers in Scotland.\n\nA 2017 survey by the Scottish Police Federation found two in three officers wanted to carry a gun. Nine in 10 said the same for Tasers, which were given to 500 frontline officers last year.\n\nHowever, Mr Richards insisted Police Scotland has \"no plans to expand armed policing\".\n\n\"We aren't a fully armed force - nor do we intend to be,\" he added.\n\n\"We understand that the appearance of a weapon on the street can cause some consternation and apprehension, but our officers are highly trained, extremely experienced and able to discharge their duties on a day to day basis without resorting to firearms in the vast majority of cases.\n\n\"It's simply another bit of equipment we can refer to if need be.\"", "The soldiers and rangers try to be as invisible as possible, on patrols that often last for days\n\nThe Majete Wildlife Reserve sits in a large basin in the south of Malawi, and the roads that lead there are busy at 6am.\n\nNot with vehicles, but with endless cyclists as Malawians make the most of the low light and cooler air to start their days.\n\nThe appearance of two British Army 4x4s turns heads as they leave the sights and smells of the villages, and head into the bush.\n\nLance Corporal Chad Spalding is one of those on board.\n\nThe 23-year-old is about to spend the next few days with local rangers Boston Phiri, who's pretty new to the job, and Retief Chomali, with ten years' experience.\n\n\"You don't really have time to think,\" explains Chad. \"Most of the time you're concentrating on the environment itself.\n\n\"You're constantly looking, watching dangerous game, anything that might sneak up on you.\"\n\nChad, who's originally from Zimbabwe, is one of 14 British soldiers in Malawi trying to help stop poaching. Ministers announced the British Army's involvement after a successful pilot last year.\n\nThe Liwonde National Park in southern Malawi. Much of the country's landscape is burnt as people illegally make charcoal to sell and use themselves\n\nChad says the wildlife and the environment are important to him and he feels a sense of responsibility to make sure that others get to experience them.\n\n\"If we start chopping down trees and killing animals what will be left for future generations? Just a bunch of pictures in a book,\" he reflects.\n\nChad remembers working with lions when he was growing up on a project in Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe.\n\n\"After I'd seen the wildlife and what it's actually like out in the bush, I just really really bit into it. As soon as this came across the table, I took it straight away.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Newsbeat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMalawi's elephant population has halved from 4,000 in the 1980s to 2,000 in 2015, according to African Parks, which runs the Majete Reserve\n\nThe illegal wildlife trade is a big business, thought to be worth £17bn a year worldwide. A rhino horn is more expensive than cocaine, heroin or gold.\n\nIn the last 50 years global black rhino numbers have dropped from 70,000 to 5,500, African Parks says. The organisation runs the Majete Reserve and two others in Malawi.\n\n\"Most jobs out here don't pay well, whereas if they get a rhino horn it's a pretty big pay day,\" Chad says.\n\n\"I know in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania there's quite a lot of heavy poaching.\n\n\"Most of the poaching that goes on is organised by higher syndicates which are funding these operations and equipping the poachers with better weapons to be able to defeat the rangers.\n\n\"Which is making it a lot hard for the rangers to keep up with the funding they've got. For now the rangers seem to be winning, let's hope it stays that way.\"\n\nThe military-style approach, along with tougher sentences, seems to be working for now though.\n\nNo elephants or rhinos have been poached in Majete for 15 years.\n\nLance Corporal Chad Spalding says he doesn't want animals ending up as \"just a bunch of pictures in a book\"\n\nChad knows what he would say to a poacher if he met one though.\n\n\"I would ask his reasons for doing it, and what he thinks the consequences will be if he does get caught.\n\n\"It's not a matter of if he gets caught it's a matter of when he gets caught. If he does carry on he is going to get caught, and he will go to jail.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: UK and Germany 'need each other'\n\nWhatever the outcome of the Brexit process, the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\", the Prince of Wales has said in a speech in Berlin.\n\nSpeaking at the British Ambassador's residence, the prince described Germany as the UK's \"natural partner\".\n\nHe said he recognised that with Brexit still at an impasse, relations between the two countries are \"in transition\".\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have begun a four-day tour of Germany.\n\nOn Tuesday, the couple met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They are also due to visit Leipzig and Munich later in the trip.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the Queen's Birthday Party, Prince Charles praised the strength of the UK-German relationship.\n\n\"Today, we are so much more than simply neighbours: we are friends and natural partners, bound together by our common experience, mutual interests and shared values, and deeply invested in each other's futures,\" he said.\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\n\"Whatever is negotiated and agreed between governments and institutions, it is more clear to me than it has ever been, that the bonds between us will, and must, endure.\"\n\nThe prince continued: \"Our countries and our people have been through so much together.\n\n\"As we look towards the future, I can only hope that we can also pledge to redouble our commitment to each other and to the ties between us.\n\n\"In so doing, we can ensure that our continent will never again see the division and conflict of the past; that together, we will continue to be an indispensable force for good in our world; and that the friendships and partnerships that bind us together will continue to create opportunity for us all.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Jessica Anderson called the guidelines \"sexist\" and \"outdated\", leading to a review of the rules\n\nOfficials have backtracked over their refusal to award a world record to a woman running the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform.\n\nJessica Anderson was originally told her attempt would not be considered because she wasn't wearing a dress.\n\nThe 22-year-old said the decision was \"sexist\".\n\nGuinness World Records reviewed its guidelines and found the rules \"reflected a stereotype we do not in any way wish to perpetuate.\"\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform, which also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nJess ran the race anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds, which was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nThousands of people run in fancy dress every year\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it [the rules] in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented,\" Jess told Newsbeat after finishing the race.\n\nThat prompted a review from Guinness World Records, saying \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nThen on Tuesday, a statement confirming Jess would be given the new record.\n\n\"I want to take this opportunity to reassure everybody concerned that Guinness World Records is absolutely committed to ensuring we uphold the highest standards of equality and inclusiveness.\n\n\"Therefore, we unreservedly apologise and accept full responsibility for the mishandling of Jessica Anderson's application.\"\n\nBefore the decision was reversed, the story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show, using the hashtag #WhatNursesWear.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd male nurses argued that dresses aren't really their thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Billy Hopkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Natasha Abrahart's GP said she felt the teenager had a \"high risk of ending her life\"\n\nA GP ignored clinical advice and did not follow up on a student who was \"at high risk of ending her life\" before she was found hanged, an inquest heard.\n\nNatasha Abrahart, 20, who was studying physics at the University of Bristol, died on 30 April last year.\n\nThe university's Dr Emma Webb prescribed anti-depressants and made a note to \"follow up in two weeks\".\n\nHowever, NHS advice states patients assessed as a suicide risk should be seen after one week.\n\nDr Webb told Avon Coroners' Court that she saw Ms Abrahart on 30 March, then again on 20 April when she prescribed her the anti-depressant Sertraline.\n\nShe described the student as \"extremely difficult to communicate with\" and added: \"My usual practice is to follow up two weeks after prescribing anti depressants.\"\n\nMargaret and Robert Abrahart gave evidence at the inquest\n\nIn the past three years, 12 University of Bristol students have died.\n\nEight of the deaths were recorded as suicide, two inquests - including Ms Abrahart's - are still to take place or be determined and two inquests returned narrative verdicts.\n\nThe student's parents Robert and Margaret, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, told the inquest they miss their daughter \"every day\".\n\nMrs Abrahart told the hearing in Flax Bourton that her daughter was worried about being \"kicked off her course\" after receiving a lower than expected year-end mark and had begun self-harming.\n\nMs Abrahart's GP told the inquest when Ms Abrahart attended an emergency appointment in February last year she was in an \"acute state of distress\".\n\nDr Caroline St John Wright said she felt the student \"was at high risk of ending her life\" and referred her to the Avon Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) crisis team.\n\nThe doctor said the AWP tried to contact Ms Abrahart, but she did not answer her phone.\n\nNatasha's parents said they \"miss her every day\"\n\nMr Abrahart told the inquest his daughter had posted on a mental health support site aimed at students saying she felt \"distressed\" and had \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nHe said the day before she died she had sent a text to her boyfriend saying \"answer now\", but he was asleep.\n\nAfter she died, her phone was examined and it was found she had searched the phrase \"I wish I was dead\" on the internet a week before she died.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to also have seen an increase in knife crime in the area's police force, research suggests.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime (APPG) studied budgets for youth services from 2014/15 to 2017/18. It also analysed knife crime data.\n\nIt said the four areas worst-hit by youth spending cuts also saw some of the biggest knife crime rises.\n\nBut comparison is not like for like as council and policing areas differ.\n\nThe government said there was a \"range of factors\" driving the increase in knife crime, which it called \"complex\". It said changes to the drugs market is one factor.\n\nMP Sarah Jones, who chairs the APPG which is made up of MPs and peers, said youth services cannot just be \"nice to have\".\n\nShe added: \"We cannot hope to turn around the knife crime epidemic if we don't invest in our young people.\n\n\"Every time I speak to young people they say the same thing: they need more positive activities, safe spaces to spend time with friends and programmes to help them grow and develop.\"\n\nThe APPG's research found the average council cut spending on youth services - such as youth clubs - from 1.9m in 2014/15 to 1.2m in 2017/18. In real terms, this marked a decrease of 40%, it said.\n\nThe City of Wolverhampton and the City of Westminster were the worst hit, with youth services cut by 91% since 2014/15, followed by Cambridgeshire County Council (88%) and Wokingham Borough Council (81%), according to the figures.\n\nAlthough it is not possible to directly compare the geographical areas covered by police forces and local authority boundaries, the APPG analysis suggests forces serving areas with the biggest cuts, such as West Midlands Police, the Metropolitan Police, Cambridgeshire Police, and Thames Valley Police, have also seen some of the highest increases in knife crime.\n\nWest Midlands Police has seen an 87% increase in knife crime offences since 2013/14, while there has been a 47% rise for the Metropolitan Police, a 95% increase for Cambridgeshire Police, and a 99% increase for Thames Valley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nThe APPG obtained the figures on youth service budgets using freedom of information requests sent to 154 local authorities in England, which 106 replied to.\n\nChildren's charity Barnardo's, which supported the research, said the figures were \"alarming but sadly unsurprising\" and called for central government to \"work with local authorities to ensure they have enough funding to run vital services\".\n\nKnife crime reached a record level last year in England and Wales with 40,829 offences involving knives or sharp objects recorded by police in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said cases of murder and manslaughter, excluding terror attacks, increased by 12%. There were 732 killings, up from 655 in 2017 - the highest since 2007.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police recorded the most knife offences - 14,660 - representing a 1% yearly rise. The biggest increase of 54% was recorded by British Transport Police, while Merseyside saw a 35% rise and Dyfed-Powys 28%.\n\nThe figures show there were 252 killings involving a knife or sharp instrument in 2018. There were 18,950 assaults and 17,402 robberies where a knife or sharp instrument was used.", "Ellie Gould, 17, was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage boy has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nWiltshire Police said the 17-year-old suspect was from the Calne area and known to her.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Salisbury Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nEllie, a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School, was pronounced dead after being found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, on Friday. Police detained the suspect in Chippenham that afternoon.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInsp Don Pocock said: \"I would like to again thank the communities of Calne and Chippenham for the support and patience they have shown so far to our officers as they have carried out inquiries as part of this murder investigation.\n\n\"A case like this takes time and will understandably have an impact on the local community - so thank you for your help and understanding.\n\n\"Over the past few days, people living in Calne and Chippenham would have seen an increased police presence which I appreciate can add more anxiety and upset to what is already a tragic situation.\"\n\nLisa Percy, head teacher of Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, said: \"The students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects to Ellie and our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pamela Anderson has criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nThe Wikileaks co-founder was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.", "Singer Don McLean has criticised a US university after a lifetime achievement award was rescinded because of his 2016 arrest for domestic abuse.\n\nThe American Pie star was due to be presented with the George and Ira Gershwin Award by the UCLA Student Alumni Association.\n\nBut it withdrew the honour, saying it \"rejects any behaviour - including violence and the threat of violence\".\n\nMcLean responded: \"This has been all over the internet for three years.\"\n\nAlthough he denied physically assaulting now-ex-wife Patrisha McLean, the singer pleaded guilty to domestic violence assault in 2016 as part of a plea agreement after police were called to a disturbance at his home.\n\nThe charges were dismissed in 2017 under the terms of the deal, which included staying out of trouble for a year.\n\nSince their divorce, Mrs McLean - who alleges a pattern of abuse going back three decades - has become an advocate speaking against domestic abuse.\n\n\"You... took [the award] back because you found out about my squabble with my ex wife,\" McLean wrote. \"This has been all over the internet for three years. Are you people morons? This is settled law.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Don McLean This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe decision to present the award to McLean was announced last week. The prize was created in 1988 in recognition of songwriting brothers George and Ira Gershwin, whose songs include I Got Rhythm and Summertime, and their financial contributions to UCLA.\n\nPrevious recipients include Linkin Park, The Who, Alanis Morissette and Dame Julie Andrews.\n\nIn a statement reported by the Portland Press Herald, the Student Alumni Association said: \"We extend our support to survivors of domestic violence.\"\n\nMcLean's publicist Jeremy Westby responded with a statement saying it was \"publicly disrespectful and grossly humiliating to Mr McLean to issue and then rescind an award based on the supposition of any violent criminal history\".", "The government has signed a round of new Brexit contracts with outside consultants worth almost £160m.\n\nMany of them are due to run until April 2020, six months after the UK's new scheduled departure date from the European Union.\n\nSince the EU referendum, Whitehall has hired companies to carry out consultancy work to prepare for Brexit.\n\nThe government said it would continue to \"draw on the expert advice\" of a range of specialists.\n\nIn February, an analysis for the BBC found the government had agreed contracts worth £104m for outside help on Brexit.\n\nAt the time, Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the professional association for civil servants, called the sum \"eye watering\".\n\nHe also said it was \"no surprise following almost a decade of austerity that has seen the civil service shrink by almost a quarter\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has now published a new round of contracts with consultants.\n\nThese could be worth up to a further £159m, according to the data provider Tussell.\n\nNine companies that were awarded contracts last year - including Deloitte and Ernst & Young - have had those extended by a year.\n\nAnother 11 firms, including smaller suppliers, have been given brand new contracts.\n\nRedacted documents published by the government state they're being paid between £3m and £6m each for IT, accounting and auditing work and management services, all related to Brexit.\n\nTamzen Isacsson from the Management Consultancies Association says companies are supporting the government at a critical time.\n\n\"What they have brought to the government at this unprecedented period of huge workload is capacity, insight and skills.\n\n\"This has enabled the government to set up and plan new systems to cope with a whole range of changes from border control to trade, border policy, immigration and other areas.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"As a responsible government we have, and will continue to, draw on the expert advice of a range of specialists to deliver a successful and orderly exit from the EU.\"", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fischer announced the birth on Instagram\n\nComedian Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer are celebrating the birth of their first child - a boy.\n\nSchumer posted about the birth with the caption: \"10:55pm last night [03:55 BST on Monday]. Our royal baby was born.\"\n\nTheir new arrival was announced on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's own baby boy was born.\n\nThe couple had also announced their pregnancy in October 2018 - by editing their faces onto a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan's bodies.\n\nSchumer posted a photo of herself, her husband and their baby at the hospital in New York, which appeared to have been taken soon after the birth.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSchumer also combined the news of her pregnancy with a list of more than 20 Democratic candidates that she was endorsing in the US mid-term elections the following month.\n\nIn another post on Monday, the comedian said she had stopped off at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to pose for a photo on her way to the hospital.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe museum is the venue for Monday evening's Met Gala, one of the most highly anticipated events in the fashion calendar.\n\nGuests are only admitted with a personal invitation from Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and must wear a designer look along a specific theme.\n\nThe theme this year is \"camp\", to coincide with an upcoming exhibition inspired by photographer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp, which will explore \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration\" in fashion.\n\nSchumer was wearing a pared-down cardigan-and-trainers combo, which she said was her \"Met look this year\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What has the Welsh Assembly done for you?\n\nShowing a class of AS level politics students some of the landmark moments of Welsh devolution is a sobering experience.\n\nIn the Welsh Assembly, which enters its 20th year this week, politicians voted to make Wales the first place in the UK to charge for carrier bags.\n\nIt was an important moment of leadership, years before concern over plastic pollution was the subject of prime time television.\n\nLater there was the reform of the organ donation system: presumed consent, a measure designed to save lives all over the UK.\n\nAs the students, from Cardiff and Vale College, have grown up, the Welsh Assembly has grown with them. It has gone from being an assembly with no ability to make laws without the permission of the UK Parliament, to a Parliament itself in all but name.\n\nIt can make laws, agree taxes (including income tax) and scrutinise the Welsh Government's running of every day services like health, schools and housing.\n\nBut one of the students we spoke to, Bill, said he did not think the assembly had \"much influence compared to Westminster\".\n\nRhyddian said: \"Because Parliament still has some jurisdiction over Wales, people just don't understand the difference between them.\n\n\"They probably just see it as less important.\"\n\nAnother said the difference between Parliament and the assembly is not understood, while one student said his friends understand the assembly \"but just don't care\".\n\nThey would not be alone in their reluctance to engage.\n\nAlun Michael led the government in the assembly when it opened in 1999 - much has changed since those early days\n\nAlthough there was a referendum in 2011 to give the assembly more powers, and successive opinion polls suggest it's become a settled feature of Welsh life, turnout in an assembly election has never been higher than 46%.\n\nAnd surveys indicate that many people don't realise that it is the Welsh Government, scrutinised by the assembly, not the government in London, which controls most of the day-to-day services we all use.\n\nIt's a far cry from Scotland where turnout at Scottish Parliament elections is usually more than 50%.\n\nMy colleague Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's Political Editor, says much of the reason for that is historical.\n\n\"Scotland was a sovereign state, a sovereign nation for many centuries,\" Mr Taylor said.\n\nThere are other reasons too. Wales has a weaker media which hinders robust scrutiny and the communication of information about Welsh politics.\n\nOne party, Welsh Labour, has dominated the political landscape and governed continuously for the last 20 years.\n\nOpposition parties have failed to persuade voters to trust them with the reins of government.\n\nWales was the first part of the UK to charge for plastic bags\n\nYet one of the big arguments in favour of devolution is that it brings decision making closer to the people whose lives are affected by those decisions.\n\nThere's the feeling among many voters across Wales that the assembly is too Cardiff-centric - in other words not close enough.\n\nSo if most voters aren't connecting with the Welsh Assembly, that's a problem.\n\nSometimes, the roles of the assembly and the Welsh Government get confused as well.\n\nThe government makes decisions and proposes policies, while the assembly's role is to scrutinise that and decide whether to support them.\n\nLaura McAllister, professor of public policy at Cardiff University, said the assembly had a \"chequered past\"\n\nMany would argue the assembly has spent much of its life ill equipped to carry out that role properly.\n\nProf Laura McAllister says it has only recently come of age.\n\n\"If you look at the history of the last 20 years we know it had a pretty chequered past, with a ridiculous model of devolution at the outset,\" the Cardiff University academic said.\n\n\"Only now is it fit for purpose.\"\n\nCriticisms about the failure to address the poverty that plagues so much of Wales and the underlying problems of an under-performing economy are really about the performance of the Welsh Government, not the Welsh Assembly itself.\n\nSuccessive Welsh Governments would point out they have never had control over welfare or big economic levers.\n\nBut some would argue there has been a reluctance to wrestle with difficult issues.\n\nBig projects have been proposed, encountered controversy and been left to drift, like local government reorganisation or the M4 relief road.\n\nThe latter is a proposal older than the assembly itself. We are told there'll be a decision on that in June.\n\nIn the meantime the assembly is using this anniversary to reach out. In July it is planning a citizens' assembly where people can discuss some of the big issues facing Wales in the years ahead.\n\nIt's already running a youth parliament and there are proposals to reduce the voting age to 16.\n\nEngage them early, engage them for life - that's the hope anyway.\n• None The evolution of devolution in Wales", "Krupa Sheth says the \"bee corridor\" will be ready by the summer\n\nA seven-mile long \"bee corridor\" is being planted in a bid to boost the number of pollinating insects.\n\nThe wildflower meadows will be put in place in 22 of Brent Council's parks in north London.\n\nA recent study blamed the decline of wildflowers as a factor behind the drop in pollinating insect numbers in the UK since the 1980s.\n\nCouncillor Krupa Sheth said bees were \"so important for pollinating the crops that provide the food that we eat\".\n\nShe added: \"We must do all we can to help them to thrive.\"\n\nThe seeds will be sown across parks in the Brent Council area including Barham Park, Gladstone Park and Tiverton.\n\nProjects manager Kelly Eaton said: \"The team curated the mix of wildflowers with bees and other insects in mind, choosing varieties that would attract these pollinators.\"\n\nThe corridor being planted in Brent will stretch across 22 parks\n\nThe idea has been praised by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as \"a fantastic initiative\".\n\nIn March, a new study found a third of British wild bees and hoverflies were in decline.\n\nScientists warn that the loss of nature could create problems in years to come, including the ability to grow food crops.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Great Yarmouth's Golden Mile with Scroby Sands wind farm on the horizon\n\nIn the past decade the UK has emerged as a world leader in offshore wind energy. And some of the biggest winners from the multi-billion pound investment look set to be coastal towns searching for their industries of the future.\n\nOn a clear day, the tourists walking Great Yarmouth's beachfront Golden Mile can see the turbines of the Scroby Sands wind farm spinning in the distance.\n\nOnshore are the attractions and arcades that have sustained this Norfolk seaside resort for the past half-century; far offshore stand the huge structures on which rest its hopes for the next.\n\nTwice the height of Big Ben and with blades longer than a jumbo jet wingspan, the new turbines being built many miles into the North Sea will dwarf the 15-year-old wind farm visible from the beach.\n\nAt full capacity, the planned projects could power the equivalent of 4.5 million homes, but the multi-billion pound investments are already having an energising effect on the local economy.\n\nHaving seen the decline of its fishing industry and ridden the ups and downs of the oil and gas industry, Great Yarmouth and its neighbouring port Lowestoft find themselves at the centre of the UK's renewables boom.\n\nThe UK already has offshore wind turbine infrastructure that could provide a capacity of 7.5GW - more than any other country in the world - and more than half of it is off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk.\n\nA combination of shallow waters, consistent wind and good access to the energy-hungry south-east England has already attracted projects costing £11bn, with projects worth £22bn - and more than 6,000 jobs - planned by developers into the next decade.\n\nNext-generation turbines can generate almost five times the power of the Scroby Sands wind farm\n\nIn March, the government laid out in an industry sector deal its ambition for 30% of electricity to come from offshore wind by 2030, and the falling cost of renewables has fuelled ambitions of the UK being carbon zero by 2050.\n\nIt all adds up to an unmissable opportunity, says Simon Gray of industry body the East of England Energy Group.\n\nThese stories are part of special coverage across BBC News looking at the challenges and opportunities in Britain's coastal towns.\n\n\"The great thing about this is that the wind farms are set to last 20, 30, 40 years. It means two generations of a workforce that will be operating and maintaining these turbines,\" he said.\n\n\"We are developing these skills and will be exporting them around the world,\" he says.\n\nTourism is one of Great Yarmouth's biggest industries, but work is seasonal\n\nWhile much of the manufacturing is done further up the east coast or abroad - which has drawn criticism - construction and maintenance is creating work for local companies.\n\nGreat Yarmouth's port is being used as the construction base for ScottishPower Renewables' £2.5bn East Anglia One wind farm, due for completion next year.\n\nBut an even bigger prize is the operations and maintenance deal it has secured for Swedish energy firm Vattenfall's two wind farms, which will be the biggest in the world.\n\nThey will bring up to 150 jobs for 25 years, and create hundreds more in the supply chain.\n\nWind turbine projects costing an estimated £22bn are planned off the east coast in the next decade\n\nYarmouth firm Subsea Protection Systems makes protection for undersea cables, and says it could double its 50-strong workforce if it wins a contract on the projects.\n\nAnd Peel Ports has invested £12m in Great Yarmouth port to attract bases for future wind farms. It has been working with local councils and the region's local enterprise partnership.\n\n\"This is our opportunity,\" says port director Richard Goffin. \"We've been saying this for two years but the government have now put their flag in the ground and said they want us to do it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The offshore wind turbines getting people off benefits\n\nFormer fabrication engineer Gwyn Evans has retrained as an offshore wind technician thanks to a course run by a local engineering firm.\n\nAccustomed to the peaks and troughs of seasonal work, he had been out of work for six months and saw the writing on the wall.\n\nThe opportunity to train for free with Great Yarmouth-based 3Sun was \"manna from heaven\", he says.\n\nThe company offers the training as a way to recruit new talent into its growing offshore wind work.\n\n\"Things are standing a lot better in my favour than they were,\" says Mr Evans, 38.\n\n\"Now I have the [qualification] tickets the world is my oyster. I can earn a decent wage and improve my lifestyle.\n\n\"Everybody wants a job that's going to last. If you are lucky enough to be in an industry that you are passionate about and love, that's even better.\"\n\nThe opening of a new £557m government subsidy round is likely to attract more private-sector investment.\n\nBut infrastructure projects on such a scale inevitably attract opposition.\n\nThe huge cables needed to transfer the power from the wind farm to the grid require vast swathes of the countryside to be dug up.\n\nFor example, Vattenfall's proposed wind farms require 37 miles (60km) of cabling to be laid underground to a substation at Necton in Norfolk, which residents say will blot the landscape and cause huge disruption.\n\nThe company insists it is working with residents to find the best solution and the project will bring significant environmental and economic benefits.\n\nCommunities affected by construction want better planning as more projects arise\n\nMid Norfolk MP George Freeman has raised the wider issue in Parliament, warning that community voices are not being heard in a planning \"free-for-all\".\n\nCritics also ask why infrastructure cannot be better planned and shared - a concern the government has pledged to investigate in its sector deal.\n\nThat launch has focused attention on the future. At 5,000-student East Coast College, where a new £11m energy training centre is being built, they can feel the change in the air.\n\nThe sector deal \"felt like firing a starting gun\" says chief executive Stuart Rimmer. He believes the prospect of well-paid, long-term jobs on their doorstep is creating real excitement among students.\n\n\"Aspiration follows opportunity,\" he says. \"We have to explain they are not just getting a qualification, they are getting a future.\"", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "About 30 people at a French rave had to be treated for hypothermia after it unexpectedly snowed.\n\nPeople at Teknival, a techno music festival in the central Creuse region, were exposed to the elements when temperatures dropped to -3C (27F).\n\nAbout 10,000 people were gathered on a military-owned hill top when it started snowing heavily.\n\nRescuers from the Red Cross treated most of those affected at the scene, but two had to be taken to hospital.\n\nThey also gave out 500 survival blankets while organisers set up a heated tent at the site, Agence France Presse news agency reported.\n\nBut by Sunday afternoon most of the ravers had left: according to local media, only 2,500 of the original 10,000 people remained.\n\nLe Parisien reports that the festival was unauthorised, and that the French military - which owns the site - lodged an official complaint afterwards.\n\nThis was Teknival's 26th year. Last year, organisers were accused by conservation groups of disturbing a nature zone and unsettling local birdlife in the area.", "It was close to midnight and Vlada, a Serbian engineer, was speeding towards his apartment in Belgrade. He had taken his 20-year-old son out that evening but bombs had started to fall across the Yugoslav capital. The power grid was down and he wanted to get home.\n\nNato, the world's most powerful military alliance, had been pummelling Yugoslavia from the skies since late March to try to bring a halt to atrocities committed by President Slobodan Milosevic's forces against ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo. It was now 7 May 1999 and the US-dominated air campaign was only growing more intense.\n\nVlada's family had spent many nights in recent weeks huddled with others in the basement of their apartment building as air raid sirens blared outside, praying that an errant missile wouldn't strike their homes.\n\nThey were lucky, some thought, to live just next to the Chinese embassy - an important diplomatic mission. Being there would surely protect them.\n\nBut as Vlada and his son approached the glass doors of their building in the dark, US B-2 stealth warplanes were in the skies above Belgrade. They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. All Vlada heard at first was the whoosh of an incoming missile. There was no time to move. The doors shattered, spraying glass at them.\n\n\"The force of the first bomb lifted us off the ground and we fell… Then one after the other [more bombs landed] - bam, bam, bam. All the shutters on the block were ripped off by the blast, it broke all the windows.\"\n\nThey were terrified but uninjured. All five bombs had hit the embassy, 100 metres away.\n\nThe US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorisation and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans.\n\nEmbassy workers escaped through windows after the strikes\n\nAcross town, Shen Hong, a well-connected Chinese businessman, was getting word that the embassy had been hit. He refused to believe it. Just a few days earlier, his father had phoned from Shanghai and joked that his son should park his new Mercedes at the diplomatic compound to keep it safe.\n\n\"I called a policeman who I knew and he said, 'Yes, Shen, it's really hit'. He said come right away, so then I knew it was real, it was true.\"\n\nHe arrived to a scene of chaos. The embassy was burning; workers covered in blood and dust were climbing out of windows to escape. Politicians close to Milosevic - who had been charged two weeks earlier with crimes against humanity by an international tribunal - were already arriving to denounce the bombing as the latest example of Nato barbarity.\n\n\"We could not go inside. There was a lot of smoke, there wasn't any electricity and we couldn't see anything. It was horrible,\" said Shen.\n\nHe spotted the cultural attaché, a man he knew, who had knotted together curtains to get out of a first-floor window. \"We didn't see that he was injured and he didn't notice it either. It was only when I shook his hand that I realised my hands were covered in blood. I told him 'you're injured, you're injured!' - but when he saw this he passed out.\"\n\nThe next day Shen would learn that two close friends - newlywed journalists Xu Xinghu, 31, and Zhu Ying, 27 - had been killed by a bomb that hit the sleeping quarters of the embassy. Their bodies were found under a collapsed wall.\n\nThe pair had worked for the Guangming (Enlightenment) Daily - a communist party newspaper. Xu, a language graduate who spoke fluent Serbian, had chronicled life in Belgrade during the bombings in a series of special reports called \"Living Under Gunfire\".\n\nZhu Ying worked as an art editor in the paper's advertising department. Her mother collapsed with grief and was sent to hospital when she learned of her daughter's death so Zhu's father travelled alone to Belgrade to see the body.\n\nA third journalist, 48-year-old Shao Yunhuan, of the Xinhua news agency, also died. Her husband, Cao Rongfei, was blinded. The embassy's military attaché, who is believed to have run an intelligence cell from the building, was sent back to China in a coma. In total, three people were killed and at least 20 injured.\n\nFor Shen, this was an act of war. The next day he led a protest through the streets of Belgrade carrying a sign reading \"NATO: Nazi American Terrorist Organisation\"\n\nIt was a sign of what was to come.\n\nThree journalists were killed in the embassy\n\nWithin hours of the bombing, two competing narratives began to emerge. They would harden over the coming months and form the basis of how the incident - which continues to linger over the US-China relationship - remains debated today.\n\nThe bombing fuelled speculation, and there was no shortage of unanswered questions and missing pieces that were put together by some to imply a grand conspiracy. Intrigue continued to hang over the incident and, months afterwards, two respected European newspapers suggested the strikes were by design.\n\nBut, as former Nato officials point out, in 20 years no clear evidence has come to light proving what almost all of China believes and America strenuously denies: that it was deliberate.\n\nIn those first hours after the bombs fell, the US and Nato wasted no time to announce that it was an accident. China's representative at the UN, meanwhile, denounced a \"crime of war\" and a \"barbarian act\".\n\nIn Brussels, Jamie Shea - the British Nato spokesman who became the public face of the war - was woken up in the middle of the night and told he would have to face the world's press in the morning. The information available in those early hours was thin but he would give one of the first explanations of what had happened, along with an apology. The warplanes, he said from the briefing podium, had \"struck the wrong building\".\n\n\"It's like a train accident or a car crash - you know what has happened but what you don't know is why it has happened,\" he says 20 years later. \"That took a lot longer to establish… But it was clear right from the get-go, that targeting a foreign embassy was not part of the Nato plan.\"\n\nThe father of Zhu Ying weeps over her coffin in Belgrade\n\nIt would take more than a month for the US to give Beijing a full explanation: that a series of basic errors had led to five GPS-guided bombs striking China's embassy - including one that hurtled through the roof of the ambassador's residence next to the main building but didn't explode, likely sparing his life.\n\nThe real target, officials said, was the headquarters of the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP) - a state agency that imported and exported defence equipment. The grey office building is still there today - hundreds of metres down the road from the embassy site.\n\nNato had initially hoped the bombing campaign would only last a few days until Milosevic gave up, pulled his forces out of Kosovo and allowed peacekeepers in. But by the time the embassy was hit it had stretched to more than six weeks. In the rush to find hundreds of new targets to sustain the aerial assault, the CIA, which was not normally involved in target-picking, had decided the FDSP should be struck.\n\nBut America's premier intelligence agency said it had used a bad map.\n\n\"In simple terms, one of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map,\" US defence secretary William Cohen said two days after the bombing. He was referring to a US government map that apparently did not show the correct location of the Chinese embassy nor the FDSP.\n\nAll US intelligence officers had was an address for the FDSP - 2 Bulevar Umetnosti - and a basic military navigation technique was used to approximate its co-ordinates. The technique used was so imprecise, CIA chief George Tenet later said, that it should never have been used to pick out a target for aerial bombing.\n\nTo compound the initial error, Tenet said, intelligence and military databases used to cross-check targets did not have the embassy's new location listed, despite the fact that many US diplomats had actually been inside the building.\n\nHad anyone on the ground visited the site to be bombed they would have found a gated compound, a five-storey building with a green-tiled oriental sloped roof, a bronze plaque announcing the embassy's presence and a large, bright red Chinese flag fluttering more than 10 metres in the air.\n\nThe front of the embassy was largely undamaged\n\nThe crux of the CIA's explanation was hard for many to believe: the world's most advanced military had bombed a fellow UN Security Council member and one of the most vocal opponents of the Nato air campaign because of a mapping error. China was having none of it. The story, it said, was \"not convincing\".\n\n\"The Chinese government and people cannot accept the conclusion that the bombing was a mistake,\" the foreign minister told a US envoy sent to Beijing in June 1999 to explain what had happened.\n\nBut why would the US intentionally attack China?\n\nIt wasn't long after the Sun rose on the morning of Saturday, 8 May 1999, that David Rank, a US diplomat, got out of bed in Beijing.\n\nHe turned on the television and switched to CNN. The American news network was carrying live pictures of the smouldering Chinese embassy in pitch-dark Belgrade.\n\nBy that afternoon, thousands of irate Chinese protesters would be gathered outside. But Rank, at that stage, was fairly calm. He rang his boss, the head of the political section: \"I said, you know, Jim, this is the damndest thing.\"\n\nThe diplomat rushed from his residence to the embassy down the road, where US officials were trying to figure out what had happened. Something had clearly gone wrong but this must have been, had to have been, a tragic mistake.\n\n\"It was so patently obvious that it was a sort of fog of war accident… At that point I didn't think that down the road this was going to be a major problem. Obviously, it was a major problem, but not the sort of convulsive incident that it turned out to be,\" said Rank.\n\nBut in the next hours, the shape of how the Chinese government and people would respond started to become clear.\n\nRank began receiving calls from liberal Chinese friends who were outraged at the bombing. American journalists got similar calls from Chinese contacts with pro-US views, expressing shock and a sense of betrayal.\n\nChinese state media was already laying out a clear narrative - the US had breached international law by bombing a Chinese diplomatic outpost. \"The language that I heard from lots and lots of Chinese, it was identical. It was the same almost word-for-word lines of real anger,\" said Rank.\n\nBy that afternoon thousands of students were streaming onto the streets of Beijing. They gathered outside the embassy and things quickly turned violent.\n\n\"They were pulling up the paving stones. Beijing sidewalks aren't paved, they have big tiles and they were pulling those up and smashing them and throwing them over the walls.\"\n\nMany of those bits of concrete were crashing through the windows of a building where more than a dozen embassy staff, including US Ambassador James Sasser, had hunkered down. Embassy cars were being defaced and attacked.\n\nThe message was clear: the bombing was intentional and, as one slogan went, \"the blood of Chinese must be repaid\". The protests would continue the next day, with even more people - some reports said 100,000 - storming the diplomatic district, and pelting stones, paint, eggs and concrete at the British and American embassies.\n\n\"We feel like we're hostages,\" Bill Palmer, an embassy spokesman trapped in one of the buildings, said at the time.\n\nDemonstrations of this scale had not been seen in tightly-controlled China in the decade since students led a pro-democracy uprising in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. This time the anger was directed away from the Communist Party but, with the 10th anniversary of the crackdown on students in Tiananmen approaching, the government had to strike a balance between giving vent to public anger and remaining in control.\n\nIn a rare TV address Vice-President Hu Jintao endorsed the protests but also warned they had to remain \"in accordance with the law\".\n\nUS Ambassador James Sasser was trapped in the embassy for four days as protests raged\n\nThe uproar was not isolated to Beijing. Crowds also took to the streets of Shanghai and other cities that weekend. In central Chengdu, the US consul's residence was set alight.\n\nWeiping Qin, a then 19-year-old student leader at the maritime college in southern Guangzhou city, said demonstrators were not informed that Nato had already apologised for what it said was an accident. \"The government was hiding this important message. They didn't tell us - so young people, everybody, felt angry. We just wanted to go in the streets and protest against the United States.\"\n\nHe said that initially students at his college were told they had to stay in their dormitories. But 24 hours after the bombing, the university leadership told him that they needed 30,000 students in the streets around the US consulate - 500 of whom would come from the maritime college.\n\nThe fired-up students drew lots to choose who could attend. They were loaded onto buses and given statements to read that echoed the stilted official language being broadcast by state media. \"They gave us long sentences. But in the street, to speak out in long sentences is very hard.\" He decided to yell slogans about the evils of Nato and the US instead.\n\nWeiping Qin (right) was a student leader at Guangzhou Maritime College in 1999\n\n\"We were just young people and we just felt angry. Our emotions came out like a wave,\" said Qin, who now lives in the US and criticises the Chinese government in YouTube videos.\n\nDavid Rank agreed that the anger was genuine. \"I think it would really sell the Chinese people short to say this was manufactured by the system,\" he said. \"There was real outrage.\"\n\nSince the early 1990s, China had embarked on a concerted campaign to instil nationalism and \"patriotic education\" in its people. The narrative pushed in school textbooks, university classrooms and the media was that China - home to a great and benevolent civilisation - had been subjugated and humiliated at the hands of Western powers. The Belgrade embassy bombing fit the story.\n\n\"The anger that ordinary Chinese felt I think can only be understood in that historical context, being socialised to resent the West,\" said Peter Gries, a professor of Chinese politics at Manchester University and an expert on Chinese nationalism.\n\nFor Liu Mingfu - a retired People's Liberation Army colonel known for his hardline views of the US - the embassy bombing was part of a series of events that proved the US was engaged in a \"new Cold War against China\".\n\n\"It was totally intentional. It was a purposeful, planned bombing, rather than an accident,\" he said.\n\nChina would receive $28m in compensation from the US for the bombing, but had to give back close to $3m for the damage to US diplomatic property in Beijing and elsewhere. The US paid another $4.5m to the families of the dead and injured.\n\nOn the day of the bombing, Dusan Janjic, an academic and advocate for ethnic reconciliation in Yugoslavia, was having lunch at an upscale restaurant in central Belgrade with a man he considered a good friend.\n\nRen Baokai was the military attaché at the Chinese embassy and Janjic said he was surprisingly open with him about the fact that China was spying on Nato and US operations and tracking warplanes from its Belgrade outpost. The attaché invited him to dinner at the embassy that night because he knew he liked Chinese food.\n\n\"And I started making jokes. 'Come on, you're going to be bombed! I'm not coming!',\" Janjic recalled. He was being facetious: he did not actually think the embassy would be hit.\n\nBut Janjic couldn't make it to dinner and that evening, when the missiles flew into the building, Ren was thrown to the ceiling by the blast and then fell through a crater left by a bomb. He was found in the basement in a coma only the next morning.\n\nFive bombs hit the embassy compound and one did not explode\n\nFive months after the strikes, in October 1999, two newspapers - Britain's Observer and Denmark's Politiken - suggested that activities overseen by the military attaché might have prompted an intentional US bombing.\n\nCiting Nato sources, they reported that the embassy was being used as a rebroadcast station for Yugoslav army communications and was as a result removed from a prohibited target list. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried the story as \"balderdash\", while British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said there was \"not a single shred of evidence\" to support it.\n\nBut two decades later, Jens Holsoe, Politiken's correspondent in the Balkans from 1995 to 2004, and John Sweeney, formerly of the Observer and now with the BBC, said they stood by their reporting that the bombing was intentional.\n\nHolsoe said what made him investigate in the first place was CIA Chief George Tenet publicly saying that satellite images gave no indication the target was an embassy - \"no flags, no seals, no clear markings\" - when in fact all three were present.\n\nOne of his sources - a very senior Danish military figure - almost went on the record to confirm publicly that the bombing was intentional, he said. \"Then he suddenly backed out and said if he uttered another word to me about this story that not only did he risk being fired but also prosecuted.\"\n\nHolsoe said it was clear at the time that there was military co-operation between Serb forces and the Chinese - and that he personally saw military vehicles entering and exiting the Chinese embassy. American officials told the New York Times that after the bombing they learned the embassy was China's most significant intelligence collection platform in Europe.\n\n\"This was, and always will be, a murky story,\" said Sweeney.\n\nRen Baokai survived and was later given the rank of general. He declined an interview with the BBC, saying he was now retired.\n\nThe Chinese ambassador who narrowly survived the strike, Pan Zhanlin, denied in a book that the embassy had been used for re-broadcasting and that China, in exchange, had been given parts of the US F-117 stealth fighter jet that Serbian forces had shot down in the early stages of the Nato campaign.\n\nI think it's complete nonsense - it was a bad map-reading error and a bad mistake.\n\nIt's widely assumed that China did get hold of pieces of the plane to study its technology. It's also been speculated that China was using the Nato air campaign to test technology to track stealth bombers that are normally undetectable.\n\nBut even if all these stories are true - the question remains: would the US really take the risk of bombing a Chinese embassy on purpose?\n\nEven among ex-Yugoslav insiders there is no consensus. One former military intelligence officer told the BBC he believed the bombing was intentional and that the CIA's explanation was ludicrous; while another, a retired colonel, said he believed America's story.\n\n\"When something bad happens everybody thinks there has to be a secret reason - not a cock-up but a conspiracy,\" said the former Nato spokesman Jamie Shea. \"I think it's complete nonsense - it was a bad map-reading error and a bad mistake.\"\n\nOn a sunny day in late April, more than a dozen fresh bouquets were stacked up neatly against the memorial stone, but Shen Hong still felt compelled to re-arrange them. He comes to the site of the embassy bombing regularly, to remember his friends that died. But these days, it's rare that he is alone.\n\nBusloads of Chinese tourists arrive every day to gaze at the memorial and the statue of the Chinese sage and philosopher Confucius that now stands nearby.\n\nA young Chinese couple, Zhang and He, were in Belgrade for their honeymoon and decided to visit the memorial. They are around the same age that Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying were when they were killed in 1999. \"Three of our countrymen died here. We knew about this since we were kids and we came to see it,\" said He.\n\nYang, a guide who was leading some 30 middle-aged Chinese tourists on a two-week bus tour through the Balkans, said the embassy site was a mandatory stop. \"Our embassy was destroyed by Americans. Every Chinese knows this.\"\n\nThe embassy site is being turned into one of the largest Chinese cultural centres in Europe\n\nIn 1999, China was not the economic, technological and military giant it is now. It was focused on getting wealthy and had a much less visible foreign policy. But 20 years later the country knows it sits at the top table with America and its ambitions around the world reflect that.\n\nThe Belgrade embassy site is being turned into a Chinese cultural centre that will be one of the biggest in Europe. The symbolism is hard to miss: a site of national humiliation and tragedy at the hands of the West re-born as a shiny edifice to China's glorious history.\n\nIt's a sign that Beijing has no plans to forget a bombing that allows it to paint the US as an imperialist superpower looking to hurt China. Diplomats who have served in Beijing say the incident is still brought up regularly in conversations.\n\nBut even those who called for immediate retaliation in 1999 now realise it was fortunate that China's reaction did not spiral out of control: no Americans were killed during the protests and the compensation agreement allowed Beijing to draw a line - if a thin one - under the incident.\n\n\"We were the fastest developing country, every year our economy grew by double-digits. And if we would have stopped that because of war back then, we would have lost a lot,\" said Shen, as another group of tourists arrived at the memorial.\n\n\"By nature, I'm a radical. I am always more for war than for a conversation. But when I look back, they did a good thing. Because now we can sit equally with the Americans.\"", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "It was hardly the best kept secret in British politics.\n\nThe European elections will, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington has confirmed, take place on schedule, on 23 May.\n\nThe chances of the elections not being held in the UK were already vanishingly small.\n\nIt would have meant the UK Parliament agreeing a Brexit deal by 22 May - and there's no sign that is about to happen.\n\nThe prospects of a cross-party deal emerging between the Conservatives and Labour in the coming days look remote. It would take a dramatic turn of events to change that.\n\nEven if an unexpected deal were to emerge, it would be only a very tentative first step towards Brexit, with no guarantee that it would enjoy a parliamentary majority.\n\nAnd a first step isn't enough.\n\nThe conclusions of last month's EU summit, agreed by all EU leaders, including Theresa May, said that if the Brexit withdrawal agreement had not been ratified in Parliament by 22 May, the elections would have to take place in the UK.\n\nThe ratification process means Parliament would have to pass a meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement (the deal negotiated between the government and the EU) and then turn it into UK law in the form of a withdrawal agreement bill.\n\nAnd, as Mr Lidington has now conceded formally, time to do all of that has run out.\n\n\"Given how little time there is,\" he said, \"it is regrettably not going to be possible to finish that process\" before the elections take place.\n\nThat meant, he said, that the UK was legally obliged to hold the elections.\n\nAs a new report from the think tank The UK in a Changing Europe pointed out before Mr Lidington made his announcement, \"a last minute cancellation could also leave some EU citizens (ie those resident in the UK) unable to cast a ballot and could leave the UK government subject to legal challenge\".\n\nIf the government had decided to cancel the elections anyway, without a deal going through Parliament, a \"no deal Brexit\" would have happened on 1 June.\n\nBut we already know there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against leaving the EU with no deal.\n\nSo, the elections are happening, and most parties are already campaigning for them. Election leaflets have started to get posted through the nation's front doors.\n\nThe last time European elections were held, in 2014, the UK spent £109m on them. This year, according to a government source, a rough estimate for the cost is £150m - higher than last time because they're not being held on the same day as local elections (and sharing polling stations).\n\nThe Conservatives are unlikely to be campaigning this time with much enthusiasm, but reality has had to bite.\n\nSo, if it is too late to stop the elections taking place, what is the next potential deadline?\n\nA slightly more realistic date may be 2 July - when the new European Parliament meets for the first time and MEPs are sworn in.\n\nThe government would like to leave the EU before then, meaning the newly elected UK MEPs would never take their seats.\n\nMr Lidington said that would be in the national interest.\n\nThe problem? None of the challenges the government faces in finding a majority for Brexit in this Parliament are going to go away.\n\nThe EU has obviously worked that out. That's one of the reasons it approved a longer extension to the Brexit process, until 31 October.\n\nEven now, though, thoughts are already turning in some quarters to what might happen after that - and whether an extension to the extension might be the only realistic way forward.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nJudd Trump dismantled John Higgins 18-9 to claim his maiden World Championship title in one of the most breathtaking Crucible finals ever witnessed.\n\nIn a classic contest, the two shared a record 11 centuries and brought up the 100th ton of the tournament.\n\nTrump took total control at 12-5 after the first day in Sheffield, helped by a run of winning eight straight frames.\n\nBoth missed chances of maximum breaks as Trump went 16-9 up, a lead he did not relinquish in the final session.\n\nTrump collects £500,000 in prize money, making him the first player in history to amass more than £1m in a single season.\n• None Trump poised for 'new era of dominance'\n\nThe Englishman has long been touted as a world champion, previously regarded as one of the best players never to win in Sheffield, but now he has finally fulfilled his potential and moves up to second in the world rankings.\n\n\"It is incredible achievement for me from where I was,\" Trump, 29, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have worked so hard for this. For the people around me this is so special. It was an amazing final, the standard was so high from the very first ball.\n\n\"That is probably the best I have ever played in a major final.\"\n\nIn a remarkable exhibition of potting from both players, they took the standard of snooker to another level, making frame-winning breaks of 50 or more in 23 of the 27 frames played.\n\nHere is how the numbers stack up:\n• Most centuries in a professional match: Trump and Higgins shared 11 tons, one more than the 10 seen in the 2016 semi-final between Ding Junhui and Alan McManus.\n• Most centuries in a Crucible final: The total of 11 was three more than the previous record of eight, set in 2002 (Stephen Hendry v Peter Ebdon) and 2013 (Ronnie O'Sullivan v Barry Hawkins)\n• Most centuries by a player in a single match: Trump made seven centuries in the final, equalling Ding's record against McManus from 2016\n• Most tournament centuries overall: There were 100 in the tournament, smashing the previous best of 86 from 2015 and 2016\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis said on BBC Two: \"It was amazing. The standard in that final may have been the greatest we have ever seen and Judd Trump was at the heart of it.\"\n\nFrom 'naughty snooker' to finally coming of age\n\nOne of the pre-tournament favourites, the Bristolian reached the final in part by capitalising on the shock exits of world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan and three-time winner Mark Selby from his half of the draw.\n\nThis has been by far the best season of Trump's career, winning three ranking titles, and he becomes the first player since Mark Williams in 2003 to claim the double of World Championship and Masters in the same campaign.\n\nHe has now also completed snooker's Triple Crown following his victory at the UK Championship in 2011.\n\nEarlier that year, he was beaten 18-15 in his first world final appearance by Higgins, going agonisingly close with his all-out attacking style of play which he labelled himself as \"naughty snooker\".\n\nSome of that was on display again in this final, playing a black with the cue behind his back, which brought a smile from Higgins, and another red down the cushion that was described as \"Alex Higgins-esque\".\n\nBut he is a complete player now, having won 11 ranking titles in total, turning on the style with heavy scoring and possessing a potent safety game.\n\nTrump took apart O'Sullivan at Alexandra Palace in January and this was another demolition job of one of snooker's greats - a run of eight frames in a row and four centuries on the first day setting the platform for a tremendous triumph.\n\n'I never thought he was that good' - what the pundits said\n\nSeven-time champion Stephen Hendry: \"I certainly have not seen anything like that standard in a final, it was incredible. The scoring was phenomenal, every time a player got an opportunity they cleared up in one visit. Judd's performance in the final has been one of the most dominant I have ever seen.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"Judd Trump has demolished one of the greatest players to have ever held a cue. It's an astonishing performance. The second session was arguably the most violent and shocking session I have ever seen. I'd have hated to have watched it from John Higgins' perspective.\n\nFormer champion John Parrott: \"What Judd Trump did has usurped his performance at the Masters. What he did was just sensational. I never thought he was that good. I had no idea he was that good.\"\n• None Overturned a 6-3 deficit to win a thrilling final-frame decider against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the first round\n• None Fought past Ding Junhui in the second round after going 9-7 down\n• None Eased through to the semi-finals with a comfortable 13-6 win over Stephen Maguire\n\nFour-time champion Higgins came up short once more having been beaten in 2017 by Selby and Williams last year.\n\nThe 43-year-old has now lost four finals in Sheffield - only Jimmy White with six has been beaten in more - but he played his part against Trump.\n\nReaching the final was an achievement in itself for Higgins, bringing to an end a poor season by his high standards in which he failed to win a ranking event and hinted at retirement in December.\n\nAlthough he made four centuries in the match, taking his overall tally in Sheffield to 150, he was outclassed by a relentless Trump and admitted he was \"lucky to get nine frames\".\n\n\"I was the lucky one to not have to pay for a ticket, he was just awesome,\" the Scot added.\n\n\"It will be the first of many I am sure, to produce a standard like that is incredible. He was unplayable.\n\n\"I never expected to get to the final, I came up against an unstoppable machine.\"\n\nThe final that had everything\n\nA dazzling opening day was described by 1997 champion Ken Doherty as \"one of the best ever\" as the two players shared the first eight frames with four centuries and three further breaks over 50.\n\nThough Higgins made 125 at the start of the second session, Trump took total control thereafter by winning eight straight frames including two further centuries and runs of 71, 58 and 70.\n\n'The Wizard of Wishaw' came out firing in the third session, sinking a superb double on the 15th red while on a maximum 147 break which was heartily applauded by Trump in his seat, but he missed the next black. Higgins followed it up with 59, but Trump showed his class with knocks of 101 and 71 to go 14-7.\n\nTrump, nicknamed 'The Juddernaut', needed to win all four of the following frames to win the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' 67 in the 23rd frame guaranteed an evening finish.\n\nHe made a further 70 but Trump's brilliant 104 with 13 reds and 13 blacks put him two from victory heading into the final session.\n\nTrump's 94 put him on the cusp of snooker's biggest prize, which he took with another cool break of 62.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker on the BBC app", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool are into their second successive Champions League final after overcoming Barcelona with a stunning second-leg fightback on an epic night at Anfield.\n\nRoared on relentlessly by their fans, the Reds produced an incredible all-action display to claw back and then ultimately overturn their 3-0 deficit from the Nou Camp with an unanswered four-goal salvo in thrilling style.\n\nIt is the first time since 1986 - when Barcelona knocked out Gothenburg in the old European Cup - that a team have recovered a three-goal first-leg deficit to win a semi-final in this competition.\n\nDivock Origi started the unlikely revival, tapping home from close range after seven minutes, but it was only when substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice in the space of 122 seconds after the break that the tie truly swung in Liverpool's favour.\n\nBarcelona were rattled, and even Lionel Messi was unable to steady the ship before Origi struck again with the goal that would decide the tie on aggregate, after Trent Alexander-Arnold caught the visitors' defence napping from a corner.\n\nBy now Anfield was rocking and the home fans stayed on their feet to cheer their side home in the closing minutes, with a shell-shocked Barca side unable to fashion any serious response.\n\nThe final whistle brought delirious celebrations on the pitch and in the stands, where the Reds supporters had played their part in an unforgettable match.\n\nLiverpool have managed famous European fightbacks before, notably when they won this competition for the fifth time in Istanbul in 2005, but this was arguably the greatest in their glittering history.\n\nThey will go for a sixth triumph in Madrid on 1 June, where they will meet either Ajax or Tottenham in the final.\n• None I don't know how they did it, says Klopp\n• None 'The atmosphere took my breath away'\n• None 'Barca were scared - the best reaction'\n\nFew people gave Liverpool any hope after the size of their defeat in Spain last week, especially with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino out injured.\n\nBut Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged his players to keep believing, and masterminded an extraordinary performance and result.\n\nOrigi and Wijnaldum, who replaced the injured Andy Robertson at half-time, provided the goals but Liverpool had heroes all over the pitch.\n\nJust as Klopp promised before the game, Liverpool did not stop - maintaining an astonishing tempo to press, harry and hassle their illustrious visitors, and ultimately defeat them.\n\nThe Barca defence struggled to deal with Origi's physical presence throughout and it was the big Belgian who supplied the first goal, firing home after Marc-Andre ter Stegen failed to hold Jordan Henderson's shot.\n\nMore pressure followed but Barca held out until after half-time, when Wijnaldum burst into the box to meet Alexander-Arnold's low cross and hammer his shot home.\n\nMoments later, Liverpool were level on aggregate. This time it was Xherdan Shaqiri who provided the cross for Wijnaldum to rise and head home.\n\nBarca were buckling under the pressure and they could not hold out. Liverpool sealed a famous victory 11 minutes from time when Alexander-Arnold feigned to leave a corner before quickly sweeping it into the box for the alert Origi to convert.\n• None 'The inquest will be remorseless' - what next for Barcelona after Anfield humiliation?\n• None Football Daily: 'The greatest football comeback of all time'\n\nBarca have been here before, being beaten 3-0 by Roma in the quarter-finals last year to go out after winning the first leg 4-1, and their wait for a first final since 2015 continues.\n\nThey were comprehensively out-fought and out-thought here, and although they did have chances they cannot argue they deserved anything but a defeat.\n\nThere was only a brief spell in the first half when La Liga's champions threatened to find their rhythm but, in the space of five minutes, Alisson denied Messi and Philippe Coutinho, and Jordi Alba inexplicably chose to pass the ball with only the Liverpool keeper to beat.\n\nMessi, so electric a week ago, would go on to have a rare night to forget - especially in the second half when Wijnaldum's goals put the tie back in the balance.\n\nSuarez was also anonymous, with his only notable role coming as the pantomime villain as he was booed relentlessly by the fans who used to worship him.\n\nHe had his side's best opportunity of the second half, when Messi slid him clear with the score still 1-0 on the night, but Alisson was alert and that was pretty much the last time the visitors threatened.\n• None We looked like schoolboys - Suarez expects criticism to 'rain down' on Barca\n\nThe 122 seconds that turned the tie around\n• None Where does this rank with greatest Champions League comebacks?\n• None Liverpool have reached their ninth European Cup/Champions League final - only Real Madrid (16), Milan (11) and Bayern Munich (10) have reached more.\n• None They are the first English side to reach back-to-back Champions League finals since Manchester United (2008 and 2009).\n• None This was just the fourth time a team has overturned a three-or-more goal deficit from the first leg of a Champions League (not European Cup) knockout tie to progress. Barcelona were also on the receiving end the last time (against Roma last season).\n• None Barcelona have now been eliminated from three of their past four Champions League semi-final ties.\n• None La Liga's current champions suffered their heaviest-ever defeat against an English side in all European competitions.\n• None Full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has provided 14 assists in all competitions this season, more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Divock Origi scored his first Champions League goals, and in doing so became the 50th different player to score in the competition for Liverpool (excluding own goals).\n• None Georginio Wijnaldum is the first Liverpool player to score twice from the bench in a Champions League game since Ryan Babel against Besiktas in 2007. He is also the first substitute to score twice in a single game against Barcelona in the competition.\n• None Lionel Messi either attempted (five) or created (three) all eight of Barcelona's shots against Liverpool in this match.\n\nLiverpool will seek another success against the odds when they return to Premier League action on Sunday. They host Wolves in their final game of the season (15:00 BST) hoping results go their way to turn around a one-point deficit and take the title from Manchester City, who are at Brighton.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. Joseph Gomez replaces Divock Origi because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Divock Origi (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have staged a protest against the firm.\n\nThey will be joined by drivers in the US cities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington DC in striking over pay and work conditions.\n\nThe protests come days before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nUber said drivers were \"at the heart of our service\".\n\nThe United Private Hire Drivers Branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) said the nine-hour boycott of the app would take place between 07:00 and 16:00.\n\nIn the US, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will strike from 07:00 to 09:00 local time. There, Uber drivers will be joined by members working for Lyft and other taxi-booking apps.\n\n\"They're going public and their founders are going to make billions off the hard work of Uber drivers who make the app run,\" she told World Service radio. Drivers \"are demanding rights, a minimum wage, holiday pay and there's no reason they don't deserve that.\"\n\nUber drivers were also protesting in New York\n\nThe unions would like to cut the commission the taxi-hailing apps take. The IWGB in the UK said it would like Uber's commissions to be reduced from 25% to 15% and for fares to be increased to £2 a mile from about £1.25.\n\nThe NYTWA in New York said it wanted commissions of 15% to 20% and better job security.\n\n\"I'm striking for my kid's future. I have a five-year-old son, and I drive for Uber to support him,\" said Sonam Lama, a NYTWA member and Uber driver since 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was working more than 60 hours a week'\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Drivers are at the heart of our service - we can't succeed without them - and thousands of people come into work at Uber every day focused on how to make their experience better, on and off the road.\n\n\"Whether it's being able to track your earnings or stronger insurance protections, we'll continue working to improve the experience for and with drivers.\"\n\nThe company has argued previously that it is transparent when it comes to pay and that drivers have earned more than $78bn (£59.7bn) since 2015, as well as $1.2bn in tips since tipping was introduced on its software in July 2017.\n\nUber last month warned it \"may not achieve profitability\" when it released details of its share plan listing.\n\nUber said that its most recent annual sales rose to $11.2bn and losses narrowed to $3bn.\n\nTraffic grinds to a halt during a protest against Uber on 12 April in Buenos Aires\n\nBut it also said it expected operating expenses to \"increase significantly\".\n\nThe company did not disclose how it will price its shares on 9 May, but it is reportedly targeting a range of $48 to $55.\n\nThat would potentially give the 10-year old firm a value of up to $100bn, making it the biggest initial public offering this year.\n\nUber is also expected to raise about $10bn through the flotation.\n\nLast year, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nIn March, German cab drivers protested in Munich against the liberalisation of the Taxi market and Uber\n\nIn 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers Mr Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage and the ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut Uber pointed out that one of the three judges backed its case and said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City know they will retain their Premier League title if they win on the final day of the season after Vincent Kompany's wonder strike saw off a spirited Leicester side.\n\nWith 20 minutes remaining, the score goalless and nerves jangling at Etihad Stadium, the defending champions needed inspiration in a game where only victory would maintain their advantage at the top of the table.\n\nThey got it from an unlikely source in their long-serving captain, who strode forward and let fly from 25 yards with a strike that arrowed into the top corner of the net.\n\nThe hosts' victory means they move back above Liverpool and hold a one-point lead as they go into the last round of fixtures on Sunday, when Pep Guardiola's side travel to Brighton and the Reds host Wolves.\n\nAfter they had to fight so hard to gain victory here, it is unlikely Manchester City will take anything for granted as a pulsating title race reaches its climax.\n\nThe lead at the the top of the table has now changed hands 32 times this season, but for long spells on Monday night it seemed Liverpool would be staying in top spot until the weekend at least.\n• None 'No shoot Vinnie, no shoot!' - Guardiola glad Kompany ignored his calls\n• None Best of the reaction to Kompany's wonder goal\n\nManaged by former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, who came so close to bringing the title to Anfield in 2014, Leicester were resolute defensively and posed a significant threat at the other end.\n\nThey restricted Guardiola's famously free-scoring side to a handful of first-half chances, with Sergio Aguero's header against the bar the closest they came to breaking the deadlock.\n\nThe champions' frustration on the pitch and in the stands continued after the break until 33-year-old Kompany stepped up in spectacular fashion to score his first goal of the season, and his side's 159th.\n\nLeicester did threaten to ruin the party late on but former Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho fired wide, and the final whistle triggered cascades of relief for the home players and fans as they moved to within one win of their sixth title.\n\nThere is never any shortage of entertainment for Manchester City's fans, who have now seen their side score 100 goals in 29 games at the Etihad Stadium in 2018-19.\n\nBut they are not used to tension of the sort that was served up on Monday night, with Leicester stopping them scoring for longer than any other visiting team has managed in the Premier League this season - West Ham, who held out for 59 minutes, were the previous best.\n\nManchester City were still creating chances, going close before the break when Aguero's header hit the woodwork before it was clawed to safety by Kasper Schmeichel, and after it when the Foxes goalkeeper denied the Argentina striker with an outstretched leg.\n\nTheir fans were urging them forward but Guardiola's side lacked their usual composure in the final third and a first home blank of the campaign in all competitions looked on the cards, and at the worst possible time.\n\nThat was until Kompany, who scored a vital header to beat Manchester United and help bring the title to the Etihad in 2012, provided another memorable moment to help his side take a giant step towards more silverware.\n\nA domestic treble remains in Manchester City's sights, and they can also become the first team since United in 2007-08 and 2008-09 to win back-to-back titles.\n\nLeicester's hopes of nicking seventh place and a spot in next season's Europa League are over after this defeat, but their performance underlined their improvement since Rodgers took charge at the end of February.\n\nAs well as being disciplined in defence and comfortable on the ball, the visitors sent men flying forward in numbers on the counter-attack.\n\nThe hosts were growing increasingly jittery as their wait for a first goal continued, but their nerves were not helped by the threat the Foxes posed on the break.\n\nHarry Maguire ran the length of the pitch to set up James Maddison, who fired wide with the score at 0-0, and Leicester continued to look dangerous even when they went behind.\n\nIf Iheanacho, 22, had showed more composure after being fed the ball in front of goal then Leicester and Liverpool fans could have had a late equaliser to celebrate - instead it was the home fans who were smiling as their players marked their final home game with three points and a parade around the pitch at the end.\n\n'It's in our hands' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"One game left, and it will be so tough like today. We are away and we saw Brighton had a good game at Arsenal. But it is in our hands, don't forget but we could have been 10 points behind if we lost to Liverpool here.\n\n\"We were seven points behind, but we are in the last game and it is in our hands. We are going to prepare well.\n\n\"We'll see if Brighton defend deep or will be more offensive. It will be tough, but hopefully we will have the performance to be champions.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Our motivation was to come in for our own development and performance. We pushed City, arguably the best team in Europe, right to the very end.\n\n\"I thought defensively and tactically, the team played a good game. They are difficult to contain with their quality and some world-class players.\n\n\"We will learn from this and look to end the season strongly.\"\n• None Man City have now scored 100 goals in all competitions at the Etihad this season; extending their record for most home goals by an English top-flight team in a single campaign.\n• None Man City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games - it's the fourth run of a team winning 13+ games in a row in the competition's history, with City the only side to have done so twice.\n• None Man City have beaten every team they have faced in the league for the second consecutive season; the only other English top-flight team to achieve this were Preston between 1888-89 and 1889-90.\n• None Leicester have won just one of their past seven away games versus Man City in all competitions (W1 D1 L5).\n\nManchester City will wrap the title up with a win over Brighton at Amex Stadium on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Leicester host Chelsea at King Power Stadium. Both matches kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably \"tiny\", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests.\n\nFamily, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxford research team.\n\nIt claims its study is more in-depth and robust than previous ones.\n\nAnd it urged companies to release data on how people use social media in order to understand more about the impact of technology on young people's lives.\n\nThe study, published in the journal PNAS, attempts to answer the question of whether teenagers who use social media more than average have lower life satisfaction, or whether adolescents with lower life satisfaction use more social media.\n\nPast research on the relationship between screens, technology and children's mental health has often been contradictory.\n\nProf Andrew Przybylski and Amy Orben, from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, say it is often based on limited evidence which does not give the full picture.\n\nTheir study concluded that most links between life satisfaction and social media use were \"trivial\", accounting for less than 1% of a teenager's wellbeing - and that the effect of social media was \"not a one-way street\".\n\nProf Przybylski, director of research at the institute, said: \"99.75% of a person's life satisfaction has nothing to do with their use of social media.\"\n\nThe study, which took place between 2009 and 2017, asked thousands of 10 to 15-year-olds to say how long they spent using social media on a normal school day and also rate how satisfied they were with different aspects of life.\n\nThey found more effects of time spent on social media in girls, but they were tiny and no larger than effects found in boys.\n\nLess than half of these effects were statistically significant, they said.\n\n\"Parents shouldn't worry about time on social media - thinking about it that way is wrong,\" Prof Przybylski said.\n\n\"We are fixated on time - but we need to retire this notion of screen time.\n\n\"The results are not showing evidence for great concern.\"\n\nThe researchers said it was now important to identify young people at greater risk from certain effects of social media, and find out other factors that were having an impact on their wellbeing.\n\nThey plan to meet social media companies soon to discuss how they can work together to learn more about how people use apps - not just the time spent on them.\n\nMs Orben, co-study author and psychology lecturer at University of Oxford, said the industry must release their usage data and support independent research.\n\n\"Access is key to understanding the many roles that social media plays in the lives of young people\" she said.\n\nDr Max Davie, officer for health improvement at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, backed the call for companies to collaborate with scientists and called the study \"the first small step\".\n\nHowever, he said there were other issues to explore, such as screen time's interference with other important activities like sleep, exercise and time with family or friends.\n\n\"We recommend that families follow our guidance published earlier this year and continue to avoid screen use for one hour before bed, since there are other reasons beside mental health for children to need a good night's sleep.\"\n• None Own It - A place to help you boss your life online - BBC", "Dillan Brown was pulled out of the water off the Great Orme\n\nA boy who died after falling into the sea off the north Wales coast was \"warm, cheerful and loving\".\n\nDillan Brown, 13, was pulled from the Irish Sea by the coastguard off the Great Orme near Llandudno in Conwy county on Saturday.\n\nThe \"much-loved\" pupil at Ysgol John Bright in Llandudno was airlifted to hospital in Bangor where he later died.\n\nHead teacher Ann Webb said \"all of the pupils and staff were devastated\" to learn of Dillan's death.\n\nEmergency services were called to Pigeon's Cove just before 21:00 BST - Dillan was pulled from the water about 30 minutes later and taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd where he was pronounced dead.\n\nNorth Wales Police said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.\n\nPigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nMs Webb said: \"All of the pupils and staff were devastated to learn of Dillan's tragic death and our hearts go out to his immediate and extended family at this most difficult of times.\n\n\"Dillan was a much-loved member of the close-knit Ysgol John Bright community and had a very warm, cheerful and loving nature.\n\n\"He had a heart of gold and was a very caring and thoughtful son, brother and uncle.\n\n\"It was very evident how important his family was to Dillan and how much he loved them.\"\n\nMore than £2,000 has been raised on a social media fundraising page to pay for Dillan's funeral.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing three weeks ago\n\nA British man has been rearrested after the bodies of a woman and her one-year-old daughter were found in Canada.\n\nRobert Leeming, 34, was first arrested days after Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing.\n\nHe was released by police but was later rearrested after their bodies were discovered in woodland near Calgary on Monday.\n\nMr Leeming, who has lived in Canada for six years, denied any involvement.\n\nFollowing his initial arrest, he told local media that he was \"traumatised\" by events.\n\nHe claimed to have been romantically involved with Ms Lovett, who was living with her daughter as a tenant at his home, in the Cranston district of Calgary.\n\nMs Lovett's family said their lives had been \"devastated and our hearts are heavy\" following the discovery of their bodies.\n\nThe mother and daughter were last seen alive in Cranston on the evening of Tuesday 16 April.\n\nMr Leeming, who is believed to be from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested a week later, but was released by police after being questioned.\n\nA Calgary Police spokesman said on Monday: \"At approximately 4am today we located the bodies of a woman and child, believed to be that of Jasmine Lovett and Aliyah Sanderson, in Kananaskis.\n\n\"A suspect has been taken into custody and charges are pending.\n\n\"The suspect cannot be named by police until charges are officially laid by the Justice of the Peace.\n\nA police car is pictured outside a taped off property in Calgary\n\n\"However, police can confirm the suspect is the same man who was taken into custody two weeks ago.\"\n\nPost-mortem examinations are due to take place, although the cause of death is not expected to be released.\n\nMs Lovett's family said in a statement: \"Our lives have been devastated and our hearts are heavy.\n\n\"We are trying to understand how this tragedy could have happened to our loved ones.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Chris Fox takes a first look at Google's new Pixel 3a smartphones\n\nGoogle is to sell a range of lower-cost smartphones as part of an effort to jump-start sales of its Pixel brand.\n\nIn addition, the company has shown off its first voice-controlled smart screen for the home to feature a camera.\n\nThis allows it to offer more personalised features than a previous model, but also risks provoking a privacy backlash.\n\nOther announcements at its annual developers conference included enhancements to its search tool.\n\nThe Pixel 3a and larger Pixel 3a XL will cost £399 and £469 respectively, making them roughly half the price of the seven-month-old Pixel 3 originals.\n\nUntil now, Google had charged one of the highest entry-point prices for an Android handset, with its basic model costing £70 more than Samsung's Galaxy S10e and £40 more than Huawei's P30, and no option to buy a \"mid-range\" alternative.\n\nThe new versions share many of the features of the more expensive Pixels, including OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays for rich colours and the firm's much-lauded Night Sight facility, which uses machine-learning based artificial intelligence to enhance images taken in low-light conditions.\n\nThe new phones only feature a single selfie camera and have a plastic body\n\nIn addition, they will also provide use of Google's new augmented reality maps, which superimpose arrow graphics over views of the scene ahead. This, the firm claims, will make it easier to judge which direction to set off in.\n\nBut to help cut costs the new handsets:\n\nThe new phones do, however, include a 3.5mm headphone socket unlike the premium versions.\n\n\"For us, what's important is for Pixel to get into the hands of more and more people,\" Mario Queiroz, chief of Google's product division, told the BBC.\n\n\"Most phones in this general price range are phones from last year or from two years ago, or they are phones that are 'specced' very differently and even have different brands.\n\n\"We wanted to bring a true Pixel experience to this price point.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGoogle shipped close to 20% more Pixel phones over the October-to-March period compared with the same six months the previous year, according to market research firm IDC.\n\nHowever, it still only accounted for a 0.3% share of the global smartphone market, making it the 26th bestselling brand.\n\n\"The Pixel 3's price-point in the ultra-high-end meant fierce competition from Apple, Huawei and Samsung,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nPixel sales should also benefit from the fact that in the US the range will no longer be exclusive to one mobile network's stores.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Geoff Blaber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut one expert said the move to offer lower-cost models posed risks of its own.\n\n\"Many consumers are fed up with the spiralling cost of high-end smartphones,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"However, this takes Google into dangerous territory from the perspective of competing with existing Android phone-makers. Licensees such as Samsung, which recently refreshed its mid-tier Galaxy A range, won't welcome additional competition at a time when the smartphone market is already in decline.\"\n\nThe Nest Hub Max adds a camera and has a bigger screen than its predecessor\n\nAnother hardware launch at the IO event involved a larger version of Google's voice-controlled smart display for the home.\n\nThe device now features a 10in, rather than 7in touchscreen and introduces a camera, which can be used for video chats as well as to provide home security via motion-triggered recordings saved online.\n\nThe new machine is called the Nest Hub Max, and the existing smaller version is being renamed the Nest Home Hub, representing an extension to the brand.\n\nNest used to be run as an independent smart home business within parent company Alphabet, but was subsumed by the Google division last year.\n\nThe camera makes several features possible, including:\n\nThe demo showed a woman silencing a Google Nest by raising her hand\n\nHowever, it is likely to raise privacy concerns.\n\nGoogle explicitly said it had excluded a camera in the original model to help people feel comfortable placing it in their homes.\n\nHowever, it brings the company in line with Facebook and Amazon, which have released similar camera-enabled devices despite claims that they could pose privacy threats.\n\nThe Next Hub Max has a louder speaker than the earlier version\n\nFor its part, Google has said a small green light will always signal when the camera is streaming footage and that nothing will be streamed or recorded unless the function is explicitly enabled by owners.\n\nIt also told the BBC that captured footage would not be viewed by its staff in a similar fashion to how they sometimes listen to voice recordings to improve speech recognition.\n\n\"Footage from that Nest cam will not be used or reviewed,\" said product manager Edward Kenney.\n\nEarlier at IO, chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Google's search results would soon start to include podcasts.\n\nSundar Pichai showed off Duplex's newest automated booking facilities at the start of the event\n\nUsers will be able to listen to the recordings directly from the results page, he said, or save them for later playback if they prefer.\n\nThey will also be searchable by content as well as title.\n\nThe firm's augmented reality chief Aparna Chennapragada was next on stage to demo how the technology - which mixes together computer graphics with real-world views - will also be used to enhance results.\n\nA shark took to the stage in Augmented Reality\n\nShe revealed that relevant searches would now yield 3D models that can be rotated and viewed on Google's own page or superimposed over a camera-captured image of the surrounding area.\n\nThis, she suggested, would help students explore new concepts or see how consumer goods would match with their current possessions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple has also taken time to promote augmented reality at its recent developer conferences, but outside of gaming the tech has proved more of a gimmick than a compelling feature for many users across their day-to-day activities.\n\nIn a follow-up to last year's big announcement - a feature that allows Google to phone businesses and make computer-controlled voice bookings on a person's behalf - the company revealed plans to add fresh capabilities to its Duplex software.\n\nIn the future, it said it aimed to make it possible for users to ask its virtual assistant to book a movie ticket or a rental car for their next trip, for example.\n\nIt said its software would then automatically find a relevant rental car company and fill out all the forms including information about dates and vehicle preference by making reference to past choices and Gmail correspondence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Geoff Blaber This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuplex is available in most of the US but has yet to launch elsewhere.\n\nWhat's most impressive this year is the extent to which Google can now do a lot of work on-device, rather than sending information - and personal data - back and forth to a server.\n\nLive text-captioning of video with a smartphone in airplane mode is truly an impressive technological feat. This is Google's strategy to combat Apple's \"what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone\" publicity push, and it's likely to be effective - not to mention an approach we can get behind.\n\nBut, as ever, this keynote was a bag of contradictions: A host of new features, and new products, that demand you look at a screen intently - followed by the company's flimsy \"commitment\" to helping us look at screens less often.\n\nIt's also worth noting how Google is slowly chipping away at our privacy boundaries.\n\nSeven months ago, when it launched the Home Hub, the device didn't have a camera. The firm said it was \"so that it was comfortable to us in the private spaces of your home like your bedroom\".\n\nNow the Home Hub has been rebranded the Nest Hub, and the next version will have a camera after all.\n\nOne feature is the ability to turn off its alarm by saying \"stop\" - no longer requiring the \"hey Google\" wake words.\n\nHow long, I wonder, until Google tries to do away with wake words altogether by incentivising users to turn them off in return for new features?\n\nGoogle rounded off its event with details about how it is applying machine learning technologies beyond consumer goods.\n\nThis included an effort to predict where floods are most likely to cause damage and work to spot cancer symptoms.\n\nGoogle says it will publish more details about its work to detect cancer in one of Nature's scientific journals\n\nGoogle AI's Dr Lily Peng gave the example of a lung cancer patient who had shown advanced symptoms of the disease one year after being given the all-clear.\n\nShe said that five out of six human experts shown a scan had missed the early signs of the disease's recurrence because they were so minute.\n\nThe Google model was trained on anonymised images obtained from the National Cancer Institute, Dr Peng added.\n\n\"By looking at many examples the model learns to detect malignancy with performance that meets or exceeds that of trained radiologists,\" she said.\n\nThe research is likely to face further scrutiny when it is published by Nature soon.", "The UK and the European Union are in talks about how they could live and work together after Brexit.\n\nPoliticians use many different terms when discussing Brexit - here is what some of the key ones mean.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA period lasting from 31 January to 31 December 2020, when the UK is no longer a member of the EU, but still follows all its rules.\n\nIt was agreed by the UK and the EU to allow both sides time to reach a deal on their future relationship.\n\nTrade between two countries, where neither side charges taxes or duties on goods crossing borders.\n\nA deal between countries to reduce, but not necessarily eliminate, trade barriers such as:\n\nHow the agreement between the EU and the UK would be enforced if there is a dispute.\n\nOne controversial issue has been about what role, if any, the European Court of Justice should play.\n\nA tax or duty to be paid on goods crossing borders.\n\nRules on who can fish where, and how much of each species can be caught.\n\nA set of rules to ensure that one country, or group of countries, doesn't have an unfair advantage over another.\n\nThis can involve areas such as workers' rights and environmental standards.\n\nEU laws which prevent a government in one country from supporting companies there - over competitors in another country.\n\nThis support could be financial - for instance, allowing companies to borrow more cheaply, or charging them less in tax.\n\nThe 2019 agreement which set out how the UK would leave the EU.\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol is part of this agreement. It set out special arrangements for Northern Ireland, to avoid the need for checks along the Irish border.\n\nThis will be the situation if the UK and the EU don't reach a trade agreement by the end of 2020.\n\nIt means that both sides would have to charge tariffs - or taxes - on goods crossing borders.\n\nIf countries don't have free-trade agreements, they usually trade with each other under what's called WTO (World Trade Organization) rules, where each country sets tariffs - or taxes - on goods entering, and applies them equally to all its trading partners.\n\nThe government currently refers to this as an \"Australian-style deal\".", "Two teenagers are recovering after being stabbed in north London in attacks which are being linked by the Met police.\n\nOfficers found a 17-year-old boy injured in Fairbridge Road in Upper Holloway, Islington, at about 17:35 BST on Monday.\n\nHe remains in a serious but stable condition.\n\nTen minutes later a man believed to be 18 years old was found stabbed less than half a mile away in Sussex Close.\n\nHis condition is said to be no longer life-threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said there would be an increased number of officers in the area.\n\nA Section 60 order - which gives officers the right to stop and search anyone - was authorised for the borough of Islington until 07:00 BST on Tuesday.", "Scott Morrison has been campaigning ahead of Australia's election\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been egged by a protester while campaigning ahead of the nation's general election.\n\nThe egg grazed Mr Morrison's head but did not break, local media said. The incident also knocked an elderly woman to the ground.\n\nFootage showed a 25-year-old woman being restrained at the scene. Police later said she had been arrested.\n\nMr Morrison described the egg thrower as \"cowardly\".\n\nThe incident happened at a Country Women's Association event in Albury, about 330km (200 miles) south-east of Canberra. No-one was injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sky News Australia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Morrison later praised his security staff for intervening quickly and expressed concern for the elderly woman, identified in media reports as Margaret Baxter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Scott Morrison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFarmers in Australia have faced protests by vegan activists in recent times. Police did not immediately speculate on a motive for Tuesday's incident, nor whether it was suspected of being linked to other protests.\n\nMs Baxter told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she had recently had stomach surgery, but did not feel pain after the fall.\n\n\"My main concern was holding my stomach to make sure it didn't get hit,\" she said.\n\nMr Morrison is not the first Australian politician to be targeted by an egg-wielding protester this year.\n\nIn March, far-right Senator Fraser Anning was egged after making heavily criticised comments about the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was later cautioned by police over Mr Anning's egging.\n\nAustralians are due to vote in a general election on 18 May.", "Talks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe British and Irish governments have set out details of how they intend to proceed with talks to restore Northern Ireland power-sharing.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said a series of working groups would be set up to deal with key sticking points.\n\nStormont's five main party leaders will also hold weekly meetings with the NI Secretary and Tanaiste (Irish deputy PM) to \"take stock\" and set the agenda.\n\nThe talks involving the NI parties and governments got under way on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the first fully-fledged talks process since negotiations collapsed in February 2018.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government for more than two and a half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nThere have been several failed talks processes since January 2017.\n\nLast month, the British and Irish governments agreed to convene a new set of talks from 7 May, that they said should be short and focused.\n\nIn their statement issued after meeting the Stormont party leaders on Tuesday, they said the prime minister and taoiseach (Irish prime minister) would review progress at the end of May.\n\nThe working groups will be led by, (from left): David Sterling; Paul Sweeney; Sir Malcolm McKibbin; Hugh Widdis and Sue Gray\n\nThere will be a weekly round-table meeting involving party leaders and the working groups will deal with several key issues.\n\nThey will be made up of three representatives from each of the five parties in the talks, and representatives from the British and Irish governments will advise them.\n\nThe separate working groups will seek agreement on:\n\nSeveral parties at Stormont have called for the reform of the petition of concern mechanism - it is effectively a Stormont veto which the DUP used to block same-sex marriage.\n\nThe talks were announced by the British and Irish governments after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nAt her funeral, politicians came under pressure to solve the Stormont impasse.\n\nThe talks are beginning just days after council elections which saw a surge of support for smaller parties not aligned to either unionism or nationalism.\n\nMost notably, Northern Ireland's fifth largest party, Alliance, saw its number of council seats rise from 32 to 53 - an increase of 65%.\n\nThe talks were announced after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's talks, DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party would go into the talks process to try to find a solution.\n\nShe said she hoped all parties would engage with a \"willingness to look forward and not backwards\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party was ready to get down to business.\n\n\"People know what the outstanding equality issues are and they need to be resolved and they can be,\" she said.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said the new format provided a \"short window of opportunity\" for progress.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"We've all committed to power sharing, we've all committed to working together and that'll take compromise, it'll take real effort.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann said: \"If today is simply window dressing, we're wasting our time and we're insulting the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn the local government election, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin were again returned as the two largest parties in the council elections, but they had mixed fortunes.\n\nThe DUP lost eight of its 130 seats and, although Sinn Féin's seat count held steady at 105, there was a slight drop (0.8%) in the party's share of first preference votes.", "A British soldier has been killed by an elephant during a counter-poaching operation in Malawi.\n\nMathew Talbot, 22, of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, was on patrol in Liwonde National Park on 5 May when he was charged by the animal.\n\nHis commanding officer, Lt Col Ed Launders, described Guardsman Talbot as \"determined and big-hearted\".\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said he served with \"great courage and professionalism\".\n\nShe added: \"This tragic incident is a reminder of the danger our military faces as they protect some of the world's most endangered species from those who seek to profit from the criminal slaughter of wildlife.\"\n\nKensington Palace said the Duke of Cambridge was writing to Gdsm Talbot's family to offer his condolences.\n\nGdsm Talbot, who was from the West Midlands, was serving in his first operational deployment, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe patrol of armed British army soldiers and African Park Rangers was walking through tall grass - up to 7ft (2.1m) high - when they disturbed an unseen herd of elephants.\n\nOne of them charged at Gdsm Talbot. He died soon after from his injuries. No-one else on the patrol was hurt.\n\nHe leaves behind his father Steven, his mother Michelle, his sisters Aimee and Isabel, and his girlfriend, Olivia.\n\nIn a statement, the MoD said Gdsm Talbot \"was not unfamiliar\" with Africa and had volunteered to support counter-poaching in Malawi.\n\n\"With his keen interest in military history he was proud to have joined a regiment with such a rich and long lineage,\" it added.\n\nOperation Corded, the name given to the Army's counter-poaching deployment in Malawi, assists in the training of rangers in a bid to help them crack down on the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nPark rangers are taught skills such as tracking, partnered patrolling, communications, surveillance, and intelligence-sharing - with the first deployment taking place in August 2017.\n\nThe former defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced the expansion of the UK's counter-poaching training at two parks in Malawi - doubling the number of rangers mentored by soldiers to 120 - in 2018.\n\nGdsm Talbot's company commander, Maj Richard Wright, said that while he had only known the soldier for a short time, \"he never failed to make me smile\".\n\nLt Col Launders added: \"Mathew was loved by his brothers in arms in the Coldstream Guards. We will sorely miss his humour, selflessness and unbeatable spirit.\"\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith described the death as \"tragic news\".\n\nShe added: \"It underlines the dedication and selflessness of our armed forces personnel serving across the world.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nElephant poaching is a huge problem across Africa - some estimates say 30,000 are killed every year - and there are probably only around 450,000 left.\n\nIn many places it has become literally a war against poachers - that's why rangers are trained by British troops.\n\nBut there are different views over how to stop the illegal ivory trade.\n\nInternational campaigns - backed by countries like Kenya - want a complete end to all ivory trade to prevent criminals exploiting permit loopholes.\n\nBut some southern African countries which account for the majority of Africa's elephants, believe limited and well-regulated trade in ivory can raise money to pay for conservation.\n\nBotswana, which has been hosting an elephant summit over the past few days, has perhaps 130,000 of the animals - more than anywhere else - and has problems with human and elephant conflict.\n\nThe peculiar gift of elephant-foot stools to visiting leaders was a strong message in support of trade.\n\nUnder the management of a new president, it looks likely to re-introduce hunting -which is popular with rural voters - in an election year.", "The Met Gala, an annual benefit event for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is considered one of the world's biggest fashion events.\n\nIt is known for its exclusive guest list, its expensive tickets and - most of all - its extravagant outfits, based on a different theme each year.\n\nThis year, that theme was Camp: Notes on Fashion - to coincide with an upcoming exhibition at the Met, inspired by US writer and political activist Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, Notes on Camp.\n\nThe outfits this year were therefore, like the exhibition, based on \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration\".\n\nAnd showing everyone how it was done at the very start of the night was singer Lady Gaga, who arrived in a billowing pink outfit which was not quite what it seemed at first glance.\n\nLady Gaga, one of the event's co-hosts, arrived in a billowing pink outfit...\n\nWhich opened up to reveal a black gown, her second outfit...\n\nWhich was then cast aside in favour of Lady Gaga's third outfit, a slim-fitting pink gown\n\n...Which she then took off, to reveal her final outfit\n\nSerena Williams, who is also co-hosting, arrived in a neon yellow gown - with matching Nike trainers\n\nActor Michael Urie has gone for two looks in one\n\nActor Ezra Miller shows off some very impressive (and unsettling) make-up art\n\nReality TV family the Kardashians were out in force for this year's event\n\nHere are newlyweds Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, who are said to have first met at the Met Gala in 2017\n\nThey were followed down the red carpet by Nick's older brother Joe and his even newer wife, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner\n\nLaverne Cox went for a sleek black dress and bold make up\n\nThe third co-host is Harry Styles, who wore a sheer black top and high-waisted trousers\n\nAlessandro Michele, of Gucci fashion house, is the event's final co-host\n\nSinger Billy Porter made an entrance before flexing his wings in front of the crowds\n\nAnd theatre owner Jordan Roth has, very aptly, turned himself into a theatre hall\n\nCeline Dion, perhaps the original queen of 'camp', did not disappoint\n\nActor Jared Leto clearly believes that two heads are better than one\n\nUS drag queen Aquaria went for painted hair and diamante hand-pieces\n\nWhile actor Yara Shahidi has gone all out with the feathers...\n\n...Much like the Met Gala's main host, Vogue editor Anna Wintour", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cycle police will target risky drivers who get too close\n\nPolice officers are taking to their bikes to teach the dangers of driving too close to cyclists.\n\nPlain-clothes officers on cycles will use bike-mounted cameras to catch motorists who get too close for comfort.\n\nOffenders will then be pulled over further along the road and spoken to about their driving.\n\nIt comes as a survey found 73% of those asked were not aware the practice could result in three penalty points.\n\nCycling Scotland, which commissioned the YouGov research, is raising awareness of the risks to cyclists in a new nationwide campaign.\n\nThe poll of more than 1,000 Scots found most did not know the potential consequence of failing to leave at least a car's width when passing a bike.\n\nPolice will demonstrate the safe passing distance, widely considered to be at least 1.5m (5ft). A similar scheme was successful in West Midlands\n\nThe body has received the backing of Police Scotland, which stressed that driving too close is classed as careless driving and is punishable with a minimum penalty of three penalty points and £100 fine.\n\nCycling Scotland chief executive Keith Irving said: \"People who cycle regularly are likely to experience a 'very scary' close pass incident every couple of days and cycling casualties are increasing, in line with cycling's growing popularity.\n\n\"Every week in Scotland, at least three people cycling suffer serious, potentially life-changing injuries, usually from a collision with a vehicle.\n\n\"Our new TV ad campaign shows how it can feel to be close passed and increases awareness of the legal consequences for people driving too closely to someone cycling.\"\n\nCabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity Michael Matheson launched the campaign\n\nPolice Scotland has meanwhile launched Operation Close Pass to make roads safer for cyclists.\n\nThe initiative sees plain-clothes police officers cycling with a camera on their handlebars and another on the back of their bike.\n\nWhen they are passed too closely by a car, the police cyclist radios details to colleagues further up the road, who pull over the motorist and talk to them about their driving.\n\nThe chat takes place by the roadside on a giant mat showing the correct minimum passing distance, usually defined as 1.5 metres (5ft).\n\nIf someone is unreceptive to education then they will be cautioned for careless or dangerous driving and receive a court summons.\n\nInsp Andrew Thomson said: \"Keeping all road users safe is a key priority for us and this campaign highlights that cyclists are vulnerable when being passed by vehicles too closely.\n\n\"Officers from Police Scotland will be working hard to raise awareness of this offence and encourage all road users to use the roads with respect for others.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks across the country\n\nA man arrested over the abduction and rape of three women in and around London is being investigated for other attacks involving nine further victims.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, was arrested in Congleton, Cheshire, after two girls, aged 14, were abducted in the town.\n\nHe is being investigated over attacks in Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire, on victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, of the Metropolitan Police, said the attacks were \"grotesque and horrifying\".\n\nThe officer urged other victims to come forward and said police wanted to hear from anyone who had been approached by Mr McCann or in contact with him between February and May.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nMr McCann was found in a tree in Smithy Lane on Sunday evening and arrested after a stand-off with police negotiators.\n\nHe had been spotted in the town after two girls were forced into a car that afternoon.\n\nMet detectives are now investigating him in connection with a number of other attacks earlier that day.\n\nThese include the false imprisonment of a woman in Haslingden, Lancashire, in which a teenage girl and a boy, 11, were raped and the abduction and rape of a 71-year-old in Bury, Manchester.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe suspect is also being investigated over the abduction of two 13-year-old boys and the abduction and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Heywood, Manchester, at about 15:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Goodwin said the attacks were believed to have taken place between 21 April and 5 May.\n\n\"Detectives from the Met continue to lead on this investigation and are working very closely with policing counterparts where he is suspected to have carried out further offences,\" she said.\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London and raped in a car in London on 25 April.\n• None Man held after two more women abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The issue of biosecurity is set to become increasingly important to prevent alien invasive pathogens entering the UK habitat\n\nThe outbreak of ash dieback disease is set to cost the UK in the region of £15bn, it has been estimated.\n\nScientists expressed shock at the \"staggering\" financial burden on taxpayers.\n\nThe authors warn that the cost of tackling the fallout from ash dieback far exceeds the income from importing nursery trees.\n\nIt was an imported nursery tree that initially brought the deadly disease to these shores.\n\nThey added that it was the first time the total cost of the outbreak had been estimated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We estimate that the total may be £15bn,\" explained lead author Dr Louise Hill, a researcher at Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"That's a third more than the reported cost of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.\n\n\"The consequences of tree disease for people really haven't been fully appreciated before now.\"\n\nYoung and susceptible ash trees quickly succumb to the pathogen\n\nThe disease, also known as chalara dieback of ash, was first reported in the UK in a nursery in 2012, and was recorded in the wider environment for the first time in 2013.\n\nSince then it has spread to most parts of the UK.\n\nThe Forestry Commission says it has the \"potential to cause significant damage to the UK's ash population, with implications for woodland biodiversity and ecology, and for the hardwood industries\".\n\nIn Europe, the pathogen has caused widespread damage and has killed and infected millions of ash trees.\n\nAs well as estimating the loss from losing an economically important species, the £15bn figure takes in account the loss of \"ecosystem services\", such as water purification and carbon sequestration.\n\nReport co-author Dr Nick Atkinson, senior adviser at the Woodland Trust, said: \"What we were drawing attention to is that there is this huge financial and economic impact of a tree disease epidemic.\"\n\nThe authors, writing in the Current Biology journal, estimated that the total cost of ash dieback would be 50 times greater than the annual value of trade in live plants to and from Britain.\n\n\"What you have to look at is, essentially, the risk we are taking by trading across borders against the benefits, which is the financial gains coming from that market,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The £15bn cost that we are now facing is the direct outcome of a trade that was worth a few million pounds.\"\n\nThe researchers said that the majority of the cost will be shouldered by local authorities.\n\n\"As we know, local authorities are not well funded and they are certainly not funded enough to deal with an epidemic of this magnitude,\" observed Dr Atkinson.\n\n\"There is this hole in the policy of responding to events like this.\"\n\nAnd it is something that is very likely to happen again in the near future, they warn, as there are 47 other known tree pests and diseases that could arrive in Britain and cause more than a billion pounds (or more) worth of damage.", "Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy hunter in 2015\n\nThe UK will not be banning imports from trophy hunting yet, Michael Gove has told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nThe Environment Secretary said it was a \"delicate political balancing act\".\n\nHe said he had been advised by wildlife charities to \"be cautious\" in following other countries in outlawing imports from the controversial sport.\n\nTrophy hunting is the shooting of carefully selected animals, including some endangered species, under strict government controls.\n\nMr Gove was interviewed by former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen as part of a new BBC Radio 5 Live podcast, Beast of Man, which looks into how the South African rhino can be saved from extinction.\n\nClients, mainly from Europe or the US, often pay thousands of pounds to take part in a hunt, and keep a \"trophy\" - usually the head or skin, or another body part.\n\nIt's a big business in some African countries.\n\nCritics describe it as a blood sport, but proponents say it helps raise vital money for conservation, especially for endangered species.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove tells 5 Live the UK will not be banning imports from trophy hunting yet.\n\nCurrently, if a trophy hunter wants to bring a body part from their hunt back into the UK, they can do so, with a special permit.\n\nOne trophy hunter told the podcast the sport was thrilling and helped conservation: \"To shoot an elephant is an awesome thing to do, it is a stunningly, stunningly awesome thing to do, which is why I did it.\n\n\"I want to try and preserve those wild places in Africa. But the only way they get preserved is if there's money. If it doesn't pay it doesn't stay. It's as simple as that.\"\n\nIn 2015, the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park sparked worldwide revulsion and resulted in a number of countries - including Australia, France and the Netherlands - implementing bans on the import of lion trophies.\n\nAt the time, the UK government pledged to do the same unless there were improvements to how hunting took place.\n\nKevin Pietersen, who was born in South Africa, visited Hwange National Park after Cecil the lion was killed\n\nWhen asked about why the UK had not yet enforced a ban, Mr Gove said he had been advised by conservationists and charities to proceed with caution.\n\nHe said they told him: \"Don't come in, you know, with your clod-hopping boots from the UK and necessarily tell people in each of these countries exactly how they should regulate their own wildlife.\"\n\n\"On an emotional level and on a personal level, I find it difficult to understand,\" Mr Gove said. \"But I also recognise that I've got to respect if there is expertise, which says that [trophy hunting] done in a managed way can help wildlife overall, then let's just test that.\"\n\nThe CEO of charity Save the Rhino, Cathy Dean, says that \"well-regulated trophy hunting has a role in overall rhino conservation strategies\".\n\nThere were between 50 and 100 Southern white rhinos at the start of the 1900s, but now there are about 18,000, she told the BBC in an emailed statement.\n\nThe increase is \"partly due to the conservation efforts and involvement of the private sector, who have dedicated land to breeding rhinos, some of which may be trophy hunted, rather than to livestock or agriculture\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why big game hunting is big business in South Africa\n\nIn 2018, more than 50 celebrities - including singers Ed Sheeran and Liam Gallagher - signed an open letter in support of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, urging the Government to ban trophy hunters from importing animal body parts into Britain.\n\nA cross-party Early Day Motion, signed by more than 159 MPs, has also called on the UK government to stop trophy hunting imports of endangered species.\n\n\"I think that there is growing momentum for the law to change. But what I don't want to do is to get ahead,\" said Mr Gove.\n\n\"I don't want to be in a position where am I running so far in advance of what other charities and other leaders want, that we risk the good relationship that's been built up over time.\n\n\"Like so many areas of campaigning, it's partly a process of education and it's partly a process of dialogue.\n\n\"If particular communities have got used to driving income from hunting, you don't want to seem as though you're basically saying, we're taking your livelihood away.\n\n\"We've got to make sure that there is a clear alternative, that they know that their livelihoods and their lifestyle are going to be respected and not patronised, before they will feel comfortable about moving.\"\n\nKevin Pietersen: Beast of Man can be downloaded from BBC Sounds.", "Will the cross-party talks get anywhere this week?\n\nNo 10 is trying to get Labour over the line by presenting the withdrawal agreement as a stepping stone - ie hold your nose for now and you can carve out your own deal if you win the next election.\n\nKey to that is the promise of a 'temporary customs union' - Labour sources warn if that's all it is, that's what's already in the withdrawal agreement anyway (plus a few months) and doesn't add up to anything substantially new.\n\nA senior government source says it IS possible though to see a way to a deal, but it is unlikely to be resolved this week - and their aim is not to create some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden moment (imagine!) but to set out a path to get the Withdrawal Bill to Commons with a fair wind.\n\nWhat then? Well, the hope is to get the bill to committee stage where MPs would make decisions day by day - it's important to understand that's where Number 10 hopes this might be heading - with maybe more of a process to get sustainable buy-in from the Labour front bench than carving a deal in stone.\n\nOf course, the clouds over Theresa May's leadership also make it harder by the day to get anything agreed. A Labour source says: \"We are not just worried about this being ripped up in 2021, we're worried about it being ripped up in October 2019.\"\n\nThere is added momentum to talks because the Tories are fresh from an absolute hammering in council elections on Friday. Labour had a terrible night too.\n\nBut that bit of fresh impetus doesn't magic away the real problems they have to overcome if there's to be a deal.", "A forensic tent has been erected in front of a detached property in Fairfield Park, Monkton\n\nPolice are searching a south Ayrshire property in connection with the disappearance of a 39-year-old woman.\n\nEmma Faulds went missing from her Kilmarnock home more than a week ago.\n\nA forensic search is currently being carried out at a detached house in Fairfield Park, Monkton, approximately 12 miles from Kilmarnock.\n\nDetectives fear Ms Faulds, who was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in the Monkton area, may have come to harm.\n\nEmma Faulds has been missing for more than a week\n\nPolice said family and friends were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she was or what might have happened to her.\n\nAnd they appealed for help from anyone who saw Ms Faulds or her car in the lead-up to her disappearance.\n\nPolice said she normally drives a blue BMW 1 Series M Sport with the distinctive registration number F5 EMA.\n\nMs Faulds' car, which was recovered outside her home, has been removed by officers and is undergoing a full forensic examination.\n\nTwo other cars are also being examined.\n\nSpecialist officers have also been searching properties in the Monkton area.\n\nMs Faulds is described as white, around 5ft 3in, of slim, athletic build, with long blonde hair, a pale complexion and blue eyes.\n\nPolice are asking the public if they remember seeing Ms Faulds' car\n\nDetectives are also searching CCTV footage for any sightings of the missing youth worker or her car.\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus from Police Scotland's major investigations team said: \"Emma is in constant contact with her family and friends and the fact that she has not been heard from is alarming.\n\n\"Emma also has a dog, a west highland terrier, and she would never leave it for any length of time without ensuring someone is able to look after it.\n\n\"We are liaising with Emma's family and we now believe that she may have come to harm.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Emma's car has been removed for examination and I am appealing to motorists, taxi drivers or members of the public who may have seen it being driven in the Monkton and Kilmarnock areas late Sunday night into Monday morning.\n\n\"I would ask people with dashcams to check their footage as they may have captured the car and not realise its significance. You may have noticed the registration number but thought nothing of it at the time, but now where and when you saw it could be vital.\"\n\nHe added: \"Emma is a sociable outgoing person who enjoys seeing her family and friends.\n\n\"They are distraught at not knowing where she is or what may have happened to her.\n\n\"I would appeal to anyone who may have information or knowledge as to her whereabouts to contact us.\n\n\"If you saw Emma a few days before she was reported missing, you may have information which could assist us so please do contact us, did you see her with anyone, did you speak to her, any small piece of information could be highly significant.\"\n• None Missing woman 'may have come to harm'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Aerial pictures show the extent of the damage at the house\n\nTwo people have died in a suspected gas explosion which destroyed a bungalow.\n\nThe rear of the home was blown out by a series of explosions at the property in The Street in Lidgate, near Newmarket in Suffolk.\n\nCrews began tackling the blaze at about midday and specialist dogs were later brought in after two people were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nThe cause of the explosion is unknown and a joint fire and police investigation is taking place.\n\nOfficers said the fire was believed to have been caused by a gas explosion.\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\"\n\nOne neighbour said it rattled the windows of homes further along the road, and described it as a \"huge explosion\".\n\nSuffolk Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent four crews to deal with the blaze.\n\nFire officers had spent the afternoon trying to establish the whereabouts of the two missing people.\n\nIncident commander Darren Reeve said: \"We are working extremely hard to try and identify if we have anyone in or not.\"\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\".\n\nIt is believed a gas explosion caused a fire at the bungalow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marchers made their way through Glasgow city centre\n\nOne of the organisers of a pro-independence march in Glasgow has been reported to the procurator fiscal.\n\nMandeep Singh, 39, who headed the All Under One Banner event on Saturday, said on social media he had been reported in connection with section 65 of the Civic Government Act 1982.\n\nIt is related to conditions imposed on the event by Glasgow City Council and police.\n\nThe All Under One Banner march left Kelvingrove Park at 13:30 BST and made its way through the city centre before ending with a rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nMinutes from the meeting of the Public Processions Committee on 24 April stated a condition that the march should gather at 10:00 and then set off at 11:00.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Police Scotland can confirm that a 39-year-old man will be the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal for failing to comply with conditions imposed on a procession.\"\n\nMarch organiser Mr Singh said he had worked closely with senior Police Scotland officers to make sure everyone who attended the march was \"safe and protected\".\n\nIn a statement on his Facebook page, he added: \"Now I always knew that the unionist Glasgow City Council could push for this.\n\n\"I evaluated the risks to myself and only myself what would happen. If I defied GGC and their ridiculous demands to keep numbers low. Worst case a heavy fine and 3 months custodial sentence.\"\n\nMr Singh later said he intended to contest any charges, adding: \"Freedom can never be won by bending the knee.\"\n\nA spokesman for the SNP-led Glasgow City Council said that it would not be appropriate to comment at this time due to ongoing proceedings.\n\nHowever, one SNP councillor, Rhiannon Spear, tweeted: \"I can assure you Glasgow City Council is anything but Unionist.\n\n\"Manny has been reported to the PF because he did not comply with the council order's start time. His comments here are bizarre + entirely unhelpful. I hope he works with the council from the start next time.\"", "The resignation of Theresa May has clear consequences for the Conservative Party - the starting gun on a leadership contest has been fired.\n\nBut what does it mean for Brexit?\n\nThe short answer is that both No Deal and No Brexit are now both more likely.\n\nWith Mrs May's \"bold new Brexit plan\" in tatters, there is no vehicle for leaving the EU with a deal, and the default is that the UK's membership will expire on Halloween.\n\nIf that is where things appear to be heading in the autumn, some MPs who previously opposed a second referendum might reconsider if it is the best option for avoiding no deal - putting Brexit at risk.\n\nAfter all, Jeremy Corbyn - who has been reluctant to weaponise Labour's \"option\" of a public vote - has said the Labour leadership would back a referendum to avoid either \"a bad Tory deal\" or \"no deal at all\".\n\nBut Mrs May called \"on all sides of the debate\" to find a compromise.\n\nThe question is whether, in the short term, the language of compromise is seen as an asset or liability by the Conservative leadership contenders.\n\nMPs will be able to choose from a wide range of options - from Rory Stewart and Matt Hancock, who have been emphasising the need to leave with a deal, through to Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom, who certainly don't fear no deal.\n\nBut polling evidence suggests many of the Conservative grassroots members don't just want Brexit to happen quickly, but they positively favour leaving without a Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nOnce MPs have whittled down the contenders to the final two in June, winning over the party faithful will require the remaining candidates to talk tough.\n\nThis will mean, at the very least, that \"no deal\" is back on the table.\n\nIf - for example - the eventual contest was between a former Remainer and a Brexiteer - say Jeremy Hunt or Sajid Javid versus Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - then to attack their opponent on a wide range of issues, including fitness for high office, the former Remainer would have to dismantle any barrier to their support amongst the wider membership by stressing their willingness to leave with no deal.\n\nThe One Nation Group of Conservatives, who are largely former Remainers such as Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd, haven't ruled out backing Boris Johnson - so long as he pivots to the position of at least arguing for a deal with the EU.\n\nSo, let's just assume for a moment that this is the position any successor to Mrs May adopts.\n\nThe only version of the exiting PM's deal which passed the Commons was at the end of January\n\nThis was the so-called Brady amendment (after the chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady), which called for a deal and support for the Withdrawal Agreement, but minus the contentious Northern Irish backstop.\n\nThis backstop is despised by many Brexiteers as it would keep the UK close to EU regulations in the absence of a trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing that vote, Mrs May said: \"There is a limited appetite for change in the EU, and negotiating it won't be easy.\"\n\nShe was right on both counts.\n\nWhile there were additional reassurances from Brussels around the backstop, there was no major rewrite, never mind replacing it with unspecified \"alternative arrangements\".\n\nNow, Mr Johnson believes that more robust negotiation is required and this could unlock a deal.\n\nMr Javid believes technical solutions to the problem of Irish border checks already exist - but that the EU would have to recognise this.\n\nThe trouble is, so far, the prospect of a change of leader hasn't led to a change of mind in Brussels.\n\nAnd the Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Coveney, is already warning that the European Union would not offer the next prime minister a better Brexit deal.\n\nHe told an Irish radio station: \"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works.\"\n\nWhat he said the EU would contemplate is a longer extension of Article 50, and a further delay to Brexit.\n\nA new Conservative leader committed to a deal may well have to ask for this.\n\nThey would begin their tenancy in No 10 at the height of the European holiday season, and time will be short for any renegotiation.\n\nHowever, unless the EU is willing to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Mrs May, there may be little point in long, drawn out discussions.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed he wouldn't ask for an extension in any case, declaring that the UK would leave on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\nIt's possible some of the legislative legwork for a future deal will be done during the dying days of Mrs May's premiership.\n\nFor example, uncontentious aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement, such as citizen's rights, could be incorporated into UK law.\n\nBut the contentious issues would remain.\n\nAssuming a substantially different deal isn't on offer by October, and the Conservatives are led by a Brexiteer who will come out of the EU no matter what, we could be faced with the following scenarios:\n\nMrs May warned of 'division and uncertainty' if MPs didn't pass her deal.\n\nIn that respect, at least, she was right.\n• None PM's exit 'may be dangerous' for Ireland", "Parents and protesters have gathered outside the school chanting \"let kids be kids\"\n\nProtesters have gathered outside a Birmingham school for eight weeks in a dispute over teaching children about LGBT relationships. As the row continues, the views of those at the gates of Anderton Park Primary are varied and passionate.\n\nAt the heart of a terraced street sits a striking, red-brick building with a spire. A sign on its fence reads \"relationships, aspirations, sparkle\", encapsulating the ethos of a school at the centre of the storm.\n\nIt feels like a normal day, except for the police car and three officers that have pulled up outside Anderton Park Primary to help manage the protests that have rumbled on outside the school since March.\n\nThe problems flared when parents and campaigners rallied against pupils being taught about same-sex relationships and transgender issues. In recent weeks, children have been removed from classes and teachers have been threatened.\n\nThe situation has divided the Anderton Park community in Balsall Heath, many of whom are from a Muslim background.\n\nWhen approached by the BBC to talk about their views, most parents did not want to talk about it. Of those that did, the overwhelming majority were reluctant to be named or photographed.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nRawasia Bibi has two daughters at the school, aged eight and 11, who she said \"stand with me at the protest\".\n\nShe said the protesters are not homophobic - she \"lives in a neighbourhood where we've got transgender and gays and it doesn't matter\" - but that she disagreed with teaching young children about LGBT issues.\n\n\"We don't agree with what [head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson] is teaching our children,\" she added.\n\n\"It's nothing to do with LGBT, they can do what they want with their lives. We are saying teach this in secondary schools, not primary schools.\"\n\nAlthough Anderton Park does not teach the No Outsiders programme, demonstrators argue the lessons are \"the same\"\n\nFellow parent Safina Bibi agreed and said her daughter had been affected by the protests.\n\n\"Sometimes she gets upset - she asks why the teachers and parents are fighting.\n\n\"When it comes to sex and things, why are they teaching them that? Why can't they just teach them what they need to be taught?\"\n\nThe protests spread to Anderton Park from Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock, where parents raised a petition in January claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme, created by one of its teachers Andrew Moffatt, had been running at the school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nAndrew Moffat pioneered the No Outsiders programme to educate about different relationships\n\nAnderton Park had not been teaching No Outsiders specifically, but did teach children about equality and relationships.\n\nThe demonstrations at its gates have been no less heated than those at Alum Rock and have even involved threats to teachers.\n\n\"I don't think anyone should be bullied about anything that's prevalent in our society,\" said mother of twins, Dionne Reid.\n\n\"My kids get really upset about it, they love Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson and they say everyone's got rights. They don't understand the protests.\n\n\"What I don't like is [the demonstrators] force it on to you.\"\n\nFaizal Kareem wants teachers and parents to \"sit down and talk about things\"\n\nDropping off his son, Faizal Kareem said he was \"neutral\" when it came to the protests, but did not agree with what was being taught.\n\n\"To be honest, this LGBT, I'm against it. When they grow up they will learn [these] things anyway.\n\n\"I think this isn't the time, we have plenty more issues to discuss with kids like robbery, crime, drugs; really important issues.\"\n\nHe wants parents and teachers to \"sit and talk about things\".\n\n\"They say in Alum Rock the protests were successful and now [No Outsiders] has stopped there, that's what they are hoping here.\"\n\nAnderton Park Primary had to close early for half-term ahead of planned demonstrations\n\nOne mother, who did not want to be named, said the content should be taught so children don't grow up to feel \"alien\" in the world.\n\n\"What they are teaching we don't believe, but I think there should be more [focus] on the children.\n\n\"In the world today they can see [different beliefs] in the media and if they have this information from school they will know what the world is like and won't feel so alien.\n\n\"Personally, [protests] are not the peaceful way of doing things.\"\n\nWithin half an hour, the school rush dies down. A police car circles the street intermittently.\n\nA few parents chat on the corner - it's barely worth them leaving; they will have to return at midday to pick up their children because the school is closing early due to concerns about a planned protest.\n\nJumshad Khan lives opposite the school. A former pupil himself, he now has three children at the school aged four, five and nine. He thinks children should \"be aware\" of LGBT issues but parents should talk about society and religion \"at home\".\n\n\"I went to this school and we were taught hymns. I'm Muslim, not Christian, [and] my parents didn't have a problem with me being taught that.\n\n\"It's a school that caters for the community, it's wrong that it's at the stage where the majority of the community are against the institution that's supposed to be educating our children.\n\n\"The issue here is the children, they are the ones that are getting disrupted.\"\n\nAs noon approaches, parents arrive to collect their children. The street briefly becomes busy again with families, a handful of protesters, and people carrying rainbow flags, before emptying again as the school shuts its doors.\n\nCounter-demonstrators also come to the school to show support for the lessons\n\nRukhsana Hussain is a parent governor at the school. Herself a former pupil, she is one of few voices to speak passionately against the protesters.\n\n\"I do not begrudge them for what they are saying,\" she said. \"However, look at what [they] are doing outside a primary school.\n\n\"Imagine going to school for eight weeks and having to see people shouting and chanting and humiliating the head teacher.\n\n\"How is this going to affect our children psychologically?\"\n\nAt 14:20, the road fills again - the largest protest outside Anderton Park Primary since the conflict began. About 200 people gather in the narrow street, some sitting on walls, others watching from front gardens.\n\nSome chant \"our children, our choice\", \"let kids be kids\" and \"head teacher, step down\". Parents wave banners, including one that reads \"don't class us as homophobic\".\n\nOrganiser Shakeel Afsar said the afternoon's protest was the \"final step\" before a petition would be handed in calling for Mrs Hewitt-Clarkson to step down as the school's head.\n\nHe said he hoped mediation could bring \"transparent, sensible talks\".\n\n\"Sit us down, sit the LGBT community down, and let's thrash this out like adults and stop being so intolerant to the community that have different views to yourself.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has won the Cannes film festival's most prestigious award.\n\nThe Palme d'Or was awarded for his film Parasite, a dark comedy thriller exploring social class dynamics.\n\nThe festival came to a close this evening after 11 days of previews of new films and documentaries.\n\nIt saw French-Senagalese director Mati Diop become the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history.\n\nDiop won the Grand Prix - the equivalent of a silver prize - for Atlantics, a Senegalese drama about young migrants and sexual politics.\n\nDiop had previously said she was \"a little sad\" that it had taken until 2019 for a film by a woman of African descent to even be screened at the festival.\n\nMeanwhile, US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - which received strong reviews - left the closing ceremony empty handed.\n\nMati Diop delivering a speech after she was awarded the Grand Prix for her film Atlantique\n\nBong is the first Korean to win Cannes' top prize. However, he has been at the festival previously, having made his name at Cannes with Okja in 2017, which - somewhat controversially - originally screened on Netflix.\n\nThis is the second year with no contenders produced by the streaming giant amid talks between the Netflix and Cannes.\n\nOther winners on the night included Emily Beecham - a dual British-American national - who took home the best actress award for her appearance in Little Joe, a psychological sci-fi about a woman whose scent induces euphoria.\n\nBest actor went to Antonio Banderas for his role in Pain and Glory, the story of a film director who is facing middle age and a creative crisis.\n\nBest screenplay went to Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a period romance about a relationship between a young painter and her subject.\n\nAntonio Banderas accepting the prize from Zhang Ziyi for best actor\n\nBelgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took home the award for best directors for their film Young Ahmed, which is about a boy who is radicalised into stabbing his teacher.\n\nBrazilian film Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles won the Jury Prize. The story follows a filmmaker who travels to a remote village and discovers its dark secrets.", "Andrew Moffat led the parade with Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi\n\nA teacher whose lesson programme covering LGBT relationships has been at the centre of protests is leading the Birmingham Pride parade.\n\nAndrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in the city, which has led to protests by some Muslim parents.\n\nPride organisers said there was \"no-one better\" to lead the parade, which started at midday.\n\nThousands have been expected to attend the annual event, now in its 22nd year.\n\nThis year's theme is Love Out Loud which organisers said was a \"celebration of our right to love, no matter our gender, sexuality, personal identity, colour, religion or race\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about the invitation to join the Pride parade, Mr Moffat said it was \"absolutely wonderful\".\n\nHe was joined at the front of the procession by Khakan Qureshi, founder of Birmingham South Asians LGBT and Saima Razzaq, from Supporting Education of Equality and Diversity in Schools (SEEDS).\n\nFestivalgoers chose colourful costumes and attire for the parade\n\n\"It's so important, isn't it, at this time that we are showing that's what Birmingham is like,\" Mr Moffat said.\n\n\"It's not about protests outside schools, that's not Birmingham. This is Birmingham.\n\n\"They're talking about 80,000 people turning up to support Pride.\n\nBirmingham Pride is now in its 22nd year\n\nThousands of people are expected to attend the annual event over the weekend\n\nIn 2015, Birmingham Pride awarded a grant of £5,000 to the \"No Outsiders\" programme, which organisers said was an \"incredible initiative\".\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme had been running at Parkfield school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nHowever, some parents with children at the school in Alum Rock raised a petition in January, claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe protests have since spread to Anderton Park Primary in Balsall Heath with a protest held on Friday afternoon outside the school thought to be the biggest so far.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nThose against the inclusion of LGBT issues in classes have said the content contradicts their Islamic beliefs, and have accused the school of not listening to parents' concerns.\n\nBut head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she would \"never stop\" teaching pupils about equality.\n\nPeople gathered in Victoria Square ahead of the parade beginning at midday\n\nThere are events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May\n\nFestival director Lawrence Barton said Mr Moffat had been asked to lead the parade in light of the \"division which the controversy over 'No Outsiders' lessons has created\".\n\nEveryone seemed to be in good spirits for the festival\n\nBirmingham Pride events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is Cllr Rakhia Ismail. She's the UK's first Somali-born female mayor and is thought to be the first mayor to wear a hijab.\n\nCllr Ismail was chosen as the new mayor for Islington, north London - a mostly ceremonial role - on 16 May.", "The latest closures will include mostly Evans stores as well as six Miss Selfridge shops\n\nSir Philip Green's retail empire Arcadia will close twice as many stores as it announced earlier this week.\n\nArcadia, with brands including Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins, initially announced 23 stores would close as part of a plan to rescue the struggling business.\n\nNow it has emerged that a further 25 stores will shut, under separate insolvency proceedings.\n\nArcadia have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe latest round of closures will mainly fall on plus size clothing chain Evans, as well as six Miss Selfridge stores.\n\nArcadia currently has more than 560 stores across the UK and Ireland, and the latest closures add to the 200 UK stores shut over the past three years.\n\nUnder the proposed restructuring announced earlier this week, Arcadia will shut 23 stores and the company's contribution to the pension fund is to be reduced from £50m a year.\n\nThe measures are seen as a final effort by the company to stave off administration or breakup.\n\nUnder the rescue proposals, Arcadia will also cut rents at 194 stores.\n\nThat deal has yet to be approved by landlords, creditors and the company's pension trustees.\n\nThe company also plans to shut all its 11 Topshop and Topman stores in the US.\n\nHowever, the pensions regulator has said it has doubts that the plans will \"adequately protect\" the pensions of employees.\n\nAnd on Friday, MP Frank Field urged Sir Philip to use his own money to support the pension fund of his troubled group.\n\nSpeaking earlier this week, Ian Grabiner, chief executive of Arcadia Group, said the 23 store closures were \"tough but necessary\" to mend the business.\n\nLast year Sir Philip was embroiled in claims - strongly denied - of bullying and inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe was also criticised over the demise of department store chain BHS, which, after he sold it for just £1, collapsed a year later.", "The Border Force was alerted at about 06:20 BST and a cutter was deployed\n\nThe number of migrants picked up trying to cross the Channel in May is now higher than the figure for December, when a \"major incident\" was declared.\n\nEight men were intercepted in a small boat at about 06:20 BST, bringing the total for May so far to 140.\n\nIn December, during mild weather, 138 migrants attempted the journey and Home Secretary Sajid Javid set out a plan for dealing with the problem.\n\nAt least 642 migrants have now crossed the Channel since 3 November.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.\"\n\nIt added that since January \"more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe\".\n\nIn December 138 migrants were picked up by officials. So far this month, 140 have been intercepted.\n\nThe crossings are very dependent on the weather. The end of last year was unseasonably mild leading to a spike in attempts to get to the UK.\n\nThe start of this year saw numbers fall again, as the weather worsened.\n\nHowever, with summer approaching the sea is calm and the temperature is rising, so the Home Office is braced for more boats in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Friday, 18 migrants were picked up in a dinghy and brought to Dover.\n\nOf the eight men found in waters off the Kent coast earlier, seven presented themselves as Iranian and one was an Afghan national.\n\nThe men were transferred to a Border Force vessel and taken to Dover at about 06:20 BST, the Home Office said.\n\nThey were medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech,\" said Morrissey on Friday\n\nPosters promoting Morrissey's latest album have been removed from railway stations after a commuter complained.\n\nAdverts for the new album by the former Smiths singer have been taken down on the Merseyrail network.\n\nMorrissey has previously expressed support for the far-right For Britain party and earlier this month wore a badge with its logo on during a TV show, but he denies he is a racist.\n\nMerseyrail apologised and said the posters did not reflect its \"values\".\n\nThe adverts, which contain no political message, were removed after a traveller on a Southport service to Moorfields contacted the company to ask if it agreed with Morrissey's opinions.\n\nThe man, who asked not to be named, told the BBC he was not \"offended\" by the posters and did not demand they were taken down.\n\nHe said he just questioned the company on whether they were appropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Merseyrail said: \"Any content used within advertising on the Merseyrail network does not reflect the organisation's values and we apologise for any offence the publication of these posters may have caused.\"\n\nThe company said advertising was managed by an external third party.\n\nMorrisey has not responded to the rail company's decision. But in a message on his website on Friday, he said: \"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech; the eradication of totalitarian control; I call for diversity of opinion; I call for the total abolition of the abattoir; I call for peace, above all; I call for civil society.\"\n\nMorrissey expressed his support for For Britain in a 2018 interview\n\nEarlier this week, the world's oldest record shop, Spillers Records in Cardiff, took the decision to stop selling Morrissey albums.\n\nIt said on Twitter: \"Morrissey's views are not in synch with ours, in fact they are at complete odds and this is why (as an independent) we are not stocking / giving our shelf space to his music.\"\n\nMorrissey, 60, has denied on multiple occasions he holds racist views.\n\nEarlier this month, the Manchester-born singer appeared on The Tonight Show in the USA wearing a For Britain badge on his jacket.\n\nHe came out in support of the party in an interview in 2018 and in the past has criticised the production of halal meat and claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan \"cannot speak properly\".", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Stewart told the BBC that politicians must tell the truth about where they stand on Brexit and he believes Mr Johnson's backing for a no-deal exit is \"undeliverable\".", "Forensic officers have been at the scene around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nTwo boys have died and four other children - including a seven-month-old baby - are in hospital after police swooped on a house in Sheffield.\n\nA man, 37, and a woman, 34, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody as officers attempt to establish how the pair, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nThe other children - aged 12, 11, three and eight months - remain in hospital but are conscious, police said.\n\nA cordon remains in place outside the home in the Shiregreen area.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of those inside the address at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street and an air ambulance landing in a nearby primary school.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths and said it was an \"isolated\" incident.\n\nThe surviving children would be in hospital for \"certainly the next few hours\", he said, while post-mortem tests on the deceased were due to take place later.\n\nPolice earlier said there was no wider risk to the community and urged people to be \"mindful\" of what they posted online.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to a serious incident here at a semi-detached house and police have been on the scene ever since.\n\nForensics officers are coming and going all the time.\n\nThere's been speculation about what has happened here - there was even a suggestion of a shooting at one point, prompting police to say no guns were involved.\n\nOfficers won't be drawn on the circumstances, so there's lots of unanswered questions as the inquiry goes on.\n\nA large area remains cordoned off as that investigation continues.\n\nAaron Brunskill, who lives locally, said residents came out into the street at 08:00 to find about 15 police cars and four ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I know there's children there, I've just seen them walking back to the shops and that's all I know.\n\n\"Everyone speaking on the road said the first one out had to be resuscitated.\"\n\nLocal resident Aaron Brunskill said he went outside on Friday morning and saw the street busy with emergency vehicles\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the grounds of Hartley Brook Primary Academy, which backs on to the road.\n\nThe school is not believed to have been involved in the incident.\n\nIn a statement, Gill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\n\"My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the children who have lost their lives and also with those who are currently in the care of Sheffield Children's Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"Shiregreen is a strong community but I know the whole area is deeply shaken by what has happened here.\n\n\"I would like to thank hardworking South Yorkshire Police and the NHS staff for their response in such a difficult situation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celtic has expressed \"regret and sorrow\" 10 days after a former youth coach was jailed for a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the club's youth team and also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nLast week McCafferty admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys.\n\nDespite repeated requests by the BBC, Celtic only released a statement about the case on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe statement said: \"James McCafferty has pled guilty to offences he committed against young people between 1972 and 1996.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club wishes to express its regret and sorrow to those young people.\n\n\"McCafferty, who was employed by Celtic Football Club in the mid 1990s, committed these acts many years ago across a number of organisations, and all those who have come forward to report abuse and to give evidence deserve enormous praise for the courage they have shown.\n\n\"We offer our sincere sympathy to those young people, their families and all those involved.\"\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nBut solicitor Patrick McGuire, who represents several abuse survivors, criticised the club.\n\nHe said: \"It would be charitable to Celtic to describe this as too little, too late.\n\n\"There is no apology. There is no acknowledgement of Celtic's failures.\n\n\"There is no willingness to pay compensation and to follow the lead of Manchester City, particularly as we know some of the abuse took place when McCafferty was employed by Celtic and was in a position of considerable influence and power within the Celtic football club youth set-up.\"\n\nMcCafferty was sentenced to six years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh on 14 May.\n\nHe was already serving a jail term after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast last year.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges against McCafferty, which spanned from 1972 to 1996, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe court heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nSome of McCafferty's victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said he was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nAfter his conviction Celtic took two days to issue a statement, which expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOn Thursday he lost a bid to be released on bail while appealing his conviction.\n\nCeltic's statement on the latest case was published on the club's website at 16:10 on Friday.\n\nIt comes on the eve of the Scottish Cup Final which will see the club take on Hearts at Hampden.\n\nMr McGuire, of Glasgow-based law firm Thompsons, condemned the timing as \"cynical in the extreme\".\n\nPatrick McGuire said the timing of the statement was \"cynical in the extreme\"\n\nHe said: \"The conviction and sentencing of McCafferty was over a week ago.\n\n\"To put this statement out late on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend on the day the prime minister resigns and before a potential Treble Treble weekend for the club is appalling.\n\n\"It is insult to everyone who suffered abuse and to their families.\n\n\"It is the worst kind of PR low cunning and casts the club in an even worse light than before. Every member of the Celtic board should hang their heads in shame. \"\n\nThe Celtic statement acknowledged the crimes were \"very sensitive issues, particularly for those who suffered abuse.\"\n\nIt said: \"When the allegations were published in the media in 2016, Celtic Football Club encouraged any individuals involved to report all information to the police so that these matters could be investigated fully and the club continues to encourage any victim of abuse to report these matters to the police.\"\n\n\"Celtic Football Club takes all of its responsibilities seriously, stands by its responsibilities and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe statement noted the abuse of children has affected many areas of society across the UK, including football clubs, sports clubs, youth organisations, educational institutions and religious bodies.\n\nIt concluded: \"Celtic Football Club strongly believes that children and young people involved in football have the right to protection from all forms of harm and abuse and is committed to ensuring this and to promoting their wellbeing through continued co-operation with our children and young people, parents and carers and the relevant authorities.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club was the first club in Scotland to appoint a safeguarding officer, responsible for developing our policies for the protection of young people, and monitoring and reviewing our procedures to ensure they continue to reflect best practice.\"", "The jury in the trial have been played a series of recordings from Carl Beech's police interview\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring told police he witnessed three boys being murdered by his abusers, a court has heard.\n\nIn a police interview, Carl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, claimed that one boy was deliberately run over, another was strangled after being raped, and a third was beaten to death.\n\nProsecutors say that he lied to police about witnessing the killings.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe named former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor as being responsible for the second alleged murder and involved in the third.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Beech during an interview with police in November 2014, which was played to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nIn the tape, a tearful Mr Beech described how a boy called Scott - a friend from primary school - was deliberately run over by a car in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, in 1979.\n\nHe is heard claiming a powerful paedophile ring had \"warned me not to be friends with him and I didn't listen\". He said the warnings were given by former head of MI5 Sir Michael Hanley, who died in 2001.\n\nJurors have been told that Northumbria Police, which charged Mr Beech with lying to the Met, found no evidence that \"Scott\" ever existed or that a boy was ever deliberately run over in that location.\n\nMr Beech told police: \"We were walking and I heard the car, the engine, and as I turned round to see what the noise was it hit him and he was thrown up into the air and everything just stopped.\"\n\nHe added \"there was a lot of blood, I had blood on my hands and I was dragged away and put in the back of the car\".\n\nThe video shows him saying he felt a pain in his arm before he blacked out and that he could remember nothing more of the incident.\n\nDuring the same interview Mr Beech is seen claiming he saw another boy being stabbed and strangled to death by the Mr Proctor.\n\nHe claimed it happened in the \"back room\" of a house in London around 1980.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Proctor will give evidence during the trial.\n\nDescribing the third alleged incident, Mr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor and Sir Michael beat a boy to death in front of former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Beech said he was one of four boys abused by the trio and another unidentified man, again in a London property.\n\nLater he said: \"I just went home as if nothing ever happened.\"\n\nProsecutors say Mr Beech later impersonated one of the boys, named as \"Fred\", using a fake email account to correspond with police while pretending to be a corroborative witness.\n\nMr Beech is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse. His claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which ended without any charges.\n\nThe trial will continue on Wednesday.", "US President Donald Trump will be welcomed by the Queen on his first official state visit to the UK next month, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA ceremonial welcome will be held in the palace's garden on the first day of his three-day trip next month.\n\nMr Trump will also meet outgoing PM Theresa May and royals including the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex will not attend.\n\nIt follows the birth of her son Archie, who will be less than a month old at the time of the visit.\n\nThe Queen will be joined by the Prince of Wales and Camilla for the official welcome of Mr Trump and his wife Melania on 3 June.\n\nIt will take place in the private grounds of the palace instead of the more usual venue of Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the welcome, the Duke of Sussex will join the group for a private lunch at the palace.\n\nIn the evening, a state banquet will be held in the palace's ballroom where Mr Trump, the Queen, Charles and Camilla will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with UK public figures and prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the second day, Mr Trump and Mrs May will host a business breakfast meeting, attended by the Duke of York, at St James's Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then visit Downing Street for talks with Mrs May, with whom he will hold a joint press conference. It will come just days before she steps down as Conservative leader on 7 June.\n\nIn the evening, the Trumps will host a dinner at Winfield House, the residence of the US ambassador, which Charles and Camilla will attend on behalf of the Queen.\n\nThe trip is expected to culminate with Mr Trump, the Queen and Prince Charles attending the national commemorative event for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nWhen the state visit was announced last month, Mrs May hailed it as an opportunity for the UK and US \"to strengthen our already close relationship\".\n\nThe White House said it would \"reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship\" between the two nations.\n\nBut the trip was condemned by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said the president had \"systematically assaulted all the shared values that unite our two countries\".", "Women have been taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia's cities in increasing numbers - to go running.\n\nJeddah Running Community was founded in 2013, challenging cultural norms under which it has long been widely considered inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.\n\nIt was one of the first groups to hold mixed training sessions for women and men, though it also holds women-only meet-ups. The idea has gained traction more widely, with groups forming in other cities.\n\nIn recent years, the conservative Gulf kingdom has reversed a ban on sports for girls in public schools and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums. It sent its first female athletes to the Olympics in 2012.\n\nBut although some rules for women have been relaxed - including the lifting of the ban on driving - women are still not free to travel, marry, divorce or even leave prison without the permission of a male relative.", "Station Cafe in Treorchy opened its doors to customers in 1935\n\nOne of the few remaining Italian cafes in the south Wales valleys is to close its doors after 84 years in business.\n\nStation Cafe in Treorchy, which opened to customers in 1935, will close for the last time on Saturday.\n\nDom Balestrazzi and his wife, whose parents came to Wales from northern Italy, are retiring - and their children do not want to take it on.\n\n\"It will be a sad occasion when I think of my parents and all that they put into the establishment,\" he said.\n\nHis parents Guiseppe and Maria decided to emigrate to Wales due to a lack of work in their hometown of Bardi, near Parma in the Emilia-Romagna region.\n\nDom Balestrazzi's parents Maria and Giuseppe, also known as Joe, came to Wales from Bardi, in Italy in 1935\n\nThe booming mining industry in south Wales at the time provided the allure, and he said the culture made his family feel at home.\n\n\"There was a camaraderie which was similar to the Italian way of life. It interacted well with the Welsh community,\" he explained.\n\nMr Balestrazzi, 78, started work in his father's business after leaving school in the 1950s, and has been at the Station Cafe ever since.\n\nWith original Rowntree glass jars full of sweets behind the counter, tobacco for sale, a glass case full of pasties and cakes and a steaming coffee machine, little has changed since the shop opened.\n\nDom Balestrazzi in the Station Cafe with his daughter Anna\n\nIn its heyday, the cafe was packed on a daily basis.\n\n\"My parents used to come here in the 1960s when they were courting and apparently at that time it was the place to be in Treorchy on a Friday night,\" said Nerys Bowen.\n\nThe cafe still has regulars - schoolchildren come in before and after lessons along with those who have always come here.\n\nIslwyn Kingsley said he was sad at the news.\n\nThe cafe has retained its classic look and feel\n\n\"He's a one off - old school - and the old school come here. So they'll have to change their ways now,\" he said.\n\nThe cafe is opposite the town's Park and Dare Theatre, and Mr Balestrazzi recalled a visit from one particular performer.\n\n\"There was one night, a very famous gentleman was there performing - Ken Dodd,\" he explained.\n\n\"He came in here for a tea or a coffee. I can remember that vividly. He had his poodle and his wife with him and then he went on his way.\"\n\nThe couple will continue living on the site. Since the announcement, he said they had been overwhelmed by the support.\n\n\"It has touched me very, very much the way that people have reacted,\" he said.\n\n\"There have been people I haven't seen for a while that have come in and wished me all the best.\"", "Samantha Hields invested her money for five years\n\nCharity worker Samantha Hields had saved up a pension of £16,000 and, after being made redundant, was given an offer she could not refuse.\n\nA salesman called her out of the blue and told her she could boost her savings by lending the money, securely, to a company redeveloping listed German buildings into luxury flats.\n\n\"He said it would double my money, and my money would be safe, as long as I was happy to invest it for five years,\" she says.\n\nShe was expecting the money to be paid back to her in September last year. So far, she says she has not seen a penny and has not been given any information about what has happened to it.\n\nRoy says he trusted the salesmen\n\nShe is not alone. Warehouse worker Roy, from Kent, transferred £35,000 from his pension, and expected to get his money back in March.\n\nHe works nights and cares for his wife, who is disabled after having three strokes.\n\n\"I trusted [the salesmen] implicitly,\" he says.\n\nNow a BBC investigation can reveal that the property group which borrowed an estimated £600m, mostly from the life savings of people like Samantha and Roy, is months late in paying some of them back.\n\nThe money was lent to Dolphin Trust, now known as German Property Group (GPG), in order for it to redevelop listed German buildings.\n\nPension holders in some cases were told by unregulated salesmen working for separate companies, and paid 20% commission at the time, that they would almost double their money if they lent their savings for five years to Dolphin Trust.\n\nRoy and Samantha's experience was with salesmen working for separate companies.\n\nIn its marketing, Dolphin Trust, as it was known until April 2019, claims to buy derelict buildings in prime locations, and then redevelops them into luxury apartments.\n\nAfter the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago, many buildings were abandoned as people moved from East to West.\n\nSince then, the German government has offered generous tax incentives to Germans who wish to develop listed buildings.\n\nThe UK investors who lent Dolphin Trust their money were told their money would be safe because of the \"First Legal Charge\" they would get against the property.\n\nThis document is similar to a mortgage. If the borrower fails to repay, you can order the sale of the property to refund you.\n\nHowever none of the UK investors who have spoken to BBC Radio 4's You & Yours programme say they have received this document, or have even been given an address for the property they are invested in.\n\nThe only detail Dolphin Trust has given them is that the British investors are part of \"Dolphin Project 80\".\n\nA Bavarian monastery was purchased by Dolphin in 2017\n\nAn investor was sent a document which appeared to catalogue buildings secured within the project.\n\nVisits to those buildings by Anna Kluehspies, a reporter from the German public broadcaster BR, found that although one was finished, and another was near completion, no work had been started on the rest, despite them being owned by GPG for more than five years.\n\nSeparately, another property not on the list of those supposedly in Project 80, a Bavarian monastery, was purchased by Dolphin in 2017 for €1m is located in Schonthal, a rural village close to the border with the Czech Republic.\n\nMayor Ludwig Wallinger says there is no market in upmarket flats in his area\n\nThe mayor of the town, Ludwig Wallinger, told Radio 4 he was disappointed with the lack of engagement he has had from Dolphin since it took it on.\n\n\"Strangely, Dolphin never came to look at this building before they paid for it,\" he says.\n\n\"The last time I heard from anyone was in spring 2018, when they asked me what I thought they could do with it.\n\n\"They suggested perhaps luxury apartments, to which I laughed, because this area just does not have the market for upmarket flats.\"\n\nIn a letter to You & Yours, GPG says while it did discuss the possibility of building luxury flats at the property, that is not their present intention.\n\nIt said the document listing other properties in Project 80 was written by a third party, was three years old, and GPG would not comment on it.\n\nAnother document given by Dolphin Trust to investors in Singapore said that their money was secured against a Nazi-built military barracks in the city of Mannheim, in the south-west of Germany.\n\nHowever, the German government's Institute of Federal Real Estate says \"the German government owns the whole site and there is no private money there at all\".\n\nGPG responded to You & Yours' investigation saying that the investors' money is safe. Investors' capital is not at risk, because it is secured against property on the German Land Register, it says.\n\nIt says only 20% of its customers are affected by delays on projects, which have been caused by various issues with planning and construction work.\n\nAddresses are not always provided to investors, it adds, because that information is not always relevant. However it says it does plan to provide customers with addresses in the future.\n\nIt adds that there is no legal obligation to inform loan customers if funds are reallocated to new properties.\n\nDolphin says it is currently involved in real estate investments of 60 properties. There are currently delays in 10, they say for the other 50 everyone will get their money back on time.\n\nGPG also says introducers are now paid a lower rate of commission.\n\nHowever, experts say this case raises wider questions.\n\nIndividuals who have a self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) can choose freely where to invest the money, so may be able to put it into investments such as the one offered by GPG.\n\nBaroness Ros Altmann, the former pensions minister, says it is time that the companies that administer this type of pension took some responsibility for their customers.\n\n\"These regulated Sipp companies should not be allowed to accept these unregulated investments from individuals who have not had regulated financial advice,\" she says.\n\nAlthough only people who sought financial advice can claim compensation when investments fail to pay, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) says it can also look at complaints against Sipp providers in these kinds of cases.\n\nDebbie Enever, head of policy at the FOS, says: \"We are increasingly seeing people complaining about Sipp providers, saying they shouldn't have put their money into something which was that risky.\n\n\"Pension-holders need to be really careful when investing their money. Always get financial advice, and find out as much as you can about what your money is being invested in before transferring it.\"", "Information from the drones can be used to see the vegetation beneath the forest canopy\n\nLaser-carrying drones that can see through the forest canopy are being used to protect native Scottish plants threatened by invasive species.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging), which works like radar but uses light instead of radio waves.\n\nLaser pulses are fired at the trees below and the time it takes for wavelengths to bounce back is used to create a 3D picture of what lies beneath.\n\nThe data is combined with information from satellites to give an accurate \"fix\" of the drone's position.\n\nIt all builds up an accurate map of the health of the forest floor.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging)\n\nThe programme is led by the Edinburgh-based company Ecometrica.\n\nIts funding partners are the Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Orienteering, Woodland Trust and Edinburgh University.\n\nSupport has also come from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council.\n\nOnce it is in the air, the four-rotor drone is easier to hear than see. It is a speck in the sky but packed with sensors.\n\nIt has been surveying forests in the west of Scotland: Lochgilphead, Ardfern, Auchterawe, Arisaig, Achdalieu and Mandally.\n\nThe drone has been used to survey forests in the west of Scotland\n\nLidar has been used from the air before but typically this has been from larger aircraft with humans on board.\n\nAn unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), usually known as a drone, holds out the prospect of reduced cost.\n\nThe point of the project is to monitor and map how land use is changing and how climate change is affecting Scotland's forests.\n\nConventional photos taken in natural light will only show the tree canopy.\n\nAnd as much of the tree cover is evergreen and there all year round, there's no point waiting for autumn to have a look beneath it.\n\n\"It enables you to pick out features that a satellite doesn't allow you to do,\" he says.\n\nLarge-scale global deforestation is being monitored from the International Space Station by the GEDI Lidar system.\n\nDr Tipper says a Lidar drone covers a much smaller area with each sweep but the resolution is \"an order of magnitude better\".\n\nOne key emphasis is on protecting native species - and fighting one non-native threat in particular.\n\nRhododendron bushes like Scotland a bit too much\n\nBack in the 1700s it seemed like a good idea to introduce the flowering shrub rhododendron ponticum, a native of southern Europe and western Asia, to the British Isles.\n\nAfter all, their purple blooms look lovely in early summer.\n\nThe problem is, the rhododendron bushes like Scottish forests rather too much.\n\nThe acid soil means they have spread like a smothering evergreen carpet beneath the cover of the tree canopy.\n\nYou could say it is a case of having too much of a good thing except they're actually a bad thing.\n\nThey carry a fungal disease that harms trees and their leaf litter is toxic to native plants.\n\nWithout Lidar the bushes can spread undetected.\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform. It creates the detailed maps that show changes to the ecosystem.\n\nEach partner in the project has a different use for the information.\n\nThe Forestry Commission is concerned with rhododendrons but The Woodland Trust wants to map the remains of native forests.\n\nEdinburgh University will feed it into new research, and Scottish Orienteering need digital models of the terrain as Scotland prepares to host the World Orienteering Championships in 2022.\n\nMat Williams, professor of global change ecology at Edinburgh University, says the system can play an important role in assessing the effects of climate change.\n\nHe says it can detect the effects of human land use, deforestation, soil degradation, forest fires and drought.\n\nAnd Scotland is a testbed for technology that could be used worldwide.\n\nEcometrica are also leading Forests 2020, a UK Space Agency-funded programme to map threats to tropical forests.\n\nProf Williams says his team are exploring the data gathered in Scotland to see how the techniques could be used there.\n\n\"For a long time we've only been able to look at the surface of tropical forests,\" he says.\n\n\"We're hoping Lidar can look in more depth.\"\n\nAmong the answers they are seeking is how many - or how few - Lidar pulses bouncing back from the forest can provide useful information.\n\nThey intend to begin flying Lidar drones in West Africa soon.\n\nAmong the threats there are illegal logging, charcoal burning and our apparently insatiable taste for chocolate.\n\nEcometrica's space programme manager Sarah Middlemiss says the project is working with the forestry authorities in Ghana to map the felling of trees in national parks to make way for cocoa.\n\nShe says cocoa plants can encroach on the forests even if they are not completely cut down.\n\n\"It's a shade-loving crop,\" she says. \"That's where Lidar is very useful.\"\n\nCocoa crops can grow beneath the forest canopy but the technology will be able to reveal them through the foliage.\n\n\"You can't map everything from satellites,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"We need other data sources and Lidar is about the richest you can get.\"", "The trees were buried under water more than 4,500 years ago\n\nA prehistoric forest which was buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered by Storm Hannah.\n\nThe petrified trees lie between Ynyslas and Borth in Ceredigion county.\n\nThe forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as 'Cantre'r Gwaelod', or the 'Sunken Hundred'.\n\nIt is believed the area was a once-fertile land and township protected by floodgates.\n\nThe remains of the forest's trees, preserved in the local peat, have been exposed by low tides and high winds.\n\nAccording to one of several myths, 'Cantre'r Gwaelod' extended some 20 miles west of the current shoreline into what is now Cardigan Bay.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Eller spoke to the press from her hospital bed\n\nA woman who was found alive two weeks after going missing in Hawaii has told of her \"life or death\" ordeal.\n\nAmanda Eller, 35, was last seen on 8 May. Family and friends had launched an intense search effort and offered a cash reward for her safe return.\n\nMs Eller was found on Friday when she waved down a rescue helicopter.\n\nReports say she got lost and injured while hiking on Maui. Photographs show her dirty and slightly injured, but smiling after being rescued.\n\nThe yoga instructor was found slightly injured, in a deep ravine, by volunteers\n\nIn an emotional video posted to Facebook on Saturday, the yoga instructor described how she endured \"the toughest days of my life\" while injured in the Hawaiian wilds.\n\nFilmed from a hospital bed next to her boyfriend, Benjamin Konkol, she said she \"chose life\" despite \"times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up\".\n\n\"I wasn't going to take the easy way out, even if that meant more suffering and pain for myself,\" she said in the video.\n\nIn another video, taken at a local hospital, Ms Eller's father said he was \"bawling like a baby\" when his daughter was found.\n\nHer mother described her as being in \"surprisingly good shape\" considering how long she had been missing.\n\nLocal reports suggest she has lost weight, but survived after foraging on berries and local water sources.\n\nFamily and friends raised money for the search, and offered cash rewards\n\nShe suffered a broken leg, a torn meniscus in her knee, sunburns and scrapes, The New York Times reported.\n\nAn online announcement about her rescue on the \"Find Amanda\" Facebook page has now been shared and liked thousands of times.\n\nWell-wishers have been flooding the page with messages of shock and relief about Ms Eller's safety.\n\nHer mother, Julia, told local news website Khon 2 that she had always \"felt in her heart\" that her daughter was alive.\n\n\"I never gave up hope for a minute,\" she said. \"Even though at times I would have those moments of despair, I stayed strong for her 'cause I knew we would find her if we just stayed with the program, stayed persistent and that we would eventually find her\".\n\nA search helicopter, paid for by GoFundMe donations, found her in this area\n\nIt is understood she was found with no socks or shoes on, and may have a fractured leg\n\nMs Eller's car and mobile phone had been found in the Makawao Forest Reserve car park - leading family and friends to suspect she had got lost while hiking.\n\nHer boyfriend had been the last person to see her, and said he \"strongly\" felt she was in the forest.\n\nShe reportedly got lost after leaving the trail to rest before plunging 20ft (six metres) from a cliff, breaking her leg.\n\nFifteen days after she was reported missing, three search team members reportedly spotted her on Friday in a deep ravine.\n\n\"We were freaking out. We were trying not to trip over ourselves trying to get to her too fast,\" rescuer Chris Berquest told local media.\n\nAnother member of the aerial search party, Javier Cantellops, shared images and video of the incredible rescue on social media.\n\nIn one post on his Facebook page he described finding her as the \"greatest day of my life\".", "Education Secretary Damian Hinds has told England's universities not to \"scaremonger\" over their finances, ahead of a review which is expected to call for a cut in tuition fees.\n\nThere have been warnings that lowering the fees to £7,500 per year could put some at risk of going bust.\n\nBut Mr Hinds accused universities of \"distorting the picture\" and said the sector was in good financial health.\n\nThe fees review is set to promise students better \"value for money\".\n\nThe review into student finance and university and college funding, chaired by Philip Augar, is due to report next week.\n\nCommissioned by the prime minister, the review is expected to be one of the last major announcements before Theresa May leaves No 10.\n\nIt was launched in the wake of the 2017 general election, countering Labour's promise to young voters that it would completely scrap tuition fees.\n\nThe review will seek to make university more affordable and give more support to students in vocational and further education.\n\nMr Hinds has highlighted the problem of \"low value\" degree courses, where there is likely to be little financial return for students.\n\nThe further education sector is expected to benefit from the review, with the suggestion that more students should consider getting technical skills and qualifications rather than going to university.\n\nThese will be proposals rather than final decisions - and the cost of any changes will have to be linked to the government's spending review later this year.\n\nUniversities will want to know whether any drop in fees will be compensated by direct funding.\n\nThere have been reports of universities being on the brink of bankruptcy - and one was revealed as having needed a bailout from the Office for Students.\n\nBut Mr Hinds said that while most sectors had to \"tighten their belts\" after the financial crash, universities have seen rising fee incomes.\n\n\"I do understand universities are facing some challenges, but reports of financial hardship across the entire sector is scaremongering,\" says Mr Hinds.\n\nBut Alistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, hit back, saying any cut in fees \"must be made up in full by a government teaching grant\".\n\nThe review, commissioned by the prime minister, is expected in the days before Theresa May leaves office\n\nOtherwise he said it would be a \"political choice which harms students, the economy and communities that benefit from universities\".\n\nVanessa Wilson, head of the University Alliance, representing universities with strong industry links, said \"cutting front-line university budgets\" would harm rather than help students.\n\nBut she said the \"political vacuum\" surrounding Mrs May's resignation could make the report \"dead on arrival\".\n\n\"We need to move quickly to end the uncertainty, confusion and damage to colleges and universities' finances,\" she said.\n\nFurther education colleges are expected to gain from the review and David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, welcomed the shift in emphasis away from universities.\n\n\"The relentless focus on traditional higher education has been a major failing of successive governments, because it has been at the expense of other options,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\n\"Most people will never go to university but have been consistently overlooked. The post-18 review needs to urgently redress that situation,\" he said.", "Homeowners in England are being given the green light to build larger extensions without planning permission.\n\nTemporary rules, which allowed bigger single-storey rear extensions without a full planning application, are being made permanent.\n\nAdditions to terraced and semi-detached homes can be up to 6m, while detached houses will be able to add even larger structures, up to 8m long.\n\nNeighbours will still be consulted and can raise objections to extensions.\n\nSince 2013, 110,000 people have taken advantage of the temporary rules, which doubled the previous limits of extensions that didn't require planning permission from the local authority.\n\nInstead of waiting possibly months for approval, homeowners notify the council of the building work beforehand, and council officials inform the neighbours.\n\nIf they raise concerns, the council decides if the extension is likely to harm the character or enjoyment of the area, and may block the plans.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rear extensions more than 3m or 4m long will continue to require a full planning application, which places the design and impact of the building under more scrutiny.\n\nHousing minister Kit Malthouse said the change in England means \"families can grow without being forced to move\".\n\nHe said: \"These measures will help families extend their properties without battling through time-consuming red tape.\"\n\nBut Martin Tett, planning spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents UK local councils, said: \"The planning process exists for a reason.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the relaxed rules were popular with homeowners, but said it meant councils had little opportunity to consider the impact of extensions on their local area.\n\n\"We do not believe this right should be made permanent until an independent review is carried out of its impact, both on neighbouring residents and businesses, and also the capacity of local planning departments,\" he said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said it was also removing other planning rules to allow business owners to respond to changes in England's high streets.\n\nIt means shops can be converted into office space without a full planning application being made.\n\nShops, offices and betting shops will also be able to temporarily change to community uses such as libraries or public halls.", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nTen workers have been arrested over the alleged abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton.\n\nUndercover filming by BBC Panorama at Whorlton Hall in County Durham appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the abuse was discovered.\n\nThose arrested were being questioned about offences relating to abuse and neglect at the privately-run NHS-funded unit, Durham Police said.\n\nA spokesman said investigations were expected to take some time but repeated the force's \"immediate priority has been to work with other agencies to safeguard the victims at the centre of the allegations and their families\".\n\nThose arrested would be released under investigation pending further inquiries, he added.\n\nThe force said it was seeking the co-operation of the Panorama team to gather further evidence.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons this week she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nCeltic secured a historic treble of domestic trophies for the third consecutive season as Odsonne Edouard's two goals overcame Hearts in the Scottish Cup final.\n\nNeil Lennon has now led Celtic to a league and cup double after succeeding Brendan Rodgers mid-season and has been offered the manager's job permanently.\n\nHis side overcame the setback of Ryan Edwards' second-half strike.\n\nEdouard equalised from the penalty spot before coolly hitting the winner.\n\nThe Edinburgh side fought hard for an equaliser of their own in the closing stages, but Celtic stood firm to establish a new mark of triumph in the history of Scottish football.\n\nThe final whistle brought an emotional response from Lennon on the touchline for a victory that also means Aberdeen qualify for the Europa League instead of Hearts having come fourth in the Premiership.\n\nHis claim to the manager's role was based on his experience of leading the club to success during a previous spell, of being able to urge and cajole players to deliver the best of themselves during the uncertainty that followed Rodgers' departure for Leicester - and this cup victory was built on the resilience of his players.\n• None Who was your man of the match?\n\nCeltic were forced into a period of reflection during the interval at Hampden. It was clear enough what Lennon thought of their first-half performance, as he hollered for his players to raise the tempo of their game.\n\nMuch of the lethargy was caused by the organisation and determination of Hearts, who brought a level of assertiveness to their game that belied the pre-game assumptions that they would struggle to compete at Hampden.\n\nChristophe Berra and John Souttar were solid pillars of resistance at the back, the latter clearing from Edouard inside the penalty area then blocking a James Forrest shot.\n\nHearts were not at full strength - striker Uche Ikpeazu was on the bench while 16-year-old Aaron Hickey started only his second game for the club at left-back, having made his first start last week in the final Premiership game of the season against Celtic.\n\nCraig Levein's side fought valiantly, though, and took the lead when Arnaud Djoum's shot broke to Sean Clare, who back-heeled the ball to Edwards to shoot first-time beyond Scott Bain.\n\nAs Celtic responded, Souttar stood firm again, clearing after Scott Brown burst into the penalty area and then stepping in to clear from Tom Rogic.\n\nHearts could not maintain Souttar's flawless display. Zlamal hesitated as he left his line to close down Edouard inside the penalty area, then panicked and slid into the striker. Referee Willie Collum pointed to the spot and Edouard converted with confidence when Zlamal perhaps could have done better.\n\nThe striker remained unflustered when Berra was caught out of position and Mikael Lustig's header sent the ball through for Edouard to chase, and he coolly lifted the ball beyond the Hearts keeper's reach and into the net.\n\n\"No fouls, no fouls\" shouted Lennon as his side tried to close the game out, conscious of Hearts' threat at set-pieces. Celtic had the experience and the calmness to see themselves over the line.\n\nThe pressure on the Celtic players was evident from the start, as they looked nervous in the early stages and it was only after Hearts took the lead that an urgency entered their game.\n\nHearts were wonderfully well organised and ensured Celtic's key players were not allowed to dictate the pace while stifling their creativity.\n\nCraig Levein and his players may look back upon this as a missed opportunity but there are plenty of positives to take from the 90 minutes.\n\nNone more so than the performance of teenager Aaron Hickey at full back, who belied his youth and was more than a match for James Forrest.\n\nBoth squads will have major surgery in the summer, with many players leaving new faces arriving at both Tynecastle and Parkhead. Then the quest will begin once more for league and cup glory.\n• None Uche Ikpeazu (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card.\n• None Attempt missed. Christophe Berra (Heart of Midlothian) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Scott Sinclair (Celtic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Uche Ikpeazu (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Jake Mulraney (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Djoum (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jason Manford tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\"\n\nA theatre had to be evacuated when a audience member's phone overheated and burst into flames.\n\nThe Lyric Theatre at the Lowry in Salford had to be emptied and the fire service called during the interval of comedian Jason Manford's show.\n\nManford, currently touring across the UK, tweeted a photo of a fire engine outside the venue, saying \"on fire tonight\".\n\nThe theatre said the show was delayed by 20 minutes.\n\nDuring the disruption Manford tweeted a photo of the scorched phone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Manford This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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In November 2018, Jonah Fisher talked to a commander of the Ukrainian Navy about the tensions in the Azov Sea\n\nAn international tribunal has ordered Russia to \"immediately\" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November.\n\nMoscow says the sailors violated its maritime border near the peninsula which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nBut the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sided with Ukraine in the dispute, which has stoked tensions between the nations.\n\nRussia, however, refuses to recognise the jurisdiction of the body.\n\nIt boycotted the hearings and analysts say the chances of it abiding by the Germany-based tribunal's provisional ruling appear minimal.\n\nThe Ukrainian vessels had tried to pass through the Kerch Strait, the only access to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov.\n\nBut Russia has controlled the Strait since annexing Crimea, and its coastguard boats fired on the vessels before boarding them.\n\nRussia has held the sailors in Moscow ever since.\n\nBut, in a ruling, the tribunal's Judge Jin-Hyuan Paik said: \"The Russian Federation must proceed immediately to release the Ukrainian soldiers and allow them to return to the Ukraine.\"\n\nA tanker under the bridge shut all navigation from and into the Sea of Azov\n\nHowever, while the tribunal said both sides should refrain from any action which would aggravate the dispute, it did not uphold Ukraine's request for Russia to suspend the trial of its servicemen.\n\nThe sailors face up to six years in jail if found guilty.\n\nThe ruling is being seen as a victory in Ukraine, delivering most of what Kiev sought.\n\nUkraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on Russia to comply with the tribunal's order, writing on Facebook that that by so doing, there \"could be the first signal from the Russian leadership about real readiness to end the conflict with Ukraine\".\n\nMr Zelensky said during his swearing-in on Monday that ending the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east will be his top priority as president.\n\nFighting in the region has claimed about 13,000 lives since 2014.", "Alesha MacPhail had been on a holiday on the Isle of Bute\n\nA tribute to a schoolgirl murdered while holidaying with her family on the Isle of Bute has been unveiled by her father.\n\nA memorial bench for Alesha MacPhail, organised by local people, has been revealed at the \"children's corner\" in Rothesay by Robert MacPhail and his partner Toni McLachlan.\n\nThe six-year-old was killed by teenager Aaron Campbell in July 2018.\n\nShe was just a few days into a summer holiday with her family in Rothesay.\n\nThe bench was organised by the Isle of Bute Resilience Team, a community group which assembles when the island is threatened by adverse conditions.\n\nThe bench is located in an area where children come to play\n\nFiona Gillespie was behind the idea. She told the BBC: \"Alesha means so much to the community. We helped to search for her. She won our teddy bear at the gala day last year. We just want to remember her.\"\n\nAlesha's family and local people wanted somewhere to go to think about Alesha.\n\nResilience team member Colin Gillespie added: \"It means a lot to have somewhere to sit and gather our thoughts. And Alesha loved riding her bike along here.\"\n\nThe volunteers raised almost £2,000 to have the bench specially made in Alesha's favourite pink colour with her name and featuring two unicorns.\n\nA blessing ceremony was held when the bench was handed over on the seafront on Saturday, featuring a piper, bubble machines and balloons to celebrate the six-year-old's life.\n\nAlesha's grandparents Calum MacPhail and Angela King watched as the bench was uncovered.\n\nA local minister, the Reverend Owen Jones, led a short service in which he said: \"We come to remember Alesha and to support and uphold her family, and all those who have been at the centre of the events, the pain and the loss in which she was taken from us.\"\n\nCampbell, who is now 17, was convicted of the schoolgirl's abduction, rape and murder and ordered to serve 27 years in prison.\n\nIn May he was granted permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nDuring his trial, judge Lord Matthews, described him as a \"cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual\".\n\nPeople gather as the tribute is unveiled", "Online booking for cancer screening should be introduced, says the report\n\nMaking an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England.\n\nProf Sir Mike Richards said text reminders and out-of-hours appointments were also a good idea.\n\nCervical screening or smear-test rates are at their lowest for a decade.\n\nHis interim report calls for technology to be used to stop the decline so more lives can be saved.\n\nThere are three national cancer screening programmes in England:\n\nThe screening programmes aim to detect cancer, or abnormal cells, early, often before symptoms develop, when treatment may be more effective.\n\nMore than 11 million invitations to screening were sent out last year.\n\nBut a recent report found that none of the programmes in England met its target last year, and many women experienced delays in getting results after cervical screening.\n\nSir Mike, formerly NHS cancer director and chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Our screening programmes have led the world and save around 9,000 lives every year.\n\n\"However, people live increasingly busy lives and we need to make having a screening appointment as simple and convenient as booking a plane ticket online.\n\n\"The technology exists in many other walks of life and by adopting it across the NHS we can help identify even more cancers early when they are easier to treat and save more lives.\"\n\nIn his interim report, he also says IT systems need to be upgraded across the country and there should be more clarity over who is in charge of cancer screening.\n\nIn May 2018, a major failure in breast screening was announced by the health secretary in England, followed by a serious incident with cervical screening six months later.\n\nSir Mike's full report is published later this year.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated at a stadium in the capital Pretoria.\n\nThe African National Congress (ANC) leader vowed to tackle corruption and rejuvenate the struggling economy.\n\nMore than 30,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony which included a flypast and military parade.\n\nMr Ramaphosa was elected earlier this month with a majority of 57.5%, the smallest since the party came to power 25 years ago.", "The Met will push for the prosecution of more than 1,100 people arrested over last month's Extinction Rebellion protests, a senior officer has said.\n\nSo far more than 70 activists have been charged in connection with the demonstrations that brought parts of central London to a standstill.\n\nTen days of protests in April saw 1,130 people arrested for various offences.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wanted to deter other groups employing similar tactics.\n\nThe group's tactics included asking volunteers to deliberately get arrested to cause maximum disruption at roadblocks on Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.\n\nOther protesters glued themselves to trains and buildings.\n\nMr Taylor said 70 people had so far been charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"It is our anticipation that we are putting all of those to the CPS for decisions,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor insisted the Met was equipped to deal with any upcoming actions and said officers from other forces would be called into action if needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the force was in discussions with the Home Office to review the current Public Order legislation with fears Extinction Rebellion's tactics could be adopted by other groups.\n\nMr Taylor added: \"I'm not saying going to jail, but we would like to see consequences for any activity at these events that is unlawful.\n\n\"Protest is not illegal. There is nothing unlawful about protest.\"\n\nIn 2011, courts in London and Manchester had to open over the weekend to deal with more than 1,000 people charged with riot-related offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the failure to deliver Brexit was a matter of \"deep regret\"\n\nEver since I first stepped through the door behind me as prime minister, I have striven to make the United Kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.\n\nAnd to honour the result of the EU referendum.\n\nBack in 2016, we gave the British people a choice.\n\nAgainst all predictions, the British people voted to leave the European Union.\n\nI feel as certain today as I did three years ago that, in a democracy, if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide. I have done my best to do that.\n\nI negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbours that protects jobs, our security and our Union.\n\nI have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times.\n\nI believe it was right to persevere, even when the odds against success seemed high.\n\nBut it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort.\n\nTheresa May got emotional as she announced she would resign as prime minister\n\nSo I am today announcing that I will resign as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party on Friday 7 June so that a successor can be chosen.\n\nI have agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 1922 Committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week.\n\nI have kept Her Majesty the Queen fully informed of my intentions, and I will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded.\n\nIt is, and will always remain, a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum.\n\nTo succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in Parliament where I have not.\n\nSuch a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise.\n\nFor many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport - was my constituent in Maidenhead.\n\nAt another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice.\n\nHe said, 'Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.' He was right.\n\nAs we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics - whether to deliver Brexit, or to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland - we must remember what brought us here.\n\nBecause the referendum was not just a call to leave the EU but for profound change in our country.\n\nA call to make the United Kingdom a country that truly works for everyone. I am proud of the progress we have made over the last three years.\n\nWe have completed the work that David Cameron and George Osborne started: the deficit is almost eliminated, our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to austerity.\n\nMy focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country, not just in London and the south east, through our modern industrial strategy.\n\nWe have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job.\n\nWe are building more homes and helping first-time buyers onto the housing ladder - so young people can enjoy the opportunities their parents did.\n\nAnd we are protecting the environment, eliminating plastic waste, tackling climate change and improving air quality.\n\nThis is what a decent, moderate and patriotic Conservative government, on the common ground of British politics, can achieve - even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced.\n\nI know that the Conservative Party can renew itself in the years ahead.\n\nThat we can deliver Brexit and serve the British people with policies inspired by our values. Security; freedom; opportunity.\n\nThose values have guided me throughout my career.\n\nBut the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless, to fight the burning injustices that still scar our society.\n\nThat is why I put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our NHS long-term plan.\n\nIt is why I am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nIt is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality, so it has nowhere to hide.\n\nAnd that is why I set up the independent public inquiry into the tragedy at Grenfell Tower - to search for the truth, so nothing like it can ever happen again, and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten.\n\nBecause this country is a union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people - all of us.\n\nWhatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.\n\nOur politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about.\n\nI will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold - the second female prime minister but certainly not the last.\n\nI do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.", "Daniel McGuigan was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested and charged by police in connection with the death of a man in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow.\n\nOfficers had responded to reports of the man being attacked in front of his work colleagues in Stravanan Street at about 10:50 on Friday.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nHe has now been identified as Daniel McGuigan, who was 35. Police have said inquiries into the death are continuing.\n\nThe 14-year-old is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday.", "Leo Latifi's face \"lit up the classroom\", his head teacher has said\n\nA nine-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped underneath a locker at a school in Essex.\n\nIt happened at an after-school swimming club at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford on Thursday evening.\n\nLeo Latifi, who was not a pupil at the school, was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe head teacher of St Michael's Primary School paid tribute to her Year 4 pupil, who she said was a \"sparkle in our school\".\n\nEssex Police said Leo was with family members when he fell from a locker and got trapped.\n\nMaria Rumsey, head teacher at St Michael's, said staff, parents, governors and pupils were \"shocked and immensely saddened\" by Leo's death.\n\nShe said: \"He will be greatly missed by all. We wish to extend our thoughts and condolences to all of Leo's family and friends at this saddest of times.\n\n\"Leo was a sparkle in our school. His face lit up the classroom and his mischievous blue eyes made us all smile.\n\n\"He was an avid scientist, who only on Wednesday was in his element hunting for bugs on the school field.\n\n\"Leo was always keen to share his model-building and wowed the class when he brought in the finished masterpieces. He had a wide circle of friends in the year group, all of whom will miss him greatly.\"\n\nShe added the school would be supporting staff and pupils as they came to terms with the loss.\n\nGreat Baddow High School was closed on Friday other than for pupils sitting GCSE and A-Level exams.\n\nHead teacher Carrie Lynch said: \"The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Great Baddow High School are with the family and friends of the child who died yesterday evening, his school and swimming club.\"\n\nThe academy, which specialises in sport and science, has about 1,400 pupils and was rated \"good\" at its last Ofsted inspection\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it was investigating alongside Essex Police and had been on site.\n\nEssex Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nFour children \"rescued\" from a house in Sheffield in the same incident in which two boys died have been released from hospital, police said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said they received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of people at an address in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nSix children were taken to hospital but the boys, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nA 37-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nFour more children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital. Police said they were now fit enough to be discharged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SouthYorkshirePolice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police have put on extra patrols in the area\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said extra officers were patrolling the area to reassure people, although police stressed it was an \"isolated incident\" with no wider threat to the community.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths, and urged people to be \"mindful\" of speculating online.\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nForensic officers were around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield on Friday\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street on Friday morning, and Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the playground of a nearby school.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, has said she is \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two boys dead as police swoop on house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 14,000 data breaches have been logged since the introduction of tough new data laws last May, the UK's information commissioner's office has said.\n\nComplaints from the public have also doubled, from around 21,000 to 41,000.\n\nIt suggests that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has increased awareness about the importance of personal information.\n\nBut no fine has yet been issued under GDPR rules in the UK.\n\nThe legislation was designed to give people more control over the data being collected on them.\n\nIf companies lose data or share it without permission, they have to inform the regulator - the ICO in the UK - within 72 hours.\n\nWhere companies have broken the law, they can be fined 20 million euros (£17.6m) or 4% of their annual global turnover - whichever is larger.\n\nThe ICO said fines were \"coming soon\" but added that it wanted organisations \"to focus on how data protection law can help firms to get it right... rather than how they might be punished if they get it wrong\".\n\nIn January, Google was fined £44m in France for GDPR breaches.\n\nAcross all the EU countries which have implemented GDPR, there has been a total of 89,271 notifications of data breaches, and 144,376 complaints from the public.\n\nRichard Breavington, partner at law firm RPC, said: \"The ICO has already begun to ratchet up the value of fines, and it has barely scratched the surface of its powers.\n\n\"The first large-scale loss or misuse of individuals' data under GDPR will be an important 'test case' for the ICO, which will show us how far the regulator is prepared to go in using its new powers - this is a key area to watch. However, we don't expect to see blockbuster fines being levied in the near future.\"", "Traffic came to a standstill between junctions 15 and 16\n\nDrivers faced up to 13 miles (20km) of tailbacks after a crash shut the M6 in Staffordshire and Cheshire.\n\nAll four lanes were shut northbound between junctions 15 at Stoke-on-Trent and 16 for Crewe after the crash at about 13:00 BST.\n\nThree out of four lanes were also earlier closed on the southbound carriageway.\n\nHighways England said the motorway fully reopened at about 16:30 but warned motorists about long delays.\n\nBy 19:00 BST, traffic had returned to normal.\n\nThe Sentinel newspaper reported the crash involved a motorcyclist going into the central reservation.\n\nIt is not yet known if there were any injuries.\n\nMusician Ten Tonnes tweeted he would be unable to get to the Neighbourhood Weekender festival in Warrington where he had been due to perform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe standstill traffic led to people getting out of their cars on the northbound carriageway, before being asked by to return to their vehicles as the lanes began to reopen.\n\nThe A500 was also earlier closed southbound between the A519 Hanchurch interchange and junction 15 on the M6, meaning traffic coming from Stoke-on-Trent was unable to get on to the M6 in either direction.\n\nDebbie Young, Conservative councillor for Chalford in Gloucestershire, earlier tweeted she had been stuck in traffic for two hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Debbie Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Are Twitter bots controlled by Russia on the march across Europe? And is Facebook full of misinformation designed to influence voters?\n\nAs the EU elections approach, researchers have been looking at the role that social networks are playing, and their early cautious verdict is that the level of misuse is relatively low.\n\nResearch by the Oxford Internet Institute found that what ít called \"junk news\" was far less prevalent on Twitter and Facebook than stories from reliable news sources.\n\nHowever, the study of the kind of information social media users are sharing across seven languages ahead of the vote, did find that individual junk news stories were more likely to be shared on Facebook than the work of mainstream news organisations.\n\nSeparate research for the BBC by a University of Birmingham expert showed an uptick of apparent Twitter bot creation in early May, with some accounts tweeting on Brexit themes thousands of times.\n\nBut Prof Oleksandr Talavera says that Twitter has become much more effective at spotting and closing accounts which break its rules.\n\nSome suspicious accounts with high volumes of tweeting have been suspended.\n\nThe Oxford study found that under 4% of stories on Twitter came from junk news sources, defined as outlets publishing deliberately misleading, deceptive or incorrect information. That figure did, however, rise to 21% in Poland.\n\nBut on Facebook, while mainstream news was more visible, stories from junk news sources proved far more engaging. In English, for example, the average junk news story got four times as many likes and other Facebook interactions as a story from a professional news organisation.\n\nJunk news which proved popular included suggestions that a Dutch politician wanted a halal beach in The Hague, a story that a Muslim girl had been killed by her family and dumped in a river for being too \"Westernised\", and a report that Vladimir Putin had offered financial assistance to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral.\n\nBut the study does not point the finger at Russia for spreading misinformation.\n\n\"Almost none of the junk we found circulating online came from known Russian sources\", says Nahema Marchal, co-author of the report \"Instead, it is homegrown, hyper-partisan and alternative media that dominate.\"\n\nThere have been reports of an upswing of automated Twitter accounts - or bots - in the run-up to this week's European elections, so we asked Prof Talavera, who has examined the bot phenomenon, to take a look.\n\nHe found a spike in the creation of new Twitter accounts tweeting on Brexit and similar themes around 11 May. Many of the accounts consisted of a name followed by eight numbers and tweeted very frequently.\n\nOne account, @johnie76662158, followed nobody but had tweeted more than 1,300 times in the 10 days after it was created, almost exclusively retweets of Brexit-related material, support for Tommy Robinson and some comments on American politics.\n\nProf Talavera admits it is very hard to decide exactly which accounts are bots, especially as their creators are getting much smarter at understanding how Twitter detects them.\n\nBut he says \"based on very rough estimation about 20-25% of newly-created users who talk about political outcome are likely to be bots. However, these numbers seem to be very small compared to the existing Twitter universe\".\n\nBy Monday, the @johnie76662158 account had a message saying it was \"temporarily restricted\" because there had been some \"unusual activity.\" Other accounts with high volumes of tweeting have been suspended.\n\nBoth Twitter and Facebook have set up teams to monitor activity on their platforms in the run-up to the European elections. So far, it appears they have not detected the level of interference from Russian sources or the waves of automated spam tweets seen during the US presidential election and the EU referendum vote in 2016.\n\nBut both platforms have proved they have enormous power to intervene in the democratic process. That means that in every election from now on they will be under the spotlight.", "A company which left customers without gas for months has received the largest-ever enforcement action, of £44m, from the energy regulator.\n\nOfgem said Cadent also had no records of 775 high-rise blocks of flats.\n\nThat discovery was in part prompted by an information request from a council in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.\n\nThe company offered an \"unreserved apology\" to customers who were without supplies for 19 days on average.\n\n\"We aim to put customers' needs at the heart of everything we do, and we acknowledge that in the past, we have fallen short of customers expectations and the higher standards we have now set ourselves; for this, we are sorry,\" said Steve Hurrell, chief executive of Cadent.\n\nCadent, previously known as National Grid Gas Distribution, is involved in the final leg of piping gas into people's homes.\n\nIt owns four of England's eight regional distribution networks - north London, the West Midlands, the North West of England and eastern England. It did not supply Grenfell, but received an information request from a council following the tragedy.\n\nMany of the customers affected by the gas outage were in north London. Some had their gas cut off for more than five months\n\nJonathan Brearley of Ofgem told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"When they were making repairs, people had their gas cut off for far too long.\n\n\"So in London, people in tower blocks were off for an average of 19 days and some were off for several months. We think this is unacceptable.\n\n\"If they do not look after their customers in totality, then absolutely they will either lose their licence or indeed they will suffer further financial penalties.\"\n\nThe penalty takes two parts: £24m for improvements and compensation and £20m for a community fund, which will receive 1.25% of Cadent's after tax profits. The firm's operating profit last year was £724m.\n\nThe company admitted that its regulatory data supplied to Ofgem showed that it was leaving residents in blocks of flats without gas for longer than necessary.\n\nIt also reported to Ofgem that it failed, over a six-year period, to compensate up to 12,000 residents left without gas for more than 24 hours.\n\nIt also reported to the regulator that it did not have records of gas pipes - or risers - in many tower blocks in its London network.\n\nAs part of the penalty, Cadent - which supplies gas to 11 million properties and 3,347 blocks of at least six storeys - will double compensation payments to customers who experience an unplanned disruption of longer than 24 hours, at a cost of £6.7m.\n\nIt will also pay £300,000 - double the amount first envisaged - to 2,140 customers who faced delayed compensation in 2018 and 2019.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive is investigating the record-keeping issue and will publish its findings in due course.", "US sportswear giant Nike is withdrawing a new version of its classic Air Force 1 shoe after objections from an indigenous group in Panama.\n\nThe limited edition model was described as a tribute to Puerto Rico but the Guna community of Panama said it used their traditional \"mola\" pattern.\n\nNike has apologised for the \"inaccurate representation\" of the shoe and said it would not be made available.\n\nThe Air Force 1 Low \"Puerto Rico\" model was due to have been launched in June.\n\nThe Guna people, known as Kuna until 2011, live mainly in low-lying Caribbean islands that make up the Guna Yala autonomous region and are one of seven indigenous groups in Panama. Environmentalists say they are under threat from rising sea levels caused by global warming.\n\nTheir traditional mola patterns feature colourful, swirling designs and geometric or figurative drawings to represent the Guna people's world view.\n\nA lawyer for the group said on Tuesday they were not just seeking the shoe's withdrawal, but also compensation.\n\n\"There is already damage to our image, to our design, to our mola. We are not going to wait for it to be thrown away, we have to seek compensation,\" Aresio Valiente told a news conference in Panama City.\n\nTraditional Guna leader Belisario López said in a statement that they were not against the mola being commercialised but were angered that it was \"being done without consulting us first\".\n\n\"They must recognise that the mola that appears on the Nike shoes is from the Guna people,\" he said.\n\nSome supporters of the Guna also took to social media to criticise Nike's decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Isaac Larrier This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA statement from Nike said: \"We apologise for the inaccurate representation of the design origin for the Nike Air Force 1 'Puerto Rico' 2019. As a result, this product will no longer be available.\"\n\nIndustry sources said the launch of the shoe had been designed to coincide with the Puerto Rican Day Parade on 9 June.\n• None The island people with an escape plan", "A BBC manager has told colleagues she turned down a promotion after finding out she would be paid £12,000 less than a man in the same role.\n\nKaren Martin emailed fellow members of staff to explain the BBC were hiring two deputy editors for the BBC radio newsroom.\n\nShe said colleague Roger Sawyer would be earning more than her.\n\nThe BBC stood by its offers and said several factors, including working experience, had to be considered.\n\nIn her email to colleagues, Martin wrote: \"Despite being awarded the same job, on the same day, after the same board, during the same recruitment process, BBC News asked me to accept a considerably lower salary than my male counterpart.\n\n\"I've been assured our roles and responsibilities are the same. I've also been told my appointment was 'very well deserved'. It's just that I'm worth £12,000 less.\"\n\nShe added, after requesting the BBC to reconsider its offer, a new salary was offered on the grounds of historical under payments, bringing the gap closer to £7,000.\n\nBut, she said, the issue for her had \"never been about the actual salary... but about equal pay\".\n\nIn response, the BBC's head of news output Gavin Allen told staff: \"We took into account the fact that Roger has worked at or above this level for several years, whereas Karen was offered this role as a promotion, with a significant pay increase.\n\n\"We think most people would understand that these factors would result in some difference between their individual pay.\"\n\nAllen added he was confident proper processes for the appointment had been followed, as well as the BBC's principles on fair pay.\n\n\"We cannot give out individual salary figures but they are both considerable and entirely appropriate,\" he said.\n\n\"I accept that we have not always got things right in the past on pay but I believe this is not one of those cases.\"\n\nThe issue of equal pay at the BBC was brought into the public domain in 2017, the first year the corporation was forced by MPs to disclose how much it paid to its top talent.\n\nThe publication of salaries eventually led to the resignation of Carrie Gracie as China editor, who was being paid less than North America editor Jon Sopel.\n\nThe BBC apologised and said it \"has now put this right\" by giving Gracie back pay.", "After a tumultuous day in which her Commons leader resigned from the cabinet amid feverish speculation about her own future, Theresa May remains prime minister - for now.\n\nAs we bring the live page to a close, here is a summary of what happened today:\n• Commons leader Andrea Leadsom quit the cabinet, saying she no longer believes the government's approach will deliver Brexit\n• It followed a growing backlash against Theresa May's new Brexit plan from MPs within her own party\n• As the pressure grew over the course of the day, several cabinet ministers told the BBC that the PM cannot stay, with one saying it is \"the end of the line\"\n• But with speculation growing that Theresa May might resign, sources told the BBC that Chief Whip Julian Smith informed backbench Tory MPs that the PM was not standing down\n• Mrs May looks set to spend tomorrow campaigning for the European Parliament elections before meeting Sir Graham Brady - the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee - on Friday.\n\nYou can read the full story of the PM's turbulent day here.\n\nYou can read analysis of her attempts to hang on to power here.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye is to be released from prison, the Parole Board has confirmed.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nNoye later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Parole Board said he no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nNoye, who is currently at Standford Hill open prison in Kent, is expected to be released within weeks.\n\nWhen asked whether he had spoken to the Parole Board, he said: \"Yes, they're letting him out.\"\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nNoye's release case was considered at a hearing on 9 May after it was referred by the Justice Secretary.\n\nThe panel heard evidence from Noye's probation officer and Prison Service officials.\n\nNoye, who first became eligible to be considered for release on 21 April 2015, also gave evidence to the panel.\n\nThis was the third review of Noye's case by the Parole Board.\n\nThe panel heard how Noye was of \"good conduct and compliance\" in prison and had \"worked positively\" with officials dealing with his case.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nThe Parole Board's decision is likely to spark huge controversy, not least because of Noye's offending history - which stretches back to the 1960s - and his past connections to organised crime.\n\nThere are also likely to be those who question whether Noye has truly changed.\n\nLess than four years ago, a parole panel rejected his bid for release citing a psychological assessment that his \"main characteristic trait was criminal versatility, and that superficial charm, grandiose sense of self, lack of remorse, manipulative behaviour, failure to accept responsibility and poor behaviour controls were partially present\".\n\nThe panel said he had a \"need to be in control\".\n\nHowever, should Stephen Cameron's family wish to challenge the release decision their only option is to go to court and start judicial review proceedings, which are expensive and offer no guarantee of success.\n\nA far simpler internal review system, which the Government promised last year, won't apply in this case because it doesn't come into effect until July.\n\nKenneth Noye in custody at Dartford Police Station in May 1999\n\nThe panel said it was satisfied that Noye met the test for release and was suitable for return to the community.\n\nHe will have to reside at a designated address, be of good behaviour, and report as required for supervision or other appointments.\n\nThere will be strict limitations on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nRoy Ramm, a former commander in specialist operations at New Scotland Yard, said: \"Kenneth Noye is a career criminal. He's been involved in some of the biggest crimes in the UK.\n\n\"He has spent his life around criminal enterprises.\n\n\"He is a man who has been proven to be very violent in the past... there should be a great deal of supervision around him and about his conduct.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Clearly this will be a distressing decision for the family of Stephen Cameron and our thoughts remain with them.\n\n\"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, released subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life.\n\nRobyn used to \"get mortal\" (drunk) and \"end up at random parties\". But when she was pregnant, she vowed to change.\n\nShe stopped drinking and smoking marijuana, saying: \"I used to be pretty crazy. Being pregnant has calmed me down.\"\n\nTeen births have been falling nationally but rising in Middlesbrough.\n\nRobyn's mother Shelly recalls one night when the police arrived at the house - yet again.\n\n\"It was around midnight and the police knocked on the door - they were bringing Robyn home from a party.\n\n\"She'd drunk an entire bottle of vodka at an unknown man's flat, passed out, got into the bath and was found sprawled naked on the living room floor. She was 15.\"\n\nRobyn added: \"When I met my boyfriend and got pregnant I realised that that couldn't happen any more.\n\n\"I'm so excited to meet my baby girl - we had a gender reveal party and even though I would have been happy with a boy, I really wanted my own little girl.\n\n\"When we popped the balloon and I saw the pink confetti, I cried with happiness.\"\n\nHer daughter is due at the end of June.\n\nRobyn says society has a double standard when it comes to boys and girls\n\nShelly said: \"Robyn is actually the fourth generation of teen mams in our family.\n\n\"I've told Robyn it's time to grow up now and she has - I'm proud of how she's changed for her baby.\n\n\"When Robyn was a bit older I went to Durham University and completed a degree in human science - I think of it as doing my life the other way around.\"\n\nIn Middlesbrough, there were 43.8 teen pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the year to December 2017, compared with an average of 17.9 in England and Wales.\n\nThe next highest rate was in St Helens in Merseyside with 37.1 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers.\n\nTeenage pregnancy is linked to fewer life chances - a higher risk of the child and the parent living in poverty, an increased risk of infant mortality and a higher chance of the mother experiencing mental health problems.\n\nIt is more then 15 years since the government launched its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in response to England having one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe.\n\nSince then, the under-18 conception rate has dropped by 60% and the proportion of teenage mothers in education and training has doubled.\n\nBut in Middlesbrough over the two years from 2015 to 2017 it jumped from 36.5 to 43.8 - a rise of 20%.\n\nMegan says she has to restrict herself in order to care for her baby\n\nMegan, who is also from Middlesbrough, was 17 when she learned she was 23 weeks pregnant with her baby boy.\n\nShe said: \"My baby will be loved and cared for.\n\n\"I've finished my college course in performing arts and after about a year out I plan to either go back to college or get a job.\n\n\"Being a teenage mam won't stop me. I'm lucky - my family are supportive.\"\n\nDurham University's professor of sociology Dr Kimberly Jamie said: \"We need to stop accepting the middle-class life trajectory as the 'right' way for young people, especially women, to live their lives.\n\n\"The school to university to career to house to marriage to children isn't possible or desirable for all young women, yet those who take a different route through life are positioned as irresponsible, or as having somehow failed.\n\n\"Teenage pregnancy is understood as a death knell for any kind of career success rather than acknowledging that post-16 education and careers are still available for women in their 30s or 40s when their children are grown up and they have time to start a new career.\"\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pre-recorded episode Mr Dymond took part in was based on the subject of infidelity\n\nA Jeremy Kyle guest was found dead after \"growing concerned about the repercussions of the show\", an inquest has heard.\n\nSteven Dymond, 63, was discovered at his home in Portsmouth about a week after taking a lie-detector test on the ITV daytime programme.\n\nA hearing at Portsmouth Coroner's Court was told empty morphine packets were found next to his body.\n\nThe programme was permanently axed after Mr Dymond's death.\n\nA policeman told the inquest Mr Dymond had split from his fiancée before the recording, which he attended in a bid to repair the couple's relationship.\n\nDet Sgt Marcus Mills said construction worker Mr Dymond was renting a room at the time of his death.\n\nHe told the owners he had been in a relationship, Det Sgt Mills said, and had been kicked out of his home amid claims he had cheated.\n\n\"Steven had also mentioned they were going to go on the Jeremy Kyle show for a lie detector test to get everything sorted.\" he said.\n\nAfter the recording, Mr Dymond told his landlady \"things didn't go well on the show\", Det Sgt Mills said.\n\n\"He became concerned about the repercussions of the show and the rumours that had started as a result,\" he said.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was axed last week following the death of Steve Dymond\n\nDays later the concerned landlady found Mr Dymond's body on his bed - nearby were empty packets of morphine and sleeping tablets, and letters to his son and estranged girlfriend.\n\nDet Sgt Mills said there were no signs of foul play and the death was a suspected suicide.\n\nResults of a post-mortem examination are still awaited.\n\nLie detectors were a regular fixture on the programme, which often featured disputes between partners and family members.\n\nMr Kyle has said he is \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nMPs have launched an inquiry into reality TV and watchdog Ofcom has said it will look at the use of lie-detector tests on TV shows.\n\nFollowing the death of Mr Dymond, Ofcom asked ITV to give it information within five working days.\n\nThe inquest was adjourned to a later date.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams have been abandoned by Fifa.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said last year the expansion from 32 teams could be brought forward from 2026 to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.\n\nThe change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties with other countries in the region.\n\nWorld football's governing body said after a \"thorough and comprehensive consultation process\" the change \"could not be made now\".\n\nFifa also said it explored the possibility of Qatar hosting a 48-team tournament on its own but has decided not to pursue those plans as there was not enough time \"for a detailed assessment of the potential logistical impact\".\n\nIn a statement, Qatari World Cup organisers said: \"Qatar had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 had a viable operating model been found and had all parties concluded that an expanded 48-team edition was in the best interest of football and Qatar as the host nation.\n\n\"With just three and a half years to go until kick off, Qatar remains as committed as ever to ensuring the 32-team Fifa World Cup in 2022 is one of the best tournaments ever and one that makes the entire Arab world proud.\"\n\nIn November, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said adding 16 teams to Qatar 2022 could create \"many problems\" and described the idea as \"quite unrealistic\".\n• None US, Canada & Mexico win right to host 2026 World Cup\n\nThose close to the Qatar 2022 organisers say this is a mutual decision that realigns them and Fifa, and that they are now concentrating on delivering the best possible 32-team World Cup.\n\nBut it will also have come as a major relief to the hosts, who no longer have to worry about sharing football's showpiece event.\n\nPerhaps with the Nobel Peace Prize in mind, Fifa president Gianni Infantino had pushed for an expansion against Qatar's wishes, hoping it may help heal diplomatic tensions in the region by staging some games in other countries, but he has now had to admit defeat.\n\nWith Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all maintaining a blockade of neighbouring Qatar, such an audacious move was never going to be straightforward.\n\nThe crisis left only Kuwait and Oman as potential co-hosts, but a Fifa study concluded that neither would meet all logistical requirements.\n\nInfantino has previously collaborated with Saudi Arabia when proposing a revamped Club World Cup, and many suspected this was linked to his suggestion that the country could be part of the solution for an expanded 2022 tournament.\n\nBut given the condemnation that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country's consulate in Istanbul last year, along with its role in Yemen's bloody civil war, such a step would have sparked a major backlash from human rights campaigners, as it would have done if the UAE had been awarded games.\n\nSo while some national football associations and Infantino will no doubt be disappointed at the news, many others will welcome it.\n\nWhy does Fifa want to expand the World Cup?\n\nIn January 2017, Fifa voted unanimously in favour of increasing the World Cup to 48 teams for the 2026 event - which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nIn October 2018 Infantino said \"we have to see if it is possible\" to bring the expansion forward to 2022.\n\nInfantino has been a strong advocate of the expansion and said the World Cup has to be \"more inclusive\".\n\n\"We are in the 21st century and we have to shape the World Cup of the 21st century,\" he said when announcing the change.\n\n\"It is the future. Football is more than just Europe and South America, football is global.\"\n\nThe expansion in 2026 will see an initial stage of 16 groups of three teams precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32.\n\nThe number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.\n\nThe tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.", "The polls have closed in the UK for the European Parliament elections.\n\nSeventy-three members, known as MEPs, will be elected in nine constituencies in England, and one each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEach region's number of representatives is based on its population - from three MEPs in north-east England and Northern Ireland to 10 in south-east England.\n\nThe results will be announced once all EU nations have voted, expected to be completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Netherlands also voted on Thursday while voting in other EU nations will take place at various times over the next three days.\n\nVoters had to be registered to vote, be 18 years old or over on 23 May, be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of an EU country.\n\nThey had to be resident at a UK address (or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years) and not be legally excluded from voting.\n\nMEPs are elected in the order listed by their party, based on the total share of the vote in each region.\n\nIn the nine English regions, Wales and Scotland, the number of MEPs is calculated using a form of proportional representation known as the D'Hondt formula, and each voter can choose one party or individual to back.\n\nThe process is slightly different in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used, allowing voters to rank the parties standing in order of preference.\n\nVoters could stop for a poll and a pint in the Cotswolds\n\nThe trend of dogs at polling stations continued with a vengeance\n\nThis caravan offered voters in Leicestershire the chance to have their say\n\nThese monks in East Lothian carried out their civic duty at the village hall\n\nThis supermarket car park in Bristol became a hub for democracy\n\nAnother multi-purpose polling station at this launderette in Oxfordshire\n\nAnd the West Blatchington Windmill in Hove offered another novel place to cast a vote\n• None EU citizens in UK turned away from polls", "Theresa May will make the case for her new Brexit plan in Parliament later, amid signs that Conservative opposition to her leadership is hardening.\n\nThe prime minister will outline changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - including a promise to give MPs a vote on holding another referendum.\n\nBut shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the offer was \"too weak\".\n\nSome senior Tories will today ask party bosses for a rule change to allow a no-confidence vote in her leadership.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove defended the PM's plan, urging MPs to \"take a little bit of time and step back\" to \"reflect\" on the detail of the bill - due to be published later today.\n\nFellow cabinet minister and prominent Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom said she was \"looking very carefully at the legislation\" and \"making sure that it delivers Brexit\".\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times, and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour have failed.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister asked MPs to take \"one last chance\" to deliver a negotiated exit - or risk Brexit not happening at all.\n\nBut several Tory MPs have criticised her plan. Among them, Nigel Evans will today urge party bosses on the 1922 committee to change party rules to allow for an immediate vote of no-confidence in Mrs May.\n\nBecause the PM survived such a vote in December, the current rules say she cannot face another for 12 months.\n\nThe committee has said 'no' to such a change before.\n\nBut the Conservative Home website has urged people not to vote for the party in Thursday's European elections if Mrs May is still in post \"by the end of today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove tells Today that MPs have the choice of a deal, no deal or no Brexit\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says a small number of Labour MPs have gone to a briefing with the government's Brexit negotiator, Olly Robbins, to discuss the deal.\n\nBut a number of the party's MPs have spoken out against the PM's plan, with Sir Keir saying all she had offered was votes on customs arrangements and a further referendum that MPs would be able to get anyway as amendments to the bill.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"This is not a compromise of policy, it is just saying you can have votes on these things.\n\n\"In reality, the prime minister ought to now admit defeat. I think she would do well to just pull the vote and pause, as this is just going to nowhere.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, echoed the point, telling Today: \"If [Mrs May] said 'we will put forward the Withdrawal Bill subject to a confirmatory referendum'… we would be obliged to support it on that basis, but she is barely saying Parliament can have a vote if it wants to have a referendum.\n\n\"[That] is not in her gift, Parliament will do that anyway. What appears to be a concession isn't.\"\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said if the government tries to delay bringing the bill forward - expected in the week of 3 June - it is \"extremely hard to see\" how the prime minister stays in post after the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther senior Tories have suggested Mrs May drops her Withdrawal Agreement Bill to avoid defeat and humiliation.\n\nConservative MP Boris Johnson - who wants to succeed Mrs May as prime minister - said on Twitter: \"We are being asked to vote for a customs union and a second referendum. The Bill is directly against our manifesto - and I will not vote for it.\n\n\"We can and must do better - and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMeanwhile Dominic Raab, another leadership hopeful, said Mrs May's deal would \"break our clear manifesto promises\".\n\nTory MP Priti Patel accused the \"entire cabinet and especially the so-called Brexiteers in office\" of being \"responsible for the betrayal\" of Leave voters.\n\nIt's become a painful ritual of a tortuous process: the prime minister unveils a vision for Brexit, and MPs queue up to demolish it in the House of Commons. On Wednesday it looks like it is going to happen again.\n\nIf Theresa May's speech yesterday sought to attract switchers - and turn sceptics into endorsers - it failed.\n\nWorse than that for Downing Street, some Conservatives who backed the plan when it was last voted on, now say they'll reject it.\n\nAmong many Conservative MPs, there is a bleak, end of days mood. Some wonder if it's even worthwhile putting the bill to a vote.\n\nOthers ponder getting rid of the prime minister even sooner than she's promised. But those around Theresa May insist they are not willing to give up at least yet - they are determined her plan will be put to MPs in around a fortnight's time.\n\nMrs May is bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring her agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn an attempt to win over MPs across the House, she announced the following concessions:\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, released on Wednesday, Mrs May said: \"I have shown today that I am willing to compromise to deliver Brexit for the British people...\n\n\"I ask you to compromise too so that we can deliver what both our parties promised in our manifestos and restore faith in our politics.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nBut Labour has said it is not willing to back the bill at second reading, meaning it could fail at its first parliamentary hurdle.\n\nAnd some Conservative MPs who backed Theresa May the last time she tried to get her withdrawal agreement through Parliament in March said they could no longer support her.\n\nTory MP Nadine Dorries said all scenarios led to Mrs May resigning, telling the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: \"I see no way out for the prime minister. I think we might be reaching the end game finally for [Mrs May].\"\n\nMeanwhile, Sammy Wilson, the Brexit spokesman for the DUP - whose support the government relies on to get its laws passed - said his party would \"not accept this flawed agreement\" that they believe would split Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nHe told Today: \"We have been through all of this before with the prime minister in the negotiations to date. It has been accepted by the government that [there] are flaws they cannot give an answer to.\n\n\"We will not vote for our own destruction.\"", "A union campaign has been launched to save the BiFab construction yards in Fife - which look set to lose out on work for a huge EDF wind farm project.\n\nThe Methil and Burntisland yards were mothballed last year having been close to financial collapse.\n\nIt is feared a failure to secure contracts for EDF's £2bn project off the Fife coast could kill the yards.\n\nNow unions are calling for a U-turn on plans for the work to be carried out in Indonesia instead of Scotland.\n\nA spokesman for the GMB union said: \"EDF doesn't seem to know or care about the proud industrial history of Fife, forged by energy, from the coal mines to North Sea oil and gas.\n\n\"Fife is primed to help deliver the next generation of energy in the form of renewables manufacturing through its yards in Burntisland and Methil.\n\nWorkers staged a march in 2016 as part of a campaign to safeguard jobs\n\n\"So why is EDF sub-contracting the manufacture of the NnGturbine jackets to a yard half way around the world in Indonesia? That's a slap in the face for Fife and for Scotland.\n\n\"We have the yards, we have the skills and we have the communities ready to play their part in tackling the climate emergency. EDF must think again and do what's right for Fife, for Scotland and for the environment.\"\n\nThe Unite union, which is also leading the campaign, has said the the BiFab yards in Fife are \"ready and primed\" to work on EDF's new Neart naGoaithe (NnG) wind farm.\n\nSpokesman Pat Rafferty said: \"The NnG project could create jobs for over 1,000 people, unlocking much-needed investment and growth for our future.\n\n\"If the bulk of the wind turbine jackets are built in yards just 10 miles from the wind farm, it would mean less shipping and significantly less carbon emissions over the lifespan of the NnG project.\n\n\"We will fight for every job and fight to get people back to work because the skills base is here in Fife.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for EDF Renewables refused to comment on \"speculation\" about future contracts.\n\nShe added: \"We are currently going through a procurement process and once the contracts are ready to be announced we will do so.\"\n\nBut it is understood the French state-owned EDF plans to have massive steel jackets, on which turbines will sit, built in Indonesia before being shipped to Scotland.\n\nThey would then be installed at its new Neart naGoaithe wind farm, 10 miles off the Fife coast.\n\nThe project could generate enough electricity to power a city the size of Edinburgh.\n\nA spokesman for BiFab owners DF Barnes said: \"We are continuing our negotiations with EDF and remain hopeful of a positive outcome for BiFab.\"\n\nMissing out on the EDF work would be the latest in a series of blows to the BiFab yards.\n\nIn March, the contractor building a multi-billion pound offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth confirmed that BiFab's Fife yards had not won any of the work.\n\nA statement by Deme, the Belgian company in charge of procurement for Moray East, emphasised the role of a Belgian-owned yard near Newcastle in having \"a major portion\" of the work.\n\nThe announcement came a year after the remaining shop floor workers at the Fife yards were given redundancy notices.\n\nBiFab had previously been taken over by a Canadian engineering firm - in a deal brokered by the Scottish government.", "The BBC, like other broadcasters, isn't allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election. They include more guidance about polling day, and you can read them here.\n\nOn polling day specifically, the BBC doesn't report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 GMT until polls close at 22:00 GMT, on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer.\n\nThe lists of candidates in each constituency and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information which will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been directly at issue or part of the campaign must not be covered while polls in the UK are open.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhilst the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 GMT, normal reporting of the election resumes, with rolling coverage.", "Michael Green told an operator: \"I feel like I'm going numb\"\n\nA grandfather who got trapped between a table and chair died as he waited for an ambulance.\n\nMichael Green, 74, made two 999 calls after his neck became wedged against the furniture at his home in Leicester in September.\n\nDespite his distressed state, relatives said, it took crews nearly 90 minutes to respond, by which time he was dead.\n\nAmbulance bosses said the calls were correctly handled but Mr Green's family said they will go to the ombudsman.\n\nIn recordings released to his family by East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), Mr Green can be heard groaning with pain in the first call.\n\nWhen told an ambulance may take four hours, he responds: \"Oh dear, the trouble is me neck's going dead with being stuck on the chair, I think I need somebody quick.\"\n\nHe told the call handler he had already been stuck for about five hours.\n\nJulie Green (right) said her father was clearly stressed at the time of the call\n\nIn a second call, 40 minutes later, he tells a different operator during the course of the call: \"I feel like I'm going numb.\n\n\"I've changed now... I'm not right... I'm passing out.\"\n\nAn ambulance arrived nearly an hour-and-a-half after the first call. They found Mr Green unconscious and attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\nHis call had been classified as category three - urgent but not an emergency or life-threatening.\n\nHis daughter Julie Green said: \"It's very distressing to hear those calls. He was a strong character, I didn't expect him to die and really I want answers.\n\n\"He was clearly stressed, he was trapped and the bottom line is I've lost my dad and it's hard to move on.\"\n\nA spokesman for EMAS said they were saddened by Mr Green's death but, with the information they had at the time, said the call was categorised correctly.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A care home where a man with Alzheimer's died after eating chlorine tablets has been fined £270,000.\n\nJames McConnell was a resident at Lomond Court in Glenrothes when he died in August 2015, a week after eating the disinfectant tablets.\n\nThe 72-year-old had found and opened a package which he thought contained strong mints.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said the company failed to assess the risk posed by several chemical products.\n\nAn HSE investigation also found the care home's operators HC-ONE Limited failed to manage and review procedures for the delivery of the products for two years.\n\nDarlington-based HC-ONE pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.\n\nA spokeswoman for the company said they \"wholeheartedly\" apologised to the McConnell family.\n\nMr McConnell thought the package he found at Lomond Court contained strong mints\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Garry Miller said the case confirmed the need for staff to be \"extra vigilant\" in ensuring that vulnerable people did not come into contact with harmful substances.\n\nHe added: \"Suitable procedures need to be put in place and then regularly checked to ensure that they are being followed by everyone, not just for the use of such substances, but also for their delivery, storage and disposal.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for HC-ONE said they hoped that the court ruling provided \"some sense of closure\" for the McConnell family.\n\nThe company's chief operating officer Paula Keys said: \"We have always been clear that lessons must be learned from this tragic event, as the health and safety of our residents is our absolute priority.\n\n\"When it happened in August 2015, we immediately issued new delivery guidance to our colleagues and suppliers so that potentially harmful products are securely stored on arrival at our homes, as well as insisting on 'tamper proof' containers for any potentially harmful products.\n\n\"A comprehensive internal review was also completed and acted on, and the HSE has approved our new system for handling potentially harmful products.\"\n\nMr McConnell's widow Wilma previously told BBC Scotland how she still had \"flashbacks\" to when her husband was in hospital after eating the tablets.\n\nShe said: \"I was shocked when I saw him.\n\n\"He was a terrible colour and he couldn't eat the porridge I tried to give him as his mouth had started to ulcerate.\n\n\"His lips and tongue had turned brown.\"\n\nMrs McConnell said the care home had told her a delivery driver, who knew the security code for the main door, had left a package in the hall.\n\nHer husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2012, found and opened the package and ate two of the tablets thinking they were mints.\n\nLater he said to his wife: \"I'm sorry, I didn't think I had done anything wrong.\"", "AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study.\n\nThese female helpers are portrayed as \"obliging and eager to please\", reinforcing the idea that women are \"subservient\", it finds.\n\nParticularly worrying, it says, is how they often give \"deflecting, lacklustre or apologetic responses\" to insults.\n\nThe report calls for technology firms to stop making voice assistants female by default.\n\nThe study from Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is entitled, I'd blush if I could, which is borrowed from a response from Siri to being called a sexually provocative term.\n\n\"Companies like Apple and Amazon, staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams, have built AI systems that cause their feminised digital assistants to greet verbal abuse with catch-me-if-you-can flirtation,\" the report says.\n\n\"Because the speech of most voice assistants is female, it sends a signal that women are... docile helpers, available at the touch of a button or with a blunt voice command like 'hey' or 'OK'. The assistant holds no power of agency beyond what the commander asks of it. It honours commands and responds to queries regardless of their tone or hostility,\" the report says.\n\n\"In many communities, this reinforces commonly held gender biases that women are subservient and tolerant of poor treatment.\"\n\nPeople are increasingly asking voice assistants such as Alexa a whole range of questions\n\nResearch firm Canalys estimates that approximately 100 million smart speakers - the hardware that allows users to interact with voice assistants - were sold globally in 2018.\n\nAnd, according to research firm Gartner, by 2020 some people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses.\n\nVoice assistants now manage an estimated one billion tasks per month, according to the report, and the vast majority - including those designed by Chinese tech giants - have obviously female voices.\n\nMicrosoft's Cortana was named after a synthetic intelligence in the video game Halo that projects itself as a sensuous unclothed woman, while Apple's Siri means \"beautiful woman who leads you to victory\" in Norse. While Google Assistant has a gender-neutral name, its default voice is female.\n\nApple did make a male Siri voice available in 2013 and that is the default voice in languages including British, Arabic and French.\n\nThe report calls on developers to create a neutral machine gender for voice assistants, to programme them to discourage gender-based insults and to announce the technology as non-human at the outset of interactions with human users.\n\nA group of linguists, technologists and sound designers are experimenting with a genderless digital voice, made from real voices and called Q.\n\nThe report also highlights the digital skills gender gap, from lack of internet use among girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, to the decline of ICT studies being taken up by girls in Europe.\n\nAccording to the report, women make up just 12% of AI researchers.", "Tom and his wife Nic - his story was made into a film in 2016 called Starfish, featuring Tom Riley and Joanne Froggatt\n\nA man who woke from a coma to discover both his arms and legs had been amputated and part of his face removed has called for mandatory training on sepsis for NHS staff.\n\nSepsis, or blood poisoning, is a serious complication of an infection, which can have devastating consequences if not treated quickly.\n\nThere were delays in spotting Tom Ray's sepsis.\n\nHe says more training is needed to avoid such tragedies.\n\nTom Ray was fit and healthy and living in Rutland in the East Midlands before he contracted sepsis at the age of 38 in 1999.\n\nHe had had a successful career in corporate banking and was in the process of setting up a business with his pregnant wife, Nic, when he fell ill.\n\nHis sepsis - thought to be caused by a cut to his gum during a trip to the dentist, combined with a chest infection - came on rapidly and led to vomiting and a high temperature.\n\nBut it took five hours at the hospital he was admitted to before the condition was diagnosed.\n\nHe spent months in a coma, during which time his wife Nic gave birth to their second child, Freddy.\n\nHis recovery has been a long and gruelling process, involving years of plastic surgery.\n\nHe has had to learn to walk, drive and live day-to-day life with prosthetic limbs.\n\nThe family lost their house and he has struggled to work.\n\n\"It is not the life I wanted to lead. It is not the life I wanted for my children. I have had some terrible lows, but I have learnt to battle on.\"\n\nHe puts that down to several factors. The \"amazing\" love and care provided by his wife and being mentally disciplined. \"I have learnt to control what goes into my mind. I only let positive thoughts go in.\n\n\"I also realised it is not all about me. I had to be there for my children - to help them with their school work and take them places. Terrible things can happen in life, but you can get through them.\"\n\nNow 57, Tom spends a lot of his time doing motivational speaking and campaigning to improve the way the NHS tackles sepsis.\n\nTogether with his wife and Pippa Bagnall, a former nurse and NHS chief executive, he has formed Resilience and Co to raise awareness of the problem.\n\nHe often removes his prosthetic limbs to show and shock the audience into the realities of sepsis.\n\n\"I would rather not do this - it is not good for your mental health constantly going over the most difficult experience of my life. But I want to make a difference. I want to speak for those who can't - the people who have died from sepsis.\"\n\nThe Rays and Ms Bagnall are due to address the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday.\n\nTop of their wish list is mandatory training on sepsis for all staff who work in the health service.\n\nMs Bagnall says: \"It should be so simple to spot. But the problem is staff still do not know enough about it - what to look out for. Hospitals have got better, but there are real gaps in the community.\n\n\"We want all staff, from GP receptionists to nurses and doctors, to have to do it. It could just be an hour online. It could make all the difference.\"\n\nThe call is being supported by the RCN.\n\nThe RCN also wants to see a national checklist introduced to help spot the signs of sepsis in children. Hospitals already have one for adults, but RCN professional lead for children Fiona Smith says there have been delays of more than a decade for one for children.\n\nIn the meantime it has been left to hospitals to develop their own approaches.\n\nMs Smith criticised the \"fragmented\" approach and \"very slow\" progress.\n\nEvery year more than 50,000 people die after contracting sepsis. Many thousands more are left with disabilities and life-changing consequences.\n\nWith early diagnosis and the correct treatment, normally antibiotics, most people make a full recovery.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Inflation reached its highest level so far this year in April, when higher energy bills pushed up prices.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said the Consumer Price Index was 2.1% in April, up from 1.9% in March.\n\nThat is above the 2% target set by the Bank of England but less than expected.\n\nComputer games and package holiday prices helped to offset the impact of the higher energy bills, sparked by the rise in Ofgem's price cap on gas and electricity.\n\nThe ONS said electricity and gas prices rose between March and April 2019 by 10.9% and 9.3%, respectively.\n\n\"The upward movement partially reflected the response from energy providers to Ofgem's six-month energy price cap, which came into effect from 1 April 2019,\" the ONS said.\n\nLast month, Ofgem raised the maximum prices that can be charged for gas and electricity to those who have not switched suppliers and are on default tariffs.\n\nAir fares also pushed up the index, the ONS, said pointing to the late timing of Easter, with prices rising 26.4% on the month.\n\nPrices fell in \"recreation and culture\" by 0.8% between March and April 2019, compared with a rise of 0.4% between the same two months of 2018. Prices of games, toys and hobbies fell, particularly computer games, the ONS said.\n\nThe 2.1% rise - to a high for the year - was less than the 2.2% increase that had been forecast by economists.\n\nThe measure of price rises had stood at 1.9% in both March and February, up from a two-year low of 1.8% in January.\n\nThe Bank of England said earlier this month that it was expecting growth and inflation to pick up over the next two years and that interest rate increases could be \"more frequent\" than expected.\n\nInterest rates have been at 0.75% since last August.\n\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said there was little reason for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to move rates soon.\n\n\"Rising inflation alongside slowing wage growth is a concern, as it squeezes real household incomes. If this trend continues, it could well choke off the recent improvement in consumer spending, a key driver of UK growth,\" he said.\n\n\"While consumer prices are likely to drift slightly higher in the near term, the outlook for inflation remains relatively subdued, with the current pressure on prices largely due to a number of temporary factors, such as rising energy costs.\"\n\nExcluding bonuses, average weekly earnings for employees rose by 3.3% in the first three months of the year, when the comparable rate of inflation was 1.9%.\n\nBut Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the MPC could not be complacent about price rises and that he expects a rate rise in November.", "London will be one of the first cities to benefit from faster services\n\nEE will switch on its 5G service in six UK cities on 30 May, the first mobile network in the UK to do so.\n\nPeople in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester will be first to get faster services with plans for 10 more cities to be added this year.\n\nPrices for 5G - which will require new handsets - will start at £54 per month for 10 gigabytes of data.\n\nEE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei.\n\n\"We're pausing the launch of the new Huawei 5G smartphones coming to market,\" said a spokesman, adding that EE is working with both the Chinese firm and Google to \"make sure we can carry out the right level of testing and quality assurance\" for customers.\n\nIt follows a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.\n\n\"This is the start of the UK's 5G journey and great news for our customers that want and need the best connections,\" said Marc Allera, chief executive of BT's consumer division, which owns EE.\n\nIt admits that this is just phase one of its roll-out, with \"full next-generation 5G\" not available until 2022.\n\nRival Vodafone plans to launch its 5G service in July. It has also withdrawn Huawei's 5G-enabled Mate 20X - from its line-up of phones.\n\nRetailer Carphone Warehouse has also said it will not allow customers to pre-order Huawei's 5G handsets.\n\nSeveral other countries have announced 5G services, including South Korea and the US.\n\nKester Mann, an analyst at research firm CCS Insight, said: \"In getting 5G as soon as next week, the UK will have completed a remarkable turnaround from laggard to leader.\"\n\n\"Being first-to-market with 5G matters little to consumers, but is clearly an important honour for BT.\"\n\nEE promised three major improvements for customers making the swap from 4G to 5G:\n\nThe mobile operator has also signed an exclusive deal with Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go, to carry its augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards United game when it launches in the UK in the summer.\n\nMatthew Howett, a mobile analyst with research firm Assembly, said: \"To convince consumers to make the leap from 4G to 5G, it's important to communicate that it's more than just about speed.\n\n\"While peak download speeds will be faster, crucially there will be more capacity, which will allow for a whole host of new applications and services.\"\n\nThere have been concerns raised about the role played by Chinese firm Huawei, which supplies network equipment to the UK's mobile operators for their roll-out of 5G, following the US decision to curb its ability to do business in America.\n\nMr Allera told the BBC that EE does currently use Huawei's equipment, although it is in the process of removing it from the core of its 4G network.\n\nThe core is where the most sensitive functions occur, including device authentication, voice and data-routing and billing.\n\nHowever, EE does intend to use Huawei within its radio access network (Ran), which allows users to send data to and from the core.\n\n\"There is no current government guidance to suggest we should not use Huawei, but if the guidance changes we will reconsider. That will be disruptive but there are other people that provide equipment,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Howett thinks that a ban on Huawei could be problematic, not just for EE but for all the UK's operators, because it is in a significant part of their networks.\n\n\"There is little interoperability between vendors, which means it is difficult to deploy non-Huawei 5G equipment alongside existing Huawei 4G equipment.\n\n\"A ban would require operators to replace such equipment before they could deploy 5G technology,\" he said.\n\nEE is planning to add 100 new 5G sites each month.\n\nThat will gradually bring coverage to:\n\nTen more towns and cities will get services in 2020, including Aberdeen, Cambridge, Derby, Gloucester, Peterborough, Plymouth and Portsmouth.\n\nThe handsets available will include the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, OnePlus's 7 Pro 5G and Oppo's Reno 5G phones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nThe future of 5,000 British Steel workers remains uncertain as its owners continue to lobby for government backing.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the money it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel.\n\nBut Treasury sources say the only way nationalisation would be contemplated is if there were credible buyers waiting in the wings.\n\nAnd - says BBC business editor Simon Jack - \"there are no clear candidates to buy a weak company in a challenged sector\".\n\nThe company's request for emergency support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry. British Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nAccording to think-tank IPPR, allowing British Steel to collapse would lead to £2.8bn in lost wages over a 10-year period and cost the government £1.1bn in lost revenue and extra benefit payments.\n\nSuch a decision would also reduce household spending by £1.2bn, which would have an impact on the economy.\n\nIPPR's chief economist Carys Roberts said: \"We need a UK-wide industrial strategy that supports strong supply chains, including the foundation industries such as steelmaking that manufacture core materials for use in other industries.\"\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market when it bought the Anglo-Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will stand down on 7 June, after pressure grew over her handling of Brexit negotiations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't know the identity of the donor' - Geoff Knupfer, ICLVR lead investigator\n\nA reward of almost £50,000 is being offered for new information that results in finding the bodies of those murdered and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles.\n\nThe anonymous donation of $60,000 (£47,191) has been given to the independent UK charity Crimestoppers.\n\nIn spite of numerous searches, three of 16 victims - known as the Disappeared - have not been found.\n\nJoe Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk who later joined the IRA and was abducted and murdered in 1972\n\nMr McVeigh's brother Oliver said the donation was \"great news\".\n\n\"Anything that helps the recovery process is very welcome,\" he added.\n\nCrimestoppers takes calls anonymously by telephone or accepts information through an anonymous online form.\n\nIt says any information that it receives will be passed only to the Independent Commission for the Location of the Victims' Remains (ICLVR).\n\nColumba McVeigh, 19, from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, was kidnapped in November 1975\n\nThe ICLVR was set up to obtain information that may lead to where the bodies of the Disappeared are buried.\n\nInformation it receives is strictly confidential and is not passed to other agencies or used in prosecutions.\n\nFiona McCormack, the director of operations at Crimestoppers, said anonymity would be maintained for those who present new information.\n\n\"People giving information can be safe in the knowledge that no-one will ever know who they are - not even us,\" she said.\n\nCapt Robert Nairac was abducted by the IRA while on an undercover operation in south Armagh in 1977\n\n\"That is a promise we have kept since the charity began more than 30 years ago.\n\n\"The commission is doing an excellent job and to date the remains of 13 of the 16 Disappeared have been recovered.\"\n\nMs McCormack said the reward was \"not about finding out what happened to these people\" but rather to give victims' relatives the chance to \"hold a long-overdue funeral\".\n\n\"The reward was put up by an anonymous donor and is $20,000 (£15,730) for the recovery of each body,\" she added.\n\nExcavations have been carried out in searches for the men at numerous locations\n\n\"It can only be claimed for information that goes directly to the Crimestoppers charity.\"\n\nGeoff Knupfer, the lead investigator for the ICLVR, said his organisation was \"not really interested\" in who the anonymous donor was but he believed the money \"might prove to be a game-changer\".\n\n\"We do understand the payment of money for information is a contentious issue at the best of times,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"But we have to make it clear that this is a humanitarian process.\n\n\"It's nothing to do with crime, it's simply about recovering the remains of the outstanding victims and returning them to their families - it's about closure.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hidden victims of the Yemen war\n\nThe UN says food aid is being diverted by some corrupt and uncooperative officials in Houthi-held areas of Yemen, where millions of people are believed to be on the verge of famine.\n\nDavid Beasley, head of the World Food Programme (WFP), told the BBC the agency's efforts to reach people in need were being repeatedly blocked.\n\nHe said he hoped \"good Houthi leaders\" would prevail over the corrupt ones.\n\nOn Monday, the agency warned of a possible suspension of aid delivery.\n\nYemen is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world currently and some 12 million people - almost 40% of the population - are on the brink of starvation, according to Mr Beasley. Most of those most in need are in Houthi-controlled areas.\n\nMr Beasley said that his unusual public criticism could backfire, with Houthi leaders providing even less access to humanitarian workers, but that children were dying as a result of this \"desperate, desperate situation\".\n\n\"This violates the most fundamental international standards of humanitarian principles because innocent people are suffering from food diversion, theft, corruption,\" said Mr Beasley, who last year criticised the Saudi-led coalition for a blockade stopping vital assistance from reaching Yemen.\n\n\"I know all the Houthis and the Houthi leaders aren't like that. There are good Houthi leaders and I hope they can prevail.\"\n\nOn Monday, the WFP said its teams were being denied access to people in need, convoys had been blocked and local officials were interfering with food distribution, warning of a phased suspension of aid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where the fighting in Yemen has stopped... but not the suffering\n\nEarlier this month, rebels pulled out of three key Red Sea ports - Hudaydah, Salif and Ras Issa - in partial implementation of a ceasefire deal agreed last December, according to the UN.\n\nThis could allow vital humanitarian aid into the country.\n\nThe UN says at least 7,070 civilians have been killed and 11,205 injured since the conflict in Yemen started in 2015, with 65% of the deaths attributed to Saudi-led coalition air strikes.\n\nThousands more civilians have died from preventable causes, including malnutrition, disease and poor health.", "Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that she was forced to move schools after being bullied.\n\nThe teenager has no shortage of achievements from her 15 years on the planet so far.\n\nBut she says what happened to her at school was 'soul-breaking.'\n\n\"I was bullied at school back in England,\" she said during an interview for the magazine Glamour UK. \"So it's extremely important for me to speak out against bullying.\"\n\nAs Eleven in the Netflix show Stranger Things, she's battled monsters in an alternative dimension.\n\nIn this dimension, she became the youngest person ever to make the list of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and she's also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador - their youngest ever, of course.\n\nBut she's now opened up about the struggles she's faced outside of the spotlight.\n\n\"I actually switched schools because of it, it created a lot of anxiety and issues that I still deal with today.\n\n\"I have dealt with situations both in real life and online that are soul-breaking and it genuinely hurts reading some of the things people have said.\"\n\nThe Stranger Things actress is an ambassador for UNICEF\n\nMillie quit Twitter last year after she was trolled, and she also addressed that during her chat for the magazine with guest interviewer Orlando Bloom.\n\n\"Young people's lives are increasingly under pressure. First of all, I want to make sure that children are protected from violence and exploitation.\n\n\"I also want to combat the negativity on social media - I have experienced it - it's like a disease. It's negative hate that is genuinely so horrifying to me.\"\n\nIn July she'll be back for the third season of Stranger Things, but unsurprisingly didn't reveal much.\n\n\"There's not much I can say,\" she told Glamour. \"But I can say it's one of the most important things in my life. I am so excited about it because I worked really hard on it. It's like my baby.\n\n\"I shaved my hair off for it, so ever since then it's become one of my favourite projects I have ever done.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled what she called her new Brexit deal\n\nThe backstop is perhaps the most controversial part of the prime minister's Brexit deal.\n\nIt is an insurance arrangement designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic under all circumstances.\n\nIt would keep the UK in a \"single customs territory\" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nSome MPs fear it could trap the UK in a customs union with the EU while Northern Ireland unionists think it would diminish their place in the union.\n\nIn her speech on Tuesday, the prime minister said she had listened to unionist concerns.\n\nBut she was also clear that the backstop would be staying in the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nInstead, she promised to give legal force to commitments that she has already made and proposed an enhanced role for the Northern Ireland Assembly - should it ever be reconstituted.\n\nFirstly, Theresa May said there would now be a legal commitment to find \"alternative arrangements\" for the Irish border by December 2020.\n\nAlternative arrangements basically mean technological solutions for the Irish border which would allow trade to flow across it unimpeded, even if the UK is outside the EU's customs union and single market.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nBrexit supporters see this as being key to avoiding the backstop.\n\nHowever, a government commitment to seek alternative arrangements by the end of 2020 is not new - it was laid out in a joint statement with the EU in March.\n\nThe prime minister also said that if the backstop was applied and Northern Ireland had to continue to follow EU rules, then the rest of the UK would voluntarily follow those same rules.\n\nThat is also not new - it was part of a package of commitments announced by the UK government almost six months ago.\n\nHowever, the government would claim that moving from political promises to legally binding commitments should be seen as significant.\n\nWhat was new in the prime minister's speech was the role that Stormont would play if the backstop was ever implemented.\n\nIn January, the UK government said that if any new areas of Northern Ireland-specific alignment were to be added to the backstop, then it would \"seek the agreement of the Northern Ireland Assembly\".\n\nNI's devolved government collapsed in January 2017 following a bitter dispute between Sinn Féin and the DUP\n\nThat stopped well short of a Stormont veto - Westminster was only required to seek agreement, not to get it.\n\nThis has now been toughened up.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"The Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive will have to give their consent on a cross-community basis for new regulations which are added to the backstop.\"\n\nThe words \"cross-community basis\" are important as it means that a simple majority vote of the assembly would not be enough.\n\nIt is possible that unionists, who dislike the very concept of the backstop, could use a blocking mechanism known as the petition of concern.\n\nWhat would happen if Stormont did veto any addition to the backstop is not entirely clear.\n\nAll we can say for sure is that there is a mechanism in the Withdrawal Agreement that ultimately allows the EU to take \"appropriate remedial measures\" if the UK does not update the backstop.\n\nThere is also the question of how to define a new regulation - under the Withdrawal Agreement a regulation is not new if it is replacing or amending an existing regulation.\n\nSo it is likely that Stormont would only, very rarely, get an opportunity to wield its veto.", "Prof Alston met people across the UK, including these Belfast residents\n\nThe UK's social safety net has been \"deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos\", a report commissioned by the UN has said.\n\nSpecial rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston said \"ideological\" cuts to public services since 2010 have led to \"tragic consequences\".\n\nThe report comes after Prof Alston visited UK towns and cities and made preliminary findings last November.\n\nThe government said his final report was \"barely believable\".\n\nThe £95bn spent on welfare and the maintenance of the state pension showed the government took tackling poverty \"extremely seriously\", a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.\n\nProf Alston is an independent expert in human rights law and was appointed to the unpaid role by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2014. He spent nearly two weeks travelling in Britain and Northern Ireland and received more than 300 written submissions for his report.\n\nHe concluded: \"The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.\"\n\nThe Australian professor, who is based at New York University, said government policies had led to the \"systematic immiseration [economic impoverishment]\" of a significant part of the UK population, meaning they had continually put people further into poverty.\n\nSome observers might conclude that the DWP had been tasked with \"designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th Century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens\", he said.\n\nThe report cites independent experts saying that 14 million people in the UK - a fifth of the population - live in poverty, according to a new measure that takes into account costs such as housing and childcare.\n\nIn 2017, 1.5 million people experienced destitution, meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or they had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period.\n\nDespite official denials, Prof Alston said he had heard accounts of people choosing between heating their homes or eating, children turning up to school with empty stomachs, increased homelessness and food bank use, and \"story after story\" of people who had considered or attempted suicide.\n\nPeople in Clacton shared their concerns at a meeting with the UN special rapporteur\n\nHe said the cause was the government's \"ideological\" decision to dismantle the social safety net and focus on work as the solution to poverty.\n\n\"UK standards of well-being have descended precipitately in a remarkably short period of time, as a result of deliberate policy choices made when many other options were available,\" said Prof Alston.\n\nTo anyone familiar with the shifting landscape of Britain's poorest communities since 2010, there is nothing factually new in these findings.\n\nBy highlighting them in one short, 20-page report, however, Philip Alston raises a fundamental question - is the government, and the country, comfortable with the society that we've become?\n\nHe outlines the normalisation of food banks, rising levels of homelessness and child poverty, steep cuts to benefits and policing, and severe restrictions on legal aid.\n\nIn Professor Alston's view, these are the unequivocal consequences of deliberate, calculated political decisions.\n\nMinisters have long argued they had no choice but to cut public spending. Whatever the motivation, life has become a lot harder in recent years for millions of people in the UK.\n\nThe DWP said that the UN's own data put the UK 15th on the list of the happiest places to live.\n\n\"This is a barely believable documentation of Britain, based on a tiny period of time spent here. It paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"All the evidence shows that full-time work is the best way to boost your income and quality of life,\" the spokesman added.\n\nProf Alston praised the \"resilience, strength and generosity\" of British people, as well as the compassion of local officials and volunteers.\n\nAnd he said there had been some positive developments, with increases in the Universal Credit work allowances expected to lift 200,000 people out of poverty, and plans to introduce a consistent measure of poverty.\n\nBut he said the \"massive disinvestment\" in the social safety net continued, making the changes seem like \"window dressing to minimise political fall-out\".\n\nDespite the government's focus on work and record levels of employment, about 60% of people in poverty are in families where someone works, Prof Alston said.\n\nHe said this, along with welfare cuts, created a \"highly combustible situation that will have dire consequences\" in an extended economic downturn.", "Scotland Yard said investigations suggested that a \"blank-firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA man has been arrested after a gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on 9 May.\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested earlier on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession with intent to supply, and assaulting a police officer.\n\nEvidence suggested the weapon was a blank-firing handgun, police said.\n\nNobody was hurt in the incident. The arrested man remains in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who blew up his marital home while his ex-wife was downstairs has been jailed for five years and four months.\n\nIan and Elaine Clowes converted their home in Poole, Dorset, into two separate flats following their divorce.\n\nClowes, 68, ignited a gas cylinder in October 2018 to stop her from owning the whole building, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.\n\nHe admitted arson reckless as to whether life was endangered.\n\nIan Clowes was \"motivated by malice\", a judge said\n\nThe explosion on Sterte Road on 22 October caused more than £600,000 worth of damage, the court was told.\n\nMr Clowes, who was upstairs when the butane canister ignited, suffered severe burns in the blast and spent weeks in an induced coma.\n\nHis wife was rescued uninjured from the rubble-filled downstairs bedroom by firefighters, the court was told.\n\nStuart Ellacott, prosecuting, said a neighbouring house which sustained \"catastrophic\" damage was uninsured.\n\nThe explosion caused the building to partially collapse\n\nThe court heard firefighters found two canisters in Clowes' flat, with one \"still venting gas\" after the valve had been opened.\n\nClowes was heard to say, \"I don't want to be here any more - I just wanted to die\", as he was treated at the scene, Mr Ellacott said.\n\nHe said the defendant had originally owned the whole building, but a court ordered his wife could take possession of the house after paying him £65,000.\n\nThe explosion happened on the day the property was due to be transferred.\n\nRobert Grey, mitigating, said his client was remorseful and the act was \"out of character\".\n\nHe said Clowes did not remember anything around the time of the explosion but accepted he must have released the valve.\n\nPassing sentence, Judge Jonathan Fuller QC said Clowes must have known his wife was in the flat downstairs when he detonated the gas canister.\n\nHe added: \"This case was motivated by a degree of malice - you did not want your wife to get the house.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man accused of murdering Nipsey Hussle has been formally charged, according to prosecutors in the United States.\n\nNew details have been made public about the charges against 29-year-old Eric Holder Jr.\n\nHe's accused of murder and two counts of attempted murder, after two other men were injured when the rapper was shot dead in March.\n\nEric Holder is accused of killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle\n\nEric Holder Jr is also accused of assault with a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon - someone who's already been convicted of a serious crime.\n\nHe's denied all the charges against him and is due to appear in court for a pre-trial hearing on 18 June.\n\nNipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his own clothing business in South Los Angeles on 31 March.\n\nHe died because of gunshot wounds to the head and torso, with the Los Angeles County coroner ruling the death a homicide.\n\nTwo days later, Eric Holder Jr was arrested in Bellflower, which is around 20 miles south east of where the rapper was killed.\n\nBail has been set at $6.53m, roughly £5.1m, and if found guilty he could be sentenced to life in prison.\n\nNipsey performed at the Warner Music Pre-Grammy Party in LA the month before he died\n\nFollowing Nipsey's death, tributes were paid from across the music industry.\n\nBeyonce, Rihanna, Drake, Chance The Rapper, John Legend and Big Sean were among the artists that spoke about him.\n\nHe was nominated for best rap album at the Grammys earlier this year for his record Victory Lap.\n\nEarlier this month, the lawyer representing Eric Holder Jr announced he was quitting the case.\n\nChris Darden said it was because \"threats\" had been made to members of his family including his children.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Did the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nAfter she finished, public rejections from almost all quarters started to pour in.\n\nOf course, the vote itself on this bundle of measures won't be for at least a week - a lifetime in this hyper-speed world. A lot could change.\n\nBut the diplomatic way of describing the situation tonight? Compromising when no one else is interested in consensus is impossible.\n\nThe more brutal political interpretation - Theresa May's mishandling of this whole situation has, over many, many months, pulled her deeper and deeper down into a quagmire of her own creation.\n\nAn attempt at this stage to ask others for understanding to help her escape is just too late - far, far too late. Now some Conservative minds are turning to whether she can stay on to have this vote at all.", "Change UK has spent more than twice as much on Facebook ads in the last week as other parties standing in this week's European elections.\n\nThe newly-formed party spent £62,650 in the period from 13 to 19 May, more than half their total spend of £120,711 since February.\n\nLast week, The Brexit Party spent £27,359, Labour £19,513, the Lib Dems £20,681 and the Conservatives £8,470.\n\nIn the last 30 days, the Lib Dems and The Brexit Party have spent the most.\n\nThe Brexit Party spent nearly £100,000 in advertising on the platform during that longer period, which starts before the UK's participation in the European elections was confirmed on 7 May. The Liberal Democrats spent nearly £80,000.\n\nLast week, the Greens spent £14,432 and UKIP spent under £100.\n\nHowever, just because a party is spending more does not mean that the posts will be more widely viewed.\n\nIn the run up to the 2017 general election, Labour spent less on Facebook ads than the Conservatives, but had a higher engagement rate on the site.\n\nIn 2017, parties spent about £3m on Facebook ads between them, with the Conservatives spending twice as much as the other parties combined.\n\nDuring that general election, the Liberal Democrats spent almost as much money as Labour, but reached far fewer people.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservatives spent £1.2m on the network's advertising platform, about 10 times more than Labour.\n\nAll of this is small fry in comparison to American elections, however, where the Trump and Clinton campaigns spent $81m (£63.7m) between them on Facebook ads alone in the run up to the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThat figure does not even include advert spending by Political Action Committees (or PACs) which can run ads endorsing a particular figure or stance. It is possible for PACs to outspend the candidates running for office.", "Geoff Ho was in Black and Blue - next to Borough Market - when the attackers entered\n\nThe London Bridge attackers stalked people who were in a bar-restaurant like \"predators\", a man who was stabbed has told the inquest.\n\nGeoff Ho was in Black and Blue, on the edge of Borough Market, when the three attackers entered with \"slow, deliberate predatory movements\".\n\nHe was among 48 people injured on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people with their van and knife attack.\n\nSpeaking at the Old Bailey, Mr Ho told the inquest: \"It was like they were stalking someone.\"\n\nHe said he refused the attackers' demands to lie down on the floor, saying he knew \"if I lay down I'd be dead\".\n\nHe told the court they were wearing a series of \"metal canisters liked baked bean tins\" with wires connecting them, which he took to be suicide bombs.\n\nAfter being told by one of the men to lie on the floor, he told the court he said: \"No - you don't have to do this.\"\n\nHe said he thought: \"If I rush him he might detonate and kill us all. The only thing I can do is talk to him and hopefully he will go away.\"\n\nHe described the \"murderous rage\" in the man's eyes.\n\nMr Ho gave a graphic description of how he was repeatedly stabbed. Eventually he was able to get up and seek help, with his hand clasped around his throat to stop the bleeding.\n\nCCTV footage later showed that the time taken from the three men entering the bar until they lashed out was less than a minute.\n\nMr Ho told the court: \"It seemed longer.\"\n\nThe first 10 days of the inquests focused on the eight people killed in the first few minutes of the attack.\n\nThe hearing has now begun to look into the next phase - as Redouane, Butt and Zaghba continued stabbing people in bars, restaurants and on the street in the Borough Market area.\n\nCandice Hedge - a waitress at Elliot's Cafe, opposite Black and Blue - described how customers were \"scrambling to try to get a safe spot\" when the three attackers came in.\n\nShe said she remembered seeing \"some sort of wires\" on one of the men, which she thought looked like an explosive vest.\n\n\"They were shouting something along the lines of they were not happy with the way we were living our lives,\" Ms Hedge added.\n\nMr Ho and Candice Hedge both gave evidence to the inquest on Wednesday\n\nShe saw one of the men stab a customer twice in the back and then \"the one beside me turned around as if to leave and then he saw me\".\n\nMs Hedge put her hands up to protect her face, but was stabbed in the neck. She went to the bar and grabbed a napkin which she used to try and stem the bleeding.\n\nShe said she moved to the stairs and could not see what the attacker was doing, but could hear bar stools smashing.\n\nShe fled to a downstairs kitchen where she waited with colleagues until police arrived about 20-30 minutes later.\n\nMeanwhile, the last person injured in the attack - Antonio Filis - told the court he felt lucky to be alive after a knife wound narrowly missed his lung.\n\nThe inquest heard he had had martial arts training some years before and was initially able to use it to avoid the assailant's knife.\n\nBut the other two attackers joined the assault stabbing Mr Filis several times.\n\nAs he lay on the ground, Mr Filis said he thought: \"Whatever's going to happen, please make it quick.\"\n\nAlmost immediately, armed police arrived and the three attackers left him.\n\nThe trio moved towards the officers, who warned them to drop their knives before opening fire, hitting all three of the attackers.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.\n\nIt was brought to an end in less than 10 minutes when the attackers were shot dead.", "Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe Austrian will be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing after being badly burned in a crash in the 1976 German Grand Prix.\n\nOne of the best-known figures in motor racing, his on the track rivalry with British driver James Hunt during the 1970s was immortalised in the film Rush.", "Huawei unveiled new phones powered by ARM-based chips, on Tuesday\n\nUK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.\n\nARM instructed employees to halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei and its subsidiaries to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nIn a company memo, it said its designs contained “US origin technology”.\n\nAs a consequence, it believes it is affected by the Trump administration's ban.\n\nOne analyst described the move, if it became long-term, as an “insurmountable” blow to Huawei’s business.\n\nHe said it would greatly affect the firm's ability to develop its own chips, many of which are currently built with ARM’s underlying technology, for which it pays a licence.\n\nThese are used in the Chinese company's 5G base stations and computer servers in addition to its smartphones.\n\nCambridge-headquartered ARM had been described as the UK's largest tech firm until its takeover by a Japanese fund. It employs 6,000 workers and lists eight offices in the US.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday it said: \"ARM is complying with the latest restrictions set forth by the US government and is having ongoing conversations with the appropriate US government agencies to ensure we remain compliant.\n\n\"ARM values its relationship with our long-time partner HiSilicon and we are hopeful for a swift resolution on this matter.\"\n\nHuawei has issued a brief statement of its own.\n\n\"We value our close relationships with our partners, but recognise the pressure some of them are under, as a result of politically motivated decisions,\" it said.\n\n\"We are confident this regrettable situation can be resolved and our priority remains to continue to deliver world-class technology and products to our customers around the world.\"\n\nARM is a chip designer founded in 1990. In September 2016 it was acquired by Japanese telecoms giant Softbank, but remains based in Cambridge, UK.\n\nARM does not manufacture computer processors itself, but rather licenses its semiconductor technologies to others.\n\nIn some cases, manufacturers only license ARM's architecture, or \"instruction sets\", which determine how processors handle commands. This option gives chip-makers greater freedom to customise their own designs.\n\nIn other cases, manufacturers license ARM's processor core designs - which describes how the chips' transistors should be arranged. These blueprints still need to be combined with other elements - such as memory and radios - to create what is referred to as a system-on-chip.\n\nAs a result, when you hear talk of a device being powered by a Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm Snapdragon or Apple A11 chip - or one in a Huawei smartphone - it is still ARM's technology that is involved.\n\nARM's US headquarters are in San Jose, California, and the firm has offices in Washington, Arizona, Texas and Massachusetts.\n\nARM’s staff were informed of the decision on 16 May, following the US Commerce Department’s move to add Huawei to its “entity list” of companies with which American firms could no longer do business.\n\nThe BBC has also seen a company memo dated 18 May detailing the implications of the export ban.\n\nOn Monday 20 May, US government officials issued a 90-day reprieve on some of the restrictions in order to minimise immediate disruption. But ARM believes that the temporary licence involved does not apply to it.\n\nA spokesman for ARM declined to offer any additional clarity about the current status of its Huawei contracts.\n\nA break with ARM would make it difficult for Huawei to develop future generations of its Kirin processors\n\nAccording to one memo, ARM staff were instructed to suspend all interactions with Huawei and its subsidiaries.\n\nIt advised staff to send a note informing Huawei (or related) employees that due to an “unfortunate situation”, they were not allowed to “provide support, delivery technology (whether software, code, or other updates), engage in technical discussions, or otherwise discuss technical matters with Huawei, HiSilicon or any of the other named entities”.\n\nARM staff that come into contact with employees at industry events must “politely decline and stop” any conversations about the business, the guidance said - stressing that individuals could be held personally liable for breaking the trade rules.\n\nThe ban also appeared to apply to ARM China, the China-based company in which ARM Holdings owns a 49% stake. It was set up as a joint venture with a Chinese investment consortium last year in order to enable ARM to develop, sell and offer support for its products in the region.\n\nHuawei told reporters on Tuesday that its “plan B” for software would be to develop its own operating system, something it has already been working on for some time. However, it will be significantly more difficult for the firm to source home-grown components of sufficient quality.\n\nHuawei currently sources some of its chips from HiSilicon, which it owns. However, while produced in China, HiSilicon’s chips are built using underlying technology created by ARM.\n\nWhile HiSilicon and Huawei are free to carry on using and manufacturing existing chips, the ban would mean the company could no longer turn to ARM for assistance in developing components for devices in future.\n\nHiSilicon's upcoming processor, Kirin 985, is due be used in Huawei devices later this year. According to a source at ARM, it is not expected to be affected by the ban. However, the next iteration of the chip has not yet been completed - and is likely to need to be rebuilt from scratch, the source said.\n\nHuawei also uses ARM's designs for its recently unveiled Kunpeng chips. These are used to power its TaiShan-series computer servers, which are designed to provide cloud computing and storage to clients.\n\nIn addition, the company told analysts in January that the Tiangang chip at the heart of its 5G base stations is also ARM-based.\n\nHuawei's carrier division chief Ryan Ding showed off its 5G base station chip alongside an image saying it involved a \"high-performance ARM-based processor\"\n\n\"The problem of the whole telecoms industry is that so much of it is based on the exchange of technology between different companies - whether that's chip companies, software providers or the makers of other hardware,\" commented Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor-at-large of the telecoms news site Capacity Media.\n\nHe added that Huawei would likely face other problems licensing 5G-related tech from others, and in turn US-based companies would now be unable to licence the Chinese company's 5G inventions.\n\n\"This will carve out a chasm in the industry between Huawei-originated intellectual property and the rest of the world's,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just a total mess and it's happened at a critical time for the rollout of 5G.\"\n\nThe relationship between ARM and Huawei engineers is tight - earlier this month Huawei announced its intention to build a research centre only 15 minutes from ARM’s headquarters in Cambridge, UK.\n\nThe latest development follows news that Huawei will lose access to some of Google's Android services\n\n\"ARM is the foundation of Huawei’s smartphone chip designs, so this is an insurmountable obstacle for Huawei,” said Geoff Blaber, from CCS Insight.\n\n\"That said, with an abundance of companies in Huawei’s supply chain already having taken action to comply with the US order, Huawei’s ability to operate was already severely affected.”\n\nWhat is not yet clear is whether ARM is acting on its own interpretation of the US rules, or whether it has been advised by the Commerce Department.\n\n\"If that interpretation is correct, that’s going to affect every semiconductor company in the world,” remarked analyst Lee Ratliff, from IHS Markit.\n\n\"They’re not going to be able to easily replace these parts with new, in-house designs - the semiconductor industry in China is nascent.”\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The parents of a man who joined the group calling itself Islamic State sent him money while he was in Syria, a jury at the Old Bailey has heard.\n\nJack Letts, who converted to Islam aged 16, travelled to the war zone in 2014.\n\nThe court heard John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 56, of Chilswell Road, Oxford, sent or tried to send more than £1,700 to their son despite warnings not to.\n\nThe couple deny three charges of funding terrorism.\n\nIt is alleged that between September 2015 and January 2016 the couple sent or tried to send three payments to Jack, now 23, after he contacted them from the war zone.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the jury there was no suggestion Jack's parents were themselves terrorists or supporters of the ideology or actions of the banned IS group.\n\nBut she added: \"They sent money to their son with knowledge or reasonable cause to suspect that it might be used by him or others to support terrorist activity, or that it might fall into the hands of others who would use it for that purpose.\n\n\"It is inevitable that you will have sympathy for them as parents of a man who took himself to Syria against their wishes, but you will also see from the evidence the way in which these defendants came to commit these offences, despite being warned by a wide variety of people.\"\n\nThe jury heard the evidence would show that the couple knew Jack was in Syria with the IS group and, when he began asking for cash, they suspected he was being manipulated.\n\nMs Morgan said Mr Letts and Ms Lane were repeatedly told by \"numerous police officers\" not to send any money.\n\nThey received further similar advice from a range of terrorism experts they consulted for help, the court heard.\n\n\"It was not open to these defendants to take the law into their own hands, whatever their own reasons and motives,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\n\"Sending money in such circumstances, where you may conclude that it was highly likely to fall into the wrong hands, is against the law.\"\n\nOxford-based Muslim friends of Jack Letts, who has obsessive compulsive disorder, feared he had been radicalised by extremists, the court was told.\n\nOne friend from the local mosque contacted his parents to warn them about that possibility of their son secretly leaving the UK to join the Syrian conflict, and urged them to confiscate his passport.\n\nDespite those concerns, they paid for Jack to fly to Jordan in May 2014, apparently for a study trip, the prosecution said.\n\nThe court heard the couple sought to maintain contact with Jack, with Mr Letts messaging his son to talk about his \"grand adventure\".\n\nBut both parents harboured growing suspicions about Jack's ultimate motives, Ms Morgan said, and by September 2014 they realised he must have entered Syria.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has resigned from the government amid a backlash against Theresa May's Brexit plan from Conservative MPs.\n\nHere is her resignation letter in full:\n\nI am proud to have served in your government since 2016, first as your environment secretary and for the last two years as leader of the House of Commons, and pay tribute to the excellent work of my civil servants in both roles. More recently, setting up the new complaints procedure, putting in train the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, introducing proxy voting for MPs, proposing a new strategy to support early years, and ensuring the timely delivery of our legislative programme, my role as leader of the Commons has been highly rewarding, and I am grateful to have had these opportunities.\n\nI stayed in cabinet to shape and fight for Brexit. There have been some uncomfortable compromises along the way, but you have had my determined support and loyalty in your efforts to deliver Brexit as our shared goal.\n\nI no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result, for the following reasons:\n\n1. I do not believe that we will be a truly sovereign United Kingdom through the deal that is now proposed;\n\n2. I have always maintained that a second referendum would be dangerously divisive, and I do not support the government willingly facilitating such a concession. It would also risk undermining our union which is something I passionately want to see strengthened;\n\n3. There has been such a breakdown of government processes that recent Brexit-related legislative proposals have not been properly scrutinised or approved by cabinet members;\n\n4. The tolerance to those in cabinet who have advocated policies contrary to the government's position has led to a complete breakdown of collective responsibility.\n\nI know there are important elections tomorrow, and many Conservatives have worked hard to support our excellent candidates. I considered carefully the timing of this decision, but I cannot fulfil my duty as Leader of the House tomorrow, to announce a bill with new elements that I fundamentally oppose.\n\nI fully respect the integrity, resolution and determination that you have shown during your time as prime minister. No-one has wanted you to succeed more than I have, but I do now urge you to make the right decisions In the interests of the country, this government and our party.\n\nIt is therefore with great regret and with a heavy heart that I resign from the government.\n• None May under pressure as Leadsom quits", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Scunthorpe, residents fear the town will \"shut down\" if British Steel collapses\n\nLabour has urged the government to nationalise British Steel in order to protect jobs and the steel industry.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the collapse of British Steel would have a \"devastating impact\" on Scunthorpe.\n\nBritish Steel is on the verge of administration as it continues to lobby for government backing, sources say.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest steel maker had been trying to secure £75m in financial support to help it to address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIf the firm does not get the cash it would put 5,000 jobs at risk and endanger 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\n\"If an agreement cannot be struck with British Steel, the government must act to take a public stake in the company to secure the long term future of the steelworks and protect peoples' livelihoods and communities,\" said Mr Corbyn.\n\nThe government said it would leave \"no stone unturned\" in its support for the steel industry.\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has a site in Teesside.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Business Minister Andrew Stephenson said: \"I can reassure the House that, subject to strict legal bounds, the government will leave no stone unturned in its support for the steel industry.\"\n\nUK Steel's director general, Gareth Stace, said: \"The statement from the business minister today provided a glimmer of hope for the Scunthorpe site.\n\n\"This does provide some breathing space for the company, its employees, and the wider steel sector, providing a potential route towards a stable and sustainable future.\"\n\nThe request for emergency financial support from the government is understood to have been reduced from £75m to about £30m.\n\nIn April, British Steel borrowed £100m from the government to enable it to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nReports have said that British Steel shareholder Greybull Capital and lenders have agreed to pump new money into the firm.\n\nHowever, unless a deal is reached by Tuesday afternoon, the firm could go into administration within 48 hours. EY would be expected to be appointed as administrators on Wednesday.\n\nIf a company goes into administration, then the insolvency practitioners appointed to run the business will try to rescue it by selling it, or parts of it, as a going concern.\n\nBut if that is not possible it will be liquidated, meaning that it will be closed down and its saleable assets will be sold.\n\nFor staff in Scunthorpe, it's a waiting game.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC's consumer affairs correspondent Colletta Smith spoke to a British Steel staff member who was too worried to be named. He said that two of his colleagues have just got mortgages and are petrified they won't be able to make payments.\n\nNews that the company is in trouble isn't a surprise though, as there are piles of finished steel on the factory floor, with no customers to send it to, he said.\n\n\"We're doing a bit at work, but it's mostly sitting around doing nothing as the orders just aren't there\".\n\nHe said staff feel let down by the owners.\n\n\"They've just stripped this company and now they're putting nothing back. Our only hope is a government bailout, but this time it feels different. I don't think they'll save us.\"\n\nSources close to Greybull Capital say its lenders have told them that unless they can secure a £30m lifeline they will pull the plug on British Steel tomorrow.\n\nThe timing of this could hardly be worse for the government coming as it does right before the European elections.\n\nCynics might suggest that Greybull is not unhappy with the timescale of the plea.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has a very tough decision, as I've already written.\n\nThe question may be whether the government can put this down to Brexit mitigation and tap the same source of contingency funds Chris Grayling disastrously used to procure emergency ferry capacity.\n\nAt least there would be an immediate dividend - to stave off the collapse of a firm that employs 4,500 people directly and has 20,000 more at risk in the supply chain.\n\nHowever, having already lent £100m to cover a genuinely Brexit-related carbon emissions bill - further assistance to a private company struggling in a deeply challenged industry may be a precedent they would rather not set.\n\nLast Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations were continuing as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" from the government to its financial troubles.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nOne of its biggest customers is Network Rail, 95% of whose rails are supplied by British Steel's Scunthorpe plant.\n\nIn 2007, India's Tata conglomerate entered the UK steel market after it bought the Anglo Dutch group, Corus. In 2010, the business was renamed Tata Steel Europe.\n\nAfter a difficult few years, Tata sold the Scunthorpe long products division to private equity firm Greybull Capital for a nominal £1.\n\nGreybull's rescue came during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016 and saved more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt then rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nOn Monday, the government, trade unions and employers signed a UK Steel Charter in Parliament. The charter calls on the government and large companies to buy British to boost UK industry.", "David Davies says he uses a body camera because of the abuse he gets.\n\nThe pro-Brexit MP for Monmouth has voted for Theresa May's deal.\n\nDuring an interview on the subject, a member of the public called him a liar and a traitor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nEight years ago I worked with a team at BBC One's Panorama programme to reveal terrible physical abuse at a hospital for vulnerable adults on the outskirts of Bristol, called Winterbourne View.\n\nPeople with learning disabilities or autism were filmed by our undercover reporter being kicked, punched, mocked and mistreated by people paid to care for them.\n\nAs the producer of that film, I worked with whistleblowers to gather evidence, hired the undercover reporter and oversaw his filming.\n\nNearly a dozen people who had worked at Winterbourne View were prosecuted afterwards as a result of our evidence. The abuse was terrible, as was the betrayal of trust.\n\nAfter our film was broadcast, the then Prime Minister David Cameron, the then minister for care, Norman Lamb, and the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats committed to shutting specialist hospitals and moving people closer to their families.\n\nThat should have been the moment that the lives of thousands of people with learning disabilities or autism, whose behaviour some services struggle with, changed forever.\n\nInstead, though, we have been told that the political promise has been first watered down and then broken.\n\nNearly 2,300 people with learning disabilities or autism are still in such hospitals, often far from home and for much longer than is appropriate.\n\nHospitals are not places where people should live - and yet today they still are.\n\nLast year, a series of new whistleblowers approached BBC Panorama, complaining about the culture, attitude and behaviour of a group of care workers at a different hospital for vulnerable adults, called Whorlton Hall in County Durham.\n\nThey told us that care workers were bullying and mistreating patients.\n\nThat sort of behaviour should never happen in any hospital, and certainly not after all the promises that were made after Winterbourne View.\n\nWorse, eight years ago Whorlton Hall, which is privately-run but NHS-funded, had been owned by the same company as Winterbourne View.\n\nOne of the families affected by Winterbourne View told us they were shocked a hospital which used to be part of the same group could also be abusive.\n\nOlivia Davies went undercover to investigate the allegations\n\nI contacted a talented young journalist named Olivia Davies who had already been undercover twice for the BBC.\n\nI asked if she would be prepared to work inside the hospital as a care worker while also, at the same time, gathering evidence for the BBC.\n\nOlivia agreed and worked 12-hour shifts, often back to back, over more than two months, wearing a camera hidden in her top.\n\nThe patients whose care - and too often neglect or cruelty - that Olivia documented are some of the most vulnerable but also challenging people in the country.\n\nOlivia loved spending time with the patients, but that made her unusual among the staff at Whorlton Hall, most of whom seemed to ignore the people they are paid to care for.\n\nToo many care workers actively aggravated, tormented and talked about patients in the most appalling ways.\n\nThe taunting and deliberate winding up of patients was almost unbearable to witness, as was the language and attitude.\n\nExperts who reviewed our footage said that in one case what Olivia had filmed was evidence of psychological torture. Another patient was frequently deliberately provoked by staff.\n\nSomething that should only be a last resort is used too often and NHS figures show that its use is increasing.\n\nThe practice of holding distressed people down, often on the floor and sometimes for long periods of time, is horrible to witness and even worse to endure.\n\nIt shouldn't have happened again. The government should have fixed these issues, eight years ago.\n\nWe asked Health Secretary Matt Hancock for an interview about the wider issues, but his press office told us: \"We treat any allegations of abuse with the utmost seriousness.\n\n\"Durham Constabulary are now leading a criminal investigation into the allegations and we cannot comment on the investigation while it is ongoing. Steps have been taken to ensure the safety of residents at Whorlton Hall.\n\n\"Autistic people and those with learning disabilities should receive the best possible care and be supported to live in their communities.\n\n\"We are working to ensure more people return home from hospital as soon as their treatment has finished and significant investment in community support has already led to a 22% reduction in these mental health inpatient numbers since 2015.\"\n\nCygnet, the company which now owns Whorlton Hall, said: \"We are shocked and deeply saddened by the allegations made against members of staff at Whorlton Hall, part of the Danshell Group, which Cygnet recently acquired.\n\n\"We take these allegations extremely seriously. We have suspended all the members of staff involved, simultaneously informed all relevant authorities, including the police, who have now instigated an inquiry and we are co-operating fully with their investigation.\n\n\"We have taken the initiative of transferring all the patients to other hospitals.\n\n\"The safety and care of our patients and residents is of paramount importance and we have zero tolerance of unprofessional conduct towards them.\n\n\"Those implicated in this programme have betrayed not only some of society's most vulnerable people but also the thousands of people at Cygnet who work daily with dedication and compassion to look after the people in their care.\n\n\"This appalling behaviour is entirely inconsistent with Cygnet Health Care's values and high standards and we remain absolutely committed to delivering the highest quality healthcare, which our patients and residents expect and deserve.\"", "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is \"devastated\" after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost.\n\nThe group, which includes the Jamie's Italian chain, Barbecoa and Fifteen, has appointed KPMG as administrators.\n\nTwenty two of the 25 restaurants in Jamie Oliver's restaurant group have now closed.\n\nMr Oliver, who put in £4m cash this year, said: \"I appreciate how difficult this is for everyone affected.\"\n\nTwo Jamie's Italian restaurants and Jamie Oliver's Diner at Gatwick Airport will continue to trade in the short term while the administrators explore options for the outlets.\n\n\"The group had recently undertaken a process to secure additional investment into the business and, since the beginning of this year, Jamie Oliver has made available additional funds of £4m to support the fundraising,\" said the administrators in a statement.\n\n\"However, with no suitable investment forthcoming and in light of the very difficult current trading environment, the directors resolved to appoint administrators.\"\n\nJamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay, which operates under a franchise, is unaffected. The international restaurants trading as Jamie's Italian, Jamie's Pizzeria and Jamie's Deli will also continue to trade as normal.\n\nMr Oliver tweeted that: \"I'm devastated that our much-loved UK restaurants have gone into administration.\"\n\nAnd in a statement he added: \"I would also like to thank all the customers who have enjoyed and supported us over the last decade, it's been a real pleasure serving you.\n\n\"We launched Jamie's Italian in 2008 with the intention of positively disrupting mid-market dining in the UK High Street, with great value and much higher quality ingredients, best-in-class animal welfare standards and an amazing team who shared my passion for great food and service. And we did exactly that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNotices have appeared in the windows of the 22 branches which have already closed.\n\nThe Unite union said the development was a \"devastating blow for the chain's hardworking and loyal workforce\".\n\n\"Restaurants are not being helped by the current economic uncertainty, although those businesses like Jamie Oliver's that dashed for expansion in recent years seem particularly precarious. As ever, it is the workers at the restaurant and in the supply chain who bear the heavy cost of boardroom decisions.\"\n\nThe union also asked for assurances that staff will be \"protected and paid all the money they're owed, including wages, holiday and redundancy\".\n\nOne Jamie's Italian worker in Birmingham, Valentine Balbinot, said: \"It was just so devastating, we were not expecting this... it is really brutal.\"\n\nMr Oliver is known for his Naked Chef books and TV shows, broadcast in dozens of countries, after first being shown in the UK 20 years ago.\n\nHe has also campaigned for healthier eating, including in school meals.\n\nHis chain is the latest victim of a tough trading environment on the UK High Street.\n\nEarlier this year, cafe chain Patisserie Valerie fell into administration, and 70 outlets closed, with the loss of 920 jobs, although 96 shops were saved.\n\nOther mid-market chains that have struggled in recent years have included Byron Burger, Prezzo and Carluccio's.\n\nMr Oliver's business has faced difficulties over the past two years, with a number of Jamie's Italian and Barbecoa restaurants shutting.\n\nClosed notices have been posted on a number of outlets, including Jamie's in Glasgow\n\nIn 2017, he closed the last of his Union Jacks restaurants and also shut his magazine Jamie, which had been running for almost 10 years.\n\nIn December of that year the chef also put £3m of his own money into his restaurant businesses.\n\nSimon Mydlowski, a partner at law firm Gordons and an expert in the hospitality industry, said Jamie's had failed to keep up with changing trends.\n\n\"To be successful in this sector you have to be constantly evolving - from the menus and the drinks choice, to the way you engage with customers.\"\n\n\"Faced with higher rent, rising food prices and increased competition, restaurants need a point of difference - it's no coincidence that smaller brands with the freedom and flexibility to keep things fresh are currently the ones performing well.\"", "Two men have been shot dead in separate incidents in County Dublin in less than 24 hours.\n\nOn Tuesday night, a man was found dead beside a burning car at Rowans Little in Walshestown, near Balbriggan in north County Dublin.\n\nHe has been identified as as 22-year-old Seán Little from Coolock in Dublin.\n\nIt is understood he was known to gardaí (Irish police) because of his links with organised crime.\n\nAccording to Irish broadcaster RTÉ, he was an associate of the leader of a Finglas-based organised crime gang, involved in an ongoing feud with a Blanchardstown drugs gang.\n\nHe also had close links to the Kinahan crime gang., RTÉ reports.\n\nPolice vehicles and investigators at the scene of the first incident in Walshestown\n\nGardaí said he was shot a number of times before his body was discovered at about 23:20 local time.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, a second man was shot dead on the north side of Dublin.\n\nHe was killed on Marigold Road in the Darndale area at about 16:00 local time.\n\nThe scene of a fatal shooting in the Darndale area of Dublin\n\nInitial reports suggest the victim was known to gardaí and that the shooting could be drugs related.\n\nHowever, it is not known if the two deaths are connected.\n\nA burnt-out car was removed from the scene of the first incident following a forensic examination\n\nIn the first incident, the fact that the body was found beside a burnt-out car may suggest the victim was murdered somewhere else and taken to the scene, off the Belfast-to-Dublin motorway, before being dropped from the vehicle near the exit close to Balbriggan.\n\nAlthough it is early in the investigation, detectives are keenly aware of three ongoing gangland feuds: one in Drogheda, a few kilometres north, and another in Blanchardstown in west Dublin - both are over the drugs trade.\n\nAnd then there is the on-going Kinahan-Hutch feud that began in 2015 and is believed to have claimed 17 lives so far.", "The pound has fallen to its lowest level for five months just as many UK holidaymakers get ready to head off for the late-May half-term break.\n\nAgainst the US dollar, the pound fell below $1.27 for the first time since January on Tuesday. It also fell early in the day against the euro.\n\nBut it picked up again later in the day in a sign of its current volatility.\n\nCabinet backing for Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit plan led to the rebound.\n\nCurrency experts say Brexit uncertainty and the US-China trade war have both contributed to the pound's recent fall.\n\nSterling had gained some ground in recent months, but in recent days rates have fallen back to the kind of levels seen during the Christmas holidays.\n\nIt is a very different picture from March 2008, when the pound was briefly worth more than $2.\n\nHolidaymakers heading off for an early summer break in Europe or the US may be saving money by avoiding the even higher costs of travelling in July and August.\n\nHowever, they are finding that their money will not go as far as it did a few years ago.\n\nAnyone leaving it to the last minute and changing money at the airport will always get the worst rates. At some airports, they will find an exchange rate little better than parity between the pound and the euro.\n\nJames Hickman, chief commercial officer at currency traders FairFx, said that the best rates were given to those who ordered their holiday money ahead. He suggested that would also be a good plan for anyone thinking about their holiday money for later this summer.\n\nAt present, the best rates on pre-loaded currency cards sees a pound buy just over $1.27 and just over €1.13.\n\nFor those collecting from an exchange bureau, the best deals will see the pound get slightly less than $1.26 and just under €1.13.\n\nThe Post Office - the most popular bureau for UK holidaymakers - sees anyone changing more than £400 receiving slightly over $1.24 and just over €1.11 for their pound.\n\nThe recent drop in the value of the pound has come amid speculation over the future of Brexit.\n\n\"When sentiment moves towards a higher likelihood of a hard Brexit, then we see a fall in the pound,\" Mr Hickman said.\n\nThe reverse is also true, shown by the rebound after the cabinet gave its backing to Mrs May's plan for her Withdrawal Agreement Bill, including compromises intended to attract the support of Labour MPs.\n\nSterling is also affected indirectly by the continuing trade war between the US and China.\n\nHamish Muress, currency analyst at OFX, said the pound was \"suffering from the renewed uncertainty of Brexit, while investors flood to the relatively safer US dollar amidst the ongoing trade war\".\n\n\"Looking forward, headwinds look stronger than tailwinds for the pound, particularly with another Brexit vote not set to take place for a few weeks yet. But perhaps the only real hope would come from Donald Trump pressing the pause button with regards to the trade war,\" he added.\n\nAlana Parsons, from foreign exchange firm Caxton, said: \"Getting the most value for your travel money can be tricky, but not if we spend as much time planning our finances as we do researching our holiday destinations.\"", "The postal mark on some envelopes shows they were sent to France via the Netherlands\n\nThe BBC has been contacted by British expats from across the world who say their postal voting forms have arrived late, or not at all.\n\nThe BBC found some local councils used a postal service called Adare SEC, rather than Royal Mail, to send them.\n\nEnvelopes seen by the BBC indicate they were sent via the Netherlands.\n\nVoters must have their papers back in the UK by election day. Adare SEC said all ballots were posted \"in line with the election and council timetables\".\n\nThe company insisted they had used \"reputable mail handlers\" whose job it was to \"assess the best route through other European countries before the mail arrives at the final destination\".\n\nThe UK will go to the polls on Thursday, between 07:00 BST and 22:00 BST.\n\nVoters from Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United States have contacted the BBC to say their postal votes have either arrived too late or not arrived at all.\n\nExpat voters who want to participate in European elections can register in advance to have a postal vote in the British constituency where they or their parents were last registered to vote.\n\nBut they must have their completed ballot paper returned to the local electoral returning officer by the time polls close on election day.\n\nIt is believed, based on the number of eligible voters, that thousands of Britons living in France could be affected.\n\nAnn Bone, who lives in Maury in the Pyrenees Orientales, said her postal vote did not arrive until Friday - and when she went to return it to Calderdale Council she was informed by the French postal service that it had \"no chance\" of arriving in the UK in time.\n\nHer husband's ballot has still not arrived in France. She said: \"We've been denied a vote, basically.\"\n\nJoy Elise Allen was told by Barnsley Council her postal vote was sent to her at the end of April - 16 days later it arrived at her home in Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil in France having being sent via the Netherlands.\n\n\"I know of someone who's flown back to the UK with his whole family's emergency proxy votes,\" said Ms Allen.\n\n\"We are all very upset, very angry and we want someone to be held accountable for this.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the council said it was \"investigating this and have asked for a response from our postal provider\".\n\nAdam Kaznowski who lives in Poland says his postal vote only arrived on Tuesday, meaning there is not enough time to return his vote to the UK.\n\n\"I'm not going to send in my postal vote,\" he said \"there is absolutely no point.\"\n\n\"This is an issue of my fundamental rights being breached - in theory I have the right to vote but in practice it is not possible.\"\n\n\"The postal vote system is not fit for purpose - it is dependant on third parties which the UK government has no control over.\"\n\nStuart Stone - a chef living in Malmo, Sweden - described the situation as \"a travesty\".\n\n\"It is my right to vote and it is really important,\" he said.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it has had \"no involvement\" in the distribution of postal votes for the European election - adding that responsibility lay with local councils.\n\nA spokesman for the commission advised anyone overseas who has yet to receive their postal vote to contact the relevant council.\n\nEuropean elections: What are the rules for overseas voters?\n\nUK citizens living abroad are able to vote either by postal vote or by proxy, when a registered person votes in the UK on their behalf.\n\nOnly three other EU countries allow citizens living abroad to vote using a proxy - the Netherlands, France and Belgium.\n\nHowever, unlike 21 EU nations, the UK does not allow its nationals to vote in its overseas embassies and consulates.\n\nBulgaria, Greece and Italy only allow overseas citizens to vote if they are living in another EU country.\n\nThe Czech Republic, Ireland, Malta and Slovakia do not allow their citizens to vote in their home constituencies from abroad.\n\nEstonia allows overseas voters to vote online, the only EU country to do so.\n\nThe government had hoped a Brexit deal would be agreed prior to these elections, and Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK would not have to take part if MPs agreed a plan first.\n\nBut that has not come to pass and the UK will definitely take part in the elections, returning 73 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to Brussels and Strasbourg.\n\nWhile the UK and Netherlands vote on Thursday, voting in other EU nations will take place at varying times over the following three days, with the whole process completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday 26 May.", "That's all from Holyrood Live this week!\n\nLocal politicians will need to be \"very brave\" and have \"vision\" to introduce a workplace parking tax, MSPs have heard.\n\nThe Scottish government has pledged to support a Green proposal to give councils the power to levy a charge on parking spaces to reduce congestion.\n\nWitnesses from Nottingham, the only council in the UK with a scheme of this sort, spoke positively of its impact.\n\nBut they told MSPs that it was \"not easy\", saying that \"strong political leadership\" was \"absolutely essential\".\n\nHowever, one SNP committee member, Richard Lyle, spoke out repeatedly against the levy during the meeting, saying it was \"an unfair tax on myself and other people as a motorist\",", "A top business lobby group representing American firms in China said they have \"real concerns\" over how Beijing may respond to US action taken against Huawei.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, AmCham China chairman Tim Stratford said its members were worried about Beijing's response.\n\nThe US recently added Huawei to its \"entity list\" which puts curbs on its ability to do business in America.\n\nThe move has escalated existing trade tensions between the US and China.\n\nLast week the Trump administration added Huawei to the trade blacklist, which bans the Chinese telecoms giant from acquiring technology from US firms without government approval.\n\nChina has threatened to retaliate against US sanctions without giving details.\n\n\"Particularly in the wake of the decision to put Huawei on the... entity list, there are concerns that the government of China may decide to retaliate against American companies,\" Mr Stratford said.\n\n\"These are real concerns, and they increase the risk as people are considering how they should make adjustments to their business models,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came as the American Chambers of Commerce (AmCham) in China and Shanghai released a survey of its members that found that slightly more than 40% had relocated, or were considering moving production facilities, outside of China because of tariffs.\n\nThe group represents more than 900 US companies working in China.\n\nA recent escalation in the US-China trade conflict, including tariff hikes from both sides, has sparked reaction from industries hit by the higher levies.\n\nUS President Donald Trump increased tariffs on $200bn (£157.3bn) worth of Chinese imports into the US from 10% to 25% earlier this month, after Washington and Beijing failed to reach a deal on trade.\n\nChina retaliated by announcing plans to raise levies on $60bn of US imports from 1 June.\n\nOn Tuesday, some of the world's biggest footwear firms urged Mr Trump to end the US trade war with China, warning of a \"catastrophic\" effect on consumers.\n\nIn a letter signed by 173 companies, including Nike and Adidas, they said the president's decision to hike import tariffs to 25% will disproportionately impact the working class.\n\nThey also warned that higher levies threaten the future of some businesses.\n\n\"It is time to bring this trade war to an end,\" the firms urged.\n\nWhen he raised tariffs earlier this month, Mr Trump told companies that they could reduce costs by shifting production to the US.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shoemakers and retailers say that they have been moving their sourcing away from China.\n\nBut they added: \"Footwear is a very capital-intensive industry, with years of planning required to make sourcing decisions, and companies cannot simply move factories to adjust to these changes.\"\n\nBeijing has signalled some willingness to work with Washington to solve their trade dispute.\n\nNo discussions have been scheduled since the last round of talks ended on 10 May.\n\n\"China remains ready to continue our talks with our American colleagues to reach a conclusion. Our door is still open,\" China's ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said on Fox News.\n\nThe US and Chinese leaders are also set to meet again at the G20 summit in Japan next month.", "Fashion house Prada has announced it is to stop using fur from next year.\n\nJoh Vinding, chairman of the Fur Free Alliance (FFA), said: \"The Prada group with its brands now joins a growing list of fur-free brands that are responding to consumers' changing attitudes towards animals.\"\n\nThe FFA is a coalition of more than 50 animal protection organisations.\n\nAnimal fur will not be used in its designs or new products, but items already made will continue to be sold.\n\n\"Focusing on innovative materials will allow the company to explore new boundaries of creative design while meeting the demand for ethical products,\" said the head of the fashion chain, Miuccia Prada.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe change will take effect in the spring-summer 2020 women's collection and also covers the brands Miu Miu, Church's and Car Shoe.\n\nLast year, British luxury goods maker Burberry announced it would stop using real fur in its products and would phase out existing fur items, while luxury fashion brand Gucci stopped using fur in its spring-summer 2018 collection.\n\nCampaigners stepped up their calls for Prada to stop using fur last year, when, according to the Humane Society, Prada was selling jackets made of fox fur and minx fur.\n\nThose items no longer appear to be available on Prada's website, which does list other items which apparently use fox fur as trim on coats.\n\nBrigit Oele, programme manager for Fur Free Alliance, said: \"Prada Group was one of the fastest companies to go fur-free once positive dialogue began a little more than a year ago.\"\n\nFur farming was banned in the UK in 2000, but it is legal to sell some types of real fur that have been imported, if they are accurately labelled.\n\nHowever, MPs have called for a ban on sale of real fur to be considered.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UN has passed a resolution demanding the UK return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.\n\nIn the non-binding vote in the General Assembly in New York, 116 states were in favour and only six against, a major diplomatic blow to the UK.\n\nMauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean group - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Britain did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.\n\nThe US, Hungary, Israel, Australia and the Maldives were the states voting with the UK against the resolution.\n\nIt comes months after the UN's high court advised that the UK should leave the islands \"as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe fundamental question before the General Assembly was whether the decades-long dispute was at its heart a matter of decolonisation, or a bilateral sovereignty issue to be worked out between the UK and Mauritius alone.\n\nThe vote was decisive, with 115 countries standing with Mauritius.\n\nFormer colonies were also clear in their position. India said support for decolonisation was one of the most significant contributions that the UN had made towards the promotion of fundamental human rights.\n\nUK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce, along with the United States, warned that the vote would set a precedent that should be of concern to all member states with their own sovereignty disputes.\n\nBritain purchased the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 for £3m, creating a region known as the British Indian Ocean Territory.\n\nBetween 1967 and 1973, it evicted the islands' entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US, which is still in place on Diego Garcia.\n\nUS planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq. The facility was also reportedly used as a \"black site\" by the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects. In 2016, the lease for the base was extended until 2036.\n\n\"The joint UK-US defence facility on the British Indian Ocean Territory helps to keep people in Britain and around the world safe from terrorism, organised crime and piracy,\" the FCO said.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravid Kumar Jug-Nauth told the General Assembly the forcible eviction of Chagossians was akin to a crime against humanity.\n\nHowever, he said Mauritius would allow the military base to continue operating \"in accordance with international law\", if it were given control of the islands.\n\nMr Jug-Nauth said this would give the facility a \"higher degree of legal certainty\" for the future.\n\nThe UK has maintained that Mauritius gave up the territory freely in return for a range of benefits.\n\nAmbassador Pierce has insisted that the issue should be resolved only by the countries involved.", "The BBC's Panorama programme has uncovered shocking evidence of patients with autism and learning difficulties being mocked, taunted and intimidated by abusive hospital staff.\n\nWhorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle in County Durham is a specialist hospital that cares for people with complex needs.\n\nPanorama filmed vulnerable adults being deliberately provoked by staff who then physically restrained them.\n\nThe investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital.", "The sharing economy is now making its way into the fashion industry as Urban Outfitters looks to rent clothes to younger fashionistas.\n\nThe retailer is launching an online subscription service allowing people to borrow six items to wear for a month before swapping them.\n\nThe firm says that in terms of clothing, millennials in particular want variety and sustainability.\n\nThe womenswear service, called Nuuly, will launch in the US this summer.\n\nUrban Outfitters Inc declined to say if and when it will be offered in the UK, stating: \"The brand is looking forward to the opportunity to further evolve and expand both their offering and geographic footprint over time.\"\n\nThe nascent market for online clothing rental is set to grow to $2.5bn by 2023, according to research firm GlobalData.\n\nOne of the more well-known firms in this space is Rent the Runway, a New York company which began in 2009, where women can borrow designer clothes for a monthly payment.\n\nUrban Outfitters' chief digital officer David Hayne told the Wall Street Journal that he expects Nuuly to have 50,000 subscribers and generate $50m in sales in its first year.\n\nUrban Outfitters said: \"Interest in sharing-economy platforms and recurring subscription relationships has grown across industries.\n\nIn womenswear, typically only high-end fashion is on offer to rent\n\n\"In apparel, the millennial consumer, in particular, is seeking out platforms that provide novelty, variety and breadth, while also supporting sustainability.\"\n\nAs well as Urban Outfitters clothing, people can also pay a monthly fee to borrow womenswear from its other brands including Anthropologie, as well as labels such as Levi's, Gal Meets Glam, Anna Sui and Fila.\n\nSubscribers can choose to buy an item or return all the clothing they borrowed before they receive anything else. The returned garments are washed or dry cleaned and inspected before they are loaned out again.", "Hearts have been left at St Ann's Square for people to take with them on the anniversary of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nPop stars paid tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing from the venue's stage, two years on.\n\nDedicating hit \"Stay\" to the victims and their families, South Korean pop band Blackpink said their \"hearts ache for those who lost their loved ones\".\n\nTwenty-two people died and hundreds were injured in the 2017 suicide bombing as Ariana Grande finished performing on the same stage.\n\nOn Twitter, #OneLoveManchester and #ManchesterRemembers were trending.\n\nAriana Grande posted a bee emoji in her Instagram stories, with no words.\n\nHer mother Joan Grande said Manchester is \"with me always, in my heart and in my mind\".\n\nK-Pop band Blackpink said their \"hearts ache for those who lost their loved ones\"\n\nAn invitation-only memorial service was held at St Ann's Church for families and emergency services.\n\nThe church is in St Ann's Square, which became a focal point for tributes immediately after the bombing.\n\nCanon Nigel Ashworth told the congregation: \"In the face of violence and hatred, we offer solidarity and compassion.\n\n\"None of us ever want to see anything like the arena attack ever again, but neither do we want to forget those who died and those who were injured.\"\n\nPhotographs of each of the 22 victims were shown, while music was played by members of Chetham's School of Music.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the suicide attack at Manchester Arena\n\nThere was a poignant performance of Fleetwood Mac's Songbird and Elaine Inglesby, chief nurse at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, read Siegfried Sassoon's poem Idyll.\n\nA minute's silence was held halfway through the service which was also observed by hundreds of people in St Ann's Square and others across the city.\n\nRepresentatives of the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Methodist faiths also led prayers of intercession, saying: \"We are all one.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOutside the church, Anya Dawson, who performs with the Manchester Survivors Choir, said the group had \"become my new family\".\n\nHandmade hearts have been left across the city centre for people to take with them on the anniversary and to \"make many people smile\".\n\nFloral tributes have also been left at St Ann's Square and Manchester Victoria station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast year, a larger service was held at Manchester Cathedral, attended by Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May, with crowds gathered outside to watch on large screens.\n\nA Manchester City Council spokesman said this year's anniversary would be marked with a \"more intimate\" commemoration.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nManchester Cathedral is also open throughout the day for people to \"spend some time in quiet reflection and prayer\".\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a device at the end of the concert at the arena as children and adults began leaving the venue.\n\nOn Wednesday at the exact moment of the blast - 22:31 - bells will again peal across the city centre.\n\nFloral tributes were left on Wednesday at Manchester Victoria station to mark the anniversary\n\nLove filled the air in the heart of Manchester on an emotional day for the city.\n\nIn St Ann's Square, colourful, handmade hearts - many decorated with the iconic Manchester bee - adorned the buildings, trees and fences.\n\nThis kindhearted act is the latest united show of solidarity and strength in memory of the victims and the many more lives that were affected on that tragic day two years ago.\n\nThe hand-crafted hearts can be found across the city to help put a smile on a stranger's face. Passers-by are encouraged to pick a heart and take the tribute home\n\nAn incredibly heartwarming sight on a day Manchester will never forget.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFigen Murray, whose son Martyn Hett, 29, died in the atrocity, has been lobbying the government to make tougher security checks mandatory at large events.\n\nShe has also been visiting schools to speak to pupils about her experiences.\n\n\"I talk to them about kindness, tolerance and forgiveness and the dangers of radicalisation,\" she said.\n\nMartin Hett's brother Dan thanked people for their tributes on the anniversary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Dan Hett This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe parents of victims Chloe Rutherford, 17, and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields in Tyneside, said they would be marking the occasion privately.\n\nThey have raised £300,000 to help aspiring performers and sportsmen and women.\n\nLiam's mother Caroline said she was determined to \"make sure he hasn't left this world without making a mark\".\n\nAbout 14,000 people were at the arena on the night of the bombing.\n\nMore than 3,500 people have had psychological support in the wake of the attack.\n\nTara O'Neil, from Flixton, who was at the Ariana Grande concert that night, survived the attack and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, which has led her to leave her job.\n\nShe said: \"You feel guilty. That you ran and you didn't stop, but you would have got trampled.\"\n\nManchester's St Ann's Square became a focal point for tributes in the wake of the 2017 bombing\n\nJoyce Tewen, from Ardwick, said she was moved to see members of the public picking up handmade decorations earlier in St Ann's Square to \"help people smile\".\n\nThe 45-year-old, who has three children aged seven to 20, said it was a \"beautiful\" way to mark the anniversary.\n\n\"I've taken a photo of all the hearts so I can show my children as it's important that they understand what happened,\" she said.\n\nPC Pete Baldwin has clipped his heart decoration to his uniform as a tribute\n\nPC Pete Baldwin, from Greater Manchester Police, said he would be wearing his heart decoration with pride as he patrolled the city centre.\n\n\"I was working on the day and finished at 22:00 but like many of my colleagues we worked every day from then on in,\" he said.\n\n\"The way Manchester responded doesn't surprise me. Greater Manchester is a wonderful place full of wonderful people.\"\n\nAlexander McBurney, 48, travelled into the city centre from Heywood to pay tribute to those affected by the terror attack.\n\nHe said: \"I can't think of a community or city that has come together as much as Manchester. It's outstanding.\"\n\nA stone statue has been unveiled in Blackpool in memory of Jane Tweddle who died in the bombing\n\nIn Blackpool, a statue was unveiled in memory of Jane Tweddle who died in the bombing.\n\nBuildings in Liverpool will also light up in orange for 24 hours in tribute to Megan Hurley, the city's mayor Joe Anderson said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by All on the board This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nTheresa May has said MPs have \"one last chance\" to deliver Brexit, urging them to back what she called a \"new deal\".\n\nMPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, she said.\n\nThe bill also contains new guarantees on workers' rights, environmental protections and the Northern Irish border, as well a customs \"compromise\".\n\nLabour said it was a \"rehash\" of existing plans and Tory Brexiteers took to social media to vent their anger.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg said what was on offer was \"worse than before\", while Boris Johnson said the proposals contravened the party's 2017 general election manifesto, which ruled out the UK remaining in a customs union with the EU.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We can and must do better and deliver what the people voted for.\"\n\nMPs have rejected the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the EU three times and attempts to find a formal compromise with Labour also failed.\n\nIn what is seen as a last roll of the dice, Mrs May is now bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation required to bring the agreement into UK law - to Parliament in early June.\n\nIn a speech in London, the PM implored MPs to come together, saying a negotiated exit from the EU would be \"dead in the water\" if they rejected the plan.\n\n\"I have compromised, now I ask you to compromise too,\" she said, adding that she had even \"offered to give up the job I love earlier than I would like\".\n\nMrs May said the deadlock over Brexit was having a \"corrosive\" impact on political debate in the country and was stopping progress in other areas.\n\n\"The majority of MPs say they want to deliver the result of the referendum... and I believe there is now one last chance to do that,\" she said.\n\nThe key points of the PM's revised plan are:\n\nWhile she personally opposed another referendum on the terms of Brexit, the PM said she recognised the \"genuine and sincere\" feelings on the issue in Parliament.\n\nShe urged MPs to back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill at its first parliamentary hurdle and then \"make the case\" for another public vote when the bill was examined in detail later.\n\nDid the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.\n\nHer agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.\n\nBut those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.\n\nBut even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.\n\nMembers of the cabinet, which earlier backed the plan, said they hoped the fresh concessions would galvanise Parliament.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said it was \"crunch time\" and by backing the bill, MPs would be able to shape \"what sort of Brexit they want\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: Bill is \"a rehash of what was discussed before\"\n\nBut there was an under-whelming reaction from Labour MPs whom the PM was hoping to win over.\n\nLisa Nandy, the Wigan MP who has said she could be persuaded to back a deal which maintained frictionless trade and employment rights, said the offer was \"very weak\".\n\n\"What she seems to be offering is for Parliament to go round the same track that we have been round before,\" she said.\n\nAnd Peter Kyle, who has made his support conditional on a referendum, said Mrs May's promises could easily be reversed by her successor.\n\nHe said what was being offered was a \"strange complex process\" rather than a \"clean, simple confirmatory ballot on her deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn questioned whether any of it could be delivered given Mrs May had a short time left in office.\n\n\"It's basically a rehash of what was discussed before and it doesn't make any fundamental moves on market alignment or the customs union or indeed protection of rights,\" he said.\n\nTory Brexiteers responded with dismay. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIain Duncan Smith said it left the EU \"firmly in control of our destiny\" while Anne-Marie Trevelyan accused Mrs May of \"trying to ram her botched deal through on Labour votes by keeping us in the customs union and allowing Brussels to dictate our future trade policy\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who keep Mrs May's government in power, said the plans were still \"fundamentally flawed\".\n\nThe SNP said they could not support any plan which took the UK out of the single market while the Lib Dems said Mrs May did not have the political authority to guarantee any of her proposals would ever happen.\n\nSpeaking at a Brexit Party European election rally in London, Nigel Farage said the PM had \"surrendered almost everything\".", "Rekognition can match photos to databases holding millions of people's faces\n\nShareholders seeking to halt Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces have been defeated in two votes that sought to pressure the company into a rethink.\n\nCivil rights campaigners had said it was \"perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed\".\n\nBut investors rejected the proposals at the company's annual general meeting.\n\nThat meant less than 50% voted for either of the measures.\n\nA breakdown of the results has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe first vote had proposed that the company should stop offering its Rekognition system to government agencies.\n\nThe second had called on it to commission an independent study into whether the tech threatened people's civil rights.\n\nThe ballot in Seattle would have been non-binding, meaning executives would not have had to take specific action had either been passed.\n\nAmazon had tried to block the votes but was told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it did not have the right to do so.\n\nRekognition gives a confidence score as to whether a person's face is a match\n\n\"We will see what the tally is, but one of our primary objectives was to bring this before shareholders and the board, and we succeeded in doing that,\" Mary Beth Gallagher from the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment told the BBC.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of this movement for us and this campaign will continue. We have built links to civil rights groups, employees and other stakeholders.\n\n\"And the most important thing is that regardless of the result, we still want the board to halt sales of Rekognition to governments, and it has the capacity to do that.\"\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union added that the very fact there had been a vote was \"an embarrassment to Amazon\" and should serve as a \"wake-up call for the company to reckon with the real harms of face surveillance\".\n\nAmazon has yet to comment.\n\nBut ahead of the votes it said it had not received a single report of the system being used in a harmful manner.\n\n\"[Rekognition is] a powerful tool... for law enforcement and government agencies to catch criminals, prevent crime, and find missing people,\" its AGM notes state.\n\n\"New technology should not be banned or condemned because of its potential misuse.\"\n\nAmazon has promoted its tech as a tool to fight crime\n\nRekognition is an online tool that works with both video and still images and allows users to match faces to pre-scanned subjects in a database containing up to 20 million people provided by the client.\n\nIn doing so, it gives a confidence score as to whether the ID is accurate.\n\nIn addition, it can be used to:\n\nAmazon recommends that law enforcement agents should only use the facility if there is a 99% or higher confidence rating of a match and says they should be transparent about its usage.\n\nRekognition can be used to flag \"suggestive content\"\n\nBut one force that has used the tech - Washington County Sheriff's Office in Hillsboro, Oregon, - told the Washington Post that it had done so without enforcing a minimum confidence threshold, and had run black-and-white police sketches through the system in addition to photos.\n\nA second force in Orlando, Florida has also tested the system. But Amazon has not disclosed how many other public authorities have done so.\n\nPart of Rekognition's appeal is that it is cheaper to use than several rival facial recognition technologies.\n\nBut a study published in January by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto suggested Amazon's algorithms suffered greater gender and racial bias than four competing products.\n\nIt said that Rekognition had a 0% error rate at classifying lighter-skinned males as such within a test, but a 31.4% error rate at categorising darker-skinned females.\n\nAmazon said that it ran tests against images of men and women from six ethnicities to check for signs of bias\n\nAmazon has disputed the findings saying that the researchers had used \"an outdated version\" of its tool and that its own checks had found \"no difference\" in gender-classification across ethnicities.\n\nEven so, opposition to Rekognition has also been voiced by civil liberties groups and hundreds of Amazon's own workers.\n\nMs Gallagher said that shareholders were concerned that continued sales of Rekognition to the police risked damaging Amazon's status as \"one of the most trusted institutions in the United States\".\n\n\"We don't want it used by law enforcement because of the impact that will have on society - it might limit people's willingness to go in public spaces where they think they might be tracked,\" she said.\n\nBut one of the directors from Amazon Web Services - the division responsible - had told the BBC that it should be up to politicians to decide if restrictions should be put in place.\n\nRekognition can give a confidence score for several different features\n\n\"The right organisations to handle the issue are policymakers in government,\" Ian Massingham explained.\n\n\"The one thing I would say about deep learning technology generally is that much of the technology is based on publicly available academic research, so you can't really put the genie back in the bottle.\n\n\"Once the research is published, it's kind of hard to 'uninvent' something.\n\n\"So, our focus is on making sure the right governance and legislative controls are in place.\"", "Yusuf Abdi Ali had to leave Canada after a CBC documentary exposed his past\n\nA US jury has found that a former Uber driver living in Virginia committed acts of torture during Somalia's civil war in the late 1980s.\n\nSomali citizen Farhan Tani Warfaa testified last week in the Washington DC suburbs that ex-Somali colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali shot and tortured him.\n\nAli was a commander in the national army and supporter of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, say court documents.\n\nUntil this month, Ali drove for Uber, with a high 4.89 rating.\n\nOn Tuesday, a jury at a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, found that Ali was responsible for the torture of Mr Warfaa more than three decades ago, awarding Mr Warfaa $500,000 (£395,000) in damages.\n\nMr Warfaa, tortured during the Somali civil war, is \"very happy\" with the verdict\n\nMr Warfaa, who first filed the case against Ali in 2004, told the BBC he was \"very happy\" with the verdict.\n\n\"I am very, very satisfied with the outcome,\" Mr Warfaa said through a translator from court.\n\nMr Warfaa said he was kidnapped from his home in northern Somalia by a group of Ali's soldiers in 1987.\n\nOver the next several months, Mr Warfaa said he was interrogated, tortured, beaten and shot at the direction of Ali, who was a battalion commander.\n\nLeft for dead, Mr Warfaa says he only managed to survive by bribing his gravediggers to spare him.\n\nAli was first identified in a 1992 documentary by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which detailed allegations that Ali had tortured, killed and maimed hundreds of people while working for the Barre regime.\n\nAt the time of the broadcast, Ali was living in Toronto working as a security guard.\n\nIn the documentary, multiple eyewitnesses in northern Somalia described brutal murders ordered by Ali, known then as Colonel Tukeh, meaning \"the crow\".\n\nShortly after it aired, Ali was deported from Canada for \"serious human rights abuses\", court documents say.\n\nThe US also began deportation proceedings against Ali, but he returned to the country in 1996. It is unclear how he was able to re-enter the US.\n\nThe Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nIn May, CNN reporters went undercover to take an Uber ride with Ali. He told CNN that he drives for rideshares Uber and Lyft full-time, preferring weekend shifts because \"that's where the money is\".\n\nAsked if the application process for drivers was difficult, Ali replied that it was simple: \"They just want your background check, that's it.\"\n\nAli drove for Uber for about 18 months, after passing a screening process for the rideshare company. The background check included a review of Ali's criminal history using state and national records, and a scan of government watchlists from the FBI and Interpol.\n\nHe has now been \"permanently removed\" from the app, an Uber spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nMr Warfaa (centre) and members of his legal team celebrate the verdict\n\nLyft spokeswoman Campbell Matthews said the company was \"horrified\" by the allegations against Ali.\n\n\"We have permanently banned this driver from our community and stand ready to assist law enforcement with any investigation,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nBackground checks for both Uber and Lyft are conducted by Checkr, a consumer reporting agency.\n\nCheckr's scanning process varies according to client, but includes \"industry standard sources\" like the national Sex Offender database, FBI watchlist, Interpol watchlist, various US and international sanctions lists, and local and federal criminal court records.\n\n\"Under federal law, consumer reporting agencies that process background checks rely on criminal records that have been filed in a court of law rather than unverified sources like Google search results,\" said a Checkr spokesperson to the BBC.\n\n\"Most employers don't request background checks that include civil lawsuits between private parties because the information is too subjective to use for a hiring decision.\"\n\nBefore working for Uber and Lyft, Ali worked as a security guard at Dulles International Airport near Washington DC.\n\nTuesday's ruling, in favour of Mr Wafaa, demanded \"heroic amounts of effort,\" said his lawyer, Kathy Roberts.\n\nMs Roberts is part of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organisation that seeks to bring alleged war criminals to justice.\n\nMuch of Mr Warfaa's case, thwarted by delays for over a decade, hinged upon whether Ali could be found guilty by a US court of a crime committed in Somalia.\n\nUS laws, namely the Torture Victim Protections Act (TVPA), prohibit torture whether it occurs on US soil or overseas, and allows both US citizens and non-citizens to bring claims for torture and extrajudicial killings committed in foreign countries.\n\nThe TVPA only allows for the finding of civil claims in the US, meaning that lawsuits result in monetary compensation, rather than jail time.\n\nWhen Ali moved to Virginia, he exposed himself to the lawsuit, said Benjamin Klein, another lawyer for Mr Wafaa.\n\nMr Warfaa's case included testimony from a former US ambassador, soldiers who served under Ali, and another victim of the former colonel, as he argued that Ali had directed acts of torture and attempted an extrajudicial killing.\n\nThe US jury issued a split ruling, finding Ali only guilty of torture.\n\nStill, Mr Warfaa is \"absolutely thrilled\", said Mr Klein.\n\n\"He's been waiting 31 years for this day.\"", "George said in the note he hoped some cards would come in handy\n\nA woman who had her purse stolen 10 years ago has had the contents returned.\n\nBecca Milsom, from Cardiff, said she was \"gobsmacked\" after she was sent a letter signed by a man called George who had found the lost items.\n\nBecca, 28, said the purse was stolen from her car when she was walking up the Wenallt in Rhiwbina.\n\nGeorge's note joked: \"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts.\"\n\nBecca told BBC Wales: \"My dad said I had a letter through the post from my old home which had just been delivered - and in the letter was all my cards. I was gobsmacked.\"\n\nBecca says she hopes to track George down to thank him\n\nThe note reads: \"I hope this finds you well. I came across your wallet whilst supervising vegetation clearance on a site north of Llwyn Y Pia Road in Lisvane.\n\n\"I think your Tesco Clubcard points may have expired, along with your uni discounts, but hopefully the driver's licence and NI card come in handy again.\"\n\nBecca added: \"I haven't had a national insurance card since then. I've been okay because I had the number but I was always a bit wary about it.\n\n\"I want to thank the person who sent it - does he know any more detail and where was it where he found them? I'd just like to thank him.\"\n\nShe said on Facebook she hopes to track George down so she can thank him.", "TalkTalk failed to inform 4,545 customers their personal information, including bank account details, were stolen as part of the 2015 data breach.\n\nViewers contacted BBC Watchdog Live about concerns that their details had been breached by TalkTalk.\n\nBut the company had told them that their details were not compromised.\n\n\"The customer data referred to by BBC Watchdog relates to the historical October 2015 data breach. It is not a new incident,\" the firm said.\n\nThe BBC consumer show investigated and found the personal details of approximately 4,500 customers available online after a Google search.\n\nThe details included full names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, TalkTalk customer numbers, mobile numbers and bank details for thousands of customers.\n\nThe information is likely to have been online since the breach, without the knowledge of the people affected.\n\nThe 2015 attack saw personal details of nearly 157,000 customers accessed, including bank account numbers and sort codes of over 15,000 customers.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) conducted an investigation into the breach, finding multiple failings in TalkTalk's security processes.\n\nAs a reflection of \"the seriousness of the event\", the ICO issued TalkTalk with a record fine of £400,000.\n\nWhen presented with the findings of the BBC investigation, TalkTalk said it was a genuine error and that it has since written to all impacted customers to apologise.\n\n\"The 2015 incident impacted 4% of TalkTalk customers and at the time, we wrote to all those impacted,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"In addition, we wrote to our entire base to inform them about the breach, advise them about the risk of scam calls and offer free credit monitoring to protect against fraud.\n\n\"A recent investigation has shown that 4,545 customers may have received the wrong notification regarding this incident. This was a genuine error and we have since written to all those impacted to apologise. 99.9% of customers received the correct notification in 2015.\n\n\"On their own, none of the details accessed in the 2015 incident could lead to any direct financial loss.\"\n\nFor the last two years Alan, not his real name, has had his phone, email and bank account bombarded with a series of fraudulent attacks.\n\nWhilst Alan will never know if the attacks were a direct result of the TalkTalk data breach, he feels the details leaked are enough to allow fraudsters to impersonate him.\n\nThe data breach announcement made to customers on the TalkTalk website in October 2015\n\nAlan said he felt \"extremely uncomfortable\" after Watchdog Live showed him that they were able to find his bank account number, sort code and other personal information online.\n\n\"I think they've failed their customers on a gigantic scale,\" he added.\n\nWatchdog Live also spoke to Maureen, not her real name, who was shocked to discover that her details were breached in 2015.\n\nAt the time, Maureen was told by TalkTalk that her details had not been stolen.\n\nMaureen has been in touch with TalkTalk on multiple occasions, most recently in May of this year, to raise concerns that her details had been compromised.\n\nBut TalkTalk continued to insist that they hadn't. Watchdog Live's investigation found Maureen's sensitive data through a simple online search.\n\nMaureen told the programme: \"I've been asking this question since 2015. I'm suffering now for something that I know nothing, absolutely nothing, about.\n\n\"I knew something was not right and I kept insisting and they avoided every single time I asked the question 'have my details been compromised?'\"\n\n\"If the data has come from TalkTalk then obviously we need to go and revisit all of these people who've been told that they weren't exposed and look at what they can do to rectify the harm,\" online security expert Scott Helme told the programme.\n\n\"We're never going to completely erase this data, but what we can do is try to reduce the impact of having lost the data.\"\n\nPersonal details can be used by criminals to commit identity theft and fraud\n\nWatchdog Live spoke to multiple people who were affected by the TalkTalk data breach.\n\nThey said they had been subject to frequent scam calls, and in some cases attempted fraud and identity theft, impacting their credit rating.\n\nThese people may never know if their experiences were a direct result of TalkTalk's data breach, or if their details could have been accessed some other way.\n\nUsing the information Watchdog found, a fraudster could sign up for services, set up direct debits and purchase goods on their victim's behalf, said Mr Helme.\n\nHe added that a scammer could also use this information to pretend to be the victim's bank, in order to gain other information about them.", "Roger Godsiff admitted he had not read the books he said were not \"age-appropriate\"\n\nA Labour MP who criticised LGBT lessons in primary schools as not \"age-appropriate\" admitted he has not read the teaching materials.\n\nParents have been protesting outside Anderton Park Primary school, which is in Roger Godsiff's Birmingham Hall Green constituency, for seven weeks.\n\nThey say the lessons contradict Islam.\n\nThe school's head teacher, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, tweeted a note from pupils saying the protests were making them \"unhappy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said two pupils wrote the note which said protestors were being \"rude\" and disturbing their learning.\n\nShe said, on the whole, children were \"fed up\" with the protest.\n\n\"They are amazing, robust little human beings, they love coming to school and relish in knowledge and learning and books and everything school should be,\" she added.\n\n\"But some of them are scared because the protests have been happening at the end of every day, so if they walk past that way they have to listen to people screaming down a megaphone.\"\n\nAndrew Moffat pioneered the No Outsiders programme to educate about different relationships\n\nMr Godsiff said on Tuesday he did not feel four or five-year-olds \"could comfortably handle\" discussions about sexuality.\n\nOne of his constituents, comedian Joe Lycett, wrote to him to say LGBT people were being treated as \"second class citizens\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the MP said \"a number of parents\" would agree primary school was \"too young\" to teach children about LGBT relationships.\n\n\"I have a three-year-old grandson and if he was hit with the nine characteristics [of the Equality Act] being put in front to him I think he would wonder what's going on,\" he said.\n\nHe then admitted that he had not read the books included in the teaching material.\n\nAlso appearing on the show, Amir Ahmed - who co-ordinated protests outside other schools in Birmingham - criticised Andrew Moffat, who created the No Outsiders teaching scheme, as \"disingenuous\" and \"focused on LGBT content\" rather than \"teaching equality\".\n\nWhen questioned, he told Victoria Derbyshire he believed it was \"morally not acceptable\" to be gay.\n\nShakeel Afsar got involved in protests when his nephew brought home a book about a boy wanting to dress as a girl\n\nLead protestor Shakeel Afsar, speaking on ITV's This Morning, said the \"religious, moral and family values\" of parents were being \"infringed\".\n\nMr Afsar, who does not have children at Anderton Park, said the school was \"over-promoting one narrative\" and criticised Ms Hewitt-Clarkson for a \"lack of responsibility\".\n\nHe said the issue arose from the head not \"consulting people who hold their religious faith very close to their hearts and to make them sensitively aware of what's going on\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said the protests have been \"aggressive\" and that she has been repeatedly threatened.\n\nMr Afsar has planned a further demonstration outside the school on Friday.", "Theresa May has urged MPs to back what she has described as a \"new\" Brexit deal - but what exactly is different in this updated withdrawal agreement?\n\nThe prime minister's \"new Brexit deal\" isn't all that new.\n\nFor a start, the withdrawal agreement itself - which includes the backstop plan for the Irish border - remains exactly the same.\n\nThat was always going to be the case. The EU has insisted that there will be no further negotiation on the text.\n\nInstead, the government will seek changes to the accompanying political declaration, which focuses on the future relationship after Brexit.\n\nBut, as we've said many times before, it is not a legally binding document.\n\nWhat Mrs May has offered for the first time is the prospect of a vote on holding a second referendum, and a vote on a temporary customs union.\n\nBut she says that will only be the case if MPs are willing to approve the withdrawal agreement bill in the House of Commons in the first week of June.\n\nThere are also promises on workers' rights and environmental protection - measures designed to appeal to Labour MPs. But similar promises, albeit in different form, have been made before.\n\nAs for Northern Ireland, the PM has said that the government would be under a legal obligation \"to seek to conclude alternative arrangements\" to the backstop by the end of 2020.\n\nBut note the word \"seek\" - it is an aspiration not a guarantee, and finding alternative arrangements, through the use of technology or other means, has so far proved very challenging.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says failure to back her deal risks \"no Brexit at all\"\n\nMrs May also spoke of a commitment, should the backstop have to come into force, to ensure that Great Britain will stay aligned with Northern Ireland to prevent new checks at the border.\n\nAgain, this is something that has been said before.\n\nNevertheless, the government is portraying this speech as a genuine effort to find compromise.\n\nOthers see it as a last roll of the dice.\n\nThe trouble is that Brexit has become a binary issue, and almost no-one in politics - whether they voted to leave or remain - seems to want to give up on their vision of how all this should be resolved.\n\nThat's why much of the initial reaction to the PM's speech from MPs, from all sides of the House of Commons, including her own backbenches, has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile.\n\nShe will continue to warn that anyone voting against her latest plan risks losing Brexit altogether.\n\nBut the biggest problem for Mrs May is that there doesn't appear to be a majority in the Commons for any Brexit option.\n\nThat has been clear for many months now.\n\nAnd nothing in this speech is likely to move the goalposts.", "Eric Michels, who made a brief appearance in the Bond film Skyfall, was found dead at his home in Chessington in August 2018\n\nA businessman who appeared in James Bond movie Skyfall was murdered with a GHB drug overdose after being targeted by a serial thief who used gay dating apps to find victims, a court heard.\n\nGerald Matovu, 25, denies murdering Eric Michels, 54, who was found dead at his Chessington home on 18 August.\n\nMr Matovu, of Southwark, is on trial at the Old Bailey with co-defendant Brandon Dunbar, 23, from Forest Gate.\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Rees QC, said the two defendants often worked together and took advantage of hook-ups arranged via apps like Grindr to steal property and take photos of bank cards for the purposes of fraud.\n\nHe said the case involves 26 charges relating to 12 gay men who met one or both of the defendants for the purposes of sex, but ended up as victims.\n\nJurors were told eight of the men were drugged in order to \"render them unconscious\" of whom five had their drinks \"spiked\" and one had drugs injected into his backside.\n\nMr Michels had three children with his ex-wife, from whom he divorced in 2010 after coming out as gay.\n\nOne son - Sam - lived with Mr Michels in Bolton Road, Chessington, and last saw him alive at 19:00 BST on 16 August.\n\nThe court heard he met Mr Matovu in central London after they found one another on Grindr and took a cab back to Chessington.\n\nGerald Matovu is on trial at the Old Bailey\n\nThe prosecution allege that during the course of the following morning, Mr Matovu took photos of Mr Michels' bank cards, driving licence, and various passwords, before leaving the property in a taxi carrying stolen items including a laptop and mobile phone.\n\nThat night Mr Michels' 14-year-old daughter was unable to get a response from her father when she sent him a text asking if he would like to meet, the court heard.\n\nShe sent him a further text on 18 August and received a response from her father's phone saying: \"Hello hun im a little busy talk soon\".\n\nMr Rees told the court Mr Michel's daughter felt the reply was \"totally uncharacteristic of her father\" and she decided to phone him.\n\nHowever, an unknown male answered and hung up when she said who was calling.\n\nAt the time of the call, Mr Michels' phone was in the general area of Mr Matovu's Southwark address, jurors were told.\n\nThe teen and her mother then went to Mr Michel's home, where his daughter was the first to venture inside and found him lying motionless in bed with the duvet pulled up over his nose.\n\n\"She attempted to rouse him by shouting his name, but to no avail,\" Mr Rees said.\n\nMr Rees said evidence points to use of the drug GHB to drug them, which is often used in context of \"chemsex\" in order to \"facilitate sexual activity.\"\n\nThe jury was told large doses \"can induce coma\" and \"in some cases death can arise\".\n\nAlong with the murder charge Mr Matovu denies six counts of administering a poison or noxious substance to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration and one count of causing actual bodily harm.\n\nHe is further charged with five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, seven counts of theft and possession of a controlled drug of class C - all of which he pleaded not guilty to.\n\nMr Dunbar has pleaded not guilty to five counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life, one count of assault by penetration, one count of ABH, seven counts of theft, five counts of possession of articles for use in fraud, two counts of fraud and one count of unlawfully retaining a wrongful credit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the prime minister made her way to PMQs, some of her own cabinet ministers were meeting privately just around the corner from the Commons chamber - her deal and her future undoubtedly on the agenda.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservatives I spoke to commented on Theresa May's position with a mixture of sympathy and derision. One long-standing Brexiteer described PMQs as her leaving party.\n\nAnother Leaver simply muttered tersely that it was \"grim\", while a Remainer, who had been prepared to back her deal, mulled \"why is she putting herself through any more of this?\"\n\nA long-standing - but not usually a very public - critic likened me to a spectator at the guillotine as I stalked the commons corridors.\n\nI asked him when he felt the political blade would fall on Theresa May's premiership.\n\nWith a smile, he said: \"Soon - very soon.\"\n\nInside Downing Street there is a recognition that there will be an attempt to oust Theresa May before her Brexit deal gets as far as a vote.\n\nBut the intention is to stand firm and push on.\n\nThere is an understanding of how difficult it will be.\n\nWithout her mentioning a referendum yesterday, her legislation just would not have got a hearing from many Labour MPs - and opposition votes are required if the deal is to go through.\n\nBut it appears that supporters of a referendum believe there is more chance of a public vote if it is in stark contrast to no deal, close to the end of October deadline.\n\nIf a referendum vote is held now, alongside her deal, there is a risk it is lost - so there is no incentive to back the deal now.\n\nSo the hope in Downing Street is that the European elections are abysmally bad for Labour, too - and some of the opposition MPs come onside subsequently to at least get Brexit done and lance the populist boil.\n\nThe question, though, is whether the prime minister's own MPs will allow her to stay in office long enough to put this to the test.\n\nSome supporters of Boris Johnson are considering gathering 157 letters of no confidence to show that half her parliamentary party want her to go quickly, irrespective of the leadership rules.", "Sara Zelenak was stabbed during the attack at London Bridge and Borough Market\n\nAn Australian au pair was being helped up by a passer-by after slipping over in her high heels when they were both fatally stabbed, the inquest into the London Bridge attack has heard.\n\nSara Zelenak, 21, was on a night out with a friend when she was set upon by men armed with 12in (30cm) blades on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nBriton James McMullan, 32, was also targeted as he tried to help Ms Zelenak to her feet, a witness said.\n\nThe inquest is in its second week.\n\nMs Zelenak and Mr McMullan were among eight people killed when Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before jumping out and stabbing people.\n\nWitness Erick Siguenza told the Old Bailey Ms Zelenak jumped out of the way of the crashing van before being stabbed by the driver.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the victims' families, said she was wearing high heels and the ground was \"quite wet\" on the night of the attack.\n\nWhen asked if Ms Zelenak had lost her balance, Mr Siguenza said: \"Yes. She was completely on the ground. He [Mr McMullan] just grabbed her left arm and gently tried to pick her up.\n\n\"But by then the attackers were in close proximity and that's when they started attacking.\"\n\n\"There was no time for him to be able to help her up because the driver and the other terrorists were already running towards them,\" he added.\n\nJames McMullan was stabbed to death as he tried to help Ms Zelenak up, the inquest heard\n\nMs Zelenak was stabbed in the neck while Mr McMullan was stabbed in the chest.\n\nThe court heard Ms Zelenak and her friend, Priscila Goncalves, had left the London Grind bar minutes before the attack to continue their night out and \"have fun\".\n\nMs Goncalves told the inquest they were crossing the bridge when they spotted another bar, with red lights and tables outside.\n\nThey had started down the steps towards it when they heard the van crash.\n\nThe friends went back up the steps to see what had happened but became separated in the chaos as people ran away.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV of Ms Zelenak before she was killed\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on,\" Ms Goncalves said.\n\n\"We were together. People said 'Run', I started to run. I thought she was with me and then I looked, she was not. Everybody was running,\" she added.\n\nCCTV shown to the court showed Ms Goncalves among a crowd of people who were running away.\n\nMr Siguenza filmed people fleeing the scene as Ms Zelenak and Mr McMullan were attacked.\n\nMr Siguenza described how the three attackers reached the area outside the bar below the bridge, where people threw glasses and a chair at them.\n\nThe attackers realised they were outnumbered and fled, he said.\n\nThey continued their attack elsewhere. Eight people were killed and 48 injured. The attackers were later shot dead by armed police.\n\nJulie and Mark Wallace, Ms Zelenak's mother and stepfather, also attended the inquest\n\nQuestions over why it took so long for paramedics to arrive became the focus for much of the fifth day of the inquest.\n\nMs Zelenak's mother and stepfather, Julie and Mark Wallace, watched from the courtroom as the details of her death were laid out.\n\nTheir expressions remained composed during a morning of gruelling evidence.\n\nTwo of the first police officers on the scene, PC Clint Wallis and PC Richard Norton, explained how they had performed CPR on Ms Zelenak CPR for about 10 minutes - but PC Norton agreed that they had been \"desperately in need of paramedics\".\n\nThey continued to provide treatment to victims despite the sound of gunfire.\n\nThe court heard that paramedic Gary Edwards was one of the first medics to arrive. As a tactical response paramedic, he had received specialist training for a situation such as this.\n\nHowever, reports of a gunman meant he couldn't enter the market as it had become a \"hot zone\" and wasn't \"safe enough\".\n\nThe court heard this refusal led to an angry exchange with a police officer demanding help - but Mr Edwards said that even with hindsight, he would still have responded in the same way.\n\nPC Richard Norton told the court he asked members of the public to try to flag down paramedics as he and PC Clint Wallis performed CPR on Ms Zelenak.\n\nPC Norton said he was trained to treat minor injuries but paramedics had more equipment and were better trained to deal with the kind of injuries Ms Zelenak had suffered.\n\nHe said he later heard medics were being held back until the scene was made safe.\n\nThis was part of standard protocol for dangerous areas or \"hot zones\", the court heard.\n\nThe inquest heard there were three paramedics on the scene at about 22:24 BST, some 15 minutes after the attack started.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nLast week, Ms Zelenak's mother told the inquest her daughter was \"the happiest she had ever been\" in the lead-up to the attack.\n\nAnd Mr McMullan had been celebrating securing financial backing for his online education company on the night he was killed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a civil war which has been going on since 2015.\n\nTaiz, the country’s third largest city, has seen some of the worst fighting. Snipers haunt the streets and open spaces, meaning civilians in the city are constantly at risk of being shot.\n\nTaiz is extremely dangerous for journalists to visit. The BBC recently obtained some exclusive footage showing the extent of the destruction and the level of fear that the residents live with.", "The mother of Leah Heyes, Kerry Roberts (right), paid tribute to a \"much loved and thoughtful girl\"\n\nThe mother of a teenager who died after apparently taking ecstasy in North Yorkshire says she has been left \"absolutely heartbroken\".\n\nLeah Heyes, 15, collapsed in a car park in Northallerton on Saturday night and died later in hospital.\n\nPolice believe she had taken MDMA. They arrested two teenagers on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs, but released them under investigation.\n\nLeah's mum, Kerry Roberts, paid tribute to a \"much loved and thoughtful girl\".\n\n\"Leah was my best friend,\" she said.\n\n\"She was a thoughtful, beautiful girl, who was much loved.\n\nMs Roberts described her daughter as \"fun, bubbly\" and said she had \"a great sense of humour\".\n\n\"I'm absolutely heartbroken to have lost my beautiful girl,\" she said.\n\n\"No words can describe how much she will be missed and the enormous gap she has left in our lives.\n\n\"She will be truly missed more than words can say. I love you always.\"\n\nEmergency services were called to Applegarth car park at 21:30 BST.\n\nLeah, who was from Northallerton, was taken to hospital in Middlesbrough where she later died.\n\nAn 18-year-old man was arrested on Monday, after officers detained a 17-year-old boy.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said it had \"not ruled out making more arrests\".\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who has mobile phone footage taken on the night to come forward.\n\nIt said about 20 people were in the Applegarth area on Saturday night and officers needed to \"speak to all of them, and anyone else who was passing through\".\n\nDet Insp Eamonn Clarke said: \"Inquiries also reveal that there may be mobile phone video footage of the events of that tragic evening.\n\n\"This footage will be extremely helpful to our investigation.\"\n\nHe said the teenager's family were \"devastated and a community left in shock\".\n\n\"It is vital that people come forward and help us find the answers for Leah's family and friends,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NSO Group boasted about being able to work without \"a trace\"\n\nWhat do we know about the curious, secretive NSO Group? Very little - but after this week, an awful lot more than we did before.\n\nThe group, an Israeli-based but American-owned company, specialises in creating what it calls tools against crime and terrorism. But the security researchers call them something else: a cyber arms dealer.\n\nOn Thursday, the NSO Group was thrust into international headlines after being credited with creating malicious software capable of \"jailbreaking\" any iPhone with just one tap of the screen, and then installing vicious spyware.\n\nSecurity-savvy human rights lawyer Ahmed Mansoor found himself targeted by the attack when his iPhone received a message promising \"secrets\" about torture happening in prisons in the United Arab Emirates.\n\nHad he tapped on the link, the phone would have been plundered. Huge amounts of private data: text messages, photos, emails, location data, even what’s being picked up by the device’s microphone and camera.\n\nThankfully, he didn't do that. Instead, he passed on the message to experts at Citizen Lab and Lookout, who peeled back the covers on what they described as one of the most sophisticated cyber weapons ever discovered. With it came evidence that it was the NSO Group’s expertise at the heart of it all.\n\nEarlier this year, UK-based watchdog Privacy International launched a database tracking the global trade of cyber arms. Its intention was to track deals between cyber arms companies and governments.\n\nAccording to the Surveillance Industry Index (SII), the NSO Group was founded in 2010 and is based in Herzliya, an attractive city north of Tel Aviv that is known as being a cluster of tech start-ups. The group was likely funded by the elite 8200 Intelligence Unit, an Israeli military-funded scheme for start-ups.\n\nAccording to Forbes, the 8200 Intelligence Unit was heavily involved in providing expertise and funding for Stuxnet, a cyber attack on Iran that was a joint operation between the US and Israel.\n\nThe texts had been sent to human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor\n\nListed in the SSI were multi-million dollar deals made between the NSO Group and government entities in Mexico and Panama. This is the tip of the iceberg - press reports of sales rely on leaks and anonymous sources, and so there are likely many more unknown to the general public.\n\nIn 2015, the NSO Group’s owners - US-based venture capital firm Francisco Partners - were looking to sell the company at a value of around $1bn. Neither firm has responded to the BBC’s requests for further comment.\n\nThat the NSO Group sells tools to governments is no secret - in a statement released in response to claims it was behind the attack on Mr Mansoor, NSO Group spokesman Zamir Dahbash said: \"The company sells only to authorized governmental agencies, and fully complies with strict export control laws and regulations.\"\n\nBut the company has gone no further than that in describing who its customers are, and what exactly they buy. It does say it has no control over how its tools are used and for what purpose.\n\nWhatever the origin of the NSO Group, what has been created is an extraordinarily talented team of cyber specialists.\n\nThe attack on Mr Mansoor, had it worked, would have utilised not one but three zero day attacks. A \"zero day\" is a term given to vulnerabilities that were previously unknown to the security industry, and are therefore wide open to attack. To discover one zero day is rare, to find three is outstanding.\n\nClues to the origin of the attack came when the experts looked at the messages Mr Mansoor received. A link was included to a web domain known to point to servers set up by the NSO Group for its customers.\n\nWhen the researchers analysed the spyware’s code, they noticed apparent references to \"Pegasus\", the name given, by the NSO Group, to one of its spying products.\n\nDetails about Pegasus were made public last year when another cyber arms firm, called the Hacking Team, was itself breached. Material used to market Pegasus was subsequently leaked.\n\nWhen Apple was made aware of the vulnerabilities in its iPhone, it acted quickly, patching the problem in 10 days and pushing out an update to all of its users. That has neutralised this specific attack, sure, but there'll likely be many more that remain hidden from view.\n\nIn a rare interview with Defense News, the NSO Group’s co-founder, Omri Lavie, said their attacks would \"leave no trace\".\n\nThanks to the quick thinking of Mr Mansoor, and the forensic efforts of researchers, the group has been temporarily dragged into the limelight - but it will only be for a brief moment. Soon the NSO Group will rejoin the rest of the money-spinning cyber arms trade back in the shadows.\n\nFollow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook\n• None iPhones could be hacked with one tap", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Edwards has lived with PKU since he was born\n\nA man with a rare inability to digest protein has said eating a normal diet would leave him brain damaged.\n\nMark Edwards, 35, has phenylketonuria (PKU), meaning he can only eat 6g (0.2oz) of protein per day - about one egg or two tablespoons of beans.\n\nEating more than his body could process could cause him to suffer depression, anxiety or even brain damage.\n\nA form of treatment, Kuvan, is not available on the NHS - which instead recommends a strict diet.\n\nA number of MPs are calling on drug company BioMarin to make the \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nBioMarin said the NHS had not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which advises the NHS, said it had not begun its appraisal of Kuvan to treat PKU, but has made the \"exceptional decision\" to ask a panel to look at the issue.\n\nAfter this, a formal referral will be required from the UK government's health minister to determine the process under which Kuvan will be assessed, a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Edwards, from Llanegryn in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with PKU at birth after it showed up in the standard blood tests given to babies - the condition affects one in 10,000 people in the UK.\n\nHe spends about £4,000 a year on Kuvan tablets, which allow him to eat more protein - and said they could change the lives of people with PKU.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins.\n\nBut people with PKU cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine, and the levels build up in the bloodstream and the brain - leading to a number of health problems.\n\nContainers showing how much protein Mark can eat in a day\n\n\"I can't have any meat, no egg, so nothing. Just what is available on prescription, really,\" said Mr Edwards\n\nWith Kuvan, Mr Edwards is able to eat up to 15g (0.5oz) a day, which he called \"a massive difference\".\n\n\"It's been available for 10 years but BioMarin, the company which makes it, they've put a price on it which is too expensive for the NHS,\" he said.\n\nMr Edwards has met Westminster politicians to discuss how sufferers of conditions such as PKU have been \"massively failed by the system\".\n\nHe is being supported by Plaid Cymru's Westminster spokeswoman, Liz Saville-Roberts, who said any drug with the potential to improve the lives of those with PKU should be easily and freely available.\n\nThe company which makes Kuvan says the only countries not funding it in Europe are the UK and Poland\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many with PKU.\n\nBioMarin said it had put the drug forward for commissioning five times in the past 10 years with no success.\n\n\"The burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS,\" it said.\n\n\"BioMarin has made an offer to the NHS which is very competitive compared to other markets but it has not been accepted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eric Schmidt is to leave Alphabet's board in June\n\nFormer Google boss Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s record on multiple controversies: its work in China, its treatment of women, and its tax affairs.\n\nThe 64-year-old executive, who sits on the board at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said the tech giant was right to pursue opportunities in China, despite heavy criticism from senior US officials.\n\n\"The world is a very interconnected place,” Mr Schmidt told BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis.\n\n\"There are many, many benefits interacting, among other things, with China.”\n\nGeneral Joseph Dunford, who as chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff is the highest ranking American in uniform, said Google’s work \"indirectly benefits the Chinese military and creates a challenge for us in maintaining a competitive advantage\".\n\n\"That's like saying America makes pencils and pencils are used by the Chinese.”\n\nGoogle has had a tumultuous history in China. It left the country in 2010 over concerns it was being by censored and cyber-attacked by Beijing, and instead set up an operation in Hong Kong.\n\nMr Schmidt said he disagreed with that move.\n\n“I believed they would be better to stay in China, and help change China to be more open.”\n\nMore recently, the company has been building a presence in the country once again, with an estimated 700 employees now working on advertising and other development. In 2017, it established the Google AI China Center, in Shanghai.\n\nLast year, reporting from The Intercept and New York Times revealed Google had been working on a project named Dragonfly, a search engine that would reportedly fall in line with Beijing’s requirements.\n\nIt was highly controversial, and prompted high-profile resignations, and a letter of protest signed by 1,400 Google employees.\n\nThe company has since said it was no longer working on the project.\n\nWhen asked why most Google employees only learned of Dragonfly via media reports, Mr Schmidt said he had no direct involvement in the project, but that “I can tell you that certainly the people who were building all these products knew about it”.\n\nMr Schmidt ran Google as chief executive and chairman from 2001 to 2011, then executive chairman until 2015. He then became executive chairman of Alphabet, the company set up as Google’s parent.\n\nIn that time, the Google's motto transitioned from, famously, “Don’t be evil” into “do the right thing”. Over the past 12 months, employee discontent has challenged that notion both internally and externally. Last November, staff at Google offices globally staged a walk-out over issues surrounding gender equality at the firm.\n\nThe protest took place after a New York Times investigation discovered Google had quietly paid former executive Andy Rubin $90m in severance, despite there being a credible claim of sexual harassment made against him.\n\nMr Schmidt told Newsnight the firm’s employees protested because they felt empowered.\n\n\"And the fact of the matter is that if we had tried to suppress this stuff it would have come out anyway. It's much better to encourage people to express their opinions.\n\n\"We would argue that [the protests show] our culture at work. Google is famously empowering of its employees and we want to hear from them. These are cases where the employees collectively felt very strongly about the decisions that the company had made.”\n\nA follow-up protest took place last month after organisers of November’s walk-out claimed they were being punished for their activism.\n\n\"My manager started ignoring me,” wrote Clare Stapleton, a Google employee in New York, in an internal memo obtained by Wired magazine. “My work was given to other people, and I was told to go on medical leave, even though I’m not sick.”\n\nMr Schmidt stepped down as Alphabet’s chairman in 2017, but remained on the board. Last month, he said he would be leaving the firm altogether in June.\n\nThroughout his tenure, the tax affairs of Google - like other tech giants - have been under close scrutiny. The company has always maintained that it adheres to the tax laws in all of the countries that it operates in.\n\nDocuments filed in the Netherlands showed Google moved 19.9 billion euros (£17.9bn, $22.7bn) to a shell company in Bermuda, a tax haven. Mr Schmidt told the BBC he was happy the company’s tax affairs were ethical.\n\n“We are required to follow the tax rules, and the tax rules allow that,” he said.\n\n\"When those tax rules change of course we will adopt them. But there is a presumption that somehow we're doing something wrong here. We’re following the global tax regime.”\n\nHe added: “Would you like us to give more, voluntarily, to these governments?\n\n“I will defend the company and the way it works for a very long time.\"", "The UK should consider \"decisively\" increasing defence spending after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nHe told the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London the threats facing the UK had changed \"markedly\" since the Cold War.\n\nHe said any extra money should be spent on \"new capabilities and not simply plugging gaps\".\n\nLabour said real-terms funding for defence had been cut by £9bn since 2010.\n\nThe government will decide its spending commitments up to 2021 and potentially beyond in the Comprehensive Spending Review this autumn.\n\nThere has not been a full-scale Strategic Defence and Security Review, looking at future defence challenges and capabilities since 2015 and one is expected in 2020.\n\nMr Hunt said it was \"not sustainable\" to expect the US to spend 4% of its GDP on defence while other Nato allies spent between 1% and 2%.\n\nThe UK already spends 2% of its economic output on defence but many European countries do not - although all Nato members have agreed to do this by 2024.\n\n\"So for these and other reasons I believe it is time for the next Strategic Defence and Security Review to ask whether, over the coming decade, we should decisively increase the proportion of GDP we devote to defence,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years' time.\"\n\nMr Hunt said the UK currently accounted for almost 20% of total EU defence spending, and British forces contributed a \"hugely disproportionate share\" of some key capabilities.\n\nBut he added that the UK had entered a \"multipolar world\" without the \"assurance provided by unquestioned American dominance\".\n\n\"We face a more aggressive Russia and a more assertive China. We simply do not know what the balance of power in the world will be in 25 years time,\" he said.\n\nOn Brexit Mr Hunt said the UK must leave the EU \"cleanly and properly\", and to fail to do so \"would betray the promise of a democracy\".\n\nThe foreign secretary is among those expected to stand to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party when she steps down.\n\nMrs May has already promised to go once the first stage of Brexit is over. Pressure has grown on the PM to set out a date for her departure following the Conservatives' drubbing at the local elections.\n\nShadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Hunt had sat in successive cabinets since 2010 which had cut defence spending.\n\nShe tweeted: \"If he was so bothered, you'd have thought he might have said something a bit sooner?\"", "The Duke of Sussex was presented with a teddy bear for newborn Archie during a visit to a children's hospital.\n\nPrince Harry met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift by former patient Daisy Wingrove, 13.\n\nHe then met patients and their families who are currently having treatment at the hospital.", "Richard Livett described how he was rescued after coming face to face with one of the attackers\n\nThe first person stabbed in the London Bridge attack has described how he came \"nose to nose\" with Khuram Butt, who shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" in his face before stabbing him in the back.\n\nRichard Livett, who had been out watching football, first thought he had witnessed an accident when he saw a van crash into railings on June 3, 2017.\n\nHe told an inquest he went to check on the occupants.\n\nBut in a \"split second\", his attacker's face was \"an inch or so off\", he said.\n\n\"I felt what I thought initially was a punch in the back, which turned out to be him flailing his arm around the back of me and stabbing me,\" Mr Livett told the hearing at London's Old Bailey.\n\nHe said that after looking at photographs, he could identify the man as Khuram Butt, one of the three attackers.\n\nMr Livett said after he was attacked, he slumped on the ground for a few seconds before deciding to get up and move away.\n\n\"It was chaos all around. I was aware of screaming and shouting and people around me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was a personal mission to get help as quickly as I possibly could. I realised it was quite a serious blow I had taken.\"\n\nHe went on to describe how he felt weak before he collapsed and banged on the locked door of the nearby Globe Tavern.\n\nSome people, including a soldier and an off-duty doctor, came to his aid before he was helped back towards the bridge to receive medical attention, chief coroner Mark Lucraft QC was told.\n\nAnother witness, Jack Baxter, told how he saw French-born waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 26, running and holding his neck near Borough Market's Boro Bistro, where he worked.\n\n\"He had somebody else running to his right,\" he said.\n\n\"They were both running, looking at each other almost in shock at what happened and screaming to each other like 'what's going on?'\"\n\nFrench-born waiter Mr Pigeard, left, and chef Mr Belanger, also from France, were both killed in the attack\n\nHe told the Old Bailey that he then saw a man, now identified as 36-year-old chef Sebastien Belanger, who was cornered by three knifeman in an archway before being stabbed.\n\nAsked how the attackers were behaving, he said that they looked to be acting as a team and appeared to have been trained.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of eight victims has also been hearing from Rasak Kalenikanse, the doorman at the Barrowboy and Banker pub next to where the van crashed.\n\nMr Kalenikanse broke down in tears as he described seeing the three attackers standing with knives, while dead and injured people lay around them.\n\nHe said he heard one of them say: \"We are doing these things in the cause of Allah, you unbelievers.\"\n\nMuch of the inquest today has focused on witnesses' desperate attempts to save those who were wounded.\n\nThis afternoon Philippe Pigeard listened as a waiter described the moment he found his son, Alexandre Pigeard, mortally wounded on a walkway in the Borough Market area.\n\nDervish Gashi, a waiter at the nearby Cafe Brood, became upset when an image was shown to the court of the bloodied path where he found Mr Pigeard.\n\nHe wiped a shaky hand across his forehead as he described frantically searching for a pulse.\n\nDuring some of his evidence, Mr Pigeard's father closed his eyes with a pained expression on his face.\n\nAs Mr Gashi stepped out of the witness box, the bereaved father jumped out of his seat and approached him.\n\nHe whispered something in his ear and extended his hand out. They shook hands before enveloping in a spontaneous embrace.\n\nThe gesture of goodwill and solidarity was a brief moment of respite from the graphic narratives that have dominated this inquest.\n\nThe inquest also heard how three members of the public spent more than half an hour trying to save Mr Belanger after he was stabbed.\n\nCraig Smith and his girlfriend, Emma Thompson, were joined by Lisa Deacon, who told how she had been given first aid training a few weeks before the attack.\n\nMr Smith said the chef was initially conscious but became unresponsive as he tried to stop him from bleeding.\n\nThey were later joined by two police officers who helped them give CPR to Mr Belanger while also keeping watch in case the attackers returned.\n\nAfter 22:45 BST they brought Mr Belanger out to paramedics in Borough High Street.", "The death of guest Steve Dymond has put The Jeremy Kyle Show under intense scrutiny\n\nThe basic question prompted by Steve Dymond's death is whether the very genre of which Jeremy Kyle is the personification has any place on our screens.\n\nNobody doubts it is a commercial success. In a highly competitive market, the show has delivered solid ratings for years; and the fact that it has been on air for 14 years is testament to ITV's support for it.\n\nBut is it right to allow private trauma to become public spectacle? And is the ultimate result nothing less than the exploitation - for commercial gain at ITV, and for voyeuristic viewers - of highly vulnerable people?\n\nHere, some important caveats are vital.\n\nGuests on the show have provided their consent. They are familiar with the programme, and generally know what they're getting into. And there is care provided for them by the production team.\n\nBut ultimately, is the show really there to help people - or to entertain an audience, both in the studio and at home?\n\nHe thinks any claim that the show is about helping people is little short of contemptible, and describes it as a \"theatre of cruelty\" in which people on the edge are exploited.\n\nThe tough questioning of host Jeremy Kyle has been a daytime TV staple since 2005\n\nWhat to do with the show is a question for ITV rather than Ofcom who, being a post-transmission regulator, don't want to be accused of censorship.\n\nThere is a massive disconnect here, between those who don't like what Jeremy Kyle does, and want him off the airwaves, and millions who tune in. Those who want it off air generally don't watch it.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from Radio 4.", "Stan Lee (left) became close to Mr Morgan (right) after his wife's death\n\nThe former manager of comic book co-creator Stan Lee has been charged with elder abuse against the late writer.\n\nKeya Morgan is facing five counts of abuse against Lee - including false imprisonment, fraud and forgery - all stemming from an incident last summer.\n\nThe Marvel superhero visionary died in November last year aged 95.\n\nA spokesperson for Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed an arrest warrant for Mr Morgan - who is yet to comment - had been issued.\n\nLee, who first helped dream up The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961 and went on to co-create titles including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, endured faltering eyesight and memory loss towards the end of his life.\n\nHis final few months were marred by conflicting claims over who was running his affairs.\n\nNew York memorabilia dealer Mr Morgan, 42, became close to Lee after the death of his wife, Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95.\n\nStan Lee with his wife Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95\n\nThe charges follow previous filings against Mr Morgan in May and June last year, including falsely reporting an emergency and falsely reporting a crime, along with a probation violation.\n\nThis culminated in a judge granting a restraining order brought by Lee's family, after Mr Morgan was accused of moving the magnate out of his home at midnight to isolate him from his caregivers.\n\nSpeaking to Variety at the time, Mr Morgan denied the accusations.\n\nThe Marvel Avengers film franchise features many of Lee's comic book co-creations\n\nA previous attempt to obtain a restraining order had been rejected after the attorney pursuing the order, Tom Lallas, was accused of acting without Lee's consent.\n\nThe superhero creations Lee helped to inspire have since formed the foundation of Marvel's record-breaking cinematic universe.\n\nThe most recent release, Avengers: Endgame, broke box office world records and became the fastest film ever to break the $1 billion barrier, doing so in just five days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nUefa investigators want Manchester City to be banned from the Champions League for a season if they are found guilty of breaking financial rules.\n\nHowever, according to one well-placed source, a final decision is yet to be made by chief investigator Yves Leterme.\n\nThe former Belgian prime minister, chairman of the investigatory panel of Uefa's independent financial control board, is set to make a recommendation this week.\n\nWith no vote in such cases, the final say lies with him but several of his colleagues are understood to have firmly expressed the view at a recent meeting that a season-long ban would be a suitable punishment if City are found guilty.\n• None This is my toughest title - Guardiola\n\nWhat are City alleged to have done?\n\nLeterme and his team have been looking at evidence first uncovered in a series of leaks published by the German newspaper Der Spiegel last year.\n\nThe reports alleged that Manchester City had broken Financial Fair Play regulations by inflating the value of a multimillion-pound sponsorship deal. City were fined £49m in 2014 for a previous breach of regulations.\n\nThe Premier League champions denied any wrongdoing, and Uefa said it could not comment on an ongoing investigation, but according to the New York Times, investigators now want rules upheld and City punished with a ban.\n\nUefa's adjudicatory chamber would have to decide whether it agreed with any recommendation from Leterme - expected in the next 48 hours - although it is unlikely to apply to next season's competition because City could appeal, and even take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nBut it would still be a major blow for a club desperate to win Europe's most prestigious club competition for the first time, and who could also soon face a transfer ban, with the FA, Premier League and Fifa also currently investigating City over their signing of youth players.\n\nA statement from Manchester City said: \"Manchester City FC is fully cooperating in good faith with the CFCB IC's [Club Financial Control Body Investigatory Chamber] ongoing investigation.\n\n\"In doing so the club is reliant on both the CFCB IC's independence and commitment to due process; and on Uefa's commitment of the 7 March that it 'will make no further comment on the matter while the investigation is ongoing'.\n\n\"The New York Times report citing 'people familiar with the case' is therefore extremely concerning.\n\n\"The implications are that either Manchester City's good faith in the CFCB IC is misplaced or the CFCB IC process is being misrepresented by individuals intent on damaging the club's reputation and its commercial interests. Or both.\n\n\"Manchester City's published accounts are full and complete and a matter of legal and regulatory record. The accusation of financial irregularities are entirely false, and comprehensive proof of this fact has been provided to the CFCB IC.\"\n\nWhat are the FFP rules?\n• None FFP rules - all you need to know\n\nFinancial Fair Play was introduced by Uefa to prevent clubs in its competitions from spending beyond their means and stamp out what its then president Michel Platini called \"financial doping\" within football.\n\nUnder the rules, financial losses are limited and clubs are also obliged to meet all their transfer and employee payment commitments at all times.\n\nClubs need to balance football-related expenditure - transfers and wages - with television and ticket income, plus revenues raised by their commercial departments. Money spent on stadiums, training facilities, youth development or community projects is exempt.\n\nThe Club Financial Control Body, set up by Uefa, has the ultimate sanction of banning clubs from Uefa competitions, with other potential punishments including warnings, fines, withholding prize money, transfer bans, points deductions, a ban on registration of new players and a restriction on the number of players who can be registered for Uefa competitions.\n\nHas anyone been punished before?\n\nIn 2014, Qatar-owned Paris St-Germain received a similar financial punishment to the one City received.\n\nPSG were deemed to have breached FFP rules when the CFCB decided their back-dated £167m sponsorship contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority, which wiped out their losses, had an unfair value.\n\nThat meant the French side exceeded allowed financial losses by a wide margin when, under FFP rules, clubs were limited to losses of £37m over the previous two years.\n\nThey received a fine, a spending cap and were only allowed to register 21 players for the Champions League for a season.\n\nPSG also remain under investigation for their 2017-18 finances when they signed Neymar from Barcelona for a world record £222m euros (£200m) and Kylian Mbappe from Monaco, initially on loan, for 180m euros (£165.7m).", "Cow & Gate is urgently recalling a batch of baby food sold in major supermarkets as it may contain fragments of rubber.\n\nThe company said small pieces of a thin blue rubber glove had been found in some jars of its Cheesy Broccoli Bake.\n\nA recall notice was issued by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) which said the product may be \"unsafe to eat\".\n\nCow & Gate said the product \"does not pose a health risk\", but \"does not meet our usual high quality standards\".\n\n\"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and quality of our products. We are sorry this has happened and would like to reassure parents that this is an isolated incident,\" Cow & Gate said.\n\nCheesy Broccoli Bake 250g jars are sold in supermarkets including Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons.\n\nThe batch of baby food affected has the code 28122020 and a best before date of 28/12/2020.\n\nThe FSA said in a statement: \"If you have bought the above product do not feed it to your baby. Instead, return it to the store where it was bought, with or without a receipt, for a full refund.\"", "Lord Steel was leader of the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democrats and Holyrood's first presiding officer\n\nThe Lib Dems have reinstated former leader David Steel after a probe into what he knew about abuse claims against the late MP Cyril Smith.\n\nThe peer was suspended from the party after comments he made about Smith to an independent child abuse inquiry.\n\nHe said he had \"assumed\" allegations against the Rochdale MP were true, but that it was \"nothing to do with me\".\n\nThe party ruled there were \"no grounds for action\" against Lord Steel as Smith \"did not confess to any criminality\".\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said it had been important to seek \"clarification\", but said the issue had boiled down to \"a hearing difficulty and a lack of precision in providing some answers\" on the part of Lord Steel.\n\nLord Steel said that his \"open and honest answers\" had been \"erroneously reported and taken out of context\", which had caused him \"great personal distress\".\n\nHowever, a lawyer representing some people who allege they were abused by Smith said the decision was \"disappointing\" and that the issue should have been investigated in a \"thorough, open and transparent way rather than behind closed doors\".\n\nThe probe centred on a meeting Lord Steel - then leader of the Liberal Party - had with Smith in 1979 about claims he had abused boys at a Rochdale hostel in the 1960s.\n\nPolice had investigated allegations about the abuse of teenagers at the Cambridge House hostel a decade earlier, in 1969, although no-one was ever prosecuted.\n\nLord Steel said he had discussed the allegations with Smith - the MP for Rochdale between 1972 and 1992 - after an article appeared in Private Eye magazine.\n\nThe 81-year-old told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse that \"the matter had been investigated by police, no further action was taken and that was the end of the story\".\n\nBut in exchanges with inquiry counsel Brian Altman QC, the peer appeared to agree that he had \"assumed\" the allegations were true.\n\nCyril Smith (left) and David Steel (right) discussed the allegations in 1979\n\nMr Altman asked: \"So you understood that he's actually committed these offences, from what he said to you?\"\n\nThe QC then asked: \"Wasn't that all the more reason to take matters further and hold some form of inquiry?\"\n\nThe peer answered: \"No, because it was, as I say, before he was an MP, before he was even a member of my party. It had nothing to do with me.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrats subsequently suspended Lord Steel, saying that \"an investigation is needed\".\n\nThe party's executive group has now determined that there are \"no grounds for action\" against the former MSP and Holyrood presiding officer.\n\nMr Rennie said: \"We take the issue of vigilance and safeguarding incredibly seriously, so it was important to investigate following the evidence that David Steel gave to the independent public inquiry. In part because of a hearing difficulty and a lack of precision in providing some answers it was necessary to seek further information from him for clarification.\n\n\"The clarifications that David Steel has provided to us state clearly that Cyril Smith did not confess to any criminality which is why he took no further action at the time.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Lord Steel had \"a hearing difficulty\" during the inquiry session\n\nLord Steel said he was \"naturally pleased and relieved\" with the decision, which was made by the party executive on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"I believe in the highest standards of safeguarding for young and vulnerable people. As such, I voluntarily attended the IICSA hearing and offered open and honest answers, some of which have been erroneously reported and taken out of context.\n\n\"These inaccurate elements led some to question my own such commitment. Opinions and assumptions are not facts, and those expressed in some quarters have caused me great personal distress.\"\n\nBut lawyer Richard Scorer, who represents some of those alleging abuse by Smith, said the party's decision was \"disappointing\".\n\nMr Scorer, of law firm Slater and Gordon, also claimed it was \"premature\" of the Liberal Democrats to conclude their investigation without waiting for the findings of the abuse inquiry.\n\nHe said: \"Lord Steel's evidence and the dismissive way in which he delivered it was truly shocking. The least my clients are owed is for the matter to be investigated in a thorough, open and transparent way rather than behind closed doors.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final for the second successive season.\n\nTammy Abraham's winning spot-kick, after keeper Jed Steer had saved Albion's first two penalties, settled the shootout 4-3 in Villa's favour after a gripping two hours of tension-packed derby drama.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from Saturday's first leg, Albion levelled the tie when Craig Dawson flicked home a near-post header from a long throw.\n\nBut, just as much as Dwight Gayle's red card proved crucial at Villa Park, so did the 80th-minute sending-off of Albion captain Chris Brunt as they finished with 10 men for the second time in four days.\n\nThey held on for penalties and, although Albert Adomah's miss in the shootout briefly gave them hope after Steer had saved from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi, Abraham kept his nerve to book a play-off final meeting with either Leeds or Derby at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nThey meet in the second leg of their semi-final at Elland Road on Wednesday, with Leeds 1-0 up from the first leg.\n\nTwo red cards in four days hinder Albion\n\nThe main sub-plot of a tight two-legged play-off semi-final concerned Albion's two red cards, with top scorer Gayle sent off on Saturday and captain Brunt dismissed at The Hawthorns.\n\nIf the Baggies were a bit unlucky at Villa Park over the controversial Gayle incident, this time there was no doubt at all.\n\nBrunt stepped on John McGinn's arm in their first tangle before the break, but referee Chris Kavanagh either did not see the incident or deemed it accidental.\n\nBrunt was then booked early in the second half for a late challenge on McGinn, which could easily have been interpreted as a sending-off offence in its own right.\n\nWhen he brought McGinn down again on the edge of the box, Brunt's resulting red card was inevitable.\n\nIt might have been a different story if Albion had stayed with 11 men, given what a force they had been when roared on from even before kick-off by their raucous home support.\n\nThey had already looked a threat before they finally took the lead after 29 minutes, not surprisingly from an aerial set-piece.\n\nAlbion won a throw close to the corner flag and, when Holgate hurled in a long one to the near post, it did not immediately seem that dangerous, but Dawson got in first - as he has done so often in such set-piece situations during his career - and steered in a flicked header which crept in at the far post.\n\nAlbion had other chances too - Tyrone Mings blocked a Jacob Murphy shot on his own goal line, Jay Rodriguez sent a powerful effort straight at keeper Steer, Matt Phillips powered a close-range header just over and Brunt shot just wide from long range.\n\nBut, although it took a fierce low shot from Anwar El Ghazi to test Sam Johnstone properly for the first time after the break, Villa were already starting to turn the tide before Brunt's departure.\n\nAnd, once they had a man advantage, they were hard to hold back.\n\nAdomah had a left-footed shot from 12 yards superbly saved by former Villa keeper Johnstone, while Conor Hourihane had an effort deflected over and then Adomah fired just wide.\n\nTwo tired sides then got through extra time as Villa still failed to break down the door before the drama of spot-kicks.\n\nAnd in Steer, Villa's third-choice goalkeeper at the start of the season, Dean Smith's side had just the man for the occasion.\n\nSmith - who left Brentford to succeed Steve Bruce as Villa boss in October - has guided Villa back to Wembley for the second time in 12 months.\n\nHaving experienced the disappointment of play-off final defeat by Fulham in last season's play-off final, they will get another opportunity to return to the Premier League following relegation in 2016.\n\nAs for the Baggies, they have ultimately failed in their bid to bounce straight back to the top flight after one year in the Championship and are likely to start next season with a new boss.\n\nJimmy Shan spent the final two months in caretaker charge of Albion following Darren Moore's sacking in March.\n• None 0-0 - Holgate missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's left\n• None 0-1 - Hourihane scored for Villa - drilled low and hard into corner\n• None 0-1 - Hegazi missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's right\n• None 0-2 - Jedinak scored for Villa - sidefooted into corner, sending goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 1-3 - Grealish scored for Villa - sent goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 2-3 - Gibbs scored for West Brom - placed effort in bottom corner\n• None 2-3 - Adomah missed for Villa - blazed well over the crossbar\n• None 3-3 - Morrison scored for West Brom - fired into corner past Steer's right hand\n• None 3-4 - Abraham scored for Villa - Johnstone got foot to low penalty but could not keep it out and Villa's place at Wembley was confirmed\n\n\"I'd have taken this 15 games ago and we have cause to be very proud.\n\n\"We deserved it, but the disappointing for me was not winning. I couldn't believe we'd lost the game. That's our first defeat since losing at Brentford in February.\n\n\"They were always going to be threat from set-pieces but we had enough chances to have scored ourselves.\n\n\"We'd done our preparations though. We had prepared for penalties since the day we qualified for the play-offs. We had a lot of rehearsals and of course we had the inspired substitution of bringing on Mile Jedinak, who has never missed a penalty.\"\n\n\"We've been on the end of some unjust decisions over the course of the two ties but you just have to accept it.\n\n\"The momentum was with us. But for the lads to go down to 10 men again and perform they did was a credit to them.\n\n\"Their work ethic has been excellent since from the moment I took over and we can be proud of the effort that has been put in.\n\n\"The fans were magnificent too. They can be proud of the way they got behind their team. The atmosphere was electric.\"\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(4). Tammy Abraham (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(3). James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Albert Adomah should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(2), Aston Villa 0(3). Kieran Gibbs (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(3). Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(2). Tosin Adarabioyo (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(2). Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Ahmed Hegazi (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(1). Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mason Holgate (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A transgender LGBT rights campaigner and former taxi driver who won £4m on a lottery scratchcard has died.\n\nMelissa Ede bought the winning card when she stopped for petrol on her way to work in December 2017.\n\nBefore her win the 58-year-old, from Hull, was known for her online videos and TV appearances and had thousands of followers on social media.\n\nHumberside Police confirmed she died on Saturday night and said her death was not suspicious.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Ede, posted a message on Facebook thanking paramedics and hospital staff \"for looking after me\" when she was suffering from chest pains.\n\nMs Ede once described her lottery win as a \"fairytale ending\"\n\nWhen she had her big win, Ms Ede explained how she went into a local garage for fuel and could not decide whether to also buy cigarettes or the £10 National Lottery Blue Scratchcard.\n\n\"What a fairytale ending,\" she said.\n\n\"It is all just like a dream.\"\n\nThe lottery millionaire said she wanted to concentrate on helping others experiencing gender challenges and to write her autobiography.\n\n\"The transgender fight to where I am now has been a very difficult path,\" she said.\n\nShe underwent surgery nearly nine years ago and said she was \"really proud of who I am today\".\n\nMs Ede is famous for posting online videos of herself, mostly featuring her singing and dancing in skimpy outfits.\n\nAmong her TV appearances include the ITV court show, Judge Rinder, and The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nShe described how she used to work up to 15 hours a day as a taxi driver and lived in one room in a shared house.\n\nIn a statement, Humberside Police said it was called to reports of \"concern for safety of a woman outside a property on Cleminson Gardens at 22:40 BST\" who was pronounced dead after receiving \"immediate medical attention\".", "Are the talks between the government and the opposition dead? Not yet.\n\nOlly Robbins, (remember him?) the government's Brexit negotiator, is off to Brussels on Tuesday to talk about how long it might take, and how the broad outline of the future arrangement between the EU and the UK could be changed if there were to be some kind of deal.\n\nOn its own, that sounds rather promising. It's been a demand from Labour that there would be changes to the so-called political declaration so that any compromises can be trusted.\n\nAnd broadly, the actual policies of the two main Westminster parties aren't so far apart after all.\n\nIf you squint at the detail you can just about see where, with some understanding, and urgency, they could collide.\n\nRemember the political declaration, that guide to the future, is rather helpfully vague. One cabinet minister told me tonight \"we could sort the real policy differences out in an afternoon\".\n\nOf course there are disagreements on detail, tone, and ambition for the long term outcome. But if these talks fail it won't be because the two parties have an entirely different set of ideas about our actual departure when it comes at least to the first part of Brexit, the divorce deal withdrawal agreement.\n\nThis process though is not just about the policy, it's about the politics too.\n\nAnd with unease on the Tory side, expressed explicitly in a letter to Theresa May today from former ministers, about softening up their Brexit plan at all, and division on the Labour side about signing up to anything without a promise of another referendum, the reality of getting anything agreed threatens to choke it off.\n\nAnd as each day passes it becomes harder - Theresa May's hold on government becomes more slippery, undermining her chances of selling anything to her party, and eroding Labour's faith that they could sign up to anything that lasts.\n\nAnd actors on both sides do agree on something - that while they talk, rather than decide, it's leaving a vacuum that makes the divisions at Westminster and beyond worse.\n\nThe visible agonies of their attempts to compromise are making more space for those offering clear sounding solutions - whether that's leaving without a deal, changing the prime minister or holding another public vote.\n\nThe cabinet and shadow cabinet share the fears that their respective parties suffer in an increasingly brutal and binary Brexit debate.\n\nBut they seem unlikely to take bold moves suddenly to shift their attitude to doing a deal, when they meet separately and discuss the status of the talks on Tuesday morning.\n\nAnother Eurostar trip for Olly Robbins is unlikely to change that.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you might not know about Doris Day\n\nHollywood legend Doris Day, whose films made her one of the biggest stars of all time, has died aged 97.\n\nThe singer turned actress starred in films such as Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk and had a hit in 1956 with Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).\n\nHer screen partnership with Rock Hudson is one of the best-known in the history of romantic movies.\n\nIn a statement, the Doris Day Animal Foundation said she died on Monday at her home in Carmel Valley, California.\n\nIt said she had been \"in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia\".\n\n\"She was surrounded by a few close friends as she passed,\" the statement continued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DDAF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff in April 1922, Day originally wanted to be a dancer but had to abandon her dream after breaking her right leg in a car accident.\n\nInstead she began her singing career at the age of 15. Her first hit, Sentimental Journey, would become a signature tune.\n\nHer films, which included Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and That Touch of Mink, made her known around the world.\n\nBut she never won an Oscar and was nominated only once, in 1960, for Pillow Talk, the first of her three romantic comedies with Hudson.\n\nHonours she did receive included the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a lifetime achievement Grammy in 2008.\n\nHer last release, the compilation album My Heart, went to number one in the UK in 2011.\n\nDay's real life was not as upbeat as her on-screen persona\n\nDay's wholesome, girl-next-door image was a popular part of her myth that sometimes invited ridicule.\n\n\"I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin,\" the musician Oscar Levant once remarked.\n\nDay herself said her \"Miss Chastity Belt\" image was \"more make-believe than any film part [she] ever played.\"\n\nHer life was certainly not as sunny. She married four times, was divorced three times and was widowed once.\n\nShe also suffered a mental breakdown and had severe financial trouble after one husband squandered her money.\n\nIn the 1970s, she turned away from performing to focus her energies on her animal foundation.\n\nAccording to the organisation, she wished to have no funeral, memorial service or grave marker.\n\nIn later life she became an advocate for animal welfare\n\nDick Van Dyke, another Hollywood legend from the same era although he never worked with Day, said she had an \"energy about her\".\n\n\"She wasn't trying to act. It was just who Doris Day was, I think, a great energy and exhilaration, and she seemed to love life, at least that's the impression you got,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme. \"It was a great era.\"\n\nStar Trek actor William Shatner remembered Day on Twitter as \"the World's Sweetheart,\" saying she was \"beloved by all\".\n\nFellow Star Trek cast member George Takei said she was \"synonymous with Hollywood icon\", while Spanish actor Antonio Banderas wrote: \"Thank you for your talent.\"\n\nNovelist Paulo Coelho marked her passing by quoting lyrics from Secret Love, one of her numbers in Calamity Jane.\n\n\"We've lost another great Hollywood talent,\" tweeted Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, while actor Luke Evans said he had \"always loved\" her voice and \"beautiful\" songs.\n\nFormer Beatles member Paul McCartney paid tribute to Day on his website, describing her as \"very funny lady who I shared many laughs with\", adding: \"I will miss her but will always remember her twinkling smile and infectious laugh\".\n\nAnd his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, shared a photo of her and Day alongside words which read: \"The one, the only, the woman who inspired so much of what I do.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Stella McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Having narrowly missed being struck by a light aircraft that crashed on a dual carriageway, two motorists leapt into action to save those on board.\n\nDaniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr said they were just acting on instinct after dragging the pilot and two passengers out with just minor injuries.\n\nMr Nicholson said he was the first to get to the plane: \"I realised it was upside down - it was already on fire.\n\n\"I got under the wing and I could see they were all still alive, and obviously in a lot of distress.\"\n\nThe pair have been called heroes for their actions.\n\nThis video contains footage filmed by eye-witness Daniel Nicholson.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this year, BBC Scotland News made a film about Larry and his love of football.\n\nIt is Sunday lunchtime, and match day for Chaplins against Belleaire in the Greenock and District Welfare League.\n\nLarry Barilli is in the Chaplins dressing room, dishing out the strips to his players.\n\nHe is pretty angry - his only reserve for the match is the back-up goalkeeper.\n\nLarry's task of managing Chaplins to victory just got a little harder. At least he has his experience to fall back on - Larry is 83, and has been a football manager for almost 66 years.\n\nLarry Barilli started managing football teams in the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest\n\nOn one side of the pitch are Belleaire's management team and their subs, looking confident.\n\nA few fans are also here to support their friends. One young man defies the bitterly cold Greenock wind and watches the game in a T-shirt with a bottle of beer in hand.\n\nAfter a brief team talk, where Larry encourages his players to enjoy themselves and respect the referee, he takes his position on the opposite side of the pitch from Belleaire's coaches.\n\nHe is a lone figure, walking up and down the touchline wearing all black apart from his \"No Fear\" cap.\n\nThe game kicks off, and the great-grandfather doesn't hold back - he shouts encouragement and occasional abuse at his players, he gives the referee a piece of his mind on foul throws and he constantly demands that his players play the ball forward.\n\nAs you may expect from a Sunday league amateur game, the language is somewhat colourful.\n\nLarry was overjoyed when his team Chaplins won 8-2 against rivals Belleaire\n\nMaybe it was the presence of the BBC cameras, maybe it was Larry's lucky day, but Chaplins take the game to a lacklustre Belleaire and win the match 8-2.\n\nThe joy of victory is written across Larry's face. After punching his arms in the air, he gasps: \"I feel as if we have won the league with that result. I didn't expect it before the game.\"\n\nPaul Bryson, the captain of Chaplins, takes a moment away from the celebrations to speak about his manager.\n\n\"The guy is a legend. You know what they say - a leopard can't change its spots. Hats off to him, he is out here every week come rain or shine. He is great to have along.\"\n\nWilliam Collins, the Chairman of the Greenock and District Welfare League, was also there to watch Larry's team win.\n\n\"The amount of teams that he has had, the amount of players he has coached throughout the years, you can't count that.\n\n\"Everybody has got a respect for Larry. He is a character. You think nice, elderly gentleman - no. He is giving as good as he is getting out there.\"\n\nBarnhill Rovers, the team Larry started and the first he managed. Larry is seen here in the front row, second from the right\n\nLarry started managing in 1953 - the year the Queen was crowned, Joseph Stalin died, and Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.\n\nIn the world of football, Blackpool won the FA Cup and the Scotland national team was being managed by a \"selection committee\".\n\nAfter Larry turned 18 in late May of that year, he decided to become the player-manager of his own football team so he could lead them in the local amateur league.\n\n\"I just wanted to start my own team where I stayed in Barnhill Street,\" he recalls.\n\n\"We called the team Barnhill Rovers. We got a few tankings at the start.\n\nOne of Larry's favourite managers is Nottingham Forrest legend Brian Clough\n\n\"We've had a lot of great teams, and some poor teams as well,\" he says.\n\n\"We have had quite a lot of success - we have won 11 league titles in the different leagues we were in, and we won 23 out of 36 cup finals.\"\n\nLarry has managed seven teams in the Greenock area over the years and estimates to have missed only seven games since 1953 through illness.\n\nHis longevity in football is hard to match. It is thought only one man in Scottish football history has managed for a longer time, and Larry will match that record later this year.\n\nLarry is believed to have managed about 2,000 games, and the Scottish Amateur Football Association is not aware of a football manager in Scotland who is older than him.\n\nFor Larry's family, they understand - although don't necessarily always agree - with his football obsession.\n\n\"I felt embarrassed one time,\" said Larry. \"My oldest boy's granddaughter was getting christened on the Sunday. I went to the football.\n\n\"He was my goalkeeper for a long time. I think he knows how much football means to me. I felt rotten after it though.\"\n\nFor the past few years, Larry's senior players have taken training while he concentrates on leading Chaplins on match days.\n\nAs well as manager, Larry is Chaplins' kit man and washes all the strips after every game.\n\nLarry says he has missed only seven games since 1953\n\nWhen he is not loading his washing machine with muddy tops, or planning his team for the next match, Larry works as a taxi driver two days a week.\n\nHe is not a fan of the modern game.\n\n\"I think the football years ago was better,\" he says. \"In my time, you attacked to win games. Now they are passing the ball back an awful lot. It is kind of boring.\"\n\nLarry's living room is full of awards and trophies from his football successes. One award, however, is missing and he wants to have it - an honour from the Queen.\n\n\"A great footballer for me, who I thought was absolutely brilliant, got an OBE. Frank Lampard - for services to football. Football made him a multi-millionaire. I'm doing this for the true love of football.\"\n\nThe Greenock great-grandfather, who also works as a taxi driver, has no plans to stop managing football teams\n\nFor now, Larry savours his side's victory. He celebrates at home by watching some more football on TV with a glass of cola in his hand.\n\nAs any coach will tell you, including one who has been managing for almost 66 years, the most important game is the next one. For Larry, he hopes to have many more to come.\n• None End of the road for Marine boss", "Madonna's performance at the Eurovision Song Contest has been thrown into doubt by organisers, who say she has yet to sign a contract for the show.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Eurovision's executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand said: \"The European Broadcasting Union has never confirmed Madonna as an act.\"\n\nHe continued: \"If we do not have a signed contract she cannot perform on our stage.\"\n\nThe contest takes place in Tel Aviv in Israel on 18 May.\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April.\n\nThey said the star was due to play two songs during the interval - one from her new album Madame X and another from her back catalogue, rumoured to be 1989's Like A Prayer.\n\nEurovision organisers downplayed the story at the time, saying \"no final decisions\" had been made - although this appeared to be a formality.\n\nBut Sand, who has produced the contest since 2010, said on Monday that negotiations were still ongoing.\n\n\"We are in a situation now that is a bit strange,\" he said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Dobry wieczór Europo! This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"We have an artist who would like to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, and who we would love to welcome on that stage. But for that we need to have the framework secured.\n\n\"We are negotiating now, in the final stage of that - but if there is no signed contract this week, she will not be on the stage.\"\n\nAccording to the Jerusalem Post, Madonna will arrive in Tel Aviv to start rehearsals on Wednesday.\n\nIt is not clear how Eurovision would fill the half-time show if her appearance was cancelled.\n\nHowever, there is already a separate performance planned featuring four former contestants - Conchita Wurst, Måns Zelmerlöw, Eleni Foureira and Verka Serduchka - recreating some of Eurovision's most memorable moments.\n\nThis year's contest is being held in Israel after the country's entry - Netta's song Toy - won the 2018 edition.\n\nBut there have been calls for performers and broadcasters to boycott the competition over Israel's human rights record.\n\nIn January, British figures including Dame Vivienne Westwood, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Mike Leigh, Maxine Peake and the band Wolf Alice signed a letter calling on the BBC to cancel coverage of the 2019 song contest.\n\nThe signatories criticised Israel over its occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. \"Eurovision may be light entertainment, but it is not exempt from human rights considerations - and we cannot ignore Israel's systematic violation of Palestinian human rights,\" they wrote.\n\nOthers denounced the proposed boycott, saying that Eurovision's \"spirit of togetherness\" was \"under attack\".\n\nNetta will perform at the first semi-final on Tuesday\n\nPublic figures including Stephen Fry, Sharon Osbourne, Marina Abramovic and pop mogul Scooter Braun signed a counter-statement, claiming \"the cultural boycott movement [was] an affront to both Palestinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise, exchange, and mutual recognition\".\n\nCommenting on the row, Madonna said she was a supporter of all human rights.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement to Reuters.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nNetta is due to perform during the first Eurovision semi-final, which takes place later on Tuesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bradley Welsh had been returning home from his boxing gym when he was shot\n\nA 28-year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh.\n\nSean Orman made a brief appearance in private before Sheriff Derrick McIntyre. No plea was made.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement flat on Chester Street, Edinburgh, on 17 April.\n\nMr Orman faces a series of other charges including the attempted murder of another man during an incident in Pitcairn Grove in March.\n\nHe is also accused of three firearms offences.\n\nA car was later found on fire in Harperigg Way after the Pitcairn Grove incident\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nMr Orman, from Addiewell in West Lothian, was remanded in custody.\n\nThe case was continued for further inquiry.", "The RSPCA said Lloyd was found by workers at Lidl's Netherfield store as they unloaded fruit\n\nA tree frog from Costa Rica has been found in a box of bananas at a Lidl in Nottingham.\n\nIt was discovered more than 5,300 miles (8,500 km) away from its rainforest home by staff at the Netherfield branch on Sunday.\n\nWorkers, who named it Lloyd, told the RSPCA it was sitting on top of the bananas as they unloaded the fruit on to the shelves.\n\nLloyd is now in the care of a vet who specialises in exotic animals.\n\nLidl has been approached for comment.\n\nRSPCA officer Hayley Day said the supermarket staff \"seemed quite taken with him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RSPCA Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"He must have also had quite the shock when he emerged in a Nottinghamshire supermarket considering he's used to more tropical climates usually.\"\n\nReacting to the find on Facebook, Rob Loasby wrote: \"They have some amazing things in their specials aisle these days.\"\n\nSarah Conway said: \"It's not a Lidl frog, it's a big frog.\"\n\nWhile Lee Anne added: \"I'm never putting my hand in a box of bananas again... first spiders now this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish unemployment continued to fall in the three months to March, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless total fell by 7,000 from the previous quarter to reach 89,000. The unemployment rate is now at 3.2%, compared with the UK figure of 3.8%.\n\nEmployment among Scots of working age fell by 3,000 to just under 2.6 million - an employment rate of 75.4%.\n\nUK employment jumped by 99,000 to 32.7 million - the third highest total since records began in 1971.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, unemployment in the UK as a whole fell by 65,000 during the latest quarter to 1.3 million, continuing a general trend which started in early 2012.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate is now lower than at any time since late 1974.\n\nFor men the rate was 3.9% - it has not been lower since March to May 1975 - and for women it was 3.7%, the lowest since comparable records began in 1971.\n\nResponding to the figures, Scotland's Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said the Scottish economy and jobs market continued to strengthen.\n\nHe said: \"Labour market figures for women and young people in Scotland once again outperformed the UK.\n\n\"Scotland's employment rate for women rose to 72%, higher than the UK rate of 71.8%.\n\n\"The employment rate for young people in Scotland rose to 59.3%, higher than the UK rate of 54.6%.\n\n\"Scotland's unemployment rate for young people - 6.6% - is a record low and lower than the UK.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said it was \"good news\" that unemployment in Scotland was at a record low.‎\n\nHe added: \"The UK government is investing in Scotland's economy and creating jobs.\n\n\"Our £1.35bn city and growth deals programme is starting to reap rewards and will give Scotland a long-lasting economic boost.\"", "Tommy Robinson arrives at the Old Bailey\n\nFormer English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is to face fresh contempt of court proceedings.\n\nHigh Court judges ordered a new case be brought against him over allegations he could have prejudiced a jury involved in a criminal trial last year.\n\nThe 36-year-old, from Luton, was jailed for 13 months in May 2018 for filming and broadcasting footage of people involved in the trial.\n\nBut that finding was quashed in August after he won an appeal.\n\nIn a brief ruling at the Old Bailey, the judges said that the full case would go ahead on 4 and 5 July.\n\nThe allegations concern a Facebook broadcast by Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which was watched by thousands of people.\n\nHe was jailed on the day by the trial judge at Leeds Crown Court - but that was quashed by the Court of Appeal after it ruled that his case had been unfairly handled.\n\nMr Robinson, who is standing for election as an MEP in the European elections later this month, was released after serving two months of his sentence.\n\nThe case was referred back to the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, who announced in March that there were \"strong grounds\" to bring new proceedings against him.\n\nAfter more than six months of complex legal delays, Lady Justice Sharp said the trial for contempt - which carries a maximum sentence of two years - should go ahead.\n\nShe said reasons for the decision would be given at a later date.\n\nMr Robinson's supporters, who had gathered outside the Old Bailey, booed and chanted \"shame on you\" after it was announced.", "The Northern Ireland unemployment rate hit an historic low in the first quarter of 2019.\n\nThe rate fell by almost one percentage point over the quarter to reach 2.9%, which compares to a UK rate of 3.8%.\n\nMeanwhile, the Northern Ireland employment rate hit a record high of 71.3%.\n\nThe record breaking figure is a measurement of the percentage of working-age adults who are in employment.\n\nDuring the recession the employment rate fell as low as 64%.\n\nThe UK employment rate now stands at 76.1%, which is also the highest on record.\n\nNorthern Ireland continues to have a significantly higher rate of economic inactivity compared to the UK average.\n\nEconomic inactivity is a measurement of those people who are not in work and not looking for work - that includes students, retired people and sick or disabled people.\n\nNisra, the official statistics agency, said in a statement: \"The improvements in the NI labour market since 2017 are consistent with the UK experience.\n\n\"Unemployment is the lowest on record, employment is at a joint record high and inactivity is one of the lowest on record.\n\n\"However, it is worth noting, while NI has the joint second lowest unemployment rate of all the UK regions, it has the second lowest employment rate and highest inactivity rate.\"", "British Steel has said it is seeking further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nIt follows reports the company needs a loan of up to £75m to keep trading in the coming months.\n\nThe UK's second largest steel firm employs 4,500 people, and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nThe company said \"uncertainties around Brexit are posing challenges for all businesses including British Steel\".\n\nIt added: \"We are holding constructive discussions with our stakeholders on how to navigate them.\n\n\"Discussions are continuing about a package of additional support to assist the company address broader Brexit-related issues, whilst continuing with [the company's] investment plans.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy said: \"As this is speculation, we won't be commenting.\"\n\nBritish Steel's main plant is at Scunthorpe, but it also has sites in Teesside, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.\n\nThe move comes just two weeks after British Steel secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill.\n\nThe money meant the private equity-owned firm could avoid a steep EU fine.\n\nAccording to Sky News, in recent days the steel maker has met its lenders and the government to discuss another loan.\n\nBritish Steel has reportedly faced a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nIt has also been struggling with the prolonged weakness of sterling since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nQuoting people close to the process, Sky said insolvency experts have been placed on standby in case British Steel cannot secure the funds it needs.\n\nThe BBC understands that nationalisation or a management buyout are also being discussed as fall-back options.\n\nThe GMB union called on the government to guarantee the future of the firm and safeguard thousands of jobs.\n\n\"This government has a track record of sitting on its hands while UK manufacturing collapse round its ears,\" said Ross Murdoch, GMB national officer.\n\n\"Now is the time to take action - ministers must come out and guarantee the loan required to safeguard British Steel.\"\n\nPrivate equity firm Greybull Capital rescued Tata Steel's long products business - which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors - during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt paid a nominal £1 fee for the assets, but pledged to plough up to £400m into the business, which it rebranded British Steel.\n\nWorkers had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions in return, and the company recently returned to profit.\n\nThe news comes days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata said its UK business would keep running, but admitted it was facing tough operating conditions in the UK.", "The Crown Prosecution Service said it had \"crucial evidence\" to encourage Omar Ashfaq to admit 11 terrorism offences\n\nA man who left USB sticks containing terrorist propaganda inside shoes at six mosques in England has been jailed.\n\nOmar Ashfaq, 24, of St Thomas Road, in Derby, left 17 of the sticks in footwear while Muslim worshipers were praying between May and June last year.\n\nDerbyshire Police said the sticks contained \"violent footage and propaganda encouraging terrorism\".\n\nAshfaq admitted 11 terrorism offences and was given four years and six months in prison at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nHe was also sentenced to one year on licence.\n\nDuring last year's Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, he left the sticks at mosques in Derby, Loughborough, Coventry, Birmingham and Luton.\n\nAmong the material were two videos entitled 'ISIS children execute spies' and 'ISIS burn Turkish Apostate soldiers'.\n\nWorshippers who found the sticks informed mosque authorities who were able to identify Ashfaq from CCTV footage.\n\nOne USB stick was discovered by a nine-year-old boy, who had gone to the mosque with his father.\n\nA map labelled 'Target: 1 week' on which a route was drawn was found in Ashfaq's possession\n\nWhen Ashfaq was arrested at his home, police found a further 15 memory sticks inside bags marked 'Manchester' and 'Bradford' and notes outlining his plans.\n\nA map detailing a route between the mosques was also found.\n\nDet Insp Donna Sisson, head of Derbyshire Special Branch, said he would have continued to distribute up to 250 sticks.\n\n\"The USB sticks he managed to deposit contained footage of unspeakable brutality and promoted an extreme ideology,\" she said.\n\nOmar Ashfaq pleaded guilty to the eight charges on the first day of his trial at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday\n\nIn March, Ashfaq pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of a document containing information useful to terrorism.\n\nHe admitted being in possession of three Islamic State group propaganda magazines.\n\nHowever, he denied eight charges of dissemination of a terrorist publication.\n\nOn the first day of his trial on Monday, Ashfaq changed his plea.\n\nDeb Walsh, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Omar Ashfaq found a novel way to spread violent propaganda in the hope of encouraging British Muslims to commit terrorist acts.\n\n\"Instead the mosques he targeted found him on their CCTV recordings and handed in the footage and the memory sticks to the police.\n\n\"I want to thank them for acting quickly so the CPS had the crucial evidence we needed to encourage him to plead guilty.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "You might only be grabbing a sandwich, crisps and maybe a cake and coffee, but that unremarkable weekday lunch can produce four or more items of waste.\n\nThat adds up: the UK's lunch-on-the-go habit is creating nearly 11 billion pieces of packaging every year, says environmental campaign group Hubbub.\n\nBut if you do buy lunch, take your own container to the shop and ask them to fill it, the charity suggests.\n\nHubbub surveyed 1,200 UK office workers and more than half of them said they were buying takeaway lunches more than they used to five years ago, generating an estimated 276 items of waste per person per year.\n\n\"People are saying that they are buying food to take out because life has got busier,\" says Hubbub's Tessa Tricks. \"It's that sense that, 'I'm important and having this on the go will make me do things more efficiently,' but sometimes sitting with crockery and cutlery and enjoying it would be better.\"\n\nMs Tricks argues it is usually both healthier and cheaper to make a packed lunch, but the charity is also encouraging people to pop a plastic box in their bag alongside their reusable coffee cup, if they plan to buy takeaway food.\n\nHubbub says a trial in East Anglia showed that offering a 10% price reduction did persuade some customers to come prepared with their own lunch box.\n\nLyn McAlister who runs Cafe 7 in Norwich says the idea went down well with her customers and that she's continuing to offer the discount even now the trial's over.\n\n\"I think we need to keep spreading the word and hopefully other companies will come aboard too,\" she says.\n\nLarger takeaway food chains say customers bringing in containers could present a health and safety risk. But they say they are making other moves to reduce waste.\n\nSome, like Pret a Manger, offer water so customers can avoid buying it in bottles. Pret has also started moving its napkins and cutlery behind the counter, after a trial showed it reduced plastic cutlery usage by 30%.\n\nThe Japanese-inspired takeaway chain Itsu says it is experimenting with putting recycling bins in front of its restaurants, although it says it is proving difficult to ensure waste streams are kept uncontaminated. Anything soiled with food can't be sent for recycling.\n\n\"We are trialling moving to bowls for all eat-in orders,\" says Itsu's spokeswoman. \"These obviously will be washed and reused.\"\n\nLeon which markets itself as offering healthy fast-food says it would \"love\" to incentivise customers to bring in reusable containers, but there would have to be \"strict controls to minimise the risk of cross-contamination\".\n\nIt points out that it already serves its food in cardboard boxes which can be composted or recycled (a removable greaseproof paper lining prevents the box being soiled) and biodegradable cutlery.\n\nHowever, Hubbub's Ms Tricks points out schemes like this fall down if customers don't dispose of the packaging correctly.\n\nLunch-on-the-go \"is a recycling minefield\" she says, because by its nature it is often being taken away from the point of purchase. And out on the street or back in the office there isn't often the infrastructure to support recycling and composting.", "Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are meeting to discuss ongoing Brexit talks between their two parties.\n\nA Labour source told the BBC it was about \"keeping in touch\" after meetings of both the PM's cabinet and the opposition leader's shadow cabinet.\n\nEarlier, Labour's John McDonnell said there had been no \"significant shift\" in the government position.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a compromise was not impossible but talks could not continue \"indefinitely\".\n\nThe discussions have been going on for weeks with little sign of progress.\n\nFollowing a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said ministers had agreed they would continue.\n\nSpeaking at a Wall Street Journal event in London, the shadow chancellor, Mr McDonnell, criticised a letter from senior Tories to Mrs May urging her not to agree a deal with Labour that includes a customs union.\n\nThe letter has been signed by 13 former Tory cabinet ministers and Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee.\n\nMr McDonnell said Labour had not seen enough movement from ministers to reach a deal - especially on the issue of a customs union with the EU - and insisted Labour had \"compromised in some areas\", but \"we're not near what we want\".\n\nHe said the letter gave Labour \"no security\" that any deal done would be honoured in the long-term - especially once Mrs May is replaced as Tory leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We've gone into this in really good faith, we've tried to put party politics to one side,\" Mr McDonnell added.\n\n\"Our big problem now is if we're going to march our troops in Parliament to the top of the hill to vote for a deal and then that's overturned, literally, in weeks, I think that would be a cataclysmic act of bad faith.\"\n\nBut speaking at the same event, Mr Hunt said there was \"potential\" for a deal because it was in the interests of both main parties to resolve the Brexit impasse.\n\n\"Both of us would be crucified by our base if we went into a general election having promised that we would respect the referendum result and not having respected it,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt says it is \"impressive\" how long cross-party talks have lasted\n\nAttempts to find a cross-party compromise began after Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThe inability to agree on a way forward led the UK to miss its 29 March deadline for leaving the EU - the current date for departure is 31 October.\n\nSo far both sides have resisted calls to set a deadline on the negotiations.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman said the government believed it was \"imperative\" that the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation required to leave the EU - was brought to Parliament in time for it pass all its stages by the summer recess.\n\nNo date has so far been set for the summer recess, but Parliament usually rises towards the end of July.\n\nThe cabinet discussions came as the PM's Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins travelled to Brussels to explore the scope for changes to the political declaration between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe document sets out the parameters for the future relationship, and Labour negotiators have insisted that any deal they strike with ministers must be reflected in changes to it.\n\nThey want a permanent and comprehensive customs union with the EU after Brexit, meaning there would be no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods sold between the UK and the rest of the bloc.\n\nBut it would mean the UK cannot negotiate its own trade deals on goods with other countries around the world, something many Brexit-supporting Tory MPs support.\n\nA Downing Street source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that a compromise was being sought with Labour on customs \"as an interim position or a stepping stone\".\n\n\"We will not sign up to a permanent customs union,\" the source said.\n\nThe big question at Westminster is how long can these talks go on for. The answer appears to be, a little while longer. But the odds are stacked against a Tory-Labour compromise.\n\nLabour doesn't think the government has moved far enough. They remain worried that Theresa May's replacement will come in and decide they don't like what has been agreed and try to rip it up.\n\nOn the other side, prominent Tories are seething at the idea a customs union could be the price of getting a Brexit deal through.\n\nNo 10 sources said this morning the PM won't agree to a permanent customs union - but the idea of a temporary solution is exactly what frightens many on the Labour side.\n\nIn this process, taking a step to keep one group happy appears to mean you make another more annoyed.\n\nCabinet agreed today it was \"imperative\" that legislation to allow the UK's withdrawal is brought back to Parliament in time to pass before the summer recess. That sets up the prospect of another set of big Brexit votes in the coming weeks.\n\nBut for now, there's more talk than action.\n\nMr McDonnell also said Labour had told ministers they \"may well have to concede that there is a public vote of some sort\" to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nAt the weekend, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said a \"significant number, probably 120 if not 150\" of Labour MPs would not back deal without a \"confirmatory vote\".\n\nOn the prospect of another referendum, Mr McDonnell said: \"My view is that you'd put the deal to the people, but you'd have to also have the option of the status quo.\n\n\"Deep in my heart, I'm still a Remainer, but I've got to try and bring together effectively what is a British compromise.\"\n\nAsked if Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was also a Remainer in his heart, the shadow chancellor responded: \"Yes.\"\n\nBut Jeremy Hunt said another referendum or a general election were the \"least likely outcomes\" of the current Brexit stalemate.\n\n\"When approximately half your constituents have voted to leave the EU, just imagine their anger if you went on to support a second referendum where you're basically saying 'we think you got it wrong first time'.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Virgin Mobile says it has restored services to customers across the UK who had been struggling to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.\n\nVirgin Mobile said it would compensate customers for the problem which it said was due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nComplaints began coming in on Tuesday morning in London, the Midlands, the North West, Bristol and Scotland.\n\nCustomers vented their fury on Twitter, with some complaining they had been left in the dark.\n\nIn a statement Virgin Mobile said: \"We apologise for the disruption and inconvenience some of our Virgin Mobile customers have experienced today. This was due to a technical issue which we've now resolved.\n\n\"We will be compensating our customers for the loss of service and will let them know the details shortly.\"\n\nIt did not disclose the number of affected customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dicky Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which tracks mentions of mobile outages on social media, complaints began en masse at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt said most comments had been about mobile phone services, followed by mobile internet. A minority mentioned issues with their Virgin cable internet services.\n\nOne customer tweeted: \"@virginmedia why are you posting trivial polls and ads on your site, but nothing about the mass outage on mobiles? Incredibly frustrating and very poor comms.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I'm a full-time carer for my disabled mother. We're both on Virgin Mobile. You've crippled my day with this outage.\"\n\nAccording to Ofcom, the level of satisfaction with mobile providers is generally high across the UK.\n\nHowever, according to its most recent customer satisfaction survey, Virgin Mobile is the most complained about of the major telecoms companies.", "Writer Irvine Welsh was among those who paid tribute to Bradley Welsh after his death last last month\n\nA man has been charged in connection with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh outside his Edinburgh home.\n\nMr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment on Chester Street on 17 April.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed the 28-year-old will appear before Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday.\n\nMr Welsh was returning home from his Holyrood Boxing gym when he was fatally injured.\n\nThe suspect has also been charged with the attempted murder of a 48-year-old man and the serious assault of a 22-year-old man in a house in Pitcairn Grove, Edinburgh, on 13 March.\n\nDuring this incident the older victim was left with serious arm and head injuries while the younger man suffered a cut to his hand.\n\nA car was later found set on fire in nearby Oxgangs.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Members of the public are thanked for their assistance with both of these investigations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "China has said it will raise tariffs on $60bn (£46bn) of US goods from 1 June, extending a bilateral trade war.\n\nThe move comes three days after the US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports.\n\nThe escalation hit stock markets, with Asia markets falling on Tuesday after Wall Street closed with sharp losses.\n\nUS President Donald Trump had warned China not to raise levies but Beijing said it would not swallow any \"bitter fruit\" that harmed its interests.\n\nItems affected include beef, lamb and pork products, as well as various varieties of vegetables, fruit juice, cooking oil, tea and coffee.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a news briefing in Beijing that China would \"never surrender to external pressure\".\n\nThe move hit stock markets in the US on Monday, with the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 closing down 2.4%, while the Nasdaq index lost 3.4%.\n\nThe latest round of US-Chinese trade negotiations ended in Washington on Friday without a deal.\n\nThe US argues that China's trade surplus with the US is the result of unfair practices, including state support for domestic companies.\n\nIt also accuses China of stealing intellectual property from US firms.\n\nAs well as ordering a tariff increase on $200bn worth of Chinese imports, Mr Trump also directed the US trade department \"to begin the process of raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China\", estimated to be valued at around $300bn.\n\nThough on Monday, Mr Trump said that he had \"not made a decision\" on whether to go ahead with those additional levies.\n\nDespite failing to reach a deal last week, Mr Trump said on Monday that the US has \"a very good relationship\" with China. He said the two sides would talk at the next G20 summit which takes place in Japan on 28-29 June.\n\n\"Maybe something will happen,\" he said. \"We're going to be meeting, as you know, at the G20 in Japan and that'll be, I think, probably a very fruitful meeting.\"\n\nEarlier, the president had warned China against a tit-for-tat response to the US's actions last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"China should not retaliate - will only get worse!\" Mr Trump tweeted shortly before news of the Chinese decision came.\n\nMr Trump also said China had \"taken so advantage of the US for so many years\".\n\nHe added that US consumers could avoid the tariffs by buying the same products from other sources.\n\n\"Many tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia. That's why China wants to make a deal so badly!\" he said.\n\nMr Trump's approach in the dispute has put him at odds with his own top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who has said \"both sides will suffer\".", "A Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has told the BBC he’s worried about being recognised and attacked again.\n\nHis family came to Britain from Syria to escape the ongoing war there but after receiving death threats they’ve had to move and now say they wish they’d never come to the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Felicity Huffman was silent as she left court\n\nUS actress Felicity Huffman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently conspiring to win a college place for her daughter.\n\nIn a Boston court, the Desperate Housewives star admitted paying $15,000 (£11,500) to have her daughter's exam answers secretly corrected in 2017.\n\nIn a statement last month, she said she was in \"full acceptance\" of her guilt.\n\nProsecutors recommended a four-month prison term and a $20,000 fine. Huffman, 56, was among 50 charged in the college admissions scandal.\n\nThe wealthy parents charged in the investigation allegedly paid bribes, had exams altered, and even had their children edited into stock photos to fake sporting talents.\n\nThey managed to fraudulently secure spots for the teenagers at elite US universities including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford.\n\nParents and college athletics coaches were charged in the scheme, but none of the children were indicted.\n\nHuffman did not speak to reporters outside court as she arrived to Monday's hearing holding hands with her brother.\n\nShe admitted one count of mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.\n\nThe Emmy-winning actress cried while speaking to the judge, according to reporters in the courtroom.\n\nHer plea deal recommendation of four months in prison was at the lower end of sentencing guidelines, which could have carried a custodial term of up to 20 years.\n\nAccording to court documents, she was secretly recorded by the scam's confessed mastermind, William Singer, after he began co-operating with investigators.\n\nWhen Sophia's school initially wanted to invigilate as she sat her test, Huffman expressed concern to Singer.\n\nThe actress emailed to him, \"Ruh Ro!\" - the catchphrase of cartoon dog Scooby-Doo when he was in trouble.\n\nActress Lori Loughlin pleaded not guilty to her role in the scam\n\nSinger arranged so that Sophia could complete the SAT, which is the US college entrance test, elsewhere.\n\nSophia scored an SAT score of 1420 out of a possible 1600 on the doctored test, about 400 points higher than a preliminary SAT she had taken a year earlier.\n\nThe actress made arrangements to cheat a second time, for her younger daughter, before deciding not to do so, according to prosecutors.\n\nHer husband - actor William H Macy - also had contact with Singer, though Mr Macy was spared charges.\n\nHuffman said her daughter was unaware of the cheating, and that she felt \"regret and shame\" for having \"betrayed\" her.\n\nShe will be sentenced on 13 September.\n\nLast month, Netflix announced it would postpone the release of a movie, Otherhood, starring Huffman that was originally set for release on 26 April. It did not specify a new premiere date.\n\nThough Huffman was among the most high-profile figures indicted, the $15,000 she parted with was among the smallest sums allegedly paid by any of the other parents charged in the scandal, according to court documents.\n\nLori Loughlin, another Hollywood actress ensnared in the scandal along with her husband, has pleaded not guilty to paying $500,000 in bribes to have their daughters accepted to the University of Southern California as members of the rowing team.", "Carl Beech, a divorced father of one, claimed he was first sexually abused as a child\n\nA man told police a false \"extraordinary tale\" about a group of powerful figures who sexually abused and murdered boys, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is accused of lying about \"three child murders, multiple rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and widespread sexual abuse\".\n\nHis claims led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation, which ended with no further action being taken.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech, formerly from Gloucester and known as \"Nick\" when he first made the claims, was in Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday for the start of his trial.\n\nHe claimed that he was first sexually abused by his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, when he was seven years old and went on to allege abuse by a group of public figures, including from politics and the military.\n\nAmong those he accused was former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Beech picked his \"targets\" after browsing the internet.\n\nIn 2016, when the investigation into Mr Beech's claims ended, the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate the accuser himself\n\nDetectives investigated Mr Beech's claims until 2016 when they asked another police force - Northumbria - to investigate the accuser himself.\n\nNorthumbria Police found his story to be \"totally unfounded, hopelessly compromised and irredeemably contradicted\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury: \"It is quite impossible to conceive of allegations of a worse kind to be made.\"\n\nHe said \"immeasurable distress\" had been caused to those accused and those close to them - and they had suffered \"obvious reputational damage\".\n\nMr Proctor has spoken freely in public to defend himself against the allegation that \"he is a sadistic child killer and that he committed other serious sexual offences\", the court heard.\n\nJurors were told that, as an entirely innocent man, Mr Proctor was \"still enraged\".\n\nCourt sketch of prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC, with defendant Mr Beech seen on screen during an interview he gave to police in 2014\n\nBoth Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall had their homes searched as a result of the allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry - codenamed Operation Midland - and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nMr Beech claimed the abuse happened after school, when he was picked up by a driver and taken to \"parties\" where there were 10 to 15 men and around seven or eight boys.\n\nMr Beech \"claimed that he was the victim of much of the abuse and he was a direct witness to the killing of three young boys\", the court was told.\n\nJurors heard how Mr Beech alleged that at an army location, the former head of MI5, Michael Hanley, and the former head of MI6, Maurice Oldfield, subjected him to torture.\n\nMr Beech claimed he had spiders tipped on him, electric shocks and darts thrown at him.\n\nThe prosecutor said Mr Beech had described to police \"the most horrific sexual and physical abuse\", but that his medical records did not substantiate the claims.\n\nThe jury was shown sketches of the alleged crime scenes, which Mr Beech drew for detectives\n\nThe court also heard that the defendant's ex-wife, whom he married in his early 20s, did not notice any marks on his body and saw nothing physical that supported his claims of electric shock treatment nor any savage abuse.\n\nThe court was played a video interview Mr Beech had given to the Met Police in November 2014, during which he cried as he described details of the first alleged murder.\n\nHe claimed a schoolmate called \"Scott\" was deliberately run over in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1979.\n\nThe court heard Northumbria Police concluded \"there is no supporting evidence whatsoever\" to support Mr Beech's account about Scott.\n\nProsecutor Mr Badenoch told jurors: \"There was no such homicide. No missing boy.\"\n\nJurors were shown photos of Carl Beech as a child\n\nMr Beech also claimed that one of the boys he witnessed being murdered was Martin Allen, a 15-year-old boy who went missing in London in 1979 and has not been seen since, jurors heard.\n\nMartin Allen's brother Kevin was contacted by Scotland Yard in 2014 and told his brother may have been linked to a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Badenoch said: \"The source of that false hope to Kevin Allen, 35 years after his brother went missing, was ultimately the false allegations of this defendant, Carl Beech.\"\n\nAnd jurors were also told that Mr Beech had claimed he had a lifelong fear of water and could not swim, because aspects of the alleged abuse involved being held underwater and thrown in a pool.\n\nBut, the prosecutor said, police found photographs and videos of him swimming all over the world over several decades, ranging from with children at theme parks, to honeymoon snorkelling for shells, and at a pool with flippers, mask and snorkel.\n\nIt was \"an adult lifetime of swimming memories\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nPhotographs of defendant Carl Beech in or near water were shown to the jury\n\nThe court heard how the Met Police spent £2m on their investigation into Mr Beech's claims and described them publicly as \"credible and true\".\n\nHe first contacted Wiltshire Police in 2012 with allegations of abuse by his stepfather as well as Jimmy Savile. Between 2014 and 2016 he made further allegations to the Met Police, with a list of alleged abusers.\n\nIn 2016, when that investigation ended with no further action, police began investigating Mr Beech himself.\n\nPolice searched Mr Beech's Gloucester home in November 2016 and seized several electronic devices.\n\nDuring their investigation, a number of Mr Beech's claims \"were found to be provably false\", the court heard.\n\n\"He had lied about the content of these allegations, taken active steps to embellish a false story, and then cover his tracks when challenged,\" Mr Badenoch said.\n\nWhen questioned by police about this, he \"fled the country and lived overseas as a fugitive\" before being located in Sweden.\n\nThe jury also heard that Mr Beech's former teachers had said he had good attendance - contrary to his claims of being taken out of lessons to be abused.", "The latest dive reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves - a new record\n\nAn American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive.\n\nVictor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.\n\nHe spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible, built to withstand the immense pressure of the deep.\n\nHe found sea creatures, but also found a plastic bag and sweet wrappers.\n\nIt is the third time humans have reached the ocean's extreme depths.\n\nThe explorers believe they have discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods\n\nThe first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench took place in 1960 by US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard in a vessel called the bathyscaphe Trieste.\n\nMovie director James Cameron then made a solo plunge half a century later in 2012 in his bright green sub.\n\nThe latest descent, which reached 10,927m (35,849ft) beneath the waves, is now the deepest by 11m - making Victor Vescovo the new record holder.\n\nDon Walsh (left), who dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, congratulated Victor Vescovo (right)\n\nIn total, Mr Vescovo and his team made five dives to the bottom of the trench during the expedition. Robotic landers were also deployed to explore the remote terrain.\n\nMr Vescovo said: \"It is almost indescribable how excited all of us are about achieving what we just did.\n\n\"This submarine and its mother ship, along with its extraordinarily talented expedition team, took marine technology to a ridiculously higher new level by diving - rapidly and repeatedly - into the deepest, harshest, area of the ocean.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victor Vescovo descended almost 11km in a submersible to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean\n\nWitnessing the dive from the Pacific was Don Walsh. He told BBC News: \"I salute Victor Vescovo and his outstanding team for the successful completion of their historic explorations into the Mariana Trench.\n\n\"Six decades ago, Jacques Piccard and I were the first to visit that deepest place in the world's oceans.\n\n\"Now in the winter of my life, it was a great honour to be invited on this expedition to a place of my youth.\"\n\nThe team believes it has discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods, saw a creature called a spoon worm 7,000m-down and a pink snailfish at 8,000m.\n\nThey also discovered brightly coloured rocky outcrops, possibly created by microbes on the seabed, and collected samples of rock from the seafloor.\n\nHumanity's impact on the planet was also evident with the discovery of plastic pollution. It's something that other expeditions using landers have seen before.\n\nMillions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year, but little is known about where a lot of it ends up.\n\nVictor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench\n\nThe scientists now plan to test the creatures they collected to see if they contain microplastics - a recent study found this was a widespread problem, even for animals living in the deep.\n\nThe dive forms part of the Five Deeps expedition - an attempt to explore the deepest points in each of the world's five oceans.\n\nIt has been funded by Mr Vescovo, a private equity investor, who before turning his attention to the ocean's extreme depths also climbed the highest peaks on the planet's seven continents.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high DSV Limiting Factor submersible was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines\n\nAfter the record dive, the submersible was brought back on the expedition's main vessel - the DSSV Pressure Drop\n\nAs well as the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, in the last six months dives have also taken place in the Puerto Rico Trench in the Atlantic Ocean (8,376m/27,480ft down), the South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean (7,433m/24,388ft) and the Java Trench in Indian Ocean (7,192m/23,596ft).\n\nThe final challenge will be to reach the bottom of the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean, which is currently scheduled for August 2019.\n\nThe 4.6m-long, 3.7m-high submersible - called the DSV Limiting Factor - was built by the US-based company Triton Submarines, with the aim of having a vessel that could make repeated dives to any part of the ocean.\n\nAt its core is a 9cm-thick titanium pressure hull that can fit two people, so dives can be performed solo or as a pair.\n\nIt can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.\n• None 2,146Higher than Mount Everest in metres, if inverted\n\nAs well as working under pressure, the sub has to operate in the pitch black and near freezing temperatures.\n\nThese conditions also made it challenging to capture footage - the Five Deeps expedition has been followed by Atlantic Productions for a documentary for the Discovery Channel.\n\nAnthony Geffen, creative director of Atlantic Productions, said it was the most complicated filming he'd ever been involved with.\n\n\"Our team had to pioneer new camera systems that could be mounted on the submersible, operate at up to 10,000m below sea level and work with robotic landers with camera systems that would allow us to film Victor's submersible on the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\"We also had to design new rigs that would go inside Victor's submersible and capture every moment of Victor's dives.\"\n\nAfter the Five Deeps expedition is complete later this year, the plan is to pass the submersible onto science institutions so researchers can continue to use it.\n\nThe challenges of exploring the deep ocean - even with robotic vehicles - has made the ocean trenches one of the last frontiers on the planet.\n\nOnce thought to be remote, desolate areas, the deep sea teems with life. There is also growing evidence that they are carbon sinks, playing a role in regulating the Earth's chemistry and climate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campbell was arrested on 4 July last year, two days after the murder\n\nThe teenager who abducted, raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail has been given permission to appeal against his sentence.\n\nAaron Campbell was ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years of a life sentence for killing the six-year-old on the Isle of Bute on 2 July last year.\n\nDuring his trial, Campbell, who turned 17 last week, denied that he had ever met Alesha.\n\nHowever, before sentencing it emerged that he had confessed to the killing.\n\nThe appeal will be heard in Edinburgh on 7 August.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service said three judges would preside over the appeal.\n\nAlesha MacPhail was killed on the Isle of Bute last July\n\nAlesha, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, was only a few days into her summer holiday when Campbell took her from her bed in the middle of the night.\n\nThe child's body was found in the grounds of a former hotel the following morning.\n\nA post-mortem examination later revealed she had suffered 117 injuries.\n\nDuring his nine-day trial in February, Campbell lodged a special defence naming the 18-year-old girlfriend of Alesha's father as the killer.\n\nHe also took the stand and told the jury his DNA must have been planted at the crime scene.\n\nBut the prosecution case, built on forensic evidence and CCTV provided by Campbell's mother, was overwhelming.\n\nThe jury at the High Court in Glasgow took three hours to unanimously convict the schoolboy.\n\nWhen he returned to the dock to be sentenced in March, the court heard Campbell had finally admitted the crime.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman has told a court she lay \"like a dead body\" during an alleged rape by a former pop star because she wanted it to stop.\n\nEx-JLS singer Oritse Williams \"jumped on\" the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016, a court heard.\n\nMr Williams, 32 from Croydon, south London, has pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nProsecutors at Wolverhampton Crown Court said the woman and her two friends met the pair at a nightclub after the solo gig.\n\nOpening the crown's case, Miranda Moore QC said after one of the women \"blacked out\" and had to be put in a taxi home, the alleged rape victim and her other friend went back to the hotel with Mr Williams and his tour manager, Mr Nagadhana.\n\nDescribing how the woman had later returned without her friend to look for her mobile, Ms Moore said: \"Once she was back in the room - she had to knock on the door - Mr Williams effectively jumped on her.\n\n\"He picked her up and pushed her down on the double bed. She had already made it clear that she didn't want to have sex with him.\n\n\"All she thought was 'I don't want this to happen'.\"\n\nIn a police interview, Mr Williams said the woman, who cannot be identified, and her friend had wanted to go back to the hotel and had instigated sexual activity.\n\nThe jury heard he told police: \"I'm the artist. I think both of them, they both kind of wanted to be involved with me in some degree.\"\n\nThe woman claims Mr Nagadhana sexually assaulted her during the alleged rape.\n\nBut Ms Moore said Mr Williams had told police Mr Nagadhana was asleep and \"had nothing to do with it\".\n\nIn a video interview with police, which was played to the jury, the complainant said she had been swearing and telling Williams to stop during the alleged attack.\n\nAt one point, she said she had \"laid down like a dead body\" because she just wanted it to stop.\n\nShe said: \"I was quite scared. I felt more pathetic, if that makes sense. I felt just worthless.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother-of-three said she overdosed on medication while pregnant and spent £3,000 on internet shopping, all during her sleep.\n\nDoctors discovered Kelly Knipes, from Basildon in Essex, would repeatedly stop breathing through the night, forcing her brain to partially wake and cause her to sleepwalk.\n\nShe was diagnosed with a sleep condition called parasomnia and now wears an air mask at night to make sure she breathes correctly.\n\nShe said: \"I was so tired all the time but now I don't. I feel like a completely different person.\"", "Theresa May has set a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal - and she's told Labour there's an urgent need to compromise.\n\nThe odds of her succeeding are faint - and her time's nearly up.\n\nThere's every risk Mrs May will fail, again, to deliver Brexit when she introduces her Brexit legislation in the first week of June.\n\nThis will come after what look like being tough European elections and, by the way, during the week of President Trump's official visit to the UK.\n\nTonight, she also told Jeremy Corbyn time was running out to reach any deal with Labour. But the reality is there has been no breakthrough in those talks, and no obvious reason to expect one.\n\nA cross-party agreement which involved Labour's minimum demand of a customs arrangement with the EU would cause a mutiny among Tory MPs, as Tuesday's letter to the Times newspaper warns vividly.\n\nIt would also mean a revolt among Labour MPs if there's no guarantee of a new referendum, and Mr Corbyn has shown very little enthusiasm for that.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May's under quite intense pressure. Her most senior MPs, the executive members of the 1922 committee, will press her this week for a timetable to step down.\n\nLocal Tory officials will gather in June and consider passing a humiliating vote of no confidence in her. And in the European elections, the polls are looking very promising for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nSo promising that Mrs May's last, best, hope may be that the elections shocks both big parties into backing her.\n\nAnd if that sounds like clutching at straws, well, Mrs May's in a corner, all but out of time, and reaching and clutching at any hope she can find in what are now the dying days of her premiership.", "Chief negotiator Olly Robbins will explore how quickly changes could be made to the political declaration\n\nTheresa May's Brexit negotiator has gone to Brussels to explore the scope for changes to the agreement on the UK's future relations with the EU.\n\nOlly Robbins is looking to see whether a key demand being made by Labour in cross-party talks can be satisfied.\n\nBut as cabinet discussed the state of the talks, Theresa May faced calls from senior Conservative MPs not to agree a compromise with Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nEx-defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the process was a \"blind alley\".\n\nThe Labour leader is also facing demands from his MPs to abandon the talks, which have been going on for more than a month with little apparent progress.\n\nAttempts to find a cross-party compromise began after Theresa May's Brexit deal was rejected three times by MPs.\n\nThe inability to agree on a way forward led the UK to miss its 29 March deadline for leaving the EU - the current date for departure is 31 October.\n\nLabour negotiators want any deal they strike with minister to be reflected in changes to the political declaration made with Brussels.\n\nThis 27-page document was published alongside Mrs May's withdrawal agreement and sets out the parameters for the future relationship between the UK and the EU, but is not legally binding.\n\nIn Brussels, Mr Robbins will explore how quickly changes could be made to the declaration if the government and Labour can come to an agreement.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said officials were currently on a \"Brexit break\", but would come out of it \"if there is something happening in London\".\n\n\"We will listen to Olly Robbins tomorrow,\" she added.\n\nMeanwhile, in Westminster, the cabinet has been taking stock of progress so far in the talks, while Labour's shadow cabinet will meet later to discuss the state of play.\n\nCabinet are discussing the state of the Brexit talks\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, and 13 former cabinet ministers have written to Mrs May to warn her not to agree a compromise with Labour that includes a customs union with the EU.\n\nInside a customs union there would be no internal tariffs (taxes) on goods transported between the UK and other EU nations - something that is seen as advantageous for business.\n\nBut it would mean the UK cannot negotiate its own trade deals on goods with other countries around the world, and for some, that fails to satisfy the desire for a clean break with Brussels after Brexit.\n\nAmong the former cabinet ministers are Brexiteers Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab and sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson, as well as Maria Miller and Sir Michael Fallon, who supported Remain in the 2016 referendum.\n\nAccording to the Times, the letter said such a compromise would lose the support of Conservatives who previously backed the prime minister's deal, and would be unlikely to gain enough Labour votes to pass.\n\nIt said: \"More fundamentally, you would have lost the loyal middle of the Conservative Party, split our party and with likely nothing positive to show for it. No leader can [bind] his or her successor, so the deal would likely be at best temporary, at worst illusory.\"\n\nSir Michael said the government's focus should be on addressing Conservative and Democratic Unionist Party concerns over the Northern Irish border and finding alternative arrangements to the backstop, not doing a deal with Labour.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"The talks are clearly not going anywhere.\n\n\"If they are going to include permanent membership of a customs union then frankly we would be better off staying in the EU then we would have a voice in the trade arrangements that are being negotiated.\n\n\"We can't say we are leaving the EU then half stay in it.\"\n\nA Downing Street source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that a compromise was being sought with Labour on customs \"as an interim position or a stepping stone\".\n\n\"We will not sign up to a permanent customs union,\" the source said.\n\n\"Both sides agree that no Parliament can bind a future government and most EU trade deals have a six to 12-month exit clause.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNick Boles, who quit as a Tory MP over Brexit, suggested Jeremy Corbyn would not \"dig the PM out of a hole\" so close to the European elections on 23 May - but \"won't kill off the possibility of a deal either\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday night, Mr Corbyn faced repeated demands to abandon the talks with the prime minister. MPs fear that they are costing Labour support ahead of the elections.\n\nBut speaking after Monday's discussions with the government, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said they had been \"constructive as always\".\n\nEx-Tory MP Anna Soubry accused the opposition of being \"all over the place\", telling BBC Breakfast she feared Labour would \"bail out this Conservative government to deliver Brexit\".", "Many Indians are first exposed to the internet through low-cost smartphones\n\nWhatsApp has said it will limit how many times messages can be forwarded in India, to curb the spread of false information on its platform.\n\nThe announcement comes after a spate of mob lynchings were linked to messages that circulated on WhatsApp groups.\n\nThe government on Thursday reissued a warning to the company that it could face legal consequences if it remained a \"mute spectator\".\n\nWith more than 200 million users, India is WhatsApp's biggest market.\n\nWhatsApp said its users in India \"forward more messages, photos, and videos, than any other country in the world\".\n\nGroups on WhatsApp can have a maximum of 256 people. Many of the messages that are believed to have triggered violence were forwarded to multiple groups which had more than 100 members each.\n\nIn a blog published on its website, the company announced that it was \"launching a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone using WhatsApp\".\n\nFor Indian users, however, the forwarding option will be limited even further. A WhatsApp spokesperson told the BBC that this means a single person would be able to forward one message only five times.\n\nHowever, this does not stop other members from a group from forwarding the message to a further five chats of their own.\n\nWhatsApp added that they hoped this measure would curb the frequency of messages being forwarded.\n\nThe company also said it would be removing the \"quick forward button\" next to messages containing pictures or video.\n\nThese changes come in the wake of a series of mob lynchings that have seen at least 18 people killed across India since April 2018. Media reports put the number of dead higher.\n\nThe violence has been blamed on rumours of child kidnappings, spread over WhatsApp, which have led people to attack strangers.\n\nPolice say it is proving hard to get people to believe that the messages are false.\n\nIn a recent lynching in the north-eastern state of Tripura, the victim was a man employed by the local government to go around villages to dispel rumours being spread on social media.\n\nIndia's federal government had earlier warned WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned company, that it could not evade \"accountability and responsibility\" for the content its users were sharing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatsApp had responded by saying it was \"horrified by these terrible acts of violence\", and that the situation was a \"challenge that requires government, civil society and technology companies to work together\".\n\nThe messaging app is the single largest internet-based service available to people in India. It has tremendous reach, allowing messages to spread exponentially and enabling mobs to gather quickly.\n\nEarlier this month, the company outlined steps it was taking to help address the problem, which included enabling users to leave groups and block people more easily.", "The Jeremy Kyle Show has been suspended after a guest was found dead following the recording of an episode.\n\nThe news has opened up a debate around the most popular show on ITV's daytime schedule.\n\nBelow is a glimpse of what it's like to work on the programme from a former employee, who wants to remain anonymous:\n\nI have a confession to make. I worked on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nI was what the TV industry calls a runner - someone who, funnily enough, runs about the place fetching food for crew members, making tea and coffee and looking after guests coming onto the programme.\n\nI did it for a month about three years ago and had also been working on other programmes before I came to Kyle.\n\n\"Studio days\", when the live audience are there and the programme is recorded, were really long. There was no leaving the building unless it was to get the director a katsu curry, or to calm down a guest by taking them outside for a cig.\n\nI saw things that you would never imagine happening on any other TV programme - guests running around the place uncontrollably, screaming and swearing at production crew. Guests and producers would argue and you can guarantee a guest would tell you \"where to go\".\n\nTelevision runners are rarely seen without a headset (file picture)\n\nRunners were given a headset and clipboard that opened up - a useful place to store a pack of 20 cigarettes - and a lighter for guests who wanted a smoke before and after recordings.\n\nThe cigarettes were provided by ITV, because guests can't bring them in the studio. Guests were put up in a hotel close to the studio, sometimes with access to a mini bar so they could get wasted the night before.\n\nA friend who also worked on the show told me guests from the programme were banned from certain hotels because rooms were being trashed.\n\nRunners now have to ferry people to and from a hotel miles away from the studio in taxis.\n\nThe clothes you see the guests wear are sometimes not their own. The show might give them a basic jeans and T-shirt combo or sometimes a more stereotypical tracksuit and hoodie look - and those have to be given back afterwards.\n\nGuests had separate hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and green rooms - and their assigned runner on studio day would walk them around via selected coloured corridors to avoid contact.\n\nRunners would warn colleagues through the headset that they were taking their guest through the yellow corridor to make-up, for example. If you had the guest on the opposing side, you knew to use the blue corridor to avoid any conflict - producers wanted any arguments saved for the actual programme.\n\nProducers and researchers would be talking to guests for hours before the show began, passing information across. I heard them saying things like, \"You won't believe what I just heard your fella say to me just now\".\n\nOn one occasion I was in the dressing room and overheard a producer tell a guest that their girlfriend had called them a \"slag\". This was normal - you didn't even question it.\n\nJust before going on-air, the producer or researcher stood with guests just inches away from where they would meet Jezza for the first (and probably last) time, and say one final remark.\n\nI once heard a producer tell a guest: \"We don't want you to be violent - but you do whatever you need to do out there.\"\n\nSometimes, if guests don't like the way Jeremy has treated them or the show hasn't gone their way, they could get aggressive and even violent towards production staff.\n\nProducers suddenly changed their tune if that happened.\n\nJeremy once called a guest I was looking after a liar because he failed a lie-detector test.\n\nThe guest stormed off stage, pushed me over and the producer ran after them, screaming at them to come back.\n\nI remember them saying something along the lines of… \"You can't go. Have you forgotten what she said about you? Get back in there and tell her what you think!\"\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat contacted ITV about the claims made in this article by the former employee. A spokesman says it does \"not recognise this characterisation\" of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nIn a more general statement to the BBC, ITV said The Jeremy Kyle Show \"has significant and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors pre, during and post show\".\n\nITV says its \"guest welfare team\" - made up of a consultant psychotherapist and three mental health nurses - looks after people coming onto the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Glodi Wabelua, left, Michael Karemera, centre, and Dean Alford were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court\n\nThree county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nGlodi Wabelua, Dean Alford and Michael Karemera, all 25, recruited six youths to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth in 2013 and 2014.\n\nThe victims were used to carry drugs to Hampshire and money back to London.\n\nIt is believed the three are the first to be charged under the Modern Slavery Act in relation to county lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInner London Crown Court was told the victims - three girls and three boys - would sometimes be forced to stash drug packages in their body cavities and would usually be housed in the homes of addicts, often with needles and drug paraphernalia lying around.\n\nThey had to ask permission to use the proceeds from selling drugs for buying food, and were not allowed to return to London until all the drugs were sold.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that when one victim tried to leave the gang lifestyle, he was stripped naked by associates of Karemera and had a gun placed in his mouth.\n\nPolice said a gun was used when one of the victims tried to leave\n\nJudge Usha Karu said: \"One of the main reasons [the victims] were chosen was because of their youth, many were arrested for possession with intent to supply and thus they too became embroiled in the justice system.\n\n\"The level of psychological harm they may have suffered is hard to gauge.\n\n\"For children who are vulnerable it is quick and easy money - the fact that they consented is plainly no defence.\"\n\nThe Met called it a \"landmark case\" as the three were convicted under modern slavery legislation.\n\nWabelua, of Tottenham, was convicted of one count of trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act and jailed for three-and-a-half years\n\nAlford, of Canterbury, pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking and was jailed for four years.\n\nKaremera, of Lewisham, also pleaded guilty to one like charge and was jailed for five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy, says an Institute for Fiscal Studies report.\n\nThe think tank warns of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in \"deaths of despair\", such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.\n\nIt warns of risks to \"centre-ground\" politics from stagnating pay and divides in health and education.\n\nThe report says such widening gaps are \"making a mockery of democracy\".\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), one of the country's leading research institutes, is launching what it says is the UK's biggest analysis of inequality.\n\nThat will be chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Prof Sir Angus Deaton.\n\nHe said \"people were troubled by inequality\" more than at any time since the 1940s - and the impact was so serious that it suggested \"democratic capitalism is broken\".\n\nHe warned of the dangers of disillusionment if people did not feel fairly rewarded for their work - and that extreme wealth seemed to be gained by \"taking rather than making\".\n\nSir Angus said \"people getting rich is a good thing\" but not if it meant \"enriching the few at the expense of the many\".\n\nAt the outset of this review, the IFS has published indicators of inequality - such as the average chief executive of a FTSE 100 company now earning 145 times the average salary, up from 47 times in 1998.\n\nIt suggests pay inequality in the UK is high by international standards - with the share of household income going to the richest 1% having tripled in the past three decades.\n\nThe middle classes are also under pressure, particularly younger generations, with stagnant pay and unaffordable house prices.\n\nThe long-term decline in trade union membership is identified as another factor in wages not increasing.\n\nAs well as inequality in income, the think tank highlights divergence in health.\n\nIt says there is almost a 10-year gap in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas - and the IFS warns of \"deaths of despair\", with a rise in early deaths from drug and alcohol abuse and suicide being linked to factors such as poverty, social isolation and mental health problems.\n\nPatterns of relationship are also affected by inequality, the study suggests.\n\nOver recent decades, wealthier people have become more likely to be living in a couple, either married or co-habiting, the IFS says.\n\nBut among the poor, declining numbers are living with a partner, a pattern attributed to increasing job insecurity, a lack of financial independence and more \"chaotic lives\".\n\nThe big picture, says the IFS, is the UK is becoming more like the US, with a concentration of wealth at the top and pressure on working families lower down the pay scale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Inequality of political voice is even worse', says Prof Sir Angus Deaton\n\nIt says that in the US, increases in life expectancy have stalled and that for non-graduate male workers, pay has not risen in real terms for five decades.\n\n\"The risk is that the UK may follow a similar path,\" says the IFS study.\n\nThe IFS warns of the social tensions that will come with an economic landscape built on widening inequality.\n\nAs economic think tank the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported recently, this is likely to put pressure on the middle classes as well as those on low incomes.\n\nJames Hutchinson says if people do not feel they are making progress, they become \"disconnected\"\n\nUniversity science researcher James Hutchinson, in his 30s, feels he has kept his side of the bargain - gaining a degree from Cambridge - and now working as an academic as well as raising a family with his partner.\n\nBut he feels a sense of \"powerlessness\" about the cost of housing and that his work has no job security, with a series of short-term contracts.\n\n\"It's not a sob story,\" says Dr Hutchinson, \"But if people feel they can't improve their lot, then they feel disconnected.\"\n\n\"We were sold the idea that academic success is the way to be better off,\" he says.\n\nHis partner Bethany has decided not to work because she can't afford childcare. She says \"for me as a parent, I didn't feel comfortable with us being separated... and then working all hours.\"\n\nBethany and her partner James Hutchinson have struggled to make ends meet for their family\n\nThey live in Bristol and struggled to get somewhere they could afford to live - currently the family all sleep in one room while they patch up their home.\n\nDr Hutchinson recognises that he's \"more privileged than many\" - earning the average for UK graduates of £35,000 per year - but he voices a frustration at a lack of progress and fears that things could get even worse for his children.\n\nThe \"disconnect\" comes, he says, from his generation becoming \"increasingly aware of your own expendability\" and a work culture haunted by a \"constant lack of security\".\n\nDr Hutchinson is sceptical that any of the political rhetoric will translate into real improvements.\n\n\"How do we build a functional society out of dysfunctional lives?\" he asks.\n\nThe consumer society is afraid of becoming the consumed.", "WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform.\n\nThe Facebook-owned business had already introduced the policy in India six months ago.\n\nThe move followed a number of mob lynchings that were blamed on fake reports spread via the service.\n\nUntil now, users elsewhere could forward messages up to 20 times.\n\nThe update to the app's rules was announced at an event in Jakarta, Indonesia. The country is holding its general election in April.\n\nThe firm told the BBC it had made its decision after \"carefully\" evaluating the results of its half-year-long test in the country.\n\n\"The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\n\"[This] will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts. We'll continue to listen to user feedback about their experience, and over time, look for new ways of addressing viral content.\"\n\nUp to 256 users can be enrolled in a WhatsApp group.\n\nSo, theoretically, a single user can now only forward a message up to 1,280 other individuals rather than the 5,120 people figure that had been possible previously.\n\nThere is nothing, however, to stop those on the receiving end each forwarding the message up to five times themselves.\n\nThe restriction comes at a time WhatsApp and Facebook's other services are under scrutiny for their role in the spread of propaganda and other untruths online.\n\nLast week, Facebook announced it had removed 500 pages and accounts allegedly involved in peddling fake news in Central Europe, Ukraine and other Eastern European nations.\n\nIt also recently announced that it had employed a UK-fact-checking service to flag content on its main platform.\n\nHowever, the use of end-to-end encryption by WhatsApp means its messages can only be read by their senders and recipients, limiting the firm's ability to spot false reports.\n\nBut at the end of last year, the Indian press reported that the government was considering a change to the law that would force Facebook to police WhatsApp for \"unlawful\" content. This would challenge its use of the encryption technology.", "Vodafone has said that it will turn on its 5G service in the UK on 3 July.\n\nThe company will rely on equipment from the Chinese telecoms provider Huawei, among others, to deliver the service.\n\nIt is the first firm to confirm a UK switch-on date, and both business customers and consumers will be able to sign up.\n\nVodafone said the benefits of the next-generation mobile network would include faster and more reliable data speeds for customers in busy areas.\n\nThe UK government is still carrying out a review of the telecoms sector that has the potential to restrict or even block the use of Huawei's kit to address cyber-security concerns.\n\nHowever, a leak last month indicated that network providers will indeed be allowed to use Huawei's radio access network (Ran) gear, which allows smartphones and other devices to wirelessly connect to their systems.\n\nVodafone has said seven cities will be involved in the initial roll-out:\n\n\"Offering speeds over 5G up to 10 times faster than 4G, we've shown commuters at busy airports and railway stations that they can download TV box sets or movies in a matter of seconds before they embark on their journey,\" Vodafone added in a press release.\n\nUsers will need a 5G-compatible smartphone or router to take advantage of the technology.\n\n5G's other benefits over 4G include lower latencies - meaning less lag between sending a command and receiving a response - and the ability to support more devices simultaneously. That should help pave the way towards the wider use of data-gathering sensors, which in turn should help public authorities and businesses make better informed-decisions.\n\nBut it is likely to take years or even decades for the technology's full potential to be harnessed.\n\nVodafone has said it would reveal details of its 5G price plans next week. However, it has already said they would not be more expensive than its equivalent 4G deals.\n\nThe company has said it intends to extend the facility to a further dozen locations before the end of the year:\n\nBut this could be delayed were it to be forbidden to continue using Huawei's equipment.\n\nVodafone also uses 5G Ran kit purchased from Ericsson, so is not totally reliant on the Chinese company's products.\n\nBut a ban would involve it having to strip out existing Huawei equipment already used to deliver its 4G services, which Vodafone has said would be a major undertaking and take up much of its engineering resources.\n\nVodafone does not use Huawei's kit in its core - the \"brains\" of its network, where tasks including billing and deciding how to route voice and data take place.\n\nThe Samsung S10 5G handset will be one of the first to support the service\n\nThe US continues to press the UK to shun Huawei claiming the company could be forced to disrupt or spy on its clients' communications by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nThe Shenzhen-based company denies this is the case and has said it is willing to sign \"no-spy\" agreements with the UK and other governments.\n\nThe announcement coincided with Vodafone's announcement that it had swung to a €7.6bn (£6.6bn) full-year loss, which has caused it to cut dividend payments to shareholders.", "A former youth coach involved in Scottish football has been given a further jail sentence after admitting a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the Celtic youth team who also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nIn court, he admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys between 1972 and 1996.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison. He was already serving a jail term for abuse.\n\nLast year he was he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe High Court in Edinburgh heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nSome of his victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said McCafferty was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nHe added: \"Careers did not reach their full potential, some were cut short and lives have been seriously blighted. Many of those that you abused have suffered from enduring anxiety and depression caused by what you did.\n\n\"Conduct of this kind has a wider effect which is corrupting and socially corrosive. It has the potential to undermine the trust which people place in youth football and sports clubs.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Tobett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOutside court, Det Ch Insp Sarah Taylor said McCafferty exploited his position to satisfy his own \"sexual depravity\".\n\nShe paid tribute to the victims who \"lived in fear as boys\", but found the courage and strength to speak out as adults.\n\n\"They were listened to and without their testimony we would not be here today witnessing McCafferty's long awaited admissions of guilt,\" she said.\n\n\"The scale of his abuse is unprecedented, and demonstrates the systematic and calculated methods he used to target his victims.\n\n\"Whether as a respected coach or an affable kit man, he used every opportunity available to perpetrate his callous abuse.\"\n\nPatrick McGuire, of Thompsons Solicitors, is representing some of McCafferty's victims in civil cases.\n\nHe called for action from Celtic Football Club.\n\n\"McCafferty's connection with Celtic is now utterly undeniable,\" he said.\n\n\"We now know that some of the abuse took place in Celtic premises. What he did was groom the boys but at the same time groom the parents, always with Celtic dangling on the end of a stick as a golden carrot. It's just utterly unforgivable.\n\n\"McCafferty's conviction is probably the last conviction that we'll see in a Celtic setting. But what's never happened is any form of financial justice for the survivors of abuse at Celtic Park and that's why now all eyes are on the board of Celtic Football Club to do the right thing.\"\n\nMcCafferty was placed on the sex offenders register for life.", "Ian Ogle had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community\n\nA 40-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Ian Ogle in January.\n\nMark Sewell, from Aigburth Park, Belfast, is the third man to be charged with the murder.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in the street near his home in Cluan Place off the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast.\n\nHis wife, son, and daughter, were in court on Friday as Mr Sewell appeared on a murder charge.\n\nThe hearing lasted only two minutes.\n\nMr Sewell was asked if he understood the charge and he responded by nodding his head.\n\nIn March, Glenn Rainey, 32, of McArthur Court, east Belfast was charged with murder.\n\nJonathan Brown, 33, of McArthur Court, has also appeared in court charged with murdering Mr Ogle.", "Danny Baker has expressed his deep regret at the Twitter storm that led to his sacking on Thursday, describing it as \"one of the worst days of my life\".\n\nThe former BBC Radio 5 Live presenter was sacked over his chimp tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe 61-year-old tweeted on Friday that \"it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake\".\n\nHe admitted he was \"foolish\" to later try to make light of it.\n\nThe tweet, which was removed, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nBaker denies that there was racist intent behind the post but admits he is now \"paying the price... and rightly so\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe wrote: \"Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.\n\n\"I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.\n\n\"In attempting to lampoon privilege and the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures and saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, 'That's the one!' Had I kept searching I might have chosen General Tom Thumb or even a a baby in a crown. But I didn't. God knows I wish had.\n\n\"Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me... What had I done?\n\n\"I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it's basest.\n\n\"But it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake. There is of course little media/twitter traction in such a straight-forward explanation. The picture in context as presented was obviously shamefully racist. It was never intended so - seriously who on earth would 'go there'?\"\n\nHe added: \"Anyway I am now paying the price for this crass and regrettable blunder and rightly so. Probably even this final word from me will extend the mania. ('Dog whistle' anyone?) I would like to thank friends on here for their kinder words and once again - I am so, so sorry.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Baker joked with journalists on his doorstep that the tweet was a \"stupid gag\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAfter reflecting on his comments the day before, Baker added: \"I would like once and for all to apologise to every single person who, quite naturally, took the awful connection at face value.\n\n\"I understand that and all of the clamour and opprobrium I have faced since. I am not feeling sorry for myself. I [messed] up. Badly.\n\n\"I am aware black people do not need a white man to tell them this. Deleting it immediately and apologising for the awful gaffe I even foolishly tried to make light of it. (My situation that is, not the racism involved.) Too late and here I am.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Pragya Agarwal, a psychology academic and equality campaigner, told the BBC that Baker's latest apology, while lengthy and detailed, \"still feigns ignorance about the racist tropes, while continuing to play the victim\".\n\n\"I am really struggling to see how Danny Baker could not have realised what he was posting. The history of racial slurs and monkey chants in football are well-known and so he must be aware of the connotations,\" she said.\n\nDr Agarwal said Baker's tweet was \"particularly harmful because it came from someone who has a media profile\".\n\n\"People admire and follow him, so it gives a signal to others that it is perfectly acceptable,\" she added.\n\n\"As a result, it has reminded black people and those of mixed-heritage that they are still 'othered'.\n\n\"It is important that we give people an opportunity to address and acknowledge their implicit biases in a safe and non-judgemental space.\n\n\"When we do this, we can begin to address the inequalities. If only Danny Baker had done so,\" she added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister has said.\n\nMike Penning said it did not \"make sense\" to have different premises.\n\nIt comes as new plans are published to get the services working more closely.\n\nThere are also proposals for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) to oversee fire brigades, which could include choosing an officer in charge of hiring and firing fire and police staff.\n\nThis top officer post would be open to senior officers from both the police and fire service. They would hold the rank of chief constable - and to allow this the government would remove the current rule that holders of the rank must have served as a constable.\n\nPCCs would get responsibility for fire services \"where a local case is made\", the Home Office said.\n\nIn most parts of England, police, fire and ambulance services have separate control centres and when someone rings 999, they have to tell an operator which service they need.\n\nEmergency services in some areas - including Northamptonshire and Hampshire - are already working on joint schemes, but the Home Office wants more and is introducing a \"statutory duty\" on the three services to collaborate.\n\nIn Northamptonshire, police, fire and ambulance services are sharing \"training, premises and a joint operations\", the Home Office said. In Hampshire, senior police officers now operate out of the Hampshire Fire and Rescue HQ.\n\nMr Penning, minister for policing and fire, said: \"It simply doesn't make sense for emergency services to have different premises, different back offices and different IT systems when their work is so closely related and they often share the same boundaries.\"\n\nHe said he would also like PCCs to take responsibility for their local ambulance service, but at this stage the Home Office is only planning to extend PCC powers to fire brigades.\n\nThe plan for PCCs to oversee fire services was called \"dangerous\" by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) when it was suggested last year.\n\nIt said the move would be a \"costly experiment with no guarantee for success\".\n\nSteve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: \"Officers from both emergency services already do pull together, working alongside week in, week out, as has been evidenced most recently by the appalling floods.\n\n\"So why the burning need to change the law? It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.\"\n\nPaul Hancock, Cheshire's Chief Fire Officer and president of the Chief Fire Officers Association, said combining control rooms was \"absolutely a good thing\".\n\nHe said there were \"fantastic examples\" of emergency services working together across the country, and he welcomed PCCs taking control of fire services when there was a \"local case\".\n\nBut he said there were \"some concerns\" within the fire service about losing its \"unique brand and reputation\" due to being associated with the police.\n\nThe government's plan also includes abolishing the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority and giving its responsibilities to the Greater London Authority.", "Shana Grice was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who stalked her\n\nA former police officer did not adequately investigate reports a woman was being stalked by an ex-boyfriend who went on to murder her.\n\nShana Grice, 19, complained five times to Sussex Police about Michael Lane before he slit her throat in 2016.\n\nThe failings of PC Mills, whose full identity can not be reported, amounted to gross misconduct, a force disciplinary panel ruled.\n\nPC Mills, who resigned last week, had denied the accusations.\n\nHad he not resigned, the panel said he would have been dismissed from the force.\n\nMs Grice, who was later fined for wasting police time, reported on 9 July 2016 that Lane had stolen her backdoor key, crept into her bedroom and watched her sleeping, the panel heard.\n\nHe was arrested but, despite there being a history of escalating reports of stalking and harassment, PC Mills, the investigating officer, did not review case notes before questioning him.\n\nLane was cautioned and warned to stay away from Ms Grice.\n\nPC Mills also failed to respond to reports made by Ms Grice on July 12, when she said Lane had been following her in his car, the panel was told.\n\nShe was not called back and a few days later received a letter stating the \"case was closed\".\n\nIt was the last time she contacted police before she was murdered by Lane at her Brighton flat in August.\n\nLane, who was jailed for a minimum of 25 years in 2017, had placed a tracker device on her car during a campaign of harassment.\n\nMichael Lane was convicted of murdering Miss Grice in 2017\n\nThe force's lawyer Louise Ravenscroft said Ms Grice had reported she was \"scared even to leave my house\".\n\nAccording to friends, Ms Grice had been angry and \"could not believe they [the force] had dropped it\", Ms Ravenscroft said.\n\n\"As a result, she never reported continuing complaints of stalking.\"\n\nDuring an interview with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), PC Mills said he did not know why he failed to call her back.\n\nWhen questioned, Mills admitted he had been \"alarmed\" by some of Lane's behaviour and said his failure to properly question him had been an oversight.\n\nPanel chairman Chiew Yin Jones said PC Mills' failings may have \"ultimately contributed in the circumstances which contributed to the tragic death of Ms Grice\".\n\n\"In his dealings with Ms Grice, the officer failed to recognise her vulnerability,\" she said.\n\nThe family's lawyer Andy Petherbridge, of Hudgell Solicitors, said it was the \"right decision\" but was \"too little, too late\" for Ms Grice.\n\nThe panel ruled PC Mills' full name should be withheld to protect the \"feelings and the welfare\" of his young family.\n\nPC Trevor Godfrey, who retired from duty in December 2017, was due to face allegations of discreditable conduct on Tuesday, but the hearing was postponed until further notice.\n\nAn internal misconduct hearing for a serving, unnamed officer, will be held on 17 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"At school we can go outside, have fun and play in the sun\"\n\nSchool break times have been getting shorter over the past two decades, as teachers try to pack more lessons into the day, a long-term study suggests.\n\nInfants in England had 45 minutes less break time a week than in 1995, the University College London team found.\n\nSecondary pupils had lost 65 minutes over the same period, they said.\n\nThe government said it had given schools the \"autonomy\" to make decisions about the structure and duration of their school day.\n\nPupils complained of fun activities being banned, not having enough time to eat their lunch, and missing their breaks due to others' poor behaviour.\n\nChildren and young people's social lives seem to have been curtailed as well, with fewer students than in 2006 reporting they had visited a friend's house after school, according to the research.\n\nPlaying video games and watching television had overtaken spending time with friends as the most common after school activity, the study found.\n\nThe researchers said this finding highlighted how \"school is increasingly the main, and in some cases the only, context where young people get to socialise\".\n\nResearchers analysed questionnaires completed at 993 primaries and 199 secondaries in 2017 along with separate pupil surveys at 37 schools.\n\nThese were compared with surveys in similar schools in 2006 and 1995.\n\nThe team said their results gave the impression that breaks were being kept as \"tightly managed and as short as possible\" and this meant pupils could be missing out on social development.\n\nLead author Ed Baines, from UCL's Institute of Education, said: \"Despite the length of the school day remaining much the same, break times are being squeezed even further, with potential serious implications for children's wellbeing and development.\n\n\"Not only are break times an opportunity for children to get physical exercise - an issue of particular concern given the rise in obesity - but they provide valuable time to make friends and to develop important social skills, experiences that are not necessarily learned or taught in formal lessons.\"\n\nThe researchers found what they described as a \"virtual elimination\" of afternoon breaks, with only 15% of infant pupils and just over half of juniors having one.\n\nIn 1995, 13% of secondary schools reported an afternoon break period but in 2017 only 1% said they had one.\n\nLunch breaks had also been cut down, the team said, with 82% of schools setting aside less than 55 minutes in 2017, compared with 30% in 1995.\n\nNearly 60% of schools also withheld breaks from children when they or their classmates had been poorly behaved or needed to complete work.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton said there was enormous value in unstructured free time for children to socialise and let off steam but schools had to balance this consideration against all the other demands expected of them.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders' general secretary said: \"The fact is that school timetables are bursting at the seams because of the pressure to deliver a huge amount of learning and to prepare children for high-stakes tests and exams.\n\n\"It is therefore no surprise that school break times are shorter than they were 20 years ago.\n\n\"This may be regrettable but it is the result of a conscious decision by successive governments to expect more of schools.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said the government recognised the importance of physical activity in schools \"to improve both physical and mental wellbeing\".\n\n\"We are clear that pupils should be given an appropriate break and we expect school leaders to make sure this happens,\" he added.\n• None Parents can 'worry less' about screen time\n• None Loneliness more likely in young\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trade negotiators from China are in Washington to hammer out a deal between the world’s two largest economies.\n\nBoth sides are keen to resolve the trade dispute as their economies are coming under increasing pressure.\n\nBBC Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani explains how we got here, and whether a trade deal will end the rivalry.", "Plans to extend Edinburgh's tram network to include a hospital and university are being proposed as part of an overhaul of the way people will move around the city.\n\nThe 10-year city centre transformation project would see the tram extend over North Bridge to the BioQuarter and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nA tram loop could also be built between Haymarket and University of Edinburgh.\n\nThe council hopes to reduce city centre traffic by up to 30%.\n\nThe council said it wanted to treat cars as \"guests\" in a \"pedestrian priority zone\".\n\nThe plans also include setting up a free city centre hopper bus.\n\nProminent parts of the Old Town would be completely closed to traffic, including Victoria Street, Cockburn Street and a longer stretch of the Royal Mile.\n\nWaverley Bridge could become a vehicle-free plaza and a \"centrepiece\" bridge could be built for pedestrians and cyclists, connecting the Old Town and the New Town.\n\nCar parking would be gradually reduced across the city centre, with George Street, Victoria Street and Cockburn Street losing parking space altogether.\n\nThere are also plans for remaining parking areas to be subject to a trial of a \"parking free day\" - where existing spaces are used for alternative uses one day per week.\n\nThe proposals will go out for a public consultation for approval, subject to the thumbs up by the council's transport and environment committee next week.\n\nLesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Council's transport and environment convener, said: \"This is a serious approach to how we equip the city for the future and how we meet the emerging challenges from the climate change emergency, population growth, changing expectations of our city centre and air quality.\n\n\"This is a clear statement of intent about what we want to achieve in the city centre. This is our strategy for a city centre that is truly fit for purpose.\"\n\nAs part of the blueprint, there are plans to construct four lifts, situated across the city centre, to help people access Edinburgh's two levels with more ease.\n\nThe lifts will be provided from Market Street to the top of The Mound, Waverley Station to North Bridge, Cowgate to George IV Bridge and Grassmarket to Edinburgh Castle and will be used by cyclists and those with wheelchairs.\n\nMrs Macinnes said: \"You will come out the back of Waverley Station and take that lift up to North Bridge.\n\n\"Instantly, you have got public transport with buses instantly connected with the train. It's about collapsing the city centre to be able to access both levels.\"\n\nImprovements will be made to make key routes more attractive to pedestrians and cyclists but key bus routes will remain across North Bridge and South Bridge and up and down The Mound.\n\nMrs Macinnes said: \"This is an exciting and ambitious strategy, one which will deliver transformative benefits across the city and for a whole range of people travelling to and within Edinburgh.\n\n\"We want everyone to share in Edinburgh's success and re-imagining our city centre and its purpose will help make this happen.\n\n\"Here we have a blueprint to move the city forward. The proposals are designed to prompt debate - they aren't finalised designs or ideas.\n\n\"They are examples of what we could do to deliver the city centre that residents are telling us they want.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Beckham has been given a six-month driving ban for using his mobile phone while behind the wheel.\n\nThe former England captain previously pleaded guilty to using the device while driving his Bentley in central London on 21 November last year.\n\nA court heard he was photographed by a member of the public holding a phone as he drove in \"slowly moving\" traffic.\n\nBeckham, 44, received six points on his licence to add to the six he already had for previous speeding matters.\n\nHe was also fined £750, ordered to pay £100 in prosecution costs and a £75 surcharge fee within seven days.\n\nDistrict Judge Catherine Moore said she acknowledged the slow pace of the traffic but told him there was \"no excuse\" under the law.\n\nBromley Magistrates' Court heard Beckham was seen \"operating a handheld device at knee level\" while driving along Great Portland Street in the West End.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Spratt said: \"Instead of looking straight forward, paying attention to the road he appeared to be looking at his lap.\"\n\nThe court heard Beckham was photographed driving in \"slowly moving\" traffic while holding a phone\n\nBeckham's defence barrister Gerrard Tyrrell said the former Manchester United midfielder had \"no recollection of the day in question or this particular incident\".\n\nHe added: \"There is no excuse for what took place but his view is that he cannot remember.\"\n\n\"He takes his children to school each day when he can and he picks them up when he can, and actually to deprive them of that is something that he will acknowledge,\" he said.\n\nIt's against the law in the UK to hold a phone while driving, although hands-free devices are allowed. It's punishable by six penalty points on your licence and a £200 fine - but, depending on the seriousness of the offence, you can also be taken court to face more severe penalties.\n\nIn England and Wales in 2017, there were 8,300 convictions for using a handheld mobile phone whilst driving. Almost all were dealt with through a fine, which averaged out at £180.\n\nConvictions have fallen a lot since their peak of 32,548 in 2010.\n\nLooking at who was convicted, 86% were men and 21% were under 25 years old.\n\nIn Scotland in 2017-18 there were 2,881 convictions for the category of \"other motor vehicle offences\", which covers using a mobile phone and not wearing a seatbelt. Again, almost all were dealt with through fines.\n\nIn September, Beckham was accused of \"shirking his responsibility\" as a role model when he avoided prosecution on a speeding charge because of a technicality.\n\nThe father-of-four accepted he drove a loaned Bentley at 59mph in a 40mph zone in west London in January last year.\n\nBut his lawyer Nick Freeman - known as Mr Loophole - successfully fought to prevent action being taken because a speeding notice arrived one day late.\n\nIn March 2017, the punishment for driving while on the phone was doubled to six penalty points - enough to ban those with less than two years' experience.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Dougan said the work of generations of foresters has been lost\n\n\"When I first saw the impact this disease was having, it really almost reduced me to tears.\"\n\nThe words of Scottish Forestry's John Dougan as he describes the battle to defeat the deadly tree disease Phytophthora Ramorum.\n\nIt has spread throughout Scotland in recent years, leaving thousands of dead and damaged trees in its wake.\n\nIf the ongoing fight is lost, it is feared it could be catastrophic for the forestry industry and also hit tourism.\n\nAs the busy summer holiday period approaches, members of the public are being urged to take some simple precautions which could help, such as cleaning their boots before leaving.\n\nPhytophthora Ramorum was first found in larch trees in the region in 2010.\n\nAt Ae Forest near Dumfries, its impact on the landscape is clear to see.\n\nSlowing the progression of the disease can only be achieved by cutting trees down.\n\nAt Ae, any vulnerable species found within 250m of an infected tree will be felled.\n\nThe change is significant - both in terms of the look of the forest and the increased activity.\n\nMr Dougan, Scottish Forestry's head of operational development, told BBC Scotland's Landward: \"It's a fungal-based disease, microscopic spores that get caught up in water droplets and vapour, and they get blown around in the atmosphere, they land on the tree and then they start to attack the tissue of the tree, and then they also reproduce themselves and the cycle continues on from there.\n\n\"It's really larch that is the engine that drives the disease progression.\"\n\nHe said of the felling approach: \"What we're trying to do by clear-felling is removing infected trees, and reducing the risk of them then allowing the disease to reproduce itself and move onto other sites.\n\n\"The wood will go into conventional timber usage that it would have done anyway\n\n\"It does need to be handled in a specific way because obviously it potentially has infected material associated with it.\"\n\nIn this particular case at Ae, trees are being felled more than 20 years before they would have normally come down.\n\nMembers of the public are being told they can help\n\nMr Dougan explained: \"From a personal point of view - I mean I'm from this part of the world - when I first saw the impact this disease was having, it really almost reduced me to tears.\n\n\"Not for the loss of the timber - that's something we can accept - but it's the loss of the work of really generations of foresters to make these areas attractive places to come and visit and enjoy.\"\n\nOf the message to the public, he said: \"Keep coming, because we want people to keep coming and to enjoy the forest.\n\n\"When you do come, when you leave think about not moving stuff from this forest to another forest or another part of the countryside.\n\n\"So if you've got mud on your equipment, your boots, your bikes, your dogs, these sorts of things, before you go somewhere else just make sure you wash that off so you're not moving the disease on to another location on another visit.\"\n\nYou can see this story on Landward on BBC One Scotland on Friday at 19:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The campaign is designed to reduce the amount of litter dropped by school pupils\n\nSchool pupils at all East Ayrshire high schools will face an £80 fine if they are caught throwing rubbish.\n\nBut the penalty will be withdrawn if the child attends a supervised litter pick.\n\nThe scheme was signed off by councillors following a recent trial programme at Loudoun Academy in Galston.\n\nThe campaign was spearheaded by Rubbish Party councillor Sally Cogley, who has hailed it as a UK first.\n\nMs Cogley said: \"East Ayrshire will be doing something that has never been done in the UK before. It has changed behaviour at Loudoun Academy.\n\n\"The litter in schools initiative is a no brainer and will make a difference. We have tried and tested it.\"\n\nMs Cogley was elected in May 2017, just two months after she founded the party to focus on the issues of waste and littering.\n\nThe Irvine Valley politician insisted it would not criminalise children after concerns were voiced at a council meeting.\n\nShe proposed a motion at full council for four politicians to set up a cross party and ward group to tackle the problems of dog fouling, litter and fly tipping.\n\nThey will be responsible for overseeing the roll-out of the fixed penalty litter scheme in all secondary schools.\n\nDropping litter is an offence in Scotland and anyone caught could receive a Fixed Penalty Notice of £80.\n\nMs Cogley said: \"The focus and approach will be on education and prevention coupled with effective enforcement.\"\n\n\"The aim is not to criminalise young people.\"\n\nShe pointed out that the fixed penalty notice would be cancelled if the child attended a litter pick.\n\nMs Cogley explained that if the pupil did not attend one, then the school would take other action.\n\nCouncillor Jacqui Todd said she was worried that children could be excluded if they did not comply.\n\nThe politicians who are to sit on the anti-litter group alongside Councillor Cogley are Annick councillor Ellen Freel, Kilmarnock North councillor Ian Grant and Kilmarnock East and Hurlford councillor Barry Douglas.\n\nCouncil leader Douglas Reid said: \"It is about improving the quality of our environment. We need to get behind this.\"\n\nThe motion said the aim of the cross-party group was to ensure \"East Ayrshire Council continues to maximise the benefits of a cleaner and safer environment,\" making it a \"more attractive place to live, learn, work and visit.\"", "A number of MPs are calling on a drug company to make a \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nCiting a BBC Newsnight report, MPs across several parties have written to BioMarin, which markets Kuvan but did not initially discover it.\n\nThe drug, which helps people who have PKU - a rare inherited disorder - is currently not available to NHS patients, as it costs £70,000.\n\nBioMarin says the NHS has not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nPeople with PKU (phenylketonuria) - which affects between one in 10,000 and one in 14,000 people in England - cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins. But in people with PKU the levels build up, and can cause brain damage.\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many people who have PKU.\n\nThe MPs, who include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, say that BioMarin did not even discover the drug itself but licensed it from a laboratory in Switzerland. It was then researched, using public money, as a treatment for PKU.\n\n\"It seems likely that development costs associated with licensing this treatment have been recouped,\" the MPs said in their letter, adding: \"It is matter of public record that BioMarin has generated substantial revenues from Kuvan.\"\n\nLouise Moorhouse, 35, knows at first-hand the difference Kuvan can make.\n\nIn her early 20s she took part in trials while it was being developed by the US biotech company.\n\n\"Kuvan allowed me to eat a completely normal diet. It was almost like someone had opened curtains on my life and I could see everything in Technicolor,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"It just freed me up so much.\"\n\nAfter the trial, Louise was denied further access to Kuvan, but since Newsnight's investigation, BioMarin has said all ex-trial patients will be treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PKU and Kuvan - the campaign for an affordable drug\n\nHowever, in their letter, MPs say: \"BioMarin currently has no competition for pharmacological treatments for PKU. This monopoly position carries a particular obligation to have regard to your responsibility to patients.\n\n\"BioMarin needs to prioritise making this treatment available at an appropriate price across the UK as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe letter, signed by 17 MPs so far and originated from the office of MP Liz Twist, comes amid growing concern about the prices of drugs for rare illnesses across Europe.\n\nUnder a European incentive scheme to encourage companies to produce treatments for so-called orphan diseases, companies are granted up to 12 years market exclusivity. This is currently under review.\n\nThe Dutch government, for example, is looking at issuing compulsory licenses if a company does not make a drug affordable. This means another company will be allowed to make the drug at a cheaper price, even when it doesn't hold the patent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Twist MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBioMarin says the \"burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS\".\n\n\"Under current cost-effectiveness criteria, [the] NHS expects discount in the range of 80%, making it very difficult to reach a mutually acceptable agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"The NHS does not offer a blank cheque to pharmaceutical companies. Instead, the NHS works hard to strike deals which give people access to the most clinically effective and innovative medicines, and at a price which is fair and affordable, which is exactly what our patients and the country's taxpayers would expect us to do.\"", "Fifteen parents decided their children should not sit the tests being held this month\n\nA class of primary school pupils will not sit Sats tests after their parents chose to boycott the exams.\n\nAll 15 parents of children in Year 2 at Bealings School near Woodbridge, Suffolk, said \"over-testing was ruining the pupils' education\".\n\nHeather Chandler, one of the parents, said it was \"far too early\" for the children, aged six and seven, to be tested.\n\nThe school said it did not want to comment.\n\nChair of governors Rick Gillingham said they would not stand in the parents' way and \"over-testing is certainly something we wouldn't go along with\".\n\nMs Chandler said the Sats were unnecessary and a waste of time.\n\n\"At that age they should be out playing and investigating the world around them, not being taught to do a test,\" she said.\n\n\"It adds extra pressure they don't really need and takes a lot of teachers' time away from what they should be doing.\"\n\nLavinia Musolino has opted for her son Enzo, seven, not to take the Sats test\n\nLavinia Musolino, whose seven-year-old son Enzo is in Year 2, said: \"It's a really positive way to stand up to the current government and say we don't agree.\"\n\nThe Standards and Testing Agency tests are formal national curriculum exams in primary schools in England, taken by children twice - first in Year 2 and then in Year 6. Pupils are tested in maths and English.\n\nLast month, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced he would scrap Sats if his party came to power, saying the move would help improve teacher recruitment and retention.\n\nInstead, Labour would introduce alternative assessments which would be based on \"the clear principle of understanding the learning needs of every child,\" he said.\n\nBut Schools Minister Nick Gibb said abolishing Sats would be \"a retrograde step\".\n\nHe said it would \"keep parents in the dark\" by preventing them from knowing how good their child's school was at teaching maths, reading and writing.\n\nThe government has already said it wants to phase out Sats for seven-year-old pupils in favour of a new baseline assessment for reception classes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "Parents at the Glen Park school were outraged over the situation\n\nA San Francisco teacher on extended sick leave due to breast cancer has had to pay for her own substitute, sparking a nationwide outcry over the policy.\n\nThe average cost for a substitute in the city is $200 (£150) per day, which gets deducted from the sick teacher's salary, thanks to a 1976 state law.\n\nParents have responded by raising over $13,000 to help the teacher pay her medical bills, local media report.\n\nLawmakers and the city teacher's union are now considering changing the rule.\n\nThe Glen Park primary school teacher battling cancer has asked not to be named to protect her privacy.\n\nLocal parents were shocked to learn of the law when the well-loved teacher fell ill.\n\n\"Parents were outraged and incredulous - like, this can't be, there must be some mistake,\" Amanda Fried, whose children go to the Glen Park School, told the San Francisco Chronicle.\n\nMs Fried added that the school's other teachers were unsurprised by the situation.\n\n\"That makes it even more sad, because teachers expected to be treated poorly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I have 29 textbooks for 87 pupils\": Why these teachers in Oklahoma are striking\n\nIn San Francisco, where the cost of living is notoriously high, teachers make around $82,000 annually, US media report.\n\nThey receive 10 days of paid medical leave from the school district. If they require extended medical leave, they are entitled to up to 100 days - but must foot the cost for their own substitute during that time as California teachers are not a part of the state's disability programme.\n\nThe city teacher's union may now raise this issue during 2020 negotiations.\n\nUnited Educators of San Francisco President Susan Solomon said in a statement that the group looked forward \"to making improvements in this and other parts of the contract\" between teachers and the school district.\n\nThe teacher's story has been covered by many national news outlets and sparked discussions across social media. In the wake of this nationwide scrutiny, state lawmakers have also been made aware of the controversial law.\n\nEarlier this year, teachers in Los Angeles went on strike to demand more support staff, smaller class sizes and better pay. Teachers in Colorado were also striking this year for better compensation.\n\nLast year, a wave of educator strikes swept the nation, with thousands of teachers protesting unfair pay. In West Virginia, teachers specifically highlighted issues around rising healthcare costs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'The resources have been dwindling, the staffing has been dwindling, students are suffering'\n\nOn the GoFundMe page parents started last month to pay for the San Francisco teacher's medical care, substitute and lost income, she was described as a \"true professional\" who loved her students, US media reported.\n\n\"Just a few days after her surgery, she took the time to write out 22 completely personalised notes to the students in the class thanking them for their support, telling them she missed them dearly and encouraging them to continue working hard,\" the fundraisers said.\n\nThe campaign closed after surpassing the initial goal of $10,000.\n\n\"My family and I are truly grateful for this gift,\" the teacher wrote. \"My heart is lifted and it gives me so much strength to know that so many people care about me and my family.\"", "Uber has been valued at $82bn (£63bn) ahead of its share listing in what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations this year.\n\nThe ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the price range expected.\n\nUber's conservative price is an attempt to avoid the fate of rival Lyft whose shares fell by up to a third after its recent listing, said analysts.\n\nUber is yet to make a profit and warned recently it may never do so.\n\nSince its foundation in 2009, the company has lost about $9bn.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst at investment company Wedbush Securities, said the lower-than-expected valuation was Uber's attempt to deflect scrutiny of its financial performance.\n\n\"They know that they are going to have a target on their back in terms of, not just investors, but regulators as well as drivers, so they need to tread carefully here in terms of how they price it.\n\n\"Their success is not going to be determined over the coming days or weeks or months, it's really over the coming years. But the last thing they want is for stock to drop through the IPO price like Lyft has,\" he said.\n\nUber had originally suggested a price range of between $44-$50 for its share price listing, valuing the company at up to $120bn.\n\nInvestors are betting on Uber's growth prospects as it diversifies into several other sectors. As well as the original \"ride-hailing\" business, Uber is developing driverless cars, and has a food delivery operation, Uber Eats.\n\nUnion organiser Lydia Hughes joined Uber drivers in their strike in London on Wednesday\n\nUber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, has emphasised that the firm's future is not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide technology platform shaping logistics and transportation.\n\nBut Brian Hamilton, a tech entrepreneur and founder of data firm Sageworks, said its losses were hard to overlook.\n\n\"Uber is basically Lyft 2.0. Good model, growing sales. But, yet again, here comes California math once more. It is still losing a ton of money,\" he said.\n\nThe firm's revenue last year surged 42% to $11.3bn, but its adjusted loss - following a tax benefit - still hit $1.8bn. In the first three months of the year, it was a similar story with the firm reporting a loss of around $1bn.\n\nThe firm's flotation comes days after drivers in the US and UK went on strike over pay and working conditions.\n\nUnions are urging Uber to cut the rate of commission it takes, to increase the average fare rate and for better job security.", "Carolyn Fairbairn met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the CBI's annual lunch in Edinburgh\n\nPlans for the immigration system after Brexit would cause particular problems for Scotland, the director general of the CBI has said.\n\nThe Home Office has said its plans would allow the UK to attract talented workers and deliver on the Brexit vote.\n\nBut Carolyn Fairbairn told BBC Scotland she believed skilled workers would have to be recruited at lower pay levels.\n\nScotland has a particular problem with an ageing workforce, she said.\n\nMs Fairbairn said: \"The trouble with the current immigration plan the government has put forward is it doesn't work for the whole country, and it certainly doesn't work for Scotland.\"\n\nIn 20 years' time, the CBI expects only one third of the Scottish population to be of working age, causing \"profound implications for Scotland, its tax base and public services\".\n\n\"We need the flexibility that allows Scotland to have the people it needs to grow,\" Ms Fairbairn said.\n\n\"Scotland has a particularly unusual problem in terms of a falling working age population.\n\n\"For many people wanting to come and work in Scotland the salaries are well below that, so we are looking for change and we are looking for a new immigration model that works for the whole country.\"\n\nThe Scottish median salary is less than £24,000.\n\nMs Fairbairn, who met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday ahead of the employers organisation's annual lunch in Edinburgh, has been working with the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) on plans to tackle automation and the future of work.\n\nThe two organisations have written to the Scottish government with proposals that they hope could increase \"both the number and quality of jobs\".\n\n\"If we get this right, automation and digitisation can be as important an economic leap forward as the industrial revolution,\" Ms Fairbairn said.\n\n\"We can build a society in Scotland that cherishes the fundamentally human skills, such as communication, empathy, innovation, and leadership.\"\n\nThe CBI has also called for politicians to set a clear timetable for resolving the \"paralysing\" Brexit deadlock.\n\n\"Three years on, the landing zone for a workable deal still feels worrying small, \" she said. \"And let me be crystal clear. Scottish firms, and firms across the UK, want a deal.\"\n\nShe added: \"Firms desperately need a timetable for these next few months. They need to have some idea of process, of timing, to enable them to plan, invest and prepare.\"", "Chelsea Manning: \"I will not comply with this, or any other grand jury.\"\n\nFormer US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from prison, despite refusing to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks.\n\nManning, 31, was held for 62 days after a Virginia judge ordered her taken into custody in March.\n\nHowever, she will have to appear again before a grand jury on 16 May.\n\nManning was found guilty in 2013 of charges including espionage for leaking secret military files to Wikileaks, but her sentence was later commuted.\n\nShe has refused to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she says she has already presented her testimony during her 2013 trial.\n\nHer release on Thursday comes after the period during which she could be held for failing to give evidence expired.\n\n\"Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today,\" her lawyers said in a statement.\n\n\"Unfortunately, even prior to her release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena,\" the statement adds. \"It is therefore conceivable that she will once again be held in contempt of court, and be returned [to custody].\n\n\"Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defence to prove... that she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony.\"\n\nWhen she refused to testify in March, her lawyers reportedly asked that she be confined at home due to medical issues, but the judge said US Marshals would address her care needs.\n\nUS prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for years, and in November prosecutors inadvertently revealed possible charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in court documents from a separate case.\n\nManning was arrested in Iraq in 2010 for disclosing more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables to the anti-secrecy website.\n\nWhile Manning said she only did so to spark debates about foreign policy, US officials said the leak put lives at risk.\n\nShe was sentenced to 35 years after being found guilty of 20 charges related to the leak, but then President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.\n\nHer sentence was the longest given for a leak in US history. President Obama said it was \"disproportionate\" to her crimes.", "India's richest man Mukesh Ambani has bought the iconic British toy retailer Hamleys for an undisclosed sum.\n\nReliance Brands Limited, which is owned by Mr Ambani, said it had signed an agreement to buy the company from China's C Banner International which had acquired it in 2015.\n\nHamleys, which was founded in 1760, is the world's oldest toy retailer and has 167 stores across 18 countries.\n\nAccording to Forbes, the 62-year-old Mr Ambani is worth $50.7bn.\n\n\"The worldwide acquisition of the iconic Hamleys brand.... is a long cherished dream come true,\" Darshan Mehta, the CEO of Reliance Brands Limited, said in a statement.\n\nHamleys had last year reported a £9.2m loss, blaming Brexit and the threat of terrorism for the downturn.\n\nIt had opened four stores in the UK but later closed two.\n\nHowever its flagship store in London's Regent Street, which opened in 1881, continues to be one of the city's major attractions.\n\nSet over seven floors, it has an estimated 50,000 lines of toys on sale.", "Emma Faulds was last seen on Sunday 28 April\n\nPolice have issued an appeal to trace the body of Emma Faulds after a man was charged with her murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and is expected to return to court next week.\n\nMs Faulds, 39, from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton on Sunday 28 April.\n\nDetectives have now confirmed they are conducting inquiries in the South Ayrshire/Dumfries and Galloway border area in an bid to locate her body.\n\nOfficers are keen to trace the movements of vehicles on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April, particularly Jaguar and Mercedes models.\n\nAnd police want to speak to anyone who spotted anything odd or out of place within that timeframe in the area of Barrhill, particularly along the A714.\n\nDet Chief Insp Martin Fergus said: \"This is a harrowing time for Emma's family.\n\n\"They are in shock and are in the process of dealing with the fact that Emma will not be coming home.\n\n\"I am therefore seeking the public's help in trying to find Emma's body.\"\n\nThe officer wants to speak to anyone who may have been travelling along the A714, either north or south between Girvan and Newton Stewart.\n\nHe added: \"Did you see something a little odd or out of place, perhaps you noticed a car in a lay-by, do you remember anything which struck you as odd at the time?\n\n\"I am also keen to speak to anyone who travels this route regularly, northbound or southbound.\n\n\"If any motorists have dashcams, please check the footage as it may have captured something which could prove vital to our ongoing inquiries to locate Emma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoet Simon Armitage, whose \"witty and profound\" work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK's next Poet Laureate.\n\nThe West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking over from Dame Carol Ann Duffy.\n\nOver recent decades, the role has moved away from mainly chronicling royal occasions to promoting poetry and capturing a wider view of British life.\n\nArmitage has published 28 collections and is on the national curriculum.\n\nHis 2017 book The Unaccompanied was described by The Guardian as a document of \"a world in social and economic meltdown\".\n\nIt opens with a poem about climate change called The Last Snowman, and includes another titled Poundland, about \"the Disney design calendar and diary set, three cans of Vimto/cornucopia of potato-based snacks and balm for a sweet tooth\".\n\nThe announcement comes five months after Armitage, from Marsden, won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2018, arguably the most prestigious accolade in poetry behind the laureateship.\n\nWhen that award was announced, Dame Carol Ann noted how he had \"touched the matter of our lives with characters and subject matter that lived among us: teachers and council tenants, chip shops and television shows, figures who drank in the local pub and shopped in the nearby supermarket\".\n\nHe has also translated medieval poems about King Arthur and Sir Gawain, retold The Odyssey as a radio play and written Last Days of Troy, a stage play for Shakespeare's Globe and the Manchester Royal Exchange.\n\nThe 55-year-old is currently professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and served as professor of poetry at the University of Oxford between 2015-2019.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2010. His tenure as Poet Laureate will run for a decade.\n\nArmitage told BBC News that poetry was \"more valuable and more relevant than it's ever been\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to celebrate what's best in poetry and build on the work Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy have done over the last two decades in terms of encouraging and identifying talent, particularly among young people, among whom poetry might be a way forward, an outlet.\"\n\nThe poet laureate is an honorary position that is officially appointed by the Queen, acting on advice from the government.\n\nHe joked that he had \"missed the boat\" to write a poem for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\n\"It's been made very clear to me that although the monarch is my line manager, for want of a better word, there are no expectations or obligations in that direction.\"\n\nHe said he planned to use the profile to establish some sort of project or award for writing about climate change, and that he had a dream - \"very possibly completely unrealistic\" - to set up a National Centre for Poetry.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright praised Armitage for his \"witty and profound take on modern life [which] is known and respected across the world\".\n\nMr Wright added: \"He is a very worthy successor to Dame Carol Ann Duffy, who championed the importance of poetry over the past 10 years and made the position relatable to people across the country.\"\n\nI write in praise of air. I was six or five\n\nand I held in my palm the whole of the sky.\n\nI've carried it with me ever since.\n\nLet air be a major god, its being\n\nand touch, its breast-milk always tilted\n\nto the lips. Both dragonfly and Boeing\n\nAmong the jumbled bric-a-brac I keep\n\nand on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog\n\nwith a white handkerchief over its mouth\n\nand cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs\n\nMy first word, everyone's first word, was air.\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post, but had decided to turn it down.\n\nArmitage said he believed there had been \"a lot of discussion behind the scenes\" about whether the job should go to a white man.\n\nHe stressed that he wanted part of his role to be about amplifying the voices of writers from \"diverse and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nHe added that he did not come from the establishment. \"When I grew up in a terraced house on the side of a hill in West Yorkshire, I did not feel like the chosen one,\" he said.\n\n\"When I was working as a probation officer in Greater Manchester, dragging junkies out of the gutter and sitting across the table from notorious criminals, it did not feel like a life of privilege.\n\n\"I suppose what I'm saying is, I understand to a lesser extent what it means to come from outside the establishment, even if I've arrived at certain established positions, and I need to keep those things in the back of my mind.\"\n\nThe role was established in 1668, and previous Poets Laureate include William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sajid Javid has said he gets abuse \"because of my colour\" from the \"far left\" and \"far right\" of UK politics.\n\nThe home secretary told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast he was criticised either for being \"too brown\" or \"not brown enough\".\n\nHe said he had \"sadly got used to\" it but had tried to fight it \"in every government role I have ever been in\".\n\nMr Javid is among several figures widely touted as contenders to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader.\n\nHe has not confirmed his intention to run.\n\nBuzzfeed recently reported that some Conservative Party members had posted messages on Facebook saying they wanted to prevent Mr Javid taking the top job, suggesting the UK was \"not ready for a Muslim PM\".\n\nThe home secretary, whose parents came to the UK from Pakistan, told Political Thinking presenter Nick Robinson he had come to expect social media abuse.\n\n\"I get it from the far left, including lots of Asians, who say: 'He's not brown enough.' I get it from the right, and the far right in particular, saying: 'He's too brown,'\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"They believe, whether they are coming from the far left or far right, that someone's colour should define who they are - or their background, their faith, or something, that characteristic, rather than the content of their character.\"\n\nAsked about the posts reported by Buzzfeed, he said: \"I think in Britain, anyone who is capable, regardless of whether they are Muslim, or Hindu for that matter, or any religion - or no religion - can be prime minister.\"\n\n\"There are some forces that wouldn't like that but I think the forces against that are much, much stronger. And if you look around the world and you compare Britain to other leading industrial democratic countries, we are way ahead.\"\n\nHe said he had been to European Council meetings of ministers from different member states at which he had been the only non-white person present.\n\n\"It's not just me. There are representatives of our country that could say the same thing. That says something about our country, something really, really positive and it's something to celebrate.\"\n\nHe said, while he was happy to talk about faith and religion, \"it's not something I define myself by at all and I don't think you should in politics\".\n\nEsther McVey intends to run for the Conservative leadership\n\nHe added: \"It's not something that should be the determinant of what kind of politician they will or will not be.\"\n\nDespite winning a vote of confidence in her leadership last December, Mrs May has come under pressure to name an exit date, after the Commons repeatedly rejected her Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn March, she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU - but she has not made it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal is reached.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey have said they will run to replace her.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"seriously considering\" doing the same.\n\nOther widely mentioned possible contenders include Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.", "Charcoal-based toothpastes, which claim to whiten teeth, are a \"marketing gimmick\" which could increase the risk of tooth decay and staining, says a review in the British Dental Journal.\n\nThe charcoal products, which are increasingly popular, often contain no fluoride to help protect the teeth.\n\nAnd there is no scientific evidence to back up the claims they make, the authors say.\n\nExcessive brushing with them can do more harm than good, they add.\n\nThey advise people to go to their dentist for advice on bleaching, or whitening, their teeth.\n\nAnd they say it is better to stick to using a regular fluoride-based toothpaste.\n\nCharcoal was first used for oral hygiene purposes in ancient Greece, as a way of removing stains from teeth and disguising unpleasant odours from diseased gums.\n\nDr Joseph Greenwall-Cohen, co-author of the study from the University of Manchester Dental School, said \"more and more shops are selling charcoal-based toothpastes and powders\", including Superdrug, Boots and Tesco, after celebrities had started talking about using them.\n\nBut he said the claims they made had been found to be unproven by a 2017 US review of 50 products.\n\nSome said they were \"anti-bacterial\" or \"anti-fungal\", that they helped with \"tooth whitening\" and would \"reduce tooth decay\".\n\nThe review said people were brushing regularly with the charcoal-based products in the hope that they would offer \"a low cost, quick-fix, tooth-whitening option\".\n\nBut too much brushing could lead to tooth wear and more sensitive teeth and, with few of the products containing fluoride or making the ingredient inactive, any protection from tooth decay was limited, it said.\n\n\"When used too often in people with fillings, it can get into them and become difficult to get out,\" Dr Greenwall-Cohen said.\n\n\"Charcoal particles can also get caught up in the gums and irritate them.\"\n\nHe said charcoal toothpastes and powders were more abrasive than regular toothpastes, potentially posing a risk to the enamel and gums.\n\nThe charcoal contained in today's toothpastes is usually a fine powder form of treated charcoal, the review says.\n\nCharcoal can be made from materials including nutshells, coconut husks, bamboo and peat, and possibly wood and coal.\n\nProf Damien Walmsley, from the British Dental Association, said: \"Charcoal-based toothpastes offer no silver bullets for anyone seeking a perfect smile, and come with real risks attached.\n\n\"So don't believe the hype. Anyone concerned about staining or discoloured teeth that can't be shifted by a change in diet, or improvements to their oral hygiene, should see their dentist.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How can the number-crunchers get a better idea of the nation's well-being?\n\nAnswering a simple \"How are you?\" with an honest detailed answer may lead to an awkward silence.\n\nAfter all, it's often just longhand for \"hello\". But the government's official number-crunchers at the Office for National Statistics genuinely care about the response.\n\nNext week, they'll publish their statistics into how people across the country are feeling about their lives.\n\nHave they gone soft? Not quite. They've realised that how we've traditionally measured living standards or economic well-being isn't up to scratch.\n\nWe typically turn to GDP - gross domestic product. That's the measure of how much companies, individuals and the government earn/spend/produce (in theory, each of those give the same answer), with an adjustment for exports less imports.\n\nIt measures the nation's net income, but may not tell the whole story.\n\nFirst, there are things which can skew the big picture. Take the first three months of this year, when the economy grew by 0.5%, according to the latest official figures.\n\nAt the time, many companies were busy stockpiling components and finished goods due to fears of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThat makes growth look stronger, but that buzz of activity reflects contingency planning rather than a response to strong demand.\n\nAnd it may mean less of that activity further down the line, making growth look weaker in subsequent quarters.\n\nEven without distortions, GDP may not reflect the individual situation. The fates of government businesses and households will differ hugely in any quarter.\n\nThe ONS provides a breakdown of some details. It has recently delved deeper into households' situations with a well-being dashboard, which looks at things such as incomes, debt and anxiety levels (Spoiler alert: the most recent version shows most things on the rise).\n\nAnd there'll be winners and losers across the country. The Bank of England has also doubled down on work to highlight the fate of different regions.\n\nBut then there's what is left out by GDP: basically, anything unpaid, from volunteering to housework. In other words, items that aren't termed \"market activity\".\n\nEconomist Paul Samuelson joked that if a man marries his maid, GDP falls. It's not so much a joke as a criticism (and not just of outdated gender stereotyping) that statisticians fail to value certain types of work.\n\nThe problem is that without payment, such work is hard to put a price tag on.\n\nFeeling a bit hard done-by aside, how much does that matter, given what policymakers actually use GDP for?\n\nThe Bank of England manages the economy by setting interest rates to influence spending and borrowing, while the government uses the figures to gauge how much tax might come in.\n\nAnd of course, there's a multitude of other factors - from crime to gender equality, biodiversity, access to clean energy and education levels - that hit our current and future living standards.\n\nThese are just a few of the Sustainable Development Goals that the US has spelled out. The ONS has embarked on a marathon task to identify and measure hundreds of indicators to reflect those.\n\nThey are about two-thirds of the way there - and even when they have finessed them, collecting the information on a regular basis may not be quick as gleaning GDP information.\n\nThe number-crunchers acknowledge the need for a more \"holistic\" gauge of our well-being.\n\nGDP is three little letters that represents more than a trillion pounds of crucial and relatively easy to collect information on the financial state of our economy. It isn't perfect, but it still has its uses.", "Prince William said the text messaging service could provide \"instant support\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have teamed up to launch a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis.\n\nWilliam, Kate, Meghan and Harry have backed the initiative, called Shout, with £3m from their Royal Foundation.\n\nPrince William appealed for more people to work as a volunteer for Shout.\n\nThe service hopes to have 4,000 volunteers by the end of the year.\n\nPrince William said Shout provides \"instant support,\" adding: \"You can have a conversation anywhere and anytime - at school, at home, on the bus, anywhere.\"\n\nDuring a 12-month pilot last year, 1,000 volunteers signed up to the initiative run by the charity Mental Health Innovations and 60,000 conversations took place.\n\nResearch by Shout suggests 85% of the texts received during the pilot were sent by people aged 25 or younger.\n\n\"That is 60,000 moments when people who were feeling scared, frightened and alone were able to use their phone to connect with someone who could support them,\" Prince William said at a launch event at Kensington Palace.\n\nShout aims to help people experiencing problems - from suicidal thoughts to bullying and relationship issues - move from \"crisis to calm\".\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan have also met the volunteers working for Shout\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"For the last few years, I've been focusing much of my work on the importance of prevention in the earliest years of life to help avoid problems in later life.\n\n\"But, sadly, for so many, they have already reached a crisis situation.\"\n\nKate added that Shout offered crucial support and \"the opportunity to turn lives around\".\n\nShout was researched and developed by the Royal Foundation, a charity the royal couples set up together.\n\nThe service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is modelled on the US-based Crisis Text Line, which was launched in August 2013.\n\nThe volunteers are supported by clinically-trained supervisors. They need to be over 18, complete 25 hours of online training and commit to between two and four hours volunteering each week.\n\nThe Heads Together campaign launched in 2016 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry aims to end the stigma around mental health\n\nLorraine Heggessey, the Royal Foundation's chief executive officer, said the \"innovative solution\" helps tackle \"one of today's biggest challenges - the increasing number of people needing mental health support\".\n\nThe Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) at Imperial College London will work with the project to identify trends and develop insights into mental health to shape the provision of services.\n\nThe royals have already been campaigning around the issue and in 2016 launched their Heads Together campaign to end the stigma around mental health.\n\nThe charity running Shout also received a £1.5m grant from BBC Children in Need.\n\nThe BBC Action Line offers help and support information for people affected by mental health or emotional distress", "A replacement for how Britain's emergency services communicate is set to go over budget by at least £3.1bn, a spending watchdog has warned.\n\nThe Home Office has already delayed switching off the existing system by three years to 2022.\n\nBut the National Audit Office (NAO) has raised doubts about whether the project will be ready by then.\n\nMinisters say the new service would result in faster response times and better treatment.\n\nThe Emergency Services Network (ESN) would replace Airwave, a digital radio network introduced in 2000 and used by all 107 police, fire and ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nAirwave links control rooms to response teams, as well as to 363 other bodies such as local authorities and train companies.\n\nThe Home Office says ESN will transform what is currently available.\n\nOfficials believe it would allow users access to high-speed mobile data and save money by sharing an existing commercial 4G network.\n\nBut the scathing NAO report suggests the Home Office has \"failed\" and that management of the programme has led to delays, increased costs and poor value for taxpayers.\n\nHome affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the report concludes that key technology is yet to be properly tested, with work not started on upgrading control rooms or providing coverage for police helicopters and air ambulances.\n\nOne NAO criticism is that work has not yet started on upgrading control rooms\n\nThe report also reveals that ministers are expected to approve a decision which will mean that the new system would not be \"as resilient to power cuts\" as the existing one.\n\nNAO head Sir Amyas Morse said success of the new network was \"critical to the day-to-day operations\" of emergency services.\n\nHe said the Home Office \"has already been through one costly reset and is in danger of needing another unless it gets its house in order\".\n\nA Home Office spokesperson said the ESN was \"on track to deliver an ambitious, world-leading, digital communications network\" by 2022, resulting in savings of £200m a year.\n\nBut the NAO's report said although ESN is expected to be cheaper than Airwave in the long run, savings will not outweigh costs until at least 2029.\n\nCriticisms come after ESN was due to be implemented in September 2017, with the transition being complete at the end of this year.\n\nBut the rollout was delayed and the department announced a \"reset\" of its approach, opting to phase in services - rather than launching the whole programme at once.\n\nThe watchdog said the reset had addressed some problems but that \"to date, the Home Office's management of this critical programme has represented poor value for money.\"", "It is a year on from the delivery of more than 1,000 letters to Downing Street, many of them from children, pleading for access to a cystic fibrosis drug, called Orkambi. But there is still no decision on whether it will be made available on the NHS.\n\nAt the time, in May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May said there was an ongoing dialogue with the drug company Vertex and she hoped for a \"speedy resolution to the negotiations\".\n\nYet, despite months of talks, no agreement has yet been reached.\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition cystic fibrosis.\n\nFor about half of them, a drug called Orkambi could make a big difference - but the NHS says it is too expensive to fund.\n\nSir Andrew Dillon is chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which last month celebrated its 20th anniversary as the body responsible for deciding which drugs offer value for money for the NHS.\n\nHe said in a recent BBC interview: \"In virtually all cases we have managed to find a way through. So I am hopeful that in continuing to talk to Vertex, we can persuade them of the need to think carefully and change their expectations of what the NHS should pay so we can get these new treatments available to patients.\"\n\nOrkambi has been licensed for use in the UK since 2015 - but is only available to a very small number of cystic fibrosis patients, on compassionate grounds, at the company's discretion.\n\nThe Cystic Fibrosis Trust says the drug has been shown to improve lung health by up to 42% and reduce hospitalisations by 61%.\n\nAnnabel's mum says it is \"heartbreaking\" her daughter cannot be treated with Orkambi\n\nThe official list price of the drug is around £105,000 per patient per year. Vertex says that, in practice, the price negotiated with healthcare systems is always lower than that.\n\nIt is available to patients in 10 countries, but NICE says the price quoted by Vertex is too high for the NHS in England.\n\nFour-year-old Annabel has cystic fibrosis. Like other patients, mucus can build up in her lungs and she is vulnerable to chest infections. Her mother Liz Brennan has to organise a complex combination of treatments for Annabel every day.\n\nShe cannot understand why her daughter is unable to get Orkambi on the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"It's heartbreaking. It feels like a clock ticking away - every opportunity that she could have this medication and stop the clock on her CF.\n\n\"It's scary as a parent to think what could happen. \"\n\nThe issue has now got to Westminster, with demonstrations by patients and the issue raised at Prime Minister's Questions. The Health Select Committee is investigating.\n\nThere have been high-level talks between the company, NICE and NHS England, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock involved as well.\n\nSo far no conclusion has been reached.\n\nThere are separate negotiations with the Scottish government and its regulator the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland tend to follow decisions made by NICE.\n\nMike Boyle is one of the few cystic fibrosis patients who is given Orkambi by the manufacturer on compassionate grounds. That is because his condition has got a lot worse.\n\nHe still has to use an inflatable vest to free up his lungs, but he says the drug has transformed his life:\n\n\"I can see how it's made a difference to me. I was desperate to get it really.\n\n\"I'm always a positive person with cystic fibrosis. I always try and fight - my saying is 'I don't let CF win'.\n\n\"I control CF, not CF control me, as best as I can.\n\n\"That's been really hard over the last two-and-a-half years really.\n\n\"But now I feel that I've turned the corner and this drug has let me have my life back again.\"", "Friday night's episode of TV panel show Have I Got News For You was pulled by the BBC as it risked falling foul of its pre-European election rules.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"inappropriate to feature political party leaders\" in an election period as it did not allow for \"equal representation\" of views.\n\nHat Trick Productions, which makes the show, said it \"tried everything\" to get the BBC to broadcast the episode.\n\nIt added it was told of the decision \"late this [Friday] afternoon\".\n\nAn episode of Would I Lie to You was shown on BBC One instead. European Parliament elections are due to take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Allen - who left the Conservatives to join the recently-formed party - tweeted to say she was taking part in the programme, which regularly features politicians.\n\nBut less than half an hour before the episode was due to be broadcast, the HIGNFY Twitter account announced the cancellation.\n\nIt wrote: \"Sorry everyone. The BBC have pulled tonight's edition of #HIGNFY - no, we didn't book Danny Baker. We booked Heidi Allen, a member of a party no-one knows the name of (not even the people in it), because the Euro elections, which nobody wants, may or may not be happening. Sorry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heidi Allen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move prompted a strong reaction on social media, with some questioning why the show was cancelled but leader of the newly-established Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, recently appeared on the BBC's political debate programme, Question Time.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, Change UK asked for a full explanation, claiming the broadcaster is giving Mr Farage more favourable coverage.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted for a response but earlier, the broadcaster's live political programmes editor, Rob Burley, commented in a tweet: \"A show can't, in an election period, only feature one party in a run of shows.\"\n\nUnder BBC editorial policy guidelines, programmes are expected to ensure parties are given proportionate coverage over an appropriate period of time.\n\nAn earlier statement from the BBC read: \"The BBC has specific editorial guidelines that apply during election periods.\n\n\"Because of this it would be inappropriate to feature political party leaders on entertainment programmes during this short election period, which does not allow for equal representation to be achieved.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said it would look to air the episode at a later date.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nEden Hazard scored the winning penalty as Chelsea edged past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.\n\nHazard, who could have played his final game for the Blues at Stamford Bridge, converted after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga had saved from both Martin Hinteregger and Goncalo Paciencia.\n\nChelsea will now meet Arsenal in the final in Baku on 29 May and the result means both the Champions League and Europa League final will be played between English clubs this season - the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after the first leg, Chelsea took the lead in the second when Ruben Loftus-Cheek coolly stroked into the far corner in the 28th minute, but the night was far from straight-forward.\n\nFrankfurt levelled the tie four minutes after half-time when Luka Jovic slotted past Arrizabalaga after being played in by Mijat Gacinovic.\n\nJovic's goal punished Chelsea for a sloppy start to the second half and the Blues continued to be wasteful as Stamford Bridge became increasingly restless.\n\nIn extra time the Germans twice had efforts cleared off the line with David Luiz first denying Sebastian Haller and then Davide Zappacosta clearing Haller again at a corner.\n\nChelsea thought they had won it late in extra time but Cesar Azpilicueta, who later missed first in the penalty shootout, had a goal ruled out when the referee deemed he had bundled the ball out of Frankfurt keeper Kevin Trapp's hands.\n• None Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri unhappy about US trip before Europa League final\n\nThe shootout was Chelsea's first since they lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City on penalties in February.\n\nThat game was overshadowed by Arrizabalaga's refusal to be substituted - manager Maurizio Sarri wanted to bring on substitute goalkeeper Willy Caballero for the shootout - but at Stamford Bridge the Spaniard proved to be the hero.\n\nAfter Azpilicueta missed first, Arrizabalaga remarkably kept out Eintracht's fourth penalty by trapping the ball under his shin as he stood still when Hinteregger went for power and then dived low to his right to palm away the visitors' fifth.\n\nThat left Hazard with the opportunity to complete the win and the Belgian delivered - sending Trapp the wrong way, tucking the ball into the corner.\n• None Arsenal and Chelsea given 6,000 tickets each for final\n• None I don't know if final will be my last Chelsea game - Hazard\n\nHazard has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid this summer and if he does depart the game will be his final at Stamford Bridge after seven years at the club.\n\nThere were no waves to the crowd or clear indications he will leave in the summer and when asked whether the final would be his last game for the club he said \"in my mind I do not know yet\".\n\nIf he does leave in the summer it would be a fitting way for him to finish in west London.\n\nThe win also means Chelsea have a final chance to earn silverware in Sarri's first season in charge.\n\nLike the campaign as a whole, the night was far from smooth for the Italian and had difficult moments.\n\nHe become increasingly frantic on the touchline as his side lost control of the game in the second half and his decision to remove goal scorer Loftus-Cheek when bringing on Ross Barkley late on was loudly booed by the Chelsea fans.\n\nBut for all of the season's problems, including the Arrizabalaga affair and protests from fans against his style of play, Chelsea are quietly achieving their pre-season aims at the end of the season.\n\nLast weekend they secured a top four finish and Champions League qualification through their league position and are now into their first European final since winning the Europa League in 2013.\n\nHad either of their efforts cleared off the line in extra time gone in, it would have been hard to argue Eintracht Frankfurt were not worthy finalists.\n\nOver the two legs the German side, fancied by few at the start of the competition, had opportunities to seal a first European final since 1980.\n\nRather than sitting back after Jovic's equaliser - the highly sought after 21-year-old's 10th Europa League goal of the season - they continued to attack Chelsea in the second half and the tension around Stamford Bridge was clear.\n\nSubstitute Haller should have scored his first chance in extra time but failed to make proper contact with his volley, kicking the ball into the ground with his studs rather than side-footing into the net, and that allowed Luiz to clear.\n\nThe visitors were roared on by their vocal travelling support, some of whom were in tears at the end of the penalty shootout.\n\nDespite the disappointment those fans chanted in support of their team long after the final whistle as the players and backroom staff emotionally came together and linked arms in front of the away end.\n• None Chelsea have won each of their last four penalty shootouts at Stamford Bridge, with this their first in European competition at home.\n• None This is the first time that all four places in the Champions League/European Cup and Europa League/UEFA Cup finals will be filled by one country.\n• None Chelsea have reached their first major European final since the 2013 Europa League, when they beat Benfica 2-1 under manager Rafael Benitez.\n• None Chelsea have never lost a home game against German opponents in all competitions (W7 D3).\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have only lost one of their last nine away Europa League games (W5 D3). The German side have scored in all seven of their games on the road in the competition this season.\n• None Luka Jovic has scored 10 goals in the Europa League this season; no player has netted more (level with Olivier Giroud).\n• None Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has had a hand in 24 goals in 26 appearances at Stamford Bridge in 2018-19 (13 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 14 appearances for Chelsea (4 goals, 5 assists); as many as in his previous 45 games for the Blues.\n\n'We got into trouble' - Sarri reaction\n\nSpeaking to BT Sport, Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri said: \"I think we played a very good first half and then we got into trouble after the break. We conceded a goal in 10 minutes of panic.\n\n\"We were better in the last part of the match but we were tired in extra time and it was difficult.\n\n\"We started with three injuries and picked up two more during the match after we lost Andreas Christensen and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, so it wasn't easy but we are now in the final.\"\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(4), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Eden Hazard (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(3), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). David Luiz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Martin Hinteregger (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(2), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jonathan de Guzmán (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(2). Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1, Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Eintracht Frankfurt. Danny da Costa tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Lee Pollard and Sharon Patterson were found guilty of misconduct in public office in March\n\nTwo detectives whose laziness scuppered child abuse investigations have been jailed.\n\nSharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, forged documents and misled Essex Police supervisors about the progress of cases, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe detective constables, who were having an affair at the time, had both been found guilty of misconduct in public office.\n\nPatterson was sentenced to 18 months and Pollard was jailed for two years.\n\nJudge Nigel Lickley QC told the pair: \"You failed the victims.\"\n\nHe said they had committed \"multiple acts of dishonesty\" while others who had been wrongly blamed had had their reputations \"impugned\".\n\n\"You betrayed the public's faith and confidence in you,\" he said.\n\nPollard and Patterson's behaviour came to light in a performance review of the child abuse investigation unit where they worked.\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were told Patterson had ditched work to get a manicure and have a four-hour lunch at a Chinese restaurant with her married lover Pollard.\n\nHe had destroyed photographs found at the home of a suspect accused of sexually abusing a boy, the court heard.\n\nWhen Patterson forged a document to shut down one investigation, Pollard described her as his \"deceptive partner in crime\" in flirtatious emails, jurors heard.\n\nThe couple later moved in together and were living in Colchester.\n\nProsecutor Alexandra Healy QC said they appeared to be motivated by \"a combination of laziness, self-preservation and a cynical disdain for complainants\".\n\nThe couple denied wrongdoing between 2011 and 2014, saying administrative chaos at the unit was to blame.\n\nPatterson was sacked last month for gross misconduct, while Pollard was dismissed in 2015 for an unrelated matter.\n\nPatterson's lawyer Jacqueline Carey said the mother-of-three was now virtually penniless, with career prospects that were \"limited to say the least\".\n\nThe offences came to light following a four-year corruption investigation into the north Essex child abuse unit.\n\nThirty officers, some now retired, were investigated and 296 child abuse cases looked at, of which 55 were referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nPollard and Patterson were the only ones to face criminal charges, though a third officer was sacked for gross misconduct last year.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said the force would \"never lose sight of ... a number of victims that we let down\".\n\n\"We hope that they accept our apologies but more importantly we hope they and the public of Essex accept our reassurance that once these issues came to light, we acted immediately to tackle them.\"\n\nIOPC regional director Sarah Green said: \"It is inexcusable for any officer to deliberately fail in their duties, [but] it feels particularly reprehensible that officers with responsibility for investigating child abuse investigation allegations behaved in a manner that risked allowing child abusers to go unpunished.\n\n\"Survivors of child abuse must have confidence in their police force and feel secure that their allegations will be properly and thoroughly handled.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adrian Edmondson, who is known for starring in anarchic TV comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, is joining the cast of EastEnders.\n\nThe comic actor will be seen in the BBC One soap as Daniel Cook, a new love interest for Jean Slater, played by Gillian Wright.\n\nThe BBC said Edmondson had already started filming, with his first appearance to air later this summer.\n\nHis character is described as \"charming and with a wicked sense of humour\".\n\nHe will be \"the perfect antidote for Jean as she continues her treatment for ovarian cancer\", producers added.\n\nThe 62-year-old actor said in a statement: \"There were only 15 boys on my drama course at Manchester Uni, and I'll be the third to appear in EastEnders - so I feel it's a kind of tradition! The other two being Tom Watt [Lofty Holloway] and Paul Bradley [Nigel Bates].\"\n\nLeft-right: Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson on the set of The Young Ones in 1982\n\nAfter breaking through as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, Edmondson found wider fame playing Vyvyan in The Young Ones and later as the manic Eddie Hitler in Bottom, which he also wrote with co-star Rik Mayall.\n\nSince then, Edmondson has taken on more sedate roles in the likes of Holby City, Bancroft and War and Peace, as well as fronting a series about the Yorkshire Dales for ITV.\n\nHe is the latest comedian to move into the soap world, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bradley Walsh, Les Dennis and Vic Reeves.\n\nEastEnders executive producer Jon Sen said: \"Adrian's a phenomenal talent who will bring his unique blend of intelligence, warmth and humour to the role of Daniel.\n\n\"We're all over the moon he's coming to Walford and can't wait for this love story to hit screens later this year.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Birgitte Kallestad's family are calling on Norway to make rabies vaccinations compulsory for citizens travelling to the Philippines\n\nA Norwegian woman has died after contracting rabies from a stray puppy in the Philippines.\n\nBirgitte Kallestad, 24, was on holiday with friends when they found the puppy on a street, her family said in a statement.\n\nThe puppy is thought to have infected her when it bit her after they took it back to their resort.\n\nShe fell ill soon after returning to Norway, and died on Monday at the hospital where she worked.\n\nIt is the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years.\n\nHer family said Ms Kallestad had sterilised the \"small scrapes\" given by the puppy as she played with it, but sought no more medical attention.\n\n\"Our dear Birgitte loved animals,\" said her family. \"Our fear is that this will happen to others who have a warm heart like her\".\n\nRabies can cause a life-threatening infection of the brain and nervous system in humans.\n\nThe disease is nearly always fatal without vaccinations and kills thousands of people every year, mostly in Asia and Africa.\n\nPre-exposure vaccines are available to help with prevention. Post-exposure vaccinations are also recommended for anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid animal.\n\nRabies vaccines are not compulsory under Norwegian law, but Norway's Institute of Public Health recommends them for certain types of visits to affected countries, including the Philippines.\n\n\"We are very sympathetic with the family,\" said Siri Feruglio, a Senior Medical Officer at the Institute, in an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"It's really important to stress that even if you've been vaccinated before you travel, if you do have contact [with a potentially infected animal] you need to go to a local health clinic for a second vaccination.\n\n\"This is a disease that's endemic in 150 countries and it's a huge health problem.\"", "A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds.\n\nThe 39-year-old was last seen in Monkton in Ayrshire on Sunday 28 April and her disappearance had prompted a major police search.\n\nHer body has not been found.\n\nPolice have said a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. The man, who is also 39, is expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UN report says six migrants died every day in 2018 trying to cross the Mediterranean (file image)\n\nAt least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the UN refugee agency says.\n\nSixteen people were rescued, UNHCR said in a statement.\n\nSurvivors say the boat left Zuwara in Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.\n\nAbout 164 people died on the route between Libya and Europe in the first four months of 2019, UNHCR figures show.\n\nThe incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants since the start of the year.\n\nThe survivors were brought to the coast by the Tunisian Navy and are awaiting permission to disembark. One person has been transferred to hospital for medical treatment, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe navy dispatched a ship as soon as it heard about the incident and came across a fishing boat picking up survivors, a statement from the Tunisian defence ministry said.\n\nThe passengers are understood to have been from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\"This is a tragic and terrible reminder of the risks still faced by those who attempt to cross the Mediterranean,\" the UNHCR's Vincent Cochetel said in a statement.\n\nSome reports put the number on board higher so the toll could rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women and children are being held in camps close to fierce fighting in Libya's capital Tripoli\n\nThousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year, and Libya is a key departure point.\n\nThose who make the journey often travel in poorly maintained and overcrowded ships, and many have died.\n\nBut since mid-2017, the number of migrant journeys has declined dramatically.\n\nThe decline is largely because Italy has engaged Libyan forces to stop migrants from setting off or to return them to Libya if found at sea - a policy condemned by human rights organisations.\n\nIn the first three months of 2019, some 15,900 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the three Mediterranean routes - a 17% decrease on the same period in 2018.\n\nIn January, a UN report said six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day in 2018.\n• None Who is responsible for migrants at sea?", "Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024.\n\nThe reusable Blue Moon vehicle will carry scientific instruments, satellites and rovers.\n\nIt will feature a new rocket engine called BE-7 that can blast 10,000lb (4,535kg) of thrust.\n\n\"It's time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay,\" said Mr Bezos.\n\nMr Bezos presented the Moon goals of his space exploration company Blue Origin at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC, to an audience consisting of potential customers and officials from Nasa.\n\nThe Blue Moon lunar lander comes loaded with enough fuel to get from Earth to the Moon.\n\nIt can deliver payloads to the lunar surface, deploy up to four self-driving rovers, and launch satellites to orbit the Moon.\n\nA pressurised vehicle for humans is also envisaged.\n\nBlue Moon will weigh 33,000lb when loaded with fuel on lift-off from Earth, which will decrease to about 7,000lb when it is about to land on the Moon.\n\nThe aim is for Blue Moon to land on the south pole of the Moon, where ice deposits have been found in craters.\n\nThe water derived from that ice can be broken down to produce hydrogen, which could then fuel up the spacecraft for further missions across the solar system.\n\nIn March, the Trump administration announced that it intended to return US astronauts to the Moon by the end of 2024.\n\nA child from Blue Origin's \"Club for the Future\" helps Jeff Bezos unveil the BE-7 rocket engine\n\nIn his speech, Mr Bezos said that Blue Origin would be able to meet Trump's deadline, but \"only because\" the firm had begun designing the lunar lander in 2016.\n\nMr Bezos wanted to improve access to the Moon, because he has a wider vision of a future where people are able to live and work in space, which is not possible today.\n\n\"The price of admission to do interesting things in space right now is just too high because there's no infrastructure,\" he said.\n\nTo illustrate this, he showed pictures of self-sustaining space colonies that could support people, animals and greenery - somewhat similar to the concepts developed by Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill.", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Gillen has delivered his final report to the Department of Justice\n\nImprovements in how Northern Ireland deals with serious sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", according to a retired judge.\n\nSir John Gillen was speaking after delivering a final report to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt follows public consultation on recommendations he made last year, including controls on who attends rape trials, which will now be implemented.\n\nHe said 75% of the changes do not require legislation.\n\nHis review was launched last year, after former Ulster Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape at a high-profile trial.\n\nStuart Olding (left) and Paddy Jackson were cleared of rape charges after a nine-week trial in Belfast\n\nPublic access to trials involving serious sexual offences will be largely confined to close family members of the victim and the accused, although the media will still be allowed in.\n\nOther measures include preventing \"improper cross-examination about previous sexual history\" and new legislation \"to manage the dangers created by social media\".\n\nThe Department of Justice has now set up a special group to \"oversee the implementation of the Gillen Review\".\n\nIt said he had produced a \"groundbreaking report\".\n\n\"I am confident, given the level of public expectation, the department will carry out the thrust of my recommendations in a timely and efficient manner,\" Sir John said.\n\n\"The number of responses I had illustrates the genie is out of the bottle.\n\n\"The public are now aware of the flaws in the system. I do not think that the genie can be put back in the bottle.\"\n\nSir John has accepted that some of his recommendations will have to wait until there is an executive at Stormont\n\nGiven the absence of a devolved assembly, he accepted there would be a delay in delivering a quarter of what he proposed, but other things \"can be done fairly quickly in terms of weeks and months\".\n\nSir John and his review team had contact with more than 200 organisations and individuals to hear first-hand accounts of the criminal justice process.\n\nThey also examined systems and processes in 15 countries across Europe, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.", "Delays in introducing a new radio system for emergency services in England, Wales and Scotland may cost taxpayers £475m a year, MPs have said.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said the new Emergency Services Network system could require more testing beyond its scheduled start date of December 2019.\n\nContracts for the old network may have to be extended, costing hundreds of millions of pounds, it said.\n\nMinisters said the technology would be the \"most advanced of its kind\".\n\nCurrently the 105 police, fire and ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales communicate using the radio network Airwave - contracts for which expire in two years.\n\nBut the Public Accounts Committee said the system due as the replacement, ESN, was \"not yet proven\" and probably would not be ready on time.\n\nThe MPs said the Home Office had not budgeted for such a lengthy delay and that it must put detailed contingency plans in place.\n\nIt has also called on ministers to address what it says are \"real security concerns\" about how well ESN will work on underground systems in London, Glasgow and elsewhere.\n\nCommittee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: \"It is critical for public safety and achieving value for money that the government has a firm grasp of the implications of delays in its timetable and a costed plan to tackle them.\n\n\"We will expect it to demonstrate real progress in this area when it reports back to us later this year.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said ESN was the most advanced communications system of its kind and would deliver \"significant savings for the taxpayer\".\n\nHe added: \"The timescales are ambitious because we want to get the most from technology that will help save lives, but we are clear that no risks will be taken with public safety and the existing Airwave system will continue until transition on to ESN is completed.\"", "A group of cancer patients have launched a hard-hitting photographic campaign in response to “pink and fluffy” adverts by some cancer charities which they say “don’t tell the truth” about the brutal reality of the disease.\n\nTrue Cancer Bodies was set up by Vicky Saynor after she saw a campaign video from the Breast Cancer Now charity, which she says used insensitive language and images.\n\nBreast Cancer Now has since apologised and has removed the video from its social media channels. But Vicky says more work needs to be done to show the reality of living with cancer.", "Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is led away after being sentenced\n\nA German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress to swindle New York hotels and banks has been sentenced to at least four years in prison.\n\n\"I apologise for the mistakes I made,\" Anna Sorokin, 28, said shortly before she learned her fate.\n\nShe was found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny, having stolen more than $200,000 (£153,580).\n\nSorokin, who rejected a plea deal, may face deportation to Germany.\n\nShe was sentenced on Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court to between four and 12 years in prison. The actual amount of time she will serve behind bars will depend on factors such as her behaviour.\n\nSorokin will receive credit for time already served, having been in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail since October 2017.\n\nAnna Sorokin (right), then known as Anna Delvey, at a fashion event at a New York hotel in 2014\n\nShe was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Diane Kiesel rejected the defence lawyers' claim that Sorokin was merely trying to make it in New York, in the words of the Frank Sinatra song about the city.\n\nThe judge said the Sorokin case instead reminded her of the Bruce Springsteen song, Blinded by the Light.\n\n\"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City,\" said Judge Kiesel, according to Buzzfeed.\n\nThe judge reportedly also said she was \"stunned\" by the depths of Sorokin's deception.\n\nUnder her assumed name Anna Delvey, Sorokin falsely claimed she had a multi-million dollar trust fund at her disposal, as she hired a private jet, attended elite parties, and lived in a luxury New York hotel. She maintained the scam for almost four years.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors said, Sorokin had \"not a cent to her name\". Her father is reportedly a former trucker, who runs a heating-and-cooling business.\n\nIn court, her defence attorney, Todd Spodek, claimed that Sorokin had been \"buying time\" as she worked to pay back her debts. He maintained that Sorokin had no criminal intent but was instead an ambitious entrepreneur.\n\nAccording to court documents, Sorokin used her phony persona as a German heiress with $60m in assets to try to get a loan of $22m for a foundation in her name. She presented forged bank statements and would deposit bad cheques, then withdraw the money before they bounced.\n\nProsecutors say she went on a one-month shopping spree, spending $55,000 on a luxury hotel, high-end fashion purchases, personal trainer sessions, and Apple, among other personal expenses.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw said Sorokin had shown \"almost no remorse\".\n\nFollowing a month-long trial, a jury convicted Sorokin on eight counts.\n\nBut she was found not guilty of attempted grand larceny and stealing more than $60,000 from a friend who paid for a luxury holiday in Morocco.\n\nSorokin was described as a con artist\n\nEven up to her sentencing, Sorokin appeared intent on carefully crafting her image.\n\nShe worked with a stylist, Anastasia Walker, to create her courtroom look during the trial.\n\nThe initial story about Sorokin's swindling by New York Magazine was swiftly optioned by Netflix.\n\nThe production has been linked with Shonda Rhimes, who created TV hit shows Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.", "A wild bobcat perched high on a post by a busy road in the US state of Florida was encouraged down by workers in a cherry picker truck who used an extendable tool to tap it continuously on the head.\n\nThe cat, which was sat atop the pole used to support power cables in Collier County, eventually climbed down before leaving the scene in a hurry.\n\nThe power had been switched off to prevent electrocution, local media reported.", "Critics warn that children risk becoming \"collateral damage\" if benefits are withdrawn\n\nThe maximum financial penalty for benefit claimants is to be cut, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.\n\nSanctions can be imposed on claimants who do not meet conditions such as attending job centre meetings.\n\nIn some \"high level\" cases, such as a failure to take up paid work, people can lose benefits for three years.\n\nMs Rudd said this maximum penalty will now be cut to six months, adding that she wanted a system which was \"fair\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions previously insisted its scheme was \"reasonable\".\n\nA report released by the Work and Pensions Committee in November 2018 found single parents, care leavers and people with disabilities and health conditions were \"disproportionately vulnerable\" to and affected by sanctions.\n\nAs well as missing appointments, sanctions can currently be imposed for failure to show efforts to find work, and can see claimants lose all of their jobseeker's allowance or universal credit standard allowance.\n\nLast year's report also warned that children risked becoming \"collateral damage\" as the withdrawal of parents' benefits harmed their welfare.\n\nSpeaking at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation in London, Ms Rudd said: \"In the future, the longest length of sanctions will be six months.\n\nAmber Rudd said policies should be compassionate and work for everybody\n\n\"I am undertaking an evaluation of the effectiveness of universal credit sanctions to see whether other improvements can be made.\n\n\"I feel very strongly about making sure that the policies of this department are fair, compassionate and that they work for everybody.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said Labour had long been pressing for the government to scrap its \"punitive\" sanctions regime.\n\n\"Six months is still a very long time to leave someone without any income at all. It is not just the individual who is affected, but their family too,\" she said.\n\n\"There is clear evidence that sanctions and excessive conditionality do not help people into sustained employment.\n\n\"They also cause stress and anxiety for many and are one of the key reasons that people ask for help at food banks.\"", "Councils in England are calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers - as new analysis shows nobody has faced the maximum penalty at magistrates' court since new guidelines were introduced five years ago.\n\nFly-tipping incidents in England have risen by nearly 40% in five years, to almost one million in 2017/18.\n\nThe LGA wants the government to review its guidance to courts on the issue.\n\nHe added that the practice is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMinisters introduced new sentencing guidelines in 2014, with a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison the maximum punishment, if a case is dealt with at a magistrates' court.\n\nIf a case is passed to the crown court, they can issue an unlimited fine, as well as a two-year prison sentence, or five years if the waste is hazardous.\n\nThere were 997,553 recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2017/18 - a 39.6% rise from 714,637 in 2012/13, according to the the LGA analysis of statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nCouncils can issue fixed penalty notices for more minor offences of fly-tipping, but they say they have less money available to enforce such powers because of pressure on their budgets.\n\nOverall, councils took action on 494,034 incidents in 2017/2018, up by just under 70,000 cases in five years.\n\nMartin Tett, chairman of the LGA's environment board, said: \"Fly-tipping is unsightly, unacceptable and inexcusable environmental vandalism. Councils are doing everything they can to try and deter fly-tippers.\n\n\"However, prosecuting them often requires time-consuming and laborious investigations, with a high threshold of proof, at a time when councils face significant budget pressures.\"\n\nHe argued that \"consistent and hard-hitting prosecutions are needed to deter rogue operators and fly-tippers\" and that \"councils also need adequate funding to investigate incidents and ensure fly-tippers do not go unpunished\".\n\nThe Defra spokesman said: \"We have strengthened local authorities' enforcement powers and made it easier for vehicles suspected of being used for fly-tipping to be stopped, searched and seized.\n\n\"Our actions are delivering results, with no increase in the number of incidents over 2017/18 for the first time in five years.\n\n\"The maximum penalty on indictment for fly-tipping is imprisonment of up to five years or a potentially unlimited fine.\"", "Scotland Yard said early investigations suggested that a \"blank firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a \"masked\" man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nWorshippers ushered him out of the building and a gunshot - thought to have come from a \"blank-firing handgun\" - was then heard.\n\nNo injuries or damage were caused, the Met said, and it did not believe it was terrorism-related.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed it stemmed from an earlier incident in a street close to the mosque off High Road.\n\nWorshipper Ibraheem Hussain, 19, described hearing the gunshot about half an hour after prayers began.\n\n\"We were upstairs in the classrooms and about 30 minutes into the night prayer a large noise went off\", he said.\n\n\"It sounded like a firework or maybe something heavy had been dropped, so no-one really thought anything of it.\n\n\"But then someone said it was a gunshot and that someone had come into the mosque and he had a firearm on him.\n\n\"The managers had seen him. He was masked and acting suspicious.\"\n\nPolice were called to High Road in Ilford, east London\n\n\"At this early stage, ballistic evidence recovered from the scene suggests that the weapon was a blank-firing handgun\", the Met said.\n\n\"Officers will continue to work closely with representatives from the mosque and are providing reassurance to the local community.\"\n\nThere have been no arrests.\n\nIn a statement shared by a Muslim Council spokesman on Twitter, the mosque's imam Mufti Suhail said the suspect's motives had not been established.\n\nHe asked that people \"avoid speculating and circulating unconfirmed information\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"relieved nobody was injured in the incident\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are heightened security concerns at places of worship around the world after recent attacks.\n\nA mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, left 50 people dead.\n\nIn April, churches in Sri Lanka were targeted on Easter Sunday in a terror attack which killed at least 253 people.\n\nA week later, a woman was killed when a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online sports betting in Africa is worth billions of pounds every year.\n\nThe boom is being fed by faster internet, cheaper phones and a love of the English Premier League.\n\nBut there is a fear that children are being sucked into a cycle of betting, debt and poverty.\n\nIn Kenya one government minister called this “a curse on youth”.\n\nThe BBC's Angus Crawford went to speak to young people there about the impact it's having on their lives.", "Thousands of small-scale investors who lost their savings by investing with London Capital & Finance (LCF) have been given fresh hope they may qualify for compensation.\n\nNearly 12,000 people put £236m into the firm which collapsed in January.\n\nThe Financial Services Compensation Scheme said it would \"explore whether there are grounds for compensation\"\n\nThe compensation body had earlier said investors wouldn't be able to lodge claims as the scheme was unregulated.\n\nThe FSCS was set up by the government to protect consumers if UK regulated firms went bust.\n\nBut its chief executive told the BBC in March that it was unlikely LCF customers would get compensation, explaining that the company was not regulated for the purposes of selling its products, which it marketed as low risk investments.\n\nHowever the FSCS has now said it is looking at whether any of the conversations LCF had with investors counted as providing financial advice or whether it conducted other activities which could trigger compensation.\n\nThe FSCS said LCF investors should register with the FSCS via its website for updates of its investigation.\n\n\"By registering with us they will get regular updates on our investigation and this will be the best way for them to hear whether we believe there are grounds for compensation.\n\n\"This is a highly intricate case though, so we expect our investigation may take some time,\" it said.\n\nLCF advertised itself as a low-risk ISA, and promised to spread funds from the sale of mini-bonds between hundreds of companies.\n\nIn reality, the fund did not qualify as an ISA, and the money was only invested in 12 companies - 10 of which were described as \"not independent\" from LCF, in a report by the fund's administrators.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is conducting a probe into individuals associated with LCF.\n\nThe company's administrators Smith & Williamson released a report which found that:", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May\n\nA man accused of 21 offences including eight rapes has been visited by a judge in prison after refusing to appear in court.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is charged with the kidnap and rape of eight alleged victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed between 20 April and 5 May, in London, Watford, Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire.\n\nMr McCann was arrested in Congleton in Cheshire following a police manhunt.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of eight rapes, four kidnappings, two charges of false imprisonment and one of actual bodily harm, as well as six other sexual offences.\n\nNine of the charges relate to offences allegedly committed on the same day.\n\nMr McCann had refused to leave his cell at Belmarsh prison in south London to attend Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said a hearing would instead be held in the visitors' room at Belmarsh.\n\nJournalists at the jail were not allowed into the hearing but were given details afterwards.\n\nMs Arbuthnot said Mr McCann \"turned his back on the court to begin with\" and he did not sit or give his name.\n\nHe is said to have health issues which are being investigated.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, said it was \"believed to be an unprecedented first appearance by a defendant in a criminal case\".\n\nEarlier, prosecutor Tetteh Turkson told Westminster Magistrates' Court Mr McCann was \"not being co-operative\".\n\nHe was also brought to court on Wednesday but refused to appear in the dock.\n\nIn one alleged incident, Mr McCann is said by police to have tied a woman up and committed sexual offences, including rape, against her 17-year-old daughter and son, 11.\n\nHe was arrested just over two weeks after he allegedly abducted a woman in her 20s in Watford before raping her.\n\nTwo other women in their 20s were also allegedly snatched off the street in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April and then raped.\n\nMr McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karanbir Cheema's mother Rina called him \"my best friend, my soulmate\"\n\nThe actions of a boy who flicked cheese at a teenage pupil, triggering a fatal allergic reaction, were \"childish and thoughtless\" but not calculated to cause serious harm, a coroner said.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nA specialist doctor previously told an inquest the death was \"unprecedented\".\n\nCoroner Mary Hassell said the boy who flicked cheese taken from a friend's baguette was \"simply not thinking\".\n\nBut recording a narrative conclusion at St Pancras Coroner's Court, she said there was a \"missed opportunity\" at William Perkin School in Greenford to inform pupils of the severity of his \"grave allergies\".\n\nAsthmatic Karanbir, who had allergies to wheat, gluten, egg, milk and tree nuts, was immediately treated at the school when the cheese landed on his neck.\n\nHis condition quickly worsened and he began scratching vigorously at his skin, the inquest heard.\n\n\"He pulled his shirt off, screamed and flung himself around the room in panic. He could not breathe,\" the coroner said.\n\nKaranbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nKaranbir was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nMs Hassell called the school's healthcare provision for Karanbir \"inadequate\" and said a contributing factor in his death was the fact his allergy action plan was not included in the school's care plan or medical box.\n\nAfter a delay, Karanbir was administered with an EpiPen, which contained adrenaline that was a year out of date, at the school.\n\nIt was not possible to say whether having adrenaline that was in date would have changed the outcome, Ms Hassell said.\n\nShe said she now would prepare a report intended to prevent future deaths, which would be sent to Karan's school, emergency services, government departments and experts.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Karanbir's mother Rina Cheema said: \"I think it would help a lot of children out there, whatever happened to my son, if the schools, the institutions, hospital, paramedics, were to become aware how serious allergies are.\n\n\"My son was mature, he knew himself how fast to react. His words were at school: 'Please help me or I'm going to die'. That says it all.\"\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust which encompasses William Perkin School, said: \"It's my view that there was a very good general awareness of his allergies in relation to both bread and cheese.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Question Time panellists on Thursday included Amber Rudd MP (Conservative) Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour) Anna Soubry MP (Change UK) and leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage MEP.\n\nViewers in the UK can watch the full programme on BBC iPlayer.", "Chrissy Archibald was visiting London with her partner Tyler Ferguson when a van hit her\n\nOne of the first armed police officers at the London Bridge attack has told how the first thing he did was to treat a dying woman at the scene.\n\nPC Andrew Duggan said he went into \"medic mode\" and helped Chrissy Archibald, who died after the attackers' van hit her on the bridge.\n\nThe officer told an inquest he thought it was a road traffic accident.\n\nHe stayed with Ms Archibald until an ambulance arrived, the court heard.\n\nPC Duggan said he only then realised there was a further incident south of the bridge.\n\nFriday was the fourth day of an eight-week inquiry into the deaths of the victims of the attack.\n\nMs Archibald's fiance, Tyler Ferguson, earlier told the inquest he frantically tried to revive her, despite knowing she was dead.\n\nThe other victims were: James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in London, French trio Xavier Thomas, 45, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Sebastien Belanger, 36, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, from Madrid, and Australians Sara Zelenak, 21, and Kirsty Boden, 28.\n\nGareth Patterson, the barrister representing the families of some of the people stabbed in Borough Market, asked PC Duggan why he did not realise sooner there had been a terrorist attack.\n\nPolice shot dead the suspects, Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, around 10 minutes after they began the attack.\n\nFloral tributes lie at the south end of London Bridge following the attacks on 3 June 2017\n\nPC Duggan said he initially did not hear messages sent over the radio channel, used by armed officers, suggesting the incident was being treated as terrorism.\n\nMr Patterson asked: \"With the benefit of hindsight, as possibly the first, or certainly a very early armed officer on the scene, would it have been better to have proceeded and investigated and potentially stopped this marauding terrorist attack?\"\n\nPC Duggan said: \"With the benefit of hindsight, no. My colleague and I did the best we could.\"\n\nThe barrister then asked: \"Do you think an opportunity might have been missed that night to stop this stabbing attack earlier than it possibly was?\"\n\nPC Duggan replied: \"No, I believe we deployed and did the best we could with the information at the time.\"\n\nHe added that it seemed \"like all hell [was] breaking loose\" on London Bridge.\n\nAfter helping the injured people on the bridge, he said he became aware there was another incident in Borough Market.\n\nAs he rushed to the scene, he could hear gunshots \"echoing off the walls\", he told the court.\n\nPC Andrew Duggan spent almost an hour and a half in the witness box in what, at times, felt like a very heated exchange with Gareth Patterson QC.\n\nPC Duggan said he left his main gun locked in his armed response car and headed onto the bridge in ''medic mode'', thinking there had been a car crash.\n\nHe helped to perform CPR on Ms Archibald until paramedics arrived - before becoming aware he was needed elsewhere.\n\nMr Patterson asked why, despite the Manchester and Westminster Bridge attacks, it had not crossed PC Duggan's mind that the events could have been part of a terrorist attack in which his expertise as a firearms officer might be needed.\n\nSecondly, he asked him why he had not heard the request on police radio for armed officers to attend.\n\nPC Duggan looked exasperated as he repeatedly told the court the only things he heard on his radio were the initial call - a \"very, very loud shout\" of \"London Bridge\" - the belief there had been a road traffic collision, and the possibility there was more than one casualty.\n\nOther information - including that people had been stabbed - had been transmitted on British Transport Police and Met Police radio channels, the court heard.\n\nBut since PC Duggan had his earpiece radio set to the City Police channel he had not heard these other details, he said.\n\nMr Patterson and the chief coroner, Judge Mark Lucraft QC, also made a point of thanking passers-by and the emergency services who made \"extended efforts\" to save Ms Archibald's life.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nCCTV footage played to the court earlier on Friday, which was described by counsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough as \"graphic and distressing\", showed the van ploughing into Ms Archibald after mounting the kerb.\n\nHer partner heard a \"loud thud\" and then \"Chrissie was no longer next to me\", he said.\n\nHe could see her arms and legs as she was \"pushed and pushed\" down the road under the van.\n\nWhen she was finally released, she had suffered \"devastating injuries\".\n\nHe watched as she \"convulsed and released the physical life from her body\", but he attempted to perform CPR anyway, he said.\n\nThe inquests were told on Wednesday that Ms Archibald might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.", "McGarry last month admitted two charges of embezzlement\n\nA former SNP MP owed thousands of pounds in rent when she embezzled money from pro-independence groups.\n\nA court heard Natalie McGarry spent more than £25,600 on rent, a holiday to Spain, transfers of money to her husband and other lifestyle spending.\n\nAt Glasgow Sheriff Court last month McGarry, 37, admitted two charges of embezzlement.\n\nBut her attempt to withdraw the guilty pleas at a later hearing was refused by Sheriff Paul Crozier.\n\nMcGarry's lawyer, Allan Macleod, had argued there were several \"factual inaccuracies\" in the narrative read to the court last week.\n\nThe former MP embezzled £21,000 from Women for Independence (WFI) in her role as treasurer of the organisation.\n\nShe transferred money raised through fundraising events into her personal bank accounts and failed to transfer charitable donations to Perth and Kinross food bank and to Positive Prison, Positive Future between 26 April, 2013 and 30 November, 2015.\n\nFiscal depute Gerard Drugan told the court that between 2012 and August 2013, McGarry was £3,750 behind in rent arrears and in September 2013 she was asked to pay £1,000 a month until the rent was repaid in full.\n\nMr Drugan said: \"Ms McGarry continued to have money problems and in February 2014 she met Humza Yousaf (now justice secretary) and told him she had been unable to pay her rent.\n\n\"He transferred £600 from his bank account to hers, which she later repaid.\"\n\nMcGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015\n\nThe court heard McGarry gave her bank details for the Our Voice crowdfunding initiative which raised £10,472.\n\nThat money was deposited into her bank account in April 2014 and was spent by early June, some of it legitimately and some of it for rent and other lifestyle spending.\n\nThe court also heard £750 raised for Perth and Kinross food bank, which would have provided food for 30 families, never reached the organisation.\n\nMcGarry used some of the money she had embezzled to go on a week-long holiday to Spain with her husband which was paid for with his Barclaycard, on to which she had transferred some WFI money.\n\nThe former MP, who represented Glasgow East and did not seek re-election in 2017, also used cheques drawn on the Women for Independence bank account to deposit money into her own account.\n\nMcGarry also admitted embezzling £4,661.02 in the course of her role as treasurer, secretary and convener of the Glasgow Regional Association of the SNP between 9 April, 2014 and 10 August, 2015.\n\nHer WFI colleagues eventually became suspicious and had an emergency meeting about accounts in November 2015.\n\nMr Drugan said: \"They identified a possible shortfall of funds for which there was no explanation and they decided she should be reported to police.\"\n\nMr Macleod, representing McGarry, said: \"The accused's position is still, and remains, that she did not commit these crimes.\n\n\"There are substantial parts of the narrative that has been heard by your Lordship that the accused's position is that they are factually inaccurate.\"\n\nHe said he would address the issues at the next hearing, and Sheriff Crozier adjourned the hearing until next month pending reports.\n\nMcGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 but resigned the party whip following the emergence of fraud allegations , which she denied at the time. She continued in parliament as an independent.\n\nShe was charged by police in 2017 over alleged fraud relating to potential missing funds from Women for Independence, which was set up in the run-up to the 2014 Scottish referendum, and the SNP's Glasgow Regional Association.", "Just cutting carbon emissions will not be enough to prevent damaging climate change, scientists warn\n\nScientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate.\n\nIt will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth's poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere.\n\nThe centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet.\n\nThe initiative is the first of its kind in the world and could lead to dramatic reductions in carbon emissions.\n\nThe initiative is co-ordinated by the government's former chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir David King.\n\n\"What we do over the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity for the next 10,000 years. There is no major centre in the world that would be focused on this one big issue,\" he told BBC News.\n\nSome of the approaches described by Sir David are often known collectively as geoengineering.\n\nThe Centre for Climate Repair is part of Cambridge university's Carbon Neutral Futures Initiative, led by Dr Emily Shuckburgh.\n\nShe, said the initiative's mission would be to \"solve the climate problem\".\n\n\"It has to be. And we can't fail on it,\" she said.\n\nIt will bring together scientists and engineers with social scientists.\n\n\"This really is one of the most important challenges of our time, and we know we need to be responding to it with all our efforts,\" Dr Shuckburgh told BBC News.\n\nOne of the most promising ideas for refreezing the poles is to \"brighten\" the clouds above them.\n\nThe idea is to pump seawater up to tall masts on uncrewed ships through very fine nozzles.\n\nThis produces tiny particles of salt which are injected into the clouds, which makes them more widespread and reflective, and so cool the areas below them.\n\nAnother new approach is a variant of an idea called carbon capture and storage (CCS).\n\nCCS involves collecting carbon dioxide emissions from coal or gas fired power stations or steel plants and storing it underground.\n\nProf Peter Styring, of the University of Sheffield, is developing a carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) pilot scheme with Tata Steel in Port Talbot in South Wales which effectively recycles CO2.\n\nThe scheme involves setting up a plant on-site which converts the firm's carbon emissions into fuel using the plant's waste heat, according to Prof Styring.\n\n\"We have a source of hydrogen, we have a source of carbon dioxide, we have a source of heat and we have a source of renewable electricity from the plant,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We're going to harness all those and we're going to make synthetic fuels.\"\n\nOther ideas the centre would explore include greening the oceans so they can take up more CO2.\n\nSuch schemes involve fertilising the sea with iron salts which promote the growth of plankton.\n\nPrevious experiments have shown that they don't take up sufficient CO2 to make the scheme worthwhile and might disrupt the ecosystem.\n\nBut according to Prof Callum Roberts of York University, approaches that are currently thought beyond the pale now have to be considered and, if possible, made to work.\n\nThis is because the alternative of damaging and potentially irreversible climate change is considered beyond the pale.\n\n\"Early in my career, people threw their hands up in horror at suggestions of more interventionist solutions to fix coral reefs,\" Prof Roberts said.\n\n\"Now they are looking in desperation at an ecosystem that will be gone at the end of the century and now all options are on the table\".\n\nThe options include genetically engineering heat-resistant coral or dumping chemicals into the sea to make the sea less acidic.\n\n\"At the moment, I happen to think that harnessing nature to mitigate climate change is a better way to go. But I do see the legitimacy of exploring [more radical] options as a means of steering us towards a better future,\" Prof Roberts said.\n\nSuch ideas have many potential downsides and may prove to be unfeasible.\n\nBut Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, said that they should be properly assessed to see if the downsides can be overcome, because he believes that reduction of CO2 emissions on its own won't be enough.\n\n\"If we reduce our emissions all we are doing is making the global climate warmer a bit more slowly. That is no good because it's already too warm and we have already got too much CO2 in the atmosphere,\" Prof Wadhams said.\n\n\"So climate repair can actually take it out of the atmosphere. We can get the level down below what it is now and actually cool the climate bringing it back to what it was before global warming,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chrissy Archibald's partner told an inquest he frantically tried to revive her\n\nThe fiance of a woman killed in the London Bridge attack has described \"chaos and mayhem\" at the scene, saying it looked like a \"warzone\".\n\nChrissy Archibald, 30, from Canada, was killed by three men who drove into pedestrians before stabbing passers by.\n\nHer partner Tyler Ferguson told the Old Bailey inquests into the eight victims' deaths he frantically tried to revive her, despite knowing she had died.\n\nHe was \"devastated and inconsolable\" after her death, he said.\n\nAt the time of the attack, the couple had been visiting the UK from the Netherlands, where they lived.\n\nAn eight-week inquiry into the deaths of the victims of the terror attack is in its fourth day.\n\nIn a statement read to the court Mr Ferguson said he saw a man screaming as he ran down the road and heard the screeching of tyres as a \"large transit van\" approached from behind.\n\nIt was \"immediately clear this was a deliberate act\", he said, recalling the wing mirror brushing past his shoulder.\n\nHe heard a \"loud thud\" and then \"Chrissie was no longer next to me\", he said.\n\nHe could see her arms and legs as she was \"pushed and pushed\" down the road under the van.\n\nWhen she was finally released, she had suffered \"devastating injuries\", he said.\n\nChrissy Archibald was visiting the city with her partner Tyler Ferguson\n\nCCTV footage played to the court, which was described by counsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough QC as \"graphic and distressing\", showed Ms Archibald being struck by the van on the third time it mounted the curb.\n\nMr Ferguson watched as she \"convulsed and released the physical life from her body\", but he attempted to perform CPR anyway, he said.\n\nThe court heard Ms Archibald's death was almost instantaneous, although paramedics treated her for more than an hour.\n\nMr Ferguson tried to find her engagement ring on the road but it was an \"impossible task\", he said. It was recovered later.\n\nPrior to the attack, the couple had had an \"intense conversation\" where Ms Archibald told him to make up with his father because he \"could get hit by a bus tomorrow\", Mr Ferguson said.\n\nCourt One in the Old Bailey was eerily quiet as we were shown countless CCTV angles of Ms Archibald and Mr Ferguson before and during the attack on London Bridge.\n\nDet Con Alistair Hutchison calmly guided the court through each frame - everyone knowing what the footage was leading up to.\n\nMs Archibald could be seen chatting animatedly to her fiance as they walked together at about 22:05.\n\nWatching this footage in court, our attention was brought to one particular moment just before Ms Archibald was killed.\n\nThe pair switched sides of the pavement, meaning Mr Ferguson was closer to the balustrade and Ms Archibald was closer to the road.\n\nWhen the van careered on to the pavement, Ms Archibald was hit and pulled under the front of the chassis. Her dress was ripped off as she was dragged across the road.\n\nChristine Delcros, who we have already heard recount being hit by the van with her fiance Xavier Thomas, was visibly distressed by this part of the footage.\n\nShe held her head in her hands, her eyes fixed to the footage onscreen.\n\nA man on a double-decker bus near Ms Archibald's body attempted to film the aftermath of the attack, the vehicle's driver Anton Sobanski told the inquest. Someone told him to stop the recording, he added.\n\nMr Sobansk, who broke down in court when he was asked to describe Ms Archibald's condition, also said he \"always felt London Bridge was vulnerable to an attack\".\n\n\"I was shocked there were no barriers on London Bridge. I thought this was weird, no barriers. I always felt that maybe a vehicle could be used to kill 100, 200, people,\" he said.\n\nThe inquests were told on Wednesday Ms Archibald might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nThe others who were killed in the attack were James McMullan, 32, from Hackney in London, French trio Xavier Thomas, 45, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Sebastien Belanger, 36, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, from Madrid, and Australians Sara Zelenak, 21, and Kirsty Boden, 28.\n\nThe attackers were shot dead by police, who arrived at the scene of the attack within eight minutes.\n\nA pre-inquest hearing at the Old Bailey in February 2018 was told all three men had steroids in their systems when they died.", "Maya Bay was crowded with tourists in April 2018 but its shores are now empty\n\nA Thai bay that was made famous by its appearance in the film The Beach is to remain closed until 2021.\n\nMaya Bay, on the island of Phi Phi Leh, was temporarily closed last year after officials said a sharp rise in visitors had severely damaged the environment.\n\nBefore it closed, up to 5,000 people were visiting the bay every day and most of its coral died as a result.\n\nAuthorities have now extended the ban on visitors by two years to give more time for Maya Bay's ecology to recover.\n\nBoats visiting the island now have to wait 300 metres away from its shores\n\nThe beach featured prominently in the 2000 film of that name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\nSince the bay closed last year, blacktip reef sharks have been sighted swimming in the waters of the bay.\n\nProf Thon Thamrongnawasawat, who advises the Thai department of national parks, told the BBC in January that when the park reopens the number of visitors will be restricted and boats will be banned from mooring within the bay's waters.\n\nLocal tourism operators have said they rely on the beach.\n\nThe head of the local tourism association, Wattana Rerngsamut, told AFP that there should be public hearings \"so that local people can earn a living\".\n• None Paradise? It's more like Times Square", "Prince Charles was photographed with the then Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993\n\nThe Church of England's response to child sex abuse allegations was \"marked by secrecy\", a report has found.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey has been criticised for supporting former Bishop Peter Ball.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Ball \"was able to sexually abuse vulnerable teenagers and young men for decades\".\n\nIts report said the support given by the Prince of Wales to the shamed clergyman was \"misguided\".\n\nIt said his actions \"could have been interpreted as expressions of support\" for Ball and \"had the potential to influence the actions of the church\".\n\nThe IICSA described the \"appalling sexual abuse against children\" in the Diocese of Chichester, with 18 members of the clergy convicted of offences during a 50-year period.\n\nBishop Peter Hancock, the Church of England's safeguarding lead, said: \"We are immensely grateful to survivors for their courage in coming forward. Their testimonies have made shocking and uncomfortable listening.\n\n\"The report states that the Church of England should have been a place which protected all children and supported victims and survivors and the inquiry's summary recognises that it failed to do this.\"\n\nBall, who was Bishop of Lewes in East Sussex between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1992, was jailed in 2015 for 32 months for offences against 18 teenagers and men between the 1970s and the 1990s.\n\nThe report found the Crown Prosecution Service had missed an opportunity to charge Ball with a string of offences in 1992, and it was not until 22 years later he admitted his crimes.\n\nThe IICSA said Ball sought to use his relationship with the Prince of Wales to further his campaign to return to unrestricted ministry.\n\nPrince Charles' actions in speaking about Ball to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duchy of Cornwall buying a property to rent to Ball and his brother were \"misguided\", the report added.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said it remained \"a matter of deep regret\" that the prince \"along with many others was deceived by Peter Ball over so many years\".\n\n\"At no time did he bring any influence to bear on the actions of the church or any other relevant authority,\" he added.\n\nPeter Ball was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men\n\nThe report, based on four weeks of public hearings between March and July last year, said victims were \"disbelieved and dismissed\" by those in authority at the Diocese of Chichester.\n\nOne of Ball's victims, Neil Todd, killed himself after being \"seriously failed\" by the church, which had \"discounted Ball's conduct as trivial and insignificant\" while displaying \"callous indifference\" to Mr Todd's complaints.\n\nLord Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford - his last formal role in the church - in June last year after a separate inquiry found he delayed a \"proper investigation\" into Ball's crimes for two decades.\n\nThe report said he \"failed to have sufficient regard for the wellbeing of complainants, victims and survivors affected by Peter Ball's behaviour\".\n\nIt also said the church's apology \"remains unconvincing\".\n\nEven during the inquiry's hearings, the report says senior clerics were squabbling about who was responsible.\n\nIn a church whose scriptures and creeds speak of \"loving one another as Christ has loved you\", there was no compassion for Neil Todd, who had been repeatedly abused by Bishop Peter Ball during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nThe most senior cleric in the Church of England, then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spoke frequently with Ball and wrote several letters, saying: \"You are on my heart and constantly in my prayers.\"\n\nBut when Ball resigned, the church issued a press release which the report says \"inappropriately praised Peter Ball, presented his resignation as an act of self-sacrifice - but offered no such apology to Mr Todd and expressed no concern for his welfare\".\n\nThe preferential treatment of a popular priest, and the lack of compassion for his victim, are the disturbing keynotes of this comprehensive report.\n\nBall, now in his late 80s, accepted a caution for one count of gross indecency in 1992 and resigned due to ill-health.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 and deemed too ill to give evidence to the inquiry in person, but submitted a statement saying his relationship with Prince Charles \"was one of support and respect\".\n\nProf Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry, said the Diocese of Chichester \"failed victims and survivors of child sexual abuse by prioritising its own reputation above their welfare\".\n\nShe said the church's response \"was marked by secrecy and a disregard for the seriousness of abuse allegations\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fashion chain Select has fallen into administration, putting 1,800 jobs at risk at its 169 stores across the UK.\n\nThe firm, which targets women aged 18-45, has been struggling despite having struck a deal in April last year that cut rents at its stores.\n\nSelect's administrators said stores would continue to trade while all options for the business were assessed.\n\nA host of High Street retailers have run into trouble recently as spending patterns change.\n\nSelect is owned by Turkish entrepreneur Cafer Mahiroğlu, who himself bought it out of administration in 2008.\n\nLast year, the retailer - which has annual sales of £77m - used a process called a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) to negotiate rent cuts of up to 75% from its landlords.\n\nHowever, business advisory firm Quantuma, which has been appointed as administrators to Select, said \"prevailing High Street conditions\" meant the turnaround plan the chain had tried had not succeeded.\n\n\"We will continue to trade Select whilst we assess all options available to the business, with the aim of achieving the optimum outcome for all stakeholders,\" said Andrew Andronikou, joint administrator at Quantuma.\n\n\"Options include a sale of the business, in addition to entering into discussions with those parties who have already expressed interest in acquiring the business.\"\n\nMaureen Hinton, global retail research director at market research firm GlobalData, said the chain was in \"a difficult place in the market, competing directly with very strong brands such as BooHoo and Primark, as well as the supermarkets\".\n\n\"It's not a big destination retailer and it's simply not selling enough. There's already over-supply in the market for the demand,\" she added.\n\n\"When you're competing on such low prices then the margins are very tight.\"\n\nSelect's administration is just the latest piece of bad news for the UK's High Streets, which have suffered as consumers increasingly do their shopping online.\n\nSeveral high-profile names have fallen into administration or used a CVA process, which can be used to close stores and allow for rents to be renegotiated at outlets that remain open.\n\nOn Thursday, creditors at struggling department store chain Debenhams backed a CVA plan that will see the closure of 50 stores and rent reductions at other outlets.\n\nLast year, House of Fraser fell into administration before being bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct.\n\nIn March, fashion chain LK Bennett called in administrators. The chain was bought last month, but 15 of its 36 stores were closed.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins among others, is also reportedly seeking a CVA.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danny Baker explains what happened when his 5 Live bosses called him\n\nThe BBC has sacked Danny Baker, saying he showed a \"serious error of judgement\" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nThe BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess's racial heritage.\n\nThe 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.\n\nThe corporation said Baker's tweet \"goes against the values we as a station aim to embody\".\n\nIt added: \"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis comment about red sauce references the Sausage Sandwich Game from his 5 Live show, in which listeners choose what type of sauce a celebrity would choose to eat.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter tweeting an apology, in which he called the tweet a \"stupid unthinking gag pic\", Baker said the BBC's decision \"was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity\".\n\n\"[It] took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah,\" he added. \"Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits' knees knocking.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, whose mother Doria Ragland is African American, revealed on Wednesday their new son was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nAfter the initial backlash on social media on Wednesday, Baker said: \"Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.\n\n\"Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he added: \"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.\n\n\"Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside his home, he said of the tweet: \"Ill advised, ill thought-out and stupid, but racist? No, I'm aware how delicate that imagery is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAyesha Hazarika, a commentator and former adviser to the Labour Party, told 5 Live she was \"genuinely gobsmacked\" by the tweet.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it,\" she said. \"I thought it was a joke at first. I thought it was a spoof. It was so crass. What was going through his head?\n\n\"You can't just say sorry and then carry on like it's business as usual. When you have an incredibly important platform like he does, you do have to think about what you do and the signals that it sends out.\"\n\nBaker must have been aware of recent incidences of racism at football matches and the resulting outcry, Ms Hazarika added.\n\nLinda Bellos, former chairwoman of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals, echoed those remarks. saying: \"A lot of black players are complaining about noises being made to them. He knows this stuff,\" she told Radio 4.\n\nHis tweet was \"foolish\", she said, adding: \"Never mind that it's royalty.\n\n\"The things that are happening to black children up and down the country are not enhanced by his words and I'm glad that prompt action has been taken, and let's hope we have come thoughtful dialogue and learning from this.\"\n\nBaker has won several awards for his radio shows\n\nBaker's Saturday Morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live won him a Sony Gold award for Speech Radio Personality of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2014 and a Gold Award for entertainment show of the year in 2013.\n\nHis irrepressible style made him one of the most popular radio presenters of his generation and saw him described by one writer as the \"ultimate geezer\".\n\nBaker was also a successful magazine journalist, scriptwriter and TV documentary maker.\n\nHe wrote a number of TV shows including Pets Win Prizes and Win, Lose or Draw and, in 1990, The Game, a series about an amateur soccer team in east London.\n\nA stint at BBC London station GLR in the late '80s saw him strike up an enduring friendship with fellow broadcaster Chris Evans, and Baker would later write scripts for the Channel 4 show TFI Friday, which Evans hosted.\n\nIt's the second time Baker has been axed by 5 Live and is the third time he has left the BBC.\n\nIn 1997, he was fired for encouraging football fans to make a referee's life hell after the official had awarded a controversial penalty in an FA Cup tie.\n\nHe later claimed he had never incited fans to attack the referee, only that he would have understood if they had.\n\nIn 2012, two weeks before he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, he was was back in the news after an on-air rant in which he resigned and branded his bosses at BBC London \"pinheaded weasels\". The outburst came after Baker had been asked to move from a weekday programme to a weekend.\n\nIn 2016, Baker took part on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here but was the first person to be voted off in the series.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tributes have been paid to comedian Freddie Starr who has died aged 76.\n\nThe Merseyside-born comic, singer, impressionist and actor was found dead in his home in the Costa Del Sol region of Spain, the Sun said.\n\nComedian Bobby Davro described him as \"the funniest man I have ever seen\", while presenter Amanda Holden said he should be \"remembered with a smile\".\n\nDavro tweeted: \"I'm so sad we have lost one of our greatest comedy talents.\"\n\nBritain's Got Talent judge Holden added: \"Sad to hear of Freddie Starr passing today. His style may have fallen out of comedy fashion and favour - but it's important to recognise his once huge popularity and fame.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe added: \"I hope his legacy is not smalled down and he's remembered with a smile.\"\n\nComedian Jim Davidson also tweeted: \"Just heard the news. Freddie Starr was the greatest.\"\n\nLord Sugar described Starr as a \"very funny man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lord Sugar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow Liverpool comedian and TV personality Les Dennis tweeted that Starr was \"so exciting to watch live.\"\n\n\"A true clown who could also sing like Elvis,\" he added. \"A total one off. RIP.\"\n\nThe BBC has not been able to confirm the reports, however Euro Weekly News is reporting the coroner in Malaga has confirmed to them that Starr died of natural causes.\n\nStarr rose to prominence in the early 1970s after appearing on the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. He starred in several other TV programmes in the 90s and famously featured in the Sun's \"Freddie Starr ate my hamster\" headline in 1986.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Freddie Starr's life in the spotlight\n\nIn 2012, he was arrested by police investigating allegations of historical sexual abuse but he was never charged.\n\nHe later lost a defamation claim against an accuser in 2015 who said he groped her when she was 15.\n\nKarin Ward, 56, alleged that the assault took place in 1974 behind the scenes of Jimmy Savile's Clunk Click TV show.\n\nStarr denied the claims and sought damages for alleged slander and libel.\n\nJudge Mr Justice Nicol said the case failed because Ms Ward's testimony was found to be true, and because too much time had lapsed.\n\nStarr began his career as lead singer of the Merseybeat group the Midniters during the 1960s. His TV appearances included The Freddie Starr Show and An Audience with Freddie Starr in the 1990s.\n\nAlthough he became known for his unpredictable and eccentric comedy routines, he said in his autobiography that the infamous hamster-eating episode did not actually take place.\n\nFreddie Starr was a popular entertainer in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nThe story in The Sun had claimed Starr put a hamster in a sandwich and ate it at a friend's home after a performance.\n\nHe later took part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity but left the show after being taken to hospital following a suspected allergic reaction.\n\nHe suffered from ill health and in 2010 had bypass surgery after a heart attack.\n\nComic and actor Russ Abbot described Starr as both a \"natural funnyman\" and \"loose comedy cannon\".\n\n\"You never knew what he would do next. He helped launch my career of course, and for that I will always be grateful.\"\n\nTV presenter Anne Diamond recalled he was \"always difficult and awkward to interview but always worth it\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Anne Diamond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJimmy Cricket called Starr one of the UK's \"best ever visual comedians and mimics\", while Former Allo Allo actress Vicki Michelle added he was a \"great comedian\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Most people walk down the highest mountain in Wales, while many take the Snowdon Mountain Railway.\n\nBut for Base jumper Josh Beinn, there was only one way he was going to descend 2,500ft - by leaping from the side of the mountain.\n\nThis is the moment the daredevil made what he says is the highest Base jump in Wales.\n\n\"It was exhilarating,\" said the 29-year-old after he had touched down safe.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nEnglish clubs have created European football history by taking all four final spots in the continent's two major competitions.\n\nArsenal won in Valencia and Chelsea beat Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday to reach the Europa League final.\n\nThat followed dramatic wins for Liverpool over Barcelona and Tottenham against Ajax in the Champions League.\n\nIt is the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nThere have only been two all-English finals before, with Tottenham beating Wolves in the 1971-72 Uefa Cup and Manchester United beating Chelsea in the 2007-08 Champions League.\n\nSpain had three teams in the finals of the two competitions in 2015-16, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid contesting the Champions League trophy and Unai Emery's Sevilla winning the Europa League.\n\n\"In England the level is very high and the Premier League is the best championship in Europe,\" said Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri.\n\nArsenal and Chelsea will meet in Baku, Azerbaijan - 2,468 miles from London - on 29 May, with a Champions League spot at stake for the Gunners, who could become the fifth English side to qualify for next season's competition. Chelsea are already assured of their place after cementing a top-four finish in the Premier League.\n• None What does English success do for next season's qualification?\n• None Arsenal & Chelsea fans given 6,000 tickets each for final\n\nBaku's Olympic Stadium has a capacity of 68,700 but Uefa has allocated only 6,000 tickets to each club, a decision Arsenal described as \"disappointing\", adding that it presents them with \"extreme difficulties\" in how to allocate tickets\".\n\nTottenham and Liverpool will meet in Madrid on 1 June, with fans of those clubs also facing travel issues of their own, with direct flights from the UK reaching £1,300 and some airlines being accused of \"profiteering\".\n\nThe Premier League clubs' achievements means there will also be an all-English Uefa Super Cup in August. That game will be played in Istanbul, Turkey.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic secured an eighth consecutive title in style with a convincing win away to wasteful Aberdeen.\n\nNeil Lennon's side are now two-thirds of the way towards a third consecutive clean sweep of domestic trophies after already lifting the League Cup.\n\nThe Dons' James Wilson fired wastefully against a post before Mikael Lustig's diving header opened the scoring.\n\nJozo Simunovic rose to meet a Callum McGregor corner after half-time before Odsonne Edouard fired the third.\n\nFor Celtic not to have finished the weekend as champions for a 50th time, Aberdeen would have had to have ended the visitors' 11-game unbeaten run, combined with a win for second-placed Rangers at home to Hibernian on Sunday.\n\nBut the Glasgow side's sixth consecutive win at Pittodrie means they have now won eight domestic trophies in a row before their Scottish Cup final against Heart of Midlothian on 25 May.\n\nCeltic will now eye matching the nine titles in a row they last achieved in 1974 and which was matched by city rivals Rangers in 1997.\n\nAberdeen remain in a battle for fourth with Kilmarnock, the Ayrshire side later going above the Dons on goal difference with victory at Tynecastle.\n• None Who did you vote man of the match?\n• None Games, goals & eight in a row - How does Celtic's latest title stack up?\n\nAs a club, Celtic have experienced great sadness in recent weeks with the loss of two of their precious Lisbon Lions. The tributes have flooded in from all corners for Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers. The lives of two great footballers who helped lift the European Cup have been celebrated in word and song and that carried on at Pittodrie.\n\nAnother minute's applause but most importantly, given what these men represented, another victory and another league title secured. Eight in a row was never in doubt, but it was banked here.\n\nCeltic survived a few scares but cantered away to win handily. Indeed, that could be the story of their season. Some wobbles but easy enough in the end, a league won largely in third gear.\n\nThe Dons could have delayed the inevitability of the title party, but teams don't tend to beat Celtic in domestic competition while spurning big moments. How the Dons will rue the early chances they had. How Derek McInnes, sitting in the purgatory of the stand while serving his touchline ban, will have suffered angst at what might have been.\n\nThese weren't half chances or 50-50 affairs. These were borderline sitters, both of them falling to James Wilson, a striker who finished like strikers tend to do when they're not used to scoring goals. Wilson, big on reputation but low on end product, can only boast 13 goals in a career that spans almost 90 games.\n\nCeltic had the lion's share of possession, but it was the Dons who carved out the most interesting opportunities before Lustig got the Celtic party started. The first of them came when Scott Brown was hustled and harried and gave the ball away in the process.\n\nAberdeen swept left and, when Greg Stewart's cross came in it fell to Wilson, standing all alone and so close to Scott Bain that he could have heard him gulp. His volley was thumped into the ground and bounced up and over the Celtic goalkeeper's crossbar.\n\nEdouard wasted a decent chance soon after, but another huge moment followed. This was the second act of wastefulness from Wilson. Scott McKenna did wonderfully to win the ball before bombing down the left and curling a gorgeous ball across goal and into the path of Sam Cosgrove.\n\nThe striker's shot was beaten away by Bain, but when the loose ball broke to Wilson, it looked certain that the Dons were about to take the lead. Instead, Wilson struck his shot off the outside of Bain's right-hand post and wide.\n\nIt was a calamitous miss and, sure enough, Aberdeen were made to pay for it, just as Kilmarnock were made to pay for not executing at Celtic Park last week when the game was still goalless. Looking gift horses in the mouth is not the best plan against the champions.\n\nSeven minutes after Wilson's miss, Lustig got away from Stevie May and dived to head in McGregor's excellent delivery from the left. It was yet another assist for McGregor, a titan of this team - and there'd be a second one later on.\n\nLustig's terrific finish was the cue for the celebrations. Celtic only needed a point to lock down the title. They cruised on to take all three.\n\nCeltic doubled their lead eight minutes into the new half. An out-swinging McGregor corner was headed home by Simunovic, the centre-half who, over the last few weeks, has showed the centre-forwards how to do it.\n\nThe hosts had a chance or two to halve the deficit but couldn't produce Celtic's efficiency in front of goal. They worked hard and got frustrated at times.\n\nCosgrove was fortunate not to be sent off when he brought down Jonny Hayes, who had appeared for Kieran Tierney. The full-back, still slightly diminished by injury, will now surely be wrapped in cotton wool before the cup final and that tilt for the treble treble.\n\nCeltic's title day had a last flourish when they broke free and Edouard added a third, and a 21st for the season. That well and truly sent the visitors into raptures.\n\nCeltic interim manager Neil Lennon: \"It's a great way to get over the line and now we can enjoy it.\n\n\"I'm really delighted with my defence. Simunovic has come back in beside Ajer and has been outstanding, Lustig outstanding, Kieran already a Celtic great, and my goalkeeper has been unbelievable.\n\n\"He was unbelievable today when we got sloppy and put a bit of pressure on ourselves, but the second half was comprehensive.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Derek McInnes: \"I thought we were well in the game. Celtic started the game in charge, which is understandable as we had one or two playing out of position.\n\n\"But I thought that, once we got a foothold in the game, we had good opportunities and looked a threat on the counter-attack.\n\n\"The only thing we were guilty of is not putting the ball into the net. If you don't take your chances against a team like Celtic, it comes back to bite you and it certainly did.\"\n• None Substitution, Celtic. Scott Sinclair replaces Mikael Lustig because of an injury.\n• None Scott Brown (Celtic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. James Wilson (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt blocked. James Forrest (Celtic) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Aberdeen 0, Celtic 3. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tomas Rogic.\n• None Attempt saved. Scott McKenna (Aberdeen) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Substitution, Aberdeen. Ethan Ross replaces Greg Halford because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Greg Stewart (Aberdeen) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Odsonne Edouard (Celtic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Angela Collingbourne (top left) and seven other members of the drugs gang were jailed on Friday\n\nA grandmother has been jailed for six years after becoming \"second in command\" to a drugs gang headed by her two sons.\n\nAngela Collingbourne, 51, helped the group to sell more than £2.7m of cocaine in Newport, with her son directing operations from prison.\n\nSeven other members were also jailed for conspiracy to supply class A drugs on Friday at Newport Crown Court.\n\nAnother eight had already been jailed in March, bringing the total to 16.\n\nThe gang, from Newport, dealt the drug from a garage called NP19 Tyres, with video showing thousands of pounds passing through but only a handful of cars being repaired.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne, who is a grandmother, racked up a \"number of convictions\" for shoplifting, driving and a public order offence before becoming responsible for managing the gang's funds and facilitating - and maintaining control of the mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers.\n\nProsecutor Andrew Jones said: \"She was a middle tier manager of the organisation.\"\n\nAnother eight members, including Angela Collingbourne's sons, were jailed in March\n\nShe denied being \"a trusted lieutenant of this organised crime group, the second-in-command\" - but was convicted by a jury.\n\nRichard Barton, defending, said Collingbourne was acting out of \"mother's love\" and trying to provide for her three sons - the youngest of which has now lost \"three fifths of his remaining family\" following the convictions.\n\nThe court was told Collingbourne became estranged from her \"racist\" parents after they did not approve of her relationship.\n\nJudge Daniel Williams told Collingbourne: \"During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice - but the jury saw through you.\n\n\"You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victim-hood.\n\n\"You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation.\n\nAngela Collingbourne was captured on CCTV counting cash from drugs sales\n\n\"You began to believe that you were unstoppable.\"\n\nThe gang was arrested following a year-long investigation, Operation Finch, which involved surveillance and secret recordings.\n\nCollingbourne's son Jerome Nunes, 28, and Blaine Nunes, 26, were jailed for 12 and 14 years.\n\nJudge Williams said it was \"depressing\" that Jerome Nunes was able to direct the operation from his prison cell using hidden mobile phones, while serving a sentence for possession of cocaine with intent to supply.\n\nThe gang sourced drugs from Merseyside, with Matthew Croft regularly visiting Liverpool to meet \"up-stream suppliers\", the court heard.\n\nShe would accompany her partner Thomas Allison to drug deals in her pyjamas and had ambitions of buying a £500,000 house with him. A raid recovered Versace, Prada, Bulgari and Louis Vuitton clothing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A hit-and-run victim has released CCTV footage of the crash in a bid to track down a driver after being disappointed by the police response to his case.\n\nMedical student Josh Dey suffered a bleed on the brain when he was knocked off his bike on Swain's Lane in Highgate, north London, on 21 April.\n\nA local restaurant gave him its CCTV video to help him with his public appeal to find the driver.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was investigating, but no one has been arrested.", "Both Labour and the Conservatives have suffered losses in the local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents in a backlash against the Brexit deadlock. But beyond the immediate headlines lie smaller storylines you may have missed - here are seven of them.\n\nA poll on Hambleton Council was decided by lot - and the result saw Labour take its first seat there in more than a decade.\n\nThe seat, Northallerton South, was tied on 527 votes for Labour and the Conservatives - so the seat was settled by the returning officer choosing between two blank envelopes, one candidate's name in each.\n\nLabour's Gerald Ramsden was the lucky winner of the draw.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.\n\nThe Tories won the Tetbury Town ward by just one vote - after officials looked through the spoiled ballots and accepted one where the voter had put \"Brexit\" and an arrow to the Conservative Party candidate.\n\nStephen Hirst retained his seat in the Cotswolds town after defeating independent Kevin Painter by 232 votes to 231.\n\nThe Conservatives and the independents had been tied before the returning officer, who is in charge of overseeing elections, decided to settle the matter by using the rejected ballot paper.\n\nMr Painter has confirmed he contacted the Electoral Commission for advice and he will be taking legal action over the decision.\n\nCotswold District Council said it had consulted the guidelines in the Electoral Commission's booklet on doubtful papers and examples within election law books.\n\nLeading Brexiteer MP Jacob Rees-Mogg now has a Liberal Democrat councillor representing him in Somerset.\n\nLiberal Democrat candidate Dave Wood defeated Conservative Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North East Somerset Council, in the Mendip ward.\n\nWera Hobhouse, Lib Dem MP for Bath, tweeted: \"Congratulations to Cllr Dave Wood, who moments ago beat B&NES council leader Tim Warren. He's now @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's local councillor!\"\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's first openly gay election candidate has been elected.\n\nAlison Bennington hugged supporters at a Belfast count centre for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nShe attracted 1,053 votes as part of her campaign for the pro-union and Christian party, and praised her supporters' \"good, hard work and good teamwork\".\n\nThe DUP's founder, the late Rev Ian Paisley, once led a campaign to, in his words, \"Save Ulster from Sodomy\" and prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHas Extinction Rebellion led to a Green surge in the polls?\n\nThe Green Party has been one of the elections' biggest winners, picking up 265 seats - an increase of 194 compared to 2015.\n\nWith the local elections coming just after weeks of protests by Extinction Rebellion, should the environmental group be seen as having had an impact on voters' decisions?\n\nJonathan Bartley, the Green Party's co-leader, certainly thinks so.\n\nHe told the BBC he had \"no doubt\" the Extinction Rebellion group had contributed towards the party's election success, adding it was a \"powerful force in building awareness of the urgency of climate change\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe little-known Yorkshire Party has won council seats for the first time in its history.\n\nThe party, which was set up in 2014 and campaigns for regional devolution (among other things), has previously had councillors defect to it - but had never actually won an election.\n\nNow, the party has won six - with successes in both the East Riding of Yorkshire and Selby councils.\n\n#Dogsatpollingstations proved such a hit on election day it has even emerged as a muse for professional poets.\n\nBrian Bilston's effort, posted on Twitter, proved almost as popular as the dogs themselves.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Brian Bilston This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demonstrators outside Birmingham primary schools wanted an end to LGBT lessons\n\nHead teachers have challenged ministers to deliver better support for schools facing criticism from parents over lessons on same-sex relationships.\n\nThe move follows weeks of protests outside schools in Birmingham.\n\nHead Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson told the National Association of Head Teachers' conference that official teaching guidance on LGBT love was unclear.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has said no child should have to walk past demonstrations to go to school.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson told the annual meeting there had been five weeks of protests over equality lessons outside her school, Anderton Park primary.\n\n\"The lead protestors have no children at my school,\" she said.\n\nShe highlighted photographs of some of the banners displayed outside the grounds, declaring slogans such as \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve\" and \"We have a say in what they learn\".\n\nAddressing the conference, Ms Hewitt-Clarkson asked: \"How have we got to this beyond awful state of affairs?\"\n\nShe said the government's new draft relationships education policy - due to come in next year - stated that primary school children should know that marriage, both to same-sex and opposite sex couples was a life-long commitment.\n\nIt also stated that families could be single parents, LGBT parents, grandparents and so on.\n\n\"This is excellent and clear,\" she said.\n\nBut she said she believed official guidance to heads did not make it sufficiently clear that the policy did not specifically seek to promote LGBT relationships or indeed heterosexual relationships, but rather \"love and care\" more generally.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she also objected to suggestions in the guidance that it was up to primary schools to decide whether teaching about LGBT relationships specifically was age-appropriate for their pupils.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said this made \"a policy that is meant to be the same for all, different for all\", with individual head teachers like herself left having to sort out the confusion.\n\nShe called on Mr Hinds to work with her and the NAHT \"to sort out this unequal mess\".\n\nThe conference motion for \"a more robust and legally enforceable policy and support for schools as they carry out their public sector equality duty\", was carried unanimously.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the guidance was clear that schools would have \"flexibility to deliver the content of relationships, sex and health education in a way that is age-appropriate and sensitive to the needs of their pupils.\n\n\"It is also unequivocal that these subjects do not promote anything, they educate.\n\n\"Ultimately it is for the school to decide what is taught in the curriculum and we trust them to make reasonable decisions based on the feedback they receive from parents,\" said the spokesperson.", "Snowdon is the busiest mountain in the UK\n\nCrowds queuing at the peaks of Snowdon and Pen y Fan highlight the need to invest in infrastructure around Wales' mountains, authorities say.\n\nMore people are visiting the peaks in north and south Wales, with pictures showing crowds at the summits over the Easter holiday.\n\nBut the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) said money must be spent on better facilities.\n\nThe Welsh Government said £2m was being spent on improvements.\n\nTrain tickets to the summit of Snowdon sold out in advance of last month's 10th anniversary of the Hafod Eryri visitor centre.\n\nPhotos on social media also showed crowds and queues of people waiting patiently to take photos at the best vantage spots - with similar scenes at Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat has given rise to concerns that tourists are being affected by overflowing car parks, a lack of toilets and limited transport.\n\nAnd with visitor numbers expected to rise in the coming months, there are fears over the impact tourism will have on the local environment and community.\n\n\"We've got a problem with infrastructure here in Wales,\" said Elfyn Jones, of the BMC.\n\n\"It's great to see tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the Welsh countryside - but how can we cope and deal with so many people?\n\n\"Footpaths are being eroded, car parks are overflowing and we don't have enough facilities for litter or toilets.\n\n\"We need to invest in our infrastructure if we are to maintain this growth in people coming here.\n\n\"It's also absolute chaos for the locals trying to live amongst it.\"\n\nElfyn Jones said it was great to see so many people out enjoying the countryside\n\nThe Snowdon Partnership Plan has been set up to improve and protect \"what makes the area truly unique and special\".\n\nLast year, volunteers removed 400 bags of litter from the mountain.\n\nHowever the Snowdonia National Park Authority said popular tourist spots were still in \"desperate need of major investment\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHelen Pye, head of engagement, said: \"Visitors bring an estimated £69m of economic benefit annually to the Snowdon area alone. But it is also having significant impacts on the local community, the mountain and the environment of the area.\n\n\"We're also increasingly concerned that the current standard of infrastructure is beginning to affect people's experience of Snowdonia and of Wales as a destination.\n\n\"We and other partners are doing our best with the limited resources we have. Snowdonia National Park Authority has half the resources it had 20 years ago [but] visitor numbers have at least doubled.\"\n\nIt has called for investment in visitor infrastructure at Pen Y Pass and Llanberis, in particular, and urged a \"major review and overhaul\" of car parks and transport in the area.\n\nAll revenue from car parks in Snowdonia is reinvested into managing footpaths and facilities\n\nPolice have previously warned visitors to Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons not to park illegally along the busy A470.\n\nHowever the Easter crowds were good news for Kay Jones, the owner of Kay's Kitchen at the bottom of the mountain, who said: \"It's been busier than it has been, ever.\"\n\nThe Brecon Beacons National Park Authority admitted \"more needs to be done\" but that they faced financial pressures.\n\n\"It's important that visitors have a positive experience and support the local economy,\" delivery director Steve Gray said.\n\n\"It's great to see people visiting the park and enjoying the health and well-being benefits on offer. However, high levels of visitor numbers can sometimes cause problems.\n\n\"The images we saw over the Easter weekend highlight the need for further investment in improving visitor infrastructure.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Earlier this year we announced £2.2m to improve our tourism infrastructure, including improvements to parking, cycle paths and toilets, and we'll continue to work with our national parks and local authorities to make access to our most popular destinations even better.\"", "Mr Trump and Mr Putin at their controversial meeting in Helsinki\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an hour-long call, covering issues including the \"Russian hoax\".\n\n\"Had a long and very good conversation with President Putin,\" the US president tweeted.\n\nMr Trump rebuked a reporter who asked whether he had warned Mr Putin against meddling in the 2020 elections.\n\nIt was the leaders' first conversation since the Mueller report cleared Mr Trump of colluding with Russia.\n\nThe Kremlin confirmed in a statement the two had spoken, saying the call had been initiated by the White House.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Putin last spoke informally at December's G20 Summit in Buenos Aires.\n\nThe US president tweeted on Friday about their latest conversation: \"As I have always said, long before the Witch Hunt started, getting along with Russia, China, and everyone is a good thing not a bad thing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked in the White House on Friday whether he had warned Mr Putin that Moscow should not interfere in the next US presidential election, Mr Trump told the reporter she was \"very rude\".\n\n\"We didn't discuss that,\" he said.\n\n\"Getting along with countries is a good thing and we want to have good relations with everybody.\"\n\nBut the White House said the matter of alleged Russian meddling had been broached in the call.\n\nMr Trump has defended Russia in the past over claims of interference in the 2016 election\n\nPress secretary Sarah Sanders said: \"Very, very briefly it was discussed, essentially in the context of that it's over and there was no collusion, which I'm pretty sure both leaders were very well aware of long before this call took place.\"\n\nMrs Sanders also said Mr Trump and Mr Putin had briefly discussed the investigation by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe White House press secretary described the call as an \"overall positive conversation\".\n\nA redacted version of the special counsel's report was made public last month. It concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election \"in sweeping and systematic fashion\".\n\nThe interference took the form of an extensive social media campaign and hacking into Democratic Party servers by Russian military intelligence, it said. The inquiry did not determine the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Trump and Mr Putin also discussed thorny foreign policy issues:", "Thailand's new king has started three days of ceremonial rites, as the country crowns its first monarch in nearly seven decades.\n\nThe rituals he goes through are a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmin traditions and date back centuries.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn's crown weighed 7.3kg (16lb), and symbolised Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu god Indra.", "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is already the second deadliest in history\n\nThe death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.\n\nDRC's Ebola outbreak began in August and is the second deadliest in history.\n\nWorld Health Organization deputy director Dr Michael Ryan said mistrust and violence was harming efforts to tackle the disease as it spread through the east of the country.\n\nThere have been 119 documented attacks on medical centres and staff since January, Dr Ryan said.\n\nWHO staff anticipated \"continued intense transmission\", he added, in a briefing to reporters in Geneva.\n\nHealth workers have plenty of vaccines - more than 100,000 people have already been given the treatment. But continuing violence in the east of the country where militias are present, as well as mistrust of doctors, was hindering their programme, Dr Ryan said.\n\n\"We still face major issues of community acceptance and trust,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DRC is also suffering from an outbreak of measles which has killed more than 1,000 people, with 50,000 cases reported. WHO staff have confirmed measles in 14 of the country's 26 provinces, in both rural and urban areas.\n\nEbola is still contained within two provinces in the DRC but it is becoming harder to monitor the spread of the virus because of violence. The WHO said the risk of a global spread is low, but it was very likely cases would spread into neighbouring countries.\n\nMost Ebola outbreaks are over quickly and affect small numbers of people. Only once before has an outbreak been still growing more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "A former Conservative councillor heckled the prime minister when she addressed the Welsh Tory conference in Llangollen.\n\nStuart Davies shouted to Theresa May: \"We don't want you\", and called on her to resign, before he was escorted away.\n\nMrs May was speaking about Thursday's local election results and Brexit.", "To say Sky/HBO's new mini-series Chernobyl is thought-provoking would be like describing Usain Bolt as quite a fast runner, or the water under the Antarctic sea ice as a bit chilly.\n\nThis is TV that doesn't just get you thinking, it stops you sleeping.\n\nThe catastrophic disaster that began with an explosion at around 01:15 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine on 26 April 1986, is graphically played out over the course of five one-hour episodes.\n\nBy the end of the third episode I was craving something a little lighter: re-watching the Towering Inferno maybe or a double helping of Luther.\n\nAnything actually, that wasn't real.\n\nBecause when the reality of the dangers that lurk in our nuclear age are played back in such forensic, chilling detail as they are here it is just too frightening to bear.\n\nIf the rumour is true that governments around the world played down the horror of what happened that night in the new town of Pripyat (now abandoned) in order to safeguard their own nuclear power plans, then this series makes you understand why.\n\nAt least 31 people were killed and many more were injured in what was the world's worst nuclear power accident\n\nThe action starts two years after the event in the small, tatty apartment of physicist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris).\n\nThe man who led the commission investigating the accident is sitting at his kitchen table in front of a microphone and cassette player listening back to a recording he has made detailing everything he knows about what happened before, during and after that cataclysmic night when Chernobyl's No 4 reactor exploded following a safety test.\n\nValery Legasov (Jared Harris) headed the commission that investigated the Chernobyl nuclear power accident\n\nThe mood is sombre and eerie.\n\nYou can sense the menacing threat from the KGB officers watching silently in a car across the street.\n\nThis is a world in which people have forgotten how to smile.\n\nAnd then it gets much worse…\n\nWe spool back 24 months and one hour to another modest apartment, this time in Pripyat. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is walking back to bed having been sick.\n\nShe looks lovingly at her sleeping husband (Adam Nagaitis). He is oblivious. She walks towards the window. And then stops in her tracks when a huge bang shakes the building. It's enough to wake up her fella.\n\nHe jumps out of bed, walks to the window and sees a spire of phosphorescent light and flames rising from the centre of the concrete building. He turns to his wife, tells her there's nothing to worry about, puts on his firefighter's kit and leaves to join the rest of his crew at the scene.\n\nLyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley) is worried about her husband, Vasily, who was one of the first firefighters at the scene\n\nVasily Ignatenko (Adam Nagaitis) was a newly married firefighter, who died a slow, painful death because of high radiation levels at the site\n\nWhat follows is an intensely told tale of bureaucratic cover-ups, skin-melting levels of toxic radiation, and a great tragedy that would have taken on apocalyptic proportions if it wasn't for the sacrificial courage of those who wittingly or unwittingly laid down their lives to limit the scale of the disaster.\n\nKnowing what happens makes it hard to watch sometimes.\n\nSeeing the whole town standing on a bridge with children still in their pyjamas watching the fire through a haze of radioactive ash is ghastly. It could become mawkish.\n\nBut the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the production, the pacing of the scene changes, and the excellent acting throughout (there are no fake Russian accents) gives us something different, special even: a truly exceptional, important piece of dramatised non-fiction.\n\nStellan Skarsgård plays Boris Shcherbina, a gruff career politician who starts off toeing a party line based on ignorance and complacency, until he arrives at the scene and sees for himself that Valery Legasov's grave appraisal of the situation is horrifyingly accurate.\n\nSoviet Deputy Chairman Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgård) was forced to choose between the state and the facts; here with Valery Legasov (Jared Harris)\n\nEnter Emily Watson, a Belarusian nuclear physicist called Ulyana Khomyuk who grasps the magnitude of what has happened from her office in Minsk before those on the ground have worked out what's going on.\n\nShe arrives (uninvited) and offers Legasov advice (unsolicited) on how to navigate the crisis. With him sorted she sets about trying to get to the truth of what caused the accident knowing it must never happen again.\n\nUlana Khomyuk (Emily Watson) tries to establish how the tragedy happened\n\nAll three actors turn in memorable performances, with emotions dialled all the way down to 1980s Soviet levels.\n\nThey portray a colourless world, mirrored in Johan Renck's superb direction, which rarely moves beyond a grim green-grey-brown palette.\n\nWhen I sat down to watch Chernobyl I thought I knew the story.\n\nNot the way Craig Mazin has described it in his taut and precise scripts. He takes you there, drags you inside, spares you nothing. Not to entertain or titillate, but to make you feel. And to make you think. Think what it must have been like. Think what it might be like if any one of the national governments currently running nuclear reactors start cutting costs and corners.\n\nAnd therein lies one small irony of this big series. If an equivalent amount of time, trouble, and money had been spent on maintaining and upgrading the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as has been lavished on this series, it might never have been made.\n\nLast month the people of Chernobyl remembered those who lost their lives 33 years ago", "Ms Begum left Bethnal Green, east London, in 2015 to join the Islamic State group in Syria\n\nIS bride Shamima Begum would \"face the death penalty\" for terrorism if she came to Bangladesh, the country's foreign minister has said.\n\nAbdul Momen told the BBC that Ms Begum has \"nothing to do\" with his country.\n\nThe 19-year-old, who left east London to join the Islamic State group in 2015, was stripped of her British citizenship in February.\n\nHer claim to Bangladeshi nationality through her mother is believed to have informed the Home Office's decision.\n\nUnder international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Ms Begum's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, told the BBC \"in no way is she Bangladesh's problem\".\n\nMs Begum is appealing against the Home Office's decision.\n\nMr Momen said there was \"no question\" of giving Ms Begum Bangladeshi citizenship or allowing her into the country, piling pressure on Home Secretary Sajid Javid to settle her status.\n\n\"She has never sought Bangladeshi citizenship and her parents are also British citizens,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The British government is responsible for her. They'll have to deal with her.\"\n\nHe added that, if she did end up coming to Bangladesh, she would fall foul of the country's \"zero tolerance policy\" towards terrorism.\n\n\"Bangladeshi law is very clear. Terrorists will have to face the death penalty,\" he said.\n\nAlthough Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join the IS group, she has not admitted any terror offences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the family of Shamima Begum, expects her to be \"damaged\" by her ordeal\n\nThe Home Office could reverse its decision \"at any time\" and doing so would \"save British taxpayers a lot of money\" in court costs and legal aid, Mr Akunjee said.\n\n\"What Sajid Javid did in stripping Shamima of her citizenship is human fly tipping - taking our problems and dumping them on other countries,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC it would not respond to Mr Momen's comments and had nothing further to add to its previous statement.\n\nMs Begum left the UK with two school friends at the age of 15 before being found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February this year.\n\nHeavily pregnant with her third child, she pleaded to return to the UK, claiming she had been \"brainwashed\" by Islamic State and now \"regrets everything\".\n\nShe said she did not regret travelling to Syria but did not agree with everything the IS group had done.\n\nMr Javid did not acquiesce to her pleas, telling MPs he \"won't hesitate\" to revoke her citizenship in the interests of national security.\n\n\"If you back terror, there must be consequences,\" he said.\n\nMs Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015\n\nSoon afterwards, she gave birth to a boy called Jarrah. He died of pneumonia in March at less than three weeks of age. She had two other children who also died.\n\nIn the wake of the boy's death, Mr Javid was criticised over the decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.\n\nThree weeks prior to the death, Ms Begum's sister, Renu Begum, had written to Mr Javid asking him to help her bring the baby to the UK.\n\nUnder the 1981 British Nationality Act, a person can be deprived of their citizenship if the home secretary is satisfied it would be \"conducive to the public good\" and they would not become stateless as a result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has suffered a net loss of council seats - starting from the low base of 2015 in many cases.\n\nThe Conservatives have lost more than 10 times as many councillors, but what is remarkable is that the main party of opposition - around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains.\n\nIt seems reasonable to assume that some votes have been lost by Labour in Leave areas because - as the leader of Sunderland City Council Graeme Miller has said - the party hasn't decisively ruled out another referendum.\n\n(It has retained it as an option, if the Conservatives are unwilling to change their deal).\n\nBut if you take a close look at the figures in Sunderland, the complexity of Labour's political problems are revealed.\n\nIts vote fell by nearly 17 points there - while UKIP's went up by 4.5.\n\nThe pro-Remain Lib Dems saw their vote rise by nearly 10 points and the Greens by 8.5.\n\nIndeed, the combined vote of the Lib Dems and Greens was 21.4%, not far off UKIP's 23.9%.\n\nThe swing from Labour to the Lib Dems was about 13% and to the Greens 10%.\n\nThose in Labour's ranks who wanted a stronger commitment to another referendum on any Brexit deal are arguing now that the party is losing support in some Leave areas by failing to appeal enough to those who voted Remain.\n\nDefections to the Lib Dems and the Greens suppressed the Labour vote, and further flatters UKIP's performance.\n\nIn leave-supporting Derby, where Jeremy Corbyn's party lost six seats and UKIP gained two, the swing from Labour to Lib Dems was 6%.\n\nBut those who support Labour's current policy - a heavily caveated commitment to a referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances rather than a public vote in all circumstances - say this is too simplistic an analysis.\n\nIn truth, we can't discern the underlying motives of Labour/Lib Dem switchers in every part of the country unless we ask them.\n\nThere are genuinely local factors at play in some areas - unsurprising, perhaps, as these are indeed local elections.\n\nAnd some on Labour's left have another theory. They say the party is vulnerable to a protest vote because some Labour councils have had to cut services due to constrained budgets.\n\nIn some cases the Lib Dems are the beneficiaries\n\nOthers on the left say the party can't get a hearing for its anti-austerity message as the Brexit debate muffles all else.\n\nThey are actually quite keen for their party leadership to reach a deal with the government soon to get Brexit over the line and - they believe - this will then neutralise the political toxicity of the issue.\n\nBut there is little doubt politicians will proclaim to know the will of the people, without necessarily exploring deeper motivations - and the results will be interpreted in a way which advances their own arguments.", "Nadia Sparkes had a \"brilliant\" first day at Reepham High after being bullied at her previous school\n\nA 13-year-old nicknamed \"Trash Girl\" by bullies for picking litter has changed schools after pupils assaulted her.\n\nNadia Sparkes won international praise and awards for gathering litter on her journey to and from school, and refused to let the taunts deter her.\n\nPolice got involved last term when she was shown a knife and punched at school, her mother said.\n\nHer old school, Hellesdon High School near Norwich, said pupils' safety and welfare was of paramount importance.\n\nSince 2017, Nadia has set off for school an hour early each day to pick up litter and put it in her bicycle basket.\n\nShe turned the \"Trash Girl\" slur on its head and embraced the nickname because it made her feel \"like a superhero\" - attracting more than 4,000 followers on social media.\n\nNadia Sparkes said the \"Trash Girl\" nickname made her feel \"like a superhero\"\n\nBut Paula Sparkes said her daughter was not championed at her school.\n\n\"The staff were not on her side to help and support her and we felt it was not appropriate for her to be there any more,\" she said.\n\nShe said police became involved last term when Nadia was allegedly shown a knife and shortly afterwards chased and punched by a pupil.\n\nNorfolk Police confirmed it was called to an incident at the school and had referred a teenager to the Youth Offending Team, which was providing support.\n\n\"Officers also provided extra knife crime prevention presentations to all years groups,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nNadia was depicted as a superhero in a cartoon by Creative Nation in January last year\n\nIn a separate incident, Nadia had to sit through a class covered in orange juice that had been thrown in her face, her mother said.\n\n\"Nadia picked up a [volunteering] award from the prime minister earlier this month - it's a shame when you think what the school could have achieved with this, and they haven't.\"\n\nShe met one of her new teachers, Reepham High School's Matt Willer, when the pair were both nominated for an eco hero award.\n\nMr Willer, who runs an allotment project, said: \"I'd heard of the amazing work she was doing collecting rubbish and how, very sadly, she was being bullied because she was doing something different.\n\n\"This hit a nerve with me and we discussed how Nadia might like to come and have a look at Reepham High.\"\n\nNadia had a \"brilliant\" start at Reepham after the Easter break and proudly wore her uniform made from recycled plastic bottles.\n\n\"She is literally wearing litter, it's like it's meant to be,\" said Mrs Sparkes.\n\nNadia's new school is about 11 miles from her home but she hopes to continue litter-picking en route to the bus stop.\n\nMr Willer said the teenager would be a \"huge asset\" to the allotment project.\n\n\"All the volunteers look forward to working with her as we all set a sound example about respecting the environment and living more sustainably.\"\n\nMatt Willer, pictured at the school allotment, said Nadia would be a huge asset to Reepham High\n\nHellesdon principal Tom Rolfe said the school did not tolerate bullying and would not actively discourage a pupil from pursuing their passion.\n\n\"We promote an ethos that reflects high moral standards, a culture of social responsibility and fosters a safe learning environment for all students,\" he added.\n\n\"All students are respected and their individuality is valued.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The local election results are disappointing for both the Conservatives and for Labour, while the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents prospered, writes Prof Sir John Curtice and colleagues on the BBC's local elections team.\n\n\"A plague on both your houses.\" That seems to have been the key message to emerge from the ballot boxes.\n\nOn the basis of the detailed voting figures in 40 local authorities, we estimate that if the pattern of voting in the local council elections were to be replicated across the whole of Great Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would have won 28% of the vote. This is only the second time that this calculation has put both those parties below 30%.\n\nThe elections always looked set to be difficult for the Conservatives. The party was defending seats that were mostly last up for grabs four years ago, on the same day David Cameron won the 2015 general election. That, coupled with the party's recent freefall in the polls, clearly pointed to significant Conservative losses.\n\nAnd that proved to be the case. The party has suffered net losses of more than 1300 seats. On average the party's share of the vote was down by six points, both compared with 2015 and with last year's local election results.\n\nHowever, despite the government's difficulties, Labour also slipped back - on average, by no less than seven points compared with last year's local election results. As a result, the party has found itself suffering net losses of around 80 seats, when opposition parties are normally expected to post gains.\n\nThe party's performance would seem to confirm the message of a number of polls that Labour's support has been slipping in the wake of the Brexit impasse, a fall in Jeremy Corbyn's popularity, and a continuing row about anti-Semitism. Compared with last year, the party lost ground more heavily in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-voting ones, a pattern that it shared with the Conservatives (who in previous years have tended to perform better in such areas). This has been seized on by pro-Leave Labour MPs as evidence that the party should reach an agreement with the government which would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU.\n\nWhat the two parties also had in common was a tendency for their support to fall more heavily in their heartlands. Labour's vote fell back most heavily in the north, the Conservatives in the south. Equally, Labour's vote fell more heavily in wards where it was previously strong, while the Conservative vote fell most heavily where they were strongest.\n\nIt was as though voters vented their frustration with the Brexit process by punishing whichever party represented the political establishment locally.\n\nThis mood perhaps also helps account for the remarkable success of independent candidates. Those not standing on a party label were on average winning as much as a quarter of the vote where they stood. More than 900 independent councillors have been elected - a net gain of more than 500.\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats, who before they entered into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 were often a vehicle for protest votes, also appear to have profited from voters' disenchantment with the two largest parties.\n\nThe party, which has made net gains of more than 600 seats, advanced particularly strongly in Conservative-held wards where it was previously in second place. Double digit swings from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats were common in such seats. The party seemed to be successful in reinvigorating some of the bastions of local strength where its support had been badly eroded in the wake of the coalition government. This pattern added significantly to the tally of Conservative losses.\n\nTheresa May insisted the local election results showed voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nIn contrast, and despite the party's pro-Remain stance, there was only limited evidence that the Lib Dems' advance was stronger in areas that voted heavily for Remain in the 2016 referendum. For example, while support for the party rose on average by three points on last year in areas where more than half voted for Remain, it also increased by two points in areas where the Remain vote was less than 45%.\n\nThanks in part to the fact that in 2015 the Liberal Democrats had recorded its worst ever local election performance, the party was able to make so many gains, due to an increase in its vote since then, of eight points. More significant, perhaps, was the fact that its vote was also up by three points on last year's local elections.\n\nWhen the party's performance is projected into a national vote, it is estimated to be worth 19% of the vote. This represents its best local election performance since the party entered into coalition in 2010, but was still well below the party's performance in any round of local votes between 1993 and 2010. Overall, the party's performance is best seen as evidence of a partial recovery from the depths to which the party sank during the coalition years.\n\nAt the same time, the Greens had one of their best local election results ever. The party made net gains of more than 180 seats. The Greens posted an average of 12% of the vote in the wards they contested, up five points on their performance where they stood four years ago. That equals the party's previous highest average, 12% in 2009, when local elections were held on the same day as European Parliament elections. The party may have been helped by the recent protests about climate change.\n\nFighting just one in six wards, there was little opportunity for UKIP to make much impact on these elections. Where it did stand, the party's vote was down by four points on its relative high point of 2015, but up eight points on its poor position last year. However, the challenge from the Eurosceptic parties may be more formidable in the European elections in three weeks time, when Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is on the ballot paper.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has hailed her party's \"incredible result\" in the council elections as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland politics.\n\nWith all 462 seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation. It had 32 councillors five years ago but now it has 53.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin were returned as the two biggest parties, but the DUP lost eight seats.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1% but Sinn Féin's was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast and will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry and Strabane Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in I would say 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed - it won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA) and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, has been elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nThe DUP has also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost 13 seats including those of its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGTB rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker himself, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter pages.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere is an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on BBC One Northern Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday and a special Sunday News election special on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday at 13:00.\n\nThe final results are not expected to be confirmed until Saturday night", "Police say the group known as ‘Saoradh’ are the political voice of the New IRA.\n\nThey’ve been the focus of a backlash in Northern Ireland following Lyra McKee’s death.\n\nThey say they played no role in her death.\n\nThe BBC's Emma Vardy tried to ask questions of Thomas Ashe Mellon, a prominent member of the group.", "Cyclone Fani has slammed into India's eastern coastline. More than a million people have been evacuated from the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha.", "The motorcyclist was travelling away from Lockerbie on the A709 when the crash happened\n\nA man has died after his motorbike collided with a lorry and a car in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe man was on a black motorbike travelling near Lockerbie on the A709 when the accident happened at about 10:45.\n\nEmergency services attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe road was closed for a time to allow accident investigations but has since reopened. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.\n\nSgt Leigh McCulloch, said: \"We have spoken to a number of drivers who stopped at the time of the incident, however we are appealing for anyone who has not spoken to us to get in touch.\n\n\"We would also ask anyone who may have dash-cam footage from the A709, or in that area, to get come forward. You may have information that can help us establish exactly what happened here.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nThe election of the DUP's first openly gay politician was welcomed by one of the party's senior politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nElsewhere there were some surprising gains for Alliance and some smaller parties.\n\nSinn Féin had a mixed set of results on the first day of counting, while the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats.\n\nThere are 11 councils in Northern Ireland and a total of 462 seats up for grabs.\n\nAlison Bennington has been elected as a councillor for the party which has consistently opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage. It remains against the law in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP's founder and leader for almost 40 years, Ian Paisley, was also the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, a fundamentalist and evangelical denomination which many DUP politicians are still associated with.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Ms Bennington's election did not necessarily mean a shift in the party's policy.\n\nJim Wells, who has been one of the party's most vocal opponents of same-sex marriage, said: \"This marks a watershed change in DUP party policy and none of the members were consulted about it.\n\n\"Many thousands of people in Northern Ireland are depending on the DUP to hold the line on these moral issues.\n\n\"They feel very let down and very concerned about what has happened.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut DUP MP for East Belfast, Gavin Robinson, said: \"If you believe in our party's principles, if you stand for our values, if you are prepared to go forward and seek selection and you are selected and elected by the people - then get on and do the job.\n\n\"We're not a theocracy, we're a political party.\"\n\nFormer DUP special advisor Timothy Cairns said he felt he spoke for many in the party who were \"quite angry\" at Mr Well's comments.\n\nHe said: \"Most right-thinking people are disgusted at Jim Well's comments.\n\n\"It is time for the leadership to take action. It is beyond time.\n\n\"What Jim has said this evening about a fellow colleague is wrong\".\n\nThere were a number of gains for the Alliance Party and smaller parties including the Greens and People Before Profit.\n\nAlliance won three seats in the Ormiston district electoral area (DEA) in Belfast and took a seat from Sinn Féin in Titanic, securing a second councillor in that DEA.\n\nThe party also topped the poll in every DEA in Lisburn and Castlereagh - with all nine candidates being elected - and won seats outside its traditional greater Belfast heartlands with victories in Coleraine, Lurgan and Faughan.\n\nAlliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota\n\nThe Green Party's Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become her party's first councillor in that area.\n\nMs Groogan, who was a first-time candidate in the local government elections, told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nElsewhere in Belfast another smaller party, People Before Profit took a seat from Sinn Féin in Collin and also gained a councillor in Oldpark.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nHowever the Progressive Unionist Party lost a seat as Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston was defeated in Oldpark.\n\nAs well as losing out to People Before Profit in Collin and Alliance in Titanic, Sinn Féin's former Derry and Strabane mayor Maolíosa McHugh lost his seat.\n\nSinn Féin assembly member Raymond McCartney said his party was set to lose \"a couple of seats\" on that council.\n\nMr McCartney said the party fought a strong campaign but that the absence of devolved government at Stormont was an issue on the doorsteps.\n\nHe said it would inform Sinn Féin's position going into talks aimed at restoring devolution which are due to start on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Voters have shown that they want equality, says Mary Lou McDonald\n\nParty president Mary Lou McDonald added that the election had demonstrated to her that the political deadlock was \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe SDLP's Mary Durkan has been elected in the Foyleside District of Derry and Strabane Council after her first foray into politics. The barrister is the sister of assembly member Mark H Durkan.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said his party had done \"very, very well\" in Derry and Strabane and was pleased with the performance overall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SDLP's \"renewal project\" is working \"very well\", says Colum Eastwood\n\nHe said: \"We are very happy, we have had some difficult years but I think this is a positive day for the party.\n\n\"What we are seeing is that new candidates with good campaigns and hard work on the ground are actually winning and winning well.\"\n\nThe UUP lost a number of seats on Friday, including in Ormiston, where Peter Johnston lost out and in Botanic.\n\nSo far the party's first preference vote share is down by 2% compared to the last council election in 2014, but this could improve after more results are declared on Saturday.\n\nThe UUP enjoyed a better day in Lisburn and Castlereagh, where their first preference vote share rose by 1.9%.\n\nThey also had a narrow victory in Cusher DEA in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon where Gordon Kennedy beat DUP candidate Quincey Dougan to the last seat by 1.84 votes.\n\nWhere else would you find such electoral excitement on a Friday night?\n\nThere have been gains for the smaller parties including Alliance, the Greens and People Before Profit at the expense of the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe two biggest parties say their vote has held up - and even improved - in some of their traditional stronghold areas.\n\nBut there's no denying both have taken gambles that haven't paid off, running more candidates in some areas in a bid to increase their presence only for it not to work out.\n\nThe SDLP are pleased with their performance in some areas, but across the board the UUP vote looks much poorer than the strong result they polled in 2014.\n\nAs ever, transfers are key for those final nail-biter seats in each area. As one candidate put it to me: \"Every transfer matters, it's like Game of Thrones!\"\n\nIn Mid-Ulster, Kyle Black, the son of prison officer David Black who was murdered by dissident republicans, was elected in Carntogher.\n\nHe said: \"Out of absolutely devastating circumstance that will impact out lives forever, I wanted to try and do something positive - to give back to the community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kyle Black says he entered politics after his father's murder showed him the \"worst\" of Northern Ireland\n\nIt will be late on Saturday before the full results are confirmed.\n\nAs of Friday night, turnout was recorded as 52%, but this is not the final figure.\n\nThursday's good weather appears to have boosted voter numbers, but there is a wide variation across the different District Electoral Areas (DEAs).\n\nIn County Fermanagh, the turnout was almost 72% in the Erne East DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, in east Belfast, just over 42% of eligible voters cast their ballot in the Titanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Belfast City Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has been two decades since a council election was held on its own, and not in conjunction with another poll.\n\nThe official turnout in 2014's council election, which was held alongside the European election, was 51%, and the DUP secured the highest number of seats.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter throughout the weekend.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 10:00 on Saturday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Alan Simpson was an experienced pilot, his family said\n\nA poultry farmer from Shropshire has died in a plane crash in Canada.\n\nAlan Simpson, 72, from Prees, was one of two pilots in the aircraft which crashed into a mountain in the Labrador region during \"poor weather\" on 1 May.\n\nThe other pilot, from Belgium, was injured and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to determine the cause of the crash.\n\nMr Simpson's family said he would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nThey said he had been flying for over 35 years and had been travelling from the US to the UK with another experienced pilot at the time of the crash.\n\nThey added they were \"eternally grateful\" to the search and rescue teams that helped locate the plane.\n\n\"Alan was a vibrant character who lived life to the max and will be deeply missed by the extensive group of family and friends he has left behind,\" his family said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police said weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash\n\nMajor Mark Norris, from the Canadian Armed Forces Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, and who was part of the search and rescue operation, said it was \"very complex and challenging\" as the plane crashed in an area \"beyond remote\".\n\nHe said they received an alert from the single-engine aircraft's emergency transmitting beacon at 09:30 local time (13:30 BST) and teams were deployed to a mountain near Makkovik.\n\nHe said one of the men was able to send text messages to rescue teams, and, despite the weather conditions, the pair were extracted several hours later. Mr Simpson was pronounced dead in a clinic in Makkovik.\n\nPolice added both men were pilots and an investigation was taking place to determine \"who was actively piloting\" at the time.\n\nOliver Cartwright, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, said the organisation was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Simpson's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\nNorthern Ireland's council elections have seen the acreage occupied by the smaller parties grow.\n\nThe polls have ushered in some new faces... and bid farewell to some familiar ones.\n\nIn a weekend full of shocks and surprises, there were notable gains for the Greens, Alliance and People Before Profit.\n\nAs the dust settles on the count, BBC News NI looks at some of the winners and losers.\n\nIn a move some saw as the DUP testing the water on legalising gay marriage, the party's first openly gay politician contested the vote in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nAlison Bennington's success was hailed by Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson as a \"good news story\",\n\nHowever, the fact assembly member Jim Wells claimed former party leader, the late Ian Paisley, would be \"aghast\" at the decision to run a gay candidate points to the internal divisions that remain over same-sex relationships.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor her part, Ms Bennington, who runs a consultancy firm, chose to say nothing following her success - preferring to let the dust settle.\n\nThat could take some time considering what a seismic shift her elevation represents for the Presbyterian wing of the DUP.\n\nSitting alongside the DUP groundbreaker on Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council will be an independent whose candidacy was sparked by an April Fool's Facebook post.\n\nA suggestion that Michael Stewart take on the big boys and girls at the ballot box garnered enough support to persuade the advertising agency owner to do just that.\n\nThe man behind the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\n\n\"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nNot all superheroes wear capes - just ask A&E doctor and new mum Vikki McAuley.\n\nWith a five-month-old tot to take care of, she could be forgiven for having other things on her mind than representing the good people of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.\n\nBut as Benjamin Franklin once said: \"If you want something done, ask a busy person.\"\n\n\"The other thing that I'm doing at the minute - I'm on maternity leave, but I'm also studying, doing a part-time law degree at Jordanstown,\" she said.\n\n\"It's fair to say I like to keep busy - very busy.\n\n\"I was aiming for a career change to the law, but now I've ended up in politics. I've an exam on Thursday as well.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been a busy time in my family, we say we don't do anything by halves, we've always a lot going on.\n\n\"It's been a real family effort, all three children - they're aged nine, four and nearly six months - we've all been out at some stage canvassing.\"\n\nWhile there was plenty of new blood elected to local authorities across Northern Ireland, there were some famous and infamous names bidding adieu.\n\nAlan Graham was pictured in front of his barn, where a Bible verse was painted\n\nAs the singer filmed the promo for her 2011 hit We Found Love, it all got a bit too much for Mr Graham who shut down the shoot as things were heating up.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I thought it was inappropriate. I requested them to stop and they did,\" he explained at the time.\n\n\"I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God.\"\n\nFirst-time candidate Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA and has become the Greens' first councillor in that area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Áine Groogan: 'People are fed up with old-style politics'\n\nShe told BBC News NI her party had made gains because voters were \"fed up with old-style politics\".\n\nPeople Before Profit was raising a glass of Champagne or perhaps a well-priced cava, to some fine electoral successes - not least in Belfast where Michael Collins joins his brother Matthew in the chamber.\n\nMichael will represent Collin which takes in the Dunmurry, Ladybrook, Lagmore, Poleglass, Stewartstown and Twinbrook wards.\n\nMatt, meanwhile, is an old hand at the game, having been elected to Black Mountain in 2016.\n\nWhile the brothers Collins may be the youthful face of People Before Profit, Eamonn McCann is very much the veteran campaigner (despite the leather jacket).\n\nIn 1968, he earned the reputation of a fiery speaker at the forefront of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd after standing unsuccessfully for more than five decades, he was eventually elected in March 2016, at the age of 73, to the Stormont Assembly as a People Before Profit politician.\n\nBy March 2017, he had lost his seat in a snap election, but with plenty of fire still in his belly the Derry City fan is back on the political terraces having secured a berth on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter until the last seat is filled.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.", "Health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is willing to look at \"all options\" to boost England's vaccination levels, including compulsory immunisation.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC he did not want to \"reach the point\" of imposing jabs, but would \"rule nothing out\".\n\nMore than half a million children in the UK were unvaccinated against measles from 2010 to 2017, Unicef says.\n\nIn March, the head of NHS England warned \"vaccination deniers\" were gaining traction on social media.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after a report in The Times claimed almost 40,000 British parents had joined an online group calling for children to be left unimmunised against potentially fatal diseases such as tetanus.\n\nAnd in England, the proportion of children receiving both doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) jab by their fifth birthday has fallen over the last four years to 87.2%.\n\nThis is below the 95% said by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be the level necessary to protect a population from a disease.\n\nThe UK was declared free of the highly contagious measles disease for the first time by the WHO in 2017.\n\nBut in 2018, it experienced small outbreaks, and in March this year there was a sharp increase of cases across Greater Manchester.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC investigated in 2018 why there's been a measles outbreak in Europe\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said: \"Failure to vaccinate when there isn't a good reason is wrong.\n\n\"These people who campaign against vaccinations are campaigning against science - the science is settled.\n\n\"I don't want to have to reach the point of compulsory vaccination, and I don't think we are near there, but I will rule nothing out.\"\n\nHe said the failure to vaccinate children put at risk those who could not be vaccinated for medical reasons.\n\n\"Vaccination is good for you, good for your child, good for your neighbour and your community,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Alliance Party leader David Ford has hailed the party's performance so far in the council election.\n\nHe said the strong numbers was testament to the party's leader Naomi Long and deputy leader Stephen Farry.", "(L-R) Kevin Keegan, Patsy Kensit, Lord Archer, Michelle Collins, Joe Swash, and Denise Van Outen settled claims with the Mirror group in 2017\n\nThe publishers of the Sun and now-defunct News of the World, along with the publishers of the Mirror Group newspapers, could face a total bill for phone hacking of up to £1bn, says the group representing the victims.\n\nSettlements to victims, plus legal costs, already total nearly £500m.\n\nThere are hundreds more claims already under way and many thousands more victims who could potentially claim.\n\n\"More and more victims contact us each year,\" said Hacked Off's Nathan Sparks.\n\nHe told the BBC that this suggested there could be many hundreds or thousands more still to come.\n\n\"The apparent willingness of the Mirror Group Newspapers and Sun owners News UK to settle cases at seemingly any price indicates a desperation to avoid having these claims heard in open court - which would expose multiple allegations of corporate wrongdoing and criminality to the public gaze,\" he added.\n\n\"With the expenditure of all publishers taken into account, the total cost of the scandal could exceed £1bn - with virtually no accountability for the executives who have presided over it.\"\n\nA spokesperson for News UK simply said: \"We can't comment on active litigation.\" The Mirror Group also declined to comment.\n\nThe revelation that News of the World employee Glenn Mulcaire hacked the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler caused national outrage and led to a public inquiry into the behaviour of the press, the police and politicians, chaired by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson.\n\nThat inquiry was split into two parts, with part two deferred until after criminal prosecutions had been concluded - which they were in 2016.\n\nThe government then closed down the second part of the inquiry, meaning many of the claims of the victims were never heard in an open forum.\n\nPhone-hacking campaigners had hoped that a series of civil trials involving hundreds of victims would see fresh claims of wrongdoing by journalists, editors and owners at the Sun, the Mirror and the Sunday Mirror tested in reportable court proceedings.\n\nNews UK has always insisted that the illegality was confined to the News of the World.\n\nIt is true that the original Leveson inquiry led to criminal convictions mainly of people employed by the News of the World, with one journalist, Dan Evans, pleading guilty to hacking at both that paper and at the Sunday Mirror.\n\nThe convictions included that of Glenn Mulcaire, the man who hacked Milly Dowler's phone. He never testified in Leveson 1 because of his involvement in a criminal trial that resulted in him being sentenced to nine months in prison.\n\nHowever, the judge in a civil trial against the Mirror that subsequently DID make it all the way to court ruled that phone-hacking at the Mirror was \"widespread, institutionalised and long-standing\".\n\nA spokesperson for the publishers of the Mirror said: \"We don't believe there would be any merit in spending public money to hold a Leveson 2 inquiry today. The practices of the past which gave rise to the original Leveson inquiry have long since been banished from our newsrooms.\"\n\nSo far, News Group has paid out £400m and the Mirror's owners £75m.\n\nThese settlements are entered into voluntarily by the claimants, but even if they are satisfied with the money they received, many activists remain unsatisfied that the full extent of phone-hacking and other press intrusion was never explored in public.\n\nThe government has defended its decision to shut down Leveson 2, saying that because of significant changes in the media landscape since Leveson 1, proceeding further \"was no longer appropriate, proportionate, or in the public interest\".\n\nSir Brian Leveson himself strongly rejected that conclusion in a letter to the government.\n\nActor and phone-hacking victim Hugh Grant told the BBC the conclusion was deeply unsatisfactory.\n\nHe said: \"The vast majority of people who were running the press pre-Leveson are still in place to this day and they got away scot-free, precisely because the Leveson inquiry was always supposed to be split into 2 parts, because the second part - who did what to who - the precise gradual stuff had to be delayed until after the civil criminal trials.\n\n\"And once they did finish, Theresa May completely backed down.\"\n\nThe press, the police and the politicians tell the public Leveson 1 forced everyone to clean up their act. But many activists and victims feel that an awful lot of dirty linen remains unwashed.\n\nThe newspaper owners involved have paid hundreds of millions of pounds to keep it that way.\n\nThe Press, the Police, the Politicians and their Public airs on Radio 4 on Sunday 5 May at 13:30.", "Actor Sir Tony Robinson, a former member of Labour's governing National Executive Committee, says he has quit the party over its current direction.\n\nHe said he was leaving after nearly 45 years because of Labour's stance on Brexit, its handling of anti-Semitism allegations and its poor leadership.\n\nSir Tony, 72, is best known for playing Baldrick in the comedy Blackadder.\n\nThe political activist has spoken at rallies for the People's Vote campaign, which is calling for a public vote on the final Brexit deal.\n\nHis decision comes as Labour lost seats in Thursday's local elections, with voters turning to smaller parties and independents.\n\nAnnouncing his move on Twitter, Sir Tony said it was partly down to the party's \"continued duplicity on Brexit\".\n\nHe has previously written a tweet to deputy leader Tom Watson, saying: \"Our party members are overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. To campaign on a platform of constructive ambiguity would be unprincipled, duplicitous and rather sinister.\"\n\nLabour has refused to fully endorse a further referendum on Brexit - as supported by many ordinary members - instead saying it would do so under certain circumstances.\n\nSir Tony, who has frequently criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, also raised the issue of anti-Semitism and swore when describing the leadership in his tweet.\n\nLabour has been dogged by criticism of how it has handled allegations of anti-Semitism since Mr Corbyn became leader.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tony Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Time Team presenter, who campaigned at several general elections, served on Labour's National Executive Committee between 2000-04.\n\nLabour did not want to comment on his departure.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCoverage: TV highlights on Saturday, 4 May, BBC One at 13:15 BST\n\nCaster Semenya said \"no human can stop me from running\" after winning the 800m at the Doha Diamond League meet amid speculation over her future.\n\nIt comes just two days after the South African, 28, lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nSemenya challenged IAAF rules designed to limit testosterone levels in female runners but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected her appeal.\n\n\"When you are a great champion, you always deliver.\n\n\"It's up to God. God has decided my life, God will end my life; God has decided my career, God will end my career. No man, or any other human, can stop me from running.\"\n\nThe Doha meet was Semenya's final race before the IAAF's new rules come into force on 8 May.\n\nShe added: \"How am I going to retire when I'm 28? I still feel young, energetic. I still have 10 years or more in athletics.\n\n\"It doesn't matter how I'm going to do it, what matters is I'll still be here. I am never going anywhere.\n\n\"I'm going to keep on doing what I do best - which is running.\"\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nUnder the new IAAF rules Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nOn Thursday, Semenya posted a cryptic tweet that suggested she could quit athletics, including a quote which referred to knowing when to walk away.\n\nAsked by reporters whether she would take medication to allow her to run in the 800m, she replied: \"Hell no.\"\n\nAnd she insisted she would be running in Doha again at the World Championships in September - though she did not know if that would be in the 800m or 5,000m races.\n\n\"With a situation like this you can never tell the future but the only thing you know is that you will be running,\" she said.\n\nVictory in the opening Diamond League event of the season was her 30th in a row at 800m.\n\nThe double Olympic champion showed no emotion as she crossed the finish line in the fastest time of the year and a meeting record of one minute 54.98 seconds, having dominated the race from the start.\n\nBurundi's Francine Niyonsaba finished second with the United States' Ajee Wilson third. Britain's Lynsey Sharp finished ninth.\n\nSharp, 28, told BBC Sport she had received death threats as a result of previous comments she had made about Semenya's \"advantage\".\n\n\"I've known Caster since 2008, it's something I've been familiar with over the past 11 years,\" she said.\n\n\"No-one benefits from this situation - of course she doesn't benefit, but it's not me versus her, it's not us versus them.\n\n\"I've had death threats. I've had threats against my family and that's not a position I want to be in. It's really unfortunate the way it's played out.\n\n\"By no means am I over the moon about this, it's just been a long 11 years for everyone.\"\n\nSemenya can appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within 30 days of the ruling.", "Alliance's Ross McMullan (centre) got almost 1,000 votes over the quota when he was elected to Belfast City Council\n\nPR elections in Northern Ireland are always more of a marathon than a sprint, so it's wise not to overanalyse the results at the halfway mark.\n\nThe protracted drama of single transferable voting means that both candidates and parties who looked like hares early on turn into tortoises as the white tape approaches.\n\nConversely some early stragglers eventually crawl on their hands and knees towards the finishing line.\n\nSo with that caveat, where are we after day one of the count?\n\nAlliance's surge is undeniably the most striking development.\n\nSo with inter-party talks due to get under way on Tuesday, what lessons might the party leaders be mulling over from the local council elections?\n\nAs day one of the count drew to a close the most striking development was the strong showing for Alliance.\n\nAt the halfway point their vote share was up by five percentage points, and they had broken out of their Greater Belfast heartlands by taking seats in places like the ABC council (Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon) and Derry & Strabane where they previously had no representation.\n\nWhat has fuelled the Alliance success?\n\nWell since its inception in 1970 the party has stood for compromise between Orange and Green, so it seems plausible that the public's disenchantment with the paralysis at Stormont must have been an important factor.\n\nAlso on Brexit, Alliance reflects a widespread anxiety about the potential impact on the border and business.\n\nWith the parties due to resume talks next Tuesday, maybe the British and Irish governments could do worse than to re-read the Alliance blueprint \"Next Steps Forward\" which suggested a variety of ways to break the deadlock including the appointment of an independent talks facilitator.\n\nAlliance haven't been the only winners - the strong performances of Green and left wing People Before Profit candidates appear to indicate generational change.\n\nAnd the election of the DUP's first openly gay candidate shows that times are changing, even within the party which used to be regarded as the political wing of Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church.\n\nBut the maverick South Down MLA Jim Wells isn't the only DUP traditionalist unnerved by the election of Alison Bennington.\n\nIn private, other DUP figures think the leadership is testing the water as part of a process of incremental change.\n\nAlison Bennington (centre, with thumbs up) celebrates her election to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council\n\nThe draft deal which the DUP failed to sign off on in February of last year sidelined the issue of same sex marriage (something Sinn Féin took some criticism over).\n\nBut as the former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams made clear in a blog published on polling day it will be back near the top of the talks agenda in the coming weeks.\n\nThe DUP seem fairly relaxed about their performance, with their vote share up and the Traditional Unionist Voice well down.\n\nBut both big parties will no doubt be annoyed that they have failed to take overall control of a single council.\n\nOn a good day, Sinn Féin might have hoped to seize either Fermanagh & Omagh or Derry & Strabane, whilst the DUP could have had a similar aspiration in Lisburn & Castlereagh.\n\nIn the event, none of these targets were hit.\n\nSinn Féin did make a breakthrough in Lisburn & Castlereagh, where they got two councillors in a chamber in which they were previously unrepresented.\n\nBut some of the party's other gambits failed to pay off - notably moving Patrice Hardy into Ballymena in the hope of inheriting some SDLP votes.\n\nSo far the Ulster Unionists look like the losers with a fall of two percentage points.\n\nThat's partly because the former leader Mike Nesbitt had a successful council election five years ago, and under Robin Swann's leadership the party seems to lack firm direction, uncomfortably straddling a divide between its liberal and hardline unionists.\n\nThe SDLP has experienced problems, with breakaway councillors in some districts and arguments over its new link with Fianna Fáil.\n\nHowever, it has proved resilient, especially in its Derry & Strabane home turf, with impressive debuts from Cara Hunter and Mary Durkan, who is keeping the family political dynasty going.\n\nAnd last but not least we have a new kid on the block - the pro-life republican Aontú with its first councillor, recently retired GP Anne McCloskey, also in Derry & Strabane.\n\nDay two and the political marathon continues.\n\nThe day after the counting stops, the real runners will take to the streets of Belfast for a real marathon.\n\nIt's the first time the race has taken place in the city on a Sunday, another reminder of how much the times have changed for those who still remember the days when some Northern Ireland councils used to tie up the swings in their play parks in the name of observing the Lord's Day.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham's Harvey Elliott has become the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.\n\nThe England under-17 midfielder made his debut in the 88th minute of Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Wolves.\n\nFormer Fulham left-back Matthew Briggs held the previous record, set on 13 May 2007 at 16 years and 68 days.\n\nElliott, born on 4 April 2003, became Fulham's youngest player with a substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup third round in September, aged 15.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the Premier League's youngest players?\n\n\"Harvey is on the bench and gets on the pitch because he deserves to,\" said Fulham's caretaker boss Scott Parker. \"He's been outstanding in training over the past three weeks. He's a special talent and we want to nurture him the best we can.\"\n\nThe youngster, who will be sitting his GCSEs in just a few weeks' time, was born in a year that saw Black Eyed Peas dominate the charts with Where Is the Love?\n\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded ruled at the cinema box office.\n\nNumber one in the charts on the day Elliott was born was Gareth Gates and The Kumars' charity song Spirit in the Sky.\n\nElliott was born 10 months after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho inspired Brazil to World Cup glory and nine months after Manchester United broke the British transfer record with the £30m signing of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in July 2002.\n\nHe was just three months old when Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, two months old when David Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for £24.5m and four months old when Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for United.\n\nManchester United won their eighth Premier League title and 15th top-flight league title in the 2002-03 season, while AC Milan were the Champions League winners, beating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.\n\nLeon Osman, Wayne Rooney and James Milner were among those to make their debuts earlier that season, while Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won the Treble with Manchester United, retired from playing in May 2003.", "The body was found in a house in Springfield Drive\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a teenage girl was found in a house.\n\nWiltshire Police said officers were called to a residential address in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire, just before 15:15 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Despite attempts from the ambulance crew, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon, and remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said he was known to the girl, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said there would be a \"significant police presence\" in the area over the weekend as inquiries continued.\n\n\"This investigation is still in its early stages but I would like to reassure the local community that a robust police response was launched yesterday and will continue in the days to come.\"\n\nHe added that the victim's family was receiving support from \"specially trained officers\".\n\nPolice have not disclosed the age of the girl.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987\n\nA man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say.\n\nGeorge Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\n\nMr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Perrot come three years after he was freed from prison by a judge who ruled he was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987.\n\nGeorge Perrot was arrested in 1985, aged 17, accused of raping 78-year-old Mary Prekop at her home in Springfield, Massachusetts.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 2016 after the Supreme Court exonerated him because of flawed evidence.\n\nThe prosecution's case rested on faulty FBI analysis of a single hair found at the crime scene, the court ruled.\n\nMr Perrot's release, after a decades-long legal battle to clear his name, generated media attention worldwide.\n\nThe new charges against him allege rape, open and gross lewdness, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer, according to the Republican.\n\nThe newspaper reports that police found Mr Perrot lying unconscious on the ground, with his face between a partially naked and unconscious woman's legs.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, the woman claimed she did not consent to sex with Mr Perrot, it reports.\n\nThe last thing she remembered before losing consciousness, she reportedly told police, was snorting some powder she claims Mr Perrot gave her.", "Kim Jong-un held talks with the US president in February\n\nNorth Korea has tested several short-range missiles, according to reports from South Korea.\n\nThey were fired from the Hodo peninsula in the east of the country, said South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\nIf confirmed, it will be the first missile launch since Pyongyang tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.\n\nLast month Pyongyang said it had tested what it described as a new \"tactical guided weapon\".\n\nThat was the first test since the Vietnam summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and US President Donald Trump, which ended without agreement.\n\nPresident Trump walked away from what he described as a bad deal offered by Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February.\n\nOn Saturday, the US president tweeted that he believed the North Korean leader would not do anything that could jeopardise his country's path towards better relations and economic normalisation.\n\n\"He also knows that I am with him and does not want to break his promise to me,\" President Trump wrote in the social media post.\n\nThe second summit between President Trump and Mr Kim ended without agreement\n\nFiring a short range missile would not violate North Korea's promise not to test long range or nuclear missiles.\n\nBut Pyongyang appears to be growing impatient with Washington's insistence that full economic sanctions remain until Mr Kim takes serious steps to dismantle his nuclear weapons programme, says the BBC's Laura Bicker.\n\n\"We are aware of North Korea's actions tonight,\" said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. \"We will continue to monitor as necessary.\"\n\nNorth Korea \"fired a number of short-range missiles from its Hodo peninsula near the east coast town of Wonsan to the north-eastern direction from 09:06 (00:06 GMT) to 09:27,\" the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.\n\nThe missiles flew for between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan, they added.\n\nHodo has been used in the past for launching cruise missiles and long-range artillery testing.\n\nAccording to the North Korea news agency (KCNA), April's test of a new \"tactical guided weapon\" was overseen by Mr Kim himself. It said the test was \"conducted in various modes of firing at different targets\", which analysts believe means the weapon could be launched from land, sea or air.\n\nIt is unclear if that weapon was a missile, but most observers agree that it was probably a short-range weapon.\n\nLast year, Mr Kim said he would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nNuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.\n\nThe country claims it has developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.", "A 66-year-old man has been robbed of a five-figure sum after a group of men burst into his home and stole a safe.\n\nPolice have described the attack, which took place on Friday at about 14:15 in Shields Road in Galston, near Kilmarnock, as \"incredible callous\".\n\nThey said they believed the raid was pre-planned by about four or five men.\n\nIt follows the theft of a safe from a family home in Paisley, in which two men forced their way into a house while a couple and a young child were inside.\n\nFollowing the theft in Kilmarnock, the men made off in a silver coloured Lexus GS300 car, which had a broken rear windscreen, heading towards the centre of Galston.\n\nDet Sgt Ewan Bell said: \"Although the man was not physically injured, this robbery was a terrifying experience for him to have to go through and he has been left shaken.\n\n\"Nobody should be afraid in their own home and it is vital that we find the men responsible for this incredibly callous and forceful crime.\"\n\nMr Bell said officers were going through CCTV and making door-to-door inquiries in an effort to find the men responsible.\n\nHe added: \"We believe that the man we have described may have been in the area in the days leading up to the robbery and that it was a pre-planned, targeted attack.\"\n\nOne of the men was wearing a grey balaclava while another is described as being 5ft 10in tall, of stocky build with pale skin. He is described as having short cropped hair that was either blond or red and stubble on his face.\n\nMeanwhile, police are investigating an armed robbery at a family home in Paisley in which a safe was also stolen.\n\nA 27-year-old woman answered her door to two men in the town's Dee Crescent, at about 11:50 on Friday, when they forced their way in.\n\nThe woman was in the house with her young child and 31-year-old partner. Police said the men managed to get into one of the rooms where they stole the safe.\n\nOne of the suspects dropped a \"bladed weapon\" after being chased away from the scene by the 31-year-old man.\n\nDet Con John Sharkey said the two suspects were dressed entirely in black and would have \"looked completely out of place\".\n\nHe added: \"Although thankfully not injured, this was very distressing for both the man and woman involved especially as their young child was also in the house at the time.\n\n\"The man gave chase after the suspects along Dee Crescent and managed to recover one of the weapons used, but the men got away.\n\n\"At this time we do not know why their house was targeted.\"\n\nThe suspects, who made off on foot towards Fulbar Road, are described as both white, between 30 and 40 years of age and wearing almost identical clothing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rockets were seen in the sky above Ashkelon in Israel\n\nMilitants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.\n\nOne Israeli was killed by shrapnel, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.\n\nHowever, Israel said the mother and baby were killed by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target.\n\nThe flare-up over the weekend followed a truce agreed last month.\n\nFour Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.\n\nThe latest violence marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nOne of the air strikes has hit the offices of Turkish news agency Anadolu, prompting condemnation from Istanbul.\n\nAn Israeli man died early on Sunday in Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) north of Gaza, after being wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit his house.\n\nThe rocket barrage began at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, and 250 rockets have now been fired into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.\n\nA number of homes in parts of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip have been hit. Many residents rushed to bomb shelters.\n\nAn 80-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kiryat Gat.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome missile defence system shot down dozens of the rockets, the IDF said.\n\nIn response the IDF said it had launched air and artillery strikes against 120 Gaza sites belonging to Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and against groups including Islamic Jihad. It blamed both for the attacks.\n\nPalestinian officials say a 22-year-old man was killed. Reuters news agency quotes a small pro-Hamas militant group as saying he was one of their fighters.\n\nThe other deaths included those of a 37-year-old woman and her 14-month-old daughter who were killed in an air strike in the east of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials.\n\nHowever, Israel questioned whether an air strike had killed the mother and baby.\n\n\"According to indications the baby and her mother died as a result of the terrorist activities of Palestinian saboteurs and not as a result of an Israeli strike,\" tweeted Avichay Adraee, without giving further details.\n\nIsrael's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, tweeted that the pair were killed by a Palestinian rocket which fell short.\n\nTurkey's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, condemned the attacks against civilians as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also issued a condemnation of the Anadolu strike.\n\nThe Israeli military defended targeting the building in a statement, saying the structure was used by Hamas's West Bank task force and as an office for senior members of the Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe violence began during weekly Friday protests in Gaza against the tight blockade of the area. Israel says this is needed to stop weapons reaching Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers at the boundary fence. The IDF blamed Islamic Jihad for the shooting.\n\nRafah was one of the Gaza locations targeted by Israel\n\nThe Israeli air strike in response killed two Hamas militants. Another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at the fence.\n\nIslamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks on Saturday in response to Friday's violence.\n\nIts statement also accused Israel of failing to implement last month's ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Egypt.\n\nSaturday's rocket attacks coincided with Palestinians burying the two militants.\n\n\"The resistance will continue to respond to the crimes by the occupation and it will not allow it to shed the blood of our people,\" Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said in a statement on Saturday. He made no explicit claim for Hamas firing the rockets.\n\nAbout two million Palestinians live in Gaza, which has suffered economically from the Israeli and Egyptian blockade as well as recent foreign aid cuts.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester City completed a domestic cup double as they eventually overpowered West Ham at Wembley to lift the Women's FA Cup for a second time in three years.\n\nEngland midfielder Keira Walsh's bouncing strike from outside the area put City ahead in the second period, after major final debutants West Ham had initially defied their underdog status with an impressive first-half display.\n\nLate goals from City youngsters Georgia Stanway and Lauren Hemp completed the win, securing the club's sixth major trophy.\n\nVictory also saw Nick Cushing's side move within one match of completing an entire domestic season unbeaten, as they added to February's League Cup success.\n\nThe Hammers, who reached the final in their first season as a professional side - less than a year after leaping up from the third division with a successful top-tier licence application last summer - had threatened to pull off a shock win, creating the best chance of the first half.\n\nBut City - who had not conceded a goal in the FA Cup this season - showed their class and experience after the break and could have added to their tally in the final moments.\n\nThe crowd of 43,264 at England's national stadium fell just short of last season's competition record of 45,423, but was nevertheless still one of the largest for a club-level women's game in Europe in the modern era.\n\nAll of City's six major trophies have come since 2014 under the management of Nick Cushing and they will finish the season without losing a single domestic game if they can avoid defeat away at Women's Super League winners Arsenal next Saturday.\n\nEngland and City goalkeeper Karen Bardsley had produced a superb save to keep out Scotland striker Jane Ross' bouncing header from Erin Simon's right-wing cross, in the best moment of the first half, after a cagey start.\n\nThe Hammers then wanted a penalty when midfielder Alisha Lehmann went down in the box under Jill Scott's challenge, but the officials felt the City midfielder had not made contact with Lehmann.\n\nBut City - who won the cup for the first time in 2017 - were more energetic after the break and Scotland's Caroline Weir blazed over from inside the area shortly before Walsh opened the scoring with only her second goal of the season.\n\nThe holding midfielder's swerving effort bounced just in front of goal and caught out West Ham keeper Anna Moorhouse, who later saved well from Tessa Wullaert and Nikita Parris.\n\nThe Hammers' best chance of the second half came on the counter attack, but Switzerland's Lehmann fired straight at Bardsley, as City began to dominate, and 20-year-old Stanway doubled the lead with a low, deflected strike.\n\nSubstitute Hemp - who turned 18 in August - then showed a calmness in front of goal that defied her youthfulness as she supplied a cool finish, and she almost added City's fourth but she struck the post late on.\n\nDespite the result, West Ham - who beat Reading on penalties in their semi-final - have impressed many during their maiden WSL campaign and appear to be building a growing fanbase, with their fans appearing to significantly outnumber City supporters at Wembley.\n\nThe East London club had asked the Premier League to move the kick-off time of their men's team's league match at home to Southampton earlier on Saturday, but the plea was denied, much to the Hammers' disappointment.\n\nOn the pitch, they initially surpassed the bookmakers' pre-match expectations, frustrating City early on, at odds with their 10-2 aggregate loss from this season's two league meetings, but Ross' first-half header was the best chance.\n\nUltimately, City's clean sheet saw Cushing's side - lead by talismanic England captain Steph Houghton at the back - finish their five-game cup run without conceding a goal.\n\n\"West Ham were excellent, but I expected them to be good, play on the counter-attack and cause us problems.\n\n\"I thought we were just a little bit emotional [in the first half]. The occasion affected our offensive play.\n\n\"We asked the players to just settle down, play logically and be controlled. In the second half they looked comfortable.\n\n\"I'm so proud of the players. I hope they will go now and spend so much time with their family. They've put in so much effort to make this team successful again, they deserve everything they get.\"\n\n\"It was a game of two halves, wasn't it? We created the better chances in the first half.\n\n\"The first goal changes the game. When you go behind against Manchester City, they're a very good team, and Man City deserved to win it on their second-half performance.\n\n\"But when we walked around at the end, with the fans, and you look at what we've created in such a short space of time as a club, this team is only going to get better and our fanbase is only going to grow. It's been really tough but, to be here, speaks volumes for what we're trying to do.\n\n\"We have a lot of young players who will learn from this and become better players because of it.\"\n• None Attempt saved. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Claire Emslie with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Claire Emslie (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Lauren Hemp.\n• None Attempt missed. Adriana Leon (West Ham United Women FC) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Cho So-Hyun.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Claire Emslie.\n• None Attempt missed. Brianna Visalli (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rosie Kmita with a cross.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 3, West Ham United Women FC 0. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from long range on the left to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jennifer Beattie.\n• None Attempt missed. Gilly Flaherty (West Ham United Women FC) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Adriana Leon with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Abbie McManus following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Keira Walsh with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Manchester City Women 2, West Ham United Women FC 0. Georgia Stanway (Manchester City Women) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Caroline Weir. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Dr Julia Crummy believes we still have much to learn about eruptions\n\nResearch at the British Geological Survey (BGS) in Edinburgh is warning that we still don't know enough when it comes to predicting and preparing for major volcanic eruptions.\n\nDr Julia Crummy has based her conclusion on years spent researching the Volcán de Colima in Mexico.\n\nStanding over 12,470ft (3,800m) high, it is one of the most active volcanoes in North America.\n\nColima has erupted every other year, on average, since 1900. Its last phase of eruptions lasted from 2013 to 2017.\n\nIn 2015 the fall of ash was so severe that hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes and the local airport was closed temporarily. There were more evacuations the following year.\n\nOne Colima eruption was mistaken for the sound of cavalry\n\nDr Crummy says the last really big explosion was in 1913.\n\n\"There was a civil war going on at the time and they actually thought it was cavalry,\" she says. \"It produced a really huge ash cloud that rose up to about 23km (14 miles).\n\n\"Pyroclastic flows travelled 15km (9 miles) from the volcano and ash fall was reported in Guadalajara. That's about 160km (99 miles) away.\"\n\nToday, more than 500,000 people live within 30km (17 miles) of Colima. Extensive plans are in place to safeguard them in the event of another big explosion.\n\nBut how big will that be?\n\nThe historical record of Colima's activity only begins after the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1519.\n\nDr Crummy has been using geology to look back further by examining layers of ash left behind by prehistoric eruptions.\n\n\"Charcoal samples for dating have enabled us to identify that these span the past 30,000 years.\n\n\"By looking at the minerals in the samples we can look at how behaviour has changed over time.\"\n\nEyjafjallajökull in Iceland reminded the world of the potential disruption from volcanoes\n\nBy establishing the thickness of each layer Dr Crummy was able to build a numerical model of how large the eruptions had been.\n\nShe modelled the volume and magnitude of five prehistoric explosive events between 4,400 and 6,000 years ago.\n\nHer most surprising finding is that some were an order of magnitude bigger than previously thought.\n\nInstead of throwing a cubic kilometre of debris into the atmosphere it was 10 times as much.\n\nThat is 10 times larger than the explosions on which the current plans and hazard maps are based.\n\n\"That's not to say the hazard maps are wrong,\" Dr Crummy says.\n\n\"They're based on a worst case scenario using known historical data, which is absolutely fine.\n\n\"But what we're doing is highlighting the fact that actually, if you look at the geological record and extend beyond the historical over the last 10,000 years or so, we can see there have been much larger eruptions.\n\n\"So it's about awareness.\"\n\nAn eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala last year is thought to have killed 190 people\n\nThis study of single volcano has far wider implications.\n\nAn estimated 800 million people live within 100km (62 miles) of a potentially active volcano.\n\nWriting in the Journal of Applied Volcanology, Dr Crummy says it means science's understanding of past volcanic eruptions is still limited.\n\nAnd in many places the geological record is less well preserved than at Colima.\n\nThe eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air traffic as recently as 2010 but much of the geological evidence has already been washed away.\n\nDr Crummy's research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the BGS and the Smithsonian Institute.\n\nColima's cone is closely monitored - you can do it yourself on a live webcam.\n\nThis week increasing seismic activity raised the alert state from green to yellow.\n\nThat means people are not being allowed within 8km (5 miles) of the volcano.\n\nSo, for the time being, tourists are prevented from taking snaps of Colima's vivid contrast between snow and fire.", "Leonardo da Vinci could have experienced nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life, Italian doctors suggest.\n\nThey diagnosed ulnar palsy, or \"claw hand\", by analysing the depiction of his right hand in two artworks.\n\nIt had been suggested that Leonardo's hand impairment was caused by a stroke.\n\nBut in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the doctors suggest it was nerve damage that meant he could no longer hold a palette and brush.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, was an artist and inventor whose talents included architecture, anatomy, engineering and sculpture, as well as painting.\n\nBut art historians have debated which hand he used to draw and paint with.\n\nAnalysis of his drawing shows shading sloping from the upper left to lower right, suggesting left-handedness. But all historical biographical documents suggest Leonardo used his right hand when he was creating other kinds of works.\n\nFor this research, two artworks - showing Leonardo da Vinci in the latter stages of his life - were analysed. One is a portrait of the artist, drawn with red chalk, attributed to the 16th-century Lombard artist Giovanni Ambrogio Figino.\n\nUnusually, it shows his right arm largely concealed in folds of clothing. His hand is visible, but in a \"stiff, contracted position\".\n\nDr Davide Lazzeri, a specialist in plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery at the Villa Salaria Clinic in Rome, who led the analysis, said: \"Rather than depicting the typical clenched hand seen in post-stroke muscular spasticity, the picture suggests an alternative diagnosis such as ulnar palsy, commonly known as 'claw hand'.\"\n\nThe ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little finger, and manages almost all the intrinsic hand muscles that allow fine motor movements, so a fall could have caused trauma to his upper arm, leading to the palsy, or weakness.\n\nThere are no reports of any cognitive decline or other motor impairment, which offers further evidence that a stroke was an unlikely cause of Leonardo's impairment. Dr Lazzeri said.\n\nHe added: \"This may explain why he left numerous paintings incomplete, including the Mona Lisa, during the last five years of his career as a painter, while he continued teaching and drawing.\"\n\nA further image, an engraving of a man playing a lira da braccio - a Renaissance string instrument - was examined. The man in the engraving was recently identified as Leonardo da Vinci. Further evidence was obtained from a diary entry by a Cardinal's assistant about a visit to the artist's house in 1517.\n\nThe assistant, Antonio de Beatis wrote: \"One cannot indeed expect any more good work from him as a certain paralysis has crippled his right hand... And although Messer Leonardo can no longer paint with the sweetness which was peculiar to him, he can still design and instruct others.\"", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Karanbir Cheema died almost two weeks after cheese was flicked at him at school, the inquest heard\n\nThe death of a schoolboy who collapsed after cheese was thrown at him was \"unprecedented\", an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, died after having a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nSpecialist Dr Adam Fox said severe reactions from skin contact were \"very, very uncommon\" and he was \"not aware of any fatal cases\".\n\nThe boy who threw the cheese previously told the inquest he had been \"playing around\".\n\nKaranbir, who had multiple allergies including to dairy products, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition after falling ill at Perkin Church of England High School in Greenford.\n\nHe died almost two weeks later at Great Ormond Street Hospital of post-cardiac arrest syndrome.\n\nSt Pancras Coroner's Court heard Karanbir's Epipen, which was kept at the school, was 11 months out of date and was the only adrenaline administered before the teenager suffered cardiac arrest.\n\nHe displayed signs of anaphylaxis such as scratching for several minutes before receiving the adrenaline, the inquest heard.\n\nDr Fox, a paediatric allergy consultant at Evelina London Children's Hospital, told the court it is \"an important learning point\" that \"at the first sign of anaphylaxis it's 'get the adrenaline out and make sure they get it as soon as possible'.\"\n\nBut Dr Fox said the pen \"probably had less potency\" as it was past its expiry date.\n\nKaranbir's Epipen, kept in the school welfare room, was out of date\n\nDr Fox said the cause of the reaction was what made it \"extraordinarily unusual\".\n\n\"If it was skin contact alone that caused, in this case fatal, anaphylaxis, I believe that to be unprecedented,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest has heard Karanbir, who also suffered from eczema, had scratched at his neck so much that blood was visible.\n\nDr Fox said \"further scratching and degrading of the skin barrier\" could have added to the reaction.\n\nA paramedic admitted she had \"probably\" panicked when treating him, when asked by the coroner.\n\nAlexandra Ulrich said she thought Karanbir had suffered an asthma attack and gave him two grams of magnesium sulfate, a drug which is used to treat muscle spasms during severe asthma attacks but is not meant for children.\n\n\"If I had known about the specific details of the history about the allergens, I wouldn't have given it,\" she said.\n\nMs Ulrich added a pocketbook given to ambulance staff had since been updated to make explicit the substance was not meant for under 18s.\n\nAndrew Jones, paediatric intensive care consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Karanbir's brain had been severely deprived of oxygen and over days it became apparent he \"had no chance of survival\".\n\nPathologist Liina Palm told the inquest the death was caused by anaphylactic shock and cited multiple food allergies as the underlying cause.\n\nDame Alice Hudson, executive head teacher of the Twyford Trust - which encompasses William Perkin school, said she believed there had been \"a very good general awareness\" of Karanbir's allergies among pupils.\n\nThe coroner is due to deliver her conclusion on 10 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Theresa May was heckled at the Welsh Conservative conference\n\nNeither the prime minister nor the Labour leader has anywhere to hide.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it IS surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further rather than closer from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nTake a breath. Local ballots do not translate directly into the next general election. It bears repeating time and again that specific rows over green belt building, local party spats, even simple quirks of geography all apply too.\n\nBut such an enormous set of results does give a sense of the public's political taste at this moment. And it provides a bitter flavour for the two big UK parties - locked in an uncomfortable embrace with historically feeble levels of support.\n\nThe public will also have given both of them anxiety about the potential of the Lib Dems to creep back into their territory after a strong show. And the sour mood around Brexit adds more pressure to Labour and the Tories in their own ranks too.\n\nFor Mrs May it directly and overtly gives ammunition for convinced Tory Eurosceptics to demand a more rapid departure from the EU, whatever happens.\n\nThe delay, they believe has been toxic, so the solution is to speed on. And for Labour's many supporters of a second referendum, the significant advance of the Lib Dems and the Greens is evidence that a clear demand for another say is the only way to carve out a convincing identity.\n\nThat geographical pattern is very marked, although unwise maybe to assume it can last, or a howl for another referendum is what it overwhelmingly means.\n\nBecause while our departure from the EU has just shaped yet another chapter of our politics in an unconventional way, two of the old rules do still apply.\n\nAfter months of grisly pantomime, the rejection of both parties may well also be a simple judgement on both main parties' competence.\n\nVoters quite plainly like politicians who look like they know what they are doing. And the public does not like parties that spend vast amounts of time fighting amongst themselves.\n\nWhether government or opposition, we want them to care about us, rather than be expected to care about them.\n\nNo surprise for today at least, that the Labour and Tory leaderships are both outwardly trying to push harder for a joint deal that could find a way out for them both - damned or saved together.\n\nBut their local election anguish doesn't make a deal any easier to achieve.\n\nSo our two big political parties are both finding there's been a cost to conflict and messy internal compromise.\n\nAnd will look ahead nervously to the European elections when two new parties created specifically to advance clear ways out of the Brexit stalemate could divide the public more cleanly, and mete out a much more painful punishment to them.", "Unless a rich benefactor steps in, the role of human-induced climate change in Cyclone Idai is unlikely to be clearly determined.\n\nThe scientists with the expertise simply don't have the resources to do the large amount of computer modelling required.\n\nHowever, there are a number of conclusions about rising temperatures that researchers have gleaned from previous studies on tropical cyclones in the region.\n\nWhile Cyclone Idai is the seventh such major storm of the Indian Ocean season - more than double the average for this time of year - the long-term trend does not support the idea that these type of events are now more frequent.\n\n\"The interesting thing for the area is that the frequency of tropical cyclones has decreased ever so slightly over the last 70 years,\" said Dr Jennifer Fitchett from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who has studied the question.\n\n\"Instead, we are getting a much higher frequency of high-intensity storms.\"\n\nClimate change is also changing a number of factors in the background that are contributing to making the impact of these storms worse.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that when there is a tropical cyclone like this, then because of climate change the rainfall intensities are higher,\" said Dr Friederike Otto, from the University of Oxford, who has carried a number of studies looking at the influence of warming on specific events.\n\n\"And also because of sea-level rise, the resulting flooding is more intense than it would be without human-induced climate change.\"\n\nA poor country with a long coastline, Mozambique is especially vulnerable to storms sweeping in from the Indian Ocean.\n\nMore than 700 lives were lost during a devastating flood there nearly 20 years ago. I was one of many journalists reporting on the plight of communities submerged. One woman, stranded in a tree, was forced to give birth among the branches.\n\nA huge international response saw the Royal Air Force send six helicopters to rescue survivors. Back then, the priority was to save lives. Little thought was given to rebuilding homes and infrastructure with new designs to help them withstand future storms.\n\nDevelopment experts have long argued that reconstruction should enshrine the principle of resilience, with roads raised high enough to stay dry in floods and houses made robust enough to resist cyclone-strength winds.\n\nThere are plenty of examples of how this forward-thinking can help. In low-lying Bangladesh, there are schools built on high ground which can serve as refuges during storms. And as the potential effects of climate change become better understood, there's growing recognition of the need for communities to adapt to what could be tougher conditions ahead.\n\nOne critical factor in the Southern Indian Ocean that is having an impact on these storms is sea-surface temperatures. Warmer seas mean there is more energy available for cyclones, which only form when the water reaches 26 degrees C.\n\nThese storms also need help from the Earth's rotation to get them spinning. This rotating effect gets stronger the further you move away from the Equator and towards the poles.\n\nHowever, in previous decades, the further away you were from the Equator meant the cooler the seas became and so any tropical cyclones that formed didn't have the energy to keep going. Now climate change is impacting that relationship.\n\n\"Under increasing sea-surface temperatures, we are seeing the line of constant temperature required for these storms to form moving further and further towards the South Pole,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"So it is increasing the range in which these storms can form and that's then allowing them to intensify so quickly.\"\n\nBut it's not just a simple equation. Higher sea-surface temperatures can also work against the formation of cyclones.\n\n\"On the one hand, you have the higher ocean temperatures and that lends more energy for tropical cyclones to form,\" said Dr Otto. \"But you also have higher temperatures in the atmosphere which leads to more wind shear, which weakens hurricanes.\"\n\nAccording to researchers, about seven different ocean or atmospheric conditions are required for cyclone formation and normally only a couple of these occur. However, because of climate change, more and more of these conditions are coinciding with each other and that's why these big storms happen very quickly.\n\nWhatever arguments about the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones, the damage caused in Mozambique has much more to do with the vulnerability of people on the ground than rising temperatures.\n\n\"If you look at North America, they are experiencing Category 5 cyclones quite regularly now, and they don't experience the level of damage that Mozambique is seeing,\" said Dr Fitchett.\n\n\"When a storm like this comes along, the potential for devastation is infinitely higher. A city like Beria is at much higher risk, because not only have you many more people there, it's also so much more difficult for them to get out.\"", "Stormzy has beaten Taylor Swift to the UK's number one spot - giving him his first chart-topping single.\n\nThe grime artist's comeback track Vossi Bop amassed 94,500 first-week combined sales to clinch victory over Swift's Me!, which ultimately entered third behind Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.\n\nStormzy also broke the UK's weekly streaming record for a rap song, with 12.7 million listens.\n\nThe star said he was \"speechless\" at the chart result.\n\nVossi Bop's sales are the second highest of the year so far, behind Ariana Grande's 7 Rings, which opened with 126,000 combined sales in January.\n\nStormzy, who is set to headline Glastonbury this summer, told the Official Charts Company: \"Words don't really do it justice. My supporters have had my back like crazy - this is all you guys, thank you so much.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Radio 1Xtra This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nVossi Bop was just 530 sales ahead of Taylor Swift's single in the chart update on Monday, but Stormzy held on to pole position and Swift slipped back to number three.\n\nMe!, featuring Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie, is her ninth UK top five hit.\n\nEarlier this week the video for the single broke the YouTube record for most views in the opening 24 hours of release.\n\nElsewhere in the chart, a track consisting only of birdsong - Let Nature Sing, released by the RSPB - is a new entry at number 18.\n\nPop star Pink saw her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human enter at the top of the album chart, more than 22,000 sales ahead of its nearest rival, Catfish and the Bottlemen's The Balance.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver\n\nA \"prolific road traffic offender\" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence.\n\nOfficers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver.\n\nOn Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: \"He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51.\"\n\nThe driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said.\n\n\"He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively short period of time,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"He was recognised by one of the officers who had given him points previously and knew he was disqualified.\n\n\"If he continues to commit offences we will continue to put him in front of the courts and allow them to hand over whatever sentence they deem appropriate.\"\n\nA driver is usually banned after amassing 12 points.\n• None Driver with 62 points still on the road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann has returned to politics, two years after losing his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe People Before Profit man was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council on Saturday.\n\nHe said his party's performance in the Northern Ireland council elections showed that there is an appetite for politicians who want to represent \"the interests of all the people at the bottom of society\".", "Scar and Hayley arrived to the wildlife park from the UK's only crocodile zoo in Oxford\n\nStaff at a wildlife park have managed to recover eggs laid by a pair of endangered Siamese crocodiles.\n\nWoodside Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire is part of an international breeding programme for the animals.\n\nKeeper Ben Pascoe said it was the second attempt at recovering the eggs after they were spotted on Thursday.\n\nCrocodiles Scar and Hayley were lured into a pool before it was drained, allowing keepers to move the eggs to an incubated and controlled environment.\n\nThey said it would give the eggs the best chance of hatching.\n\nMr Pascoe said: \"We got in and out and I still have both my arms and legs!\"\n\nStaff at Woodside Wildlife Park drained a pool leaving the crocodiles stranded in order to recover newly-laid eggs\n\nHe added that the Siamese crocodiles - native to parts of Asia - were very rare and it was vital to do everything possible to help the survival of the species.\n\nThe eggs were in a flower bed in the enclosure, and would now have a much better chance.\n\n\"It will be a massive thing for us if we get some baby crocodiles,\" he said.\n\nThere are thought to be less than 1,000 mature adults left in the wild.\n\nIf successful, any offspring will be allocated to other collections as the crocodiles are part of an international breeding programme.\n\nThe crocodiles are housed in a glasshouse built in honour of British explorer Sir Joseph Banks, which was moved from its original site in Lincoln in 2016.\n\nIt houses numerous exotic animals and plants associated with the travels of the explorer.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative councillors tried to distance themselves from Theresa May and the government\n\nConservative councillors have criticised Theresa May after losing hundreds of seats in the local elections.\n\nA council leader who lost his majority said the prime minister should \"consider her position\" and others said they made gains \"despite\" the government.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour lost out to smaller parties and independents.\n\nThere are reports of spoilt ballots referring to Brexit in some areas.\n\nElections for more than 8,400 seats on 248 councils took place amid widespread criticism of MPs and the government over the handling of Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives, who were defending council seats they won in 2015, alongside the party's general election victory, were at pains to stress the vote was about local services and council tax rather than what was happening at Westminster.\n\nHowever, by Friday morning they had lost out mainly to the Liberal Democrats and independents on councils such as Cotswold, Winchester and North Kesteven.\n\nThe Greens have also won dozens of seats including in Folkestone and Hythe, where they have six new councillors.\n\nLabour have also been losing seats, including in strongholds such as Bolsover, where they lost their majority amid a surge in support for independents.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is \"very sorry\" it lost three of its councils in the North West, despite winning control in Trafford.\n\nTony Berry wants Theresa May to consider her position after losing control of Cotswold District Council\n\nThe Tories lost Cotswold District Council after 16 years, with the Liberal Democrats now in charge.\n\nConservative group leader Tony Berry said it was a \"very unusual set of circumstances\".\n\nHe blamed Brexit and \"professional politicians who are basically working for themselves rather than necessarily what is best for the country\".\n\nAsked his message to Theresa May, he said: \"I would ask her to consider her position very carefully.\"\n\nA voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper\n\nHundreds of ballot papers were spoiled in Rugby, according to the borough's returning officer.\n\nAdam Norburn said many had \"Brexit\" scrawled across them.\n\nAnd a voter in Worcester posted a picture of his spoilt paper on Twitter.\n\nJordan said he was a Conservative party member but that the major parties had been \"lying for three years straight about Brexit\".\n\nThere were also reports of a \"larger than normal\" number of spoilt ballots in Ipswich.\n\nAnd in one ward in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, almost one in 20 ballots was spoilt.\n\nCandidates at the count told the Local Democracy Reporting Service many comments written on the papers related to Brexit.\n\nThere were 33 spoilt votes out of 673 in the Eastwood Hall ward.\n\nIt is not illegal to spoil a ballot paper, but filling it out incorrectly or covering it with graffiti will render it invalid.\n\nIn Bath and North East Somerset, where the Liberal Democrats won control, Tory casualties included the council leader Tim Warren.\n\nMr Warren said councillors had been \"given a kicking for something that wasn't our fault\".\n\nAsked whether there needed to be changes in leadership or policies at the top of the Conservative Party, Mr Warren replied: \"There needs to be a change in action.\"\n\nMike Bird said the Conservatives won control at Walsall \"despite\" the government\n\nIn Walsall, the Conservatives took control of the council after winning seats from Labour, having run the authority for a year without a majority.\n\nCouncil leader Mike Bird said the Tories won \"despite\" the Conservative government and Theresa May.\n\n\"She hasn't helped us make any gains at all - far from it - we made the gains despite the prime minister.\"\n\nIn North East Lincolnshire, another Tory gain, group leader Philip Jackson said the party \"managed to disengage national politics from what was happening locally\".\n\nLabour's leader in Leeds said councillors were bearing the brunt of \"anger and frustration\" about national politics.\n\nJudith Blake said the party had been \"punished locally\" after losing four seats on the city council, while retaining control.\n\nLabour also lost seats in Wakefield to the Liberal Democrats and independents. Councillor Graham Isherwood said the party was \"paying the price for that lot in Westminster\".\n\nIn Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a group of independents won an overall majority, a month after taking control from Labour.\n\nJason Zadrozny, leader of the Ashfield Independents, said politics had been \"a bit of a mess\".\n\nIn North Devon, where the Lib Dems won control of the council from the Conservatives and independents, the group's leader David Worden said: \"It was a tremendous night for us and shows that the Lib Dem fight back is well and truly happening.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems also won a 20-seat majority in North Norfolk, something the party's leader in the district Sarah Butikofer said was beyond the party's \"wildest dreams\".\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has called his party's local election results the \"big success story of the night\".\n\nThe party saw gains across the country, taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSpeaking in Chelmsford, where the Lib Dems took control of the local council from the Conservatives, Mr Cable said the result demonstrated \"we are now very much part of three-party politics\".", "None of the 21 people who were injured sustained serious injuries\n\nA passenger plane slid off a runway in the US state of Florida on Friday night, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.\n\nTwenty-one people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, officials said.\n\nThe chartered Boeing 737, operated by Miami Air International, had flown from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in the city of Jacksonville.\n\nPassengers say it landed heavily in the storm, skidding into St John's River.\n\nThe 136 passengers and seven crew members on board evacuated the Boeing 737-800 via its wings.\n\n\"No fatalities reported. We are all in this together,\" Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wrote on Twitter after the incident.\n\nHe also said President Donald Trump had offered assistance as the situation was developing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jax Sheriff's Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday a spokeswoman for the US Navy in Jacksonville said that at least four pets checked into the luggage area were presumed to have died due to flooding.\n\n\"There's water in the cargo hold,\" Kaylee LaRocque told USA Today.\n\n\"We are so sad about this situation, that there are animals that unfortunately passed away.\"\n\nOne passenger on the plane, Cheryl Bormann, described the \"terrifying\" moment it slid off the runway.\n\n\"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced - it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again,\" she told CNN.\n\nThe airliner is contracted by the US military to travel to Guantanamo Bay\n\nThe passengers and crew were evaluated in a nearby aircraft hangar\n\n\"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean,\" she said, adding that she could smell jet fuel leaking into the river.\n\nIn a news conference, Captain Michael Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said it was a \"miracle\" that there had been no serious injuries or fatalities.\n\nMiami Air International is contracted by the US military for its twice-weekly \"rotator\" service between the US mainland and Guantanamo Bay, Bill Dougherty, a base spokesman said.\n\nA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is seen with flight data recorder\n\nOfficials say the people on Friday's flight included civilian and military personnel.\n\nIt said it was providing technical assistance to the US National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.\n\nThe aerospace giant has been under increased scrutiny following two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 planes - a different model to the one involved in the incident on Friday.", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Marchers made their way through Glasgow city centre\n\nTens of thousands of people have taken part in a march through Glasgow in support of Scottish independence.\n\nThe All Under One Banner march left Kelvingrove Park at 13:30 BST and made its way through the city centre before ending with a rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nSome people joined in with the crowds of marchers waving Saltires as the event passed along the city streets.\n\nThe March For Independence is one of a series of events taking place across Scotland between May and October.\n\nPolice Scotland said that about 30,000-35,000 people had attended the rally at Glasgow Green.\n\nEvent organiser Neil Mackay said the march was not a \"political party march\".\n\nHe added: \"Obviously independence has got political ramifications, but it's a moral cause, that is not a political cause.\n\n\"This is a moral cause and so this movement, this march, is open to everybody who desires an independent Scotland, whether they are Scottish or they are not Scottish.\n\n\"There's people here from across the world who have travelled, and obviously from across the UK.\"\n\nMarchers prepare to set off from Kelvingorve Park in Glasgow\n\nThe All Under One Banner describes itself as a pro-independence organisation\n\nAll Under One Banner describes itself as a \"pro-independence organisation whose core aim is to march at regular intervals until Scotland is free\" and says it is open to \"everyone who desires to live in an independent nation\".\n\nA number of speakers and musical acts took part in the rally on a stage in the park, alongside a selection of pro-independence community stalls.\n\nThe event saw a series of traffic management measures put in place around the M8, with the closure of the westbound carriageway from the junction 15 on-slip at Townhead and a lane closure in place through to junction 18 off-slip at Charing Cross.", "Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.\n\nLabour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.\n\nThe returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.\n\nMr Ramsden is the first Labour councillor in Hambleton in more than a decade.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDivock Origi's late winner sent Liverpool top of the Premier League with victory at Newcastle United to put the pressure back on Manchester City and ensure the title race will go to the final game.\n\nOrigi - on as substitute for Mohamed Salah after he was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury sustained in a collision with Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka - headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick in the 86th minute.\n\nIt gave Liverpool three points after a topsy-turvy night on Tyneside.\n\nNow Manchester City must beat Leicester City at Etihad Stadium on Monday to ensure they retain the initiative going into the final round of games next Sunday.\n\nLiverpool went ahead after 13 minutes when Virgil van Dijk arrived unmarked on the end of Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick.\n\nNewcastle were quickly level when Christian Atsu scored from close range after Alexander-Arnold handled Salomon Rondon's shot on the line but Salah took advantage of more poor marking to volley home another fine delivery from the young defender.\n\nRondon, a handful all night, drew Newcastle level once more nine minutes after the break when Liverpool failed to clear a corner and Jurgen Klopp's side suffered another blow when Salah was taken off after a lengthy delay.\n\nOrigi was introduced and made the decisive contribution that keeps the title race alive - although Salah's injury is a worry with Liverpool attempting to claw back a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.\n• None 'Liverpool survive night laced with danger – and now look to Rodgers for helping hand'\n• None We have qualified for our final - Klopp\n• None Salah could face Barca but Firmino out\n• None How the title race could still go to a 39th game play-off\n\nLiverpool refuse to go away\n\nLiverpool simply refuse to buckle in their pursuit of Manchester City - no matter how long they have to wait to get the victories they require.\n\nKlopp's side are showing remarkable drive and resilience, illustrated by the manner in which they have won so many games in the closing stages, especially when the pressure has been on.\n\nThere have been prime examples at home to Everton and Tottenham but in recent weeks they have stayed the course to outlast opponents such as Fulham, Southampton and now Newcastle away from home.\n\nAnd here, in this unforgiving Tyneside atmosphere, they overcame adversity and a Newcastle side who were in no mood to stand meekly aside despite Premier League safety being assured.\n\nLiverpool were vulnerable in defence but this is a side that carries a persistent threat and it was the introduction of the likes of Shaqiri and Origi that made the difference.\n\nLiverpool could have been forgiven for thinking the fates were against them when Salah took that sickening blow in an accidental aerial collision with Dubravka, the Egyptian lying on the floor for several minutes before being taken away on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the entire stadium.\n\nAnd yet they responded once more, digging deep to secure three points with Origi's glancing header and this means Manchester City know the stakes are huge when they face Brendan Rodgers' in-form side on Monday.\n\nWhat next for Newcastle and Benitez?\n\nRafael Benitez spent the entire night taking the acclaim of the Toon Army, from before kick-off to a post-match lap of honour when the supporters chanted long and loud for the Spaniard to agree a new deal to stay at St James' Park.\n\nThe messages are still mixed but not here among Newcastle's fanbase. There is only one outcome these fans, who idolise Benitez, want.\n\nWhether Benitez gives them what they desire remains to be seen but once again he has kept a workmanlike squad in the Premier League with room to spare and now wants the investment to send them into the top 10.\n\nIronically, on this night, some of the Benitez trademarks were missing as wretched defensive organisation allowed Liverpool to cash in on each of their goals.\n\nBut, as he led the players around St James' Park to take the supporters' applause it was clear that those fans now want the final line of this season's story to be written with Benitez's name on a new deal.\n\nWhen asked about his future, Benitez said: \"We have been talking the last week and hopefully in one or two weeks will have more news.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I know what kind of boys I have - who doesn't know after the game today? If anyone thought Newcastle weren't playing for anything, wow, that was competitive - but we deserved to win.\n\n\"I only have to help the boys. I don't feel pressure. If we are champions then we are champions, you can't feel pressure when you do your best.\n\nOn Divock Origi's winning goal: \"That's nearly a fairytale. And now we are qualified for our final on Sunday against Wolves. Of course before that we play Barcelona but I'm not thinking of that yet and then we will see.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm really proud because it was a difficult game against a very good team but the players gave everything. The fans appreciate that and were behind the team, we couldn't ask for more.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes at set pieces but in terms of effort and desire we did quite well. We are trying to make sure we don't make so many mistakes. I don't know about the third goal but the first two we can do much better.\n\n\"We have been quite consistent, working really hard as a team and as a unit, staying very compact. It was a great performance from us.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 18 headed goals in the Premier League this season and 12 goals via substitutes, more than any other team in both categories.\n• None The Reds have scored more goals against Newcastle in the Premier League than against any other team (98).\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal in European top-flight football, with 56 of those coming in the Premier League (also 35 in Italian Serie A and 9 in Swiss Super League).\n• None Liverpool are the first team in Premier League history to have at least two defenders provide 10+ assists each in a single campaign (Trent Alexander-Arnold 11, Andy Robertson 11).\n• None Newcastle's Salomon Rondon has hit double figures for goals in a Premier League season for the first time.\n• None Only Chelsea's Eden Hazard (48%) has had a hand in a higher proportion of his team's goals in the Premier League this season than Rondon (45% - scoring 10 goals and assisting 7 of 38).\n\nLiverpool host Wolves at Anfield on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Newcastle are away at Fulham, with both matches kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Yoshinori Muto is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, Liverpool 3. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Police say one of the women found in a flat in east London was mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa\n\nA woman who was found in a freezer along with another female has been formally identified as mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nThe Met confirmed they had been able to identify the 38-year-old but have not yet identified the other woman.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nMs Mustafa, who was also known as MJ, had been reported missing on 10 May last year, according to police.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said investigators did not yet know how she died, adding post-mortem tests were \"ongoing\".\n\nHe said the death had been \"devastating\" for the 38-year-old's family and urged anybody who knew what happened to her to come forward.\n\nHe added that since Ms Mustafa was a missing person, the Met had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct \"in accordance with agreed protocols\".\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British Antarctic Survey are monitoring the droppings of some of the higher predators on the island of South Georgia in the Antarctic.\n\nThey say it helps them keep track of what's happening in the environment.", "Senior Conservatives have called for the party to pull together after it suffered its worst results in English local elections since 1995.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid admitted voters had \"issues of trust\" over Brexit, and said the European elections would \"be even more challenging\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the party needed to listen to the results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nBoth PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have insisted they will push ahead with seeking a cross-party agreement on Brexit, following the results.\n\nLabour had been expected to make gains but lost 82 seats in the elections, while the Liberal Democrats - who have campaigned for a further vote on leaving the EU - were the main beneficiary of Tory losses, gaining 703 seats.\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nElections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland - where a second day of counting is continuing. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nVince Cable claimed Liberal success \"reflected the unpopularity of the government\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said \"the mood of the nation is, 'get on, deliver Brexit, and then move on'\".\n\nBut he said the Tories might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - in order to solve the current impasse in Westminster over Brexit.\n\nThe EU customs union means that once goods have cleared customs in one country and the commonly agreed tariffs (charges on imports) have been paid, they can be shipped to others in the union without further charges.\n\nA country does not have to be a member of the EU to be part of the customs union, but members cannot negotiate their own independent trade deals with countries from the rest of the world.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has suggested the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\n\"If we can find a solution that delivers the benefits of the customs union without signing up to the current arrangements, then I think there will be potential,\" he said.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC News that the local election results should be seen as a \"punishment\" to both the Conservatives and the Labour Party \"for failing to find a way through\" the Brexit conundrum.\n\nHe added: \"We have to persevere with the talks with the Labour Party. I think that is the best opportunity to find a way through here.\"\n\nThe MP for Hertfordshire South West also rejected calls to oust Mrs May, saying: \"We should back the prime minister... so that we can bring the country together again - we can unite the Conservative Party and find a practical way through.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline has been pushed back to 31 October.\n\nMr Javid said this was a big factor in the Conservative Party losing control of 45 councils on Thursday - in its worst performance since John Major's party lost 2,000 councillors in 1995.\n\nIn a rallying cry to Conservatives in Aberdeen, he said that \"a divided party cannot unite a divided nation\".\n\nThe home secretary said the party risked losing voters' trust after \"not delivering on a promise at the heart of our last manifesto\".\n\nAnd, speaking about the European elections, due to take place on 23 May, he said: \"We shouldn't be surprised if people tick the protest box on the ballot paper.\"\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, also said the results reflected the public's frustration with the two main parties' \"perceived inability... to get our act together\".\n\nShe told the Today programme there was \"no single magic bullet\" to solving Brexit, but \"the fact that people are not clear on what our policy is, is harming us in both Remain and Leave areas alike\".\n\nMs Nandy said failing to leave the European Union would be a \"final breach of trust\" and her party must respect the referendum result.\n\nHowever, she said she believed the Brexit effect on the election results had been \"enormously overstated\" and many in towns like Wigan \"just didn't feel like Labour spoke for them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating - as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them - \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.", "Ruth Davidson has returned to politics after spending the past seven months on maternity leave\n\nRuth Davidson has warned that the two main Westminster parties will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader admitted that the Tories and Labour had been given an \"almighty kicking\" in English local elections.\n\nBut she predicted that they will be given an even bigger \"wake-up call\" in the European election on 23 May.\n\nShe urged the two parties to find a compromise so the UK can \"move on\".\n\nHer speech to the conference was her first major public appearance since the birth of her son Finn in October.\n\nThe Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in the council election and Labour lost 82 as the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents surged across England.\n\nThe two major UK parties have been locked in talks aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit for the past month, but it is not clear how much progress has been made.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen, Ms Davidson said the solution lay in finding a compromise that respects the result of the EU referendum.\n\nShe told delegates: \"The solution doesn't lie in the trenches of one extreme or another - of overturning the referendum, or of crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"It lies in those colleagues currently round the table, taking the difficult first steps towards each other.\n\n\"So I say to the negotiating teams of our party and the Labour Party, who are currently locked in talks - get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on.\"\n\nMs Davidson added: \"If we thought yesterday's results were a wake up call, just wait for the European elections on 23 May.\n\n\"A vote the public was promised would never take place, to elect people to a parliament they were told we would already have left. You don't have to be John Curtice to foresee what could happen.\"\n\nTheresa May made her keynote speech to the conference on Friday\n\nMs Davidson was a staunch Remainer ahead of the referendum, but argued it would be undemocratic hold another vote on EU membership.\n\nShe said that if a decision was so big that it had to be handed to the people to decide, then \"we have to listen to the answer they give\" and politicians \"don't get to pick and choose\" which votes are upheld and are ignored.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum in the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut Ms Davidson argued that the country is not being held back as part of the UK, and is already capable of \"taking on the world\".\n\nShe also accused the SNP of using the constitution as an excuse for inaction, and pledged to \"build a better Scotland now\" if her party wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants another independence referendum within the next two years\n\nShe told delegates that the country has had enough of the SNP's \"agitating for independence\" as she accused the party of \"searching the horizon for a dark cloud and then blaming it on Westminster\".\n\nMs Davidson added: \"I have a more positive view of Scotland's future. I reject their mantra that says we have to have a break-up before we can possibly hope to prosper. I don't see Scotland as subjugated, put upon or as held back.\n\n\"Our message is that we can prosper now. That we can back our businesses, build up our institutions and give future generations the skills to take on all comers.\n\n\"That right here, right now, Scotland can take on the world. There's nothing stopping us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP won 63 seats in the last Scottish Parliament election and the Conservatives won 31 - with opinion polls suggesting the SNP continues to hold a commanding lead ahead of the next vote in 2021.\n\nBut Ms Davidson insisted it is realistic for her party to win the election and form the next Scottish government.\n\nShe said: \"As first minister, I won't use every engagement with the UK government as a chance to sow division. I'll use it as a chance to deliver better government for the people who live here.\n\n\"And I'll make a firm guarantee now: If I am elected Scotland's next first minister, there will be no more constitutional games and no more referenda. We've had enough to last a lifetime.\n\n\"So we're not fighting each other - but fighting for each other.\"\n\nMs Davidson was overheard questioning whether she needed to mention the European elections as she rehearsed her speech in the conference hall on Friday evening.\n\nThe rehearsal was apparently caught on a live microphone without Ms Davidson realising, and has since appeared online.\n\nMs Davidson joked in her conference speech that the recording was made after she told her baby son that \"this is the button that broadcasts mummy's rehearsal to the whole press room\".\n\nThe conference heard from Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, who told delegates that she remained determined to deliver a Brexit deal despite facing fresh calls to quit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump enjoyed a ringside seat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo - and even awarded a special trophy.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nTrump in Japan: Sumo, barbecue and an imperial audience", "South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has won the Cannes film festival's most prestigious award.\n\nThe Palme d'Or was awarded for his film Parasite, a dark comedy thriller exploring social class dynamics.\n\nThe festival came to a close this evening after 11 days of previews of new films and documentaries.\n\nIt saw French-Senagalese director Mati Diop become the first black female director to win an award in Cannes' 72-year history.\n\nDiop won the Grand Prix - the equivalent of a silver prize - for Atlantics, a Senegalese drama about young migrants and sexual politics.\n\nDiop had previously said she was \"a little sad\" that it had taken until 2019 for a film by a woman of African descent to even be screened at the festival.\n\nMeanwhile, US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - which received strong reviews - left the closing ceremony empty handed.\n\nMati Diop delivering a speech after she was awarded the Grand Prix for her film Atlantique\n\nBong is the first Korean to win Cannes' top prize. However, he has been at the festival previously, having made his name at Cannes with Okja in 2017, which - somewhat controversially - originally screened on Netflix.\n\nThis is the second year with no contenders produced by the streaming giant amid talks between the Netflix and Cannes.\n\nOther winners on the night included Emily Beecham - a dual British-American national - who took home the best actress award for her appearance in Little Joe, a psychological sci-fi about a woman whose scent induces euphoria.\n\nBest actor went to Antonio Banderas for his role in Pain and Glory, the story of a film director who is facing middle age and a creative crisis.\n\nBest screenplay went to Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a period romance about a relationship between a young painter and her subject.\n\nAntonio Banderas accepting the prize from Zhang Ziyi for best actor\n\nBelgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took home the award for best directors for their film Young Ahmed, which is about a boy who is radicalised into stabbing his teacher.\n\nBrazilian film Bacurau, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles won the Jury Prize. The story follows a filmmaker who travels to a remote village and discovers its dark secrets.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "We are closing our international live coverage of the European elections for the night. You can continue to follow UK results and reaction here.\n\nHere are the the day's main developments:\n• The big power blocs of the centre-right and centre-left lost their combined majority in the European Parliament. \"The monopoly of power is broken,\" said Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, the liberal candidate for the top post in the European Commission\n• Europeans voted in their biggest numbers since 1994, bucking years of decline with a turnout just shy of 51%\n• The big winners of the night were the liberals and Greens. The liberals have were boosted by the decision of President Macron's ruling party to join them\n• The Greens saw strong votes in Finland, Germany, France and Portugal\n• The nationalist right had a patchy night, but enjoyed successes in Italy, where figurehead Matteo Salvini ran to victory, and in France, where Marine Le Pen defeated the Renaissance alliance of Mr Macron.\n• In the UK, the newly-formed Brexit Party soared to victory, gaining 28 seats amid massive losses for Conservatives and Labour\n• There are still results to be announced, alliances to forge, and perhaps some domestic political fallout for parties across the continent\n• BBC journalists will be covering the story from both UK and international angles - stay tuned for developments throughout the day\n• To catch up, take a look at what we know so far about the outlook across Europe\n\nThanks for following.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nFour children \"rescued\" from a house in Sheffield in the same incident in which two boys died have been released from hospital, police said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said they received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of people at an address in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nSix children were taken to hospital but the boys, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nA 37-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nFour more children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital. Police said they were now fit enough to be discharged.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SouthYorkshirePolice This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police have put on extra patrols in the area\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said extra officers were patrolling the area to reassure people, although police stressed it was an \"isolated incident\" with no wider threat to the community.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths, and urged people to be \"mindful\" of speculating online.\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nForensic officers were around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield on Friday\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street on Friday morning, and Yorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the playground of a nearby school.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, has said she is \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two boys dead as police swoop on house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew Moffat led the parade with Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi\n\nA teacher whose lesson programme covering LGBT relationships has been at the centre of protests is leading the Birmingham Pride parade.\n\nAndrew Moffat started the \"No Outsiders\" lessons at Parkfield Community School in the city, which has led to protests by some Muslim parents.\n\nPride organisers said there was \"no-one better\" to lead the parade, which started at midday.\n\nThousands have been expected to attend the annual event, now in its 22nd year.\n\nThis year's theme is Love Out Loud which organisers said was a \"celebration of our right to love, no matter our gender, sexuality, personal identity, colour, religion or race\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC News about the invitation to join the Pride parade, Mr Moffat said it was \"absolutely wonderful\".\n\nHe was joined at the front of the procession by Khakan Qureshi, founder of Birmingham South Asians LGBT and Saima Razzaq, from Supporting Education of Equality and Diversity in Schools (SEEDS).\n\nFestivalgoers chose colourful costumes and attire for the parade\n\n\"It's so important, isn't it, at this time that we are showing that's what Birmingham is like,\" Mr Moffat said.\n\n\"It's not about protests outside schools, that's not Birmingham. This is Birmingham.\n\n\"They're talking about 80,000 people turning up to support Pride.\n\nBirmingham Pride is now in its 22nd year\n\nThousands of people are expected to attend the annual event over the weekend\n\nIn 2015, Birmingham Pride awarded a grant of £5,000 to the \"No Outsiders\" programme, which organisers said was an \"incredible initiative\".\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme had been running at Parkfield school since 2014.\n\nIt was formed to educate children about the Equality Act, British values, and diversity, using storybooks to teach children about LGBT relationships, race, religion, adoption and disability.\n\nHowever, some parents with children at the school in Alum Rock raised a petition in January, claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe protests have since spread to Anderton Park Primary in Balsall Heath with a protest held on Friday afternoon outside the school thought to be the biggest so far.\n\nA protest outside the school on Friday is thought to have been the biggest so far\n\nThose against the inclusion of LGBT issues in classes have said the content contradicts their Islamic beliefs, and have accused the school of not listening to parents' concerns.\n\nBut head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she would \"never stop\" teaching pupils about equality.\n\nPeople gathered in Victoria Square ahead of the parade beginning at midday\n\nThere are events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May\n\nFestival director Lawrence Barton said Mr Moffat had been asked to lead the parade in light of the \"division which the controversy over 'No Outsiders' lessons has created\".\n\nEveryone seemed to be in good spirits for the festival\n\nBirmingham Pride events are taking place in and around the city's gay village on 25 and 26 May.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go \n\n\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nA former inspector at the Care Quality Commission says a 2015 report into Whorlton Hall hospital which presented \"warning bells\" went unpublished.\n\nBarry Stanley-Wilkinson says he wrote the report four years before BBC Panorama revealed the alleged abuse of patients with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nThe CQC said the draft report raised no concerns about abusive practices.\n\nThe claims come after 10 workers at the specialist hospital were arrested.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested last week at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton over the alleged abuse of patients.\n\nAn undercover BBC Panorama investigation into the specialist hospital in County Durham - a 17-bed unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism - appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the alleged abuse was discovered.\n\nMr Stanley-Wilkinson says he noticed a \"very poor culture\" was evident when he led the 2015 inspection.\n\nHe told the BBC that he had raised concerns over the \"very poor culture\" in a report he wrote - four years prior to the BBC investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I strongly believe that anybody that can understand organisational culture reading that report would agree that there was definitely warning bells there.\n\n\"I was extremely upset. This should have been listened to back in 2015 and I said quite openly, when I left the organisation, that I felt it had neglected its promise to people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHe said it was the only report he wrote in nearly a decade of working at the CQC which wasn't published.\n\nIn a statement, the CQC said the report went through a \"rigorous peer review process\".\n\nIt said the draft report \"did not raise any concerns about abusive practice\".\n\nThe CQC said a later inspection rated the hospital as \"good overall\".\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We are in the process of commissioning a review into what we could have done differently or better in our regulation of Whorlton Hall and these allegations will be fully investigated as part of this.\n\n\"We will update on the progress and findings of this review in our Public Board meetings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least two people have died after a tornado struck in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday night.\n\nThe incident on Saturday follows a week of tornadoes, severe rain and flooding in states in the Southern Plains and Midwest regions.\n\nThe recent spate of extreme weather has been blamed for at least nine deaths across the region, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThis video has no commentary", "Cladding has been widely used on high rises, including Grenfell Tower\n\nFire safety experts warn many of the 1,700 buildings identified as \"at risk\" in England are likely to fail new tests into cladding and building materials.\n\nHospitals, schools, nursing homes and tower blocks are among buildings which could be under threat, BBC 5 live Investigates has learned.\n\nThe government said it will monitor the test results this summer to decide if any immediate action needs to be taken.\n\nIt comes almost two years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nA public inquiry into the fire, which happened in west London in June 2017, heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nThe government has set up a fund to remove cladding from buildings identified with aluminium composite material (ACM) - the same type used on Grenfell Tower. The new tests, which began last month, are testing other types of cladding and building materials.\n\n72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nOne type of cladding, known as High Pressure Laminate (HPL) is believed to be of particular concern. The research group Building Research Establishment said that none of the cladding systems that had passed a standard BS 8414 safety test included an HPL.\n\nAnother study, released in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, found that HPL cladding materials released heat 25 times faster and released 115 times more heat than non-combustible products.\n\nThe government says that it recognises concerns about HPL and included them in the new fire safety tests.\n\nChartered engineer Dr Jonathan Evans was part of the team testing cladding for the government after the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nHe said some of the tests were almost certain to fail and is calling for transparency around the results of the tests when they are released.\n\nCladding has been removed from numerous high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nIn December, the government introduced new fire safety regulations in response to Dame Judith Hackitt's independent review following the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe regulations banned combustible materials from the external walls of new buildings over 59 feet tall.\n\nThere have since been calls from Clive Betts, the chairman of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG), for these regulations to be applied to all new buildings, regardless of height.\n\nHe added that materials deemed too dangerous for new buildings should not be permitted for existing ones.\n\nA spokesperson for the government's Ministry of Housing, which ordered the tests, said: \"We issued an advice notice on non-ACM cladding systems, reiterating the clearest way to ensure fire safety is to remove unsafe materials.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "Sonita Alleyne described it as an \"honour\" to be appointed new master of Jesus College\n\nThe first black woman has been appointed to lead an Oxbridge college.\n\nSonita Alleyne, 51, who has been elected as the next master of Jesus College, Cambridge, will also be its first female appointee and will take up the role from October.\n\nBusinesswoman and entrepreneur Ms Alleyne said it was \"an honour to be elected to lead Jesus College\".\n\n\"I left Cambridge 30 years ago, but it never left me. I am delighted to be returning,\" she said.\n\nBrought up in East London, Ms Alleyne studied for her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.\n\nA career in radio followed, including founding production company Somethin' Else, which she led as chief executive from 1991 until 2009.\n\nShe is a former BBC trustee who championed diversity and inclusivity.\n\nProfessor Mary Laven, of the college's search committee, said they were \"thrilled\" by Ms Alleyne's appointment.\n\n\"She brings to the college a wealth of experience and an enduring commitment to helping young people fulfil their potential,\" she said.\n\nMs Alleyne was also previously appointed to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation in 2012, as part of the drive to promote and deliver regeneration in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding areas.\n\nShe is also fellow of both the Royal Society of the Arts and the Radio Academy and was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2004.\n• None 'I'm mixed-race, is Cambridge right for me?'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove has said he will enter the race to be Tory leader, challenging his former Vote Leave ally Boris Johnson.\n\nSpeaking outside his home, Environment Secretary Mr Gove said: \"I can confirm that I will be putting my name forward to be prime minister of this country.\n\n\"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "The Border Force was alerted at about 06:20 BST and a cutter was deployed\n\nThe number of migrants picked up trying to cross the Channel in May is now higher than the figure for December, when a \"major incident\" was declared.\n\nEight men were intercepted in a small boat at about 06:20 BST, bringing the total for May so far to 140.\n\nIn December, during mild weather, 138 migrants attempted the journey and Home Secretary Sajid Javid set out a plan for dealing with the problem.\n\nAt least 642 migrants have now crossed the Channel since 3 November.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.\"\n\nIt added that since January \"more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe\".\n\nIn December 138 migrants were picked up by officials. So far this month, 140 have been intercepted.\n\nThe crossings are very dependent on the weather. The end of last year was unseasonably mild leading to a spike in attempts to get to the UK.\n\nThe start of this year saw numbers fall again, as the weather worsened.\n\nHowever, with summer approaching the sea is calm and the temperature is rising, so the Home Office is braced for more boats in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Friday, 18 migrants were picked up in a dinghy and brought to Dover.\n\nOf the eight men found in waters off the Kent coast earlier, seven presented themselves as Iranian and one was an Afghan national.\n\nThe men were transferred to a Border Force vessel and taken to Dover at about 06:20 BST, the Home Office said.\n\nThey were medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rory Stewart says he would not able to serve under Boris Johnson if his rival for the Conservative leadership becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Stewart told the BBC that politicians must tell the truth about where they stand on Brexit and he believes Mr Johnson's backing for a no-deal exit is \"undeliverable\".", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA man and a woman have been charged with murder after two children died following an \"incident\" at a house in Sheffield.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe woman has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder.\n\nThey are due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe four surviving children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital and were discharged on Saturday.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe major centre-right and centre-left groupings were always going to have a tough election, the question was - on what scale?\n\nWhen the results came, it was clear they had lost their combined majority in the European Parliament as voters shied away from the mainstream. But they still held more than 43% of the vote.\n\nThe mainstream blocs lost votes to the Liberals, Greens and nationalists, creating a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.\n\nTurnout was at its highest since 1994, with some observers suggesting this was due to more young people voting.\n\nThe centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) have long held more than half the seats in Parliament between them. That is set to change.\n\nThe sense of an end of an era was symbolised in Germany, where the centre-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel polled just 29% of the vote - their worst-ever performance in European elections. The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) came a poor third with 16%.\n\nOfficial projections, based on exit polls, now suggest the EPP and S&D will lose 83 seats, bringing their share down to around 44%, from a comfortable control of more than half the previous parliament.\n\nThe centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), is heading for big gains, with its share rising from 67 seats to 107. That is largely because the newcomer-party of French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to join up and could play a kingmaker role.\n\nOutgoing ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt hailed a \"historical moment\" and a \"new balance of power\".\n\nMany member states, from the Nordic countries to Portugal, saw a rise in the Green vote.\n\nAnd while they may have come second in Germany, the Green party is being hailed as the big winner there, doubling its vote share to 21%, incomplete results showed.\n\nThe Greens captured the zeitgeist while the other parties struggled to put together a coherent environmental policy, said BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill.\n\nAround one in three people under the age of 30 voted Green. In the run-up to the vote, 90 influential YouTubers urged followers to vote for parties that took climate issues seriously. They told voters to avoid the far-right AfD, which they said denied climate change was even happening.\n\nGerman YouTubers including Rezo, seen on a placard at this protest, had called for people to vote for parties that took climate change seriously\n\nIn France, green group Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) is on course to come third with 13%. Both Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron have emphasised their green credentials. Mr Macron wants to shift to green technology and energy while Mrs Le Pen said her brand of localism was good for the environment.\n\nIn Portugal, the green PAN party (People-Animals-Nature) is on course to win its first ever seat in the European Parliament, possibly even two.\n\nThe Greens have won an historic second place in Finland but in Sweden, home to climate activist Greta Thunberg, they have gone into reverse. They are projected to poll 11%, down almost 8%.\n\nThis was to be the election that sparked a right-wing force to seize the agenda in Europe. It has not quite happened.\n\nThe two dominant nationalist figures in France and Italy won the national vote.\n\nMatteo Salvini, whose right-wing nationalist League party is predicted to win over 30% of the Italian vote, is hoping to found a new grouping, the European Alliance for People and Nations, with the support of a dozen other parties.\n\nIn France Marine Le Pen's National Rally party - formerly the National Front - is heading for first place with 23.5% of the vote, narrowly ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist grouping, which got 22.4%.\n\nTurnout was reportedly high in areas where her party has previously done well and also in areas where support for the anti-government \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow-vest) movement is strong. Mrs Le Pen has changed her position on EU membership, saying she now wants to stay in the bloc.\n\nBut after that the nationalist surge appears to fall away.\n\nIn Germany the far-right AfD is predicted to get under 11%, up from 7.1% five years ago, but down on its general election showing in 2017.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has lost all its seats in parliament. Much of his vote appears to have been taken over by another populist party, Forum for Democracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResults in Spain give new far-right Vox party getting only 6.2% of the vote, down from the 10.3% it achieved in Spain's national election only a month ago.\n\nFar-right and Eurosceptic parties are currently split between three groupings in the European Parliament: the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR); and the two far-right groupings, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) and Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF).\n\nIn the UK a new anti-EU party, the Brexit Party, is heading for victory at the expense of the Conservative Party, while pro-EU Liberal Democrats are taking votes from the traditionally centre-left Labour party.\n\nIn the UK, which voted on Thursday, Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party is heading for victory", "Little Mix kicked off Sunday's event with songs including Shout Out To My Ex and Black Magic\n\nLittle Mix, Miley Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Stormzy and Lewis Capaldi are just some of the stars who put on a show for the crowd at Radio 1's Big Weekend.\n\nThe artists used fireworks and booming speakers to bring the party to Stewart Park in Middlesbrough on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nLewis, who performed on Saturday, told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"I think it might be the best gig I've ever played in my life.\n\n\"It's the first time I've played a lot of these songs in a festival set-up. It's incredible to see people come out.\n\n\"Hearing people singing back your songs is so weird... I don't think I'll ever get used to it.\"\n\nHere are some of the best pics from the weekend so far:\n\nMiley Cyrus put on a big performance to close the festival on Saturday\n\nMarcus Mumford got the crowd going when Mumford and Sons opened up the festival on Saturday\n\nLewis Capaldi performed a day after his debut album went to number one\n\nFoals had a dramatic backdrop for their set\n\nKhalid performed on the main stage on Saturday\n\nJax Jones (right) brought on Olly Alexander as a special guest\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Women have been taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia's cities in increasing numbers - to go running.\n\nJeddah Running Community was founded in 2013, challenging cultural norms under which it has long been widely considered inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.\n\nIt was one of the first groups to hold mixed training sessions for women and men, though it also holds women-only meet-ups. The idea has gained traction more widely, with groups forming in other cities.\n\nIn recent years, the conservative Gulf kingdom has reversed a ban on sports for girls in public schools and allowed women to watch football matches in stadiums. It sent its first female athletes to the Olympics in 2012.\n\nBut although some rules for women have been relaxed - including the lifting of the ban on driving - women are still not free to travel, marry, divorce or even leave prison without the permission of a male relative.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The winners and losers of European election night\n\nThe Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former getting less than 10% of the vote.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to \"take on\" the main parties in a general election.\n\nMr Farage's party won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, the Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three, and Plaid Cymru and the DUP one each.\n\nThe elections came after Prime Minister Theresa May tried three times to secure MPs' backing for her Brexit plan and announced her resignation after her fourth attempt prompted a backlash.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"With a big, simple message - which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises - we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.\n\n\"The two-party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics... and we are going to take them on.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"pleasantly surprised\" by his party's \"very good result\".\n\nHe added that there was \"a majority of people in the country who don't want to leave the European Union now\".\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the results showed how polarised the country had become over Brexit.\n\nWere these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant and Nigel Farage's new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nMrs May, who is due to step down as Conservative leader on 7 June, tweeted her response to her party's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Theresa May\n\nAcross Europe, the big centre-right and centre-left blocs lost ground, amid a surge in support for liberals, Greens and nationalists.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but after that deadline was put back to 31 October, participation in the election became mandatory.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped the polls in every region of England apart from London. It also dominated in Wales, with Plaid Cymru second.\n\nIt has now become the joint largest national party in the European Parliament, alongside Germany's CDU/CSU party.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nIn Scotland, the pro-Remain SNP won the biggest share of the vote, with just under 38%, giving it three MEPs.\n\nThe Brexit Party came in second place with a significantly lower percentage - 14.8% - followed by the Lib Dems with 13.9% and the Tories with 11.6% - meaning each party has one seat.\n\nBut Labour only received 9.3% of the vote - a loss in vote share of 16.6% - leaving it with no MEPs in Scotland for the first time.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the DUP (which supports leaving the EU), Sinn Fein (Remain), and the Alliance Party (Remain) all won a seat each.\n\nBrexiteer and Conservative MEP for the South East Daniel Hannan - one of only three Tory MEPs elected - said it was his party's \"worst ever result\".\n\n\"We voted to leave (the EU) and we haven't left - it's that simple,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTory leadership hopeful and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the public had delivered \"a crushing rebuke\" to both major parties for failing to deliver Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing increasing pressure from senior members of his party to back another referendum on Brexit, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying it is the only way through the deadlock.\n\n\"If there can be a deal, great, but it needs to go back to the people,\" Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"If it's a no-deal, we've got to block it and the one way of doing that is going back to the people and arguing the case against it because it could be catastrophic for our economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nBut the leader of the Unite Union, Len McCluskey, said Labour's attempt to \"unite the nation\" over Brexit was \"an honourable objective that must not be abandoned\".\n\nAnd Mr Corbyn wrote to his MPs that it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry said the case for a further referendum was stronger than ever, adding that it was \"the way to draw a line under the Brexit chaos\".\n\nChange UK, which also opposes Brexit, failed to win any seats in the election, but leader Heidi Allen told the BBC her party - newly formed from former Labour and Tory MPs - was \"down, but we are not out\".\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP, which Mr Farage used to lead, lost all its MEPs, and saw a fall in its vote share of more than 20 points.\n\nThe party's former deputy leader, Mike Hookem - who lost his seat in Yorkshire and the Humber - blamed UKIP leader Gerard Batten for the result.\n\nHe highlighted Mr Batten's association with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who also failed to win a seat in the North West Region, where he ran as an independent.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "The Scottish government has given £70,000 to improve the help for families of missing people.\n\nThe cash will also support vulnerable people who are at risk of going missing.\n\nAbout 55 people - adults and children - are reported missing in Scotland every day. While missing, they are at a higher risk of coming to harm.\n\nA new independent working group will help authorities work together to help missing people and those close to them.\n\nAnne Foster, whose stepmother disappeared more than a decade ago, said it would be \"absolutely amazing\" to have a more structured form of support for the families left behind.\n\nMinister for Community Safety, Ash Denham, has launched a group of expert professionals to look at the gaps which exist in the provision of services.\n\nThe working group will support the delivery of Scotland's National Missing Persons Framework.\n\nThe funding will be used to establish a national development co-ordinator who will work closely with local authorities to improve how they and other organisations work together to support vulnerable people and help prevent individuals from going missing.\n\nAbout 23,000 missing persons investigations are undertaken by Police Scotland every year and this latest funding takes the Scottish government's total investment in support for missing people, their families and those at risk of going missing to more than £360,000 since 2016.\n\nMs Denham said: \"Families and friends of those who go missing face a huge trauma, particularly when their loved-one remains missing long term.\n\n\"The majority of missing people are returned safely within a couple of days but we must continue to improve how we safeguard and support the most vulnerable in Scotland.\n\n\"The work of our new national development co-ordinator and working group will build on recent progress and enhance multi-agency working to improve outcomes for missing people and their families.\"\n\nThe scheme has been welcomed by the family of a woman from Livingston who has been missing since 17 June 2008.\n\nMay Ferns, who was 88, was last seen on a shopping trip to Edinburgh's Princes Street. Her husband Bill has since died without knowing what happened to her.\n\nMay Ferns went missing on a shopping trip in 2008\n\nMrs Ferns' step-daughter Anne Foster said she was \"absolutely delighted\" that Scotland was \"leading the way\" with the new working group.\n\nShe said: \"For people left behind, it's incredibly traumatic.\n\n\"I got a lot of support from Missing People Scotland but a lot of people are not aware of the charity.\n\n\"They are not aware of the psychological and emotional help that they can get. To have a form of structured support for people who have gone missing or have been left behind is absolutely amazing.\"\n\nAnne Foster is grateful for the support she got after her step-mother went missing\n\nMrs Foster said there had been \"no signs\" that her step-mother would vanish.\n\nShe said: \"People have asked us if she had dementia, but she was sharp as a tack.\n\n\"Despite her age and frailty, there was was no indication that she could go missing.\n\n\"She loved her family - she loved being with her step-children and her grandchildren. She was very much a family member.\n\n\"Not knowing is absolute torture. It's not like a death where it's a natural progression in life. You know what's happened to that person and you can celebrate their life and have a finality.\n\n\"With May, it's constantly living in limbo.\"\n\nProf Hester Parr, who will chair the working group, said: \"This group is comprised of expert professionals with special insights into the complex social and spatial issue of missing persons.\n\n\"The working group will assess the national impact of the National Framework for Missing People in Scotland to identify best practice and the gaps which still exist in the provision of professional services to help missing people and their families.\n\n\"There is a pressing need to make the ambitions in the Framework a reality and act as more than a symbolic document. This will ensure Scotland remains an international leader in terms of support for missing people.\"\n\nSusannah Drury of the Missing People charity said: \"It is vital that every one of these people receives the response and support they need, wherever they live.\"", "The near-miss took place in the skies above Biggin Hill airport\n\nA Spitfire almost crashed into a light aircraft after doing a mid-air stunt near a London airport, a report has revealed.\n\nThe near miss happened near Biggin Hill Airport on 29 September last year, the UK Airprox Board (UKAB) report said.\n\nThe pilot of the Piper PA-28 said he narrowly avoided the Second World War fighter, which was close enough to \"fill the entire windscreen\".\n\nThe Spitfire pilot said his plane was not closer than about 400ft.\n\nHe told the UKAB investigation that he \"had had the PA28 continuously in sight and he had passed behind it\".\n\nHowever, the Piper pilot described the risk of collision as \"high\", telling investigators that he could see \"every rivet\" of the Spitfire as it flew past.\n\nIt was \"only by chance\" that one of the back seat passengers managed to see the Spitfire \"at the last second\", he told the UKAB.\n\nThe UKAB report, published on Sunday, conceded it was not possible to \"definitively decide whether the Spitfire pilot had flown in front or behind\".\n\nIt concluded that the Spitfire pilot's actions were \"ill advised\" to the extent that \"safety had been much reduced below the norm\".\n\nUKAB board members \"agreed that, despite the discrepancies between reported circumstances\", they were certain that the Spitfire pilot \"had flown into conflict with the PA28\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jodie Chesney was the fifth teenager to be stabbed to death in London this year\n\nA fourth person has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park.\n\nJodie Chesney was attacked while playing music in a park with friends in Harold Hill in Romford, east London, on 1 March.\n\nPolice said the 17-year-old boy was also charged with possession of a stun gun and is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nTwo men and a boy have already been charged with her murder.\n\nManuel Petrovic, 20, of Highfield Road in Romford, Svenson Ong-a-kwie, 19, of Hillfoot Road, in Romford, a 16-year-old boy and the 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, are due to face trial at the Old Bailey in September.\n\nThe 17-year-old who was charged on Sunday had first been arrested on 10 March and initially released under investigation.\n\nAnother two people, a 50-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman, both from Dagenham, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton held off Max Verstappen, and survived a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nThe world champion was left struggling with the tyres on his Mercedes after fitting softer rubber than the Dutchman at pit stops during an early safety-car period.\n\nBritain's Hamilton repeatedly complained that he was not going to be able to make the tyres last to the end but by careful management held on to take his fourth win of 2019.\n\nVerstappen dropped from second on the road to fourth in the results because of a five-second penalty, promoting Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to second and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas to third.\n\nVerstappen's punishment was for an unsafe release in the pits when all the leaders pitted on lap 12 as a safety car was deployed to clear up debris laid by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.\n\nAlthough Mercedes' run of consecutive victories at the start of this season continued, their sequence of one-twos is over as a result of Bottas' bad luck.\n\nAnd Hamilton now holds a 17-point lead over his team-mate in the championship.\n• None Hamilton holds on to win in Monaco - reaction\n\nThe defining moment of the race\n\nWearing a helmet painted in a design used by Niki Lauda, the Mercedes non-executive chairman who died on Monday, Hamilton was controlling the race, ahead of Bottas, Verstappen and Vettel, after converting his pole position into a lead a the first corner.\n\nBut the race came to life when Leclerc suffered a puncture when he spun trying to pass Nico Hulkenberg's Renault for 11th place on lap eight.\n\nLeclerc had been making up ground after Ferrari's farcical strategic error in qualifying on Saturday meant he failed to progress beyond the first session.\n\nThe Monegasque had passed Romain Grosjean's Haas for 12th place with a brave move at Rascasse on the previous lap. He tried the same on Hulkenberg but the German left him less room.\n\nThey rounded the corner together but Leclerc's rear wheel caught the inside barrier, pitching him into a spin and puncturing the tyre.\n\nHe got going again, losing only two places, but his tyre began to deconstruct around the next lap and tore chunks out of his rear bodywork as he returned to the pits.\n\nWhen the safety car was deployed, Hamilton led the leaders into the pits, as Bottas backed up Verstappen and Vettel to give Mercedes time to service both cars.\n\nRed Bull pulled off a super-quick stop and released Verstappen into Bottas' path, and the two cars touched as the Finn was forced into the pit wall on the outside.\n\nIt gave Verstappen second place on the road, and caused Bottas a puncture that meant he had to stop again the next time around, losing a place to German Vettel. But ultimately it cost him more than it gained him - and he was given two penalty points on his licence as well as the time penalty.\n\nWhy was Hamilton struggling so much?\n\nHamilton's problem was that Mercedes had fitted medium tyres to his car, while Verstappen and Vettel were given hards - which Bottas was also switched to when he pitted for the second time.\n\nIt meant Hamilton had to do 66 laps on a set of mediums, when they were only projected to last 50.\n\nIt is unclear why Mercedes chose the medium, and the decision gave Hamilton a tough afternoon, spent controlling his pace and fending off Verstappen.\n\nPassing is difficult at Monaco, but regardless it meant Hamilton could not afford to make a mistake despite fading grip, which was no easy task.\n\nHis concern was plain as he repeatedly complained over the radio that he was not going to make it and would not be able to hold Verstappen off.\n\nAt one point, he even said it was going to take a \"miracle\" to win it.\n\nIn the end, with about 10 laps to go, Mercedes' chief strategist James Vowles came on the radio and said: \"You can make it if you trust it.\"\n\nVerstappen went for it at the chicane with two laps to go, but he was too far back and locked a wheel, and they touched as Hamilton came across him.\n\nHamilton took to the escape road and carried on, as Verstappen complained: \"He just turned in. I was trying to overtake.\"\n\nThat was the last drama and Hamilton hung on for the remaining two laps.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nCanada in two weeks' time. Mercedes will start as favourites, but the long straights might give Ferrari their first chance to be competitive since Baku two races ago.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"That was definitely the hardest race I've had but nonetheless I really was fighting with the spirit of Niki - he's been such an influence in our team and I know he will be looking down and taking his hat off. I was trying to stay focused and make him proud that it's been the goal all week and we truly miss him.\"\n\nVettel: \"A tough race to manage, at Monaco something always happens, Max must have had an incredible stop, I saw them (Verstappen and Bottas) touching in the pit lane. I wanted to put some more pressure on, I just struggled with my tyres, not as badly as Lewis and Max's, but mine were just not getting hot.\"\n\nBottas: \"It's obviously disappointing for me, I think the speed was there and I was feeling good in the car. It was small margins yesterday and that made today difficult. Max got me in the pitlane and left me with no room and then I was stuck behind, it was like a Sunday drive.\"", "Information from the drones can be used to see the vegetation beneath the forest canopy\n\nLaser-carrying drones that can see through the forest canopy are being used to protect native Scottish plants threatened by invasive species.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging), which works like radar but uses light instead of radio waves.\n\nLaser pulses are fired at the trees below and the time it takes for wavelengths to bounce back is used to create a 3D picture of what lies beneath.\n\nThe data is combined with information from satellites to give an accurate \"fix\" of the drone's position.\n\nIt all builds up an accurate map of the health of the forest floor.\n\nThe drones use Lidar (light detection and ranging)\n\nThe programme is led by the Edinburgh-based company Ecometrica.\n\nIts funding partners are the Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Orienteering, Woodland Trust and Edinburgh University.\n\nSupport has also come from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council.\n\nOnce it is in the air, the four-rotor drone is easier to hear than see. It is a speck in the sky but packed with sensors.\n\nIt has been surveying forests in the west of Scotland: Lochgilphead, Ardfern, Auchterawe, Arisaig, Achdalieu and Mandally.\n\nThe drone has been used to survey forests in the west of Scotland\n\nLidar has been used from the air before but typically this has been from larger aircraft with humans on board.\n\nAn unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), usually known as a drone, holds out the prospect of reduced cost.\n\nThe point of the project is to monitor and map how land use is changing and how climate change is affecting Scotland's forests.\n\nConventional photos taken in natural light will only show the tree canopy.\n\nAnd as much of the tree cover is evergreen and there all year round, there's no point waiting for autumn to have a look beneath it.\n\n\"It enables you to pick out features that a satellite doesn't allow you to do,\" he says.\n\nLarge-scale global deforestation is being monitored from the International Space Station by the GEDI Lidar system.\n\nDr Tipper says a Lidar drone covers a much smaller area with each sweep but the resolution is \"an order of magnitude better\".\n\nOne key emphasis is on protecting native species - and fighting one non-native threat in particular.\n\nRhododendron bushes like Scotland a bit too much\n\nBack in the 1700s it seemed like a good idea to introduce the flowering shrub rhododendron ponticum, a native of southern Europe and western Asia, to the British Isles.\n\nAfter all, their purple blooms look lovely in early summer.\n\nThe problem is, the rhododendron bushes like Scottish forests rather too much.\n\nThe acid soil means they have spread like a smothering evergreen carpet beneath the cover of the tree canopy.\n\nYou could say it is a case of having too much of a good thing except they're actually a bad thing.\n\nThey carry a fungal disease that harms trees and their leaf litter is toxic to native plants.\n\nWithout Lidar the bushes can spread undetected.\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform\n\nThe drone data is analysed using a system called Ecometrica Platform. It creates the detailed maps that show changes to the ecosystem.\n\nEach partner in the project has a different use for the information.\n\nThe Forestry Commission is concerned with rhododendrons but The Woodland Trust wants to map the remains of native forests.\n\nEdinburgh University will feed it into new research, and Scottish Orienteering need digital models of the terrain as Scotland prepares to host the World Orienteering Championships in 2022.\n\nMat Williams, professor of global change ecology at Edinburgh University, says the system can play an important role in assessing the effects of climate change.\n\nHe says it can detect the effects of human land use, deforestation, soil degradation, forest fires and drought.\n\nAnd Scotland is a testbed for technology that could be used worldwide.\n\nEcometrica are also leading Forests 2020, a UK Space Agency-funded programme to map threats to tropical forests.\n\nProf Williams says his team are exploring the data gathered in Scotland to see how the techniques could be used there.\n\n\"For a long time we've only been able to look at the surface of tropical forests,\" he says.\n\n\"We're hoping Lidar can look in more depth.\"\n\nAmong the answers they are seeking is how many - or how few - Lidar pulses bouncing back from the forest can provide useful information.\n\nThey intend to begin flying Lidar drones in West Africa soon.\n\nAmong the threats there are illegal logging, charcoal burning and our apparently insatiable taste for chocolate.\n\nEcometrica's space programme manager Sarah Middlemiss says the project is working with the forestry authorities in Ghana to map the felling of trees in national parks to make way for cocoa.\n\nShe says cocoa plants can encroach on the forests even if they are not completely cut down.\n\n\"It's a shade-loving crop,\" she says. \"That's where Lidar is very useful.\"\n\nCocoa crops can grow beneath the forest canopy but the technology will be able to reveal them through the foliage.\n\n\"You can't map everything from satellites,\" Sarah says.\n\n\"We need other data sources and Lidar is about the richest you can get.\"", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman giving birth prematurely on the side of the road in Bangkok.\n\nThe BBC's Thai Service spoke to Waree Limrungsukho who said she had \"never done this for a human baby before\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Eller spoke to the press from her hospital bed\n\nA woman who was found alive two weeks after going missing in Hawaii has told of her \"life or death\" ordeal.\n\nAmanda Eller, 35, was last seen on 8 May. Family and friends had launched an intense search effort and offered a cash reward for her safe return.\n\nMs Eller was found on Friday when she waved down a rescue helicopter.\n\nReports say she got lost and injured while hiking on Maui. Photographs show her dirty and slightly injured, but smiling after being rescued.\n\nThe yoga instructor was found slightly injured, in a deep ravine, by volunteers\n\nIn an emotional video posted to Facebook on Saturday, the yoga instructor described how she endured \"the toughest days of my life\" while injured in the Hawaiian wilds.\n\nFilmed from a hospital bed next to her boyfriend, Benjamin Konkol, she said she \"chose life\" despite \"times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up\".\n\n\"I wasn't going to take the easy way out, even if that meant more suffering and pain for myself,\" she said in the video.\n\nIn another video, taken at a local hospital, Ms Eller's father said he was \"bawling like a baby\" when his daughter was found.\n\nHer mother described her as being in \"surprisingly good shape\" considering how long she had been missing.\n\nLocal reports suggest she has lost weight, but survived after foraging on berries and local water sources.\n\nFamily and friends raised money for the search, and offered cash rewards\n\nShe suffered a broken leg, a torn meniscus in her knee, sunburns and scrapes, The New York Times reported.\n\nAn online announcement about her rescue on the \"Find Amanda\" Facebook page has now been shared and liked thousands of times.\n\nWell-wishers have been flooding the page with messages of shock and relief about Ms Eller's safety.\n\nHer mother, Julia, told local news website Khon 2 that she had always \"felt in her heart\" that her daughter was alive.\n\n\"I never gave up hope for a minute,\" she said. \"Even though at times I would have those moments of despair, I stayed strong for her 'cause I knew we would find her if we just stayed with the program, stayed persistent and that we would eventually find her\".\n\nA search helicopter, paid for by GoFundMe donations, found her in this area\n\nIt is understood she was found with no socks or shoes on, and may have a fractured leg\n\nMs Eller's car and mobile phone had been found in the Makawao Forest Reserve car park - leading family and friends to suspect she had got lost while hiking.\n\nHer boyfriend had been the last person to see her, and said he \"strongly\" felt she was in the forest.\n\nShe reportedly got lost after leaving the trail to rest before plunging 20ft (six metres) from a cliff, breaking her leg.\n\nFifteen days after she was reported missing, three search team members reportedly spotted her on Friday in a deep ravine.\n\n\"We were freaking out. We were trying not to trip over ourselves trying to get to her too fast,\" rescuer Chris Berquest told local media.\n\nAnother member of the aerial search party, Javier Cantellops, shared images and video of the incredible rescue on social media.\n\nIn one post on his Facebook page he described finding her as the \"greatest day of my life\".", "The NHS has banned the sale of high-energy drinks to children in Scottish hospitals.\n\nShops within hospitals will not be permitted to sell the stimulating drinks to anyone under the age of 16.\n\nThe ban applies to drinks with an added caffeine content of more than 150mg per litre in an effort to promote a healthy diet.\n\nBut doctors are calling for the ban to be extended to all under-16s, not just in NHS buildings.\n\nAll NHS catering sites will also adopt the policy.\n\nThe move is part of the latest update to the Healthcare Retail Standard, a set of rules all retailers operating in NHS sites in Scotland must adhere to.\n\nIt aims to increase the amount of healthier food and drinks in shops in NHS buildings, with tighter rules around what can be promoted.\n\nMost major supermarkets stopped selling the drinks to under-16s in March 2018, while a teaching union has warned they are having a detrimental effect on both the health and the attention span of pupils.\n\nNew restrictions on baby food are also being introduced to promote healthy eating as early as possible.\n\nProducts will have to contain no added sugar or salt and be unsweetened.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said: \"The Healthcare Retail Standard supports healthier eating across the NHS estate and it is right that our hospitals show a lead in providing food and drink which is health promoting.\n\n\"The HRS ensures that at least 50% of food and 70% of drinks on sale are healthier options.\n\n\"This supports the Scottish government's strategy of working to improve Scotland's diet and tackle health inequalities.\"", "The collision happened off the coast of the French Riviera resort\n\nA 29-year-old Briton died following a collision between two yachts in Cannes, in France on Saturday.\n\nThe region's maritime prefecture said the vessels, Vision and Minx, collided at around 21:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nAccording to the statement, the man was a Minx crew member and died following a heart attack.\n\nThe maritime prefecture added that the collision happened after one yacht, Vision, sought to manoeuvre past the Minx which was anchored.\n\nThe prefecture stated that \"in spite of all attempts to resuscitate\" him, the man had died. He had been hauling up the anchor when the collision occurred.\n\nThe prefecture also said the remaining 17 people aboard the two vessels, which are both around 27m long, had been safely returned to shore overnight.\n\nThe statement added that the maritime police were investigating the incident, which happened on the last night of the film festival in Cannes.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Our staff are assisting the family of a British man following his death in France, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Homeowners in England are being given the green light to build larger extensions without planning permission.\n\nTemporary rules, which allowed bigger single-storey rear extensions without a full planning application, are being made permanent.\n\nAdditions to terraced and semi-detached homes can be up to 6m, while detached houses will be able to add even larger structures, up to 8m long.\n\nNeighbours will still be consulted and can raise objections to extensions.\n\nSince 2013, 110,000 people have taken advantage of the temporary rules, which doubled the previous limits of extensions that didn't require planning permission from the local authority.\n\nInstead of waiting possibly months for approval, homeowners notify the council of the building work beforehand, and council officials inform the neighbours.\n\nIf they raise concerns, the council decides if the extension is likely to harm the character or enjoyment of the area, and may block the plans.\n\nIn Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, rear extensions more than 3m or 4m long will continue to require a full planning application, which places the design and impact of the building under more scrutiny.\n\nHousing minister Kit Malthouse said the change in England means \"families can grow without being forced to move\".\n\nHe said: \"These measures will help families extend their properties without battling through time-consuming red tape.\"\n\nBut Martin Tett, planning spokesman for the Local Government Association, which represents UK local councils, said: \"The planning process exists for a reason.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the relaxed rules were popular with homeowners, but said it meant councils had little opportunity to consider the impact of extensions on their local area.\n\n\"We do not believe this right should be made permanent until an independent review is carried out of its impact, both on neighbouring residents and businesses, and also the capacity of local planning departments,\" he said.\n\nThe Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government said it was also removing other planning rules to allow business owners to respond to changes in England's high streets.\n\nIt means shops can be converted into office space without a full planning application being made.\n\nShops, offices and betting shops will also be able to temporarily change to community uses such as libraries or public halls.", "This photo showing a long queue up to the summit of Everest has gone viral in recent days\n\nNepal's tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to overcrowding.\n\nThe department's director general Dandu Raj Ghimire said other factors including adverse weather conditions had also contributed.\n\nTen climbers have been reported dead or missing this season.\n\nPhotos of long queues near the summit have been widely shared as record numbers ascended the mountain in May.\n\nMr Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but as periods of fine weather had been short, the number of people on the routes had been \"higher than expected\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Ghimire put the current death toll at eight, although 10 people have been reported dead or missing so far.\n\nKevin Hynes, 56, from Ireland, died in his tent on Friday and Séamus Lawless, also Irish, is presumed dead after falling near the summit.\n\nOne Nepalese, four Indians, an Austrian and an American are also dead or missing.\n\nA local tour organiser told AFP that one of the Indian climbers, Nihal Ashpak Bhagwan, died of exhaustion after being \"stuck in traffic for more than 12 hours\".\n\nMr Ghimire offered \"heartfelt condolences to those who've passed away and prayers to those who are still missing\".\n\n\"Mountaineering in the Himalayas is in itself an adventurous, complex and sensitive issue requiring full awareness yet tragic accidents are unavoidable,\" he said.\n• None Three more die on Everest amid overcrowding", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In November 2018, Jonah Fisher talked to a commander of the Ukrainian Navy about the tensions in the Azov Sea\n\nAn international tribunal has ordered Russia to \"immediately\" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval ships it seized off Crimea in November.\n\nMoscow says the sailors violated its maritime border near the peninsula which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nBut the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea sided with Ukraine in the dispute, which has stoked tensions between the nations.\n\nRussia, however, refuses to recognise the jurisdiction of the body.\n\nIt boycotted the hearings and analysts say the chances of it abiding by the Germany-based tribunal's provisional ruling appear minimal.\n\nThe Ukrainian vessels had tried to pass through the Kerch Strait, the only access to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov.\n\nBut Russia has controlled the Strait since annexing Crimea, and its coastguard boats fired on the vessels before boarding them.\n\nRussia has held the sailors in Moscow ever since.\n\nBut, in a ruling, the tribunal's Judge Jin-Hyuan Paik said: \"The Russian Federation must proceed immediately to release the Ukrainian soldiers and allow them to return to the Ukraine.\"\n\nA tanker under the bridge shut all navigation from and into the Sea of Azov\n\nHowever, while the tribunal said both sides should refrain from any action which would aggravate the dispute, it did not uphold Ukraine's request for Russia to suspend the trial of its servicemen.\n\nThe sailors face up to six years in jail if found guilty.\n\nThe ruling is being seen as a victory in Ukraine, delivering most of what Kiev sought.\n\nUkraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on Russia to comply with the tribunal's order, writing on Facebook that that by so doing, there \"could be the first signal from the Russian leadership about real readiness to end the conflict with Ukraine\".\n\nMr Zelensky said during his swearing-in on Monday that ending the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east will be his top priority as president.\n\nFighting in the region has claimed about 13,000 lives since 2014.", "The parade made its way to the east end of Glasgow before it was called to a halt\n\nA parade to celebrate Celtic's treble Treble victory had to be halted due to safety fears, police have said.\n\nThousands of supporters spilled onto the roads as an open-top bus carried players from Hampden Park after the Scottish Cup final.\n\nThe parade made its way to the east end of Glasgow before police took the decision to bring it to a halt.\n\nCeltic said they hoped to have another event to celebrate the victory ''in the near future''.\n\nThe club tweeted: ''Due to safety concerns, the bus parade, on the advice of @policescotland, had to be rerouted. There were numerous supporters on the road and the safety of our fans will always be our priority.\n\n\"While this is unfortunate, it is outwith our control and we hope to have another event in the near future to celebrate today's momentous occasion.''\n\nEarlier the club had tweeted a warning to fans gathering on Saltmarket and Gallowgate, urging them to \"get off the road otherwise the Parade will not be able to go ahead\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We can confirm that Saturday's planned parade by the Celtic FC team bus was initially re-routed and subsequently cancelled by the event police commander in consultation with Celtic FC on the grounds of public safety.\"\n\nCeltic secured a historic treble of domestic trophies for the third consecutive season as Odsonne Edouard's two goals gave the Parkhead side a 2-1 win over Hearts.\n\nCeltic players including captain Scott Brown celebrated with fans after the cup final victory", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Never speak ill of our fellow Conservative\"\n\nDominic Raab has been making his pitch to become Conservative leader, as Michael Gove becomes the eighth MP to join the race to succeed Theresa May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nMr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said it would be a \"dangerous strategy\" to ignore Parliament, which has opposed no-deal.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite in the contest, outlined his approach to Brexit in his column in Monday's Daily Telegraph, saying: \"No one sensible would aim exclusively for a no-deal outcome. No one responsible would take no-deal off the table.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May announced she would be standing down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt came after a backlash by her MPs against her plan to get the withdrawal deal she had negotiated with the EU through the Commons, which has already rejected it three times.\n\nThe UK is now set to leave the European Union on 31 October, after the original Brexit date of 29 March was delayed twice owing to the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nThe delay has meant the UK has had to take part in elections to the European Parliament, three years after it voted to leave the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove becomes the eighth candidate to put himself forward\n\nMr Gove, the environment secretary, confirmed on Sunday that he would run for leader, saying: \"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson for BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking at Hay Festival, Mr Gove explained why he was running, saying: \"The particular mix of experience I have means I can make a contribution.\"\n\nMr Gove also said he had changed his mind from 2016 - when he described himself as being \"incapable\" of being Tory leader - adding he had \"evolved as a politician\".\n\nWhile he did not set out his leadership proposal, he did say that the future prime minister would need an eye for detail, as the \"process for taking us out of the European Union requires that\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Commons leader Andrea Leadsom revealed their leadership bids in the Sunday newspapers.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK's previous negotiations with the EU over the withdrawal agreement had not been \"resolute\" enough, and a no-deal Brexit had been taken \"off the table\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"I would fight for a fairer deal in Brussels with negotiations to change the backstop arrangements, and if not I would be clear that we would leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms in October.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want a WTO Brexit but I think unless you are willing to keep our promises as politicians… we put ourselves in a much weaker position in terms of getting a deal.\"\n\nMrs May, who was at church on Sunday with her husband Philip, resigned on Friday\n\nHe said there was \"no case for a further extension\" past the current date the UK is due to leave the EU, 31 October.\n\nBut Chancellor Philip Hammond called for compromise, saying the suggestion that it was possible to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement was a \"fig leaf\" for \"what is actually a policy of leaving on no-deal terms\".\n\nThat policy was clearly opposed by Parliament, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long,\" he warned.\n\nFormer work and pensions secretary Esther McVey told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"31 October is the key date and we are coming out then, and if that means without a deal then that's what it means.\n\n\"We won't be asking for any more extensions. If Europe wants to come back to us, the door is open if they want a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom confirms leadership bid\n\nAsked if she favoured a no-deal Brexit, Ms Leadsom said: \"Of course, in order to succeed in a negotiation you have to be prepared to leave without a deal, but I have a three-point plan for Brexit, for how we get out of the European Union.\n\n\"I'm very optimistic about it. My role as leader of the Commons means that I've had a very good insight into what needs to be done, and I look forward to setting that out once the campaign starts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long\"\n\nThey have joined Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his predecessor Boris Johnson, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the battle for the leadership.\n\nTory MPs have until the week beginning 10 June to put their name forward, and the party hopes a new leader will be in place by the end of July.\n\nMembers will have the final say on who wins, after the shortlist is whittled down to two by a series of votes by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the Sunday Telegraph, party chairman Brandon Lewis said the party membership had swelled by 36,000 in the last year - bringing the total to more than 160,000.\n\nMrs May will continue as prime minister while the leadership contest takes place.\n\nHow the UK leaves the EU has consumed British politics for three years and anyone who wants to be prime minister now has to explain how they can succeed where Theresa May failed.\n\nAll the contenders in this race face the same dilemma.\n\nThe first hurdle is to persuade a deeply divided parliamentary party that they have a solution that breaks the stalemate but keeps the party intact.\n\nNext they must appeal to the Tory membership - and many of them have no problem with a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFinally they will have to govern, and that means winning the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nMPs have already voted overwhelmingly against leaving the EU without a deal and it would take only a handful of Conservative MPs to bring down a prime minister who tried to do so.\n\nSome candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nMr Hunt told the Sunday Times he had the business experience to secure an agreement. \"Doing deals is my bread and butter,\" he said.\n\nAnd in a direct criticism of Boris Johnson, Mr Stewart said: \"I would not serve in the cabinet of someone explicitly pushing for a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hancock said Mrs May's successor must be \"brutally honest\" about the \"trade-offs\" required to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it would be better for the UK \"if we secure a deal and leave the EU in an orderly way\" but added that he had \"come to grips\" with preparing for a no-deal outcome.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson told the Observer that his party must fully commit to supporting another referendum.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the \"usual suspects\" would blame leader Jeremy Corbyn if Labour performed poorly in the European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shami Chakrabarti: \"What I just heard from Dominic Raab was terrifying to me\"\n\nHe said: \"Tom Watson's already out, surprise surprise, trying to take on the role of Prince Machiavelli, but I've got news for Tom. Machiavelli was effective. He's a poor imitation of that. If he's trying to turn Labour members against Corbyn and in his favour, then he's going to lose disastrously.\n\n\"Now is the time to hold your nerve, because a general election - which is the only thing that will resolve this situation - is closer now than anything.\"", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "It was a tough night for both Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nThe Brexit Party swept across Britain, and the Liberal Democrats and Green Party also made gains.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped polls in every country or region apart from London, which was won by the Liberal Democrats; Scotland, which was won by the SNP; and Northern Ireland, where they did not stand.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nOur map by council results shows that the Brexit Party topped polls almost everywhere in England and Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives did not come top in any council areas.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nAll results from the UK can be seen here.\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party secured more than half the vote in areas where more than 7 in 10 people backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while the trends for the Greens and Lib Dems were the opposite.\n\nAs for the two main parties, Labour particularly struggled to pick up votes in areas that voted strongly for Leave in 2016, averaging less than one in ten votes in those local authorities.\n\nThe Conservatives performed badly across the board, but worst in areas where voters heavily backed Remain in the referendum.\n\nVoters in local authority areas which backed Remain in the EU referendum showed a renewed enthusiasm for getting out to vote.\n\nFor example, turnout in Bristol, in which more than 60% of voters supported Remain, increased by eight percentage points with the Green Party winning the most votes, and in Edinburgh, where more than 75% of voters were Remainers, it was up by nine points with the SNP in the lead.\n\nOn average turnout was 36.7%, up a little less than two percentage points on the last EU election in 2014.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour combined received less than 25% of the votes, their worst result in any EU election.\n\nThe two main parties' vote share has been dropping consistently since the UK's first EU election in 1979.\n\nBy Daniel Dunford, John Walton, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther and Paul Sargeant. Design by Sean Willmott, Prina Shah and Irene de la Torre Arenas. Development by Joe Reed, Becky Rush and Shilpa Saraf.\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "'Clear majority' who want to stop Brexit - Cable\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable says the party's \"next big task\" is to work with others to prevent the UK from \"crashing out of the European Union by accident\". He says it is \"very clear\" that there is a \"clear majority in the country who want to stop Brexit\". \"We've had a brilliant result, we've got a lot now to build on,\" he adds. He says he was \"pleasantly surprised\" at the results overnight, although it was \"clear that we had momentum\". \"The only way now to resolve the issue is to go back to the public,\" he says. Sir Vince adds that \"Jeremy Corbyn's position is now very weak\" and Labour's results were \"almost humiliating\". He says he would be surprised if both Labour and the Conservatives \"survive intact\" during the next general election. Turning to the upcoming Liberal Democrat leadership race, he says he does not have a preference for who takes over.", "South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated at a stadium in the capital Pretoria.\n\nThe African National Congress (ANC) leader vowed to tackle corruption and rejuvenate the struggling economy.\n\nMore than 30,000 people gathered to witness the ceremony which included a flypast and military parade.\n\nMr Ramaphosa was elected earlier this month with a majority of 57.5%, the smallest since the party came to power 25 years ago.", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "One of the blasts struck a shop\n\nAt least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say.\n\nThe three blasts - one in the centre and two on the outskirts - took place on Sunday afternoon local time.\n\nImprovised or crude explosive devices are believed to have been used to set off the blasts, police said.\n\nOne official told reporters a Maoist splinter group was under suspicion after pamphlets were found nearby.\n\nThe same group is alleged to have carried out an explosion in February which killed one person in Kathmandu.\n\nHowever, no one has claimed responsibilities for the attacks.\n\nPolice official Shyam Lal Gyawali said three of those killed died \"on the spot\", while the fourth died in hospital.\n\nThe pamphlets were found at a home on the outskirts of the city, where the first blast took place, he added.\n\nStudent Govinda Bhandari, 17, told Reuters news agency: \"I heard a big noise and rushed to the spot to find the walls of a house had developed cracks due to the impact of the blast.\"\n\nJust one person died in the initial explosion, while three died in a second incident near a hairdressers in the city centre.\n\nThe third blast happened several hours later and is reported to have injured two members of the group transporting an explosive device.\n\nSecurity forces have sealed off the locations of the blasts and say investigations are under way.\n\nSince a decade-long civil war ended in 2006, Nepal has been relatively peaceful, with the main group of the former rebels joining the ruling government party the next year.\n\nHowever, some have now broken away, saying their leaders are betraying their original revolutionary ideals.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned that it would be very difficult for any prime minister who backs a policy of leaving the EU with no deal, to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "Divorce was only made legal in Ireland in 1995 following a tight referendum vote\n\nPeople in the Republic of Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of liberalising divorce laws, in a referendum held on Friday.\n\nThe proposal passed with 82.1% of voters backing a change to the law.\n\nThe constitution currently states that spouses must be separated for four of the previous five years to divorce.\n\nBut that clause will now be removed, allowing the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) to decide a new separation period before divorce is allowed.\n\nDivorce was legalised in Ireland in 1995, after a referendum that approved the measure by 50.28% to 49.72%.\n\nAny change to the Irish constitution must be supported by a majority of voters in a referendum.\n\nPrior to the vote on divorce laws on Friday, the government indicated that it believed a two-year separation was long enough.\n\nLocal and European elections were held on the same day as the referendum\n\nIreland has recently held constitutional referendums on other social issues - leading to the scrapping of the country's ban on abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage.\n\nThe main political parties in Ireland all supported the liberalisation of divorce laws. Opposition to the vote came from Catholic pressure groups such as the Iona Institute.\n\nThe Iona Institute's director, David Quinn, said he had no particular objection to the four-year waiting time for divorce being reduced to two years, but did not want to see divorce laws removed from the constitution completely.\n\nAccording to Eurostat, the crude divorce rate in the Republic of Ireland is 0.6% a year for every 1,000 people compared with 1.9% for the UK and 3.2% for the US.", "The three teenagers stabbed to death in 12 days: (l-r) Hazrat Umar, 18, Abdullah Muhammad and Sidali Mohamed, both 16\n\nOne hundred people have been stabbed to death across the UK since the beginning of 2019. Three of those were teenagers in the West Midlands, all killed within the space of 12 days. People are now asking whether austerity is to blame.\n\nOn the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 February, just outside the gates of a sixth form college in east Birmingham, an A-Level student is stabbed in the chest.\n\nParamedics and police rushed to the aid of Sidali Mohamed, an aspiring accountant who fled war-torn Somalia with his family as a toddler.\n\nTwo days later, surrounded by his family in hospital, the 16-year-old Joseph Chamberlain College student's life support machine was switched off and he died from his injuries.\n\nA week after Sidali was stabbed, West Midlands Police launched another murder investigation as a second teenager was knifed to death.\n\nYards away from a nearby primary school, in Small Heath, south-east Birmingham, Abdullah Muhammad was stabbed in the back and chest.\n\nAbdullah, also aged 16, died at the scene - a park close to where he lived.\n\nThe majority of those stabbed to death in the West Midlands in 2019 have been teenagers\n\nBy the end of the week detectives had begun a third murder investigation, the time into the death of an 18-year-old boy.\n\nElectrical engineering student Hazrat Umar was found injured on a road in Bordesley Green on 25 February.\n\nA relative of Nazir Afzal, a former chief prosecutor, Mr Umar became another victim to Birmingham's knife crime.\n\nEight of the 100 victims to have been stabbed to death in 2019 have been killed in the West Midlands - but Mr Afzal fears the knife crime problem is far bigger.\n\n\"The statistics show murders, but do not show the attempted murders and GBHs,\" Mr Afzal says.\n\n\"Hundreds of people have survived violence because of the skilled work of paramedics and medical staff. It masks a bigger problem.\"\n\nOne hundred people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nLast month, Jack Harley, a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties from Halesowen, almost became another statistic.\n\nThe teenager was attacked with a knife and robbed while sitting on a bench in a park in Dudley.\n\nReceiving a deep gash to his right arm, Jack needed 14 staples and underwent a series of operations.\n\n\"He was very close to the artery being cut,\" says his mother, Diane. \"We've got to stop it.\"\n\nJack Harley was stabbed as he was robbed in Birmingham\n\nThe spate of killings has led the chief constable of West Midlands Police to describe knife crime as \"an emergency\" as pressure mounted for solutions to be found fast.\n\nBut for former police officer Kirk Dawes, the solution is obvious: he partly attributes the rise in knife crime locally to the axing of a mediation service he had run, which settled disputes between gangs.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"Every time I hear a murder where some kind of conflict resolution service could have been utilised, it hurts in here,\" he says, pointing to his heart.\n\n\"Something that was working so well was literally thrown away.\"\n\nIn 2004, Mr Dawes - then a police detective - was tasked with setting up a unit that would mediate conflicts and stop them from becoming deadly.\n\nMr Dawes helped pioneer a new approach to combating serious violence in the wake of the killing of teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare, who were gunned down in a drive-by shooting as they left a party in Birmingham in the early hours of 2 January 2003.\n\nCharlene Ellis, 18, and Letisha Shakespeare, 17, were shot with a sub-machine gun in Aston, Birmingham, in 2003\n\nThey were the innocent victims of a dispute between two notorious gangs in the city.\n\nDrawing on conflict resolution tactics used to defuse disputes in Northern Ireland and among gangs in the US, Mr Dawes worked with trained mediators as part of a body called Birmingham Reducing Gang Violence (BRGV).\n\nThey shuttled between feuding groups, finding ways to settle conflict without violence.\n\nKirk Dawes ran The Centre for Conflict Transformation (TCFCT) between 2004 and 2012\n\nIt seemed to work: Mr Dawes says there were 27 gang-related murders in 2004. By 2010 there were three.\n\nThen the scheme was scrapped.\n\nBy the end, he says, the 35 trained mediators, who specialised in sitting face-to-face with possible killers, were being asked to work on a zero-hours contract.\n\n\"The catalyst for that was austerity,\" Mr Dawes says now. \"The draconian way in which money was taken away from community organisations has led to where we are now.\"\n\nSince the BRGV was axed, knife crime has steadily risen in the West Midlands, with the number of people being stabbed to death spiking in the last two years.\n\nThere is no agreement on what is driving the recent increase.\n\nSenior police officers blame drug dealing, robberies and young people feeling like they have to defend themselves. Elsewhere, social media is in the frame.\n\nThe current chief constable of West Midlands Police, Dave Thompson, was not in charge when the decision was made to axe Mr Dawes' mediation unit.\n\nDave Thompson has been the chief constable of West Midlands Police since January 2016\n\nHe says the force has faced \"some very tough choices\".\n\n\"You can't make the level of reductions by keeping everything the same,\" he says.\n\nHowever, he concedes that \"with hindsight\" it would have been better to retain the unit.\n\nLater this year a new mediation service will be introduced at a cost of £100,000 a year - seven years after BGRV was scrapped.\n\nResearch published last week found that councils with large cuts to youth services were more likely to have seen an increase in knife crime.\n\nThe all-party parliamentary group on knife crime said that the average council cuts to youth services was 40%, but for some services in the West Midlands it was closer to 90%.\n\nAusterity makes itself felt in another way too, according to Mr Thompson, serving to slow down some of the more detailed investigations which are often launched following a homicide.\n\n\"In some cases of violence, the investigation won't move at the same pace as it would have in the past.\n\n\"The leg work of detective work in some of these cases, the examination of phones, the digital media that takes time, effort of skilled resources.\"\n\nBirmingham is a young city. Almost half of its one million population is under 25, so the policing priority is to reduce street violence among that group.\n\n\"It has got the appearance that those people who are inclined to violence are actually becoming more violent,\" says West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson.\n\n\"If you'd asked me the question about the common themes in the violence four or five years ago a lot of it was around gangs.\n\n\"That is still true today. Some of it is around gangs but it's across all people now. We're seeing what used to be a small act of violence - perhaps a slap or a punch - turn into something far more serious.\"\n\nNationally, a lot of hope has been pinned on the so-called \"public health approach\" to tackling violence.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nAt Coundon Primary School, in Coventry, a class of lively Year 6 pupils learn about being \"mentors in violence prevention\", as part of a new scheme in the region.\n\nUsing scenarios they teach each other the resilience needed to stand up to the challenges they will face in life.\n\nThey learn about bullying, grooming and dealing with the pressures not to \"snitch\".\n\nIt is another demand heaped onto busy teachers.\n\nHead teacher Jayne Ellis says there was a stabbing just around the corner from the school the night before she spoke to the BBC.\n\n\"Some of these children we've had since they were three,\" she says.\n\n\"If we can give them those messages at least we've given them the skills to deal with whatever predicament they find themselves in.\n\n\"They trust us implicitly. They trust each other. We are like a family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "Chris Bryant's offices were targeted because of his pro-EU position, he says\n\nVandals have painted the word \"traitor\" across the front of a pro-EU MP's constituency offices.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant, who wants the UK to remain in the EU, said the graffiti on his Tonypandy offices would not change his mind on Brexit.\n\nIn a defiant tweet on Saturday morning, the Rhondda MP said the people who painted the abuse \"underestimate\" him.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was investigating and asked anyone with information to come forward.\n\nMr Bryant blamed \"anyone who has poured a bit more bile into the pot\" for contributing to a lack of respect.\n\nNone of his staff were in the building at the time, but he said it was unpleasant for his staff who had already faced abuse since the referendum in 2016.\n\nHe had already increased security at his Dunraven Street office, he added.\n\nMr Bryant warned he would not be cowed by the abuse\n\n\"I don't know why anybody would think spending 10 minutes spray-painting names on a shutter will change my mind,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't used to be a democracy like this - we used to respect each other's opinions.\"\n\nHe told BBC Wales he expected the hostile political atmosphere to continue until Parliament comes to a decision on Brexit.\n\nMPs and campaigners have offered their support on social media.\n\nFormer Labour MP Chukka Ummuna tweeted: \"This vile intimidation and abuse is appalling. Good for you @RhonddaBryant for standing up to it and for defending our democracy\".", "Protesters call for a boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv\n\nGermany's parliament has condemned as anti-Semitic a movement calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over its policies towards Palestinians.\n\nLawmakers in the Bundestag said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group uses anti-Semitic methods to promote its political goals.\n\nThe BDS movement described the decision as \"a betrayal of international law\".\n\nIt comes after the group called for artists to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest held in Tel Aviv this week.\n\nIn Friday's resolution vote, which took place on the eve of the show's final, Germany's lower house said the actions of the BDS were reminiscent of the \"terrifying\" Nazi campaign against Jewish people under Adolf Hitler.\n\n\"The 'don't buy' stickers of the BDS movement on Israeli products [could be associated] with the Nazi call 'don't buy from Jews', and other corresponding graffiti on facades and shop windows,\" the non-binding resolution said.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously said that the BDS movement opposes his nation's very existence, welcomed the \"important\" decision in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\n\"I hope that this decision will bring about concrete steps and I call upon other countries to adopt similar legislation,\" the statement said.\n\nThe motion, submitted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Greens and Free Democrats, pledges to reject all financial support for the BDS movement.\n\nCondemning the move, the BDS group said the \"unconstitutional resolution\" was anti-Palestinian and unhelpful in the fight against \"real anti-Jewish racism\".\n\n\"BDS targets complicity not identity. The academic and cultural boycott of Israel is strictly institutional and does not target individual Israelis,\" the movement said in a statement posted online.\n\nAhead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the BDS movement called on artists and broadcasters to distance themselves from the event, which they said was being used to \"distract attention from [Israel's] war crimes\".\n\nMadonna was among those facing calls to boycott the contest, but she confirmed on Thursday that she would be performing.", "Mrs May has pledged to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following another vote on her Brexit withdrawal agreement\n\nTheresa May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed, a cabinet minister has warned.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHis comments come after cross-party talks aimed at breaking the impasse collapsed on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, a poll of Tory members for The Times puts Boris Johnson as the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nMr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph it would be a \"disaster\" to call a general election before the UK had left the EU as \"people don't want it\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"\n\n\"Who knows what the outcome of a general election would be under these circumstances? A general election before that not only risks Jeremy Corbyn, but it risks killing Brexit altogether.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Downing Street following a House of Commons vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nThis prompted talks between the government and Labour to see if they could agree a way to break the impasse but those negotiations ended this week without an agreement.\n\nMr Hancock said the current circumstances would make it difficult to predict the result of any general election before Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"We've got to deliver Brexit in this parliament, then we can move forward.\"\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by The Times of Tory party members suggests that Boris Johnson is a favourite to succeed Theresa May as prime minister - he is the first choice to replace her for 39% of those polled.\n\nMr Johnson, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Mr Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to declare that only Labour can halt the rise of the \"far right\" during a rally later.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the European parliamentary elections, he is expected to say that years of neglect had \"opened the door\" to the far right.\n\n\"Politics as usual won't defeat them,\" he will say.\n\n\"We need Labour's radical programme to transform our country and turn the tide of inequality by ending austerity and investing in our communities and people.\"", "Well, that's it for another year...\n\nThe bookies' favourite won out, the UK came last (again) and Graham Norton wasn't happy about it.\n\nYou win some, you lose some. But we're already looking forward to another big slice of cheese - make that Edam - in the Netherlands next year.\n\nSee you there!", "The team behind Rocketman have pulled off the most astonishing feat. Against all the odds, they have managed to produce a two-hour greatest hits musical that turns one of the most flamboyant, gifted and charismatic performing artists of the modern era into a bit of a bore.\n\nA lot of words have been written and spoken about Sir Elton John over his 50 years in showbiz, but \"dull\" is not usually among them.\n\nBut there's no alternative but to invoke it in this instance. It's as if the piano-playing showman's character was squeezed into a trouser press every time it looked like developing a third dimension.\n\nHe is played by Taron Egerton in this Hollywood retelling of the pop star's life story. Egerton succeeds in bringing out the singer's down-to-earth humour, but fails to bare his soul.\n\nIt doesn't help that he looks more like Phil Collins than Elton John when off stage, and not unlike 1980s children's TV personality Timmy Mallet when on it.\n\nThe film starts as it means to go on. And I mean, go on. Elton is in group therapy talking about his addictions: to alcohol, drugs, sex, bulimia, shopping. The other participants can't get a word in edgeways as the man from Pinner bangs on about himself.\n\nWe revisit this group throughout the film, with his outfits becoming more stripped back each time - from a winged Devil outfit (bad, fake Elton) to a dreary brown dressing gown (real Elton, stripped of artifice).\n\nThese are the layers being peeled back to reveal his true identity. Except it never is revealed.\n\nWe go from addiction story to back story for a while until the two become one and everything that was good about the film (warmth, self-deprecating humour, seamless segues between music, action and time) is lost in yet another scene of Elton Hercules John overindulging.\n\nIt's a rock 'n' roll cliché at the best of times, but is overplayed here to such an extent as to suggest (ridiculously) it is the only interesting thing to say or reveal about a sensitive, artistic man blessed with a special talent to touch the hearts and minds of millions of people across the globe.\n\nIt's a shame, because there's a potentially great movie buried under the empty vodka bottles. There are glimpses of what could have been in an early rendition of I Want Love sung as an ensemble piece by Elton when a boy, his distracted mother (Bryce Dallas Howard), detached father (Steven Mackintosh) and supportive granny (Gemma Jones) - all of whom are in need of a bit of love.\n\nTaron Egerton with Bryce Dallas Howard as his mum Sheila and Richard Madden, who plays Elton's manager John Reid\n\nThis is the untended soil from which a dumpy, shy young lad called Reginald Dwight grew into Elton John, superstar. It is fertile ground for a decent biopic, which Rocketman might have flowered into had it not been stifled by the addiction saga running though it like Japanese knotweed.\n\nThere are moments of genuine cinematic drama, most of which occur in the first half. A particular highlight takes place at Doug Weston's legendary Troubadour club in West Hollywood. It is August 1970 and Elton John and his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell) are giving America a first shot.\n\nBernie comes racing backstage from the bar to tell Elton that Neil Diamond and half of the Beach Boys are out front waiting to hear him play. The news gives the already nervous singer the yips. He hides in the loo before being coaxed out to triumphantly take the stage by storm with a blistering Crocodile Rock. You're enthralled. It's great. This is the moment Elton John takes off. And then…\n\nDirector Dexter Fletcher (who was brought in to complete last year's Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody after Bryan Singer was fired) labours the point with unnecessary visual metaphors as our newly discovered star floats up in the sky, while his audience, who are swept off their feet, levitate.\n\nRocketman is far from a disaster - it couldn't be given Elton John's back catalogue - but it is a disappointment, a missed opportunity. Lee Hall's script is fine, the acting is fine, the directing is fine and the music is great - although Taron Egerton can't sell a song like Elton John, but then few can.\n\nSir Elton John with Taron Egerton at the premiere in Cannes\n\nThe problem is superficiality. We see a lot of Elton John but we never get to know him. All the sex 'n' drugs give an illusion of candour but it's really a mask to hide behind. The rags-to-riches element is told in a fairly perfunctory fashion, albeit lifted somewhat by the way in which the John/Taupin songbook is neatly weaved in for dramatic emphasis.\n\nBut then I suppose that's what you get when the subject of a biopic is also its authoriser and executive producer (his husband David Furnish has a producer credit). Critical distance is a difficult thing to achieve in such circumstances.\n\nMaybe he was hoping for a companion piece for Billy Elliot, a story that he has said mirrors his own. The presence of Lee Hall and Jamie Bell (both Billy Elliot alumni, as is Elton John, who provided songs for the stage musical) suggests that might have been the case.\n\nIf so, Rocketman doesn't miss by a mile. There's plenty to enjoy. But it does miss.", "Well, that's the end of our live coverage of Australia election 2019.\n\nNo-one predicted it, but the Liberal-National Coalition has won. PM Scott Morrison calls it \"a miracle\".\n\nWe don't yet know if they have the 76 seats required for a majority, but they will certainly be in government.\n\nLabor's Bill Shorten has conceded and said he will step down as leader.\n\nThe coalition has swept through Queensland, a state full of marginal seats.\n\nFormer PM Tony Abbott has lost his seat.\n\nThere are plenty of votes still to be counted - some may not be called for days. And the Senate can take weeks to settle.\n\nBut we're leaving it here. Thanks for following and remember you can get all the latest Australia news from BBC News Australia and by adding \"Australia\" to your topics in the BBC News app.", "The owner of disqualified Kentucky Derby 'winner' Maximum Security has issued an extraordinary $20m (£15.7m) challenge to his rivals.\n\nGary West is offering $5m (£3.9m) each to the owners of Country House, War of Will, Long Range Toddy and Bodexpress if any of those horses finish ahead of his colt the next time they race against him this year.\n\n\"Most experts agree that Maximum Security was the best horse in the Kentucky Derby,\" West said in issuing his challenge.\n\n\"I don't care to discuss the controversy surrounding the events of the race and the disqualification of my horse at this time, but I firmly believe I have the best three-year-old in the country and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is.\"\n\nMaximum Security veered out of line on the final turn and impeded War of Will and Long Range Toddy, prompting stewards to demote the initial victor to 17th place.\n\nCountry House, a 65-1 outsider, was promoted to winner of the $3m (£2.2m) race which was watched by by a crowd of 150,000.\n\nIf Maximum Security loses any rematch, West said he would pay out, but his rivals would have to stump up if his horse triumphs.\n\nWest said his offer had nothing to do with what happened to his horse in the Kentucky Derby, where Maximum Security was disqualified after stewards agreed he interfered with the path of other horses in the final turn before the home stretch.\n\nMaximum Security, the 4-1 favourite at Churchill Downs, was the first winner to be disqualified for an on-track incident in the event's 145-year history.\n\nAccording to West's statement, there are no restrictions as to the type of race, location, distance or track surface, and the offer is only valid for the next time Maximum Security races against any of the other horses.\n\nWest would donate any of Maximum Security's winnings from the challenge to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys' Fund. If no owners accept the challenge, he has pledged to give 10% of Maximum Security's future lifetime racing earnings to the organisation.\n\n\"I am doing this because I think it would be good for racing and a unique opportunity to bring more people into racing because of the elevated interest this would bring to the sport,\" he said.\n\nUnited States president Donald Trump was among those to criticise the disqualification.\n\n\"Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close,\" said Trump on Twitter :", "Kevin Mallory, 62, was convicted under the Espionage Act\n\nA former CIA officer has been jailed for 20 years for disclosing military secrets to a Chinese agent, the US justice department says.\n\nKevin Mallory, 62, was found guilty of several spying offences following a two-week trial last June.\n\nThe fluent Mandarin speaker from Leesburg, Virginia, held top-level security clearance and had access to sensitive documents.\n\nHe was convicted of selling secrets to China for $25,000 (£19,600).\n\nEvidence at his trial included a surveillance video which showed him scanning classified documents onto a digital memory card at a post office.\n\nHe also travelled to Shanghai to meet with a Chinese agent in March and April 2017, the justice department said.\n\n\"Mallory not only put our country at great risk, but he endangered the lives of [people] who put their own safety at risk for our national defence,\" US attorney Zachary Terwilliger said in a statement.\n\n\"This case should send a message to anyone considering violating the public's trust and compromising our national security,\" he added. \"We will remain steadfast and dogged in pursuit of these challenging but critical national security cases.\"\n\nThe Justice Department said Mallory held a number of sensitive jobs with government agencies.\n\nHe had worked as a covert case officer for the CIA and as an intelligence officer for the Defense intelligence Agency (DIA).\n\n\"This case is one in an alarming trend of former US intelligence officers being targeted by China and betraying their country and colleagues,\" Assistant Attorney General John Demers said following the sentencing.\n\nEarlier this month, ex-CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee pleaded guilty to spying for China. Prosecutors said the naturalised US citizen was paid to divulge information on US covert assets.\n\nAnd last June, former US intelligence officer Ron Rockwell Hansen was also charged with attempting to spy for China.\n\nHe attempted to pass on information and received at least $800,000 (£600,000) for acting as a Chinese agent, the justice department said at the time.\n\nChinese police guard the US embassy in the capital, Beijing", "Tyler, The Creator was banned from entering the UK in 2015\n\nA US rapper said a \"rowdy\" crowd forced him to cancel his first UK show since a ban on entering the country was lifted.\n\nTyler, The Creator announced the gig in Peckham, south-east London, a few hours after surprising fans by tweeting a video outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nBut soon after it was due to begin he wrote the \"cops cancelled it\" in a tweet that has since been deleted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the venue called it off because of \"overcrowding issues\".\n\nFans flocked to Peckham after Tyler, The Creator announced he was in the UK and playing a gig\n\nToby Stanton, 19, said fans were climbing over cars while people were still sat inside them during the rush to get to the venue.\n\n\"Every time they opened the gate a little bit to the venue, people charged towards the gate and then bounced back when they closed it,\" he said.\n\nThe rapper, real name Tyler Okonma, was stopped from the entering the UK in 2015 by then home secretary Theresa May after claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nIt is believed the ban was lifted from 13 February and he arrived at Luton Airport in the early hours.\n\nThe Home Office said it did \"not routinely comment on individual cases\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tyler, The Creator This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Tyler, The Creator\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV and radio presenter Nicki Chapman has been praised for speaking out about her recent brain tumour diagnosis and subsequent recovery from surgery.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who was found to have a tumour \"the size of a golf ball\", told the Daily Mail she was \"petrified\" but tried to \"stay positive\".\n\nThe Brain Tumour Charity said sharing the experience would help \"end the isolation\" of fellow sufferers.\n\nChief executive Sarah Lindsell said she was \"grateful\" Chapman had spoken out.\n\n\"Nicki's decision to share her experience will make a real difference in helping to end the isolation felt by so many people who are diagnosed with a brain tumour,\" she said.\n\nThe charity tweeted its support on Saturday, following Chapman's interview in the Mail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by The Brain Tumour Charity\n\nChapman, who said she would not be co-presenting the BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, underwent surgery at a London hospital earlier this month following her diagnosis in March and is currently recuperating at home.\n\n\"I really hope other people who get a similar diagnosis have the excellent treatment I had, and find the same inner strength,\" she told the Mail's Frances Hardy.\n\nShe said the operation had gone well, that the tumour was benign and that most of it had been removed, but a \"little bit\" of the tumour which was growing close to one of the main cerebral veins had to be left because the risk from removing it was too great.\n\n\"I know it might come back, but if it does they'll deal with it before it gets too big.\n\n\"I don't know about the future but I'm as optimistic as I possibly can be.\"\n\nChapman, who rose to public prominence as a judge on the ITV talent show Pop Idol in 2001, said she first became aware something was amiss six weeks ago, when she noticed she was suffering from blurred vision and speech difficulties.\n\nShe said she assumed the symptoms were \"menopause-related\", but her doctor urged her to go to hospital.\n\nA scan discovered a tumour on the back, left-hand side of her head, \"the size of a golf ball, pressing on my brain\".\n\nChapman's colleagues from TV and radio have shown their support on social media, including tweets from fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce, and presenters Suzi Perry, Carol Vorderman and Lucy Alexander.\n\nJames Wong, one of her co-hosts on the Chelsea Flower Show, recalled Chapman's generosity when he was a novice on live TV, and how she gave up a day to help him prepare.\n\n\"Would you guys send me some big love her way as she recovers from her op?\" he tweeted. \"What a lady!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChapman said she was \"devastated\" not to be able to work on this year's Chelsea Flower Show - which she has co-hosted for 13 years - but was following doctor's orders.\n\n\"You have to give yourself the best possible chance to heal,\" she said. \"You don't get a second chance to recover.\"\n\nThe RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from 21-25 May.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManchester City rounded off an outstanding season by crushing Watford at Wembley to clinch a historic domestic treble.\n\nRaheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus both scored twice as Pep Guardiola's team became the first English men's side to achieve the feat of winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup in the same season.\n\nThey reaffirmed their status as this season's dominant force as Watford were utterly outclassed, City achieving the biggest FA Cup final win since Bury beat Derby 6-0 in 1903.\n\nWatford's best chance of over-turning the odds came early on when City keeper Ederson saved at the feel of Roberto Pereyra and they were furious when referee Kevin Friend waved away penalty claims after Vincent Kompany blocked Abdoulaye Doucoure's shot.\n\nThe contest was effectively over from the moment David Silva finished from close range after 26 minutes, Jesus doubling the advantage before half-time after Bernardo Silva's sublime pass.\n\nWatford rallied briefly after the break but were always wide open to the counter attack.\n\nThey were brutally punished by an imperious City side, as substitute Kevin de Bruyne scored from Jesus's pass just after the hour before the Brazilian raced clear for another goal shortly afterwards.\n\nSterling scored twice in the final 10 minutes - turning in Bernardo Silva's perfect cross before bundling in the final goal of a memorable display from Guardiola's side.\n• None Man City to auction off Guardiola's 'coatigan' for charity\n\nIt was City's sixth FA Cup triumph and their first under Guardiola, who has now won six trophies since taking over at Etihad Stadium in 2016.\n\nCity's win means Wolves, who finished seventh in the Premier League table, will play in the two-legged second qualifying round of the Europa League on 25 July and 1 August.\n\nCity claimed their first league and FA Cup double - the first time it has been achieved since Chelsea did it under Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-10.\n\nThis comprehensive triumph, however, was about even more than that.\n\nThe securing of three trophies underscores the scale of City's achievement - and emphasises the hunger and desire which has driven them this season, notably to finish ahead of Liverpool in a relentless Premier League title race.\n\nTheir ability to move to another level when required was on show here at they resisted Watford's early promise - and then brushed them aside.\n\nThey refused to ease up when Watford were down and out, pressing forward until the final whistle, with substitute John Stones only being denied by the bar in the final seconds as City almost became the first team in win an FA Cup final by seven goals.\n\nThe pedal was still pressed to the floor as the goals racked up.\n\nAnd it was all achieved without leading goalscorer Sergio Aguero, restricted to a place on the bench alongside De Bruyne, Stones and Leroy Sane.\n\nAfter securing the Premier League title at Brighton last weekend, Guardiola stated that he is addicted to winning. This was a performance of class and quality from a team that looks in shape to satisfy the Catalan's craving for years to come.\n\nThis is a special team led by a special manager.\n\nWatford arrived at Wembley hoping to overturn the odds and enjoy a happier day than they experienced in their previous FA Cup final appearance, when they lost 2-0 to Everton in 1984.\n\nIn the end, brief defiance ended in a fearful hammering as they were taken apart by this magnificent City side.\n\nYes, they will look back at Pereyra's early missed chance and that handball appeal.\n\nBut in reality the team that finished a mammoth 48 points behind City in the Premier League saw the chasm opening out in front of them on a day of pain at the national stadium.\n\nWatford's fans were magnificent, waving their flags in defiance as their team were thrashed, and they will still have memories of that remarkable comeback from two goals down to beat Wolves 3-2 in the semi-final.\n\nOn the pitch, however, they will wish to wipe a harrowing 90 minutes from the memory bank as soon as possible.\n\n'Incredible final, incredible season' - what they said\n\n\"It was an incredible final for us and we have finished an incredible year.\n\n\"To all the people at the club, a big congratulations, especially the players because they are the reason why we have won these titles.\"\n\nOn Ederson's early save from Roberto Pereyra: \"In the final, these kind of things make the difference.\n\n\"Ederson saved us at a key point at the beginning of the game, because 1-0 would have been really difficult for us.\"\n\nCan City get even better? \"We have to; always you can improve. There is no sense to stay still.\"\n\n\"It wasn't as easy as the score makes it look. But what a season, what a tremendous club.\n\n\"It started with the manager, he sets the standard at the start of the season. It's the best team in the world for me.\n\n\"To set such a high standard for so long - not just for one year but two years running now.\"\n\n\"In this moment, everyone is really sad but we knew before the game we had to play the perfect game.\n\n\"We started well and we created the best chance after 10 minutes with Roberto Pereyra but after that they dominated.\n\n\"It was very difficult for us to press which is what we were trying to do. They were better. Congratulations to them and we will try again next time.\n\n\"Maybe scoring that early chance [would have helped] - you need to take any opportunity - but after that, they are really good, they found the spaces.\n\n\"Sometimes you have to lose to win in the future and we will try to do it next time.\"\n• None Manchester City are the first English top-flight side to register 50 wins in all competitions in a single season.\n• None Watford have lost their past 11 matches against City in all competitions, conceding 38 goals.\n• None City are just the fourth team to win both major domestic cup competitions in the same season - after Arsenal in 1992-93, Liverpool in 2000-01 and Chelsea in 2006-07.\n• None Pep Guardiola's team are only the third to score six goals in an FA Cup final, after Blackburn against Sheffield Wednesday in 1890 (6-1) and Bury against Derby in 1903 (6-0).\n• None City have scored 26 goals in the 2018-19 FA Cup - the most by a team in a single season in the competition since Charlton hit 29 and Derby scored 37, both in 1945-46.\n• None Guardiola is the eighth manager to win the English top flight, EFL Cup and FA Cup, after Bill Nicholson, Don Revie, Joe Mercer, Kenny Dalglish, George Graham, Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho.\n• None David Silva has become just the second Manchester City player to score in both an FA Cup and League Cup final, after Yaya Toure.\n• None Attempt missed. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. John Stones (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt blocked. Tom Cleverley (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by José Holebas.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 6, Watford 0. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 5, Watford 0. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Bernardo Silva with a cross.\n• None Kiko Femenía (Watford) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Etienne Capoue (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Substitution, Manchester City. Leroy Sané replaces Ilkay Gündogan because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Will Hughes. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March last year\n\nA cinema worker who tried to help a man trapped under a seat \"froze\" and \"didn't know what to do\", an inquest has heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, died a week after becoming stuck while reaching for his belongings at the Vue multiplex at Star City in Birmingham in March last year.\n\nThe inquest in Birmingham earlier heard he was crushed by a force equivalent to three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nAdam Bharoochi told the hearing he could not release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema worker, who was on his first shift in one of the \"Gold Class\" screen lounges, said he \"froze-up for a second because I didn't know what to do\".\n\nMr Bharoochi said Mr Rafiq, who was from Aston in Birmingham, was \"making groaning noises\".\n\nHe added: \"I tried to lift the bar but it wouldn't lift at all.\n\n\"I'm sorry for what happened.\"\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), earlier said he found it \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nHe said the seats only work when a customer was seated and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, Mr Simmons-Jacobs told the inquest.\n\nThe seats were controlled by a double \"push-pull\" actuator mechanism, which meant the footrest could not be lifted by hand.\n\nMr Simmons-Jacobs said had it been fitted with a single push mechanism, Mr Rafiq would have been able to use his hands to lift the footrest to get back out from under the seat.\n\nMr Bharoochi, who left the cinema the following month, said he called his colleagues for assistance, none of whom were able to release Mr Rafiq.\n\nThe cinema's duty manager, Elliot Stapley, said staff used a wrench to loosen the footrest from the chair, releasing Mr Rafiq.\n\nEmergency services performed CPR before taking him to hospital, where he died a week later.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq, who had been with his wife at the cinema, died from catastrophic brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the protesters marched in a line wearing the letters spelling out \"betrayed\"\n\nRallies against the prosecution of former British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland have been held across the UK.\n\nHundreds of people - many of them waving banners in support of an Army veteran being prosecuted for the murder of two men on Bloody Sunday - protested outside Broadcasting House in London.\n\nOne protester said soldiers were being \"persecuted\" for doing their job.\n\nRallies were also held in Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe protests, organised by Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans, follow the announcement by Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt earlier this week that British troops and veterans would be given stronger legal protections against prosecution - proposals that exclude alleged offences in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix former soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are currently facing prosecution.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers) and Aidan McAnespie. Not all the charges are murder.\n\nIn the case of Bloody Sunday, a former British soldier known as Soldier F faces prosecution for the murders of James Wray and William McKinney in Londonderry in 1972. They were shot dead at a civil rights march.\n\nThe decision to exclude soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles angered protesters with whom the BBC spoke.\n\nThey also expressed anger at what they say is a lack of media coverage of the issue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of bikers also protested through Bristol\n\nDawn Amey said many of the British soldiers serving in Northern Ireland had been \"very young\" and \"fighting for their lives\"\n\nDawn Amey, whose husband and father both served in Northern Ireland and who came to the rally from Colchester in Essex, said: \"Our soldiers, most of them were very young.\n\n\"They were fighting for their lives, protecting themselves, and these are the men who are now going to be suffering.\"\n\nFormer serviceman Wayne Stockwell, from Romford, east London, said it was \"just wrong\" that soldiers who served in Northern Ireland were being excluded from the new protections for soldiers against prosecution.\n\nWayne Stockwell said it was wrong that soldiers who served in Northern Ireland were not being given the new protections\n\nHe added: \"Ex service-personnel didn't ask to go to Northern Ireland, they were sent there, following orders. So if anything, the government was to blame, not the individual soldier.\"\n\nJacqueline Smith, who served in the Army in Derry, said it was unfair that British soldiers were now being prosecuted when some Irish republicans were previously told they were no longer wanted by the police.\n\nShe was referring to so-called \"comfort letters\" from the government that were given to republicans suspected of involvement in terrorist crimes but who had never been charged.\n\nJacqueline Smith said it was unfair that British soldiers were now being prosecuted when Irish republicans were previously given royal pardons\n\nA protest was also held in Glasgow\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland has said that of 26 so-called Troubles legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five were connected to the Army.\n\nThe rallies on Saturday were the latest in a series of protests over the last few months, including the Million Veterans March.", "Thousands of people lined the route to watch the parade\n\nMore than 250 soldiers from The Household Cavalry Regiment have taken part in a parade through Windsor to mark their departure from the town.\n\nThe regiment is moving home to Salisbury Plain as part of a major restructuring of the British Army.\n\nIt has been based at Combermere Barracks near Windsor Castle for more than 200 years.\n\nThe parade, which included marching and mounted troops, set off from the barracks at 14:30 BST.\n\nThe Band of the Household Cavalry also took part in the parade, which passed by the Guildhall for a salute.\n\nThe Princess Royal gave an address to the troops and hosted a reception for them and their families.\n\nThe Household Cavalry were part of the celebrations when Prince Harry married Meghan Markle\n\nRoads through the town centre, including the Long Walk, High Street and Castle Hill, were closed but have since reopened.\n\nThe Household Cavalry is made up of the Blues and Royals and the Life Guards.\n\nIt is divided into the armoured division and the mounted regiment, which is tasked with protecting the Queen.\n\nThe Welsh Guards will be moving into the Windsor barracks.\n\nThe Household Cavalry has been based near Windsor Castle for more than 200 years\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only one other Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus coin has been discovered in England, archaeologists said\n\nAn \"incredibly rare\" Roman coin minted for an ill-fated emperor has been found during work to upgrade an A road.\n\nIt depicts Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, who reigned for about two months in AD269 before he was killed.\n\nThe discovery was made during a dig as part of Highways England's £1.5bn scheme to improve the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.\n\nArchaeologist Steve Sherlock said the \"significant' find was only the second of its kind to be unearthed in England.\n\nNumismatist Julian Bowsher said Roman emperors were \"very keen to mint coins\"\n\nThe coin shows Laelianus wearing a radiant crown and was found in a ditch at a small Roman farmstead by archaeologists.\n\nCoin expert Julian Bowsher, of MOLA Headland Infrastructure, said: \"Roman emperors were very keen to mint coins - Laelianus reigned for just two months which is barely enough time to do so.\n\n\"The fact that one of these coins ever reached the shores of Britain demonstrates remarkable efficiency and there's every chance that Laelianus had been killed by the time this coin arrived in Cambridgeshire.\"\n\nThe ill-fated emperor usurped the throne and ruled a breakaway empire in what is now Germany and France before being killed, probably by his own soldiers.\n\nDr Sherlock, who is the lead archaeologist for the A14 project, said \"discoveries of this kind are incredibly rare\".\n\nThis coin is believed to be minted by a French tribe to help British resistance to Julius Caesar\n\nAnother unusual coin discovered during the dig was a Gallic War Uniface coin, minted in 57BC by the Ambiani tribe in the Somme area of modern-day France.\n\nExperts believe it was exported to help fund the British Celtic resistance to Julius Caesar.\n\nIt has also unearthed prehistoric henges, Iron Age settlements, Roman kilns, three Anglo-Saxon villages and a medieval hamlet.\n\nThe work includes creating a new bypass to the south of Huntingdon and upgrading 21 miles of road.\n\nWork to improve the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon is ongoing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Strache has acknowledged that the meeting took place, but said it had been \"purely private\"\n\nAustria's Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been filmed appearing to offer government contracts in exchange for political support.\n\nThe video, filmed secretly shortly before Austria's election in 2017, shows Mr Strache speaking to a woman who claims to be a Russian investor.\n\nMr Strache also appears to hint at a potentially illegal donation system for the far-right Freedom Party he leads.\n\nThe revelations come amid high tensions within Austria's coalition government.\n\nAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the centre-right People's Party is due to make a statement at a press conference on Saturday morning.\n\nSenior figures in the coalition government held an emergency meeting on Friday evening.\n\nA coalition source told Reuters news agency that Mr Kurz is ruling out continuing to work with Mr Strache.\n\nThe video was published on Friday in a joint report by the German news magazine Der Spiegel and the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.\n\nIt is unclear who set up the meeting and who filmed it.\n\nThe secretly-filmed video shows Mr Strache and Johann Gudenus - also a Freedom Party politician - talking to a woman who claims to be a wealthy Russian citizen looking to invest in Austria.\n\nThe meeting reportedly took place at a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, in a private room with both politicians relaxing on sofas, smoking and drinking.\n\nIn the footage, the woman says she is the niece of a powerful Russian oligarch. She offers to buy a 50% stake in Austria's Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch its editorial position to support the Freedom Party.\n\nIn exchange, Mr Strache said he could award her public contracts, explaining that he wanted to \"build a media landscape like Orbán\", a reference to Hungary's far-right prime minister.\n\nThe vice-chancellor also speculates that the Russian's takeover of Kronen-Zeitung could boost support for the party to as high as 34%.\n\n\"If you take over the Kronen Zeitung three weeks before the election and get us into first place, then we can talk about everything,\" Mr Strache said.\n\nAs part of the deal, he suggests the Russian woman \"set up a company like Strabag,\" the Austrian construction firm.\n\n\"All the government orders that Strabag gets now, [you] would get,\" he continues.\n\nMr Strache also names several journalists who would have to be \"pushed\" from the newspaper, and five other \"new people whom we will build up\".\n\nDuring the discussions, the vice chancellor says that wealthy donors have paid the Freedom Party through an \"association\" to keep their donations hidden.\n\n\"The association is charitable, it's got nothing to do with the party,\" Mr Strache said. \"That way no report goes to the Rechnungshof [Austria's court of auditors]\".\n\nThe alleged donors named by Mr Strache and Mr Gudenus in the video have denied sending money to the party, according to Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.\n\nThe two men have acknowledged that the meeting took place, but said it had been \"purely private\". They added that they had repeatedly mentioned \"the relevant legal regulations and the necessity to observe Austrian law\" during the encounter.", "Same-sex marriage is legal in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland\n\nThe partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has demanded equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Northern Ireland.\n\nSara Canning, who was addressing a rally of thousands in Belfast, said the current situation was \"not acceptable.\"\n\nShe told the crowds gathered outside City Hall that a law change would be a \"win\" for everyone in Northern Ireland.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot on 18 April while observing rioting in Londonderry.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the killing.\n\nHer murder led to an outpouring of grief and calls for politicians in Northern Ireland to return to powersharing, two-and-a-half years after the government of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin collapsed.\n\nA new talks process began at Stormont on Tuesday.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot dead last month by dissident republicans\n\nSaturday's rally was organised by the Love Equality campaign - an umbrella group made up of organisations that support a law change.\n\nMs Canning questioned why same-sex couple were treated differently in Northern Ireland - same-sex marriage is legal in the rest of the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"We pay our taxes, we are governed by the same laws, we love deeply and we love dearly - why should we not be afforded the same rights in marriage?\" she asked.\n\n\"Equal marriage is not a green or orange issue, a demand of just one side or the other and it shouldn't be a political football.\"\n\nMs Canning said she had dreamed of marrying the woman she loved and had shared her dream with Lyra before it was \"snatched away\".\n\nSara Canning said equal marriage was not a \"green or orange issue\"\n\nMs Canning has already challenged the prime minister to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe said she spoke to Theresa May at Ms McKee's funeral, asking her to change the laws at Westminster if local politicians failed to act.\n\nOn Saturday, she reiterated this challenge and said Westminster must legislate on the issue in the continued absence of local government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI looks at the timeline of the same-sex marriage debate in Northern Ireland.\n\nEqual marriage is currently one of the main sticking points in Stormont's continuing political crisis.\n\nDuring a vote in November 2015, Northern Ireland's assembly members supported same-sex marriage by a slim majority of 53 votes to 52.\n\nHowever, the motion was blocked by the DUP using a measure known as a petition of concern.\n\nThe DUP remains firmly opposed to any redefinition of the law, insisting marriage should be between a man and a woman.\n\nIt has resisted Sinn Féin's calls for a change in the law.", "Heinz-Christian Strache has resigned as Austria's vice-chancellor a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.\n\nHe said he resigned to avoid further damage to the government", "Baroness Grey-Thompson has said her parents would \"probably have terminated the pregnancy\" if they had known about her disability.\n\nHer comments follow the UK's first operation, at King's College Hospital, to repair a baby's spine in the womb.\n\nThe Cardiff-born Paralympian, who has spina bifida, said terminating a disabled baby is a \"complicated issue\".\n\nSpeaking to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales, she said she believes in a woman's and family's \"right to choose\".\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said: \"When I was born there weren't the diagnostics for spina bifida.\n\n\"My mum had a really open conversation with me even when I was quite young, and she said they probably would have terminated the pregnancy if they'd known.\"\n\nSpina bifida is when a baby's spine and spinal cord don't develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.\n\nIt's not known what causes the condition, but a lack of folic acid before and in the early stages of pregnancy is a significant risk factor.\n\nThere are several different types, the most common of which is spina bifida occulta.\n\nIn most cases of spina bifida, surgery can be used to close the opening in the spine.\n\nBut the nervous system will usually already have been damaged, which can lead to problems including weakness or total paralysis of the legs.\n\nWith the right treatment and support, many children with spina bifida survive well into adulthood.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson added that people were \"shocked\" by this but she values her parents' honesty.\n\nBut she said that operations like the one carried out to repair the spine of Sherrie Sharp's son Jaxson might not mean everything is \"done and dusted\", as people can become disabled later in life.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital operated on Jaxson while he was still in the womb after a diagnosis at the 20-week stage of his mother's pregnancy\n\nShe said: \"Early termination, the diagnostics, it means that people are choosing to terminate children who are disabled, so it ends up being a really complicated issue.\n\n\"The reality is pregnancies are being terminated far more than before and disability is seen as a negative thing.\"\n\nShe added: \"The whole spectrum of spina bifida, let alone any other impairment, is huge so I think you have to respect the family's right to make that choice.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta came from a set down against Kiki Bertens to reach the final of the Italian Open.\n\nKonta - who will be seeded at the French Open later this month - beat Dutch sixth seed Bertens 5-7 7-5 6-2 in two hours 49 minutes in Rome.\n\nThe 28-year-old will play world number seven Karolina Pliskova, who beat Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-4 6-4.\n\nKonta is the first British woman to reach the Italian Open final since Virginia Wade in 1971.\n\nVictory over world number four Bertens marked her first over a top-five opponent since defeating Simona Halep at Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nBoth players lost serve twice in the first set before Bertens was able to take the early advantage, breaking world number 42 Konta at set point.\n\nThe first two games of the second set went against serve but Konta was able to capitalise on a break at 5-5 to level the match.\n\nKonta dominated the deciding set, breaking Bertens' serve twice, though she needed four match points to seal the win, having made three unforced errors at 40-0 in the final game.\n\nThe Briton lost her first clay-court final to Sakkari at the Morocco Open this month and will now play her maiden Premier WTA event final on the surface.\n\nSakkari had beaten Pliskova in last year's event but converted only one break point opportunity as she slipped to defeat in an hour and 28 minutes.\n\nPliskova, winner of 12 WTA titles to Konta's three, has won five of the pair's six completed matches, though the Briton won their most recent match, which came on the hard courts of Beijing in 2016.\n\nKonta's game has been on an upward curve all season.\n\nShe has excelled wearing British colours in the Fed Cup, but had not cashed in on tour - until the clay court season got underway.\n\nKonta has always believed she can be successful on the surface, but until this year results had not borne her out.\n\nHer movement looks much improved, as does her drop shot - which is such a handy trick to have up your sleeve on clay.\n\nNot only will Konta now be seeded for Roland Garros, but she has also put herself in a very good position to be a seed at Wimbledon, too.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Schwarzenegger urged fans to focus on the athletes at the event instead of the attack\n\nHollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will not press charges after being attacked at an event in South Africa.\n\nThe 71-year-old was talking to fans at his Arnold Classic Africa sporting event on Saturday when a man drop-kicked him from behind.\n\nThe attacker was restrained following the incident in Johannesburg.\n\nHowever on Sunday, Schwarzenegger said he would not be taking the case further, adding: \"I'm moving on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video footage, shared widely on social media, showed Schwarzenegger posing for photos and filming at the event when the man attacks him with a flying kick.\n\nThe Terminator star stumbles forward after the kick, while the attacker falls to the ground, where he is immediately restrained by a security guard.\n\nThe unnamed man was later handed over to police officers, event officials said.\n\nSchwarzenegger tweeted to his more than four million followers: \"I thought I was just jostled by the crowd, which happens a lot. I only realised I was kicked when I saw the video like all of you.\"\n\nIn response to tweets from his fans, he said on Sunday he would not be pressing charges against the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have 90 sports here in South Africa at the @ArnoldSports, and 24,000 athletes of all ages and abilities inspiring all of us to get off the couch. Let's put this spotlight on them,\" he wrote in a separate message.\n\nThe Arnold Classic Africa event takes place every May and features a range of events including bodybuilding and combat sports.", "Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries in various state guises, until the fall of its Habsburg dynasty after World War One.\n\nBut its position at the geographical heart of Europe, and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance.\n\nAustria is now a member of the European Union, though not Nato, and an enduring legacy of its decades of post-war neutrality can be seen in the large number of international organisations that call its capital Vienna their home.\n\nThese include the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria, although the Social Democrats led by Bruno Kreisky ruled alone in the 1970s.\n\nMore recently, the centre-right People's Party ruled in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, but this coalition collapsed in May 2019 after a scandal involving the leader of the Freedom Party.\n\nAlexander Van der Bellen was first elected as president in the December 2016 re-run of a highly polarised election earlier that year, defeating Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party.\n\nVan der Bellen - a Green Party politician running as an independent - had won a extremely narrow victory in the initial run-off vote against Hofer in May, but the result was annulled because of vote-counting irregularities.\n\nIn October 2022, Van der Bellen was re-elected president, taking 57% of the vote in the first round. Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz came second with 18% of the votes, far short of what Hofer received in 2016.\n\nInterior Minister Nehammer took over on as chancellor and leader of the conservative People's Party in December 2021, following months of turmoil after the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.\n\nMr Kurz's departure was a condition for the Green Party to remain in the governing coalition, pending a corruption investigation. Foreign Minister Alexander von Schallenberg was chancellor in the interim, but resigned to make way for Mr Nehammer when the later assumed the post of People's Party leader in December.\n\nAustria's public broadcaster, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has long-dominated the airwaves. It faces competition from private TV and radio broadcasters.\n\nCable or satellite TV is available in most Austrian homes and is often used to watch German stations, some of which tailor their output for local viewers.\n\nA daily newspaper is a must for many Austrians. National and regional titles contest fiercely for readers.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria\n\n1278 - The Habsburg Rudolf I of Germany acquires the duchies of Austria and Styria after defeating his rival, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, at the Battle on the Marchfeld.\n\n14th and 15th Centuries - Habsburgs acquire other provinces neighbouring the Duchy of Austria.\n\n1526 - After the Battle of Mohács, Bohemia and the part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans comesunder Austrian rule.\n\n16th and 17th Centuries - Ottoman expansion into Hungary sees frequent conflicts between the two empires.\n\n1529 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launches the first siege of Vienna. The besieging Turkish army retreats amid the snowfalls of an early winter.\n\n1683 - Second siege of Vienna. The city is freed after two months when the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under King John III Sobieski decisively defeat the Turkish army.\n\n1699 - The Treaty of Karlowitz, which ends the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) results in most of Hungary coming under Austrian control.\n\n1713 - The Pragmatic Sanction. Edict issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to ensure the Habsburg lands - the archduchy of Austria, kingdom of Hungary, kingdom of Croatia, kingdom of Bohemia, duchy of Milan, kingdom of Naples, kingdom of Sardinia and Austrian Netherlands - could be inherited undivided by his daughter, Maria Theresa.\n\n1792-1815 - Austria engages in war with revolutionary and them Napoleonic France.\n\n1804 - The Empire of Austria is proclaimed, replacing the Holy Roman Empire which is dissolved two years later.\n\n1815 - Austria emerges from the Congress of Vienna as one of Europe's great powers.\n\n1848-49 - Hungarian revolution. This is eventually defeated with the aid of Russian forces, but leads to a constitutional government being founded in Hungary, which is now in a personal union with the Austrian emperor.\n\n1867 - The defeat leads to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states.\n\nIn the latter half of the 19th Century, ruling Austria-Hungary becomes increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements in Europe.\n\n1908 - Following the Young Turk revolution in Turkey, Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. The move provokes strong resentment in Serbian pan-Slav circles.\n\n1914 - The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip triggers the outbreak of World War One.\n\n1914-18 - Over one million Austro-Hungarian soldiers die in the war, which leads to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of Hapsburg rule.\n\n1933 - End of the republic, Chancellor Dollfuss suspends parliament and sets up autocratic regime\n\n1934 - Government crushes Socialist uprising, backed by the army. All political parties abolished except the Fatherland Front.\n\nImprisonment of Nazi conspirators leads to attempted Nazi coup. Dollfuss assassinated, succeeded by Kurt von Schuschnigg.\n\n1938 - The Anschluss (union): Austria incorporated into Germany by Hitler. Austria now called the Ostmark (Eastern March).\n\n1945 - Soviet troops liberate Vienna. Austria occupied and partitioned into four occupation zones by Soviet, British, US and French forces. Vienna is also divided between the four occupying powers.\n\n1955 - Treaty signed by Britain, France, US and Soviet Union establishes an independent but neutral Austria - a convenient buffer between the West and the Soviet bloc. The four powers withdraw their troops. Austria joins the United Nations.\n\n1986 - Ex-UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim elected president, despite controversy over his role in the German army in World War Two.\n\n1999 - Far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider wins 27% of vote in national elections.\n\n2000 - International outcry as People's Party forms coalition government with Freedom Party. EU imposes diplomatic sanctions before ending it seven months later on grounds it is counter-productive.\n\n2011 - Otto von Habsburg - the last crown prince of Austria - is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna amid much of the pomp associated with the days of the empire.\n\n2013 - Austrians vote to keep compulsory military service in a referendum.\n\n2017 - Government agrees to ban Islamic full-face veils in courts, schools and other public spaces.\n\nMozart's home town of Salzburg. Austria is seen by many as the birthplace of classical music\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laws covering so-called revenge porn are not fit for purpose and police still need more training, experts say.\n\nVictims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, according to Sophie Mortimer from the Revenge Porn helpline.\n\nFigures from 19 forces in England and Wales revealed police investigations have doubled in the last four years but the number of charges has fallen.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said forces take the crime \"very seriously\".\n\nRevenge porn - the sharing of private or sexual images or videos of a person without their consent - became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015.\n\nSimilar laws were later introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nFigures from 19 of 43 police forces in England and Wales show the number of alleged cases being investigated by officers has more than doubled in the last four years - from 852 in 2015-16 to 1,853 in 2018-19.\n\nHowever, the figures also reveal that the number of charges dropped by 23% - from 207 to 158 - during the same period.\n\nRevenge porn is currently categorised as a \"communications crime\", meaning victims are not granted anonymity.\n\nIn the last year, more than a third of victims decided not to proceed with the case.\n\nSome say it is because they are not granted anonymity, while others cited a lack of police support.\n\nAlice Ruggles died after an ex-boyfriend broke into her home in Gateshead\n\nIn October 2016, Alice Ruggles, 24, was murdered by a former boyfriend who cut her throat after breaking into her home in Gateshead.\n\nAfter her death it emerged that her killer, Trimaan Dhillon, had threatened to share intimate images of her online as part of a campaign of stalking and harassment.\n\nAlice's mother, Dr Sue Hills, said threatening to share images should be made part of the law.\n\nShe said her daughter may have sought help sooner if Dhillon had not held the threat over her.\n\n\"It causes immensely serious psychological damage - it is a crime,\" she said.\n\nMs Mortimer, from the Revenge Porn helpline, backed her call.\n\nShe added: \"We'd also like to see it made a sexual offence because that would guarantee anonymity for victims.\"\n\nSophie Mortimer: 'Key that frontline services understand what the law means'\n\nShe also called for better training of police officers.\n\n\"It's all very well changing the law and making these things illegal, but if the frontline services don't understand what the law actually means then you've only done half the job.\"\n\nResearch by the University of Suffolk found 95% of police officers who took part in a survey in 2017 said they had not had any training on revenge porn legislation.\n\nA joint Ministry of Justice and Home Office statement said: \"When we engaged with victims and campaigners in designing the new law they accepted that the motive for this crime is almost always malicious, rather than sexual, which is why the law considers it a non-sexual offence.\n\n\"We launched and continue to support the Revenge Porn helpline, which helps victims to speak with the police and to social media companies about removing the content.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey from the National Police Chiefs' Council said forces \"pursue all lines of inquiry and prosecute people where appropriate\".\n\n\"The College of Policing has produced a briefing and training note, which all officers involved in these types of investigations can access.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or on BBC Sounds\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.", "Martin Sellner is a member of the Identitarian Movement Austria\n\nAustria's chancellor has described as \"disgusting\" revelations that a far-right activist linked to the New Zealand mosque attacks suspect put a swastika on a synagogue when he was 17.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz said he would not tolerate \"neo-Nazi activities\".\n\nMartin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement Austria said the incident had been long ago and he had since changed.\n\nLast month investigators raided his home after he said he had been given money by the Christchurch suspect.\n\nBut Mr Sellner, 30, denied any involvement in the New Zealand attacks.\n\nFifty people died and dozens more wounded in the 15 March shootings. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged over the attacks.\n\nChancellor Kurz has vowed to \"fight all forms of extremism\"\n\nMr Kurz - who campaigned on a harsh anti-immigrant message and is governing in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party - said that as chancellor it was his duty to \"fight all forms of extremism to preserve free and liberal law-based state\".\n\nIt follows a report in Austria's Kleine Zeitung that Mr Sellner had admitted to police in 2006 that he and a companion stuck a swastika poster on a synagogue in the town of Baden bei Wien, to the south-west of the capital Vienna.\n\nThe newspaper quoted Mr Sellner's companion as saying the pair had decided to carry out the act after British Holocaust denier David Irving was arrested in Austria in 2005 and jailed. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in Austria.\n\nMartin Sellner (centre) on a torch-lit march near Vienna in September 2017\n\nMr Sellner had also provided a badge saying \"aryan youth\" and an anti-Turkish poster, his companion said at the time.\n\nMr Sellner appeared regretful and was told to carry out 100 hours of community service in a Jewish cemetery, the newspaper report said.\n\nResponding to the report on Twitter, Mr Sellner said it was no secret that he had been active in the neo-Nazi scene when he was younger but had \"left that behind a long time ago\". He had never taken part in acts of violence, he added.\n\nMr Sellner has become one of the most prominent young activists of the far right in Europe.\n\nAustrian media say the far-right Freedom Party has come under pressure to distance itself from the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ) following the revelations that Brenton Tarrant donated about €1,500 (£1,290; $1,700) to the IBÖ.\n\nIn March last year Mr Sellner and his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone - an alt-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist - were refused entry to the UK.\n\nThe authorities said their presence in the UK would not have been \"conducive to the public good\".", "Crews remained at the scene damping down late on Saturday morning\n\nA woman has been arrested after a fire broke out on Ilkley Moor - a month after a blaze caused significant damage in the area.\n\nAt its height, about 50 firefighters tackled the latest blaze.\n\nWest Yorkshire Fire & Rescue said its control room took over 65 emergency calls about the fire, which was \"largely out\" by 11:35 BST.\n\nThe suspect, 48, was arrested after members of the public reported a woman \"behaving suspiciously\" near the fire.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the blaze was close to the cattle grid on Hangingstone Road, which had to be closed.\n\nIn a statement, the force said: \"Police were called to moorland at Ilkley near Hangingstone Road at about 9.55am this morning to a report of a fire and suspicious behaviour by a female at the location.\"\n\nOver Easter weekend, more than 70 firefighters were called to Ilkley Moor and a helicopter was deployed after a large area of moorland caught fire.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students said the doctor's actions were an \"open secret\" on campus\n\nAn athletics team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from 1979 to 1997, an investigation by Ohio State University in the US says.\n\nDr Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, is accused of groping and performing \"unnecessary examinations\" on young men while treating athletes in 16 sports.\n\nThe report stated that university officials failed to prevent the abuse despite complaints from students.\n\nIt adds that \"inadequate efforts\" to investigate were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn the report published on Friday, investigators said the abuse was carried out at various locations across the campus, including examination rooms, locker rooms, showers and saunas.\n\nVarious athletes reported unnecessary genital exams and some students said they believed Dr Strauss' actions were an \"open secret\" on campus.\n\n\"We are so sorry that this happened,\" Ohio State President Michael Drake said at a news conference, noting that there was a \"consistent institutional failure\" at the university.\n\nBut he also sought to distance Ohio State from the events of more than two decades ago.\n\n\"This is not the university of today\", he added.\n\nA number of former students are suing for unspecified damages and have called on the university to take responsibility for the harm they say was inflicted by the doctor.\n\n\"Dreams were broken, relationships with loved ones were damaged, and the harm now carries over to our children, as many of us have become so overprotective that it strains the relationship with our kids,\" Kent Kilgore, a former Ohio state swimmer, said in a statement.\n\nDr Strauss retired in 1998 and took his own life in 2005.\n\nIn May 2018, Michigan State University agreed to pay $500m (£371m) to 332 gymnasts who were abused by ex-team doctor Larry Nassar.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLive coverage of Manchester City against Watford in the FA Cup final on BBC One, including highlights, across the BBC Sport website and app; live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and local radio; live text commentary on the BBC Sport website.\n\nManchester City can claim a historic domestic treble, while Watford will be looking to cause a major upset in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley.\n\nPep Guardiola's City have already won the Premier League and Carabao Cup.\n\nThey will be the first men's team to win the English domestic treble if they beat Watford (17:00 BST).\n\nIf the Hornets, who finished 11th in the Premier League table, win a first ever FA Cup, they will earn a place in next season's Europa League.\n• None How to follow the FA Cup final on BBC Sport\n\nIt would also be the biggest shock in a final since Wigan beat City 1-0 in 2013.\n\nThe final is live on BBC One and build-up starts with Football Focus at 13:00.\n\nMeanwhile, Liverpool won an FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup treble in 2001 under Gerard Houllier.\n\nHowever, no men's team has won all three major domestic competitions in one season in England before (Arsenal Women have won the domestic treble in the past).\n\nCity clinched the league last week, finishing one point ahead of runners-up Liverpool, having beaten Chelsea on penalties in the Carabao Cup final in February.\n\nTheir last FA Cup triumph was in 2011 when they beat Stoke City at Wembley. In the eight years since then, City have gone on to be crowned champions of England four times and won four League Cups.\n\n\"It is a cup final, anything can happen like a red card,\" said Guardiola, who is seeking to win the FA Cup for the first time in his third season in charge at City.\n\n\"In one game, anything can happen. Normally the better team wins but a decision of the referee could make the difference.\n\n\"In the Premier League you have another chance and can be more relaxed, but this is completely different.\"\n\nThe last team to win the Premier League and the FA Cup in the same season were Chelsea in 2010.\n• None 'Winning is so addictive' - Guardiola on hunt for treble\n• None From ball boy to 'Pep's lad' - will Foden start?\n\nThe last team to win the FA Cup outside the 'big six' were Wigan Athletic in 2013. Roberto Martinez's side were relegated from the Premier League a few days after beating City 1-0 at Wembley.\n\nWatford would have to pull off a feat nearly as large to upset City, whose record signing Riyad Mahrez cost £60m - the Hornets' most expensive signing was Andre Gray for £18.5m.\n\nThe Hornets, whose only previous appearance in the final ended in a 2-0 defeat against Everton in 1984, started their FA Cup run with a 2-0 win at non-league Woking in the third round.\n\nWatford finished 48 points behind City in the table but boss Javi Gracia, who masterminded a famous win at Spanish giants Barcelona in 2015 when in charge at Malaga, said: \"All the experiences you have help you.\n\n\"We're going to create chances and if you score like we did when I was in Malaga playing against Barcelona, for example, we won 1-0.\n\n\"It was something nobody expected, but it happened and then always you have one chance to win and we have to work for it.\"\n\nFour years ago Watford were playing the likes of Blackpool and Rotherham in league games. Two years ago they were knocked out of the FA Cup at Championship Millwall.\n\nHaving achieved a club record Premier League points tally in their first season under Spaniard Gracia - the ninth managerial appointment in seven years under the Italian Pozzo family - these are good times for Hornets fans.\n\n\"The one thing I have been really keen to point out to everybody is that this season is not our day in the sun,\" chief executive and chairman Scott Duxbury told BBC Sport, before Watford's first FA Cup final appearance for 35 years.\n\n\"This is the start of what we want to do. This is where we should be and will be competing.\n\n\"We are not going to wait 35 years for another cup final.\"\n\nOscar Garcia - September 2014 (four games - left because of illness)\n\nWhy Wolves and Man Utd fans want a City win\n\nWolves fans will be cheering on Guardiola's side, and not just because Watford beat them in the semi-finals.\n\nIf City win at Wembley, having already qualified for the Champions League, then Wolves - as the team who finished seventh in the Premier League - will qualify for Europe for the first time since 1980.\n\nThey would go into the second qualifying round of the Europa League, which will be played before the start of the 2019-20 Premier League season.\n\nThat would see Manchester United, who finished sixth in the Premier League, qualify for the Europa League group stage, the first game to be played on 19 September.\n\nBut if Watford win the first major trophy in their history, that changes everything.\n\nThe Hornets, who played in Uefa Cup in 1983, would qualify for the Europa League group stages and Wolves would miss out.\n\nIn that scenario United would go into the second qualifying round, which starts on 25 July.\n\nThe problem with that?\n\nThey are due to face Tottenham at 12:30 BST in Shanghai that day in the International Champions Cup, a pre-season tournament.\n\nFor the second successive season, the video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used during the final.\n\nKevin Friend will referee the match, with Andre Marriner taking the role of video assistant referee.\n\nShould the game end in a draw after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time will be played. If the teams still cannot be separated, a penalty shootout will decide the winners.\n\nIf the final goes to extra time, both teams will be allowed to use a fourth substitute.\n\nWembley holds 90,000 people, with both clubs allocated about 30,000 seats.\n\nThis season's FA Cup started with 736 teams - 368 competed at the extra preliminary round stage back in August.\n\nBarnet, the last surviving non-league club, received over £500,000 for reaching the fourth-round replay stage.\n\nThe BBC has broadcast FA Cup matches live on television from the first round, with Manchester United's fourth-round win over Arsenal attracting a peak audience of 7.6 million on BBC One on 25 January.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People give their thoughts on reducing the voting age to 16\n\nVotes for 16-year-olds in UK elections are all but inevitable, but there is no public demand or obvious advantage to it, a voting expert has said.\n\nA bill currently going through the Senedd would lower the voting age at the 2021 Welsh Assembly election.\n\nProf Philip Cowley said evidence suggested 16 and 17-year-olds were less likely to vote than older groups.\n\nBut the chair of the panel that backed votes at 16 in assembly polls said the move could revitalise democracy.\n\nSixteen and 17-year-olds voted for the first time in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and can now take part in Scottish parliament and local elections.\n\nThey can also vote in Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.\n\nProf Cowley, from Queen Mary University of London, has written to the Welsh Assembly saying evidence from other countries with a lower minimum voting age suggests overall turnout would drop, because turnout for 16-and 17-year-olds tends to be lower than other groups.\n\nThis was unless, he said, money was spent to specifically target the age group, like in the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum when 16-year-olds voted for the first time in the UK.\n\n\"If young voters are ready to vote, then we should not need to allocate specific resources to mobilise them,\" he told BBC Sunday Politics Wales.\n\n\"That we do, indicates that they are not ready.\"\n\nTwo thirds of the 60 assembly members will need to endorse lowering the voting age in 2021\n\nHe added: \"Even some of the things you used to be able to do at the age of 16, say 10 or so years ago, you can no longer do, things like smoking, buying a firework for example, going into a tanning booth.\n\n\"All of these have changed recently and if they've changed at all, they've tend to change upwards towards 18.\n\n\"[Votes for 16] is coming. I think you can see with what's happening in Wales, what's already happening in Scotland. The pressure will then build up for elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"When it happens, I don't think any of the advantages that are being claimed for it will manifest themselves but it is probably inevitable.\"\n\nProf Laura McAllister backs \"proper political education\" to inform pupils before they vote\n\nProf Laura McAllister was chair of the expert panel that, as part of its report on how the Senedd could be developed, recommended votes for 16 and 17-year-olds in Welsh Assembly elections.\n\nShe said lowering the vote would be a mechanism to revitalise democracy, \"particularly if you align that with a programme of proper political education through the curriculum, and in an extra-curricular environment\".\n\n\"We know that getting young people involved in the voting process, whilst they're still in a secure environment, generally living at home, is likely to be more successful than it is at 18 when they've either left home to go to university or entering a more turbulent phase of their life in terms of change.\"\n\nShe said, looking at the evidence from parliamentary and local elections in Scotland, 16 to 18-year-olds voted in larger numbers than 18 to 25-year-olds.\n\n\"So that tells you something at least about the potential that there is to engage young people in the political process,\" she added.\n\nBBC Sunday Politics Wales is broadcast on BBC One Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday and is then available on BBC iPlayer.", "Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran previously collaborated on the single Love Yourself\n\nEd Sheeran and Justin Bieber have scored a joint number one with their single I Don't Care.\n\nThe buoyant pop song amassed 123,825 combined sales, after being downloaded 22,000 times and streamed 13m times, said the Official Charts Company.\n\nIt takes Sheeran's tally of number ones to six, and Bieber's to seven, equalling acts like Kylie and U2.\n\nHowever, the duo didn't manage to topple Ariana Grande's record for the year's biggest-selling single.\n\nHer song 7 Rings notched up 126,240 combined sales when it was released in January.\n\nSheeran and Bieber could see a sales boost next week, though, after they released a new video in which Sheeran dances in his dressing gown and sings into a hair dryer; while Bieber dresses up as an ice cream cone.\n\nThe single marks their first duet - although Sheeran previously wrote Bieber's number one hit Love Yourself.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Ed Sheeran This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nElsewhere in the singles chart, Lil Nas X stays put at number two with the country-rap crossover Old Town Road, while Stormzy's Vossi Bop drops from number one to number three.\n\nOn the albums chart, Pink spends a third week at number one with Hurts 2B Human, claiming the highest physical sales and digital downloads of the last week.\n\nHowever, she was beaten on streaming services by noir-pop star Billie Eilish, whose debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the week's most-played record.\n\nNext week will see Lewis Capaldi mounting a challenge for the top spot, with his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.\n\nHe faces competition from US pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, indie band The National and hip-hop producer DJ Khaled, who also release high-profile albums this week.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Love Yourself was for Sheeran's album\n• None Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fry and Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall both attended the ceremony on Friday night\n\nStephen Fry and pop stars Little Mix were among those honoured at the 2019 British LGBT awards for defending the community and advancing LGBT rights.\n\nPresenter Fry was hailed as a \"hero of the people\" as he received the lifetime achievement award in London on Friday.\n\nTV host Paul O'Grady was given the Trailblazer accolade and boxer Nicola Adams was named Sports Personality.\n\nCampaigner Peter Tatchell was named Outstanding Contributor to LGBT+ life for his 52 years of activism.\n\n\"I do my bit, but so do millions of others. Together, we make the change,\" tweeted the 67-year-old, ahead of the ceremony which was hosted by Kelly Osbourne.\n\nMr Tatchell credited the US black civil rights movement for inspiring him in his activism, tweeting: \"We should learn from each other & support everyone fighting for freedom.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Tatchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPicking up the Change Makers award on behalf of Little Mix, singer Jade Thirlwall urged those who were not LGBT \"to be an ally\".\n\n\"Educate yourself, support the LGBT community, especially when you see things that aren't right,\" she said.\n\n\"Don't be that person in the playground who watches somebody get kicked down or bullied and just stands there and thinks, 'it's not my business'. It is your business. Change will happen quicker with ally-ship.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Khakan Qureshi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther winners at the annual awards included singer Ellie Goulding, who was honoured as an LGBT+ Celebrity Ally, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, who was named Celebrity of the Year, and Australia's Courtney Act - winner of last year's Celebrity Big Brother in the UK - who scooped the Media Moment gong.\n\nFormer Disney star-turned-pop singer, Hayley Kiyoko, was presented with the MTV-sponsored Music Artist prize.\n\nChannel 4's Naked Attraction host Anna Richardson shared the Broadcaster or Journalist of the Year award with Liv Little of gal-dem magazine, following a public vote.\n\nA full list of winners can be found on the British LGBT awards website.\n• None BBC Radio 4 - Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, The Peter Tatchell One", "Recreational divers exposed the damage in Loch Carron after the 2017 incident\n\nA fragile flame shell reef which was severely damaged by scallop dredging on Scotland's north west coast has been granted permanent protection.\n\nMinisters had issued a temporary order banning mobile fishing on Loch Carron in Wester Ross after the 2017 incident.\n\nDivers who visited the reef, which is a nursery ground for scallops, found the area had been \"intensively\" dredged.\n\nBut it now officially has Marine Protected Area (MPA) status which safeguards 23 sq km of the sea loch.\n\nPhil Taylor, head of policy at environmental group Open Seas, described the initial devastation as a \"wake-up call\".\n\nHe added: \"These divers are unsung heroes - by showing the damage that is being done to our seabed, they have raised huge political and public awareness of the problem.\n\n\"However, Loch Carron is just one small area, and over the past few decades the same degradation has happened elsewhere in our seas.\n\n\"We urgently need to regenerate all of our coastal seas - safeguarding seabed habitats will deliver a sustainable long term future for our rural economy and communities.\"\n\nLoch Carron is home to millions of flame shells\n\nImages of the damaged reef captured two years ago\n\nThe MPA for Loch Carron, which comes into force on Sunday, means fishermen operating trawlers or dredging boats will not be able to fish.\n\nIt will mirror the area covered by existing emergency closure, with the exception of Plockton harbour where there is no evidence of a reef.\n\nOpen Seas has been calling for dredging to be banned around Scotland's coast because of the damaging impact it can have on the sea bed.\n\nBut fishing organisations have argued the move is unnecessary and that existing protections are enough.\n\nLoch Carron is home to the world's largest-known flame shell bed with an estimate 250 million brightly-coloured molluscs.\n\nThe scallop dredger which caused the damage was not operating illegally since the area had no protected designation.\n\nBut it left the sea bed littered with broken shells and led to calls for dredging to be banned completely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge says he felt \"pain like no other pain\" after the loss of Princess Diana\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he felt \"pain like no other pain\" after the death of his mother, Princess Diana.\n\nPrince William made the disclosure in a BBC TV documentary about mental health.\n\nHe said the \"British stiff upper lip thing\" had its place when times were hard, but people also needed \"to relax a little bit and be able to talk about our emotions because we're not robots\".\n\nWilliam also spoke of how working as an air ambulance pilot left him feeling that death was \"just around the door\".\n\nHe said dealing with the loss of his mother - who died in a 1997 car crash - meant he felt he could relate to others who had suffered a bereavement.\n\nHe said: \"I've thought about this a lot, and I'm trying to understand why I feel like I do, but I think when you are bereaved at a very young age, any time really, but particularly at a young age, I can resonate closely to that, you feel pain like no other pain.\n\n\"I felt that with a few jobs that I did, there were particular personal resonations with the families that I was dealing with,\" he said.\n\nHe described how the emotional aspect of being an East Anglian Air Ambulance pilot was \"difficult\", especially having come from the military where feelings tend to be put to one side.\n\nHe said the ambulance world was \"much more open\" and he spoke about experiencing \"very raw, emotional day-to-day stuff, where you're dealing with families who are having the worst news they could ever possibly have on a day-to-day basis.\"\n\n\"That raw emotion... I could feel it brewing up inside me and I could feel it was going to take its toll and be a real problem. I had to speak about it.\"\n\nIn the BBC One documentary to be screened on Sunday, William speaks to footballers Peter Crouch and Danny Rose, ex-players Thierry Henry and Jermaine Jenas, and England manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nThey all shared various mental health issues and pressures they have faced in their careers.\n\nA young Prince William with his mother Princess Diana in 1987\n\nWilliam and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, have previously spoken about the death of their mother - when they launched a mental health campaign called Heads Together, which encouraged people to talk more openly about their problems.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also teamed up last month to launch a text messaging service for people experiencing a mental health crisis.\n\nWilliam, Kate, Meghan and Harry have backed the initiative, called Shout, with £3m from their Royal Foundation.\n\nThe charity running Shout also received a £1.5m grant from BBC Children in Need.\n\nA Royal Team Talk: Tackling Mental Health is broadcast on Sunday, 19 May, at 22:30 on BBC One.", "Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election\n\nIn a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.\n\nThe task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.\n\nMost Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.\n\nIt's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.\n\nHere are four of the most challenging locations to reach.\n\n\"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them,\" says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.\n\nHis team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.\n\nIn many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.\n\nTwo voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010\n\nLarger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.\n\nAlthough voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, \"democracy sausages\" are less likely.\n\n\"Some [people] are off hunting and fishing when we arrive,\" he says.\n\nBut nonchalance is less common than engagement: \"Often, community members are waiting patiently for us. This is important to them because of the hard-fought right to vote.\"\n\nIndigenous Australians weren't granted the right to vote until 1962, and indigenous enrolment rate today is lower than the general population, at 76.4%.\n\nThe Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has been sending mobile voting teams out to remote indigenous communities since 1984.\n\nThe places visited, such as Arnhem Land, are often so remote, postal services are unreliable or not commonly used, which is why AEC representatives undertake remarkable journeys to reach them.\n\n\"One of my team recently travelled 100km [60 miles] on a dirt road to a small community,\" Mr Bloom says.\n\nVoters line up in Warruwi, Northern Territory, in 2013\n\n\"Torrential rain had washed the road out - rivers ran across it. They still got there - just 90 minutes late.\"\n\nYes, really. Forty-nine Australian expeditioners are registered \"Antarctic electors\" in 2019. They're a mix of technicians, tradespeople and scientists.\n\nMore than 500 Australians go south to Antarctica every year. Travel is possible only between October and March, via an icebreaker ship or a plane which lands on an ice runway.\n\nVoting in the Australian general election even takes place in Antarctica\n\nOutside of those months, numbers drop right down; there are currently 74 Australians there. They'll stay for 12-14 months.\n\nBallot boxes are already at the stations, which are recognised as official polling places under Australian legislation. At each station, an expeditioner is appointed Antarctic Returning Officer.\n\nMark Horstman from the Australian Antarctic Division tells the BBC: \"There's no way for ballot boxes to be transported between Antarctica and Australia. The voting procedure is completely paper-based. Once the poll closes, the returning officer reads each vote over the phone.\"\n\nThere are at least 274 Torres Strait islands off Australia's northern coast; 17 are inhabited.\n\nA total of 4,231 Torres Strait Islanders have registered to vote this year. That's 16 more than in the 2016 election.\n\nOfficially, the islands are part of Queensland - so AEC staff travel out to many of these islands, too. But before they do, they must write to the traditional owners of the land and ask permission to visit.\n\nMasig Island, one of an estimated 274 Torres Strait islands\n\nIt's granted with enthusiasm, says David Stuart, who runs the indigenous electoral participation programme, and says three teams will head out by boat and helicopter.\n\nAnd they face particular challenges when they're there.\n\n\"When you're flying around, they look picture postcard perfect. But on the ground they can be very tropical, windswept and absolutely torrential. We have to waterproof everything.\"\n\nTo give a sense of how far the islands are from metropolitan Australia, from some of the more northern ones, he says, you can actually see Papua New Guinea.\n\nIt isn't just indigenous communities that are remote in Australia - the AEC also sends out representatives to rural farms and mining sites such as Leinster - a remote mining village of 500 residents, 1,000km north-east of Perth. Only employees of mining company BHP live there.\n\nAccording to Mr Bloom, fewer miners attend polling booths than used to be the case: \"The postal vote tends to be their preference, so we're not mobile polling them as much these days.\"\n\nRemote mines and farms are visited by Australian election officials to make voting accessible to everyone\n\nThey could be missing out on election day fun, though.\n\n\"One of my team leaders was setting up in central Queensland and a dog was under the table,\" Mr Bloom says. \"They set up the booth around it, not wishing to wake it from relaxing in the sun.\n\n\"Then suddenly someone shouted, 'There's a dingo under the table!' The issuing officer jumped up and knocked the electronic tablet into the dirt!\n\n\"The dingo woke up, and ran off.\"\n\nDingoes, flooded roads, interpreters: nothing deters these teams from encouraging voting.\n\n\"As far as voting options go, we're one of the most open and accessible systems in the world,\" says the AEC's Evan Ekin-Smyth.", "Zholia Alemi was found guilty of four theft and fraud charges after a week-long trial last year\n\nA bogus psychiatrist who treated hundreds of patients in Scotland may have referred some for needless electro-convulsive therapy, Scotland's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nDr Catherine Calderwood said others may have been detained under the Mental Health Act or \"groomed\" to gain access to their finances.\n\nZholia Alemi worked in the NHS for 22 years despite having no qualifications.\n\nOne health board confirmed 24 of her patients were detained or \"sectioned\".\n\nAlemi was jailed for five years last October for defrauding patients.\n\nA court in Carlisle heard she faked a patient's will in an attempt to inherit her £1.3m estate.\n\nAfter her conviction, it emerged that Alemi had dropped out of medical school in her first year in New Zealand but was employed by the NHS after moving to the UK in 1995.\n\nShe worked at a number of locations across the UK, including six Scottish health boards which have now been asked to check their records about patients she treated.\n\nDr Calderwood has now written to these boards, saying she expects the review to identify some patients who were significantly affected by Alemi's activity through \"prescription of drugs, electro-convulsive therapy, treatment or diagnosis, or in the use of the Mental Health Act\".\n\nIn the letter, obtained by the Herald newspaper, she also warns: \"She is known to have befriended and 'groomed' vulnerable people that she came into contact with through working as a psychiatrist, with the ultimate aim of accessing their financial affairs.\"\n\nAnother concern is that she may have played a role in determining outcomes for patients while sitting on mental health tribunals, she said.\n\nOne health board - NHS Ayrshire and Arran - has confirmed that Alemi treated 395 adults while working as a locum for 18 months from 2007.\n\nDuring this time 24 of these patients were detained by Alemi under the Mental Health Act.\n\nNHS Ayrshire and Arran medical director Dr Alison Graham said the health board would be contacting all those affected.\n\nShe added: \"We would like to apologise for any distress this situation may have caused. If patients were treated by this individual and have concerns, we would advise them to contact our mental health services team.\"\n\nNHS Tayside said Alemi was employed as a locum psychiatrist for a \"short period\" in 2009 while NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said she worked in the former NHS Argyll & Clyde area between May 2005 and July 2006.\n\nIt is understood that Alemi also worked in the NHS Borders, NHS Highland and NHS Grampian areas.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) has said Alemi was allowed to join the UK's medical register under a section of the Medical Act which has not been in force since 2003.\n\nThis allowed medical graduates from certain Commonwealth countries to register on the basis of qualifications obtained at home, without sitting tests that most foreign doctors have to pass before working in the UK.\n\nThe GMC said the checks were now more \"rigorous\" and it is reviewing records of up to 3,000 doctors who were allowed to work under the same rules as Alemi.\n\nThe GMC has created a web page with advice for anyone who is concerned that they were treated by Alemi.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is this the future of school travel?\n\nA primary school is leading the way to make the daily commute better for the environment and for pupils' health.\n\nWhen Ysgol Hamadryad opened in Cardiff, those in charge were determined that pupils would walk further than from a car outside the front gate.\n\nAs well as cycling and scooter lessons, they made local roads unsuitable for parking and provide a walking bus for pupils to get to school.\n\nNow the school has been invited to advise ministers and other schools.\n\nThe drive to ensure every pupil travels to their lessons in a sustainable way means the air around the school has less traffic fumes and each child starts the day walking for around five to 10 minutes.\n\n\"I really hope ideas like the walking bus catches on and Ysgol Hamadryad can lead the way,\" said head teacher Rhian Carbis.\n\n\"If we can do it here with a small staff, then anyone can do it.\"\n\nWalking to school helps limit the impact of traffic and fumes close to the school\n\nThe new Welsh-language school, which opened in Butetown in January, has worked with parents and the local council to meet its ambitious target.\n\nLocation was a factor: on a headland with a park to the rear and just a few streets off a main road, the potential for congestion was high.\n\nSo they started personalised travel planning with the parents of their 100 pupils - an easier proposition now given they are not yet full.\n\nThey offered scooter and cycling lessons to pupils, and improved the local roads to make them safer and - crucially - unsuitable for parking in the area around the school.\n\nThey also established a \"park and stride\" walking bus where staff accompany children to school from a public car park nearby.\n\nParents pay just £2.50 per term for a permit to use the car park and drop off children on their way to work.\n\nNow the school could become a pioneer for others around the UK with their Chair of Governors, Dafydd Trystan, invited to speak to the Welsh Assembly as well as advise a new school in Reading about the lessons learned on sustainable travel.\n\nThe scheme especially helps working parents like Kelly Brooks\n\nThe move to sustainable travel is now an integral part of the school.\n\n\"It's inbuilt into the school so much that we're saying to prospective parents, is that something you can sign up to because if not, this might not be the school for you,\" said Mrs Carbis.\n\n\"The majority of our parents are extremely supportive and for those unable to walk to school, there is the walking bus option.\"\n\nKelly Brooks drops her four-year-old son Cole each day for the walking bus.\n\n\"It's a brilliant idea and Cole wakes up excited to go on the walking bus every day - even in the rain,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps me with getting to work, it's exercise for him and it definitely raises awareness of bigger issues with the environment.\"\n\nHead teacher Rhian Carbis hopes Ysgol Hamadryad could become a model for others to emulate\n\nMrs Carbis said they had seen some other, unexpected benefits from the walking bus.\n\n\"The children chat with friends on their way to school. Others with separation anxiety issues have benefitted - by the time they have got to the school site, they have forgotten mum and dad and are ready to learn straight away,\" she added.\n\nThe walking bus has become so successful that the school and parents are discussing extending it to pupils living in nearby Grangetown.\n\n\"We're hoping to develop our children as citizens who understand their impact on the climate,\" said Mrs Carbis.\n\n\"If we can play a small part in encouraging them to actively travel to school it can only benefit them in the long term.\"\n\nParents have described the scheme as a \"great idea\"\n\nAndrew Powell said his sons Osian, seven, and Morgan, five, were learning valuable skills.\n\n\"As well as the environment, all the children are learning about road safety and generally looking out for each other,\" he added.\n\nSustrans Cymru said the school was a \"fantastic example\" of how to make it easier for children to walk and cycle to school.\n\nDirector Steve Brooks said: \"Barriers to active travel are sometimes over exaggerated.\n\n\"Ysgol Hamadryad's pro-active approach to dealing with the barriers they faced is really inspiring and a great example for other schools to follow.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nLyon continued their remarkable European dominance as Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg's first-half hat-trick against Barcelona helped the French giants secure a fourth consecutive Women's Champions League title.\n\nVictory saw England's Lucy Bronze and Wales' most-capped player Jess Fishlock get their hands on club women's football's biggest continental prize.\n\nFirst-time finalists Barcelona almost led early on through Lionesses forward Toni Duggan, but after she fired narrowly wide, Lyon ruthlessly netted four times before the break.\n\nFormer Liverpool and Arsenal forward Asisat Oshoala netted a late consolation for the Catalan club in Hungary's capital Budapest but they could do nothing to stop Lyon claiming a sixth European crown in eight years.\n• None Relive Lyon's 4-1 win over Barcelona as it happened\n\nHaving secured a 13th consecutive French league title in April, the French club were playing in their eighth European final since 2010, after a 3-2 aggregate win over Chelsea in the semi-finals.\n\nThe best-funded side on the continent wrapped up the latest of their 23 major honours of this decade before half-time, largely thanks to Hegerberg's clinical treble.\n\nThe 23-year-old made history as she became the first player to net a hat-trick in a Women's Champions League final since the competition's rebranding in 2010.\n\nThe Netherlands winger Shanice Van de Sanden's pace down Lyon's right created the game's first two goals, as she crossed for Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsan for the opener and then similarly for Hegerberg.\n\nAmel Majri then squared the ball in the area for Hegerberg's second, before Bronze's whipped right-wing cross met the striker's run perfectly to complete her 16-minute treble inside the first half hour.\n\nThe result saw Bronze - who helped Lyon win last year's final - and Fishlock both earn the second European titles of their careers, although the Wales midfielder missed 2015's final with German club Frankfurt because her loan spell from Seattle had ended.\n\nEngland international Izzy Christiansen also collected a winner's medal but did not feature in the final, having broken her leg and damaged ankle ligaments in March.\n\nHegerberg rightly claimed the player-of-the-match plaudits in Budapest, but football fans will miss her talents at this summer's Women's World Cup in France, which begins on 7 June.\n\nThe inaugural women's Ballon d'Or winner has not been included in Norway's squad, having refused to play for the national side since 2017, as she takes a stand against what she describes as a lack of respect for female players in Norway.\n\nBut plenty of France-bound international stars impressed in the 10th final of the Women's Champions League era.\n\nThe Netherlands' Van de Sanden - who had made a devastating impact from the bench in 2018's final against Wolfsburg - provided two assists for the second European final in a row.\n\nHer Dutch team-mate Lieke Martens had a comparatively quiet first half, but did provide an exquisite through ball to set up Barcelona's late consolation.\n• None All you need to know about the Women's World Cup\n\nMartens fed Nigeria's Oshoala, who was lively after coming on as a late substitute and will be among the stars of the Super Falcons squad this summer.\n\nGermany's majestic midfielder Marozsan and France forward Eugenie Le Sommer also combined well for Lyon, while towering France defender Wendie Renard set a new competition record with her 82nd Women's Champions League appearance.\n\nFrench goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi and her team-mates Renard and Le Sommer are the only players to have won the competition six times, all with record-winners Lyon.\n\nEngland and Scotland get their World Cup campaigns under way when they meet in Group D on 9 June.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The government should add a public vote to the Brexit legislation which MPs will vote on next month, the shadow Brexit secretary has told the BBC.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said including another referendum in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would \"break the impasse\".\n\nTalks between Labour and the government to find a compromise Brexit deal broke down on Friday without agreement.\n\nTheresa May has said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nLabour's preferred plan is for changes to the government's Brexit deal or an election, but if neither of those are possible, it will support the option of a public vote.\n\nThere have been calls for giving the public another say on Brexit. One widely discussed option is for a \"confirmatory vote\" with the choice between accepting whatever deal the government agrees, or remaining in the EU.\n\nOthers argue any new referendum should include the option of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Keir suggested the government should seek \"further changes to the political declaration\", which sets out the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Or of course they could seek to break the impasse by putting a confirmatory vote on the face of a bill.\n\n\"But whatever happens they have to find a way of breaking the impasse. We've got five and a half months which seems like quite a long time but in reality, once we get to the summer recess, we've only got only two weeks in September and two weeks in October.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following the Brexit bill vote\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs will vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nThis will be the second reading vote on the bill, which is the key piece of legislation to implement the withdrawal agreement - the legally binding part of the Brexit deal that covers exit terms - and take the UK out of the EU.\n\nThe second reading is the first opportunity for MPs to debate the bill. If it is not passed by Parliament, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nSir Keir said Labour would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, accusing the government of attempting \"an experiment\" and bringing the UK to \"a cliff edge\".\n\n\"If that bill goes through second reading and then collapses at third reading we are then up against the cliff edge in October, which is why we've said we'll vote against that at second reading if there isn't an agreed deal before we start,\" he said.\n\nHe denied that would make a no-deal Brexit more likely. \"I don't accept that. What we can't do is keep on buying another week at a time which is what the prime minister has been doing for months.\"\n\nDiscussions between the Conservatives and Labour - to see if they could come to an agreement on Brexit despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday.\n\nSir Keir blamed the collapse of talks with the government on the inability to \"future proof\" a deal against an \"incoming Tory leader\" and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nHe said: \"During the talks, almost literally as we were sitting in the room talking, cabinet members and wannabe Tory leaders were torpedoing the talks with remarks about not being willing to accept the customs union.\n\n\"In terms of the team that we were negotiating with, I'm not blaming them.\n\n\"Circling around those that were in the room trying to negotiate were others who didn't want the negotiation to succeed because they had their eye on what was coming next.\"\n\nMrs May has previously blamed the collapse on the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour.\n\nIt comes as a poll of Conservative members for The Times suggest former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by the Times suggests Mr Johnson is the first choice for 39% of those Tory party activists who responded.\n\nThe former London mayor, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that Mrs May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed.\n\nHe said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nThe Netherlands' Duncan Laurence has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Arcade.\n\nHe had been the bookmakers' favourite to win, and came through to the top of the leaderboard with 492 points after the public vote.\n\nThe UK's Michael Rice came bottom, after getting just three points from the public vote, and a total of 16 points for Bigger Than Us.\n\nLaurence said: \"Here's to dreaming big, this is to music first, always.\"\n\nThe last time The Netherlands won was 1975. The audience joined in as Laurence performed the track again at the end of the show.\n\nItaly finished second with 465 and Russia third with 369 points.\n\nThe ceremony also saw last year's winner Netta perform, while singers from previous contests also sang each other's songs.\n\nConchita Wurst, Mans Zelmerlow, Gali Atari, Eleni Foureira and Vjerka Serdjucka sang each other's songs\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The star's backing dancers were seen wearing Israel and Palestine flags during the show\n\nMadonna also performed just before the voting results were announced. She kicked off her set with a version of Like A Prayer, with backing dancers dressed as monks.\n\nShe went on to sing Future, her new single featuring the rapper Quavo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Boring' winner...? 'Incredible atmosphere'? Fans in the arena share their views\n\nHer performance was felt by some, to be a little, well, flat.\n\n\"A slightly muted response to Madonna there,\" said BBC One's commentator Graham Norton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by emily m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapital Breakfast presenter Roman Kemp was also unimpressed, calling for autotune to come to the rescue.\n\nA section of her performance in which her backing dancers displayed Israeli and Palestinian flags was not an approved part of the act, organisers said.\n\nEurovision said: \"In the live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, two of Madonna's dancers briefly displayed the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the back of their outfits.\n\n\"This element of the performance was not part of the rehearsals which had been cleared with the EBU and the host broadcaster, KAN. The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political event and Madonna had been made aware of this.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the Queen of Pop who was apparently breaking the rules either.\n\nThe organisers said Iceland's Eurovision act could face punishment after displaying Palestinian flags during the live broadcast.\n\nDuring the final, the band members held up Palestinian flags while their public vote was being announced.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the \"consequences of this action\" will be discussed by the contest's executive board\".\n\nAlongside the contest, there were clashes in central Jerusalem as ultra-orthodox Jews protested against Eurovision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are angry that the contest was scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath\n\nThey objected to the scheduling of the Eurovision Song Contest on the Jewish Sabbath, resulting in angry scenes as demonstrators clashed with police.\n\nAt one point, a small number of women held a counter protest, showing their bras.\n\nThere were other protests in Tel Aviv over Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.\n\nThere have also been campaigns online.\n\nThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has been using social media to oppose holding the contest in Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to whitewash (\"artwash\") discrimination, which it likens to apartheid, the system of racial segregation once used in South Africa.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "An F-16 fighter jet has crashed into a warehouse near a base outside Los Angeles, leaving the pilot and workers on the ground with minor injuries.\n\nThe pilot ejected before impact, and the small fire that broke out was quickly suppressed by the building's sprinkler system.\n\nThe US Air Force says five people on the ground were injured. They have not confirmed if ammunition was onboard.\n\nOne warehouse worker captured the aftermath in a Facebook post.\n\n\"That's a military airplane in our building,\" Jeff Schoffstall said in his mobile phone video.\n\n\"So the turbines are spinning, there's no roof on the building so you're looking through the roof, the walls are gone,\" he continued.\n\nA hole in the warehouse roof was filmed by news helicopters\n\nThe crash happened at about 15:45 local time (23:45 GMT) outside the March Air Reserve Base in Perris.\n\n\"It just shook the whole building,\" employee Baldur Castro told CBS, adding that one worker had been knocked to the ground.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Jeff This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nRoads to the warehouse have been blocked off as hazardous materials crews examine the rubble.\n\nAccording to the Air Force Reserve, the jet was based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was flying a training mission for the North American Aerospace Defense Command.\n\nThe pilot's parachute was located in a nearby field", "Dairy items were temporarily withdrawn from sale during Mr Farage's visit\n\nA McDonald's near a rally addressed by Nigel Farage in Edinburgh was asked by police not to sell milkshakes or ice cream, staff have said.\n\nThe former Ukip leader addressed supporters at a Brexit Party campaign rally on Friday evening at the city's Corn Exchange.\n\nA sign at the nearby restaurant announced milkshakes or ice cream would not be on sale.\n\nSome politicians have had milkshakes thrown at them during campaigning.\n\nEarlier this month a video of English Defence League founder Tommy Robison being struck by milkshake during a visit to Warrington, Cheshire, was widely shared online.\n\nUkip candidate Carl Benjamin was also targeted at a rally in Cornwall.\n\nAfter the police's intervention in Edinburgh, Burger King's UK Twitter account posted: \"Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK #justsaying\"\n\nIce cream supplies were not a problem for Mr Farage during campaigning in Essex on Saturday", "Vittoria Street has been closed for emergency services to investigate the site\n\nA wall has collapsed in a building in Birmingham, with one person seriously injured.\n\nThe wall in Vittoria Street in the Jewellery Quarter came down just before 18:00 BST.\n\nAnother person was taken to hospital with minor injuries and one person was discharged at the scene, West Midlands Ambulance Service said.\n\nIt is thought the wall collapsed inside a former factory where builders had been working.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area\n\nWest Midlands Fire Service was also at the site following the collapse and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.\n\nMembers of the public were asked to avoid the area.\n\nVittoria Street has been closed for the emergency services to investigate the site.\n\nBBC Midlands Today reporter Giles Latcham said the emergency response was being scaled back.\n\nHe said he had been told the collapse happened in an old factory called The Unity Works where a building project was under way.\n\nThe Grade II-listed building, built in 1866, was a former munitions factory that once supplied European and US troops during World War One and produced more than one million rifles, Birmingham Conservation Trust said.", "Henriett Szucs was a Hungarian national who had lived in London for \"several years\", police said\n\nA woman who was found dead in a freezer along with another female has been named by police as Henriett Szucs.\n\nThe two bodies were found frozen, clothed and on top of each other at the flat in Vandome Close in Canning Town, east London, on 26 April.\n\nHungarian national Ms Szucs, 34, is the second woman to be identified after Mihrican Mustafa, 38, was confirmed as the first victim on Friday.\n\nA man has been charged with two counts of preventing a lawful burial.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on 29 May.\n\nThe Met Police said post mortems had been carried out and no formal cause of death had been established.\n\nBut the force said both women \"suffered multiple injuries\" and further tests were being carried out.\n\nMihrican Mustafa, also known as MJ, was a mother-of-three\n\nThe Met said Ms Szucs had been in the UK for several years but was of no fixed address.\n\nHer next of kin had been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place, a spokesperson added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said Ms Szucs was last heard from in the summer of 2016 when she spoke to somebody she knew in Hungary on the phone.\n\nOfficers are trying to establish if this was the last known contact anyone had had with her.\n\nMs Mustafa, a mother-of-three who was also known as MJ, was reported missing on 10 April last year.\n\nAs she was a missing person, the Met has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nThe two bodies were found in Canning Town on 26 April\n\nOfficers were called to the flat after receiving concerns for the welfare of a male occupant.\n\nThe Met said the property was used by people who moved from address to address and that it was frequented by drug users.\n\n\"We need to build up a full picture of both of these women's lives, whether they knew each other, who they associated with and what they were doing in and around Vandome Close and the Canning Town area,\" Det Ch Insp Harding said.\n\n\"The way in which they died is truly shocking and our heart goes out to these women's friends and families.\"\n\nA 50-year-old man, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Royal baby: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge congratulate the Sussexes on their first child\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has welcomed his brother to \"the sleep deprivation society that is parenting\" after the birth of the Duke of Sussex's son.\n\nPrince William said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" for Prince Harry and Meghan, whose child was born at 05:26 BST on Monday.\n\nThe father-of-three added he looked forward to seeing the new parents \"when things have quietened down\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said he was also \"delighted\" by the birth.\n\nPrince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were congratulated and given presents during a four-day trip to Germany.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born on Monday\n\nShortly after he arrived in Berlin, he said: \"We couldn't be more delighted at the news and we're looking forward to meeting the baby when we return.\"\n\nBefore a private meeting with the prince, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented him with a teddy bear wearing blue clothes.\n\nLater, when members of the public in Berlin offered their congratulations on his fourth grandchild, Prince Charles said: \"Thank you, I'm collecting a rather large number of them.\"\n\nPrince William was at an event at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, with the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nHe said: \"I'm very pleased and glad to welcome my own brother into the sleep deprivation society that is parenting.\"\n\n\"I wish him all the best and I hope in the next few days they can settle down and enjoy having a newborn in their family and the joys that come with that,\" he added.\n\nIt has not yet been confirmed where the baby was born, but it is believed Meghan gave birth in hospital rather than at home.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge said: \"We're looking forward to meeting him and finding out what his name's going to be... these next few weeks are always a bit daunting the first time round so we wish them all the best.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's such a special time, obviously with Louis and Charlotte just having had their birthdays it's such a great time of year to have a baby, spring is in the air.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan's son, who has not been named yet, is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nCamilla was handed presents to take back to the UK from German wellwishers\n\nIn Berlin, the Duchess of Cornwall visited a clinic for victims of domestic violence, where staff members gave her a onesie with German art on it and a balloon for the baby boy.\n\nThe duchess said: \"As soon as we return I will deliver it to them, direct from Germany.\"\n\nThe royals' words followed messages of congratulations from around the globe.\n\nRoyal fans lined the streets near to Harry and Meghan's home on the Windsor Estate\n\nFormer US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack Obama were \"thrilled\" at the news, while Meghan's former colleague Patrick J Adams sent love to the \"incredible parents\".\n\nSpeaker John Bercow opened the House of Commons on Tuesday by saying: \"I am sure the whole House would want to join me in sending their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex our warmest congratulations on the birth of their son.\"\n\nA wellwisher and her dog dressed up for the occasion outside Windsor Castle\n\nMeanwhile celebrations were under way in the town near to Frogmore Cottage - the Sussexes' home on the Windsor Estate.\n\nLocal fans dressed up in their finery to mark the occasion while Windsor's shop window displays were crammed with royal merchandise.", "The Common Travel Area pre-dates Britain and Ireland's membership of the EU\n\nThe Common Travel Area is \"written in sand\" and should get legal certainty in a new treaty between Ireland and the UK, a report has concluded.\n\nThe study, by four legal academics, was prepared for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.\n\nThe Common Travel Area (CTA) gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.\n\nThe rights include largely unrestricted travel between each jurisdiction.\n\nIt is an arrangement between the UK and Ireland which pre-dates their membership of the European Union\n\nThe UK and EU have agreed that it can continue to operate after Brexit.\n\nHowever, the report said the terms of the CTA are \"much more limited than is often believed to be the case\" and some of those terms can be unilaterally changed.\n\nIt points out that there is no legally binding international agreement which comprehensively establishes the terms of CTA.\n\nIt states: \"It is a relationship built on trust. There is, however, no recourse to law if trust breaks down, or slowly erodes.\n\n\"The flexibility and informality of the CTA means that associated or dependent rights for individuals are vulnerable to modification through domestic legislation.\"\n\nThe current version of the CTA has been developed since 1952 and at its legal core are immigration rules that each part of the CTA operates and enforces.\n\nThose rules allow citizens of CTA countries to have open-ended residence in each others' countries.\n\nOther rights flow from that including healthcare, employment and social security.\n\nThe report said that while CTA-related, these arrangements are \"not based on a bilateral binding agreement between the UK and Ireland and are therefore based on varying amounts of legal certainty\".\n\nIt said the best way to give legal certainty would be a bilateral agreement that covered the core of the CTA and the related arrangements.\n\nIt also recommends a \"notification requirement\" for both governments and the devolved administrations to inform others should they introduce changes to domestic law or policy which could impact on the CTA.\n\nAlternatives to a new comprehensive treaty could include an agreement on just the core immigration rules or a joint memorandum of understanding setting out the terms of the CTA.", "Privacy or publicity - what will the couple choose for their baby?\n\n\"Seclusion\", wrote former British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, \"is one of the few luxuries in which royal personages may not indulge\".\n\nSo what's going on with the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child?\n\nBuckingham Palace announced some weeks ago that there would be no information given out about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nAnd so it was that shortly before 14:00 BST on Monday, a brief statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Meghan had gone in to labour, followed 40 minutes later by confirmation of the baby's arrival - a boy, weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nThat meant the strange British circus of journalists, photographers, royal superfans and bemused passers-by gawking at a hospital door for days on end would not happen.\n\nInstead, we have an arguably stranger British circus of the same group of people positioned at the end of Windsor's Long Walk, close to the Sussexes' new home.\n\nThe new family home is at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor\n\nThis is on the presumption that a birth is happening somewhere in the vicinity - but in the knowledge that nothing at all will be seen of mother, father, or indeed newborn child.\n\nThere is no great constitutional outrage here. The \"tradition\" of royal babies being paraded within hours of their birth goes back around four decades; not much more than the blink-of-an-eye in the history of the British monarchy.\n\nWhy the couple have chosen privacy over publicity is not too difficult to fathom. Harry still can't abide the media; he scowls at, or turns away from, cameras and casually throws insults at journalists covering his activities.\n\nMeghan has described social media as \"noise\"\n\nMeghan too has made it clear that she has little time for news coverage. She said a couple of months ago that she doesn't read the papers or look at social media, calling it \"noise\".\n\nWhy would either of them want to go through the arguably odd ritual of parading their newborn child in front of hundreds of cameras and journalists?\n\nWhat follows the birth is perhaps more important. They will have decisions to make about just how royal they want their child to be - in title, upbringing and public exposure.\n\nAnd the couple have a difficult line to tread between their public life and the life they would prefer to remain unseen.\n\nThat line, between the royals' public and private life, has shifted over the decades.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, here with newborn Prince Louis, have posed on the Lindo Wing steps after the birth of each of their three children\n\nFirst, the Queen, Prince Philip and their young children were presented as an example to the nation in the 1950s, a kind of \"first family\".\n\nThen in the late 60s, amid flagging interest in royalty, cameras were allowed into some of the family's more private moments - meals and barbecues and the like - in the BBC film The Royal Family.\n\nIt is difficult, if not impossible, to put that genie back in the bottle. Public exposure of what most people would think of as private life is part of royal duty.\n\nAnd that's the catch for Harry and Meghan going forward. They want to do good, to bring their star power to bear on causes that they care about.\n\nBut it is the lustre of royalty, not just plain old celebrity, that makes them different, giving them the power and platform to effect change.\n\nThey have sought to control the publicity around their lives, through insisting on privacy where they can, creating their own household, and establishing their own social media account.\n\nBut more fundamental choices loom, about how their child grows up, and whether they want the continued exposure that being royal brings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles: UK and Germany 'need each other'\n\nWhatever the outcome of the Brexit process, the bonds between the UK and Germany \"will, and must endure\", the Prince of Wales has said in a speech in Berlin.\n\nSpeaking at the British Ambassador's residence, the prince described Germany as the UK's \"natural partner\".\n\nHe said he recognised that with Brexit still at an impasse, relations between the two countries are \"in transition\".\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have begun a four-day tour of Germany.\n\nOn Tuesday, the couple met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They are also due to visit Leipzig and Munich later in the trip.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the Queen's Birthday Party, Prince Charles praised the strength of the UK-German relationship.\n\n\"Today, we are so much more than simply neighbours: we are friends and natural partners, bound together by our common experience, mutual interests and shared values, and deeply invested in each other's futures,\" he said.\n\nThe prince and the Duchess of Cornwall met Chancellor Angela Merkel\n\n\"Whatever is negotiated and agreed between governments and institutions, it is more clear to me than it has ever been, that the bonds between us will, and must, endure.\"\n\nThe prince continued: \"Our countries and our people have been through so much together.\n\n\"As we look towards the future, I can only hope that we can also pledge to redouble our commitment to each other and to the ties between us.\n\n\"In so doing, we can ensure that our continent will never again see the division and conflict of the past; that together, we will continue to be an indispensable force for good in our world; and that the friendships and partnerships that bind us together will continue to create opportunity for us all.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.", "Jason Manford said in a video on Facebook that he suffers from anxiety and depression\n\nComedian Jason Manford has opened up about his struggles with mental health.\n\nIn a video on Facebook, he said he wanted to let people know why he had been less active on social media.\n\n\"I wouldn't go as far as to say a breakdown, but I had a struggle mentally and I found it very difficult to deal with,\" Manford told his fans.\n\nDescribing his battle with anxiety and depression, he said social media can make things worse and encouraged people to talk about their problems.\n\nThe Mancunian comic said people - \"especially blokes\" - do not talk about mental health enough, even though male suicide is such a big issue.\n\n\"It's taken me this long to be brave enough to say it... I've been struggling, you know, finding things hard and I think sometimes social media can not help with that,\" he said.\n\nManford said it was not just trolls but also \"bad news and nastiness... even down to comparing your life\".\n\nThe father of five said he suffers from anxiety and depression and at his lowest, he \"felt like I'd let my kids down and I couldn't do my job any more\".\n\nManford said he wanted to pass on the advice he was given that \"still gets me through to this day\", which was \"just because you're struggling, doesn't mean you're failing\".\n\n\"The next time you're struggling, maybe say it to someone you love,\" he added.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.", "Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing three weeks ago\n\nA British man has been charged with the murder of a woman and her one-year-old daughter in Canada.\n\nRobert Leeming, 34, faces two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Jasmine Lovett, 25, and her daughter Aliyah Sanderson.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered in woodland west of Calgary on Monday.\n\nThe pair were last seen alive in the Cranston area of the city on the evening of 16 April and were reported missing three weeks ago.\n\nLeeming appeared in court via videolink on Tuesday. He is due to appear in court again on 14 May, Calgary police said.\n\nInvestigations into how Ms Lovett and her daughter died are continuing, the force added.\n\nIn a statement released on Tuesday, Ms Lovett's family said their lives had been \"devastated and our hearts are heavy\".\n\nLeeming is believed to be from Stoke-on-Trent and has lived in Canada for six years.", "Video of a five-year-old Afghan amputee which shows him joyously dancing after being fitted with a new leg has been widely shared online.\n\nAhmad was caught in the crossfire between Taliban and Afghan government forces and lost his leg when he was just eight months old.\n\nHe has since been fitted with a series of prosthetic legs so he can walk independently.", "A huge dust cloud has swept across the city of Mildura in Australia.\n\nOn Tuesday, wind gusts reached speeds of up to 87km/h (54mph).", "Kerry Katona had previously told the court she would represent herself at her trial but a guilty plea was entered in her absence\n\nSinger Kerry Katona has been fined £500 for failing to send one of her children to school.\n\nThe former member of Atomic Kitten had previously denied the charge but her solicitor entered a guilty plea on her behalf at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe prosecution said Katona, who lives in Crowborough, East Sussex, had \"failed to engage\" over the issue.\n\nBut Ed Fish, defending, said work commitments meant she sometimes had to take the child to work with her.\n\nKatona, 38, had previously been warned she could be jailed after failing to attend an earlier court hearing.\n\nShe did appear at the previous hearing on 6 March, when she pleaded not guilty.\n\nBut during the public part of Wednesday's hearing, when Mr Fish said she was pleading guilty, no reason was given for her absence.\n\nThe court was told Katona had failed to send the child - one of five, who cannot be named - to school for a \"significant\" number of days between April and November last year.\n\nGareth Jones, prosecuting on behalf of East Sussex County Council, said the child's attendance rate had dropped as low as 48%.\n\nKerry Katona failed to attend court, having appeared at the previous hearing, but her solicitor pleaded guilty on her behalf\n\nHe said: \"There's a failure to engage here. She's not attending meetings, letters are not being responded to. This is a problem that has gone on for some time.\"\n\nBut Mr Fish told the court some of the unauthorised absences were because Katona could not get childcare while working.\n\nHe said: \"She understands it fell below what was expected of her.\n\n\"On occasions [the child] missed school due to Kerry Katona's work commitments. She's not had childcare and has to take the children to work.\n\n\"She understands she should maintain better contact with the school.\"\n\nBut he added: \"The attendance has not been the worst [the court has seen].\"\n\nKatona was also ordered to pay £325 costs and a £100 surcharge and was given 14 days to pay.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men have been jailed for running what is thought to be the UK's first fully functioning gun factory on a Sussex industrial estate.\n\nGreg Akehurst, of no fixed address, and Kyle Wood, of Littlehampton, both pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to conspiring to sell or supply guns.\n\nAkehurst was jailed for 18 years and Wood for 11 and a half years.\n\nDuring the trial, the court heard police found parts that could have been made into more than 100 weapons.\n\nJurors heard guns from the factory had been sold to London criminals and linked to eight crime scenes including two attempted murders.\n\nA third man - described by the judge as \"the principal of this extremely serious criminal enterprise\" - Mark Kinman, 63, pleaded guilty to the manufacture of the firearms, but died last year.\n\n(L-R) Akehurst and Wood have been jailed and Kinman, who admitted charges, has died\n\nThe men managed to produce lethal firearms from scratch\n\nSentencing, Judge Susan Tapping said the operation was \"of the gravest possible seriousness\".\n\nShe said: \"Creating firearms like this had only one objective and that was to be sold to criminal customers who wished to use them with live ammunition.\n\n\"That must have been obvious to anyone involved with Kinman.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, NCA deputy director for investigations Chris Farrimond said: \"It is the first time that a fully-functioning firearms factory creating firearms from scratch has been discovered, to our knowledge, in the UK.\n\n\"It was producing handguns, copies of a Browning pistol, from absolute scratch - from the nuts and bolts and producing fully functioning lethal firearms at the other end of it, with the bullets to go with it.\"\n\nThe unit made copies of a Browning pistol and bullets\n\nSmall parts were being delivered to the unit\n\nThe NCA raided the factory unit last August on the Diplocks estate where the business had been advertised as a gearbox repair firm.\n\nDuncan MacGregor, a civil engineer based in the neighbouring unit who knew Kinman, described his shock when he found out about the gun-manufacturing operation.\n\nHe said Kinman would show him items he had made he assumed were for a valve, but he later realised were gun components.\n\nWhen he discovered Kinman had been manufacturing guns, he said: \"First of all I was really stunned, but then when I thought back... I thought yes, the whole thing fits together.\"\n\nThe gun factory was discovered at a workshop on the Diplocks industrial estate\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British and Irish ministers have signed a deal to preserve the Common Travel Area after Brexit.\n\nIt guarantees free movement for citizens crossing the Irish border and cross-border access for study and health care.\n\nIt comes as NI's parties meet in an attempt to break the Stormont deadlock.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without devolved government for more than two-and-a-half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nA memorandum of understanding, which is not legally binding, was signed at a meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on Wednesday.\n\nThe conference was scheduled by the two governments following last month's murder of Lyra McKee, and is part of efforts to restore power-sharing in Belfast.\n\nDavid Lidington, who is Theresa May's de facto deputy, stressed the importance of the latest memorandum.\n\n\"It guarantees that whatever the terms of the UK's exit from the EU, there will be no change to the rights of British and Irish citizens,\" he said.\n\nThe Tánaiste Simon Coveney gave an illustration of the kind of rights the governments want to protect.\n\n\"British and Irish people will be able to travel to each others' countries, to study, to work, access social welfare, access health care and vote in each other's elections,\" he said,\n\nSome politicians argue this memorandum is insufficient as it is not a binding treaty.\n\nHowever the Irish government said people should be assured by the fact that the deal has been copper fastened by legislation in both countries.\n\nOn Tuesday, the governments set out details for a fresh talks process to take place over the next few weeks.\n\nThey held talks with the five main parties, the first since substantive negotiations collapsed last year.\n\nTalks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe Common Travel Area (CTA) gives UK and Irish citizens certain reciprocal rights in each others' countries.\n\nThe rights include largely unrestricted travel between each jurisdiction.\n\nIt is an arrangement between the UK and Ireland which pre-dates their membership of the European Union.\n\nThe memorandum will be signed by Cabinet Minister David Liddington and Tanaiste (Deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney. Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley will also be in attendance.\n\nIt may have been in place for more than a century but in reality it was an agreement written in sand with no real legal weight.\n\nThe Common Travel Area and the rights which flowed from it for citizens crossing the border, survived because of an arrangement between London and Dublin built on trust.\n\nBrexit threatened that trust and exposed the legal shortcoming in the arrangement.\n\nOn Wednesday, ministers shored up the Common Travel Area in a Memorandum of Understanding which we are told will be Brexit-proof.\n\nBut, by definition, a Memorandum of Understanding is not a legally binding document but instead signals the intention of both sides to move forward with a contract.\n\nSo, what are the chances of the sands shifting?\n\nThe British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference was set up through the Good Friday peace agreement, signed in 1998.\n\nIt aims to promote bilateral co-operation between the British and Irish governments.\n\nUntil last summer, it had not met since 2007, but nationalist parties had urged the two governments to hold it, in the absence of a breakthrough at Stormont.\n\nThe conference is due to take place in Westminster\n\nMeanwhile, the first of five working groups set up to deal with outstanding issues at Stormont also met on Wednesday.\n\nThe rest will begin meeting over the course of this week.\n\nThe working groups are being chaired by current and former Stormont senior civil servants, with the political parties nominating three representatives to sit on each group.\n\nA source involved in the process said they were \"open-minded\" about the new talks format, and that the \"most crucial\" groups were those dealing with reform of the petition of concern, and language and culture.\n\nThe governments have also announced that there will be weekly meetings of the five main parties with Mrs Bradley and Mr Coveney, to \"take stock\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May and Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar will review progress at the end of May.", "Natasha Abrahart's GP said she felt the teenager had a \"high risk of ending her life\"\n\nA GP ignored clinical advice and did not follow up on a student who was \"at high risk of ending her life\" before she was found hanged, an inquest heard.\n\nNatasha Abrahart, 20, who was studying physics at the University of Bristol, died on 30 April last year.\n\nThe university's Dr Emma Webb prescribed anti-depressants and made a note to \"follow up in two weeks\".\n\nHowever, NHS advice states patients assessed as a suicide risk should be seen after one week.\n\nDr Webb told Avon Coroners' Court that she saw Ms Abrahart on 30 March, then again on 20 April when she prescribed her the anti-depressant Sertraline.\n\nShe described the student as \"extremely difficult to communicate with\" and added: \"My usual practice is to follow up two weeks after prescribing anti depressants.\"\n\nMargaret and Robert Abrahart gave evidence at the inquest\n\nIn the past three years, 12 University of Bristol students have died.\n\nEight of the deaths were recorded as suicide, two inquests - including Ms Abrahart's - are still to take place or be determined and two inquests returned narrative verdicts.\n\nThe student's parents Robert and Margaret, from West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, told the inquest they miss their daughter \"every day\".\n\nMrs Abrahart told the hearing in Flax Bourton that her daughter was worried about being \"kicked off her course\" after receiving a lower than expected year-end mark and had begun self-harming.\n\nMs Abrahart's GP told the inquest when Ms Abrahart attended an emergency appointment in February last year she was in an \"acute state of distress\".\n\nDr Caroline St John Wright said she felt the student \"was at high risk of ending her life\" and referred her to the Avon Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) crisis team.\n\nThe doctor said the AWP tried to contact Ms Abrahart, but she did not answer her phone.\n\nNatasha's parents said they \"miss her every day\"\n\nMr Abrahart told the inquest his daughter had posted on a mental health support site aimed at students saying she felt \"distressed\" and had \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nHe said the day before she died she had sent a text to her boyfriend saying \"answer now\", but he was asleep.\n\nAfter she died, her phone was examined and it was found she had searched the phrase \"I wish I was dead\" on the internet a week before she died.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pamela Anderson has criticised the decision to jail Julian Assange, after visiting him at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nThe Wikileaks co-founder was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.", "Crowds gathered at Celtic Park as the funeral procession made its way past the stadium\n\nThe funeral of Stevie Chalmers, who scored Celtic's winning goal in the 1967 European Cup final, has been taking place in Glasgow.\n\nMembers of his family were joined by footballers past and present at St Mary's Church, Calton.\n\nThe funeral cortege then made its way to Celtic Park, where hundreds of fans gathered, before a private cremation.\n\nChalmers was in the Celtic team that beat Inter Milan to become the first British club to lift the European Cup.\n\nFans threw team scarves and strips as the hearse passed by\n\nHundreds of messages have been left at Celtic Park\n\nThe Scotland forward spent 12 seasons at Celtic, scoring 236 goals, and also played for Morton and Partick Thistle.\n\nFans paid their final respects at the stadium as the cortege made its way through\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia blessed the coffin as it left St Mary's Church\n\nStevie Chalmers with the European Cup in 2014\n\nChalmers' death at 83 came a week after Billy McNeill, who captained the Lisbon Lions, passed away aged 79.\n\nAmong those attending his funeral were fellow Lisbon Lions Bobby Lennox, Bertie Auld, Jim Craig and John Hughes, as well as current Celtic manager Neil Lennon.\n\nJim Craig said he was heartened by the large turnout for his friend.\n\nHe said: \"It has been a difficult week, losing another teammate. Stevie was a popular guy amongst fans and players alike. My thoughts are with the family and we hope the public in general will remember him greatly, as they will with that goal in Lisbon.\"\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon joined in the tributes to Stevie Chalmers\n\nFormer Rangers goalkeeper Peter McCloy was also among the mourners.\n\nChalmers, who scored three times and won five caps for Scotland, won four league titles, three Scottish Cups and four League Cups with Celtic.\n\nAfter he died last week, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell said: \"Stevie was a much-loved husband, father and grandfather, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this desperately sad time.\"\n\nEx-Manchester United and Aberdeen manager Sir Alex Ferguson was a long-time friend of Stevie Chalmers\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon said Chalmers was \"always a quiet and unassuming man whenever I met him, and happiest spending time with his fellow Lions\".\n\nFormer Celtic player and manager David Hay, left, was joined by ex-captain Roy Aitken\n\nCeltic skipper Scott Brown, front centre, is flanked by Celtic team-mates Odsonne Edouard and Kieran Tierney", "The victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nOne of the London Bridge attackers was seen washing his knife and wiping it on his beard shortly after eight people were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, was caught on CCTV cleaning his 12in pink ceramic knife inside the Black and Blue restaurant.\n\nIn the same footage, an accomplice, Youssef Zaghba, 22, was seen having a drink from behind the bar.\n\nThe inquest also heard two victims might still be alive if barriers had been put up after a similar attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane were shot dead by police after they drove a van into pedestrians, stabbed others, and confronted unarmed police officers shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" on 3 June 2017.\n\nCounsel for the coroner Jonathan Hough QC had warned the families of the victims at the inquest at the Old Bailey that \"distressing images\" would be shown and that Butt's reaction was \"the most chilling\".\n\nThe inquest was also shown footage of diner Roy Larner, dubbed the Lion of London Bridge, being savagely stabbed in the stomach.\n\nMr Larner appeared not to react after he was stabbed twice in quick succession before he stood up and ran away.\n\nIn other footage, the third attacker, Rachid Redouane, 30, was shown on CCTV bending down to tie his shoelaces in the street during the attack through Borough Market.\n\nRedouane was also seen, in other images, talking to an unidentified man and then walking away without attacking him, for reasons that are not known.\n\nMr Hough said: \"There is clearly some form of discussion. We don't know what was said. Despite appeals for witnesses, he [the man in the footage] never came forward.\"\n\nIn the space of three minutes, the attackers had struck Xavier Thomas, 45, and Christine Archibald, 30, with a van on the bridge then fatally stabbed Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, around Borough Market.\n\nWithin 10 minutes, the attackers, who injured 48 more people, had been shot dead by police marksmen.\n\nIn the CCTV, pedestrians were seen running for their lives as the attackers' van mounted the pavement on the bridge.\n\nAn image of the van used by the attackers\n\nThe inquest also heard that two victims of the attack, Christine Archibald, 30, and Xavier Thomas, 45, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe pair were among 10 people struck by a 2.5-ton hire van driven by Zaghba.\n\nMr Thomas was knocked into the Thames and found dead three days later, while Ms Archibald died after being dragged under the wheels of the powerful vehicle.\n\nGareth Patterson, QC, representing some victims, questioned a senior officer about why no barriers were put in place on London Bridge following the earlier attack in Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"There were no barriers in place on that pavement protecting pedestrians from traffic on that road.\n\n\"If there had been barriers Christine Archibald and Xavier Thomas would now be with us today.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Supt Rebecca Riggs agreed, saying: \"That may well be the case.\"\n\nThe court heard barriers were put up on London Bridge within two days of the attack.\n\nEarlier, the inquest heard armed officers kept shooting at the attackers even after gunning them down, fearing they were wearing explosive vests.\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Riggs said police withdrew but had to fire extra shots when they saw the men were \"still moving\".\n\n\"They believed they were going to activate the explosive devices they were wearing and they fired a number of shots,\" she said.\n\nNeil McLelland, who was looking out of the window of the nearby Wheatsheaf pub, was hit in the head by a bullet and fell to the ground, while five other people were injured by shrapnel from the shooting.\n\nThe court heard the officers then put \"themselves in harm's way\" to evacuate the pub, taking Mr McLelland and others to safety.\n\nThe armed officers who killed the knifemen have not been named at the inquest\n\nThe second day of the inquest was also told one victim was killed after he tried to beat the attackers with his skateboard.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria, 39, had been cycling with friends when he came across PC Wayne Marques and PC Charlie Guenigault trying to tackle the knifemen.\n\nThe officers had stepped in to help Oliver Downing and Marie Bondeville, who had been hurt by the trio.\n\nMr Echeverria, an HSBC financial crime analyst, ran across to help and swung his board at one of the killers but was knocked to the ground by Redouane, the inquest was told.\n\nIgnacio Echeverria was the last of eight people to be killed in the attack\n\nDet Supt Riggs said: \"Ignacio got off his bike and ran across to where the two officers were to assist [them].\"\n\n\"He had taken his board from his rucksack and swung at the attackers and managed to hit them. [Rachid] Redouane retaliated, causing him to fall on the ground,\" she added.\n\n\"The attackers then set upon him on the ground.\"\n\nCounsel to the coroner Jonathan Hough QC added: \"It was a brief but furious assault.\"\n\nOver several hours, the inquest watched the horrific attack unfold from every angle, second by second, from cameras on buildings, in restaurants, in taxis and buses, on police body-cams and the public's mobile phones.\n\nThe hearing gasped as the attackers' van was shown careering over London Bridge, knocking over pedestrians like skittles.\n\nOne camera captured Tyler Ferguson running to the side of his fiancée, Chrissy Archibald, as she lay dying in the middle of the road.\n\nOther footage showed the attackers striding side-by-side through Borough Market, indiscriminately stabbing anyone in their path.\n\nTheir victims are filmed bleeding in the street, clutching their faces, heads and chests.\n\nIn the Black and Blue restaurant, the men stabbed customers with their knives before ducking behind the bar to swig some water from a tap.\n\nOn their way out, they picked up a couple of bottles, smashed them on the side of a table - another weapon.\n\nOn Thursday, the hearing is due to hear from an eyewitness, Christine Delcros, whose partner Xavier Thomas was knocked off the bridge and into the Thames by the attackers' van.\n\nEarlier, Ms Delcros wept in court as CCTV footage showed the French couple walking hand in hand towards the bridge, their final moments together.\n\nIn a touching moment, Julie Wallace, the bereaved mother of Sara Zelenak, crossed the courtroom to take a seat beside Ms Delcros to comfort her.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLucas Moura scored a dramatic 96th-minute winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nTrailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs made the worst possible start in Amsterdam when a towering fifth-minute header by 19-year-old Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt doubled the advantage for Erik ten Hag's exciting young side.\n\nTottenham hit the post through Son Heung-min before Hakim Ziyech doubled Ajax's lead on the night with a sweeping finish after an assist by former Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.\n\nThat left Spurs 3-0 behind on aggregate yet, in another pulsating semi-final, Mauricio Pochettino's side scored twice within five minutes in the second half.\n\nMoura reduced the deficit with a composed finish before the Brazilian's shot on the turn, after keeper Andre Onana had denied substitute Fernando Llorente, levelled the scores on the night and left Spurs requiring one goal to reach the final in Madrid on 1 June.\n\nIn a frantic finish, Vertonghen headed against the bar from four yards before Moura completed his hat-trick with a left-foot shot from 16 yards deep into stoppage time as Spurs won on away goals to reach their first Champions League final.\n\nIt will be the second all-English final in the competition after Manchester United beat Chelsea on penalties in Moscow in 2008.\n• None Tactics were replaced by heart and desire for Spurs - Fletcher\n• None Kane 'hopeful' of being fit for final\n• None 'There. Is. Nothing. Like. Football' - how social media reacted to another stunning comeback\n\nPochettino could not contain his emotions at the final whistle and shed tears of joy as he celebrated wildly with his players on the pitch.\n\nThe Argentine, who marks his fifth anniversary in charge of Spurs later this month, was on his knees after a night that rivalled the jaw-dropping drama of Liverpool's incredible semi-final victory over Barcelona on Tuesday.\n\nHarry Kane, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, also joined his team-mates on the pitch at the end after their extraordinary comeback.\n\nSpurs looked dead and buried when Ziyech's outstanding first-time finish after a cut back by Tadic made it 3-0 on aggregate before half-time but they somehow pulled themselves together.\n\nMoura was the inspiration, producing three clinical finishes, the third and decisive goal coming when he picked the ball up from Dele Alli's flick and shot across Onana.\n\nHe is only the fifth player to score a Champions League semi-final hat-trick, and first since Cristiano Ronaldo in May 2017 for Real Madrid against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThis was a significant hurdle for Spurs to clear.\n\nThey had lost their three previous semi-finals, including an agonising penalty shootout defeat by Chelsea in this season's Carabao Cup.\n\nHaving moved into a new £1bn stadium last month, these are exciting times for Spurs as they chase a first trophy in 11 years.\n\nWith another top-four Premier League finish all but sealed, they are one win away from being crowned champions of Europe.\n\nThis after they took only one point from their first three group stage games and required late goals to beat PSV Eindhoven and Inter Milan, before an 85th-minute goal from Moura against Barcelona in the Nou Camp took them through to the knockout stage.\n\nAjax have been a joy to watch throughout this incredible European campaign, which started all the way back on 25 July in the second qualifying round against Austrian side Sturm Graz.\n\nThey have won a legion of new fans during their march through the rounds, which has included impressive wins over holders Real Madrid and Juventus.\n\nYet the four-time champions of Europe will need some time to recover after being denied a first appearance in the final since 1996 in the dying moments.\n\nBoasting a three-goal aggregate advantage at half-time, their fans were in party mood before Tottenham's amazing comeback.\n\nDe Ligt's early header from a corner after Hugo Lloris had denied Tadic was followed by Ziyech's clever finish and left Spurs with a mountain to climb.\n\nLittle did they know what was to come as the visitors, inspired by the exceptional Moura, produced an epic turnaround.\n• None The 2019 Champions League final will be only the third major European final in history to feature two English teams, after the 1972 Uefa Cup final (Spurs v Wolves) and 2008 Champions League final (Man Utd v Chelsea).\n• None Spurs are only the second team in Champions League history to lose the first leg of the semi-final at home and progress to the final - the other was Ajax in 1995-96 against Panathinaikos.\n• None Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt became the fourth teenager to score in a Champions League semi-final, after Nordin Wooter (1996, Ajax), Obafemi Martins (2003, Inter Milan) and Kylian Mbappe (2017, Monaco).\n• None Spurs will be the eighth different English team to feature in a European Cup/Champions League final, after Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. England have had more different teams in the final of the competition than any other nation.\n• None English teams have come from two or more goals behind to win on seven occasions in Champions League history - four more than clubs of any other nation. Indeed, four of the past five occasions have been English teams.\n• None Spurs were the first team to come two goals behind to win in a Champions League semi-final match since Manchester United in 1999 against Juventus.\n\nWhen the dust settles, Tottenham will look to confirm a top-four finish for the fourth successive season when they host Everton on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n\nAnd then it's the small matter of the Champions League final against Liverpool in Madrid on 1 June (20:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Ajax 2, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernando Llorente (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Sinkgraven.\n• None Attempt blocked. Frenkie de Jong (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Erik Lamela.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Fernando Llorente following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The quirky metal sculptures have appeared around the town of Stonehaven for years.\n\nThe mystery artist dubbed the 'Stonehaven Banksy' after a series of sculptures appeared in the town over the years, has revealed his identity.\n\nOnly those closest to the sculptor knew who it was, and would leave scrap metal at his door for his creations.\n\nNow Jim Malcolm, 68, has spoken to BBC Scotland's arts programme Loop.\n\nHe said in an exclusive interview: \"People have been trying to find who I am for a while now. Personally I get a bit embarrassed about it.\"\n\nThe mystery surrounding the artist's identity made headlines earlier this year when the latest sculpture was spotted along the seafront of the Aberdeenshire town.\n\nJim Malcolm said it would be his \"first and last interview\"\n\nFishing boats are among the pieces\n\nMr Malcolm said his work \"just evolves\"\n\nThe various sculptures include a Viking boat, fishing boats and a lighthouse.\n\nMr Malcolm worked much of his adult life at sea, before latterly becoming a welder.\n\nHe explained: \"The sea to me means freedom.\"\n\nMr Malcolm said of his work: \"It just evolves when I'm doing it. I never know what I'm doing til I'm finished.\n\n\"I'm nae an artist, nah, I'm just a guy that sticks metal together.\n\n\"I make sculptures for the simple fact I enjoy doing it.\"\n\nOf revealing his identity, he said: \"What does it matter who did or didn't do it?\n\n\"This will be my first and last interview.\"\n\nYou can see the story on Loop on BBC Scotland at 23:00 on Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video has emerged that shows a Free Presbyterian minister criticising the DUP for selecting Alison Bennington to stand in the council elections.\n\nIn a sermon last month, Rev John Greer of the Free Presbyterian Church in Ballymena, referred to the party's decision to choose her.\n\nIn response, the DUP said its position remained \"unchanged\".\n\n\"We support the current definition of marriage,\" a party spokesperson said.\n\nSpeaking after her election last week, the DUP's Belfast East MP Gavin Robinson, said it was a \"good news story\", despite DUP assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nIn Rev Greer's sermon from 21 April, prior to the local government elections, he said that Christians were \"being conditioned into thinking that things that were once reprobated are now acceptable... such as sodomy.\"\n\nHe described that as an \"agenda\".\n\n\"Now we have the DUP putting up their candidate, who is an out-and-out lesbian, that's what I mean,\" he said.\n\n\"My friend that's what Paul (the Christian apostle) is talking about here, that's the kind of thing that's going on in our own little land, and there we have before our very eyes, what God has to say about the danger of an ungodly world - a corrupt world influencing even the thinking of people who should know better - and have them accept what God abhors.\"\n\nWhen asked for comment, Rev Greer told BBC News NI that the remark was part of a wider sermon, and that the message he was preaching was \"not specifically crafted to deal with that issue\", but rather, commentary on how Christians should be living.\n\nHe said it was not his place to dictate to the DUP about their choice of politicians.\n\nAlison Bennington was congratulated by DUP colleagues after her election\n\n\"If a party which once took a decision begins to move away from it, it's my duty as a Christian minister to highlight that,\" he said.\n\nRev Greer said the Bible was his \"final authority\" and said the Free Presbyterian Church had issued a statement ahead of the council elections criticising all political parties that attempted to \"normalise and promote marital and sexual relationships that are in contravention of the clear teaching of scripture\".\n\nAlthough the DUP and the Free Presbyterian Church were never formally linked, the Church was set up by the former DUP leader Ian Paisley and provided many of the party's first candidates.\n\nUnder Ian Paisley, the party opposed same-sex marriage - a position it insists it continues to hold, despite the selection of Ms Bennington as one of its candidates.\n\nMany DUP members also remain members of the Free Presbyterian Church.\n\nIt has also been reported that DUP councillor John Finlay wrote to party officers to say that Mr Paisley, \"must be turning in his grave\" about the DUP's selection of an openly gay politician.\n\nThe letter, obtained by a number of media outlets, said the DUP's choice of Alison Bennington to stand for election in Glengormley had been \"foolish\" and sent \"confusing signals to our support base which has consistently welcomed our strong stand on LGBT issues\".\n\nMr Finlay told BBC News NI that he would not be making further comment.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nA surprise choice, Archie was not among the bookmakers' favourites of Alexander, Arthur and Albert.\n\n\"I don't think anyone of us saw either of these names coming,\" says Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty royal magazine.\n\nAs far as he is aware, Archie does not have any British royal connotations - and Harrison too is a totally new name for the Royal Family.\n\nArchie means \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\" - and is more popular in Britain than the US. It was originally a shortened form of Archibald but is now often used as a name on its own.\n\nIt was the 18th most-popular boy's name in England and Wales in 2017, with 2,803 baby boys called Archie that year, and has been in the top 50 consistently since 2003.\n\nHarrison is slightly more popular than Archie in the US - although it's still more common in the UK, where it was ranked the 34th most-popular boy's name in 2017.\n\nAnd, rather fittingly, Harrison - a name which was originally used as a surname - means \"son of Harry\".\n\nMr Little said: \"It may well be it's a name that Meghan is familiar with and again that's why they are using it,\" he said.\n\n\"Archie has a British feel to it, whereas Harrison is more of an American name. The first Harrison that springs to mind is Harrison Ford.\n\n\"They have wanted to do something a little bit different, and they have done.\"\n\nSome had wondered whether either of the new baby's grandfathers' or great-grandfathers' names might appear as a middle name - either Philip or Charles on the royal side, or Thomas on Meghan's.\n\n\"Again, it's down to the parents,\" said Mr Little. \"It's their choice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHarry and Meghan have also chosen not to use a courtesy title for their new son.\n\nAs the first-born son of a duke, Archie could have assumed the title of Earl of Dumbarton but he will instead simply be known as Master Archie.\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the individuality shown by Harry and Meghan in their choice of non-traditionally royal names was \"marvellous\" and would \"rejuvenate the monarchy\".\n\n\"It's a unique choice, by a unique couple who are doing things in a unique way,\" he said, adding: \"We are talking about brand Sussex, which is an international brand.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that a British royal baby has been given a name which is not traditionally royal. The name given to the Queen's first granddaughter - Zara Phillips - \"caused quite a sensation\" when it was unveiled, said Mr Little.\n\nFamous Archies include Archie Panjabi, who starred in The Good Wife; Archie Andrews in Archie comics in America and also the Netflix show Riverdale; and Archie Mitchell, a villain in the BBC soap EastEnders.\n\nFamily history website Ancestry said it expects the name Archie to become even more popular, having analysed the impact of other royal baby names. It said George and Charlotte both jumped up the rankings in the UK, as did William and Harry.\n\nMountbatten-Windsor is the surname which was created in 1960, combining the surnames of the Queen and Prince Philip when they married. The double-barrelled name was a concession to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was said to have complained that his children would not bear his name.\n\nThe three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all have Cambridge on their birth certificates.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she thinks the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"absolutely thrilled\" with his surname being used.\n\n\"Prince Philip was never allowed to call his children by his own surname,\" she said. \"I think that's a really nice tribute to Harry's grandfather.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The families of the 72 victims contributed to the report\n\nGrenfell Tower families have accused corporations of having \"amnesia\" during the public inquiry into the fire.\n\nBereaved families told a report private companies and public authorities had answered \"I don't recall\" a lot during the first phase of the inquiry.\n\nOne respondent to the report by charity Inquest said it was a \"disrespectful\" approach with a \"lack of candour\" to those who had been affected.\n\nSeventy two people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe council, the tower's tenant management organisation, the police and the fire service were all quizzed during the inquiry's first phase.\n\nFifty five families contributed to the charity's report.\n\nOne respondent said: \"We all have lapses in memory. The bereaved and families from our side who went up to give evidence had an extraordinary level of recollection.\n\n\"In comparison the corporate entities had an amnesia fix. The chair should have been stronger to say, 'you have to try and recall'.\"\n\nAnother said: \"It feels like certain people are being let off the hook, not being asked important questions. Now the first phase is finished. We don't feel satisfied.\"\n\nThe families have criticised the informal way their lawyers could raise questions they wanted asked of witnesses with the inquiry counsel - by passing them post-it notes.\n\nAn interim report into the fire was due to be released this spring\n\nAn interim report was due to be released by the inquiry in spring but the Grenfell community has been given no firm date yet.\n\nThe families said they wanted an independent panel to be put in place before hearings resume next year, a venue layout that kept families at the centre of proceedings and the government to help workers attend the inquiry without losing their annual leave.\n\nInquest also identified \"outrage and exasperation\" that interim safety recommendations suggested by lawyers representing the families had so far failed to be implemented.\n\nThese included abandoning the \"stay-put\" policy for buildings of more than 10 storeys, and ensuring each London borough had an aerial ladder.\n\nIn its most recent update, the inquiry said chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick was \"considering the range of suggestions made by expert witnesses and legal representatives\".\n\nCouncillor Elizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said: \"It is a tragedy that must never happen again, whatever it takes and whatever the consequences for all authorities.\n\n\"We will not be defensive, we are a public authority, and we want the clear and unvarnished truth for the victims and the bereaved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts at a German art gallery say an internationally renowned painting, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Johannes Vermeer, was significantly altered after his death.\n\nWhile restoring the masterpiece in Dresden, they uncovered a long lost Cupid which had been painted over.\n\nBBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill has been to see it.", "These school children told BBC Newsround what they think Harry and Meghan's new boy should be called.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son was born at on Monday 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg).", "Cressida Dick referred to the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016\n\nThreats to MPs are at \"unprecedented\" levels, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said.\n\nThe Met chief disclosed that the number of crimes reported by MPs more than doubled in 2018 from 151 to 342 and was on course to rise further this year.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu told a parliamentary committee Brexit was a \"huge driver\" behind the increase.\n\nWomen and people from ethnic minorities were being disproportionately targeted, Ms Dick added.\n\nSo far this year MPs and staff have already reported 152 crimes and over 600 incidents while incidents involving MPs are now 126% higher than in 2015.\n\nAppearing before the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Ms Dick said the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016 had contributed to an \"extraordinary set of circumstances\" with a level of harassment and abuse not seen before.\n\n\"Polarised opinion\" on political and social issues was also having \"a big impact on the scale and impact of protest activity\", she added.\n\nAlso giving evidence to the committee's inquiry into democracy and free speech, Mr Basu said Brexit was a driving force behind many of the reports this year.\n\nHe said crimes reported to police were \"evenly split\", with 43% targeted against those in favour of leaving the EU and 47% aimed at people who want the UK to remain.\n\nAnna Soubry, the ex-Tory MP who now represents Change UK, was repeatedly heckled and called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters outside Parliament\n\nMinisters have said they intend to pass a law creating a specific new electoral offence of intimidating parliamentary candidates and party campaigners during the run-up to an election.\n\nThe government says the offence has been developed to crack down on intimidating or abusive behaviour, which is, in extreme cases, already punishable with a custodial sentence.\n\nHarriet Harman, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, expressed concerns that police officers were not doing enough to protect MPs going about their business.\n\nShe raised the example of Anna Soubry, the former Conservative MP who now represents Change UK, who was repeatedly heckled and called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters during a media interview outside Parliament in January.\n\nShe was then briefly prevented from entering the Palace of Westminster afterwards.\n\nMs Harman said she felt \"uncomfortable\" that there were police officers on duty nearby during the incident who did not step in to disperse the crowd.\n\nThe commissioner said the Met took its role of protecting MPs \"very seriously\", and accepted that the Met's presence outside Parliament during that period had been \"too passive\" but had since been \"stepped up\".\n\n\"It is absolutely not acceptable for parliamentarians - MPs and beyond - to feel intimidated in the work place - that's a given.\n\n\"We recognise the increasing concern about protests outside - we have a particular job to prevent crime and disorder, protect property and lives, uphold the law, and ensure people's rights are balanced.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: All games live across the BBC\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville says he is taking a squad \"full of world-class players\" to the Women's World Cup in France this summer.\n\nSteph Houghton will captain a 23-strong squad which includes 11 World Cup debutantes, while Karen Carney and Jill Scott will head to a fourth tournament.\n\nIzzy Christiansen, who sustained an ankle injury in March, and veteran Fara Williams have been left out.\n\n\"I'm absolutely convinced we can have a successful tournament,\" said Neville.\n\nEngland begin their campaign against Scotland on Sunday, 9 June.\n\nThey will also face Argentina and 2011 champions Japan in the group stage.\n\n\"We've got a squad that is highly motivated, that now has the confidence and belief to go to a World Cup to be successful,\" added Neville.\n\n\"We keep saying it but the hard work starts now and we are going to give it everything we have to make the nation proud.\"\n\nChelsea playmaker Fran Kirby makes the final 23 despite missing recent friendlies against Canada and Spain because of a knee injury, while defender Millie Bright, who missed England's SheBelieves Cup win in March through injury, is also selected.\n\nWolfsburg's Mary Earps has been handed the third goalkeeper spot ahead of Manchester City's Ellie Roebuck, however there is no place for US-born Orlando Pride forward Chioma Ubogagu.\n\nEarps, Bright, Abbie McManus, Leah Williamson, Demi Stokes, Rachel Daly, Lucy Staniforth, Georgia Stanway, Keira Walsh, Nikita Parris and Beth Mead will all travel to their first World Cup.\n• None How the squad was revealed in unique fashion\n\nNeville says England, who finished third in 2015, are in a \"really difficult group\" with \"three dangerous teams\".\n\n\"We are the third-ranked team in the world and there is a lot of expectation but our performances have been really good and there is more to come from these players,\" he added.\n\nLyon midfielder Christiansen was injured playing for the Lionesses as they won the SheBelieves Cup for the first time.\n\nThe 27-year-old would have been fit in time for the World Cup, but was left out after other players stepped up and impressed the England boss.\n\n\"She was devastated, as you can imagine,\" Neville said. \"I don't think I've seen a player work as hard since SheBelieves trying to get fit for a World Cup.\n\n\"She's sacrificed everything in her life to get to this point and the selection is purely on the performance of the other players that have taken their opportunities in midfield.\"\n\nThe Lionesses revealed the squad earlier on Wednesday through a series of social media posts from high-profile supporters, including Prince William, former England men's captain David Beckham and actress Emma Watson.\n\n\"We wanted each player to have a special moment when their name was revealed, knowing they are going to a World Cup,\" boss Neville told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It is the biggest thing in their lives and something they've dreamed about.\n\n\"We have to make these players visible, we want everybody around the world to buy in to what will be the biggest Women's World Cup of all time.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have presented their newborn son to the world.\n\nSpeaking in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, Meghan said: \"It's magic, it's pretty amazing. I have the two best guys in the world so I'm really happy.\"", "Many of the rose mosaics in Rose Street have been damaged by lorries\n\nStone mosaics removed from an Edinburgh street undergoing a £1m resurfacing project will not be returned.\n\nEight rose motifs were installed along Rose Street, in the capital's centre, in the 1980s.\n\nBut two of the eye-catching artworks by artist Maggie Howarth were removed between 2010 and 2014.\n\nNow Edinburgh City Council has confirmed they will not be reinstated as they are \"no longer fit to withstand current use\".\n\nThe street, between Hanover and Frederick Street, is pedestrianised but used by HGVs to access shops on nearby Princes Street.\n\nWork is beginning this week on a \"renewal\" of the street, during which new setts will be laid in an \"attractive pattern\" and planters installed.\n\nThe stone mosaics were installed into Rose Street in the 1980s\n\nA crowdfunding campaign has been launched to buy one of the mosaics which is on sale for £1,800 on a reclamation website.\n\nIt was made by the artist as a spare and is intact as it was never laid in Rose Street. It was originally sold by the council in 2017.\n\nCommunity group Edinburgh Spotlight want to buy it back for local people.\n\nCement covers where the roses were removed\n\nLesley Macinnes, the council's transport and environment convener, said the mosaic has been in storage for many years.\n\nShe added: \"Separate to this, the rose being sold was one of a number of mosaics created in the 1980s, which had been in storage for many years.\n\n\"As there were no plans to reuse them, this was sold in 2017. It was agreed at the time, along with partners including Edinburgh World Heritage and the artist, that the spare roses should not be reinstated in the street, as they are no longer fit to withstand current use.\n\n\"The Rose Street site requires necessary repairs to be made safe.\"\n\nThe resurfacing work is due to take 48 weeks and will be paused during the summer and winter festivals.\n\nRose Street was designed as part of James Craig's New Town plan in 1767, and in 1873 became the first pedestrian street in the city.\n\nRose Street was named after the English Rose and nearby Thistle Street was named after the Scottish thistle.\n\nLorries have damaged the setts in Rose Street", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "The bell was donated to St Catharine's College by a former student in 1960\n\nA Cambridge University college has removed a historic bell from view amid fears it has links to the slave trade.\n\nThe Demerara Bell was donated to St Catharine's College by a former student who went on to work for a sugar company in British Guiana.\n\nIn April, the university announced a two-year investigation into its own historical links with slavery.\n\nA spokesperson for St Catharine's College said the bell \"most likely\" came from a slave plantation.\n\nAs reported in the Daily Telegraph, archived articles from the college magazine, St Catharine's College Society, state that the 18th Century bell was donated by industrialist Edward Goodland with the inscription \"De Catherina 1772\" two years after his arrival in British Guiana in 1958.\n\nIt was initially hung in a belfry outside the Porter's lodge but was moved in 1994 to an accommodation block.\n\nThe Demerara bell at St Catharine's College has been removed from view\n\nThe university has appointed an advisory group, chaired by Prof Martin Millett and based in the Centre of African Studies, which will examine the institution's archives to establish whether it benefitted financially from the slave trade.\n\n\"It is only right that Cambridge should look into its own exposure to the profits of coerced labour,\" said vice-chancellor Stephen Toope.\n\nA spokesperson for the college said: \"As part of the ongoing reflection taking place about the links between universities and slavery, we are aware that a bell currently located at the College most likely came from a slave plantation.\n\n\"A more detailed investigation is underway into the bell's provenance as part of a wider project researching the College's historical links to the slave trade.\"\n\nSenior tutor Dr Miranda Griffin said: \"It is important that the college, along with the rest of the collegiate university, acknowledges historical links to slavery and the slave trade.\n\n\"As an academic community, we will continue to conduct rigorous research into all aspects of our past and to reflect on our commitment to diversity, inclusion and asking challenging questions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was hardly the best kept secret in British politics.\n\nThe European elections will, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington has confirmed, take place on schedule, on 23 May.\n\nThe chances of the elections not being held in the UK were already vanishingly small.\n\nIt would have meant the UK Parliament agreeing a Brexit deal by 22 May - and there's no sign that is about to happen.\n\nThe prospects of a cross-party deal emerging between the Conservatives and Labour in the coming days look remote. It would take a dramatic turn of events to change that.\n\nEven if an unexpected deal were to emerge, it would be only a very tentative first step towards Brexit, with no guarantee that it would enjoy a parliamentary majority.\n\nAnd a first step isn't enough.\n\nThe conclusions of last month's EU summit, agreed by all EU leaders, including Theresa May, said that if the Brexit withdrawal agreement had not been ratified in Parliament by 22 May, the elections would have to take place in the UK.\n\nThe ratification process means Parliament would have to pass a meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement (the deal negotiated between the government and the EU) and then turn it into UK law in the form of a withdrawal agreement bill.\n\nAnd, as Mr Lidington has now conceded formally, time to do all of that has run out.\n\n\"Given how little time there is,\" he said, \"it is regrettably not going to be possible to finish that process\" before the elections take place.\n\nThat meant, he said, that the UK was legally obliged to hold the elections.\n\nAs a new report from the think tank The UK in a Changing Europe pointed out before Mr Lidington made his announcement, \"a last minute cancellation could also leave some EU citizens (ie those resident in the UK) unable to cast a ballot and could leave the UK government subject to legal challenge\".\n\nIf the government had decided to cancel the elections anyway, without a deal going through Parliament, a \"no deal Brexit\" would have happened on 1 June.\n\nBut we already know there is a clear majority in the House of Commons against leaving the EU with no deal.\n\nSo, the elections are happening, and most parties are already campaigning for them. Election leaflets have started to get posted through the nation's front doors.\n\nThe last time European elections were held, in 2014, the UK spent £109m on them. This year, according to a government source, a rough estimate for the cost is £150m - higher than last time because they're not being held on the same day as local elections (and sharing polling stations).\n\nThe Conservatives are unlikely to be campaigning this time with much enthusiasm, but reality has had to bite.\n\nSo, if it is too late to stop the elections taking place, what is the next potential deadline?\n\nA slightly more realistic date may be 2 July - when the new European Parliament meets for the first time and MEPs are sworn in.\n\nThe government would like to leave the EU before then, meaning the newly elected UK MEPs would never take their seats.\n\nMr Lidington said that would be in the national interest.\n\nThe problem? None of the challenges the government faces in finding a majority for Brexit in this Parliament are going to go away.\n\nThe EU has obviously worked that out. That's one of the reasons it approved a longer extension to the Brexit process, until 31 October.\n\nEven now, though, thoughts are already turning in some quarters to what might happen after that - and whether an extension to the extension might be the only realistic way forward.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool are into their second successive Champions League final after overcoming Barcelona with a stunning second-leg fightback on an epic night at Anfield.\n\nRoared on relentlessly by their fans, the Reds produced an incredible all-action display to claw back and then ultimately overturn their 3-0 deficit from the Nou Camp with an unanswered four-goal salvo in thrilling style.\n\nIt is the first time since 1986 - when Barcelona knocked out Gothenburg in the old European Cup - that a team have recovered a three-goal first-leg deficit to win a semi-final in this competition.\n\nDivock Origi started the unlikely revival, tapping home from close range after seven minutes, but it was only when substitute Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice in the space of 122 seconds after the break that the tie truly swung in Liverpool's favour.\n\nBarcelona were rattled, and even Lionel Messi was unable to steady the ship before Origi struck again with the goal that would decide the tie on aggregate, after Trent Alexander-Arnold caught the visitors' defence napping from a corner.\n\nBy now Anfield was rocking and the home fans stayed on their feet to cheer their side home in the closing minutes, with a shell-shocked Barca side unable to fashion any serious response.\n\nThe final whistle brought delirious celebrations on the pitch and in the stands, where the Reds supporters had played their part in an unforgettable match.\n\nLiverpool have managed famous European fightbacks before, notably when they won this competition for the fifth time in Istanbul in 2005, but this was arguably the greatest in their glittering history.\n\nThey will go for a sixth triumph in Madrid on 1 June, where they will meet either Ajax or Tottenham in the final.\n• None I don't know how they did it, says Klopp\n• None 'The atmosphere took my breath away'\n• None 'Barca were scared - the best reaction'\n\nFew people gave Liverpool any hope after the size of their defeat in Spain last week, especially with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino out injured.\n\nBut Reds boss Jurgen Klopp urged his players to keep believing, and masterminded an extraordinary performance and result.\n\nOrigi and Wijnaldum, who replaced the injured Andy Robertson at half-time, provided the goals but Liverpool had heroes all over the pitch.\n\nJust as Klopp promised before the game, Liverpool did not stop - maintaining an astonishing tempo to press, harry and hassle their illustrious visitors, and ultimately defeat them.\n\nThe Barca defence struggled to deal with Origi's physical presence throughout and it was the big Belgian who supplied the first goal, firing home after Marc-Andre ter Stegen failed to hold Jordan Henderson's shot.\n\nMore pressure followed but Barca held out until after half-time, when Wijnaldum burst into the box to meet Alexander-Arnold's low cross and hammer his shot home.\n\nMoments later, Liverpool were level on aggregate. This time it was Xherdan Shaqiri who provided the cross for Wijnaldum to rise and head home.\n\nBarca were buckling under the pressure and they could not hold out. Liverpool sealed a famous victory 11 minutes from time when Alexander-Arnold feigned to leave a corner before quickly sweeping it into the box for the alert Origi to convert.\n• None 'The inquest will be remorseless' - what next for Barcelona after Anfield humiliation?\n• None Football Daily: 'The greatest football comeback of all time'\n\nBarca have been here before, being beaten 3-0 by Roma in the quarter-finals last year to go out after winning the first leg 4-1, and their wait for a first final since 2015 continues.\n\nThey were comprehensively out-fought and out-thought here, and although they did have chances they cannot argue they deserved anything but a defeat.\n\nThere was only a brief spell in the first half when La Liga's champions threatened to find their rhythm but, in the space of five minutes, Alisson denied Messi and Philippe Coutinho, and Jordi Alba inexplicably chose to pass the ball with only the Liverpool keeper to beat.\n\nMessi, so electric a week ago, would go on to have a rare night to forget - especially in the second half when Wijnaldum's goals put the tie back in the balance.\n\nSuarez was also anonymous, with his only notable role coming as the pantomime villain as he was booed relentlessly by the fans who used to worship him.\n\nHe had his side's best opportunity of the second half, when Messi slid him clear with the score still 1-0 on the night, but Alisson was alert and that was pretty much the last time the visitors threatened.\n• None We looked like schoolboys - Suarez expects criticism to 'rain down' on Barca\n\nThe 122 seconds that turned the tie around\n• None Where does this rank with greatest Champions League comebacks?\n• None Liverpool have reached their ninth European Cup/Champions League final - only Real Madrid (16), Milan (11) and Bayern Munich (10) have reached more.\n• None They are the first English side to reach back-to-back Champions League finals since Manchester United (2008 and 2009).\n• None This was just the fourth time a team has overturned a three-or-more goal deficit from the first leg of a Champions League (not European Cup) knockout tie to progress. Barcelona were also on the receiving end the last time (against Roma last season).\n• None Barcelona have now been eliminated from three of their past four Champions League semi-final ties.\n• None La Liga's current champions suffered their heaviest-ever defeat against an English side in all European competitions.\n• None Full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold has provided 14 assists in all competitions this season, more than any other Liverpool player.\n• None Divock Origi scored his first Champions League goals, and in doing so became the 50th different player to score in the competition for Liverpool (excluding own goals).\n• None Georginio Wijnaldum is the first Liverpool player to score twice from the bench in a Champions League game since Ryan Babel against Besiktas in 2007. He is also the first substitute to score twice in a single game against Barcelona in the competition.\n• None Lionel Messi either attempted (five) or created (three) all eight of Barcelona's shots against Liverpool in this match.\n\nLiverpool will seek another success against the odds when they return to Premier League action on Sunday. They host Wolves in their final game of the season (15:00 BST) hoping results go their way to turn around a one-point deficit and take the title from Manchester City, who are at Brighton.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt missed. Xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by James Milner following a set piece situation.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. Joseph Gomez replaces Divock Origi because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Divock Origi (Liverpool) because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. Divock Origi (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hundreds of Uber drivers in London, Birmingham, Nottingham and Glasgow have staged a protest against the firm.\n\nThey will be joined by drivers in the US cities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington DC in striking over pay and work conditions.\n\nThe protests come days before the company lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nUber said drivers were \"at the heart of our service\".\n\nThe United Private Hire Drivers Branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) said the nine-hour boycott of the app would take place between 07:00 and 16:00.\n\nIn the US, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will strike from 07:00 to 09:00 local time. There, Uber drivers will be joined by members working for Lyft and other taxi-booking apps.\n\n\"They're going public and their founders are going to make billions off the hard work of Uber drivers who make the app run,\" she told World Service radio. Drivers \"are demanding rights, a minimum wage, holiday pay and there's no reason they don't deserve that.\"\n\nUber drivers were also protesting in New York\n\nThe unions would like to cut the commission the taxi-hailing apps take. The IWGB in the UK said it would like Uber's commissions to be reduced from 25% to 15% and for fares to be increased to £2 a mile from about £1.25.\n\nThe NYTWA in New York said it wanted commissions of 15% to 20% and better job security.\n\n\"I'm striking for my kid's future. I have a five-year-old son, and I drive for Uber to support him,\" said Sonam Lama, a NYTWA member and Uber driver since 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was working more than 60 hours a week'\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Drivers are at the heart of our service - we can't succeed without them - and thousands of people come into work at Uber every day focused on how to make their experience better, on and off the road.\n\n\"Whether it's being able to track your earnings or stronger insurance protections, we'll continue working to improve the experience for and with drivers.\"\n\nThe company has argued previously that it is transparent when it comes to pay and that drivers have earned more than $78bn (£59.7bn) since 2015, as well as $1.2bn in tips since tipping was introduced on its software in July 2017.\n\nUber last month warned it \"may not achieve profitability\" when it released details of its share plan listing.\n\nUber said that its most recent annual sales rose to $11.2bn and losses narrowed to $3bn.\n\nTraffic grinds to a halt during a protest against Uber on 12 April in Buenos Aires\n\nBut it also said it expected operating expenses to \"increase significantly\".\n\nThe company did not disclose how it will price its shares on 9 May, but it is reportedly targeting a range of $48 to $55.\n\nThat would potentially give the 10-year old firm a value of up to $100bn, making it the biggest initial public offering this year.\n\nUber is also expected to raise about $10bn through the flotation.\n\nLast year, Uber lost an appeal against a ruling that its drivers should be treated as workers rather than self-employed.\n\nIn March, German cab drivers protested in Munich against the liberalisation of the Taxi market and Uber\n\nIn 2016 a tribunal ruled drivers Mr Farrar and Yaseen Aslam were Uber staff and entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the minimum wage and the ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut Uber pointed out that one of the three judges backed its case and said it would appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Buckingham Palace has confirmed the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child - a boy.\n\nTheir son will be behind Prince Harry in the order of succession, making him seventh in line to the throne.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most striking pictures from Meghan's pregnancy.\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37 announced they were expecting their first child after arriving in Sydney, Australia, on 15 October 2018, for their first official tour together\n\nHowever, the Queen and other senior royals were told about the pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding on 12 October 2018\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance at the 2018 British Fashion Awards in December, when she presented a prize to the designer of her wedding dress\n\nShe was then on hand to greet hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside in January, the Duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn February, the royal couple went on their first official visit to Morocco, the couple's last overseas trip before the baby was due to arrive\n\nMeghan spoke at an event to mark International Women's Day, where she said she hoped her baby would be a feminist", "Northern Ireland is bucking the UK trend of falling GP numbers\n\nThe number of GPs per head of population in NI is rising despite falling elsewhere in the UK, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust analysis looked at GPs working in the NHS, both full and part-time, per 100,000 people.\n\nWhile there are more doctors, fewer of them are choosing to work full time, said the Royal College of GPs.\n\nRecognising issues linked to an ageing population, the Department of Health said it needed to train more GPs.\n\nCurrently, there are 67 per 100,000 people in Northern Ireland, meaning there are almost six more doctors per 100,000 people than there were a decade ago - in England they are down by six.\n\nCounty Fermanagh, Omagh and Mid Ulster have the lowest number of doctors per head of population, with a number of practices being forced to merge in order to stay open.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Royal College of GPs said it required more doctors to work full time in general practice - particularly in rural areas - but acknowledged that years of lobbying for additional funding had paid off.\n\nGrainne Doran says more GPs are choosing not to work full time\n\n\"We have had an increase in the total number of GPs but unfortunately they are not all choosing to work full time in GP practices,\" said the college's chairwoman, Dr Grainne Doran.\n\n\"Instead, they are expanding their portfolios in other areas - which is great but doesn't mean we have enough GPs working in surgeries to meet the needs of a growing population.\n\n\"For instance, they are working in emergency departments perhaps one night a week, and they are also involved in hospice care, even involved in training.\"\n\nThe nature of general practice is changing. Gone are the days when a GP worked full time from one practice.\n\nDr Mark Cromie, who has been qualified for almost three years, works in both a rural practice in Lisnaskea, Enniskillen, and in the local hospital, as well as being involved in teaching.\n\n\"GPs want to work differently now,\" he said. \"We don't want to work on our own and isolated but instead as part of a wider team where we can bounce ideas off one another.\n\n\"We are involved in a team of physiotherapists, social workers, dermatologists, often under the one roof and that provides better care for patients.\"\n\nDr Mark Cromie enjoys the variety of work available to a rural GP\n\nNorthern Ireland is struggling to get more people like Dr Cromie. Despite lobbying for additional GP training places, and securing 111, only 86 were filled this year.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs admits it must now adopt a more positive tone about the profession.\n\nIt has called on the Department of Health to ensure the HSC (Health and Social Care) workforce strategy analyses workforce needs and trends in general practice to ensure Northern Ireland has enough GPs.\n\nThe department said Northern Ireland had the UK's most ambitious approach to delivering multi-disciplinary working in primary care.\n\n\"Every practice now has access to a practice-based pharmacist - the largest scheme of its kind in the UK, relative to population,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nElsewhere, the NHS is seeing the first sustained fall in GP numbers per head of population for nearly 50 years.\n\nIn England, the number of GPs per 100,000 people fell from 63.9 in 2014 to 58 last year.\n\nThe last time numbers fell like this was in the late 1960s.\n\nFrom 1970 to 2010, numbers were rising as the population aged.\n\nBut after 2010, the increases started tailing off, before falling in each of the last four years.\n\nThe fall in GPs means the average doctor now has 125 more patients to look after than they did in 2014.\n\nThe Nuffield Trust, an independent think tank, believes another 3,500 GPs would be needed to get the NHS back to where it was in 2014.\n\nThere are just over 42,000 working currently, down by nearly 1,500 in four years.\n\nPanorama's GPs, Why Can't I Get An Appointment, is on BBC One at 19:30 BST on 8 May", "Lora Haddock says she is thankful for the decision\n\nA sex toy that was banned from this year's CES tech show after winning an innovation award has been given the prize again, four months later.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator by Lora DiCarlo was originally given the prize by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in January.\n\nHowever, the CTA quickly changed its mind and ousted the device, causing outrage.\n\nThe organisation has now offered a \"sincere apology\" to Lora DiCarlo.\n\nThe CTA was accused of \"gender bias\" at the time in a blog by Lora Haddock, the founder and chief executive of the Lora DiCarlo company.\n\nMs Haddock argued that the organisation had rejected a product focused on female sexuality, whereas shopping or childcare-related items aimed at women were allowed to remain in the same award category as the vibrator.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\n\"The CTA did not handle this award properly,\" said Jean Foster, a marketing executive at the organisation.\n\n\"This prompted some important conversations internally and with external advisers, and we look forward to taking these learnings to continue to improve the show.\"\n\nMs Haddock said she appreciated the \"gesture\" from the CTA, which would serve to \"remove the stigma and embarrassment around female sexuality\".\n\n\"The incredible support and attention we've received in the wake of our experience highlights the need for meaningful changes, and we are hopeful that our small company can continue to contribute meaningful progress toward making CES inclusive for all,\" she added.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator was banned from CES", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mercer: The communities I come from are seething\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn his support for Theresa May and her government over the historical prosecution of servicemen and women.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, the Plymouth MP said he would only vote with the Conservatives on Brexit legislation.\n\nHe called on Mrs May to end the \"abhorrent process\" of \"elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland\" to face possible prosecution.\n\nHe has previously called for legislation to stop this happening.\n\nCommunities Secretary - and former Northern Ireland Secretary - James Brokenshire said he was \"very saddened\" by Mr Mercer's announcement and acknowledged that \"the system isn't working well in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the government had been consulting on changing the existing system.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Mercer said the government had \"singularly failed to act for four years and I am simply not prepared to put up with it any more\".\n\n\"There is nothing loyal about watching the car go over the cliff and not doing anything about it,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter the former Army officer and member of the Commons Defence Committee, said: \"As you know, the historical prosecution of our servicemen and women is a matter that is personally offensive to me.\n\n\"Many are my friends; and I am from their tribe.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Conservative Party can \"ill afford to lose MPs from [the] rising generation who have been able to win marginal seats\" right now.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mercer told the PM he cannot \"support your legislative programme any further until your government make some clear and concrete steps to end this abhorrent process\".\n\n\"The macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland to face those who seek to re-fight that conflict through other means, without any protection from a government who sent them almost fifty years ago, is too much,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It appears that my values and ethos may be slowly, but very firmly, separating from a party I joined in 2015.\n\n\"I will not be voting for any of the government's legislative actions outside of Brexit until legislation is brought forward to protect veterans from being repeatedly prosecuted for historical allegations and will be updating my constituents of this decision accordingly.\"\n\nA total of six former soldiers are now facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers); and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all the charges are murder.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.", "The Barnard Castle-based Teesdale Mercury was founded in 1854\n\nA newspaper has addressed its \"awful\" reporting of a woman's suicide more than 100 years ago.\n\nA Teesdale Mercury reader complained to the paper after finding a report in a 1912 edition on the death of 16-year-old parlour maid Dorothy Balchin.\n\nThe old report called her suicide notes \"pathetic\", with an inquest jury finding her \"temporarily insane\".\n\nEditor Trevor Brookes said \"pathetic\" had a different meaning at the time, but it was good attitudes had changed.\n\n\"We agree that this is an awful way to report a tragic death of a young woman,\" Brookes said. But he said it would \"inappropriate\" to publish an apology so many years later, adding: \"We must be careful not to judge the past with today's morals but instead learn from what happened.\"\n\nThe report was published in the Teesdale Mercury in 1912\n\n\"We should be thankful attitudes have changed, and mental health, depression and suicide get the attention they so thoroughly deserve, and there are strict guidelines issued to modern media.\"\n\nSuicide-prevention charity Samaritans advises today's media not to include details of method of suicide in reports, but the 1912 press cutting includes such information.\n\nThe report detailed how Ms Balchin killed herself on her employer's tennis lawn at Albury near Guildford, Surrey.\n\nIt included details of suicide notes she had written which the report called \"pathetic\".\n\n\"Pathetic is the adjective of pathos meaning emotion and it was once used very differently to how it is used today,\" said Brookes.\n\nThe Teesdale Mercury is a weekly-newspaper based in Barnard Castle, County Durham.\n\nBrookes said the report was part of a \"syndicated section\" of the paper, meaning it would have appeared in similar titles across the country.\n\nFor information and support on mental health issues, the BBC has a list of relevant organisations.\n\nThe Samaritans helpline is available 24 hours a day for anyone in the UK struggling to cope. It provides a safe place to talk where calls are completely confidential.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How long do you wait to see your GP?\n\nMembers of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group report waits of three weeks or more are common.\n\nLisa Johns said: \"Ours book five weeks ahead. For the last three weeks, I've been trying to book a standard appointment and can't get one, as they go in seconds.\"\n\nAnother member posted: \"I booked a non-urgent appointment with my GP last week.... for 22 January 2019.\"\n\nTheir experiences are backed up by statistics.\n\nEarlier this month, NHS Digital published figures showing that, while 40% of patients were seen on the day they booked, just under a fifth waited longer than a fortnight for a routine appointment with a GP or practice nurse.\n\nBut what's the story behind these figures?\n\nHave waits actually got longer?\n\nThe NHS Digital figures show of 307 million appointments booked at practices in England between November 2017 and October 2018:\n\nIt is the first time such figures has been published - so there aren't similar figures to compare them with. But plenty of previous research has found demand on GP services has grown. And experts say they do see waits increasing.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, head of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"This is a real problem. It's something we predicted. Unfortunately, it's the inevitable consequence of a shortage of GPs.\"\n\nA 2016 Lancet paper said GPs' workload had risen by 16% in the seven years up to 2014, with more frequent and longer GP consultations.\n\nIs it because demands on GPs have increased?\n\nFactors including an ageing population and an increasing number of people with complex medical needs mean the standard appointment often isn't long enough.\n\nDr Kamal Mahtani, a GP and an associate professor in primary care at the University of Oxford, said: \"You've got 10 minutes to talk about their diabetes, their high blood pressure, their mood and look at the patient more holistically.\n\n\"So a GP might end up having to say, 'We've dealt with X and Y today but I'll need to see you again.' And that has a knock-on effect.\n\nPeople were directed to their GP for lots of different things, he said. \"If you're not feeling well, go and see the GP. If you need a flu jab, go and see a GP - as if we're a one-stop shop.\"\n\nBut the RCGP said a lack of GPs was also affecting availability.\n\n\"We're now 1,000 short of the number of GPs we had when they promised 5,000 more - so now we're looking for 6,000,\" an RCGP official said.\n\nIs it safe to wait weeks for an appointment?\n\nSome patients are happy to wait. They might want to see a particular GP whom they know or someone who is familiar with their long-term health problem - it might be something that isn't going to alter over a few weeks.\n\nBut there are fears that others might be at risk from waiting.\n\nCatherine Churcher, another member of the BBC NHS Health Check Facebook group, was concerned that the most vulnerable would be least able to negotiate the system and so be worst affected,\n\n\"There must be lots of people out there who are falling through the net and not being seen because they don't have the strength or fight in them to go up against the current system,\" she said.\n\nProf Stokes-Lampard said: \"There's no hard data that shows patients are coming to harm. But that's my profound concern - that there are things that will be missed.\"\n\nAnd Dr Mahtani said: \"How do you know if the patient's condition isn't getting worse if patients are waiting three weeks? I can't tell you that they're not suffering until I see them.\n\n\"And there's always that risk that the longer waits are causing harm.\"\n\nNo - but Prof Stokes-Lampard warned that even if your practice seemed OK, it was still vulnerable to events at neighbouring GPs.\n\n\"All you need is for the practice down the road to close and then patients would be moved and your practice would be under pressure,\" she said.\n\n\"There is a domino effect. And then it's phenomenally stressful for the doctors at that practice.\"\n\nIs there anything that will help?\n\nGPs say patients can help - by calling in if they can't make an appointment, so it can be freed up for someone else, and by thinking whether they could get the advice they need somewhere else, such as the chemist's or dentist.\n\nThere are various ideas being tried out across general practice too, experimenting with taking some of the administration away from GPs and bringing in other professions, physiotherapists and social workers, into primary care in addition to the specialist nurses that many people are already familiar with.\n\nTechnology can also help - some practices have online systems where patients can book directly.\n\nBut Dr Mahtani said there was no single solution - because each practice had a different mix of patients and different skills among its staff.\n\nBetter funding was key though. \"If you invest in primary care, you will reduce your costs in secondary care - 90% of first contacts are in primary care,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to embrace general practice.\"\n\nWhat's your experience of booking a routine appointment with your GP or practice nurse? Join our group and let us know.", "Scotland has the highest number of GPs per head of population in the UK, research commissioned by the BBC shows.\n\nAnalysis by the Nuffield Trust think tank shows there are 76 GPs per 100,000 people, compared to a national UK average of 60.\n\nBut Scotland's doctors have warned major challenges still exist with recruitment and retention.\n\nThe Scottish government has pledged to recruit a further 800 over the next decade to fill gaps.\n\nThe pressures on GPs across the UK are being examined by the BBC as part of a special day of coverage, including a Panorama investigation.\n\nThe UK-wide figures show there has been four consecutive years of falls with the biggest drops being seen in England.\n\nUnlike south of the border, Scottish GP numbers have stayed relatively static in recent years.\n\nThis comes against a backdrop of increased patient numbers, many elderly with complex medical needs, and a fall in the number of GP practices.\n\nLatest figures also show a 8% drop in the number of GP surgeries since 2008, from 1,025 in 2008 to 944 last year.\n\nOver the same period the number of registered patients has increased by 5% to 5.7m.\n\nThere are reasons why Scotland has a higher ratio of GPs to patients than other parts of the UK.\n\nOne is topography - in parts of the Highlands, one GP may cover a vast area with a small number of inhabitants - and we have one of the largest island populations in Europe.\n\nMost doctors say we still face a crisis in GP recruitment and retention, with high vacancy rates and almost a third of doctors nearing retirement age.\n\nA commitment to recruit 800 family doctors by 2027 has been welcomed but even then there are worries that many of those jobs will be part-time ones and will still leave significant gaps.\n\nThe move to bigger practices with advanced nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and even paramedics taking on new roles is part of the answer, but there are recruitment problems in these professions too.\n\nDoctors in Scotland are being offered incentives such as \"golden hello\" payments or relocation costs as part of a plan to recruit 800 GPs in a decade.\n\nThe move is part of the new GP contract agreed in 2018 but unions say there are still significant gaps in GP numbers.\n\nDr Alasdair Forbes, of the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland, warned that the country faces a shortfall of 856 family doctors by 2021.\n\nHe said: \"Our members have told us that the current shortage of GPs is taking a toll on their wellbeing and reduces the likelihood that they will remain in general practice for the long-term.\n\n\"A commitment to increase the number of whole-time-equivalent GPs must be in tandem with the growth of the wider primary care team workforce such as nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists.\n\n\"General practice is at the frontline of the NHS, carrying out the vast majority of patient contacts and holding clinical risk as gatekeepers to the other parts of the health service.\n\n\"By investing in general practice, the NHS will be enabled to be at its best where it is needed most, tackling many of the root causes of health inequalities and reducing the pressure on secondary care services.\"\n\nOlive Watson, 93, has lived in the village of Stoneyburn all her life and can't remember a time when it didn't have a GP practice.\n\nBut that changed last year when the doctors who ran the West Lothian village's health centre handed the keys back to NHS Lothian.\n\nThe health board was unable to find a replacement, despite an extensive recruitment drive.\n\nFor Olive, who is registered blind, and the rest of the village this means the closest practice is three miles away in Fauldhouse.\n\n\"It is just not convenient in anyway, when you get off the bus it is a hill and a bit of a walk to get there,\" said the pensioner, who now mostly relies on taxis to get to her new GPs.\n\n\"I would like to see a doctor, even part time, put in the village here, that would be handy for me and other people like me who are elderly but also young families.\n\n\"I met a lady with two kids who spent £12 going up and down to the doctor with one of them who was ill.\n\n\"You feel sorry for people like that, it is a lot of money in bus fares.\"\n\nOlive, who also has asthma, said the village's surgery closing down had sometimes put her off going to see a GP.\n\nShe added: \"If I am really very ill I phone for the paramedics and they are very good.\"\n\nThe Nuffield Trust analysis looked at the number of GPs working in the NHS per 100,000 people across the UK.\n\nIt shows that during the late 1960s the numbers were falling, before four decades of almost continuous growth.\n\nA peak of 66.5 was reached in 2009, before the increases tailed off.\n\nThere has now been four consecutive years of falls with the biggest drops being seen in England.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We have a record number of GPs working in Scotland, and are committed to increasing numbers by at least 800 in the next 10 years.\n\n\"We are committed to investing £250m more in direct support of general practice by the end of this parliamentary period.\n\n\"The new GP contract agreed with the BMA and GPs, ensures GPs are able to spend more time with patients and less on bureaucracy, making a career in general practice even more attractive to younger doctors.\"", "Talks got under way at Stormont on Tuesday\n\nThe British and Irish governments have set out details of how they intend to proceed with talks to restore Northern Ireland power-sharing.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said a series of working groups would be set up to deal with key sticking points.\n\nStormont's five main party leaders will also hold weekly meetings with the NI Secretary and Tanaiste (Irish deputy PM) to \"take stock\" and set the agenda.\n\nThe talks involving the NI parties and governments got under way on Tuesday.\n\nIt is the first fully-fledged talks process since negotiations collapsed in February 2018.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government for more than two and a half years, after the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nThere have been several failed talks processes since January 2017.\n\nLast month, the British and Irish governments agreed to convene a new set of talks from 7 May, that they said should be short and focused.\n\nIn their statement issued after meeting the Stormont party leaders on Tuesday, they said the prime minister and taoiseach (Irish prime minister) would review progress at the end of May.\n\nThe working groups will be led by, (from left): David Sterling; Paul Sweeney; Sir Malcolm McKibbin; Hugh Widdis and Sue Gray\n\nThere will be a weekly round-table meeting involving party leaders and the working groups will deal with several key issues.\n\nThey will be made up of three representatives from each of the five parties in the talks, and representatives from the British and Irish governments will advise them.\n\nThe separate working groups will seek agreement on:\n\nSeveral parties at Stormont have called for the reform of the petition of concern mechanism - it is effectively a Stormont veto which the DUP used to block same-sex marriage.\n\nThe talks were announced by the British and Irish governments after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.\n\nAt her funeral, politicians came under pressure to solve the Stormont impasse.\n\nThe talks are beginning just days after council elections which saw a surge of support for smaller parties not aligned to either unionism or nationalism.\n\nMost notably, Northern Ireland's fifth largest party, Alliance, saw its number of council seats rise from 32 to 53 - an increase of 65%.\n\nThe talks were announced after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's talks, DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party would go into the talks process to try to find a solution.\n\nShe said she hoped all parties would engage with a \"willingness to look forward and not backwards\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said her party was ready to get down to business.\n\n\"People know what the outstanding equality issues are and they need to be resolved and they can be,\" she said.\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said the new format provided a \"short window of opportunity\" for progress.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said: \"We've all committed to power sharing, we've all committed to working together and that'll take compromise, it'll take real effort.\"\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann said: \"If today is simply window dressing, we're wasting our time and we're insulting the people of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nIn the local government election, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin were again returned as the two largest parties in the council elections, but they had mixed fortunes.\n\nThe DUP lost eight of its 130 seats and, although Sinn Féin's seat count held steady at 105, there was a slight drop (0.8%) in the party's share of first preference votes.", "Keith Flint was found dead at his home in Essex\n\nThe Prodigy singer Keith Flint had unspecified amounts of cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system when he died, an inquest heard.\n\nThe musician was found dead at his home in North End, Essex, on 4 March.\n\nSenior Coroner for Essex Caroline Beasley-Murray recorded an open conclusion into his death, adding there was not enough evidence to say he had intended to take his own life.\n\nThe inquest heard the musician was found by a friend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Prodigy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Prodigy\n\nMs Beasley-Murray said: \"We will never quite know what was going on in his mind on that date.\n\n\"I've considered suicide. To record that, I would have to have found that, on the balance of probabilities, Mr Flint formed the idea and took a deliberate action knowing it would result in his death.\n\n\"Having regard to all the circumstances I don't find that there's enough evidence for that.\"\n\nThe coroner also said there was insufficient evidence to record the singer's death as an accident where he may have been \"larking around and it all went horribly wrong\".\n\nShe told the court Mr Flint's family and band manager did not wish to attend the inquest.\n\nFlint co-founded The Prodigy in 1990 with Liam Howlett and Leeroy Thornhill\n\nOn Tuesday, The Prodigy's Twitter account posted a message about mental health and urged people to not \"suffer in silence\".\n\nMs Beasley-Murray asked for the court's sympathy to be passed to Mr Flint's family.\n\n\"He clearly was extremely popular, he was much-loved by so many fans,\" she said.\n\nThousands of music lovers lined the streets of Essex on 29 March for the funeral of the star, who had number one hits with Breathe and Firestarter.\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Thomas was living in Australia when he died in June 2017\n\nA bricklayer died when an Uber driver did not take \"reasonable care\" and drove off with the man halfway out of the car, a coroner has ruled.\n\nSamuel Thomas, 30, was living in Australia when he died on 17 June 2017.\n\nHe was travelling home with friends from a party in Sydney when the Uber driver stopped at traffic lights and Mr Thomas started to leave the car.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said Mr Thomas, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, fell into the path of a bus.\n\nHe said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\".\n\nMr Sullivan, the senior coroner for Hertfordshire, said: \"The driver accelerated off when Mr Thomas was half way out of the car.\n\n\"He fell into the path of a bus which collided with him and he was killed instantly.\"\n\nMr Sullivan recorded the cause of death as \"severe catastrophic head injuries\" and concluded Mr Thomas died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nThe coroner said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\"\n\nIslam, 32, was found guilty of negligent driving causing death at a trial in Sydney, Australia, in November.\n\nIn February, Australian broadcaster 9News reported he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service as part of a sentence to be served under supervision in the community.\n\nThe driver had argued that he did not notice his passenger's attempts to exit, but a magistrate ruled that he had not kept \"a proper lookout\" as Mr Thomas exited.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas and his friends were about five minutes from their destination when Mr Thomas, who was in the back seat, opened a rear door and began to get out.\n\nSecurity footage showed the car's internal light was illuminated for six seconds before Islam began to accelerate, causing Mr Thomas to fall.\n\nMagistrate Mary Ryan noted that Mr Thomas had opened the door \"without a word of warning\", but said: \"Six seconds of light within the car is a significant warning.\n\n\"The only explanation is that Mr Islam was much more fatigued than he admitted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British soldier has been killed by an elephant during a counter-poaching operation in Malawi.\n\nMathew Talbot, 22, of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, was on patrol in Liwonde National Park on 5 May when he was charged by the animal.\n\nHis commanding officer, Lt Col Ed Launders, described Guardsman Talbot as \"determined and big-hearted\".\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said he served with \"great courage and professionalism\".\n\nShe added: \"This tragic incident is a reminder of the danger our military faces as they protect some of the world's most endangered species from those who seek to profit from the criminal slaughter of wildlife.\"\n\nKensington Palace said the Duke of Cambridge was writing to Gdsm Talbot's family to offer his condolences.\n\nGdsm Talbot, who was from the West Midlands, was serving in his first operational deployment, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThe patrol of armed British army soldiers and African Park Rangers was walking through tall grass - up to 7ft (2.1m) high - when they disturbed an unseen herd of elephants.\n\nOne of them charged at Gdsm Talbot. He died soon after from his injuries. No-one else on the patrol was hurt.\n\nHe leaves behind his father Steven, his mother Michelle, his sisters Aimee and Isabel, and his girlfriend, Olivia.\n\nIn a statement, the MoD said Gdsm Talbot \"was not unfamiliar\" with Africa and had volunteered to support counter-poaching in Malawi.\n\n\"With his keen interest in military history he was proud to have joined a regiment with such a rich and long lineage,\" it added.\n\nOperation Corded, the name given to the Army's counter-poaching deployment in Malawi, assists in the training of rangers in a bid to help them crack down on the illegal wildlife trade.\n\nPark rangers are taught skills such as tracking, partnered patrolling, communications, surveillance, and intelligence-sharing - with the first deployment taking place in August 2017.\n\nThe former defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced the expansion of the UK's counter-poaching training at two parks in Malawi - doubling the number of rangers mentored by soldiers to 120 - in 2018.\n\nGdsm Talbot's company commander, Maj Richard Wright, said that while he had only known the soldier for a short time, \"he never failed to make me smile\".\n\nLt Col Launders added: \"Mathew was loved by his brothers in arms in the Coldstream Guards. We will sorely miss his humour, selflessness and unbeatable spirit.\"\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith described the death as \"tragic news\".\n\nShe added: \"It underlines the dedication and selflessness of our armed forces personnel serving across the world.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nElephant poaching is a huge problem across Africa - some estimates say 30,000 are killed every year - and there are probably only around 450,000 left.\n\nIn many places it has become literally a war against poachers - that's why rangers are trained by British troops.\n\nBut there are different views over how to stop the illegal ivory trade.\n\nInternational campaigns - backed by countries like Kenya - want a complete end to all ivory trade to prevent criminals exploiting permit loopholes.\n\nBut some southern African countries which account for the majority of Africa's elephants, believe limited and well-regulated trade in ivory can raise money to pay for conservation.\n\nBotswana, which has been hosting an elephant summit over the past few days, has perhaps 130,000 of the animals - more than anywhere else - and has problems with human and elephant conflict.\n\nThe peculiar gift of elephant-foot stools to visiting leaders was a strong message in support of trade.\n\nUnder the management of a new president, it looks likely to re-introduce hunting -which is popular with rural voters - in an election year.", "British people are having less sex now than in recent years, according to a large national survey.\n\nThe findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest nearly a third of men and women have not had sex in the past month.\n\nThat's up from around a quarter in 2001, according to the data from 34,000 people.\n\nLess than half of men and women aged 16 to 44 have sex at least once a week, responses show.\n\nOver-25s and couples who are married or living together account for the biggest falls in sexual activity across the 21-year period.\n\nThe data the researchers looked at came from three successive waves of the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles carried out in 1991, 2001, and 2012.\n\nThey give a snapshot of sexual behaviour among Britons.\n\nAccording to the most recent survey:\n\nResearchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say the decrease in sexual frequency has been seen among people who have previously been sexually active, rather than more people deciding to keep their virginity.\n\nAlthough people under 25 and those currently single were less likely to be sexually active, the steepest declines in sexual frequency were among older married or cohabiting couples.\n\nSo are people simply going off sex? Apparently not.\n\nHalf of women and nearly two-thirds of men in the latest survey said they would like to have more sex.\n\nThis desire was more often voiced by people who were married or living together as a couple, which the researchers say \"merits concern\".\n\nLead researcher Prof Kaye Wellings said the \"sheer pace of modern life\" may be a reason why many people are having less sex.\n\n\"It is interesting that those most affected are in their mid-life - the so-called 'sandwich' generation. These are men and women who are often juggling work, childcare and responsibilities to parents who are getting older.\"\n\nPerhaps social pressure to over-report sexual activity may have eased, while gender equality means that women may now be less inclined to meet their partner's sexual needs irrespective of their own, say the researchers.\n\nThe decline coincides with increasing use of social media and a global recession, which may be other contributing factors.\n\nHaving less sex is not always a bad thing, says Prof Wellings. She said the survey results may be a comfort to many.\n\n\"What is important to wellbeing is not how often people have sex but whether it matters to them.\n\n\"Most people believe that others have more regular sex than they do themselves.\n\n\"Many people are likely to find it reassuring that they are not out of line.\"\n\nRelate counsellor and sex therapist Peter Saddington said: \"The important thing is quality not quantity. If you enjoy the experience you are more likely to do it again. But you have to make time for sex. It doesn't always have to be spontaneous. Putting a date in the diary can help.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hello and welcome to our updates from today’s action in the House of Commons.\n\nLater this morning, there will be an urgent question on refugees in Sri Lanka, before Andrea Leadsom updates MPs on next week's Commons business.\n\nMPs will no doubt be waiting to see whether the government schedules a vote next week on the bill implementing the PM's Brexit deal.\n\nNumber 10's spokesman has said it is the government's \"hope and expectation\" to bring the withdrawal agreement bill in ahead of this month’s European elections.\n\nAfter this, there will be a ministerial statement on government funding for replacing Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private blocks in England with a safer alternative.\n\nThis afternoon, there will be backbencher-led debates on acquired brain injuries, and the 25th anniversary of the death of former Labour leader John Smith.\n\nBefore that though, Environment Secretary Michael Gove will take questions from MPs during a departmental scrutiny session.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at a fertility clinic\n\nMore women in the UK are choosing to freeze their eggs than ever before, with treatment rates rising by 11% from 2016 to 2017, a report suggests.\n\nThe fertility regulator's figures show there were 1,463 egg freezing cycles in 2017 compared with 1,321 in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) says the success rates of using frozen embryos has risen, with birth rates comparable to fresh ones.\n\nBut it cautions that egg freezing does not provide a guaranteed family.\n\nEgg freezing involves collecting a woman's eggs from her ovaries, storing them in a state of deep freeze and thawing them at a later stage.\n\nAt this point they are put together with sperm in the hope that an embryo forms and a pregnancy develops.\n\nThe procedure is still relatively new with only 581 egg thaw cycles (where eggs are defrosted) taking place in the UK in 2017 - a rise from 159 in 2012.\n\nDespite this, the HFEA says that advances in egg-freezing techniques, and more women freezing their eggs under the age of 35, are partly behind the rise in successful birth rates from 18% in 2016 to 23% in 2017.\n\nBut the regulator warns the age at which women freeze their eggs is one of the most important factors for success (with women under 35 having a better chance of a birth).\n\nThe HFEA's report gives a broad overview of other fertility trends in 2017.\n\nIt shows that IVF is becoming safer - with the rate of multiple births (which can be riskier than singleton pregnancies) declining sharply from 24% in 2008 to 10% in 2017.\n\nBut access to NHS-funded treatment continues to be patchy across the UK.\n\nCommenting on the trends, Prof Joyce Harper, at University College London, said: \"Fertility treatment is turning into a middle-class procedure, with the UK having some of the highest costs in Europe.\n\n\"It is time to address the commercialisation of IVF and how the NHS funds it.\"\n\nThe analysis shows that while 91% of IVE treatment cycles were undertaken by women with male partners, there has been a small rise in same-sex couples, single women and surrogates considering fertility procedures.\n\nSally Cheshire, chair of the HFEA, said: \"This reflects society's changing attitude towards family creation, lifestyles and relationships and highlights the need for the sector to continue to evolve and adapt.\"\n• None Egg freezing in your 40s 'not sensible'\n• None Welcome to the HFEA - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The planning application includes the creation of a new stillhouse at Port Ellen\n\nWhisky production could be revived at an iconic distillery on Islay for the first time in more than 35 years, under plans put forward by Diageo.\n\nThe drinks giant has submitted a planning application to overhaul the Port Ellen Distillery, which closed in 1983.\n\nThe proposals include restoring the distillery's original kiln building and traditional sea-front warehouses.\n\nThere are also plans for a new stillhouse.\n\nThe move is part of a £35m investment programme by Diageo to reopen Port Ellen Distillery and Brora Distillery in Sutherland, both of which closed in 1983.\n\nThe buildings at Port Ellen Distillery have undergone many changes since it first opened in 1824.\n\nIn the 1930s the distillery was closed and largely demolished, before being rebuilt in the 1960s.\n\nFollowing its most recent closure in 1983, only a handful of the original buildings remained.\n\nThe plan is for two pairs of copper pot stills and two separate distillation regimes.\n\nTwo will replicate the original Port Ellen copper pot stills. The smaller stills are to produce alternative spirit characters, and to experiment with new styles of whisky.\n\nGeorgie Crawford, master distiller leading the Port Ellen project, said: \"This is another hugely significant milestone on our journey to bring Port Ellen Distillery back to life.\n\n\"This is no ordinary distillery project - we are bringing a true whisky legend back to life and we believe our plans do justice to the iconic status of Port Ellen and will capture the imagination of whisky fans from all over the world.\"\n\nLast month, Diageo submitted plans to overhaul visitor facilities at two distilleries in the north of Scotland.\n\nIt said planning applications had been filed for Cardhu in Speyside and Clynelish in Sutherland, after public consultation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The stone samples were removed during archaeological work in 1958\n\nA missing piece of Stonehenge has been returned to the site 60 years after it was taken.\n\nA metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958.\n\nNo-one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return part of it.\n\nEnglish Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from.\n\nIn 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third placed horizontally across the top.\n\nDuring the works, cracks were found in one of the vertical stones and in order to reinforce it, cores were drilled through the stone and metal rods inserted.\n\nThe repairs were masked by small plugs cut from sarsen fragments found during excavations.\n\nArchaeologists hope to analyse the composition of the core to pinpoint where the ancient Sarsen stones might have come from\n\nFor 60 years Mr Phillips, an Englishman who now lives in retirement in Florida, kept his piece of Stonehenge - first in a plastic tube at his office in Basingstoke and later on the wall at home in the US.\n\nIn the 1950s he had been employed by a diamond-cutting firm brought in to help reinforce the giant stones.\n\nRobert Phillips now lives in Aventura, to the north of Miami, Florida\n\nThe company, Van Moppes, bored three holes into one stone before stabilising metal rods were inserted.\n\nDuring the process workers extracted three 1m-long (3ft) cores of stone and Mr Phillips took one of them.\n\nBut on the eve of his 90th birthday, he decided to return it.\n\nMr Phillips's sons Lewis and Robin travelled to Stonehenge to hand the sample over\n\nArchaeologists hope to analyse the chemical composition of the core to try to pinpoint where the ancient Sarsen stones might have come from.\n\nAlthough the sample was handed back last May, English Heritage said it had not announced the find until now as it had to first understand its significance.\n\nHistoric England said the stone sample looks \"incongruously pristine\" alongside the \"weathered\" stones currently standing at the monument.\n\nThe smaller bluestones at Stonehenge were brought to the site from the Preseli Hills is south west Wales but the source of the larger Sarsen stones is unknown.\n\nThe discovery of part of the missing core now means a team will be able to analyse it in order to \"pinpoint their source\".\n\nResearchers have already used a spectrometer to look at the chemical composition of the stone.\n\nThe whereabouts of the other two Stonehenge cores remains a mystery and English Heritage is appealing for anyone with any information to contact them.\n\nHeather Sebire from English Heritage said \"the last thing we expected was to get a call from someone in America saying they had part of Stonehenge\".\n\n\"Studying the Stonehenge core's DNA could help tell us more about where those enormous Sarsen stones originated,\" she added.\n\nProf David Nash from Brighton University, which is leading the study into the stone core, said it was possible the Sarsen stones came from multiple locations.\n\n\"Conventional wisdom suggests they they all came from the relatively nearby Marlborough Downs,\" he said.\n\n\"But initial results from our analysis suggest that in fact the Sarsens may come from more than one location.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the moment many of us dread at the end of every festival - taking down your tent and packing it up.\n\nThis is perhaps one reason why more than 250,000 tents get left behind in UK fields from Glastonbury to Reading and Leeds.\n\nNow, more than 60 independent festivals are urging shops to stop marketing tents as single-use items.\n\nThe Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) says some places advertise them as 'festival tents,' which gives the impression that you only need to use them once.\n\nIt says the average tent is mostly made of plastic - which is equivalent to 8,750 straws or 250 pint cups.\n\nJordan says his tent is the last thing on his mind after a festival ends\n\nJordan Bellamy, 23, has gone to Reading Festival a couple of times and admits he always leaves his tent behind.\n\n\"After a whole weekend of dancing I'm so tired, and the thought of carrying the tent back was daunting as my legs were killing.\n\n\"It's quite a sad time to be honest at the end of the festival - you get the festival blues don't you?\n\n\"So at the end, we really only get our stuff together as in all our actual belongings and leave the tent.\"\n\n60 independent UK festivals have already committed to getting rid of single-use plastic at their events by 2021\n\nPaul Reed, AIF's chief executive, says a major problem is the huge misconception about what happens to your tent.\n\n\"I think many people believe they'll go to charities and the reality is that most won't - they will go to landfill with no other option.\"\n\nThis comes a year after the AIF's Drastic On Plastic campaign, which pledges for festival sites to get rid of single-use plastic by 2021.\n\nPaul says with the climate crisis more on people's minds, urgent action needs to be taken, with the help of retailers.\n\n\"The research out there narrows it down to this - a third of abandoned tents at festivals can be traced back to major retailers like Argos and Tesco.\n\n\"I think a lot of it is to do with the marketing of these items and the implication these are festival items and only for single-use.\"\n\nIn a statement Argos says: \"We offer a variety of tents at a range of prices. They are all sold with a bag to encourage re-use.\"\n\nTesco has yet to reply to our request for a statement.\n\nJenny Cawthorn (L) says she and her friends had assumed discarded tents were picked up by charities\n\nTwenty-year-old Jenny Cawthorn is a regular festival goer and says it's not always easy taking a tent home.\n\n\"If it just is in a mess or it's been battered by the rain or the weather then we will just end up leaving it in the field.\n\n\"I think for a lot of people the priority is just to get home as they're feeling rough and not fussed.\n\n\"But me and my friends are trying harder now because we're all trying to make changes to help the environment.\"\n\nPeople are being encouraged to pick up their rubbish and take their tents home\n\nFor those heading to Boomtown Festival in Winchester in August, be prepared for a near zero-tolerance policy when it comes to abandoning tents.\n\nEmily Ford, the festival's sustainability coordinator, says there will be a campsite patrol at the festival.\n\nThe Eco Camp plans to create a zero waste space with people on hand to help festival goers keep the site clean.\n\nEmily says: \"If people aren't living up to our ethos there'll be a warning system and if people breach it, we may ask them to leave the Eco Camp.\"\n\nMatt Wedge will be running a free shop at the festival, providing tents and other items like camping chairs for a £10 deposit.\n\n\"It's not illogical for someone who never goes camping to abandon their tent, you just need to convince them there is an alternative.\"\n\nMajor festivals like Reading already have a policy, where they advise people to buy a durable tent to use again each year.\n\nAs for Jordan, he says he's probably going to think twice when he's packing up at the next festival.\n\n\"After hearing that a tent is equivalent to hundreds of plastic cups, I feel bad for leaving the tent there now.\n\n\"At the time it honestly really didn't cross my mind but next time, I'm definitely not going to leave my tent there.\"", "The attack is thought to have targeted police\n\nAt least nine people have been killed in an explosion outside a major Sufi Muslim shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials said.\n\nFive police officers are reportedly among the dead. A police van was the prime target, authorities said.\n\nPolice have described the blast as a suicide attack.\n\nIt has been claimed by the Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban.\n\nThe explosion occurred at 0844am local time (0344 GMT) near the Data Darbar Sufi shrine, one of the oldest Sufi shrines in South Asia.\n\nThe bloodshed comes as Pakistani Muslims mark the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.\n\nA security operation is still under way in the area, with a heavy police presence at the blast site.\n\nFootage from the scene shows a badly damaged police vehicle surrounded by debris near a security checkpoint at the shrine.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Imran Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shrine was packed with devotees when it was attacked in 2010\n\nLocated near the Bhati Gate inside the ancient Walled City of Lahore, Data Darbar is one of the largest Sufi shrines in South Asia.\n\nBuilt in the 11th Century, it is where Sufi saint Abul Hassan Ali Hajveri - also known as Data Ganj Baksh - was laid to rest.\n\nIt is considered to be one of the most sacred sites in Lahore.\n\nIt is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year from both Sunni and Shia traditions of Islam.\n\nIn 2010, dozens died in two suicide blasts at Data Darbar.\n\nPolice said, although there was no specific threat against the shrine, worshippers should remain vigilant during the month of Ramadan.\n\nSufism is a form of Islamic mysticism that exists across the Islamic world, and includes both Sunnis and Shias.\n\nIts followers in Pakistan have been attacked by militants in the past.\n\nSome extremists view Sufis as heretics for not adhering to their fundamentalist form of Islam.\n\nPakistan has cracked down on a number of extremist groups - including Pakistani Taliban factions - in recent years.\n\nBut while security has improved the country still grapples with attacks by militants who are opposed to the government.\n\nIn 2016, at least 72 people were killed in Lahore in a bombing targeting Christians on Easter Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Tom Scott: \"We want to understand the envelope of safety in the area\"\n\nChernobyl's \"Red Forest\" - one of the most radioactive locations on Earth - has just been surveyed by UK scientists using a suite of drones.\n\nThe robotic aircraft flew novel sensors that have given Ukrainian authorities more up-to-date information on the sites with the greatest contamination.\n\nThe Red Forest is just 500m from the Chernobyl nuclear complex.\n\nIt was hit by the immediate fallout from the 1986 explosion and fire in the plant's number-4 reactor.\n\nMany of the forest's trees died and turned orange. Some areas are still strictly out of bounds to humans.\n\nThe UK's National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) has developed a drone-mapping system that allows scientists to investigate hazardous places from a safe distance.\n\nThe survey detected some unexpected hotspots to the south of the Red Forest\n\nFixed-wing craft are first used to make a general radiation map by flying at about 40mph (65km/h) just above the treetops, in a grid pattern.\n\nPlaces of interest are then followed up with rotary-wing drones.\n\nThese can hover and use their sensors to acquire high-resolution, 3D information.\n\nThe survey conducted in April essentially confirmed the current understanding of the radiation distribution in the forest, but in far greater detail than has previously been available.\n\nThe drones also identified a few unexpected hotspots.\n\nOne of these, a few km to the south of the forest, turned out to be an old soil separation unit used during the original clean-up efforts.\n\n\"They were trying to separate out the contamination and thereby reduce the volume of the waste,\" Prof Tom Scott, from Bristol University and co-director of the NCNR, told BBC News.\n\n\"The legacy left at that facility is essentially spent nuclear fuel scattered on the floor, which was giving a very high radiation dose. About 1.2 millisieverts an hour. That would mean I'd be able to hit my yearly dose within just a few hours.\"\n\nThe NCNR team plans to go back to Ukraine in the coming months to survey additional areas in Chernobyl's 2,600km² Exclusion Zone, which is permitting more and more people to enter over time.\n\nSome 70,000 tourists even visited the zone last year and there are plans to use large areas of land deemed now to be low risk for solar generation.\n\nThe British mapping exercise will help refine the protocols used to ensure the safety of all entrants to the exclusion zone.\n\nThe old Chernobyl plant now sits within a new containment building\n\nThe NCNR is a nationwide consortium of research experts tasked with developing the next generation of technologies that can be used to clean up Britain's 4.9-million tonnes of legacy nuclear waste.\n\nSpecialists in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, sensors, electronics and materials are working across eight institutes, centred on a hub at the University of Birmingham.\n\nOne key goal is to come up with autonomous robots that can efficiently and safely curate the waste.\n\nThese tools are far more advanced than the systems people will know from car assembly lines, said Prof Rustam Stolkin from the University of Birmingham.\n\n\"These robots are completely autonomous; they're driven by a hundred thousand lines of AI code,\" he explained.\n\n\"They use robotic vision systems; they see objects and understand their position, their size and their shape; and plan where to put fingers to achieve a stable grasp.\n\n\"They can clear a random, cluttered heap of objects with no prior knowledge of those objects. This is the frontier of international robotics and AI research.\"\n\nThe NCNR is developing a range of smart robots\n\nIt's hoped many of the NCNR's technologies will have export and spin-out potential. The drone system is already being tested for mineral prospecting.\n\n\"The drones fly at a height which means they're much more sensitive than if you fly in a helicopter or an aeroplane,\" said Prof Scott.\n\n\"Some of the minerals we'd be interested in are gold and rare earth elements and cobalt. These are some of the most valuable materials we can think of and as minerals, they all have characteristic radioactive anomalies.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Aerial pictures show the extent of the damage at the house\n\nTwo people have died in a suspected gas explosion which destroyed a bungalow.\n\nThe rear of the home was blown out by a series of explosions at the property in The Street in Lidgate, near Newmarket in Suffolk.\n\nCrews began tackling the blaze at about midday and specialist dogs were later brought in after two people were \"unaccounted for\".\n\nThe cause of the explosion is unknown and a joint fire and police investigation is taking place.\n\nOfficers said the fire was believed to have been caused by a gas explosion.\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\"\n\nOne neighbour said it rattled the windows of homes further along the road, and described it as a \"huge explosion\".\n\nSuffolk Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent four crews to deal with the blaze.\n\nFire officers had spent the afternoon trying to establish the whereabouts of the two missing people.\n\nIncident commander Darren Reeve said: \"We are working extremely hard to try and identify if we have anyone in or not.\"\n\nPolice said the road was likely to remain closed \"for quite some time\".\n\nIt is believed a gas explosion caused a fire at the bungalow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ellie Gould was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead at a house in Wiltshire has been formally identified as 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nOn Friday afternoon officers were called to a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, where Ellie was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson said she was a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.\n\nPolice said the arrested teenager was known to Ellie, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInquiries are continuing to ascertain the exact circumstances surrounding her death.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said: \"Our thoughts remain with Ellie's family, her friends and schoolmates.\n\n\"Ellie's family will continue to receive support from specially trained officers and we are aware that her fellow pupils are being encouraged to seek support being organised by Hardenhuish School.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the level of shock, anxiety and upset in and around Calne and Chippenham and our officers are continuing to progress their inquiries as swiftly and diligently as possible.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hardenhuish School said: \"The Hardenhuish community is shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ellie Gould.\n\n\"Ellie was a talented, popular and much-loved member of our school community who will be dearly missed.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with Ellie's family at this devastating time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 33, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA man wanted over the abduction and rape of two women in London has been linked to a third attack.\n\nJoseph McCann is wanted by detectives investigating the abduction of two women in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said he was also linked to the rape of a 21-year-old in Watford on 21 April.\n\nOfficers believe McCann, who is also wanted on recall to prison, could be using disguises.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about his whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was originally jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man on 27 December 2007.\n\nHe was released on licence by the Parole Board in 2017 but had been recalled for breaching his licence.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nDuring the attack in Watford, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a blue Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Hertfordshire force said the suspect had been identified after the attack was reported to them on 22 April.\n\n\"A significant amount of work was done to try and locate and arrest him, which proved unsuccessful,\" it said.\n\nThe next victim was abducted the following Friday in Chingford, north London, at about 00:30, with the third targeted at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the suspect attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThey both then escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe Met said 33-year-old McCann, who has connections in Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich, is known to use false names.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"We would ask anyone with any information about McCann's whereabouts to contact us immediately.\n\n\"McCann is considered extremely dangerous and a risk to the public and we ask people not to approach him, but instead call 999.\"\n\nMcCann is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair and a light-coloured short beard.\n\nHe is said to have a distinctive tattoo of the name \"Bobbie\" on his stomach.\n\nA man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape and released as inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demonstrators outside Birmingham primary schools wanted an end to LGBT lessons\n\nHead teachers have challenged ministers to deliver better support for schools facing criticism from parents over lessons on same-sex relationships.\n\nThe move follows weeks of protests outside schools in Birmingham.\n\nHead Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson told the National Association of Head Teachers' conference that official teaching guidance on LGBT love was unclear.\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds has said no child should have to walk past demonstrations to go to school.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson told the annual meeting there had been five weeks of protests over equality lessons outside her school, Anderton Park primary.\n\n\"The lead protestors have no children at my school,\" she said.\n\nShe highlighted photographs of some of the banners displayed outside the grounds, declaring slogans such as \"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve\" and \"We have a say in what they learn\".\n\nAddressing the conference, Ms Hewitt-Clarkson asked: \"How have we got to this beyond awful state of affairs?\"\n\nShe said the government's new draft relationships education policy - due to come in next year - stated that primary school children should know that marriage, both to same-sex and opposite sex couples was a life-long commitment.\n\nIt also stated that families could be single parents, LGBT parents, grandparents and so on.\n\n\"This is excellent and clear,\" she said.\n\nBut she said she believed official guidance to heads did not make it sufficiently clear that the policy did not specifically seek to promote LGBT relationships or indeed heterosexual relationships, but rather \"love and care\" more generally.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she also objected to suggestions in the guidance that it was up to primary schools to decide whether teaching about LGBT relationships specifically was age-appropriate for their pupils.\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said this made \"a policy that is meant to be the same for all, different for all\", with individual head teachers like herself left having to sort out the confusion.\n\nShe called on Mr Hinds to work with her and the NAHT \"to sort out this unequal mess\".\n\nThe conference motion for \"a more robust and legally enforceable policy and support for schools as they carry out their public sector equality duty\", was carried unanimously.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the guidance was clear that schools would have \"flexibility to deliver the content of relationships, sex and health education in a way that is age-appropriate and sensitive to the needs of their pupils.\n\n\"It is also unequivocal that these subjects do not promote anything, they educate.\n\n\"Ultimately it is for the school to decide what is taught in the curriculum and we trust them to make reasonable decisions based on the feedback they receive from parents,\" said the spokesperson.", "Joseph McCann is wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nA man suspected of abducting and raping three women is being hidden by a friend or family member, police believe.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have attacked three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said there was no evidence Mr McCann had left the country and urged anybody helping him to \"please call us\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is carrying out a review into whether Mr McCann had been released from jail by mistake.\n\nSpeaking outside of New Scotland Yard, Det Ch Insp Goodwin said whoever is hiding the 34-year-old \"possibly isn't aware of the full nature of his crimes\".\n\nShe said it appeared the women had been \"selected randomly\", then abducted \"in an incredibly violent manner\".\n\n\"Please consider if your mother, sister, daughter, niece or friend had experienced such an awful attack and put yourselves in the shoes of their family,\" the detective said.\n\nThe Met has offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to Mr McCann's arrest and prosecution.\n\nJoseph McCann is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nThe first attack took place in Watford on 21 April where a woman was approached by a man armed with a knife who drove her around in a car for six hours then raped her.\n\nOn 25 April, two women were abducted in Chingford and Edgware within the space of 12 hours.\n\nThey were both raped then driven to a hotel in Watford where their attacker was unable to book a room. Soon after they managed to escape during a struggle.\n\nThe force has described Mr McCann as a \"violent individual who is a risk to women and poses a threat to children\" and warned people against approaching him.\n\nA 63-year-old woman from Aylesbury was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of intimidation of witnesses in connection with one of the attacks. She has been released on bail.\n\nA 33-year-old man arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to rape has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBelfast City Marathon organisers have apologised after admitting that Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nBelfast Marathon chairman David Seaton blamed \"human error\", saying the lead car diverted from the route.\n\n\"Approximately 460 additional metres were added to the officially measured course of 26.2 miles,\" he said.\n\n\"This was due to human error, with the lead car diverting from the official route.\"\n\nEarlier, John Glover, the event's course measurer, said runners had twice been \"taken off the measured route\".\n\n\"The route run was 469 metres in excess of the route measured and approved by the Association of International Marathons,\" said Mr Glover.\n\nA distance of 469 metres equates to 0.293 of a mile.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".\n\nHe added that race organisers were in the \"process of adjusting runners' times to reflect the correct distance\".\n\nFollowing Sunday's race, a number of questions were raised on social media about the new course's length.\n\nIn 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Greater Manchester Marathon course was 380m too short, as a result of a measuring error. UK Athletics subsequently declared the times of those races invalid.\n\nKenyans Joel Kositany and Caroline Jepchirchir took victory in the first Sunday running of the event.\n\nKositany secured his fourth Belfast men's triumph as he crossed the line in two hours 18 minutes 40 seconds.\n\nJepchirchir repeated her 2018 win as she set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, clocking 2:36:38.\n\nThis 38th staging of the event took place on a new course which organisers hoped would ensure faster times.\n\nHowever, the discrepancy with the course distance is now likely to be the main talking point following the race.\n\nEvent chairman Seaton admitted that the mistake will upset a number of competitors.\n\nHe said: \"I can understand if you have been aiming for a sub three-hour marathon time and because of the mistake you have ended up being just outside three hours on the clock, that you are going to be annoyed.\n\n\"It's a hiccup that we obviously could have done without. But I don't think it should overshadow what was a very successful day with the numbers up significantly because of the new Sunday date.\n\n\"People have been coming up to us congratulating us on the day and saying it was a great event with the spectator number also well up on previous years.\"", "Thailand's new king has started three days of ceremonial rites, as the country crowns its first monarch in nearly seven decades.\n\nThe rituals he goes through are a mixture of Buddhist and Hindu Brahmin traditions and date back centuries.\n\nKing Vajiralongkorn's crown weighed 7.3kg (16lb), and symbolised Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu god Indra.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd male nurses argued that dresses aren't really their thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Billy Hopkinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "North Korea has confirmed via state media that leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a \"strike drill\" testing various missile components.\n\n\"A number of short-range projectiles\" were also fired from the Hodo peninsula into the Sea of Japan on Saturday.\n\nNorth Korea's leader gave the order of firing to \"increase the combat ability\" of the country, the announcement said.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted he believed Mr Kim would not jeopardise the path towards better relations.\n\nHe added that the North Korean leader \"knows that I am with him & does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen!\n\n\"I believe that Kim Jong-Un fully realises the great economic potential of North Korea and will do nothing to interfere or end it,\" Mr Trump posted on social media on Saturday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump walked away from what he described as a bad deal offered by Kim Jong-un at a summit meeting in Hanoi in February.\n\nIn its report on Sunday, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr Kim had stressed the need to \"defend the political sovereignty and economic self-sustenance\" of the country in the face of threat and invasion.\n\nThe aim of the drill, which was testing \"large-calibre long-range multiple rocket launchers\", was to \"inspect the operating ability and the accuracy of striking duty performance,\" the report said.\n\nThe North Korean leader told troops to bear in mind \"the iron truth that genuine peace and security are ensured and guaranteed only by powerful strength\".\n\nIt is believed that Saturday's test is intended to increase pressure on Washington to move nuclear talks forward.\n\nLast month, North Korea said it had tested what it described as a new \"tactical guided weapon\".\n\nThat was the first test since the Hanoi summit.\n\nThe second summit between President Trump and Mr Kim in Hanoi, Vietnam\n\nAnalysts say a short-range solid fuel ballistic missile was fired on Saturday, making this the most serious test since North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.\n\nHowever, it does not violate North Korea's promise not to test long-range or nuclear missiles.\n\nBut Pyongyang appears to be growing impatient with Washington's insistence that full economic sanctions remain until Mr Kim takes serious steps to dismantle his nuclear weapons programme, says the BBC's Laura Bicker.\n\nSouth Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that North Korea \"fired a number of short-range missiles from its Hodo peninsula near the east coast town of Wonsan to the north-eastern direction from 09:06 (00:06 GMT) to 09:27\" on Saturday.\n\nThe missiles flew for between 70km and 200km (45-125 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan, they added.\n\nSeoul has previously called on Pyongyang to \"stop acts that escalate military tension on the Korean peninsula\".\n\n\"North Korea's recent missile launches are a provocation at a time when the international community is awaiting concrete steps from North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programme,\" the German Foreign Ministry said, according to AFP.\n\n\"We welcome President Trump's declaration that he is ready to continue to support the negotiations process despite this provocation,\" the statement said.\n\nHodo has been used in the past for launching cruise missiles and long-range artillery testing.\n\nAccording to KCNA, April's test of a new \"tactical guided weapon\" was also overseen by Mr Kim himself. It was \"conducted in various modes of firing at different targets\", which analysts believe means the weapon could be launched from land, sea or air.\n\nIt is unclear if that weapon was a missile, but most observers agree that it was probably a short-range weapon.\n\nSaturday's launches did not violate North Korea's pledge not to test long-range missiles\n\nLast year, Mr Kim said he would stop nuclear testing and would no longer launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.\n\nNuclear activity appears to be continuing, however, and satellite images of North Korea's main nuclear site last month showed movement, suggesting the country could be reprocessing radioactive material into bomb fuel.\n\nThe country claims it has developed a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a long-range missile, as well as ballistic missiles that could potentially reach the mainland US.", "Alliance leader Naomi Long has hailed her party's \"incredible result\" in the council elections as a watershed moment for Northern Ireland politics.\n\nWith all 462 seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in its representation. It had 32 councillors five years ago but now it has 53.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin were returned as the two biggest parties, but the DUP lost eight seats.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1% but Sinn Féin's was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast and will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry and Strabane Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in I would say 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed - it won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA) and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, has been elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nThe DUP has also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost 13 seats including those of its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGTB rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker himself, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday\n\nBBC News NI is covering the latest election results and analysis on our website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter pages.\n\nA dedicated live page will keep you up to date as the results are announced.\n\nThere is an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on BBC One Northern Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday and a special Sunday News election special on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday at 13:00.\n\nThe final results are not expected to be confirmed until Saturday night", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's focus is now on the Europa League, says boss Unai Emery, after his lacklustre side's hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners are three points behind Tottenham in fourth with one game to play but would need an eight-goal swing, as well as results going their way, to overtake their rivals.\n\nBarring that highly improbable scenario, Arsenal will need to win the Europa League to play in the Champions League next season and take a 3-1 advantage into their semi-final second-leg in Valencia on Thursday.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be difficult but our focus is now the Europa League,\" Emery, who won the competition three times in a row with Sevilla, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We have the opportunity in the Europa League to do something important and we will try and do that.\"\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal in front at Emirates Stadium with a ninth-minute penalty after Alireza Jahanbakhsh was judged to have fouled Nacho Monreal despite appearing to get the ball.\n\nAside from occasional bursts, Emery's side were shaky and sloppy, with Granit Xhaka committing an absurd foul on Solly March to concede a penalty that Glenn Murray converted on 61 minutes.\n\nArsenal frantically searched for a winner but Aubameyang volleyed wide from seven yards out and Brighton keeper Mat Ryan made a series of fine saves.\n\nPascal Gross could have won the game for Brighton late on but skewed his effort out towards the sideline with the goal unmanned after Bernd Leno's superb save from March, while the visitors withstood another flurry from Arsenal in the final stages.\n\nLooking to avoid a fourth straight Premier League defeat, Arsenal made a bright start in attack, though were fortunate to be awarded a penalty, despite referee Anthony Taylor being well placed, with replays showing Jahanbakhsh got to the ball before Monreal fell.\n\nStill, an early lead through Aubameyang's 20th league goal of the season should have allowed the hosts to exert control over the game, but instead they became nervy and vulnerable.\n\nGoalkeeper Leno sent an abysmal clearance straight to March before recovering to save Murray's free header moments later, while Stephan Litchtsteiner, making his first appearance since late February, was frequently exposed.\n\nThere was another promising spell at the end of the first half, with Aubameyang, Shkodran Mustafi and Henrikh Mkhitaryan testing Ryan, but Arsenal's inability to create clear chances gave Brighton increasing confidence in finding an equaliser.\n\nEven then it took a staggeringly poor decision by Xhaka. Running behind the surging March inside the area, the Switzerland midfielder initially held up his hands to indicate he was not touching the Brighton forward only to then whack his shoulder and concede a penalty.\n\nAnd so a game Arsenal should perhaps have dictated against an opposition who were already guaranteed Premier League survival became a manic attempt to salvage a dispiriting end to the league season.\n\nThey came close to scraping a winner but could not do it, the lap of honour conducted with glum faces as the Gunners must now focus on winning the club's first European trophy since 1994.\n\nBrighton's Premier League status was confirmed on Saturday when Cardiff were relegated following defeat by Crystal Palace.\n\nBut Chris Hughton's side looked determined not to let their season drift away, encouraged by Arsenal's defensive frailty.\n\nMarch menaced Litchtsteiner, forced a save from Leno shortly after the break and made a fine run to win the penalty, perhaps going down easily but drawing contact from Xhaka, with Murray sending Leno the wrong way to score his 12th of the season.\n\nCentre-backs Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy made timely interventions and blocks, while Ryan continues to impress in goal.\n\nWith a more clinical edge, Brighton could have even won and completely ended Arsenal's top-four chances. First, Gross miscued his first-time strike after Leno had clawed away March's diving header in the 86th minute.\n\nThen in added time, substitute Florin Andone oddly failed to look up and play in the onrushing March when Brighton had a two-on-one situation against the stretched Arsenal defence.\n\n'That is more like us' - reaction\n\nArsenal boss Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We knew it was going to be difficult, but at 1-0 we needed to get the second goal. In the 90 minutes we controlled the match and after the first goal we tried to get the second.\n\n\"After their goal we created more chances to score but they defended very well, they are very strong defensively and they showed us that today.\"\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton, speaking to BBC Sport: \"That's more like us. It was a good reaction and a response to going a goal behind early in the game, people would have expected them to turn it into two or three. We had to dig deep.\n\n\"I was unhappy with the penalty decision, my feeling was that it was soft and I couldn't understand how he gave it. I saw it again and I haven't changed my mind. It wasn't a penalty, and a very poor decision.\n\n\"But we bounced back and showed a lot of character. Our responsibility is to try and get a result in every game - we will want to do as well as we can against Manchester City next week.\"\n• None Arsenal are winless in their last four Premier League games (D1 L3), their longest run without a victory in the competition since February 2016 (also four games).\n• None Brighton avoided defeat away from home against 'big six' opposition for the first time in the Premier League - they had lost each of their last 11 games before today.\n• None Arsenal have conceded 50 or more goals in consecutive top-flight campaigns for the first time since 1982-83 and 1983-84.\n• None Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the sixth different player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for the club, and the first since Alexis Sanchez in 2016-17.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February 2018, only Mohamed Salah (35) has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang (30).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 35% of Brighton's Premier League goals since the start of last season (24/68) - only Leicester's Jamie Vardy has netted a higher percentage of his team's goals in the competition in this period (36% - 38/107).\n\nOn the final day of the Premier League on Sunday, 12 May, Arsenal are away at Burnley, while Brighton host Manchester City, with both matches at 15:00 BST.\n\nBefore that, Arsenal face Valencia in the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, leading 3-1 from the first leg.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Mat Ryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Knockaert is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Anthony Knockaert tries a through ball, but Yves Bissouma is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shane Duffy.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi tries a through ball, but Sead Kolasinac is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf, for some reason, you find yourself looking for dirty road signs in Glynneath, it might be more of a struggle than anticipated.\n\nThe Neath Port Talbot town's gleaming signs are being scrubbed by window cleaner Kieran Benson, who volunteers his free time.\n\nKieran, who started a competition looking for the filthiest one, has been tidying up the roads for two years.\n\nHe said the cleaning is \"all about loving where I live\".\n\n\"We really wanted to help improve it so we made an effort to try and clean one at the end of every day,\" the 35-year-old family business owner said.\n\nOther family members also help out with scrubbing the signs.\n\nAlthough he has been doing it for years, Kieran has been inspired by reports of other window cleaners doing the same job as him, as it reinforced that \"if you put the effort in it can make a big difference\".\n\nAlongside the signs, Kieran cleans local bus stops which he says is important for the elderly\n\nAlongside sprucing up the signs, Kieran can be found tidying the local bus stops too, which he said is important for older people.\n\nHe said: \"It's all about just making it a cleaner environment for our elderly who sit in those shelters.\"\n\nAlthough the work is done to improve the community, leaving a sign spotless is incredibly satisfying.\n\n\"We definitely enjoy making the signs cleaner, especially if you pick a really bad sign then it's definitely a relaxing venture,\" he added.\n\nRecently, Kieran started a hunt for the town's dirtiest sign, and for now he thinks they have cleaned it - but he is reopening the competition in May in a bid to find an even worse one.\n\n\"I wanted to give back to my community, make the area feel a bit nicer,\" he said.\n\n\"It's all about loving where I live, being proud of where I live and making it into a better environment for all.\"\n\nAnthony Taylor, deputy leader of Neath Port Talbot council, thanked Kieran for his \"pride and community spirit\".\n\nHe added: \"Many local authorities are now at the stage of fighting to protect and sustain essential services so it is tremendously heartening to see communities respond in such a way.\n\n\"We are very grateful for the contribution made by volunteers, community groups and the third sector across Neath Port Talbot.\"", "Ruth Davidson has returned to politics after spending the past seven months on maternity leave\n\nRuth Davidson has warned that the two main Westminster parties will suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections unless they \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader admitted that the Tories and Labour had been given an \"almighty kicking\" in English local elections.\n\nBut she predicted that they will be given an even bigger \"wake-up call\" in the European election on 23 May.\n\nShe urged the two parties to find a compromise so the UK can \"move on\".\n\nHer speech to the conference was her first major public appearance since the birth of her son Finn in October.\n\nThe Conservatives lost more than 1,300 seats in the council election and Labour lost 82 as the Liberal Democrats, Greens and independents surged across England.\n\nThe two major UK parties have been locked in talks aimed at finding a way forward on Brexit for the past month, but it is not clear how much progress has been made.\n\nSpeaking at the Scottish Conservative conference in Aberdeen, Ms Davidson said the solution lay in finding a compromise that respects the result of the EU referendum.\n\nShe told delegates: \"The solution doesn't lie in the trenches of one extreme or another - of overturning the referendum, or of crashing out with no deal.\n\n\"It lies in those colleagues currently round the table, taking the difficult first steps towards each other.\n\n\"So I say to the negotiating teams of our party and the Labour Party, who are currently locked in talks - get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on.\"\n\nMs Davidson added: \"If we thought yesterday's results were a wake up call, just wait for the European elections on 23 May.\n\n\"A vote the public was promised would never take place, to elect people to a parliament they were told we would already have left. You don't have to be John Curtice to foresee what could happen.\"\n\nTheresa May made her keynote speech to the conference on Friday\n\nMs Davidson was a staunch Remainer ahead of the referendum, but argued it would be undemocratic hold another vote on EU membership.\n\nShe said that if a decision was so big that it had to be handed to the people to decide, then \"we have to listen to the answer they give\" and politicians \"don't get to pick and choose\" which votes are upheld and are ignored.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a second independence referendum in the next two years if the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBut Ms Davidson argued that the country is not being held back as part of the UK, and is already capable of \"taking on the world\".\n\nShe also accused the SNP of using the constitution as an excuse for inaction, and pledged to \"build a better Scotland now\" if her party wins the next Holyrood election.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she wants another independence referendum within the next two years\n\nShe told delegates that the country has had enough of the SNP's \"agitating for independence\" as she accused the party of \"searching the horizon for a dark cloud and then blaming it on Westminster\".\n\nMs Davidson added: \"I have a more positive view of Scotland's future. I reject their mantra that says we have to have a break-up before we can possibly hope to prosper. I don't see Scotland as subjugated, put upon or as held back.\n\n\"Our message is that we can prosper now. That we can back our businesses, build up our institutions and give future generations the skills to take on all comers.\n\n\"That right here, right now, Scotland can take on the world. There's nothing stopping us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon's SNP won 63 seats in the last Scottish Parliament election and the Conservatives won 31 - with opinion polls suggesting the SNP continues to hold a commanding lead ahead of the next vote in 2021.\n\nBut Ms Davidson insisted it is realistic for her party to win the election and form the next Scottish government.\n\nShe said: \"As first minister, I won't use every engagement with the UK government as a chance to sow division. I'll use it as a chance to deliver better government for the people who live here.\n\n\"And I'll make a firm guarantee now: If I am elected Scotland's next first minister, there will be no more constitutional games and no more referenda. We've had enough to last a lifetime.\n\n\"So we're not fighting each other - but fighting for each other.\"\n\nMs Davidson was overheard questioning whether she needed to mention the European elections as she rehearsed her speech in the conference hall on Friday evening.\n\nThe rehearsal was apparently caught on a live microphone without Ms Davidson realising, and has since appeared online.\n\nMs Davidson joked in her conference speech that the recording was made after she told her baby son that \"this is the button that broadcasts mummy's rehearsal to the whole press room\".\n\nThe conference heard from Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, who told delegates that she remained determined to deliver a Brexit deal despite facing fresh calls to quit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alan Simpson was an experienced pilot, his family said\n\nA poultry farmer from Shropshire has died in a plane crash in Canada.\n\nAlan Simpson, 72, from Prees, was one of two pilots in the aircraft which crashed into a mountain in the Labrador region during \"poor weather\" on 1 May.\n\nThe other pilot, from Belgium, was injured and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was working with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada to determine the cause of the crash.\n\nMr Simpson's family said he would be \"deeply missed\".\n\nThey said he had been flying for over 35 years and had been travelling from the US to the UK with another experienced pilot at the time of the crash.\n\nThey added they were \"eternally grateful\" to the search and rescue teams that helped locate the plane.\n\n\"Alan was a vibrant character who lived life to the max and will be deeply missed by the extensive group of family and friends he has left behind,\" his family said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police said weather conditions were poor at the time of the crash\n\nMajor Mark Norris, from the Canadian Armed Forces Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax, and who was part of the search and rescue operation, said it was \"very complex and challenging\" as the plane crashed in an area \"beyond remote\".\n\nHe said they received an alert from the single-engine aircraft's emergency transmitting beacon at 09:30 local time (13:30 BST) and teams were deployed to a mountain near Makkovik.\n\nHe said one of the men was able to send text messages to rescue teams, and, despite the weather conditions, the pair were extracted several hours later. Mr Simpson was pronounced dead in a clinic in Makkovik.\n\nPolice added both men were pilots and an investigation was taking place to determine \"who was actively piloting\" at the time.\n\nOliver Cartwright, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, said the organisation was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Simpson's death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph Merrick surprised doctors with his intelligence and sensitive nature\n\nThe unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed.\n\nMerrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak show attraction, then a medical curiosity.\n\nHis skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital since his death.\n\nBut author Jo Vigor-Mungovin says she has now discovered Merrick's soft tissue was buried in the City of London Cemetery after he died in 1890.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 calls were made to bury Joseph Merrick's bones in Leicester\n\nAfter a miserable adolescence and time as a travelling exhibit, Leicester-born Merrick ended up at what was then called the London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, where he surprised staff by proving to have an intelligent and sensitive personality.\n\nHe became a minor celebrity and in May 1887 was visited by Alexandra, Princess of Wales, who afterwards sent him Christmas cards.\n\nAfter his death, Merrick's body was dissected and his skeleton preserved as an anatomical specimen.\n\nMerrick's story was made into an acclaimed movie in 1980\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin, who has written a biography of Merrick, said a story about his soft tissue being buried had not been followed up due to the number of graveyards in use at the time.\n\n\"I was asked about this and off-hand I said 'It probably went to the same place as the [Jack the] Ripper victims', as they died in the same locality.\n\n\"Then I went home and really thought about it and started looking at the records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium near Epping Forest, where two Ripper victims are buried.\n\n\"I decided to search in an eight-week window around the time of his death and there, on page two, was Joseph Merrick.\"\n\nThe gates in this photograph are all that remains of the Leicester workhouse where Merrick stayed\n\nThe detailed Victorian records make it \"99% certain\" this is the Elephant Man, said Mrs Vigor-Mungovin.\n\n\"The burial is dated 24 April 1890, and Joseph died on 11 April.\n\n\"It gives his residence as London Hospital, his age as 28 - Joseph was actually 27 but his date of birth was often given wrong - and the coroner as Wynne Baxter, who we know conducted Joseph's inquest.\n\n\"Everything fits, it is too much to be a coincidence.\"\n\nDetailed examination of records have identified a specific plot where the remains were buried\n\nInitially, the area was narrowed down to a communal memorial garden, but Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said a specific plot had now been identified.\n\n\"The authorities said a small plaque could be made to mark the spot, which would be lovely.\n\n\"Hopefully, we can soon get a memorial in his hometown of Leicester.\"\n\nThe City of London Cemetery has been unavailable for comment.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: 'We're dealing with a very unstable government'\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor says he does not trust Theresa May after details from cross-party talks on Brexit were leaked to the press.\n\nThe PM has called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"put their differences aside\" and agree a Brexit deal.\n\nBut John McDonnell said she had \"blown the confidentiality\" of the talks and \"jeopardised the negotiations\".\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but it was delayed to 31 October after MPs failed to agree a deal.\n\nMrs May put the plan she had negotiated with the EU to Parliament three times, but it did not have the support of the Commons.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May said Mr Corbyn should \"listen to what voters said\" in Thursday's local elections - which saw the Conservatives lose 1,334 councillors and Labour fail to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nThe prime minister blamed the Brexit impasse for the losses - but said the elections gave \"fresh urgency\" to find a way to \"break the deadlock\".\n\nTheresa May appealed to the Labour Party to find a compromise over Brexit\n\nMrs May also said she hoped to find a \"unified, cross-party position\" with Labour - despite admitting that her colleagues \"find this decision uncomfortable\" and that \"frankly, it is not what I wanted either\".\n\nMr McDonnell agreed that the message from the polls was to \"get on with it\" and come to an agreement over Brexit quickly.\n\nBut while he said the talks between the two parties would continue on Tuesday, he said they had been undermined after an article in the Sunday Times detailed where Mrs May was willing to compromise - namely on customs, goods alignment and workers' rights.\n\nThe paper also said the PM could put forward plans for a comprehensive, but temporary, customs arrangement with the EU that would last until the next general election.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"We have maintained confidentiality as that is what we were asked to do. We haven't briefed the media.\n\n\"So it is disappointing the prime minister has broken that, and I think it is an act of bad faith.\n\n\"I fully understand now why she couldn't negotiate a decent deal with our European partners if she behaves in this way.\"\n\nAsked if he trusted the prime minister, the shadow chancellor said: \"No. Sorry. Not after this weekend when she has blown the confidentiality we had, and I actually think she has jeopardised the negotiation for her own personal protection.\"\n\nLabour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Sue Hayman have all been taking part in the cross-party talks\n\nClearly both sides think there is fresh impetus to get a deal after the local elections.\n\nThe government seems prepared to move towards Labour's position, but it's far from clear that it will be enough.\n\nThere's a real fear on the Labour side that if this isn't a permanent arrangement, a new Tory leader - perhaps Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - could come along and try to change it.\n\nSo success isn't guaranteed when the two sides get back around the table on Tuesday, and both sides need to know they can take a big chunk of their parties with them.\n\nIf Theresa May faces losing dozens of Tories opposed to a customs union, or Jeremy Corbyn faces losing dozens of labour MPs who want another referendum, they might not have the numbers to get this through the Commons.\n\nAnd in that case, a compromise is useless.\n\nSir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told the Daily Telegraph that staying in a customs union could lead to a \"catastrophic split\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that millions of people would give up on Labour and the Conservatives if they agreed a deal, adding it would be the \"final betrayal\".\n\nBut the new International Development Secretary Rory Stewart told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics the Tories might have to \"take some short-term pain\" to finish the job.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, also said her party needed to \"start walking ourselves back\" from the extremes of the argument to find a compromise, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr \"there is a deal to be done\" with Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson MSP: \"The answer is somewhere in the middle\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said it was \"absolutely right\" for the talks to continue, but told Pienaar's Politics: \"I don't think we should be in any doubt that the Labour Party membership and vast numbers of my colleagues in Parliament don't want us to just sign off on a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"They don't want us to bail the prime minister out of the problem of her own making and a very large number of our members think the people should decide on what that deal looks like.\"\n\nThe comments come after the People's Vote campaign - which wants a referendum on a final Brexit deal - published a letter signed by more than 100 opposition MPs saying any new, agreed deal should be put to the public for a vote.\n\nLabour MP Bridget Phillipson, who backs the campaign, told Sky's Sophy Ridge: \"I think we have reached a stage now that whatever deal is agreed... it has to go back to the British people.\n\n\"Something stitched up, cobbled together in Westminster will not be sustainable in the long run. I want to check it is what people want now.\"", "Hundreds of weapons have been seized in searches since the 21 April attacks\n\nSri Lankan authorities have called on the public to surrender swords and large knives amid heightened security concerns following the deadly Easter Sunday attacks.\n\nPolice said knives used for legal everyday activities should not be included in the handover this weekend.\n\nHundreds of weapons have been seized in searches since the 21 April attacks.\n\nMore than 250 people were killed in the co-ordinated suicide bombings, which targeted churches and luxury hotels.\n\nIn addition to weapons, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara called on people in possession of \"police or camouflaged military uniforms\" to hand them in to their nearest police station on Saturday or Sunday.\n\nHe did not confirm whether police would give an amnesty to those who surrendered weapons during the two-day handover period.\n\nThe call came as investigations into the deadly bombings continue.\n\nSri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena told Reuters on Saturday that some 25 to 30 people linked to the bombings were still at large.\n\nThe country has tightened security since the attacks last month\n\n\"We have already identified all active members of the group and it's a case of now arresting them,\" he said.\n\nThe president added that there was \"no information yet to say these suspects are suicide bombers.\"\n\nMr Sirisena told the news agency that he believed the Islamic State group when they said they were behind the attacks.\n\n\"It's crystal clear because after the attacks the IS organisation made an announcement claiming responsibility for the bombings,\" he said.\n\nAuthorities in Sri Lanka have blamed the blasts on two previously little-known local Islamist groups - National Thowheed Jamath and Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem - whom they suspect had international links.\n\nMr Sirisena said intelligence services from eight countries were helping Sri Lanka with its investigations.\n\nCandlelight vigils have been held in tribute to the victims of the bombings\n\nMr Sirisena also added that he believed the country's security forces would \"eradicate terrorism\" and restore stability before presidential elections, which are due to take place by the end of the year.\n\n\"Elections cannot be postponed, therefore before the elections I will bring about stability and I will eradicate terrorism,\" he said.\n\nScores of suspects have been arrested since the Easter Sunday attacks. The bombings shattered the relative peace that has existed in the nation since the civil war ended a decade ago.\n\nThe majority of people killed in the attacks were Sri Lankans, but dozens of foreign nationals, including British and Indian citizens, were also among the victims.", "Voters went to the polls on Thursday to elect 462 people to sit on Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nThe results have been confirmed after the votes were counted across Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin remain the biggest parties.\n\nBut it was the Alliance Party and other smaller parties and independents that made gains.\n\nWatch our round-up of all of the highlights from the elections.\n\nRead more here: Alliance breaks new ground in NI poll", "The brooch, which is about 800 years old, was found in a freshly ploughed field last year\n\nA man who unearthed a £145,000 Anglo-Saxon pendant has found more treasure dating back about 800 years.\n\nTom Lucking's latest find saw him dig up a brooch dating back to between 1200 and 1300 in Wymondham, Norfolk in September.\n\nIn 2014, the then student found a pendant in Winfarthing, Norfolk dating from circa AD630.\n\nMr Lucking, 27, said the brooch, which features two lions and is studded with two pink stones, was a \"special\" find.\n\n\"I dug a few inches and this thing popped out,\" he said.\n\n\"When I first broke it out of the mud, I just saw the back of it but I turned it over and saw the settings.\n\n\"I sat there and just admired it for a bit. It's that satisfaction that comes from finding something that special.\"\n\nMr Lucking now works as a full-time archaeologist but found the pendant and silver gilt brooch while metal detecting in his spare time.\n\nThe pendant found by Mr Lucking is made from a sheet of gold and attached with gold cells, set with garnets\n\nHe said his share of money from the sale of the Winfarthing Pendant had helped him buy a house in Diss, Norfolk in December.\n\nIt was voted the UK's favourite work of art in a poll last year.\n\nMr Lucking has been metal detecting since he was 11 and has discovered other items classified as treasure.\n\nTom Lucking (far right) graduated from the University of East Anglia\n\nNorfolk coroner Jacqueline Blake declared his latest find as treasure, saying that Norwich Castle Museum had expressed an interest in buying it.\n\nIf purchased, it would join the Winfarthing Pendant in the museum's collection.\n\nAnyone who finds gold or silver artefacts thought to be more than 300 years old is required by law to report them to the authorities.", "Last updated on .From the section Fulham\n\nFulham's Harvey Elliott has become the youngest ever Premier League player at 16 years and 30 days.\n\nThe England under-17 midfielder made his debut in the 88th minute of Saturday's 1-0 defeat by Wolves.\n\nFormer Fulham left-back Matthew Briggs held the previous record, set on 13 May 2007 at 16 years and 68 days.\n\nElliott, born on 4 April 2003, became Fulham's youngest player with a substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup third round in September, aged 15.\n• None Quiz: Can you name the Premier League's youngest players?\n\n\"Harvey is on the bench and gets on the pitch because he deserves to,\" said Fulham's caretaker boss Scott Parker. \"He's been outstanding in training over the past three weeks. He's a special talent and we want to nurture him the best we can.\"\n\nThe youngster, who will be sitting his GCSEs in just a few weeks' time, was born in a year that saw Black Eyed Peas dominate the charts with Where Is the Love?\n\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded ruled at the cinema box office.\n\nNumber one in the charts on the day Elliott was born was Gareth Gates and The Kumars' charity song Spirit in the Sky.\n\nElliott was born 10 months after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho inspired Brazil to World Cup glory and nine months after Manchester United broke the British transfer record with the £30m signing of Rio Ferdinand from Leeds in July 2002.\n\nHe was just three months old when Roman Abramovich took over at Chelsea, two months old when David Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for £24.5m and four months old when Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for United.\n\nManchester United won their eighth Premier League title and 15th top-flight league title in the 2002-03 season, while AC Milan were the Champions League winners, beating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.\n\nLeon Osman, Wayne Rooney and James Milner were among those to make their debuts earlier that season, while Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won the Treble with Manchester United, retired from playing in May 2003.", "Two men were hit by a car on High Road in Leytonstone\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 52-year-old man was hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.\n\nThe collision appears to have been \"a deliberate act by the driver of the car\" after an earlier altercation, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nTwo men were hit in High Road in the early hours of Sunday, the force said.\n\nThe 52-year-old died in hospital at 17:18 BST. A man, 32, has serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Wrigley, leading the investigation, said: \"At this early stage it appears that this was a deliberate act by the driver of the car.\n\n\"There had been an altercation in the street prior to this incident and I am appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information who has not yet come forward to contact police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy was pulled out of the water off the Great Orme\n\nA 13-year-old boy has died after being pulled out of the sea off the coast of Llandudno.\n\nThe coastguard pulled the child from the water at Pigeon's Cove, Great Orme, just after 21:20 BST on Saturday, following a 999 call at about 20:55.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital in Bangor but has died.\n\nNorth Wales Police confirmed the boy was from the area and said there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances.\n\nThe corner has been informed.\n\nSupt Nick Evans said: \"Our deepest condolences are with the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nPigeon's Cove is popular with both local residents and tourists\n\nLlandudno Coastguard, RNLI Llandudno, a search and rescue helicopter, North Wales Police and the Welsh Ambulance Service were all involved in the rescue.\n\nIt happened as the town was hosting thousands of visitors at its annual Victorian Extravaganza.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy and our thoughts are with his family,\" Councillor Greg Robbins said.\n\n\"It's an incredibly sad touch to what is one our biggest weekends in the town with hundreds of thousands of visitors. It's very upsetting for everyone.\n\n\"We're all sending our heartfelt condolences to the family and I hope they're getting all the support they need.\"\n\nCouncillor Greg Robbins thanked the emergency services for the efforts\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987\n\nA man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say.\n\nGeorge Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports.\n\nHe has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\n\nMr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Perrot come three years after he was freed from prison by a judge who ruled he was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987.\n\nGeorge Perrot was arrested in 1985, aged 17, accused of raping 78-year-old Mary Prekop at her home in Springfield, Massachusetts.\n\nHe was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 2016 after the Supreme Court exonerated him because of flawed evidence.\n\nThe prosecution's case rested on faulty FBI analysis of a single hair found at the crime scene, the court ruled.\n\nMr Perrot's release, after a decades-long legal battle to clear his name, generated media attention worldwide.\n\nThe new charges against him allege rape, open and gross lewdness, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer, according to the Republican.\n\nThe newspaper reports that police found Mr Perrot lying unconscious on the ground, with his face between a partially naked and unconscious woman's legs.\n\nWhen interviewed by police, the woman claimed she did not consent to sex with Mr Perrot, it reports.\n\nThe last thing she remembered before losing consciousness, she reportedly told police, was snorting some powder she claims Mr Perrot gave her.", "The body was found in a house in Springfield Drive\n\nA teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a teenage girl was found in a house.\n\nWiltshire Police said officers were called to a residential address in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire, just before 15:15 BST on Friday.\n\n\"Despite attempts from the ambulance crew, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA 17-year-old boy was arrested in the Chippenham area on Friday afternoon, and remains in police custody.\n\nPolice said he was known to the girl, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said there would be a \"significant police presence\" in the area over the weekend as inquiries continued.\n\n\"This investigation is still in its early stages but I would like to reassure the local community that a robust police response was launched yesterday and will continue in the days to come.\"\n\nHe added that the victim's family was receiving support from \"specially trained officers\".\n\nPolice have not disclosed the age of the girl.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New voters have been credited for the Alliance Party's breakthrough in the Northern Ireland council elections.\n\nDeputy leader Stephen Farry said he believed \"the real growth across the centre ground\" was largely due to the emergence of a new vote.\n\nWith all seats declared, Alliance saw a 65% rise in representation. Its number of seats rose from 32 to 53.\n\nSpeaking to BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme, Mr Farry said the party would not \"sit back on our laurels\".\n\n\"Simply being at 11% and still the fifth party in size is not good enough. We have to really transform the landscape of Northern Ireland politics,\" he said.\n\nOther smaller parties and independents also made significant gains in the council election.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are still the two biggest parties but the DUP lost eight seats. Sinn Féin kept all its seats but its first preferences fell slightly.\n\nThe Ulster Unionists lost 13 councillors, the SDLP seven and the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) fell from 13 seats in the 2014 council elections to just six seats.\n\nThe Green Party is still among the smaller parties, but it was a big winner this time round, doubling its representation from four seats to eight.\n\nPeople Before Profit also had a good election, rising from a single councillor in 2014, to five seats with gains in Belfast, and Derry City and Strabane.\n\nIn terms of first preference votes, the DUP saw a marginal increase to 24.1%, but Sinn Féin's share was 23.2%, a slight drop on its 2014 results.\n\nAlliance saw its share of the vote increase from 6.7% to 11.5%.\n\nA sister party of the Liberal Democrats in Great Britain, Alliance is Northern Ireland's main centrist cross-community party, seeking to attract support from both Protestants and Catholics.\n\nIt won 10 seats in Belfast, an increase of two, where it will continue to hold the balance of power between unionists and nationalists.\n\nIt also doubled its representation in Mid and East Antrim from three councillors to six, and for the first time in decades, it has representation in the north west with two seats on Derry City and Strabane District Council.\n\n\"Crucially, we've broken outside the Greater Belfast area for the first time in, I would say, 30 years,\" Alliance leader Naomi Long told the BBC.\n\nShe said it had been a breakthrough election for her party and other cross-community candidates, with many voters choosing to reject the \"tribal politics\" of unionism and nationalism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alliance leader Naomi Long explains why she thinks voters rewarded the party at the polls\n\nSinn Féin's results have been mixed. It won six out of seven seats in Blackmountain District Electoral Area (DEA), and for the first time, it has representation on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council with two seats.\n\nHowever, the party lost five sitting councillors from Derry City and Strabane Council.\n\nThe DUP also carved out some new territory, gaining two new seats in Belfast, and electing its first ever openly gay candidate, Alison Bennington, in Antrim and Newtownabbey.\n\nBut the party lost its leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, after a low turnout in its east Belfast heartland.\n\nThe Green Party had some notable successes with four seats in Belfast, where Áine Groogan topped the poll in the Botanic DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jayne McCormack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople Before Profit won three seats in Belfast while its former Stormont MLA Eamon McCann returns to frontline politics with a seat on Derry City and Strabane.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran socialist Eamon McCann is \"looking forward\" to his new role as a councillor\n\nMatt Collins topped the poll in the Black Mountain DEA and takes a seat at Belfast City Hall alongside his brother Michael and newcomer Fiona Ferguson.\n\nBrothers Matt and Michael Collins will sit together on Belfast City Council\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) lost a number of seats including its Belfast councillors Jeff Dudgeon, a well-known campaigner for LGBT rights, and veteran David Browne, who was first elected 26 years ago.\n\nIndependents have also taken support from larger parties.\n\nIn Newry, Mourne and Down, independent candidate Gavin Malone, a former council worker, topped the poll in the Newry District Electoral Area (DEA).\n\nThe first-time candidate, who quit his 20-year career to run for election, got 2,296 first preferences, beating his nearest Sinn Féin rival by more than 900 votes.\n\nFormer Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat over a Twitter controversy, was elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe quit as West Tyrone MP last year after he was accused of mocking victims of the Kingsmills massacre - 10 Protestant workmen were shot dead by the IRA.\n\nMr McElduff maintained that the video - published on the 42nd anniversary of the murders - was meant as a joke and the timing was coincidental.\n\nIn the same DEA, former SDLP turned independent Dr Josephine Deehan polled 728 first preference votes, more than both of her SDLP rivals put together.\n\nThe GP was elected in the eighth round.\n\nElsewhere in the Fermanagh and Omagh Council area, an anti-gold mining campaigner was the first person to be elected in the Mid-Tyrone DEA.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Darran Marshall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmet McAleer, who stood as an independent, polled almost 900 first preferences and won a seat in the fifth round.\n\nBut not everyone can go it alone.\n\nIn Belfast, three independents who left the SDLP over a row about abortion policy, all lost their seats.\n\nPat Convery, Kate Mullan and Declan Boyle quit the party in 2017.\n\nCounting will continue on Saturday night until all 462 seats are filled across 11 councils.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Mark Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin's John Finucane was elected on the first count.\n\nHe is the son of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead in front of his wife and three children in 1989.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane says he wants to \"change Belfast for the positive\"\n\nThe DUP made some gains in Belfast with Nicola Verner taking a seat in Court, from former TUV candidate Jolene Bunting.\n\nMs Bunting, who had been involved in a number of controversies during her five-year tenure, ran as an independent this time but only polled 351 first preferences.\n\nIn Derry and Strabane District Council, independent Gary Donnelly topped the poll in the Moor electoral area - where journalist Lyra McKee was killed last month by dissident republicans.\n\nHe had refused to condemn violent dissident republicanism but in the wake of her murder he called on the New IRA to desist from further attacks.\n\nIt has been a similar theme to day one, which is that of Alliance victories, they have the most to be pleased about as the result of this election.\n\nClearly different voters vote for them for different reasons, but it may well reflect a disenchantment with the political paralysis up at Stormont.\n\nThe DUP will be pleased that they have held their own and actually increased their vote slightly at the expense of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV), which had a good election five years ago but has not been able to replicate that performance.\n\nI think Sinn Féin will be disappointed, they missed a number of their targets and their vote has slid slightly.\n\nOne interesting development tonight is that it looks like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council might slip into no overall control, rather than being a nationalist majority council.\n\nThat is because there has been a wave of independents who won through there.\n\nThose independents may actually be nationalist in their outlooks but it is a sign of changing times both there and in Belfast where some of the smaller parties have also come through.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent candidate - who only stood for election after a Facebook post suggestion posted on 1 April garnered online support - has been elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey District council.\n\nMichael Stewart, who runs the Love Ballyclare Facebook page, said: \"I wasn't aware there would be this massive surge to independents, the Greens and Alliance. I didn't know I was part of anything.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am one of those people who voted for me, who've no interest in politics - they care about holes in their roads, no paper in their schools and that they can't get an appointment with their health centre.\"\n\nIt has been a long election for candidates, counters and commentators.\n\nIn Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council, Brian Pope of Alliance was elected following a marathon count that went on until 06:00 on Saturday morning.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We don't exclude members of the gay community'\n\nUnsurprisingly, the story that made headlines on Friday was the success of Alison Bennington, the DUP's first openly gay representative.\n\nBelfast East MP Gavin Robinson said it was a \"good news story\", despite assembly member Jim Wells claiming members were \"shocked by the decision\" to let her run.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said she was delighted by Ms Bennington's electoral performance.\n\nShe said the party will consider comments made by Mr Wells post-election and said he should have raised any concerns \"through the normal routes\".\n\nThe first results started to come in after 11:00 on Friday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rockets were seen in the sky above Ashkelon in Israel\n\nMilitants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.\n\nOne Israeli was killed by shrapnel, while Israeli fire killed four Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.\n\nHowever, Israel said the mother and baby were killed by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target.\n\nThe flare-up over the weekend followed a truce agreed last month.\n\nFour Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed on Friday after an attack injured two Israeli soldiers.\n\nThe latest violence marks yet another increase in hostilities despite attempts by Egypt and the United Nations to broker a longer-term ceasefire, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nOne of the air strikes has hit the offices of Turkish news agency Anadolu, prompting condemnation from Istanbul.\n\nAn Israeli man died early on Sunday in Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) north of Gaza, after being wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit his house.\n\nThe rocket barrage began at 10:00 (07:00 GMT) on Saturday, and 250 rockets have now been fired into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say.\n\nA number of homes in parts of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip have been hit. Many residents rushed to bomb shelters.\n\nAn 80-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kiryat Gat.\n\nThe country's Iron Dome missile defence system shot down dozens of the rockets, the IDF said.\n\nIn response the IDF said it had launched air and artillery strikes against 120 Gaza sites belonging to Hamas, a militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, and against groups including Islamic Jihad. It blamed both for the attacks.\n\nPalestinian officials say a 22-year-old man was killed. Reuters news agency quotes a small pro-Hamas militant group as saying he was one of their fighters.\n\nThe other deaths included those of a 37-year-old woman and her 14-month-old daughter who were killed in an air strike in the east of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials.\n\nHowever, Israel questioned whether an air strike had killed the mother and baby.\n\n\"According to indications the baby and her mother died as a result of the terrorist activities of Palestinian saboteurs and not as a result of an Israeli strike,\" tweeted Avichay Adraee, without giving further details.\n\nIsrael's Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, tweeted that the pair were killed by a Palestinian rocket which fell short.\n\nTurkey's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, condemned the attacks against civilians as \"a crime against humanity\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also issued a condemnation of the Anadolu strike.\n\nThe Israeli military defended targeting the building in a statement, saying the structure was used by Hamas's West Bank task force and as an office for senior members of the Islamic Jihad.\n\nThe violence began during weekly Friday protests in Gaza against the tight blockade of the area. Israel says this is needed to stop weapons reaching Gaza.\n\nA Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers at the boundary fence. The IDF blamed Islamic Jihad for the shooting.\n\nRafah was one of the Gaza locations targeted by Israel\n\nThe Israeli air strike in response killed two Hamas militants. Another two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire at the fence.\n\nIslamic Jihad said it had launched the rocket attacks on Saturday in response to Friday's violence.\n\nIts statement also accused Israel of failing to implement last month's ceasefire deal, which was brokered by Egypt.\n\nSaturday's rocket attacks coincided with Palestinians burying the two militants.\n\n\"The resistance will continue to respond to the crimes by the occupation and it will not allow it to shed the blood of our people,\" Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua said in a statement on Saturday. He made no explicit claim for Hamas firing the rockets.\n\nAbout two million Palestinians live in Gaza, which has suffered economically from the Israeli and Egyptian blockade as well as recent foreign aid cuts.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nPolice hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire.\n\nIn the latest attack on Sunday, two women were forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre.\n\nJoseph McCann was found in a tree on a rural lane following a car chase.\n\nThe 34-year-old was spoken to by police negotiators and arrested, Cheshire Constabulary confirmed.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nThe Punto was seen in Congleton on Sunday evening by officers. Following a short chase, the car stopped on Obelisk Way having been in a crash with another car.\n\nThe women were left behind as the driver ran off. They were uninjured but have been left \"extremely shaken\", the force said.\n\nOfficers revealed they had found a suspect shortly after 23:00 BST.\n\nAndrew Kidd, who has a farm on Smithy Lane, said he was earlier told by police to stay inside his property.\n\n\"There were three or four police officers in my yard and they were looking up and down, looking in the trees,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw police running along the fence in a neighbouring field and the lane was full of police cars.\n\n\"The helicopter was round and my cows were stampeding because they were upset by the noise of it.\"\n\nThe car carrying the two abducted women crashed with another vehicle near Obelisk Way\n\nResident Robert Burns, 45, said he spoke to police who checked his outbuildings and wheelie bins in search of the suspect.\n\n\"We watched it all from upstairs. It was a long time, it went on for about three hours,\" he said.\n\n\"It was significant police presence, there were a lot of cars, all of the roads were closed.\"\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nDuring that attack, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London on 25 April.\n\nA woman was abducted in Chingford at about 00:30, and another at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the attacker attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThe women escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) is a rare form of abuse\n\nCampaigners are calling for an inquiry into concerns that families have been wrongly accused of inventing or causing illnesses in their children.\n\nFabricated or Induced Illness (FII) is a rare form of abuse where parents exaggerate or cause their child's medical condition.\n\nFamilies and charities claim there is a \"wave of false allegations\".\n\nThe Department of Health says that young people will always have symptoms checked by fully-trained staff.\n\nThe call is being led by Fiightback - a support group helping families across the UK who have been accused of FII.\n\nParents like Amy - not her real name - who was forced to live apart from her two-year-old daughter Lauren for almost a year, after she was accused of both inventing her child's illnesses and then poisoning her.\n\n\"I felt like my character was assassinated, my family was ripped apart and my child was stolen,\" she told 5 Live Investigates.\n\nAmy's nightmare began after her daughter Lauren - not her real name - was rushed into hospital after becoming very ill with a suspected infection in February 2018.\n\nIt was not the first time Amy had taken her daughter to hospital.\n\nWhen Lauren was just three months old, she started having spasms. Doctors prescribed anti-epilepsy medication.\n\nShe subsequently developed a number of other conditions - the most significant of which was reflux, which meant she had to be fed through a tube.\n\nFast forward to February 2018, and as Lauren recovered from her illness, doctors took her off the medications she was taking for her pre-existing conditions.\n\nAmy says all Lauren's symptoms disappeared. Within a week she was a normal, healthy child, and was able to eat food.\n\nAmy says the family concluded that side effects from the medication must have been causing her symptoms.\n\nBut doctors at the hospital took a different view.\n\nThey decided that the only possible explanation was that the symptoms had never existed in the first place - and Amy had invented them.\n\nThe hospital's child protection consultant said the illness which had led to Lauren being rushed into hospital had been caused by Amy administering a substance such as a laxative through her feeding tube.\n\n\"The consultant was telling me my daughter had never had any infection or illness - the only explanation was I had poisoned my daughter and nearly killed her,\" Amy says.\n\nThe hospital made a child protection referral stating they believed Lauren would be at risk if she was allowed home.\n\nA court decided she should be placed in foster care.\n\nAfter three months, Lauren was allowed to live with her father in separate accommodation to Amy and her other children. She could only see her daughter under supervision.\n\n\"Lauren was really confused about where her brothers and sisters were, where her home was. It's very difficult for a child to keep having to say goodbye when you push them into the arms of a stranger,\" says Amy.\n\nSupport group Fiightback are helping families who have been accused of FII\n\nThe family launched a legal bid to get Lauren home.\n\nExperts uncovered medical records which showed hospital staff and others had witnessed Lauren's spasms and vomiting - despite claims Amy had been making them up.\n\nOne expert said it was likely that Lauren had suffered from both reflux and adverse behavioural effects as a result of the anti-seizure medication.\n\nBut it was an independent report for the court which would prove crucial. It stated Lauren's illness must have been caused by an infection - and the chances of it being caused by a substance being put through her tube was remote.\n\nThe case against Amy was abandoned. Lauren came home - almost a year to the day after she had been rushed into hospital.\n\nFiightback told 5 Live Investigates it now wants a review into the number of FII child protection investigations like Amy's, as well as the FII guidelines for medical and social work staff.\n\nIt also wants national and local policy on responses to accusations of FII to be looked at, and new standards set.\n\nCarol Monaghan MP - who has led calls in Parliament to raise awareness of FII - said she would support an inquiry.\n\nShe added: \"Disturbingly, diagnoses can be made by health professionals who have not met or examined the child, and child protection procedures can then be instigated as a result of a remote diagnosis.\"\n\nFiightback is also calling for a cross-party inquiry into what it describes as a \"wave of false allegations.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Lauren is now a bright happy energetic little person.\n\n\"It was surreal. I spent all this time having people continually telling me you're guilty, you're guilty and then in a few minutes it can all just be turned around,\" Amy says.\n\n\"We are just trying to focus on healing.\"\n\nThe family has made a complaint to the hospital and to the General Medical Council.\n\nThe hospital said it was unable to discuss individual cases because of patient confidentiality.\n\nBut a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Any child or young person visiting an NHS service will have their symptoms assessed by clinicians who are fully trained to correctly diagnose rare conditions or spot any signs of this type of child abuse.\n\n\"We are leading the way in diagnosing rare diseases and personalising treatments through genomics.\n\n\"As part of our Long Term Plan, every seriously ill child who is likely to have a rare genetic disorder and cancer will be offered whole genome sequencing to help get them support sooner.\"\n\n5 Live Investigates is on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sunday, May 5 at 11:00 GMT - catch up on BBC Sounds", "Research shows that only 24% of Scots buy from approved breeders\n\nMore than £1m of tax has been recovered in Scotland as part of a crackdown on fraudsters selling puppies on the black market.\n\nA taskforce was set up by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2015 to flush out the undeclared income of rogue puppy breeders.\n\nThe puppy trade in Scotland is reportedly worth £13m a year - with a large proportion illegally bred.\n\nThe tax haul includes a £425,000 bill for a breeder in the west of Scotland.\n\nMost illegally bred puppies are sold online through social media or small ad sites, with research showing only 24% of Scots buy from approved breeders.\n\nThere has been a push to drive out the illegal trade due to welfare concerns as one in four puppies bought online die before their fifth birthday, and one in three get sick or die in the first year.\n\nUsing a full range of civil and criminal enforcement powers, HMRC recovered a total of £5,393,035 in lost taxes across the UK from 257 separate cases since the formation of the taskforce four years ago, including more than £1m in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said the illegal puppy trade was big business\n\nSeveral arrests have also been made as part of the taskforce's work across the UK.\n\nThe head of the Scottish SPCA's special investigations unit, who cannot be named due to the undercover operations they take part in, said: \"Unfortunately, the puppy trade is big business, with thousands of dogs being brought into the country each year, particularly from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"It is a multi-million pound industry and many of these poor dogs are bred on large scale puppy farms with little to no regard for their welfare.\n\n\"It's a barbaric trade which commands huge profit from selling puppies. Often these puppies are kept in appalling conditions and this leads to injuries, health issues and behavioural problems.\"\n\nIllegally traded puppies are often kept in appalling conditions\n\nHMRC officials uncovered fraudsters selling puppies on a mass scale for huge profit, and then failing to declare the sales.\n\nThe agency said that in the west of Scotland, two unconnected puppy breeders were handed tax bills of £425,000 and £337,000 respectively, while a puppy dealer in the east of the country was forced to pay a tax demand in excess of £400,000 as part of the probe.\n\nFinancial Secretary to the Treasury Mel Stride said: \"It is utterly appalling that anyone would want to treat puppies in such an inhumane way and on such a scale.\n\n\"It's also deeply unfair to all of the legitimate businesses who do pay the right tax and the total recovered by the taskforce is equivalent to the annual salaries for more than 200 newly-qualified teachers.\n\n\"We continue to work hard with other government agencies and our partners to tackle these traders.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An unlikely model made an appearance at a fashion event in Marrakesh this week.\n\nPurr-rading on the runway, the grey and white cat stole the show as it dodged models heading the other way.", "Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver\n\nA \"prolific road traffic offender\" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence.\n\nOfficers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver.\n\nOn Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: \"He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51.\"\n\nThe driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said.\n\n\"He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively short period of time,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"He was recognised by one of the officers who had given him points previously and knew he was disqualified.\n\n\"If he continues to commit offences we will continue to put him in front of the courts and allow them to hand over whatever sentence they deem appropriate.\"\n\nA driver is usually banned after amassing 12 points.\n• None Driver with 62 points still on the road\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That's the end of our coverage on this live page. Thanks for sticking with us over the past two days.\n\nThe election has produced an intriguing set of results. Stay tuned to the BBC News NI website over the coming days for more reaction and analysis.", "Veteran socialist Eamonn McCann has returned to politics, two years after losing his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nThe People Before Profit man was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council on Saturday.\n\nHe said his party's performance in the Northern Ireland council elections showed that there is an appetite for politicians who want to represent \"the interests of all the people at the bottom of society\".", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "None of the 21 people who were injured sustained serious injuries\n\nA passenger plane slid off a runway in the US state of Florida on Friday night, ending up in a river after landing during a thunderstorm.\n\nTwenty-one people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, officials said.\n\nThe chartered Boeing 737, operated by Miami Air International, had flown from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a military base in the city of Jacksonville.\n\nPassengers say it landed heavily in the storm, skidding into St John's River.\n\nThe 136 passengers and seven crew members on board evacuated the Boeing 737-800 via its wings.\n\n\"No fatalities reported. We are all in this together,\" Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wrote on Twitter after the incident.\n\nHe also said President Donald Trump had offered assistance as the situation was developing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jax Sheriff's Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Saturday a spokeswoman for the US Navy in Jacksonville said that at least four pets checked into the luggage area were presumed to have died due to flooding.\n\n\"There's water in the cargo hold,\" Kaylee LaRocque told USA Today.\n\n\"We are so sad about this situation, that there are animals that unfortunately passed away.\"\n\nOne passenger on the plane, Cheryl Bormann, described the \"terrifying\" moment it slid off the runway.\n\n\"The plane literally hit the ground and bounced - it was clear the pilot did not have total control of the plane, it bounced again,\" she told CNN.\n\nThe airliner is contracted by the US military to travel to Guantanamo Bay\n\nThe passengers and crew were evaluated in a nearby aircraft hangar\n\n\"We were in the water. We couldn't tell where we were, whether it was a river or an ocean,\" she said, adding that she could smell jet fuel leaking into the river.\n\nIn a news conference, Captain Michael Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, said it was a \"miracle\" that there had been no serious injuries or fatalities.\n\nMiami Air International is contracted by the US military for its twice-weekly \"rotator\" service between the US mainland and Guantanamo Bay, Bill Dougherty, a base spokesman said.\n\nA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator is seen with flight data recorder\n\nOfficials say the people on Friday's flight included civilian and military personnel.\n\nIt said it was providing technical assistance to the US National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident.\n\nThe aerospace giant has been under increased scrutiny following two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max 8 planes - a different model to the one involved in the incident on Friday.", "Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.\n\nThe former Tory leader called Mrs May a \"caretaker PM\" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as \"absurd\".\n\nThe party suffered its worst local election result in England since 1995.\n\nOther senior Conservatives have urged Tory MPs to compromise with Labour to ensure Brexit is delivered.\n\nElections were held on Thursday for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives lost 1,334 councillors, while Labour failed to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nFollowing the results, Mrs May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn both insisted they would push ahead with talks seeking cross-party agreement on leaving the EU.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the public wanted \"to see the issue of Brexit resolved\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith, a leading Brexiteer, said many Conservatives would refuse to back any deal reached between the two parties.\n\nMrs May must announce her departure \"very soon\", he said, and if she did not go, the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs would have to force her to do so.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"As a result of the devastating election result, the PM has in effect become a caretaker.\n\n\"As such, she is not empowered to make any deal with the Labour Party which itself suffered a very similar result. Two discredited administrations making a discredited deal is not the answer to the electorate.\"\n\nIn December, Mrs May survived a vote of no-confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, but in March she pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nRuth Davidson warned the parties would suffer the wrath of voters in the EU elections over Brexit\n\nIn the wake of the Conservatives' local election losses, senior Tories have called for the party to compromise in order to reach an agreement with Labour to end the Brexit deadlock.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson called for the negotiating teams of both parties - who are currently locked in talks - to \"get Brexit sorted, get a deal over the line and let Britain move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the Conservative Party needed to listen to the election results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the Conservatives might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - a move many Brexiteers in the party oppose - in order to solve the impasse in Westminster.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has said the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nBut Mr Duncan Smith said a customs union was \"the worst of all worlds because you lose your decision-making capacity\".\n\nMeanwhile, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\nHe added that while he supported the withdrawal deal reached between the EU and Mrs May, there might be things that could be done to make it \"more acceptable\" to Labour without compromising on the \"things that we think are essential\".\n\nBut he also warned that a customs union would not be a \"long-term solution\".\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Hunt's remarks on a customs union provided \"yet more evidence\" that many in the cabinet believed the \"most important thing right now\" was the race to be Mrs May's successor.\n\nLabour's MP for Redcar, Anna Turley, also reacted to Mr Hunt's comments that a customs union was not a long-term solution, tweeting: \"This is why we can't trust the Tories by doing a deal stitched up in Number 10 which they will seek to unravel under their next leader.\"", "Police bosses are urging the Crown Prosecution Service to scrap a policy of asking crime victims in England and Wales to hand over their phones.\n\nThe digital consent forms ask victims of crime - including rape complainants - to hand over their phones so officers can look for evidence.\n\nIf victims do not comply, prosecutions may not go ahead.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says sexual assault victims are not being \"singled out\".\n\nBut the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners say the forms should be withdrawn.\n\nThe forms - which have been introduced in all 43 police forces in England and Wales - ask for permission to view data including messages, photographs, emails and social media accounts.\n\nVictims' groups say they amount to a \"digital strip search\" - and now, police commissioners say they could lead to a loss of confidence in the criminal justice system.\n\nThe APCC's Dame Vera Baird told the Observer - which first reported the story - that material unconnected to the case was being used to discredit complainants.\n\nAnd the group's Julia Mulligan added that it was \"truly awful\" that victims needed to \"expose oneself to this in return for an investigation\".\n\nPolice and crime commissioners are elected officials who hold their chief constables to account.\n\nThe BBC's Simon Jones said such \"stark criticism of the police\" was unusual from them, but \"reflects unease about what some have labelled a choice between privacy and justice\".\n\nThe forms were introduced in response to the disclosure scandal, when several court cases collapsed after crucial evidence emerged at the last minute.\n\nThe police and the CPS say the forms will only be used when relevant, and they have invited victims' groups to help improve the form.\n\n\"It is not true that sexual assault victims are being singled out and forced to hand over their phones,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\n\"They are potentially relevant to all case types and the need to pursue relevant lines of enquiry in digital devices is not new.\n\n\"We are very clear that devices should only be looked at when relevant and private information not connected to the case must not be shared with the defence or shown in court.\"\n\nThey added that the forms made it clear that consent was \"only being requested when pursuing a reasonable line of enquiry\".\n\n\"The dreadful stories from victims this week demonstrate exactly why we have been so keen to introduce a clearer, more consistent approach to gaining consent for accessing data,\" they added.\n\nA screenshot of part of a consent form for 'digital device extraction', provided by the National Police Chiefs Council", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDivock Origi's late winner sent Liverpool top of the Premier League with victory at Newcastle United to put the pressure back on Manchester City and ensure the title race will go to the final game.\n\nOrigi - on as substitute for Mohamed Salah after he was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury sustained in a collision with Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka - headed in Xherdan Shaqiri's free-kick in the 86th minute.\n\nIt gave Liverpool three points after a topsy-turvy night on Tyneside.\n\nNow Manchester City must beat Leicester City at Etihad Stadium on Monday to ensure they retain the initiative going into the final round of games next Sunday.\n\nLiverpool went ahead after 13 minutes when Virgil van Dijk arrived unmarked on the end of Trent Alexander-Arnold's free-kick.\n\nNewcastle were quickly level when Christian Atsu scored from close range after Alexander-Arnold handled Salomon Rondon's shot on the line but Salah took advantage of more poor marking to volley home another fine delivery from the young defender.\n\nRondon, a handful all night, drew Newcastle level once more nine minutes after the break when Liverpool failed to clear a corner and Jurgen Klopp's side suffered another blow when Salah was taken off after a lengthy delay.\n\nOrigi was introduced and made the decisive contribution that keeps the title race alive - although Salah's injury is a worry with Liverpool attempting to claw back a 3-0 deficit against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.\n• None 'Liverpool survive night laced with danger – and now look to Rodgers for helping hand'\n• None We have qualified for our final - Klopp\n• None Salah could face Barca but Firmino out\n• None How the title race could still go to a 39th game play-off\n\nLiverpool refuse to go away\n\nLiverpool simply refuse to buckle in their pursuit of Manchester City - no matter how long they have to wait to get the victories they require.\n\nKlopp's side are showing remarkable drive and resilience, illustrated by the manner in which they have won so many games in the closing stages, especially when the pressure has been on.\n\nThere have been prime examples at home to Everton and Tottenham but in recent weeks they have stayed the course to outlast opponents such as Fulham, Southampton and now Newcastle away from home.\n\nAnd here, in this unforgiving Tyneside atmosphere, they overcame adversity and a Newcastle side who were in no mood to stand meekly aside despite Premier League safety being assured.\n\nLiverpool were vulnerable in defence but this is a side that carries a persistent threat and it was the introduction of the likes of Shaqiri and Origi that made the difference.\n\nLiverpool could have been forgiven for thinking the fates were against them when Salah took that sickening blow in an accidental aerial collision with Dubravka, the Egyptian lying on the floor for several minutes before being taken away on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the entire stadium.\n\nAnd yet they responded once more, digging deep to secure three points with Origi's glancing header and this means Manchester City know the stakes are huge when they face Brendan Rodgers' in-form side on Monday.\n\nWhat next for Newcastle and Benitez?\n\nRafael Benitez spent the entire night taking the acclaim of the Toon Army, from before kick-off to a post-match lap of honour when the supporters chanted long and loud for the Spaniard to agree a new deal to stay at St James' Park.\n\nThe messages are still mixed but not here among Newcastle's fanbase. There is only one outcome these fans, who idolise Benitez, want.\n\nWhether Benitez gives them what they desire remains to be seen but once again he has kept a workmanlike squad in the Premier League with room to spare and now wants the investment to send them into the top 10.\n\nIronically, on this night, some of the Benitez trademarks were missing as wretched defensive organisation allowed Liverpool to cash in on each of their goals.\n\nBut, as he led the players around St James' Park to take the supporters' applause it was clear that those fans now want the final line of this season's story to be written with Benitez's name on a new deal.\n\nWhen asked about his future, Benitez said: \"We have been talking the last week and hopefully in one or two weeks will have more news.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I know what kind of boys I have - who doesn't know after the game today? If anyone thought Newcastle weren't playing for anything, wow, that was competitive - but we deserved to win.\n\n\"I only have to help the boys. I don't feel pressure. If we are champions then we are champions, you can't feel pressure when you do your best.\n\nOn Divock Origi's winning goal: \"That's nearly a fairytale. And now we are qualified for our final on Sunday against Wolves. Of course before that we play Barcelona but I'm not thinking of that yet and then we will see.\"\n\nNewcastle boss Rafael Benitez, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm really proud because it was a difficult game against a very good team but the players gave everything. The fans appreciate that and were behind the team, we couldn't ask for more.\n\n\"We made a few mistakes at set pieces but in terms of effort and desire we did quite well. We are trying to make sure we don't make so many mistakes. I don't know about the third goal but the first two we can do much better.\n\n\"We have been quite consistent, working really hard as a team and as a unit, staying very compact. It was a great performance from us.\"\n• None Liverpool have scored 18 headed goals in the Premier League this season and 12 goals via substitutes, more than any other team in both categories.\n• None The Reds have scored more goals against Newcastle in the Premier League than against any other team (98).\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scored his 100th league goal in European top-flight football, with 56 of those coming in the Premier League (also 35 in Italian Serie A and 9 in Swiss Super League).\n• None Liverpool are the first team in Premier League history to have at least two defenders provide 10+ assists each in a single campaign (Trent Alexander-Arnold 11, Andy Robertson 11).\n• None Newcastle's Salomon Rondon has hit double figures for goals in a Premier League season for the first time.\n• None Only Chelsea's Eden Hazard (48%) has had a hand in a higher proportion of his team's goals in the Premier League this season than Rondon (45% - scoring 10 goals and assisting 7 of 38).\n\nLiverpool host Wolves at Anfield on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Newcastle are away at Fulham, with both matches kicking off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Salomón Rondón tries a through ball, but Yoshinori Muto is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salomón Rondón (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None James Milner (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Newcastle United 2, Liverpool 3. Divock Origi (Liverpool) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Fabinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than £5m in unpaid tax has been recovered from hundreds of dog breeders and traders selling puppies on the black market.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launched an investigation in 2015 after animal welfare groups expressed concerns puppies were being reared on a mass scale and sold illicitly in the UK.\n\nIt has recovered a total of £5,393,035 in lost taxes from 257 separate cases.\n\nSeveral arrests have also been made during the four-year investigation.\n\nAmong those HMRC said were targeted by its special taskforce were two unconnected puppy breeders in the West of Scotland who were handed tax bills of £425,000 and £337,000.\n\nA former Crufts judge breeding puppies in the Midlands was found to owe £185,000 in unpaid taxes, according to the government agency.\n\nA dealer in Northern Ireland was told to pay £185,000 in tax while a Somerset breeder was given a £114,000 bill, and a puppy breeder in Swansea was handed a £110,000 tax bill, it said.\n\nFinancial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, said: \"It is utterly appalling that anyone would want to treat puppies in such an inhumane way and on such a scale.\n\n\"It's also deeply unfair to all of the legitimate businesses who do pay the right tax, and the total recovered by the taskforce is equivalent to the annual salaries for more than 200 newly qualified teachers.\n\n\"We continue to work hard with other government agencies and our partners to tackle these traders.\"\n\nHMRC is also involved in a multi-agency collaboration across the UK and Ireland called Operation Delphin, which is designed to tackle illegal puppy smuggling and its consequences.\n\nIt is led by the Scottish SPCA and includes partners such as the RSPCA, Ulster SPCA, Dublin SPCA, Irish SPCA, HMRC, Border Force, and the police.\n\nAs part of Operation Delphin's activities, the SSPCA said it had seized 27 puppies smuggled from Ireland at Cairnryan Port in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe RSPCA said it had intercepted 96 puppies being smuggled into the UK overnight through Holyhead Port in Wales, in a shipment it said was likely to have been worth \"many tens of thousands in murky profits\".\n\nClaire Lawson, from the RSCPA, said: \"Sadly, people are readily prepared to act illegally and compromise the welfare of defenceless animals to make profit.\n\n\"That's why the work of the HMRC taskforce in tackling dishonest dog breeding practices is so important.\n\n\"Puppy breeding can be big business, and those seeking to sacrifice their welfare to make more money need to know that this behaviour will not be tolerated, and they will punished.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Universities using \"gagging orders\" to stop staff going public with claims of bullying or sexual misconduct is an \"outrage\", according to a minister.\n\nChris Skidmore said using non-disclosure agreements in this way risks the reputation of UK higher education.\n\nIt comes after BBC figures showed universities spent about £87m on pay-offs with NDAs since 2017.\n\nNDAs are contracts between employers and companies which can stop staff or ex-staff making information public.\n\nIn a speech at the London School of Economics this week, universities minister Mr Skidmore is expected to say universities are considered the \"bastions of free speech\" - but that there are reports that some of them have suppressed allegations of harassment, discrimination and sexual assault.\n\nKnown as \"confidentiality clauses\" in the legal profession, NDAs can be signed when staff are hired to protect trade secrets like inventions or ideas.\n\nBut they can also be signed when employees and organisations resolve a dispute, and have been used to stop workers discussing allegations of misbehaviour in the workplace.\n\nLast month, dozens of academics told BBC News they were \"harassed\" out of their jobs and made to sign NDAs after making complaints.\n\nMr Skidmore will say collective action is needed to stop the misuse of NDAs\n\n\"Non-disclosure agreements exist for many purposes - such as protecting valuable research findings should a staff member change jobs,\" Mr Skidmore will say on Tuesday.\n\n\"But in no circumstances should they be used by universities to 'gag' staff after experiencing poor behaviour in the workplace, including bullying, discrimination or sexual misconduct.\n\n\"Let me be clear that any use of this sort of agreement to silence people or hide details of unfair practices is an outrage and risks bringing the reputation of our world-leading higher education system into disrepute.\n\n\"Universities need to wake up to this fact and the very real threat it poses to the reputation of the sector.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anahid Kassabian felt bullied out of her job after she was diagnosed with cancer\n\nMr Skidmore is expected to express his support for Universities UK - which represents universities. It has said using NDAs to stop victims speaking out will not be tolerated.\n\nBBC analysis last month showed 96 universities in the UK had spent £87m on around 4,000 settlements since 2017.\n\nMany universities said they were unable to disclose why the agreements were signed, so it is unclear how many relate to allegations of bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct.\n\nClaims of the misuse of NDAs by universities follow high-profile cases in the film and business worlds.", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. Bedford re-elected its Liberal Democrat mayor.\n\nData journalism, development and design by Daniel Dunford, Joe Reed, Sean Willmott, John Walton, Wesley Stephenson, Mike Hills, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther, Alison Benjamin, Tom Francis-Winnington, Katia Artsenkova, Shilpa Saraf and Adam Allen.", "Australian DJ Adam Sky has died in an accident while on holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali.\n\nThe 42-year-old is said to have been badly hurt trying to help a friend who had suffered multiple injuries.\n\nWhile rushing to aid her, he smashed through a glass door, causing him to suffer severe cuts and blood loss, Nine News reported.\n\nAccording to the site the female friend had fallen several metres from their private terrace.\n\nThe woman survived and was taken to hospital, Indonesian media report.\n\nA statement confirming the Singapore-based DJ's death has been posted to his official Facebook page.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Adam Sky This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nTributes on the DJ's social media accounts praised him as a \"legend,\" and a great friend and colleague.\n\n\"You always burned so brightly,\" one read, while another described him as an \"amazing guy with a heart of gold\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted his management for comment.\n\nSky - real name Adam Neat - was ranked as the third most popular DJ in Asia last year, according to his website.\n\nThe site quotes JUICE Magazine Asia describing him as a \"rising Aussie superstar DJ\" and says he worked with well-known artists such as Fat Boy Slim, David Guetta and The Scissor Sisters.", "Senior Conservatives have called for the party to pull together after it suffered its worst results in English local elections since 1995.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid admitted voters had \"issues of trust\" over Brexit, and said the European elections would \"be even more challenging\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the party needed to listen to the results and be \"in the mood for compromise\".\n\nBoth PM Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have insisted they will push ahead with seeking a cross-party agreement on Brexit, following the results.\n\nLabour had been expected to make gains but lost 82 seats in the elections, while the Liberal Democrats - who have campaigned for a further vote on leaving the EU - were the main beneficiary of Tory losses, gaining 703 seats.\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nElections were held for 248 English councils, six mayors, and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland - where a second day of counting is continuing. No elections took place in Scotland or Wales.\n\nVince Cable claimed Liberal success \"reflected the unpopularity of the government\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Hancock said \"the mood of the nation is, 'get on, deliver Brexit, and then move on'\".\n\nBut he said the Tories might have to move towards Labour's proposal of a permanent customs union - in order to solve the current impasse in Westminster over Brexit.\n\nThe EU customs union means that once goods have cleared customs in one country and the commonly agreed tariffs (charges on imports) have been paid, they can be shipped to others in the union without further charges.\n\nA country does not have to be a member of the EU to be part of the customs union, but members cannot negotiate their own independent trade deals with countries from the rest of the world.\n\nMrs May's government has previously ruled out remaining in a customs union after the UK leaves the EU, arguing it would prevent the UK from setting its own trade policy.\n\nLabour has suggested the EU may show flexibility over the issue and allow the UK \"a say\" in future trade deals.\n\nMr Hancock suggested \"coming up with something in-between\", and called for \"an open dialogue in which we can make an agreement\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt also said there was a \"glimmer of hope\" that a compromise between the Conservative and Labour \"core-voters\" could be reached.\n\n\"If we can find a solution that delivers the benefits of the customs union without signing up to the current arrangements, then I think there will be potential,\" he said.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC News that the local election results should be seen as a \"punishment\" to both the Conservatives and the Labour Party \"for failing to find a way through\" the Brexit conundrum.\n\nHe added: \"We have to persevere with the talks with the Labour Party. I think that is the best opportunity to find a way through here.\"\n\nThe MP for Hertfordshire South West also rejected calls to oust Mrs May, saying: \"We should back the prime minister... so that we can bring the country together again - we can unite the Conservative Party and find a practical way through.\"\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline has been pushed back to 31 October.\n\nMr Javid said this was a big factor in the Conservative Party losing control of 45 councils on Thursday - in its worst performance since John Major's party lost 2,000 councillors in 1995.\n\nIn a rallying cry to Conservatives in Aberdeen, he said that \"a divided party cannot unite a divided nation\".\n\nThe home secretary said the party risked losing voters' trust after \"not delivering on a promise at the heart of our last manifesto\".\n\nAnd, speaking about the European elections, due to take place on 23 May, he said: \"We shouldn't be surprised if people tick the protest box on the ballot paper.\"\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nLisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, also said the results reflected the public's frustration with the two main parties' \"perceived inability... to get our act together\".\n\nShe told the Today programme there was \"no single magic bullet\" to solving Brexit, but \"the fact that people are not clear on what our policy is, is harming us in both Remain and Leave areas alike\".\n\nMs Nandy said failing to leave the European Union would be a \"final breach of trust\" and her party must respect the referendum result.\n\nHowever, she said she believed the Brexit effect on the election results had been \"enormously overstated\" and many in towns like Wigan \"just didn't feel like Labour spoke for them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating - as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them - \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.", "Forty-one people died after a Russian plane made an emergency landing and burst into flames just after takeoff from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.\n\nVideos on social media showed passengers using emergency exit slides to escape and run away from the burning Aeroflot aircraft.", "City of Edinburgh Council tweeted a picture of one iconic street devoid of cars\n\nA number of Edinburgh's city centre streets have been closed to traffic under plans to reduce air pollution.\n\nThe city has become the first in the UK to join the Open Streets movement.\n\nStreets in the Old Town, including the Canongate, Cockburn Street and Victoria Street, were closed between midday and 17:00.\n\nThe initiative will take place on the first Sunday of every month as part of an 18-month trial.\n\nEdinburgh's cycle hire scheme will also be free all week to encourage people to ditch their vehicles.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The City of Edinburgh Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The City of Edinburgh Council\n\nThe movement has seen cities around the world temporarily close some streets to all but pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles on a regular basis.\n\nA series of events took place to celebrate the launch in Edinburgh, including jazz performances in Dunbar Close Garden, Tai Chi on the High Street and electric bike trials on Victoria Street.\n\nA mini-badminton net was put up in the middle of the Canongate for people to make the most of the deserted road\n\nEdinburgh's High Street was also part of the closure, which will take place on the first Sunday of every month as part of an 18-month trial\n\nLesley Macinnes, City of Edinburgh Councils's transport and environment convener, said: \"We've seen how successful similar schemes internationally have proved by encouraging active travel, improving air quality and creating a safer, more relaxed atmosphere so I can't wait to see this take shape in the capital.\n\n\"Climate change is a real threat to society, it's clear that we have to act, and Open Streets is undoubtedly a step in the right direction.\"\n\nThe roads in green will be closed to vehicles on the first Sunday of the month as part of the trial by the City of Edinburgh Council\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Corner said she would meet the unidentified gunman at \"any police station on the island of Ireland\"\n\nLyra McKee's sister has offered to meet the 29-year-old journalist's killer and support him in \"accepting responsibility for your actions\".\n\nNicola Corner said the unknown gunman's guilt must be as difficult to live with as her family's grief.\n\n\"It is my hope that you need relief from your guilt,\" she said.\n\nMs McKee was shot dead while observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate on 18 April. The New IRA said its members were responsible.\n\nMrs Corner was speaking at a peace rally in the city to mark the end of a three-day walk from Belfast to Derry in memory of Ms McKee.\n\nMore than 160 walkers took part in the 70-mile (110km) walk, setting off from Belfast on Saturday and arrived in Derry city centre earlier on Monday evening.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nSnow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, singer Katie Richardson and Lyra's Choir, who came together from across Northern Ireland, earlier performed in Guildhall Square.\n\nLightbody was among 200 people who had joined the walk on the final leg from Drumahoe into Derry.\n\nMrs Corner told the crowd in Guildhall Square she wanted to speak directly to the person who killed her sister.\n\nSnow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody and Lyra McKee's partner Sara Canning were among 300 walkers on the final leg of Lyra's Walk into Derry\n\n\"It is my belief that when you went out on the night of the 18 April, you did not intend to turn yourself into a killer,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet the events as they developed led to that becoming your reality. You are now a killer, now the person who killed Lyra McKee, my baby sister, and you cannot take that back.\"\n\nShe said she would meet the gunman because \"Lyra needs justice and this country demands true peace\".\n\n\"I am prepared to be there as you hand yourself in,\" added Mrs Corner.\n\nI promise you here and now that I will meet you at any police station anywhere on this island to support you in taking the brave step to hand yourself in and allowing my sister the justice she deserves.\n\n\"I know it will not be easy - that's why I am reaching out to you, because sometimes the right thing is the most difficult.\"\n\nShe added: \"Together we can end this nightmare, because failure is not an option.\"\n\nLyra's Walk left Belfast on Saturday, arriving in Derry on Bank Holiday Monday\n\nMrs Corner paid tribute to the community in the Creggan area of Derry where her sister was killed and thanked the 160 people who had given the police information about the night of her murder.\n\nShe said her sister's death could not be in vain. The rally closed with Ms Corner holding up a copy of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and urging politicians to end the current impasse at Stormont.\n\nEarlier this month, the detective leading the investigation into Ms McKee's murder called on the gunman to hand himself in.\n\nTwo men have been charged with rioting in the city on the night that Ms McKee was murdered.", "US President Donald Trump enjoyed a ringside seat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo - and even awarded a special trophy.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.\n\nTrump in Japan: Sumo, barbecue and an imperial audience", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The cheese is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient Cooper's Hill at Brockworth\n\nA new champion has been crowned at the death-defying annual cheese rolling race.\n\nMax McDougall, 22, won the first men's downhill race after tripping and tumbling down Cooper's Hill.\n\nVeteran cheese chaser Chris Anderson, 31, who holds a record 22 wins over the past 15 years, did not compete as he was on holiday.\n\nRecent dry weather made the ground hard and fast for competitors who were cheered on by thousands of people.\n\nMr McDougall, from Brockworth, said: \"It was better than last year when I knocked myself out.\n\n\"I normally come second to Chris (Anderson). I just went for it, pick a line and stick to it.\"\n\nMax McDougall said the race was \"better than last year when I knocked myself out\"\n\nRebel cheese rollers have been staging their own unofficial event after health and safety fears caused the official competition to be cancelled in 2010.\n\nThe cheese is chased 200 yards down the 1:2 gradient hill.\n\nAfter a year's hiatus, when police warned against the use of a real cheese, an imitation lightweight foam cheese was replaced with the genuine article.\n\nThe unusual event has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.\n\nA second men's race was won by Ryan Fairley, 29, from Brockworth, who took home a Double Gloucester for the ninth time.\n\nOne competitor was stretchered off the course with a suspected fractured ankle after falling during the second race\n\nThe women's race was won by 28-year-old Flo Early, who picked up a Double Gloucester for the fourth time, after victories in 2008, 2016 and 2018, but also managed to sprain her ankle in the process.\n\n\"If you go fast from the beginning the hill will do the rest,\" she said.\n\nThe final men's downhill race was won by Canadian Mark Kit, 21, from Toronto, who had been inspired to take part after seeing videos of cheese rolling as a child.\n\nOne competitor was stretchered off the course with a suspected fractured ankle after falling during the second race.", "Just two of the Republic of Ireland's 13 seats have so far been filled\n\nEuropean election counting has been suspended in one of Republic of Ireland's constituencies following a dispute over vote transfers.\n\nThe count in Dublin will resume at 11:00 local time on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe dispute comes over the potential distribution of votes for the two remaining seats in the Dublin constituency.\n\nThree of the Republic of Ireland's 13 European Parliament seats have been filled so far.\n\nCounting in the Republic began on Sunday night, but progress has been slow.\n\nFine Gael's Mairead McGuinness was re-elected in the Midlands-North-West constituency with 134,630 votes.\n\nShe will be joined in the European Parliament by the Green Party's Ciaran Cuffe and Fine Gael's Frances Fitzgerald, who were elected in Dublin on the 13th and 14th count respectively.\n\nThe two remaining Dublin seats will be taken by Fianna Fáil's Barry Andrews and Clare Daly of Independents 4 Change.\n\nHowever, a dispute over whether votes will be distributed between the pair has brought the count to a halt.\n\nThe potential transfers will decide which one finishes third and fourth in the poll. The fourth and final seat will only become active if and when Britain leaves the EU, as it one of the UK's parliament seats that has been redistributed by the EU.\n\nEarlier, Ms McGuinness said she was \"delighted, relieved and a bit tired\" to retain her seat.\n\n\"I am deeply honoured and humbled by the size of the mandate I have received,\" she said.\n\nTurnout in the election was 49.7%, with the governing Fine Gael party topping the poll with 29.6% of first preferences.\n\nFianna Fáil had 16.5%, Sinn Féin had 11.7% just ahead of the Green Party with 11.4%, while independents took 15.7% of the vote.\n\nThe former SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, who stood in Dublin, has been eliminated.\n\nHe said that voters cared less about Brexit than domestic issues.\n\nHe added that he did not regret standing for Fine Gael even though the party he once led in Northern Ireland has a working relationship with Fianna Fáil - Fine Gael's traditional rival.\n\nAs in the Republic's local elections, Sinn Féin's vote is down.\n\nThe party's Dublin MEP, Lynn Boylan, will struggle to hold her seat against the challenge from the independent left-wing Clare Daly, with anxious waits also for Liadh Ní Riada in Ireland South and Matt Carthy in Ireland Midlands-North-West.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with Fine Gael, performed the best of all the parties in the local elections.\n\nMark Durkan - who stood for Fine Gael - accepted that other issues eclipsed his anti-Brexit message\n\nBut Fine Gael is expected to do much better in the European elections.\n\nWith a number of members of the Dáil (Irish parliament) certain to be returned as MEPs, there will have to be by-elections, which could destabilise the already fragile relationship between the two biggest parties.\n\nAnd while both have agreed to continue their confidence-and-supply arrangement for another October budget because of Brexit uncertainty in the UK, there has been a lot of parsing of comments made by the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar about another return to the polls.\n\nCounting in the Republic began on Sunday\n\nIn two separate interviews with Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, he said he could not rule out a general election this year, but he would not call one in the coming days or weeks.\n\nThat has led some to speculate about the possibility of a late-June poll given that the UK will not be leaving the EU before the end of October.\n\nIt is the taoiseach's prerogative to call an election - voters will have to wait and see what he decides.", "Home Secretary Sajid Javid has become the latest MP to join the race for the Conservative Party leadership.\n\nAnnouncing his candidacy on Twitter, Mr Javid said that \"first and foremost, we must deliver Brexit\".\n\nHe is the ninth member of the Tory Party to confirm he is running, and whoever wins will become the next UK prime minister.\n\nIt follows the announcement by Theresa May on Friday that she would stand down as leader on 7 June.\n\nShe confirmed she would stay on as PM until a new leader is chosen - which senior Conservative figures said should be by the end of July.\n\nIn a video, Mr Javid said he wanted to \"rebuild trust, to find unity and create new opportunities for our country\".\n\nHe said the results of the European elections - which saw his party score less than 10% of the total vote, compared to nearly 25% in 2014 - made it \"all too clear\" that the government \"must get on and deliver Brexit to ensure there is renewed trust in our democracy\".\n\nHe added: \"We must bridge divides to heal communities, reminding us of our shared values as a United Kingdom, and we must strengthen our society and economy so that everyone can benefit from the opportunities which a prosperous nation provides.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe other candidates who have entered the contest so far are:\n\nA number of the candidates expressed their dismay at the election results, which was dominated by the Brexit Party and left the Tories with just four MEPs returning to the European Parliament.\n\nMr Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph that voters had issued a \"crushing rebuke\" to the Conservatives, and the party could be \"fired from running the country\" if it does not deliver Brexit.\n\nMr Gove said \"one message is clear\" from the figures and that was the next Tory leader \"absolutely needs to deliver Brexit\".\n\nAnd Mrs Leadsom called the results \"truly terrible\", saying they \"demonstrate the damage that has been done to the Conservative Party\".\n\nAttitudes toward a no-deal Brexit are sharply divided, with several candidates saying they are prepared to let the UK leave the EU on the new deadline on 31 October without a deal if necessary, including Mr Johnson and Mr Raab.\n\nOther candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal passed in Parliament.\n\nWriting in the Times, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Conservatives had to deliver Brexit through Parliament, \"whether we like it or not\".\n\nNominations for the leadership will close in the week commencing 10 June, and MPs will then whittle down the candidates to a final two, which the wider membership of the party can then vote for.", "Video caption: The man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections\n\nThe man known as the \"doctor of migrants\" on Lampedusa, wins a seat in EU elections", "We are closing our international live coverage of the European elections for the night. You can continue to follow UK results and reaction here.\n\nHere are the the day's main developments:\n• The big power blocs of the centre-right and centre-left lost their combined majority in the European Parliament. \"The monopoly of power is broken,\" said Denmark's Margrethe Vestager, the liberal candidate for the top post in the European Commission\n• Europeans voted in their biggest numbers since 1994, bucking years of decline with a turnout just shy of 51%\n• The big winners of the night were the liberals and Greens. The liberals have were boosted by the decision of President Macron's ruling party to join them\n• The Greens saw strong votes in Finland, Germany, France and Portugal\n• The nationalist right had a patchy night, but enjoyed successes in Italy, where figurehead Matteo Salvini ran to victory, and in France, where Marine Le Pen defeated the Renaissance alliance of Mr Macron.\n• In the UK, the newly-formed Brexit Party soared to victory, gaining 28 seats amid massive losses for Conservatives and Labour\n• There are still results to be announced, alliances to forge, and perhaps some domestic political fallout for parties across the continent\n• BBC journalists will be covering the story from both UK and international angles - stay tuned for developments throughout the day\n• To catch up, take a look at what we know so far about the outlook across Europe\n\nThanks for following.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says some of their rivals are jealous of the club's success.\n\nCity became the first English side to win a domestic treble when they beat Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final, yet the achievement has been accompanied by criticism of the amount it has cost to put Pep Guardiola's squad together.\n\nHowever, in his annual assessment of the campaign on City's internal media, Mubarak said he will not accept his club \"being used as a diversionary tactic on poor investment decisions\".\n\nPremier League champions City do not have a player in the top 10 most expensive signings. English rivals Manchester United have two - £89m Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku, bought for an initial £75m - and Liverpool one in £75m Virgil van Dijk.\n\nCity's record signing is Riyad Mahrez, who they bought from Leicester for £60m in July 2018, while their other biggest transfers include Aymeric Laporte for £57m, Kevin de Bruyne for £55m and Benjamin Mendy for £52m.\n\n\"With success, there is a certain level of jealousy, envy, whatever you call it. That's part of the game,\" said Mubarak.\n\n\"It's not easy for our competition, we know that. But the reality is, we didn't buy the most expensive player in the Premier League [Pogba], we didn't buy the most expensive goalkeeper [Kepa Arrizabalaga], we didn't buy the most expensive midfielder, we didn't buy the most expensive striker [Lukaku].\n\n\"People make decisions, they've got to live by them. This is a well-run club.\"\n\nCriticism of City has intensified since it was confirmed they had been referred to Uefa's financial body amid allegations of financial fair play (FFP) rule breaches something the club strenuously denies.\n\nMubarak is particularly upset at comments from La Liga president Javier Tebas, who said recently that City, backed by the Abu Dhabi United Group, and Paris St-Germain, owned by Qatar Sports Investments, were the \"playthings of a state\" who should be kicked out of the Champions League over their methods and spending powers.\n\n\"I think there's something deeply wrong in bringing ethnicity into the conversation,\" Mubarak said of the comments.\n\n\"This is just ugly, the way he is combining teams because of ethnicity. I find that very disturbing, to be honest.\"\n\nCity feel Tebas' comments do not bear scrutiny when it is considered how much Spanish giants Real Madrid spent during their 'galactico' era, when they signed Portugal forward Luis Figo, France midfielder Zinedine Zidane, Brazil striker Ronaldo and England captain David Beckham in successive summers from 2000.\n\n\"He [Tebas] talks about how we distorted the market,\" Mubarak added.\n\n\"There is a hypocrisy in this statement that is ironic. These huge jumps in these transfers - Figo, Zidane - where did they happen?\n\n\"I have no time for innuendo. Mr Tebas should look back at the history of La Liga, a league dominated by two clubs, and how distortion has happened. Manchester City has not a single player in the top 10 transfers.\n\n\"I don't think this is just an attack on Manchester City, it's against this league. I hope people start seeing that. I know people don't want to defend Manchester City - but for God's sake start defending this league.\n\n\"There are four Premier League teams in the two European finals. We have the best league in the world, the most commercial league and the most successful clubs in terms of global presence. That bothers a lot of people in many places.\"\n\nOn 14 May, City said they were \"concerned\" at an article published in the New York Times claiming Uefa investigators wanted the club banned from the Champions League, saying they feared people with vested interests were intent on \"damaging the club's reputation or commercial interests\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mubarak restated his belief City will \"unquestionably\" be cleared \"if the process is going to be judged on the facts\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"If it's not about facts, then it is a different conversation.\"\n• None Man City & FPP: What could happen next?\n• None FFP rules - all you need to know", "Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald (right) arriving at the count centre in the RDS in Dublin with party candidate for the European election Lynn Boylan (left)\n\nSinn Féin has said it is disappointed in its party's performance in the Republic of Ireland's local elections as counting continues.\n\nMore than three quarters of council seats have been filled across the Republic.\n\nResults so far have seen a surge in support for the Green Party.\n\nOn Monday morning, the Greens had secured 5.6% of the first preference vote, up from 1.6% five years ago.\n\nThe results so far still put the Greens behind the governing party Fine Gael, and main opposition parties Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin.\n\nThey show Fianna Fáil receiving 26.9% first preference votes with Fine Gael on 25.2%, Sinn Féin on 9.5% and Labour on 5.7%.\n\nMore than 870 of the 949 seats have been filled.\n\nEarly election results in the European elections were announced on Sunday night.\n\nGreen Party candidate Ciarán Cuffe topped the poll in Dublin, receiving 63,849 first preference votes.\n\nFormer SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who stood as a Fine Gael candidate in the same constituency, received 16,473 first round votes.\n\nMark Durkan fell well short of the quota after the counting of first preference votes\n\nThe Sinn Féin vote is down in both the local elections and the European elections.\n\nThe party five years ago came in with over 100 extra seats (in the local elections), riding the crest of a wave of popular discontent about austerity, about water charges, but clearly it's a very different Republic now.\n\nFor example, there is statistical full employment, people are more content, the economy is doing well.\n\nIt may be regarded that perhaps the Sinn Féin message didn't reflect the new reality.\n\nThe party accepts it is in a struggle to retain seats, particularly in Dublin in the European elections.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, is set to remain the biggest party on a local government level.\n\nSinn Féin TD (member of the Irish parliament) Pearse Doherty said it was clear the party were \"going to lose some very valuable councillors\".\n\nHe added that \"the wind is against us\" and that the party would have to look at why certain areas did not come out to vote for Sinn Féin.\n\nTánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney said his Fine Gael party would have liked to have made bigger gains but that he did not think \"anyone anticipated the scale of the growth in support for the Green Party\".\n\nIn a referendum also held on Friday, people in the Republic of Ireland voted to liberalise divorce laws.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins and wife Sabina were among thousands of Irish voters who cast ballots on Friday\n\nMeanwhile, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said he was open to the possibility of an early general election.\n\nHe told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ \"there were a number of factors in play\" on whether or not this would happen.\n\n\"Obviously the instability across the water in relation to Brexit, we have to bear that in mind, and also whether we can get the votes to get a budget through.\"", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nA former inspector at the Care Quality Commission says a 2015 report into Whorlton Hall hospital which presented \"warning bells\" went unpublished.\n\nBarry Stanley-Wilkinson says he wrote the report four years before BBC Panorama revealed the alleged abuse of patients with learning disabilities and autism.\n\nThe CQC said the draft report raised no concerns about abusive practices.\n\nThe claims come after 10 workers at the specialist hospital were arrested.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested last week at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton over the alleged abuse of patients.\n\nAn undercover BBC Panorama investigation into the specialist hospital in County Durham - a 17-bed unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism - appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the alleged abuse was discovered.\n\nMr Stanley-Wilkinson says he noticed a \"very poor culture\" was evident when he led the 2015 inspection.\n\nHe told the BBC that he had raised concerns over the \"very poor culture\" in a report he wrote - four years prior to the BBC investigation.\n\nHe said: \"I strongly believe that anybody that can understand organisational culture reading that report would agree that there was definitely warning bells there.\n\n\"I was extremely upset. This should have been listened to back in 2015 and I said quite openly, when I left the organisation, that I felt it had neglected its promise to people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHe said it was the only report he wrote in nearly a decade of working at the CQC which wasn't published.\n\nIn a statement, the CQC said the report went through a \"rigorous peer review process\".\n\nIt said the draft report \"did not raise any concerns about abusive practice\".\n\nThe CQC said a later inspection rated the hospital as \"good overall\".\n\nIn a statement it said: \"We are in the process of commissioning a review into what we could have done differently or better in our regulation of Whorlton Hall and these allegations will be fully investigated as part of this.\n\n\"We will update on the progress and findings of this review in our Public Board meetings.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least two people have died after a tornado struck in El Reno, Oklahoma on Saturday night.\n\nThe incident on Saturday follows a week of tornadoes, severe rain and flooding in states in the Southern Plains and Midwest regions.\n\nThe recent spate of extreme weather has been blamed for at least nine deaths across the region, the Associated Press reports.\n\nThis video has no commentary", "Stacey Porter and David Johnston had no idea they were expecting a baby\n\nA woman who didn't know she was pregnant has told of how she delivered her baby alone on her bathroom floor.\n\nStacey Porter, 20, thought she had a stomach ache. It wasn't until she felt the baby's head coming she realised she was about to give birth.\n\nShe phoned her partner David Johnston, 26, to wake him, but - despite 60 missed calls - he didn't stir.\n\nSo she gave birth alone in their bathroom and David woke to the news that the pair had a daughter, Sophia.\n\nDavid told Radio Scotland that neither had any inkling that Stacey was expecting. Even the night before Stacey gave birth, he'd picked her up from work after she complained of feeling unwell.\n\nHe took her back to his family home in Grangemouth - where they were house-sitting while his parents were on holiday - but Stacey was up all night.\n\nShe didn't want to go to hospital, so David decided to sleep on the couch to get some rest before work.\n\nStacey said she had \"no idea at all\" that she was pregnant. She added: \"I didn't have any of the typical symptoms\".\n\nShe was still getting regular periods and even taking birth control pills.\n\nIt was just after 04:00 on 10 May when the \"agonising pain\" in her stomach became too much that she had to sit down on the bathroom floor.\n\nThen she realised what was happening: \"As soon as I knew her head was coming I knew I had to push - and it was a baby.\"\n\nStacey had been trying to wake her partner David, who was downstairs - phoning him 60 times.\n\n\"It was just ringing out, ringing out, so I kept hanging up and phoning again.\"\n\n\"When I knew her head was coming and I had to push, I stopped [trying to phone].\"\n\nOnce baby Sophia arrived, the first thing Stacey did was take some pictures - having given up on trying to wake her partner.\n\nIt was shortly after Sophia had been delivered that David woke up and called the pair an ambulance.\n\nHe said: \"I just stood there, staring at Stacey and Sophia. I put my head in my hands and I was just like 'Stacey, that's a baby'.\"\n\n\"At the meantime I'm shouting: 'Just phone an ambulance!'\", added Stacey.\n\nThe paramedics were \"a bit shocked\", but took the mother and baby to Forth Valley Royal Hospital for checks.\n\nThe family said their lives have \"turned around straight away\", and they are \"still trying to take it all in\".\n\nThey said they were still running on \"shock and adrenaline\", but that it was the \"most incredible feeling - there's so much love there that you never knew was possible\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters after a bilateral meeting with Japan PM Shinzo Abe.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has become the first foreign leader to meet Japan's Emperor Naruhito.\n\nMr Trump, who is currently on a four-day state visit to Japan, was greeted by the emperor and Empress Masako at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.\n\nThe US leader said ahead of the meeting that it was a \"great honour\".\n\nEmperor Naruhito ascended the throne earlier in May after his father Akihito stepped down - the first abdication by a Japanese emperor in centuries.\n\n\"It's over 200 years since something like this has happened,\" Mr Trump said of the abdication on Sunday. \"So it's a great honour to be representing the United States.\"\n\nMr Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were greeted by a Japanese honour guard and crowds waving US and Japanese flags as part of a formal welcoming ceremony on Monday.\n\nThe US president is said to have given a slight bow to the emperor and empress before entering the palace, according to news wire Reuters.\n\nMr Trump and Mrs Trump will return to the Imperial Palace later in the evening for a dinner banquet.\n\nMr Trump met Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo\n\nMr Trump reviewed the honour guard during a welcome ceremony\n\nMr Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on Monday at the Akasaka Palace - a state guest house - where they discussed trade and relations with North Korea.\n\nTies with the US are of great strategic importance to Japan, and the countries are currently working on a bilateral trade agreement.\n\nMr Trump had earlier met with the families of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea decades ago, to train North Korean spies in Japanese language and customs.\n\nThe decades-old issue is a painful chapter in relations between Pyongyang and Tokyo.\n\nNorth Korea has admitted kidnapping 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 80s, and returned five to Japan in 2002. It maintains the rest are dead - something Japan does not believe.\n\nMr Abe said at a press conference following the meeting that the abduction issue remained the \"most important thing\" for his government, adding that the families were \"appreciative\" of Mr Trump's visit.\n\n\"Irrespective of my term in office I have to do everything I can for the resolution of this issue,\" he said.\n\nMr Trump also spoke about relations with North Korea, reiterating that the country had \"tremendous economic potential\".\n\nHe called its leader Kim Jong-un a \"smart man\" and said he was \"very happy\" with the way North Korea was going.\n\nHis remarks come hours after North Korea called US National Security Advisor John Bolton a \"war maniac\".\n\n\"Such human defect must go away as soon as possible,\" said a spokesman for the North's ministry.\n\nWhen asked if he shared Mr Trump's optimism on North Korea, Mr Abe said that the US leader had \"cracked open the shell of distrust\".\n\nMr Trump and Mr Abe held talks at the Akasaka Palace on Monday\n\nMr Trump also spoke about US relations with Iran noting that Mr Abe was close to the leader of Iran.\n\n\"I do believe that Iran would like to talk and if they'd like to talk, we'd like to talk also,\" newswire AFP reported him as saying. \"Nobody wants to see terrible things happen, especially me.\"\n\nMr Trump recently announced that the US would be sending 1,500 troops to the Middle East as tensions rise between the US and Iran.\n\nHe appeared to express support for Mr Abe to help facilitate talks with Iran, amid local media reports the Japanese leader is considering a trip to Iran next month.\n\nThe bilateral meeting comes after the two leaders met on Sunday to play golf and watch a sumo tournament together.\n\nMr Abe tweeted a selfie they took at the Mobara Country Club golf course, south of Tokyo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe pair are regular golf partners, and Mr Trump has noted their \"very, very good chemistry\".", "Sonita Alleyne described it as an \"honour\" to be appointed new master of Jesus College\n\nThe first black woman has been appointed to lead an Oxbridge college.\n\nSonita Alleyne, 51, who has been elected as the next master of Jesus College, Cambridge, will also be its first female appointee and will take up the role from October.\n\nBusinesswoman and entrepreneur Ms Alleyne said it was \"an honour to be elected to lead Jesus College\".\n\n\"I left Cambridge 30 years ago, but it never left me. I am delighted to be returning,\" she said.\n\nBrought up in East London, Ms Alleyne studied for her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.\n\nA career in radio followed, including founding production company Somethin' Else, which she led as chief executive from 1991 until 2009.\n\nShe is a former BBC trustee who championed diversity and inclusivity.\n\nProfessor Mary Laven, of the college's search committee, said they were \"thrilled\" by Ms Alleyne's appointment.\n\n\"She brings to the college a wealth of experience and an enduring commitment to helping young people fulfil their potential,\" she said.\n\nMs Alleyne was also previously appointed to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation in 2012, as part of the drive to promote and deliver regeneration in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding areas.\n\nShe is also fellow of both the Royal Society of the Arts and the Radio Academy and was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2004.\n• None 'I'm mixed-race, is Cambridge right for me?'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Michael Gove will allow EU nationals living in the UK at the time of the referendum to apply free of charge for citizenship if he becomes PM.\n\nThe Brexit-supporting environment secretary, who is running to replace Theresa May, will make an \"open and generous\" offer, sources said.\n\nSo far, 10 Conservative MPs have said they will contest the party leadership.\n\nThe official race gets under way in early June, after Theresa May stands down - but jostling between candidates has begun. The winner, expected to be named by late July, will also become prime minister.\n\nSources close to Mr Gove, one of the leaders of the Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum, have told the BBC he is ready to accept proposals put forward by the Conservative MP Alberto Costa, who quit his government post over ministers' attitude to EU nationals living in the UK.\n\nIf chosen as the next Tory leader, it is said he would remove the requirement of EU citizens to provide proof of their right to be in the UK, getting rid of the \"settled status\" scheme.\n\nThose living in the country would require documentation only for specific purposes, rather than being required to register.\n\nMr Costa welcomed Mr Gove's proposal, calling it \"the morally right thing to do\"\n\nA source close to the environment secretary said: \"This is simply the right thing to do - honouring the promise of Vote Leave that EU nationals studying, working and living in the UK were welcome to stay.\"\n\nThe leadership contest comes after Mrs May tried and failed three times to get her Brexit withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons.\n\nShe announced her resignation last week following an outcry within her party when she proposed a fourth vote by MPs.\n\nMr Stewart said: \"I would like thousands of conversations up and down the country, co-ordinated on social media with all the results being brought together digitally.\n\n\"And then we come back into Parliament and we move very quickly to ban conversation about no deal, ban conversation about second referendum and focus on getting a deal done.\"\n\nMeanwhile, housing minister Kit Malthouse has become the latest Conservative MP to join the race to become party leader.\n\nWriting in the Sun newspaper on Tuesday, Mr Malthouse said the campaign \"cannot be about the same old faces\" and described himself as \"the new face, with fresh new ideas\".\n\nThe other declared candidates to replace Mrs May are:", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA man and a woman have been charged with murder after two children died following an \"incident\" at a house in Sheffield.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, died, and four children were \"rescued\" from the property in Shiregreen at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe woman has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder.\n\nThey are due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe four surviving children, aged eight months, three, 11 and 12, received treatment at hospital and were discharged on Saturday.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons.\n\nFloral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene.\n\nThe children cannot be identified for legal reasons\n\nPost-mortem tests on the boys who died had been due to take place on Friday.\n\nGill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe major centre-right and centre-left groupings were always going to have a tough election, the question was - on what scale?\n\nWhen the results came, it was clear they had lost their combined majority in the European Parliament as voters shied away from the mainstream. But they still held more than 43% of the vote.\n\nThe mainstream blocs lost votes to the Liberals, Greens and nationalists, creating a new, fragmented reality for the European Parliament.\n\nTurnout was at its highest since 1994, with some observers suggesting this was due to more young people voting.\n\nThe centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) have long held more than half the seats in Parliament between them. That is set to change.\n\nThe sense of an end of an era was symbolised in Germany, where the centre-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Angela Merkel polled just 29% of the vote - their worst-ever performance in European elections. The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) came a poor third with 16%.\n\nOfficial projections, based on exit polls, now suggest the EPP and S&D will lose 83 seats, bringing their share down to around 44%, from a comfortable control of more than half the previous parliament.\n\nThe centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), is heading for big gains, with its share rising from 67 seats to 107. That is largely because the newcomer-party of French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to join up and could play a kingmaker role.\n\nOutgoing ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt hailed a \"historical moment\" and a \"new balance of power\".\n\nMany member states, from the Nordic countries to Portugal, saw a rise in the Green vote.\n\nAnd while they may have come second in Germany, the Green party is being hailed as the big winner there, doubling its vote share to 21%, incomplete results showed.\n\nThe Greens captured the zeitgeist while the other parties struggled to put together a coherent environmental policy, said BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill.\n\nAround one in three people under the age of 30 voted Green. In the run-up to the vote, 90 influential YouTubers urged followers to vote for parties that took climate issues seriously. They told voters to avoid the far-right AfD, which they said denied climate change was even happening.\n\nGerman YouTubers including Rezo, seen on a placard at this protest, had called for people to vote for parties that took climate change seriously\n\nIn France, green group Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) is on course to come third with 13%. Both Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron have emphasised their green credentials. Mr Macron wants to shift to green technology and energy while Mrs Le Pen said her brand of localism was good for the environment.\n\nIn Portugal, the green PAN party (People-Animals-Nature) is on course to win its first ever seat in the European Parliament, possibly even two.\n\nThe Greens have won an historic second place in Finland but in Sweden, home to climate activist Greta Thunberg, they have gone into reverse. They are projected to poll 11%, down almost 8%.\n\nThis was to be the election that sparked a right-wing force to seize the agenda in Europe. It has not quite happened.\n\nThe two dominant nationalist figures in France and Italy won the national vote.\n\nMatteo Salvini, whose right-wing nationalist League party is predicted to win over 30% of the Italian vote, is hoping to found a new grouping, the European Alliance for People and Nations, with the support of a dozen other parties.\n\nIn France Marine Le Pen's National Rally party - formerly the National Front - is heading for first place with 23.5% of the vote, narrowly ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist grouping, which got 22.4%.\n\nTurnout was reportedly high in areas where her party has previously done well and also in areas where support for the anti-government \"gilets jaunes\" (yellow-vest) movement is strong. Mrs Le Pen has changed her position on EU membership, saying she now wants to stay in the bloc.\n\nBut after that the nationalist surge appears to fall away.\n\nIn Germany the far-right AfD is predicted to get under 11%, up from 7.1% five years ago, but down on its general election showing in 2017.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has lost all its seats in parliament. Much of his vote appears to have been taken over by another populist party, Forum for Democracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResults in Spain give new far-right Vox party getting only 6.2% of the vote, down from the 10.3% it achieved in Spain's national election only a month ago.\n\nFar-right and Eurosceptic parties are currently split between three groupings in the European Parliament: the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR); and the two far-right groupings, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) and Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF).\n\nIn the UK a new anti-EU party, the Brexit Party, is heading for victory at the expense of the Conservative Party, while pro-EU Liberal Democrats are taking votes from the traditionally centre-left Labour party.\n\nIn the UK, which voted on Thursday, Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party is heading for victory", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour deputy leader Tom Watson has said his party lost \"many hundreds of thousands\" of potential votes in the EU elections because of its Brexit stance.\n\nHe argued that confusion over holding a referendum on any deal had led to \"electoral catastrophe\", after Labour's share of the vote fell to 14%.\n\nBut he welcomed leader Jeremy Corbyn saying the party was \"ready to support a public vote on any deal\".\n\nMr Corbyn has attempted to appeal to both Remain and Leave voters in framing Brexit policy, but has come under increasing pressure from senior figures in the party to back a further referendum.\n\nIn the European Parliament elections, the Brexit Party, which supports a no-deal Brexit, won the most UK votes. Meanwhile, parties supporting a further referendum, including the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, picked up support.\n\nBacking for Labour and the Conservatives, whose members tend to have a broader range of views on the subject, slumped.\n\nAs the results came in, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, one of Mr Corbyn's closest political allies, told the BBC another referendum may be the only way to break the Brexit deadlock in Parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nFaced with the prospect of a \"Brexiteer extremist\" running the Conservative Party after the contest to replace Theresa May as leader, Mr McDonnell said Labour must back a fresh public vote to prevent a \"catastrophic\" no-deal scenario.\n\n\"Of course we want a general election, but realistically, after [the European election results] last night there aren't many Tory MPs who're going to vote for a general election,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be like turkeys voting for Christmas, so our best way of doing that is going back to the people in a referendum.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn spells out his party's \"very clear policy\"\n\nThe House of Commons has rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with the EU three times, and cross-party talks between Labour and the Conservatives, aimed at ending the impasse, ended recently without agreement.\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's policy had been \"very clear\" all along.\n\nHe also sent a letter to his MPs, saying it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nMr Watson, who has called for \"a confirmatory ballot\" on any agreement, said he was \"really pleased\" that Mr Corbyn had now \"signalled\" a change in policy.\n\nHowever, there was \"very little time\" before the 31 October deadline for Brexit, Mr Watson said, arguing that Labour must \"urgently\" consult its members either through a special conference or a ballot of members to change its Brexit policy.\n\nHe said Labour's Brexit policy had been agreed by \"a very small number of people\" on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, which had caused an \"electoral catastrophe\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's 14% vote share in the European elections is worse than its previous low in 2009. Across Britain, it was in third place, behind the Liberal Democrats and the Brexit Party.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard and Welsh Labour leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford have also spoken out in support of another referendum following the EU election results.\n\nFormer Labour communications director Alastair Campbell told the BBC he had voted for the Liberal Democrats \"for the first time in my life\".\n\n\"I felt on this issue the Labour Party has let its own supporters down, its members down and the country down in the way that it has failed properly to develop a policy that the party and country could unite around.\"\n\nLabour's MPs are divided on Brexit. David Lammy, who represents Tottenham, in north London, called for the party to \"get its act together\" and come out fully in support of another referendum.\n\nBut other Labour MPs in Leave-voting areas - like Don Valley MP Caroline Flint - said it would be a \"mistake\" for the party to appeal only to Remain voters.", "The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage took to the stage after being elected an MEP in South East England.", "Little Mix kicked off Sunday's event with songs including Shout Out To My Ex and Black Magic\n\nLittle Mix, Miley Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Stormzy and Lewis Capaldi are just some of the stars who put on a show for the crowd at Radio 1's Big Weekend.\n\nThe artists used fireworks and booming speakers to bring the party to Stewart Park in Middlesbrough on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nLewis, who performed on Saturday, told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"I think it might be the best gig I've ever played in my life.\n\n\"It's the first time I've played a lot of these songs in a festival set-up. It's incredible to see people come out.\n\n\"Hearing people singing back your songs is so weird... I don't think I'll ever get used to it.\"\n\nHere are some of the best pics from the weekend so far:\n\nMiley Cyrus put on a big performance to close the festival on Saturday\n\nMarcus Mumford got the crowd going when Mumford and Sons opened up the festival on Saturday\n\nLewis Capaldi performed a day after his debut album went to number one\n\nFoals had a dramatic backdrop for their set\n\nKhalid performed on the main stage on Saturday\n\nJax Jones (right) brought on Olly Alexander as a special guest\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The winners and losers of European election night\n\nThe Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, while the pro-EU Lib Dems came second.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former getting less than 10% of the vote.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he was ready to \"take on\" the main parties in a general election.\n\nMr Farage's party won 29 seats, the Lib Dems 16, Labour 10, the Greens seven, the Tories four, the SNP three, and Plaid Cymru and the DUP one each.\n\nThe elections came after Prime Minister Theresa May tried three times to secure MPs' backing for her Brexit plan and announced her resignation after her fourth attempt prompted a backlash.\n\nMr Farage told the BBC: \"With a big, simple message - which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises - we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style.\n\n\"The two-party system now serves nothing but itself. I think they are an obstruction to the modernising of politics... and we are going to take them on.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"pleasantly surprised\" by his party's \"very good result\".\n\nHe added that there was \"a majority of people in the country who don't want to leave the European Union now\".\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice said the results showed how polarised the country had become over Brexit.\n\nWere these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant and Nigel Farage's new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nMrs May, who is due to step down as Conservative leader on 7 June, tweeted her response to her party's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa May This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Theresa May\n\nAcross Europe, the big centre-right and centre-left blocs lost ground, amid a surge in support for liberals, Greens and nationalists.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but after that deadline was put back to 31 October, participation in the election became mandatory.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped the polls in every region of England apart from London. It also dominated in Wales, with Plaid Cymru second.\n\nIt has now become the joint largest national party in the European Parliament, alongside Germany's CDU/CSU party.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nIn Scotland, the pro-Remain SNP won the biggest share of the vote, with just under 38%, giving it three MEPs.\n\nThe Brexit Party came in second place with a significantly lower percentage - 14.8% - followed by the Lib Dems with 13.9% and the Tories with 11.6% - meaning each party has one seat.\n\nBut Labour only received 9.3% of the vote - a loss in vote share of 16.6% - leaving it with no MEPs in Scotland for the first time.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the DUP (which supports leaving the EU), Sinn Fein (Remain), and the Alliance Party (Remain) all won a seat each.\n\nBrexiteer and Conservative MEP for the South East Daniel Hannan - one of only three Tory MEPs elected - said it was his party's \"worst ever result\".\n\n\"We voted to leave (the EU) and we haven't left - it's that simple,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTory leadership hopeful and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the public had delivered \"a crushing rebuke\" to both major parties for failing to deliver Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing increasing pressure from senior members of his party to back another referendum on Brexit, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying it is the only way through the deadlock.\n\n\"If there can be a deal, great, but it needs to go back to the people,\" Mr McDonnell said.\n\n\"If it's a no-deal, we've got to block it and the one way of doing that is going back to the people and arguing the case against it because it could be catastrophic for our economy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. McDonnell: Brexit 'needs to go back to the people'\n\nBut the leader of the Unite Union, Len McCluskey, said Labour's attempt to \"unite the nation\" over Brexit was \"an honourable objective that must not be abandoned\".\n\nAnd Mr Corbyn wrote to his MPs that it was \"clear that the deadlock in Parliament can now only be broken by the issue going back to the people through a general election or a public vote. We are ready to support a public vote on any deal.\"\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry said the case for a further referendum was stronger than ever, adding that it was \"the way to draw a line under the Brexit chaos\".\n\nChange UK, which also opposes Brexit, failed to win any seats in the election, but leader Heidi Allen told the BBC her party - newly formed from former Labour and Tory MPs - was \"down, but we are not out\".\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP, which Mr Farage used to lead, lost all its MEPs, and saw a fall in its vote share of more than 20 points.\n\nThe party's former deputy leader, Mike Hookem - who lost his seat in Yorkshire and the Humber - blamed UKIP leader Gerard Batten for the result.\n\nHe highlighted Mr Batten's association with former EDL leader Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who also failed to win a seat in the North West Region, where he ran as an independent.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "If you're scratching your head right now, confused by conflicting interpretations of the European parliamentary election, fear not, just read on.\n\nContrary to some stark political predictions ahead of the vote, the actual results seem nuanced.\n\nIn France, for example, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen beat President Emmanuel Macron at the polls. A huge victory for her, right? And for the nationalist Eurosceptic cause, while Mr Macron clearly failed to persuade voters with his reform agenda for France and the EU.\n\nBut the margin of difference was so small between the two politicians, you could argue the opposite: that Marine Le Pen failed to truly capitalise on the weakness of an unpopular president, allowing him to emerge post-election with feathers ruffled, but not plucked. If you forgive my unglamorous analogy.\n\nThe European election results 2019 can be read in different ways.\n\nThe nationalist right didn't sweep the board. Traditional governing parties were not all decimated, as some commentators had breathlessly predicted.\n\nBut there were clear trends.\n\nThe traditional centre-left and centre-right parties, which have dominated the EU as long as anyone can remember, appear to have lost their majority for the first time in the European Parliament.\n\nThis reflects a tendency already apparent in national elections all over Europe: rejection of the status quo. Look at the beating meted out to France's centre-right and centre-left; to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat coalition partners; plus the slap in the face delivered to the UK's Conservative and Labour parties.\n\nEurope's voters are looking elsewhere for answers. They're drawn to parties and political personalities they feel better represent their values and priorities.\n\nSome are attracted by the nationalist right, promising a crackdown on immigration and more power for national parliaments, rather than for Brussels. Italy's firebrand Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is a successful example, as is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.\n\nOther voters prefer a pro-European alternative, like the Green Party and liberal groups, which also performed well in these elections.\n\nGermany's Green Party doubled its share of the vote\n\nThe new European Parliament will be broadly pro-EU but also fractured, making law-making and change difficult. Just when Europe's voters are screaming for change.\n\nVoter engagement is clear, looking at the higher-than-usual turnout figures.\n\nAnd they used these elections to send a strong message to their national governments. It's not certain that Angela Merkel's coalition will survive this latest humiliation, after months of losses in significant regional elections.\n\nGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is dissolving his government to hold snap elections, after a disastrous showing at the European level for his left-wing Syriza party.\n\nAnd Matteo Salvini, who dreams of being Italy's prime minister, will likely push for an early general election, after emerging triumphant from these elections.\n\nAll of this could have an effect on Brexit too.\n\nTied up with their own national political dramas, EU leaders are even less likely to be open to renegotiating the Brexit divorce deal, if asked to do so by the next UK prime minister.\n\nAnd how willing are they to implement the changes in EU priorities and focus that Europe's voters seem to clamour for?\n\nThe political \"flavour\" of the next president of the European Commission (chosen by the European Parliament and EU leaders) will be a good indicator.\n\nEU leaders come to Brussels on Tuesday to discuss that post and a host of other influential EU jobs about to become vacant, like that of European Council President (the person who represents all EU member countries in Brussels, replacing Donald Tusk) and the presidency of the European Central Bank.\n\nThe horse-trading has only just begun.\n• None European elections: What we know", "Were these results an overwhelming cry for us to leave the EU whatever the cost? Or a sign, with some slightly convoluted arithmetic, that the country now wants another referendum to stop Brexit all together?\n\nGuess what, the situation is not quite so black and white, whatever you will hear in the coming hours about the meaning of these numbers.\n\nThe Brexit Party's success was significant - topping the poll, successfully building on Nigel Farage's inheritance from UKIP. As a one-issue party, his new group is the biggest single winner.\n\nBut the Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid and SNP - all parties advocating the opposite - were victors too.\n\nThose who have been clearly pushing the case for another referendum in order to slam the brakes on Brexit have, this morning, a new confidence, a vigour with which they will keep making their case.\n\nWhile those two sides fight over this election's true meaning, what is clear is that the two biggest parties have been damaged by their various contortions over Brexit, punished by the fiasco at Westminster, and beaten by rivals who have offered clarity while they have tried to find nuanced ways through.\n\nThe Tories' performance is historically dreadful. This is not just a little embarrassment or hiccup. In these elections the governing party has been completely smashed.\n\nAnd for the main opposition to have failed to make any mileage out of the Tories' political distress is poor too - with historic humiliations in Scotland and Wales for Labour as well.\n\nThere is immediate pressure, of course, on Labour to argue more clearly for another referendum, to try to back Remain, to shore up that part of their coalition. The dilemmas over doing so still apply even though more and more senior figures in the party are making the case.\n\nAnd with the success of The Brexit Party, there is a push for the Tories to be willing to leave the EU without a deal whatever the potentially grave economic costs.\n\nThe Tory leadership contest in the wake of these results runs the risk of turning into bragging rights over who can take a harder line on Brexit.\n\nIn these elections it seems both of our main Westminster parties have been punished for trying to paint shades of grey when the referendum choice was between black and white. And there is a chance that encourages both of them to give up fighting for the middle.\n\nBut that could set our politics on a course where, whatever happens, half of the country will be unhappy. Nothing about these dramatic results sketches out a straightforward route.", "Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the Tory leadership race, has said the party could be \"fired from running the country\" if it does not deliver Brexit.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said voters in the EU election issued a \"crushing rebuke\" to the Conservatives.\n\nFellow candidate, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said the party faces an \"existential risk\" over Brexit.\n\nEight candidates have declared they are standing for leader, after Theresa May said she would resign.\n\nMr Johnson said voters had issued the party with a \"final warning\" as the Tories came fourth in Hillingdon, where he is an MP, and the Brexit Party emerged with the largest number of MEPs overall.\n\nHe said: \"If we go on like this, we will be fired: dismissed from the job of running the country.\"\n\nMr Hunt said on Twitter that the \"painful result\" meant there was an \"existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done\".\n\nWith some results still to declare, the overnight count has seen Conservative voters deserting the party, with the party scoring less than 10% of the total vote - compared to nearly 25% in the last EU election.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it was the worst performance for the Conservatives as a party since 1832.\n\nEducation Minister Nadhim Zahawi said the results were a \"wake-up call\" for MPs to deliver Brexit and the Conservatives would be \"in trouble\" if they failed to do so.\n\nMr Johnson said the message from the results was clear for the Conservatives and the party risked a \"permanent haemorrhage\" of support.\n\nThe only way to avoid that outcome, he said, was to \"come out of the EU; and that means doing it properly\".\n\nThe leadership race began when Mrs May announced she would stand down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nSo far eight candidates have said they want to run for the Tory leadership.\n\nEnvironment secretary Michael Gove and former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab declared on Sunday, joining Matt Hancock, Jeremy Hunt, Boris Johnson, Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nAttitudes toward a no-deal Brexit are sharply divided, with several candidates saying they are prepared to let the UK leave the EU on the new deadline on 31 October without a deal if necessary.\n\nIn his Telegraph column, Mr Johnson said that \"no one sensible\" would aim exclusively for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBut he added that \"no one responsible would take no-deal off the table\".\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nAnd Mr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nOther candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal passed in Parliament.\n\nWriting in the Times, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Conservatives had to deliver Brexit through Parliament, \"whether we like it or not\".\n\nHe added: \"The brutal truth is that plans that cannot command the confidence of Parliament would risk a general election.\n\n\"We would be punished for our failure to deliver Brexit and under any leader this would risk Corbyn by Christmas.\"", "Lewis Hamilton really had to work for this one.\n\nA glance at the results of the Monaco Grand Prix - Mercedes' sixth straight win this year, Hamilton's fourth victory in six races, leading lights to flag - makes it look easy. But it was anything but.\n\nMercedes - pretty much flawless all season so far - made their first big mistake of the year. They put Hamilton on the wrong tyres at his pit stop, and that left him facing a rear-guard battle with rapidly deteriorating grip, and the most aggressive driver in Formula 1 right behind him.\n\nOvertaking is close to impossible in Monaco, but that should take nothing away from the quality of Hamilton's drive.\n\n\"He saved us,\" Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said afterwards. \"His driving saved us.\"\n\nHamilton said afterwards: \"I think it was the hardest race I've had. I've had a lot of races but globally, in the car and with the tyres, the strategy, with Max (Verstappen) behind, it was the biggest challenge I think I've had and I'm really grateful I was able to pull it off.\"\n\nIt was a drive reminiscent of Ayrton Senna holding off Nigel Mansell's Williams in the closing laps of Monaco in 1992, after the Briton had closed at five seconds a lap after a late tyre change. Or Daniel Ricciardo holding off Sebastian Vettel to win for Red Bull last year despite a power loss of more than 160bhp.\n\nWhat did Mercedes do wrong?\n\nThe incident that changed the race - and turned Hamilton's afternoon from what would have been a relatively easy cruise to the flag into a nerve-fraying fight that tested him to the limit - was the safety car being deployed so officials could clean up the debris strewn around the circuit as a flailing tyre on Charles Leclerc's Ferrari smashed his car's floor to pieces.\n\nThe race was only 11 laps old. There were still 67 laps to go. All the leaders pitted, but while Red Bull and Ferrari put Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel on to the 'hard' compound tyre, Mercedes chose the 'medium' for Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n\n\"It was obviously the wrong call,\" Wolff admitted. Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto said he was \"surprised\", given how much further there was to go. Mercedes were about to find out why.\n\nThe thinking was straightforward enough. Mercedes' projections said that if they pitted at any time from lap 15 or 16 onwards, the tyre would make it to the end as long as the drivers were careful with it.\n\n\"It didn't even seem like a huge stretch,\" Wolff said. \"But we realised 20 laps into the race (stint) that on the left front some graining appeared and he started to complain about the understeer from the graining and it would get very difficult to make it to the end.\"\n\nGraining is where the surface tears and reduces grip. Hamilton began to come on to the radio to express his doubts that the tyres would last. And his messages became increasingly frantic, until ultimately he said it would take a \"miracle\" to make it.\n\n\"We had quite some discussions about the tyre lasting another 40 laps and I was reminded it was only 20 laps on a normal circuit so calm down a bit,\" Wolff said.\n\n\"But everybody knew it would be a huge stretch and I believe 20 laps from the end he had 0% rubber with massive understeer. You could see around Loews (hairpin), the car wouldn't turn any more.\"\n\nIn the car, Hamilton was thinking about how much the win would mean - to him, to the team, especially just six days after they had lost non-executive director Niki Lauda, who died on Monday.\n\n\"So much came into my mind,\" he said. \"I had 38 laps to go and with these tyres [I was thinking] I'm not going to make it. But I wasn't going to stop. I was leading by 20 seconds here a few years ago and pitted and came out third, and your heart just sinks. So I was like: 'I'm not coming in, whatever the case. I'm just going to drive around with no tyres until they blow up.'\n\n\"With sheer will I just kept pushing. I really, really tried my best to stay focused and not crack under pressure.\"\n\nThe longer the race went on, the harder it became for Hamilton. Verstappen, behind, was biding his time, waiting for an opportune moment. Into the last 10 laps, he began to pile on the pressure, climbing all over the back of Hamilton's car, nearly running into him more than once. He finally tried a move at the chicane with three laps to go.\n\nIt nearly worked. He got his front wheels inside Hamilton's rears, they touched as the Mercedes turned in. Hamilton survived by going straight on to ensure the incident didn't take both of them out, and that was effectively that.\n\n\"I just really wanted to do the job, and deliver for Niki,\" Hamilton said. \"I also wanted to pull it through for the team because so many guys back at the factory deserved it. Proud of today.\"\n\nWhy did they make the call?\n\nIn the context of the weekend, Mercedes felt their tyre call would be the right one - as they made it.\n\nThey wanted to avoid the hard for three reasons: It had been an awkward tyre to use when teams tried it in practice on Thursday; they were worried they would be vulnerable at the restart if the drivers behind them chose the mediums; and rain was in the air, and the medium, as a softer tyre, would be better in damp conditions.\n\nBut the tyre simply did not have the durability to last at a normal pace. They held their hands up afterwards, and they were left relying on Hamilton to ensure that that winning run continued - even if the sequence of one-twos was lost to an unsafe release from Red Bull that led to Bottas getting a puncture as he and Verstappen left the pits side by side.\n\nHamilton usually demurs when he's asked how to rank a race, says it is difficult to remember them all, is reluctant to call anything his best or toughest, usually adds the qualifier \"one of\". So it means something when he talks as close as he is ever likely to in absolutes.\n\n\"I believe it is in the top five (wins) and I think it is the hardest I have ever had,\" he said. \"I still can't believe I managed to get it to the end. (There were) so many opportunities to make a mistake, to give up, to make an excuse.\"\n\nHamilton barely drinks, but he would he admitted \"definitely have a glass of wine. Or a few.\"\n\nIn a year that Mercedes have dominated so far, Monaco demonstrated how fine can be the line between victory and defeat.\n\nAfter their fifth consecutive one-two in Spain last time, the talk was all about whether they can become the first time to go through the season undefeated. Wolff seized on the opportunity Monaco provided to issue a reality check.\n\n\"We were close to losing today,\" he said.\n\nWho would take responsibility for failing to secure the one-two, a journalist asked with his tongue in his cheek?\n\nWolff laughed. \"I take full responsibility,\" he said. \"We need to keep both feet on the ground. We are laughing about it but what you can see is teams have stopped winning once they had a sense of entitlement and believed it was normal.\n\n\"It is not normal. One-twos and one-threes are not normal for the highest competition in motor racing so we are constantly expecting to hit road bumps and we take it and continue to push flat out for the next one.\"\n\nIn reality, all things being equal, Mercedes are likely to remain extremely hard to beat. Their car has proved ultra-competitive on all types of tracks, and it's becoming clear a perfect storm of unintended consequences has led to this situation.\n\nTwo technical changes for 2019 have played right into Mercedes' hands.\n\nThe introduction of new front wing rules aimed at making overtaking easier has fundamentally changed the way air flows over the cars, and made a car in Mercedes' style the perfect one for the new regulations. The Ferrari and Red Bull follow a different philosophy, and work in a different way, and it has cost them performance.\n\nSecondly, tyres with a thinner tread, introduced to give more durability and allow drivers to push harder in races, have made it more difficult for teams to get the rubber up to the right operating temperature.\n\nThis, too, has inadvertently helped Mercedes, whose problem for the last few years has been keeping their tyres from overheating, and hindered Ferrari, who previously have been much better able to control tyre temperature, but are now struggling to generate enough.\n\nTo that, as Binotto said \"there are no magic solutions\". But at least Mercedes have shown at last that they have some human fallibility about them this year.", "Lewis Hamilton held off Max Verstappen, and survived a late collision with the Red Bull driver, to win a nail-biting Monaco Grand Prix.\n\nThe world champion was left struggling with the tyres on his Mercedes after fitting softer rubber than the Dutchman at pit stops during an early safety-car period.\n\nBritain's Hamilton repeatedly complained that he was not going to be able to make the tyres last to the end but by careful management held on to take his fourth win of 2019.\n\nVerstappen dropped from second on the road to fourth in the results because of a five-second penalty, promoting Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to second and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas to third.\n\nVerstappen's punishment was for an unsafe release in the pits when all the leaders pitted on lap 12 as a safety car was deployed to clear up debris laid by Charles Leclerc's Ferrari.\n\nAlthough Mercedes' run of consecutive victories at the start of this season continued, their sequence of one-twos is over as a result of Bottas' bad luck.\n\nAnd Hamilton now holds a 17-point lead over his team-mate in the championship.\n• None Hamilton holds on to win in Monaco - reaction\n\nThe defining moment of the race\n\nWearing a helmet painted in a design used by Niki Lauda, the Mercedes non-executive chairman who died on Monday, Hamilton was controlling the race, ahead of Bottas, Verstappen and Vettel, after converting his pole position into a lead a the first corner.\n\nBut the race came to life when Leclerc suffered a puncture when he spun trying to pass Nico Hulkenberg's Renault for 11th place on lap eight.\n\nLeclerc had been making up ground after Ferrari's farcical strategic error in qualifying on Saturday meant he failed to progress beyond the first session.\n\nThe Monegasque had passed Romain Grosjean's Haas for 12th place with a brave move at Rascasse on the previous lap. He tried the same on Hulkenberg but the German left him less room.\n\nThey rounded the corner together but Leclerc's rear wheel caught the inside barrier, pitching him into a spin and puncturing the tyre.\n\nHe got going again, losing only two places, but his tyre began to deconstruct around the next lap and tore chunks out of his rear bodywork as he returned to the pits.\n\nWhen the safety car was deployed, Hamilton led the leaders into the pits, as Bottas backed up Verstappen and Vettel to give Mercedes time to service both cars.\n\nRed Bull pulled off a super-quick stop and released Verstappen into Bottas' path, and the two cars touched as the Finn was forced into the pit wall on the outside.\n\nIt gave Verstappen second place on the road, and caused Bottas a puncture that meant he had to stop again the next time around, losing a place to German Vettel. But ultimately it cost him more than it gained him - and he was given two penalty points on his licence as well as the time penalty.\n\nWhy was Hamilton struggling so much?\n\nHamilton's problem was that Mercedes had fitted medium tyres to his car, while Verstappen and Vettel were given hards - which Bottas was also switched to when he pitted for the second time.\n\nIt meant Hamilton had to do 66 laps on a set of mediums, when they were only projected to last 50.\n\nIt is unclear why Mercedes chose the medium, and the decision gave Hamilton a tough afternoon, spent controlling his pace and fending off Verstappen.\n\nPassing is difficult at Monaco, but regardless it meant Hamilton could not afford to make a mistake despite fading grip, which was no easy task.\n\nHis concern was plain as he repeatedly complained over the radio that he was not going to make it and would not be able to hold Verstappen off.\n\nAt one point, he even said it was going to take a \"miracle\" to win it.\n\nIn the end, with about 10 laps to go, Mercedes' chief strategist James Vowles came on the radio and said: \"You can make it if you trust it.\"\n\nVerstappen went for it at the chicane with two laps to go, but he was too far back and locked a wheel, and they touched as Hamilton came across him.\n\nHamilton took to the escape road and carried on, as Verstappen complained: \"He just turned in. I was trying to overtake.\"\n\nThat was the last drama and Hamilton hung on for the remaining two laps.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nCanada in two weeks' time. Mercedes will start as favourites, but the long straights might give Ferrari their first chance to be competitive since Baku two races ago.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"That was definitely the hardest race I've had but nonetheless I really was fighting with the spirit of Niki - he's been such an influence in our team and I know he will be looking down and taking his hat off. I was trying to stay focused and make him proud that it's been the goal all week and we truly miss him.\"\n\nVettel: \"A tough race to manage, at Monaco something always happens, Max must have had an incredible stop, I saw them (Verstappen and Bottas) touching in the pit lane. I wanted to put some more pressure on, I just struggled with my tyres, not as badly as Lewis and Max's, but mine were just not getting hot.\"\n\nBottas: \"It's obviously disappointing for me, I think the speed was there and I was feeling good in the car. It was small margins yesterday and that made today difficult. Max got me in the pitlane and left me with no room and then I was stuck behind, it was like a Sunday drive.\"", "A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman giving birth prematurely on the side of the road in Bangkok.\n\nThe BBC's Thai Service spoke to Waree Limrungsukho who said she had \"never done this for a human baby before\".", "A firefighter, a ballroom dancer and a scientist are among the contestants on this year's Love Island.\n\nBoxer Tyson Fury's brother and Strictly star AJ Pritchard's brother will also hope to find love on the ITV2 show.\n\nNow in its fifth series, Love Island returns to our screens on 3 June.\n\n\"The secret behind Love Island's success is that it's a really simple show about a really complicated subject,\" says the show's presenter Caroline Flack.\n\n\"It's relatable and that is the thing that is never going to change.\"\n\nCaroline Flack is back to present Love Island's fifth series\n\nThe show sees 12 islanders couple-up to be in with a chance of winning - but with just five women and seven men, the competition will be tough from the start.\n\nThose who stay single are at risk of being dumped from the island.\n\n\"Who doesn't want their own firefighter? Their own local hero.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old from Liverpool describes himself as straight-talking, open and energetic.\n\nBut will islanders agree? \"People don't always like the truth,\" Michael admits.\n\nMichael certainly thinks he's easy to get along with\n\nBeauty therapist Amber says she's already got a head start when it comes to appearing on Love Island.\n\nThe 21-year-old Geordie is acquainted with former islanders Adam Collard and Ellie Brown because \"everyone knows everyone in Newcastle!\"\n\nShe describes herself as funny - but hot-headed.\n\nAmber Gill says people think she's funny and is good on dates\n\nAnton reckons he's the first Scottish guy to be on Love Island.\n\nThe 24-year-old says he definitely wants to get further than former Scottish contestants Laura Anderson and Camilla Thurlow.\n\nThe gym owner from Airdrie thinks he's good at motivating people but can be moody and \"a bit selfish\".\n\nAnton Danyluk says his ideal girl has to be into the gym\n\nAir hostess Amy says she's looking for someone to travel the world with.\n\nThe 26-year-old, who's from Worthing in West Sussex, has already caused a storm on Instagram after a post of her with 1D's Liam Payne went viral.\n\nAmy says she's the Bridget Jones of her friendship group\n\nAircraft engineer Callum likes a bit of Michael Buble and says he's looking for a fairytale when it comes to meeting \"the one\".\n\nCould that happen on a reality TV show?\n\nCallum, who's 28, thinks \"time is ticking\" and says he \"doesn't want to be left on the shelf\".\n\nYewande says people are surprised when they find out she's a scientist but says there are loads of \"intelligent people\" on reality TV.\n\nShe points to Dr Alex who was on last year's series.\n\nWhen it comes to finding love, the 23-year-old she says she doesn't think there is a science to finding love.\n\n\"If there is then I have clearly been reading the wrong books.\"\n\nYewande says she's easy to get along with but tends \"to talk too much\"\n\nJoe admits he's always \"having jokes\" and doesn't take life too seriously - making him the \"perfect islander\".\n\nThe 22-year-old owns a catering company and describes himself as \"laid-back and chilled out\".\n\nJoe says sometimes he 'jokes around too much'\n\nAnna, who's 28, reckons she's different to other contestants because she \"studied hard\" and got a masters degree.\n\nThe pharmacist already has thousands of followers after going away to Qatar with two Iranian footballers.\n\n\"Suddenly my followers went up by 20,000 and I started being tagged in fan pages!\"\n\nAnna says she's got the glam look but there's \"more to her than that\"\n\nBoxer Tommy says Love Island is a good place to showcase his personality.\n\nA boxer called Fury? Yep that's right, Tommy is the brother of heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury.\n\nThe 20-year-old from Manchester says he can be \"a bit too confident\" but that he's \"honest, charismatic and charming\".\n\nSurfer Lucie reckons she stands out from other girls on the show because she's \"more into sports as well as being glam\".\n\nThe 21-year-old says she's more of a \"guys' girl\" than a \"girls' girl\" - she says there's \"less drama\" hanging out with guys.\n\nLucie says she's never had a boyfriend more than six months because she gets \"bored\"\n\nSherif, who's a chef and semi-pro rugby player, thinks it's his job to bring the mood up on the island.\n\n\"I feel like if you're down and around me, you'll end up being a bit more upbeat,\" the 20-year-old says.\n\nCurtis' brother AJ may have stolen the limelight on Strictly Come Dancing, but now it's his chance to shine on reality TV.\n\nCurtis may not make it far after the show because he admits he doesn't like using social media or phones.\n\nThe ballroom dancer says he's lived quite a \"sheltered life\" so hasn't dated much, apart from his dance partner.\n\nCurtis likes meeting girls in person rather than on apps or social media\n\nLove Island has been under pressure to act following the deaths of former contestants Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon.\n\nAnd the show has become part of a broader debate around reality TV following the death of a guest who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nEarlier this month that show was cancelled.\n\nSince then Love Island has introduced new duty of care rules - including a psychological consultant who will look after Islanders from pre-filming to after their time on the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Floral tributes and balloons have been left at the scene in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nA mother has appeared in court charged with the murder of her two teenage sons at a house in Sheffield.\n\nSarah Barrass, 34, is accused of murdering 14-year-old Blake Barrass and Tristen Barrass, 13, in the Shiregreen area on Friday.\n\nShe appeared at Sheffield Magistrates' Court alongside Brandon Machin, 37, who also faces two counts of murder.\n\nThe defendants were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nMs Barrass has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder against two other children.\n\nNo pleas were entered to any of the charges.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta says she stopped herself \"overthinking\" in the win that sent her into round two of the French Open for the first time.\n\nShe had lost her four previous first-round matches at Roland Garros.\n\n\"Obviously, it's nice to have won a main-draw match here,\" the 28-year-old said. \"But I have never doubted my ability on the surface.\"\n\nKonta took her first match point when Lottner could not return a thumping backhand, setting up a second-round match against American wildcard Lauren Davis.\n\nThe former Wimbledon semi-finalist is the first Briton through at Roland Garros, with men's number one Kyle Edmund meeting France's Jeremy Chardy later on Monday.\n\nCompatriots Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans play their opening matches on Tuesday.\n• None French Open: Caroline Wozniacki knocked out in first round\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, who won qualifying matches at Roland Garros in 2013 and 2014, said her barren main-draw run had not been playing on her mind.\n\nYet the importance of finally getting over the line against Lottner - ranked 121 places below and making her Roland Garros debut - was abundantly clear.\n\n\"It is in human nature to have doubts and negative thoughts. There are plenty of stats on that, that we have more negative thoughts than positive ones,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"But I think it was more about me trusting my habits, giving me the space to miss and the space to just play.\"\n\nOn paper, it should have been a formality given the 28-year-old's superb clay-court season leading up to the second Grand Slam of the year.\n\nKonta reached WTA finals at the Morocco Open and the more prestigious Rome Masters, racking up wins against Grand Slam champions Sloane Stephens and Venus Williams, plus world number four Kiki Bertens, on the way.\n\nRediscovering a potent first serve has been key to her recent success, although it deserted the Briton in a strange opening set where there were seven breaks of serve.\n\nA first-serve percentage down at 62% was hampered further by only winning 56% of these points, although it proved to matter little because of equally erratic serving from the other end.\n\nThe second set was completely contrasting.\n\nApart from Konta being unable to convert two break points for a 3-1 lead, chances were rarely offered as both players regained composure in their service games.\n\nOut of nowhere, Lottner rustled up a pair of break points for a 5-4 lead, only for former world number four Konta to save them with a big first serve followed by a backhand winner.\n\nLottner saw another chance disappear with an unforced error and that proved vital as Konta - backed by a typically strong British support in Paris - held before breaking for victory in what proved to be the final game.\n\n\"I had to trust myself in giving me some opportunities, my opponent was tricky because she didn't give much rhythm,\" Konta added.\n\n\"There was a lot of time to think, or overthink, but I did a good job of not doing that.\"\n\nHowever well Johanna Konta has been playing on clay this year, four previous Roland Garros first-round defeats were bound to play on her mind.\n\nShe was not at her most fluent on serve, and was broken three times in the opening set.\n\nBut when the chips were down, and Konta was facing two break points at 4-4 all in the second set, her resolve strengthened - and she was soon back in the locker room.\n\nA second-round match lies ahead with Lauren Davis, who is currently outside the world's top 100. But the 25-year-old is in the draw because of recent performances on clay, which earned her the wildcard reserved for an American player.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "West Midlands Police said they were called to a polling station in Birmingham, England due to the size of the crowd.\n\nRomanian voters received three voting slips - one for the EU parliamentary vote, two for a national referendum.\n\nThe country’s state broadcaster said there was a request for polling hours to be extended abroad, which was turned down by the authorities.\n\nEuropean elections 2019: What we know so far", "Julia Rawson has not been seen since 12 May\n\nTwo men have been charged with the murder of a woman who disappeared more than two weeks ago.\n\nJulia Rawson, 42, from Dudley, was last seen on 12 May, with inquiries leading detectives to believe she is dead despite her body not being found.\n\nNathan Maynard-Ellis, 28, from Tipton, and David Leesley, 23, of Russells Hall, have been charged with her murder.\n\nBoth are due before Walsall Magistrates' Court later.\n\nOfficers are continuing to search a property in Mission Drive, Tipton and a nearby canal as part of the investigation.\n\nPolice said Ms Rawson's family have been kept informed of the latest developments.\n\nDet Insp Jim Colclough, leading the investigation, said: \"Extensive enquiries have led us to the strong belief that Julia has died.\n\n\"We are still working to establish the full circumstances around her disappearance, and our thoughts are with her family at what is a very traumatic time for them.\"\n\nJulia is described as 6ft tall with short tousled hair. She was last seen wearing a grey T-shirt, grey zip-fronted hooded top, with dark grey jeans and a black and white shoulder bag.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The collision happened off the coast of the French Riviera resort\n\nA 29-year-old Briton died following a collision between two yachts in Cannes, in France on Saturday.\n\nThe region's maritime prefecture said the vessels, Vision and Minx, collided at around 21:00 local time (20:00 BST).\n\nAccording to the statement, the man was a Minx crew member and died following a heart attack.\n\nThe maritime prefecture added that the collision happened after one yacht, Vision, sought to manoeuvre past the Minx which was anchored.\n\nThe prefecture stated that \"in spite of all attempts to resuscitate\" him, the man had died. He had been hauling up the anchor when the collision occurred.\n\nThe prefecture also said the remaining 17 people aboard the two vessels, which are both around 27m long, had been safely returned to shore overnight.\n\nThe statement added that the maritime police were investigating the incident, which happened on the last night of the film festival in Cannes.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Our staff are assisting the family of a British man following his death in France, and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "This photo showing a long queue up to the summit of Everest has gone viral in recent days\n\nNepal's tourism authority has denied accusations that the rise in Mount Everest deaths is solely due to overcrowding.\n\nThe department's director general Dandu Raj Ghimire said other factors including adverse weather conditions had also contributed.\n\nTen climbers have been reported dead or missing this season.\n\nPhotos of long queues near the summit have been widely shared as record numbers ascended the mountain in May.\n\nMr Ghimire said 381 people had ascended Everest this spring but as periods of fine weather had been short, the number of people on the routes had been \"higher than expected\".\n\nIn his statement, Mr Ghimire put the current death toll at eight, although 10 people have been reported dead or missing so far.\n\nKevin Hynes, 56, from Ireland, died in his tent on Friday and Séamus Lawless, also Irish, is presumed dead after falling near the summit.\n\nOne Nepalese, four Indians, an Austrian and an American are also dead or missing.\n\nA local tour organiser told AFP that one of the Indian climbers, Nihal Ashpak Bhagwan, died of exhaustion after being \"stuck in traffic for more than 12 hours\".\n\nMr Ghimire offered \"heartfelt condolences to those who've passed away and prayers to those who are still missing\".\n\n\"Mountaineering in the Himalayas is in itself an adventurous, complex and sensitive issue requiring full awareness yet tragic accidents are unavoidable,\" he said.\n• None Three more die on Everest amid overcrowding", "Jake Humphrey said people were moved by the Nine4Norah appeal and \"dipped their hands in the pockets\" as well as sharing his tweet\n\nSports presenter Jake Humphrey said a viral tweet about a bereaved father's appeal has been \"the absolute highlight\" of his time on social media.\n\nWatford fan Ross Coniam is attempting nine challenges in 2019 in memory of daughter Norah, who lived for just a few hours.\n\nA chance sighting of the appeal at an FA Cup game led to a tweet by Humphrey and donations topping £41,000.\n\n\"People told me 'I saw that and had to donate',\" said the BT Sports presenter.\n\nMr Coniam said it was a \"minor miracle\" Humphrey spotted his #NineForNorah hoodie in the Wembley crowd at the FA Cup semi-final, and looked up the phrase on Google.\n\n\"I found myself nipping off to the bathroom in the middle of the game to have a little cry, because I saw the pictures of little Norah,\" said Humphrey.\n\n\"Since becoming a father I can no longer see these stories and not imagine what it would be like if that was me, so this needed to be shared.\"\n\nRoss and Naomi Coniam's daughter Norah was born on 29 May, but died nine hours and 56 minutes later despite doctors' efforts to save her.\n\nShe would have been one on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ross Coniam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ross and Naomi Coniam thank Jake Humphrey at Wembley\n\nHer father said he hopes Norah will \"give him the strength\" to complete his challenges - including the London Marathon last month - for stillbirth and neonatal charities.\n\nBefore Humphrey's tweet, he had raised £3,058 of his £6,000 target.\n\n\"It shows you how amazing it is, what he is doing, that the tweet went viral, it went crazy - £40,000 was raised in a few days,\" said Humphrey.\n\n\"I ordered a pizza on Sunday night and the man came to my door and said 'I just gave a tenner to that #NineForNorah appeal'.\n\n\"I've had messages from people saying: 'I don't have much money, I don't have a job, but I've still given what I can.'\"\n\nRoss and Naomi Coniam's daughter Norah died hours after she was born\n\nHumphrey said it was incredible people were not simply sharing the tweet but \"dipping their hands in their pockets\".\n\n\"To use Twitter and see the positivity is so nice and reminds you we are mainly good people and we do just want to help people out when we can.\n\n\"It's without doubt the absolute highlight of my time on social media.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The so-called \"Ibiza-gate\" video led to the collapse of Mr Kurz's coalition\n\nAustria's parliament has removed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from office in a special parliamentary session.\n\nHis previous coalition ally, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), and the opposition Social Democrats (SPÖ) on Monday backed the no-confidence motion.\n\nThe FPÖ had become embroiled in a political scandal caused by a secret video, which ended the coalition.\n\nOn Tuesday, Austria's president appointed an interim government led by Vice-Chancellor Hartwig Löger.\n\nPresident Alexander Van der Bellen earlier said the constitution mandated all offices must be filled \"even in a transitional period\" and asked for some ministers to stay in office. General elections are expected in September.\n\nMr Löger is a member of Mr Kurz's centre-right People's Party (ÖVP) and the country's finance minister.\n\nHe was appointed vice-chancellor days ago after the previous holder of the office, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache, was sacked over the video sting.\n\nMr Kurz is the first chancellor in post-war Austrian history to lose a confidence vote.\n\nWhen he was elected in 2017, he was at 31 the world's youngest state leader.\n\nOpposition parties brought forward two no-confidence votes - one against Mr Kurz and the other against the government.\n\nWhile the SPÖ control only 52 of the 183-seat lower house, the FPÖ - which holds 51 seats - also backed the motions, which needed only a simple majority to pass.\n\nThe left-wing environmentalist JETZT party voted to oust the chancellor and his government, although the liberal NEOS party reportedly backed Mr Kurz in a bid to avoid instability.\n\nMr Kurz did well in Sunday's EU elections but it was not enough to save him\n\nMr Kurz's surprise strong showing in Sunday's European Union elections - winning a record 35% of the vote - was not enough to save him.\n\nSpeaking after the confidence vote, Mr Kurz pledged to support an interim government and insisted he and the ÖVP had \"guaranteed stability\" in Austria.\n\nThe parties ranged against Mr Kurz appeared to believe he should shoulder some of the blame for the fall of the coalition.\n\nThe Social Democrats said he should never have allied himself with the FPÖ in the first place. The FPÖ was still smarting from having had Mr Kurz replace all of its ministers with technocrats.\n\nThe video sting has widely been labelled \"Ibiza-gate\", after the Spanish island where the footage was recorded.\n\nIt was secretly filmed in July 2017 - just weeks before the election which saw both the FPÖ and Chancellor Kurz's party perform well.\n\nLast week, a Vienna lawyer said he had been involved in the sting, describing it as a \"civil society-driven project in which investigative-journalistic approaches were taken\".\n\nHowever, the lawyer did not reveal who was ultimately behind the operation, or who paid for it.\n\nIn the footage, released by German media this month, Mr Strache can be seen relaxing and drinking for hours at a villa with FPÖ parliament group leader Johann Gudenus, while they meet a woman, who says she is Alyona Makarova, the niece of Russian oligarch Igor Makarov.\n\nMr Strache appears to propose offering her public contracts if she buys a large stake in the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung - and compels it to support the FPÖ.\n\nHe is heard suggesting that a number of journalists would have to be \"pushed\" from the newspaper, and that he wants to \"build a media landscape like [Viktor] Orban\" - referring to Hungary's nationalist prime minister.\n\nIt later emerged that Mr Makarov does not have a niece, and the whole evening back in 2017 was an elaborate trap.\n\nMr Strache stood down hours after the video emerged.\n\nPresident Van der Bellen then fired FPÖ Interior Minister Herbert Kickl at the request of Mr Kurz.\n\nThe move prompted the FPÖ's other ministers to resign in solidarity.\n\nDespite the scandal, Austrian news agency APA reports that Mr Strache could possibly take a seat in the European parliament.\n\nThe former vice-chancellor had remained at the bottom of his party's election list for the European elections after his resignation. But under Austrian law he could take one of FPÖ's predicted three seats if enough people supported him as a candidate.\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Strache will take a seat.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: \"Never speak ill of our fellow Conservative\"\n\nDominic Raab has been making his pitch to become Conservative leader, as Michael Gove becomes the eighth MP to join the race to succeed Theresa May.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a \"fairer\" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.\n\nMr Gove confirmed he would run to \"deliver Brexit\" and unite the party.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said it would be a \"dangerous strategy\" to ignore Parliament, which has opposed no-deal.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite in the contest, outlined his approach to Brexit in his column in Monday's Daily Telegraph, saying: \"No one sensible would aim exclusively for a no-deal outcome. No one responsible would take no-deal off the table.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May announced she would be standing down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt came after a backlash by her MPs against her plan to get the withdrawal deal she had negotiated with the EU through the Commons, which has already rejected it three times.\n\nThe UK is now set to leave the European Union on 31 October, after the original Brexit date of 29 March was delayed twice owing to the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nThe delay has meant the UK has had to take part in elections to the European Parliament, three years after it voted to leave the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove becomes the eighth candidate to put himself forward\n\nMr Gove, the environment secretary, confirmed on Sunday that he would run for leader, saying: \"I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country.\"\n\nSpeaking to Nick Robinson for BBC Radio 4 podcast Political Thinking at Hay Festival, Mr Gove explained why he was running, saying: \"The particular mix of experience I have means I can make a contribution.\"\n\nMr Gove also said he had changed his mind from 2016 - when he described himself as being \"incapable\" of being Tory leader - adding he had \"evolved as a politician\".\n\nWhile he did not set out his leadership proposal, he did say that the future prime minister would need an eye for detail, as the \"process for taking us out of the European Union requires that\".\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Commons leader Andrea Leadsom revealed their leadership bids in the Sunday newspapers.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK's previous negotiations with the EU over the withdrawal agreement had not been \"resolute\" enough, and a no-deal Brexit had been taken \"off the table\".\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\n\"I would fight for a fairer deal in Brussels with negotiations to change the backstop arrangements, and if not I would be clear that we would leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms in October.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want a WTO Brexit but I think unless you are willing to keep our promises as politicians… we put ourselves in a much weaker position in terms of getting a deal.\"\n\nMrs May, who was at church on Sunday with her husband Philip, resigned on Friday\n\nHe said there was \"no case for a further extension\" past the current date the UK is due to leave the EU, 31 October.\n\nBut Chancellor Philip Hammond called for compromise, saying the suggestion that it was possible to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement was a \"fig leaf\" for \"what is actually a policy of leaving on no-deal terms\".\n\nThat policy was clearly opposed by Parliament, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long,\" he warned.\n\nFormer work and pensions secretary Esther McVey told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: \"31 October is the key date and we are coming out then, and if that means without a deal then that's what it means.\n\n\"We won't be asking for any more extensions. If Europe wants to come back to us, the door is open if they want a better deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom confirms leadership bid\n\nAsked if she favoured a no-deal Brexit, Ms Leadsom said: \"Of course, in order to succeed in a negotiation you have to be prepared to leave without a deal, but I have a three-point plan for Brexit, for how we get out of the European Union.\n\n\"I'm very optimistic about it. My role as leader of the Commons means that I've had a very good insight into what needs to be done, and I look forward to setting that out once the campaign starts.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond: \"A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long\"\n\nThey have joined Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his predecessor Boris Johnson, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the battle for the leadership.\n\nTory MPs have until the week beginning 10 June to put their name forward, and the party hopes a new leader will be in place by the end of July.\n\nMembers will have the final say on who wins, after the shortlist is whittled down to two by a series of votes by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the Sunday Telegraph, party chairman Brandon Lewis said the party membership had swelled by 36,000 in the last year - bringing the total to more than 160,000.\n\nMrs May will continue as prime minister while the leadership contest takes place.\n\nHow the UK leaves the EU has consumed British politics for three years and anyone who wants to be prime minister now has to explain how they can succeed where Theresa May failed.\n\nAll the contenders in this race face the same dilemma.\n\nThe first hurdle is to persuade a deeply divided parliamentary party that they have a solution that breaks the stalemate but keeps the party intact.\n\nNext they must appeal to the Tory membership - and many of them have no problem with a no-deal Brexit.\n\nFinally they will have to govern, and that means winning the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nMPs have already voted overwhelmingly against leaving the EU without a deal and it would take only a handful of Conservative MPs to bring down a prime minister who tried to do so.\n\nSome candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nMr Hunt told the Sunday Times he had the business experience to secure an agreement. \"Doing deals is my bread and butter,\" he said.\n\nAnd in a direct criticism of Boris Johnson, Mr Stewart said: \"I would not serve in the cabinet of someone explicitly pushing for a no-deal Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hancock said Mrs May's successor must be \"brutally honest\" about the \"trade-offs\" required to get a deal through Parliament.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it would be better for the UK \"if we secure a deal and leave the EU in an orderly way\" but added that he had \"come to grips\" with preparing for a no-deal outcome.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson told the Observer that his party must fully commit to supporting another referendum.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the \"usual suspects\" would blame leader Jeremy Corbyn if Labour performed poorly in the European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shami Chakrabarti: \"What I just heard from Dominic Raab was terrifying to me\"\n\nHe said: \"Tom Watson's already out, surprise surprise, trying to take on the role of Prince Machiavelli, but I've got news for Tom. Machiavelli was effective. He's a poor imitation of that. If he's trying to turn Labour members against Corbyn and in his favour, then he's going to lose disastrously.\n\n\"Now is the time to hold your nerve, because a general election - which is the only thing that will resolve this situation - is closer now than anything.\"", "Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned that it would be very difficult for any prime minister who backs a policy of leaving the EU with no deal, to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long.\"\n\nRead more: Who will be the next prime minister?", "Wales MEPs are Nathan Gill (front, centre) James Wells (second right) Jill Evans (left) and Jackie Jones (right)\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party gained two Welsh MEPs after a sweeping victory in the European elections in Wales, winning in 19 of the 22 council areas.\n\nPlaid Cymru kept its MEP, coming second, with third-placed Labour taking the fourth seat, ahead of the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Tories lost their seat and dropped to fifth in the vote, just ahead of the Green Party, UKIP and Change UK.\n\nWelsh Labour leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford said the party would now back a Remain vote in a new referendum.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said the election result was a \"very strong message from Wales - we want our Brexit and we want it now\".\n\n󠁿It means Mr Gill, first elected in 2014 under the UKIP banner, retains his seat in Brussels as a Brexit Party MEP, alongside his new party colleague James Wells.\n\nMr Gill said only his party was \"committed to respecting the vote of the people of Wales\" to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nAll 28 EU member states have been electing MEPs to the European Parliament.\n\nThe Brexit Party, launched by Nigel Farage six weeks ago, has won 28 out of the 64 declared UK seats, with a total of 73 up for grabs.\n\n\"It's going to be a pain in the backside for the EU I should imagine,\" Mr Gill said.\n\n\"We're not going there to make it work, are we? I mean, we told them, let Britain leave the EU with a decent trade deal and you won't have any problems with Nigel Farage ever coming back.\n\n\"They didn't do that, did they?\"\n\nJill Evans stays as Plaid Cymru's MEP and Jackie Jones replaces Derek Vaughan and retains Labour's Welsh seat in the European Parliament.\n\nIt is the first time Plaid has beaten the Labour Party in a Wales-wide election, and only the second time Labour has lost such a poll in a century.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said the result was \"incredible\" and it \"shows that the tectonic plates of Welsh politics are shifting\".\n\n\"Support for the Westminster establishment parties is crumbling and Plaid Cymru is preparing to form the next government of Wales in 2021,\" he added.\n\nMs Evans said: \"Plaid's manifesto set out a vision for a thriving future for Wales at the heart of Europe. I'm looking forward to throwing all my energy into delivering it.\"\n\nThe turnout was 37.1%, up 5.6% on the previous EU election in 2014.\n\nHe warned that the election of a new Conservative leader would increase the chances of a \"catastrophic no-deal exit from the EU\".\n\n\"Faced with the damage of a hard-line, Tory Brexit, Welsh Labour believes that the final decision must be made by the public in a referendum.\n\n\"And, for the avoidance of any doubt, a Welsh Labour government would campaign, in such a vote, for Wales to remain in the EU,\" he said.\n\nEx-Welsh Government minister Alun Davies blamed the huge drop Labour in Labour support on both Mr Drakeford and the party's UK leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"This is the reality we face. Poor leadership from London and no leadership from Wales,\" he said on Twitter.\n\nTweeting ahead of the results, former Welsh Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said a key message of the night was the failure of pro-EU forces to present a united front.\n\n\"Remain parties will comfortably out-poll the Brexit Party in Wales tonight, but the Brexit Party will come first in the vote tallies,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why I said we should have put forward a united slate, just like the Brexit Party.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Davies AM/AC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Price agreed, telling BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"I would like to explore the possibility of a fully-fledged electoral pact between Remain parties.\n\n\"If there is a snap general election, it will almost certainly be fought, particularly on this Brexit issue, and we should get our acts together.\"\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds seized on her party's fourth place as evidence that its \"fightback is in full effect\".\n\n\"Voters are listening to us again, supporting us again and believing in us again,\" she said.\n\n\"These results show we're on course to return a strong and effective Welsh Liberal Democrat assembly group in 2021.\"\n\nCadan ap Tomos, chairman of the Welsh Liberal Democrats National Executive Committee, told BBC Radio Wales that he was feeling \"absolutely fantastic\" about the result.\n\nReacting to coming in fifth place - down from third in the previous European election in 2014 - Conservative Welsh Assembly group leader Paul Davies called the results \"extremely disappointing for our hard-working candidates\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post 2 by Vaughan Gething AM\n\nThe party \"must now reflect long and hard on them\", he added.\n\nLead Tory candidate Dan Boucher emphasised the \"very challenging circumstances\" of the poll, which took place because the prime minister had failed to secure the UK's departure from the EU on 29 March, as she had promised.\n\n\"People were very frustrated that Brexit hasn't been delivered and I'm personally frustrated that Brexit hasn't been delivered as someone who campaigned for it,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very strong signal to the government.\"\n\nBrexiteer David Davies, MP for Monmouth, said the results were \"an unmitigated disaster for the Conservative Party\".\n\nHe added that ministers should stop \"whinging\" about Brexiteers like Boris Johnson and \"take some responsibility for the shambles they have helped create by failing to deliver Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party took 6.3% of the Welsh vote and its leader in Wales, Anthony Slaughter, said the election was not just about Brexit.\n\n\"Public concern for climate change has never been greater,\" he said. \"The people demand action, and the Green Party is the only party that promises to do that based on a record of real delivery.\"\n\nThis is an extraordinarily bad night for Welsh Labour, a party that has topped every Wales wide poll (except one) for a century.\n\nIt may be the victim of a UK-wide issue and the ambivalence of Jeremy Corbyn's position on another EU referendum.\n\nBut the Welsh party has defied the UK trend many times before. And for their new leader, Mark Drakeford, presiding over a result like this is damaging.\n\nSources say the party in Wales had no control over the conduct of the campaign or party policy on Brexit.\n\nWhat we do know is that Mr Drakeford has, for months, resisted pressure from within his own Welsh party to come out more strongly for a further EU poll.\n\nIt was loyal to the UK party position, but was it the right call?\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results", "Labor has elected Anthony Albanese to lead the party\n\nAustralia's Labor opposition has chosen Anthony Albanese as its new leader after the party suffered an upset in the nation's general election.\n\nPrevious leader Bill Shorten resigned on 18 May, immediately after conceding the election to incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison.\n\nMr Albanese, a veteran politician, was elected unopposed as his successor.\n\nHe vowed to rebuild Labor's vote, saying on Monday: \"I am up for a hard job. I am up for hard work.\"\n\n\"I intend to do my best to work with the Australian people to ensure that we elect a Labor government next time.\"\n\nLabor is reeling from the election which delivered Mr Morrison's conservative coalition a majority. The Liberal-Nationals had previously been in minority government.\n\nLast week, Mr Albanese described the election loss as \"devastating\", after months of opinion polls had indicated that Labor was expected to win.\n\nThe 56-year-old MP, from Sydney, has held senior positions in past Labor governments.\n\nHe previously lost the last ballot for the Labor leadership to Mr Shorten in 2013.\n\nMr Albanese has promised a \"reset\" of Labor's policy agenda but said he would not be rushed.\n\nThe party had campaigned on a comprehensive set of reforms, including climate and tax policy changes.\n\nHowever, that ultimately failed to appeal to voters, with Labor suffering a 1.08% swing away from it nationally.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nIt suffered its deepest losses in Queensland, where the party's vote was reduced to six seats of a possible 30.\n\nMuch of the post-election analysis has focused on Labor's reduced vote from its traditional working-class base.\n\nIn his first speech as leader-elect on Monday, Mr Albanese said he intended to build relationships with \"those people who wanted to vote for us, who were open to vote for us, but who felt like they couldn't\".\n\nHe emphasised his economic credentials, and said he was open to working with the government to achieve progress on climate change and indigenous issues.\n\n\"Some reforms require bipartisan support,\" he said.\n\nThe party's former deputy Tanya Plibersek, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen, and rising frontbencher Jim Chalmers were also eyed as potential leaders, but all withdrew from the race last week.\n\nMs Plibersek said she would not run for the role because of family reasons.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "The Brexit Party has won the largest share of the vote and the most seats in the UK's European elections.\n\nMany of its policies are unknown, it produced no manifesto, and it has avoided answering detailed questions on immigration or economic policy.\n\nOne thing we do know very clearly is that it wants to leave the European Union as soon as possible.\n\nSo what would a Brexit Party Brexit actually look like?\n\nThe Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says he wants a \"clean-break\" Brexit, abandoning the withdrawal agreement that Theresa May's government negotiated with the EU.\n\nIt is notable that Mr Farage tended to avoid the term \"no-deal\" Brexit during the election campaign.\n\nA party spokesman argued that it is a misleading term that gives a false impression.\n\nWithout a withdrawal agreement, though, most of the vast network of rules and regulations that have governed the UK's relationship with the rest of Europe for more than 40 years, whether in trade or security or other issues, would disappear overnight.\n\nThat's what a clean break would mean.\n\nWhile arguing for a swift exit, the Brexit Party has also called for its newly elected MEPs to play a \"major role\" in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nBut as the Brexit Party is not in government and has no MPs in the House of Commons that is highly unlikely. The only direct role Brexit Party MEPs might have is if the withdrawal agreement was ever to pass in the House of Commons - there would then be a vote in the European Parliament to ratify it.\n\nA clean break also means - and this was a promise that appeared on a pledge card the Brexit Party produced during the campaign - that it would refuse to pay the £39bn financial settlement, or \"divorce bill\", that the government has agreed in order to settle past debts and future obligations to the EU.\n\nAnd it means the party wants to leave the EU on - as it puts it - World Trade Organization (WTO) terms.\n\nIt sounds very simple, and it is a phrase that is also used by several contenders for the Conservative Party leadership.\n\nBut what does it mean in practice? Not a lot.\n\nThe basic rules of the WTO are really just the baseline of international trade, which don't offer more than the most rudimentary of benefits.\n\nA lot of Brexit supporters - including the Brexit Party - argue that the UK can use something called Article 24 (of GATT - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) to ensure that the UK can still enjoy free or frictionless trade with the EU.\n\nIt would mean no tariffs or taxes would be imposed on goods crossing borders between the UK and its largest trading partner, the European Union.\n\nThe trouble with that argument is that you can only use Article 24 if two parties are willing to make an agreement - in this case, the UK and the EU. Neither can impose it on the other.\n\nIn other words, you have to agree a deal first and the Brexit Party, along with several would-be Conservative leaders, are prepared to leave without a deal.\n\nMr Farage argues that there will in fact be a deal of some kind because the EU needs one.\n\nHe has been fond of saying that when push comes to shove the EU would \"come running\" to do a quick trade deal with the UK.\n\nIt is certainly true that any significant disruption to trade would hurt both sides, but the EU has said consistently that it values the integrity of its single market more than free trade with the UK, and that that will be its priority.\n\nOf course no deal or a \"clean break\" is not an end in itself. Eventually - and sooner rather than later - the two sides would have to start talking again about a future agreement.\n\nThe 27 other EU countries have already agreed that if there is no deal then the first thing they would want to talk to the UK about after Brexit would not be a trade deal.\n\nIt would be the financial settlement, citizens' rights and the Irish border - exactly those issues that are dealt with in detail in the withdrawal agreement that has been rejected three times in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Brexit Party is offering simple solutions. But the Brexit process is full of complex problems.", "'Clear majority' who want to stop Brexit - Cable\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable says the party's \"next big task\" is to work with others to prevent the UK from \"crashing out of the European Union by accident\". He says it is \"very clear\" that there is a \"clear majority in the country who want to stop Brexit\". \"We've had a brilliant result, we've got a lot now to build on,\" he adds. He says he was \"pleasantly surprised\" at the results overnight, although it was \"clear that we had momentum\". \"The only way now to resolve the issue is to go back to the public,\" he says. Sir Vince adds that \"Jeremy Corbyn's position is now very weak\" and Labour's results were \"almost humiliating\". He says he would be surprised if both Labour and the Conservatives \"survive intact\" during the next general election. Turning to the upcoming Liberal Democrat leadership race, he says he does not have a preference for who takes over.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Sturgeon said a bill paving the way for indyref2 would be published at Holyrood\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for a new Scottish independence referendum in the second half of 2020.\n\nSpeaking in Dublin Ms Sturgeon said the \"latter half\" of next year would be the \"right time\" for a new poll.\n\nThe SNP leader predicted victory in a second vote, with Scotland becoming \"an independent country just like Ireland\".\n\nMs Sturgeon also confirmed legislation setting out the rules for another independence referendum will be published at Holyrood on Wednesday.\n\nThe first minister, who met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during her Irish trip, had previously said she wanted to hold a second vote on Scottish independence by May 2021 if the country was taken out of the EU.\n\nSpeaking after her party secured 37.7% of the Scottish vote in the European elections she gave a clearer indication of her preferred timeframe.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"There will be another Scottish independence referendum and I will make a prediction today that Scotland will vote for independence and we will become an independent country just like Ireland, and the strong relationship between our two countries now will become even stronger soon.\n\n\"I want to see Scotland having the choice of independence within this term of the Scottish Parliament, which ends in May 2021, so towards the latter half of next year would be when I think is the right time for that choice.\"\n\nIn a separate BBC interview, Ms Sturgeon said she would bring forward legislation later this week at Holyrood paving the way for a second independence vote.\n\nShe said: \"This week we will bring forward legislation to put in place the rules for giving people the choice in an independence referendum over a Brexit future or a future as an independent European nation.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has previously said that in order to put a future Yes vote beyond doubt or challenge, she would want the UK government to give Holyrood the power to hold a new referendum through a \"Section 30 order\" or similar mechanism.\n\nThe UK government has insisted it would not support such a vote at the present time, arguing that the matter was supposed to be \"settled for a generation\" by the independence referendum in 2014.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative chief whip Maurice Golden criticised the first minister's comments on independence, accusing her of \"hypocritical deceit\".\n\nHe said: \"The SNP went into this election pretending to voters that it was nothing to do with independence.\n\n\"Yet within hours of it being announced, Nicola Sturgeon is specifically using it to argue for separation.\n\n\"That's fraudulent behaviour from an SNP government that's meant to be running the country, not trying to break it up.\"", "It was a tough night for both Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nThe Brexit Party swept across Britain, and the Liberal Democrats and Green Party also made gains.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped polls in every country or region apart from London, which was won by the Liberal Democrats; Scotland, which was won by the SNP; and Northern Ireland, where they did not stand.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Click here for full UK results Find out who was elected in your area The results for your area are not in yet * Votes counted as first preference. Vote share figures not included because of the STV electoral system Find out more about elections in Northern Ireland\n\nOur map by council results shows that the Brexit Party topped polls almost everywhere in England and Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives did not come top in any council areas.\n\nSearch using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results\n\nAll results from the UK can be seen here.\n\nNigel Farage's Brexit Party secured more than half the vote in areas where more than 7 in 10 people backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while the trends for the Greens and Lib Dems were the opposite.\n\nAs for the two main parties, Labour particularly struggled to pick up votes in areas that voted strongly for Leave in 2016, averaging less than one in ten votes in those local authorities.\n\nThe Conservatives performed badly across the board, but worst in areas where voters heavily backed Remain in the referendum.\n\nVoters in local authority areas which backed Remain in the EU referendum showed a renewed enthusiasm for getting out to vote.\n\nFor example, turnout in Bristol, in which more than 60% of voters supported Remain, increased by eight percentage points with the Green Party winning the most votes, and in Edinburgh, where more than 75% of voters were Remainers, it was up by nine points with the SNP in the lead.\n\nOn average turnout was 36.7%, up a little less than two percentage points on the last EU election in 2014.\n\nThe Conservatives and Labour combined received less than 25% of the votes, their worst result in any EU election.\n\nThe two main parties' vote share has been dropping consistently since the UK's first EU election in 1979.\n\nBy Daniel Dunford, John Walton, Clara Guibourg, Ed Lowther and Paul Sargeant. Design by Sean Willmott, Prina Shah and Irene de la Torre Arenas. Development by Joe Reed, Becky Rush and Shilpa Saraf.\n\nCorrection 20 August 2019: This article has been amended to remove a chart that attempted to show the performance of pro- and anti-Brexit parties, after a ruling from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit.", "Video caption: Alistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'\n\nAlistair Campbell: 'I'm still in the Labour Party as far as I'm concerned'", "One of the blasts struck a shop\n\nAt least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say.\n\nThe three blasts - one in the centre and two on the outskirts - took place on Sunday afternoon local time.\n\nImprovised or crude explosive devices are believed to have been used to set off the blasts, police said.\n\nOne official told reporters a Maoist splinter group was under suspicion after pamphlets were found nearby.\n\nThe same group is alleged to have carried out an explosion in February which killed one person in Kathmandu.\n\nHowever, no one has claimed responsibilities for the attacks.\n\nPolice official Shyam Lal Gyawali said three of those killed died \"on the spot\", while the fourth died in hospital.\n\nThe pamphlets were found at a home on the outskirts of the city, where the first blast took place, he added.\n\nStudent Govinda Bhandari, 17, told Reuters news agency: \"I heard a big noise and rushed to the spot to find the walls of a house had developed cracks due to the impact of the blast.\"\n\nJust one person died in the initial explosion, while three died in a second incident near a hairdressers in the city centre.\n\nThe third blast happened several hours later and is reported to have injured two members of the group transporting an explosive device.\n\nSecurity forces have sealed off the locations of the blasts and say investigations are under way.\n\nSince a decade-long civil war ended in 2006, Nepal has been relatively peaceful, with the main group of the former rebels joining the ruling government party the next year.\n\nHowever, some have now broken away, saying their leaders are betraying their original revolutionary ideals.", "Fiat Chrysler has made a \"transformative\" merger proposal for French carmaker Renault, the Italian firm said on Monday.\n\nThe combined business would be 50% owned by Fiat shareholders and 50% by Renault stockholders.\n\nThe carmaker said the merger would create a global automotive leader, with 8.7 million vehicle sales.\n\nCarmakers have faced pressure to consolidate amid major industry shifts, including towards electric vehicles.\n\nShares in both companies rose strongly following the announcement.\n\nIn a statement, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) said the planned merger would create a \"world leader in the rapidly changing automotive industry with a strong position in transforming technologies, including electrification and autonomous driving\".\n\nFiat said that if the firms' 2018 financial results were totted up, the combined company's annual revenues would be nearly €170bn (£149.6bn; $190.5bn), with operating profit of more than €10bn and net profit of more than €8bn.\n\nNo plant closures would be caused as a result of the tie-up, the carmaker said.\n\nIt will aim to save €5bn a year by sharing development costs on technology such as electric vehicles and self-driving cars.\n\nIt is thought some managerial positions may be lost, but the companies will be keen to show that production-line jobs are being preserved.\n\nThe new company will be based in the Netherlands and will be listed on the Milan, Paris and New York stock exchanges.\n\nTo make the merger one of equals, the slightly-wealthier FCA will pay a special dividend of €2.5bn and sell its Comau robotics business.\n\nThe proposal will be considered by the Renault board. Who will lead the new entity and what it might be called are not yet decided.\n\nIf the plan goes ahead, Nissan and the French government will own about 7.5% apiece of the new, merged company.\n\nThe French government favours the merger but wants more details before giving its final approval, a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Italian government may want to acquire a share of the new firm to balance France's stake, said a politician from the Northern League, the country's largest party, according to Reuters.\n\nBy sales, the new company will be number four in North America, number two in the region which covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the biggest in Latin America.\n\nCarlos Ghosn is awaiting trial following his fourth arrest\n\nIndustry shifts toward electric models, along with stricter emissions standards and the development of new technologies for autonomous vehicles, have put increasing pressure on carmakers to consolidate.\n\nRenault already has an alliance with Japan's Nissan, in which research costs and parts are shared. The companies own shares in each other, too. Renault owns 43.4% of Nissan's shares and Nissan owns 15% of Renault.\n\nThe former chief executive of both Nissan and Renault, Carlos Ghosn, is awaiting trial following his fourth arrest amid allegations of financial misconduct.\n\nThe allegations have put a strain on the 20-year-old alliance, which also includes Japan's Mitsubishi Motors.\n\nNew entrants in the motoring sector such as Tesla, as well as cash-rich companies developing driverless technology such as Amazon and Google-owned Waymo, are putting pressure on older and often heavily indebted carmakers to keep up.", "Robert Webb (l) and David Mitchell starred in Peep Show from 2003-2015\n\nBafta-winning British sitcom Peep Show is to be reworked for US TV from the point of view of female characters.\n\nThe show, which centres around the plight of a \"a pair of losers\", Jeremy and Mark, will now head across the Atlantic with a gender difference.\n\nCo-creator Sam Bain confirmed to The Guardian he's working with Portlandia and Arrested Development producer Karey Dornetto on the new FX programme.\n\n\"People sometimes ask if I look at my earlier work differently now,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether my shows would have been better if they had been more diverse.\n\n\"What would Peep Show have been like with women as the two leads? It's a great question - and it's one I'll shortly have the answer to, because there is a script in development for a US Peep Show with two female leads.\"\n\nBain, who wrote Peep Show with Jesse Armstrong, went on to describe Dornetto as a \"top comedy brain\" in the article about diversity in comedy.\n\nHe added: \"Ultimately, the best way of building gender inclusivity into scripts is to get women to write them.\n\n\"I can't wait to find out what sick and twisted [stuff] goes on inside the minds of a pair of female losers.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Bain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2010 the show - starring Robert Webb and David Mitchell - became Channel 4's longest-ever running comedy in terms of on air time, and went on to complete its ninth series in 2015.\n\nThe fourth series won the 2008 Bafta for best situation comedy and stateside it was nominated for an Emmy in 2010.\n\nA US version of the show has been developed several times, without ever getting past the pilot stage.\n\nAnd while The Office made the transition seamlessly, there have also been failed attempts to launch American versions of other UK comedies including Spaced and The IT Crowd. Adaptations of Men Behaving Badly and Sirens only lasted two seasons on US TV too before being cancelled.\n\nGoing the other way, Coupling failed to live up to its billing as the UK version of Friends, while Jack Dee's Lead Balloon never quite reached the heights of its direct inspiration; Curb Your Enthusiasm.\n\nSome hope that the new US female-driven version of Peep Show will buck the trend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Alan Denton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers meanwhile would prefer it if it was left well alone, preferring to see some entirely new female characters written instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jessica Blankenship This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The stigma of flat-sharing in your 40s", "More inmates in England and Wales will be able to leave prison for a day or overnight in order to take jobs.\n\nThe relaxing of the rules - six years after they were tightened - is intended to boost prisoners' job prospects.\n\nThe government also revealed that 230 new businesses, including Pret A Manger and Greene King, have joined its offender work placement scheme.\n\nSome 300 business were already part of the scheme, which builds partnerships between prisons and employers.\n\nThe decision to ease the rules on day and overnight release is part of a government effort to reduce re-offending, which is estimated to cost society £15bn a year.\n\nRelease on temporary licence (ROTL) allows prisoners to spend time in the community for short periods, normally towards the end of their sentence.\n\nLast year, 7,700 inmates were able to work outside prison or stay out overnight; under the new measures, it's expected that number will increase by several hundred.\n\nUnder the new rules, inmates in open or women's prisons are eligible to undertake paid work immediately after they have passed a \"rigorous\" risk assessment - previously this was only allowed if the prisoner was within 12 months of release.\n\nAdditionally, a restriction on ROTL in the first three months after transferring to open conditions will be lifted and overnight leave can now be considered at an earlier stage.\n\nThe application process is also being made more efficient, according to officials.\n\nROTL numbers fell after a 2013 review by former Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.\n\nThat followed convicted killer Ian McLoughlin, who had been allowed out of prison for the day, stabbing a man to death.\n\nOverall, the temporary release of prisoners fell by almost one third in five years.\n\nAllowing prisoners who may be nearing the end of their sentence to spend time in the community is a vital element of their reintegration into society.\n\nIt may help them secure valuable work experience, gain qualifications or learn new skills. For some inmates it is about re-building family ties.\n\nAnd for those serving life or indeterminate sentences it is a way for the authorities to gauge whether offenders can be trusted on the outside.\n\nBut after the appalling case in 2013 of Ian McLoughlin, the temporary release scheme rules were tightened and the number let out dropped sharply.\n\nThat led to complaints from prison reform campaigners that the restrictions, imposed by the former justice secretary Chris Grayling, were too onerous.\n\nMinisters have therefore sought a compromise which they hope will further prisoner rehabilitation - and keep the public safe.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The evidence and common sense suggests that prisoners who go into work after they leave prison are less likely to re-offend.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we just dump them out of prison having not done anything to get them ready for work then I'm afraid the risk of re-offending is that much greater.\"\n\nHe said many organisations already recognised the value of giving offenders a second chance and he urged more businesses to join the movement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two daughters open up to their mums about what life has been like on the outside\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust welcomed the rule change, calling it a \"step in the right direction\" but added that \"there is much further to go\".\n\nThe charity's director, Peter Dawson, said \"prisoners are serving longer sentences than ever before\" and that \"these changes will mainly benefit only the minority who have managed to get to an open prison towards the very end of their time inside\".", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa won promotion to the Premier League and secured an estimated £170m windfall as they held off a late Derby County fightback to win the Championship play-off final at Wembley.\n\nVilla, beaten by Fulham in last season's final, seemed to be cruising to victory when John McGinn added to Anwar El Ghazi's first-half strike to put them 2-0 up with 30 minutes to go.\n\nHowever, Rams boss Frank Lampard threw caution to the wind and his side set up a frantic finale when substitute Jack Marriott's effort from eight yards took a deflection off Martyn Waghorn on its way in.\n\nDespite seven minutes of injury time they could not force an equaliser and now face another season in the second tier, while Villa return to the Premier League for the first time since relegation in 2016.\n\nPromotion at Wembley caps off a remarkable three months for Villa who had looked out of the promotion race before a club-record 10-match winning run saw them finish fifth.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly given the value of the game, the first half was a cagey affair.\n\nRams midfielder Mason Mount was the first player to register a shot on target when he fired straight at Villa keeper Jed Steer from 20 yards late in the half.\n• None Lampard expects to stay at Derby despite Wembley loss\n• None How did you rate the players?\n\nWith the game drifting towards the break goalless, Dean Smith's side launched a quick attack that El Ghazi finished off by coming in on the blindside of the static Jayden Bogle and diverting it into the net with his back.\n\nThey doubled their advantage when Rams goalkeeper Kelle Roos misjudged the flight of a deflected El Ghazi shot and McGinn beat him to it to head into an empty net.\n\nThat sparked Derby into life and they grew into the game before the combination of forwards Marriott and Waghorn got them back in it.\n\nBut it was not enough and they now face a 12th successive season in the Championship.\n\nVictory at the national stadium brings a successful end to what has been at times a tumultuous year for Villa.\n\nDays after defeat by Fulham in last season's Championship showpiece it was revealed the club had missed a deadline to pay HM Revenue & Customs £4m and it seemed likely that star player Jack Grealish would have to be sold.\n\nWith administration a serious concern, Chinese owner Tony Xia eventually sold the club to billionaire businessmen Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris in July.\n\nThey decided to stick with boss Steve Bruce until October, but after an indifferent start to the season, sacked the 58-year-old after a 3-3 draw with Preston, which had seen an irate fan throw a cabbage at him.\n\nBruce was replaced in the dugout by Brentford manager and Villa fan Smith, with former Chelsea and Villa defender John Terry as assistant, and results initially improved.\n\nHowever, following an injury to midfielder Grealish at the start of December the team went on a torrid run of form and by the end of February they were eight points off the play-offs, having played two games more than some teams around them.\n\nGrealish returned to the side and was made captain for the home game against Derby on 1 March. The 23-year-old scored the fourth goal in a 4-0 win over the Rams which sparked a run of 10 successive victories and Villa qualified for the play-offs with two games to spare.\n\nThey squeezed past local rivals West Brom on penalties to set up a meeting with Derby, who they had beaten by an aggregate of 7-0 in their two league meetings this season.\n\nThis game threatened to go the way of the past two games between the sides when the superb McGinn bundled in with Roos flapping.\n\nIt proved to be a much closer finish but Villa managed to hang on to claim a promotion that boss Smith said felt \"surreal\".\n\nHe said: \"Reality sets in now. Last time I was sat in a news conference after a Wembley final, I had lost 2-0 to Bristol City in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final with Walsall (in 2015).\n\n\"It's no more that we deserve because the players have made history (with the winning run).\n\n\"The potential here is massive. It feels right we are a Premier League club because of the history and the fan base that we have.\"\n\nWhat next for Rams… and Lampard?\n\nDerby reached the play-offs in dramatic fashion, with two goals in the final 30 minutes of their final league game of the season against West Brom giving them the win they needed to guarantee sixth position.\n\nMore drama was to follow in their semi-final against Leeds United, when the Rams became the first team in second-tier history to recover from losing the first leg at home to go on to reach the final, as they fought back to win an incredible match 4-2 at Elland Road.\n\nTheir build-up to the Wembley showpiece was in danger of being disrupted as rumours grew about boss Lampard leaving to replace Maurizio Sarri as Chelsea manager.\n\nThe former England international said before the game he would discuss his future with Rams owner Mel Morris after Monday regardless of the result, but suggested he expects to be at Pride Park next season.\n\n\"I haven't had any discussions with any other clubs,\" said Lampard. \"I'll be having talks with Mel on how we can compete next year.\n\n\"The talks are important in terms of where we go. I want to move forward.\"\n\nHe added that the Chelsea \"noise was irrelevant\" and that he had \"loved working here and I want to continue that and continue progressing with the club\".\n\nDerby, who also lost out in the 2014 Championship play-off final to QPR, failed to threaten the Villa defence until they had gone 2-0 down.\n\nThey will surely be left to wonder 'what if?' after a spirited last 10 minutes nearly saw them grab a leveller to send the game to extra-time.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Anwar El Ghazi tries a through ball, but Jack Grealish is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Derby County. Harry Wilson tries a through ball, but Florian Jozefzoon is caught offside.\n• None John McGinn (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Substitution, Aston Villa. Kortney Hause replaces Tyrone Mings because of an injury.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa).\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 2, Derby County 1. Martyn Waghorn (Derby County) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Marriott.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jayden Bogle with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, stressed that it was not pulling out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe real battle for the fate of the Iran nuclear deal has begun.\n\nFor a year now since the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the agreement, a kind of \"phoney diplomatic war\" has been under way.\n\nIran and all the other parties to the accord have carried on regardless of Washington's actions.\n\nIndeed, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the global nuclear watchdog, has repeatedly given Tehran a clean bill of health. Iran has been living up to its part of the bargain.\n\nIran's crude oil exports have more than halved since the start of 2018\n\nBut Iranian compliance was not the issue for the Trump administration.\n\nIt just believes that this is a very bad deal. Its main European allies, along with Russia and China, disagree.\n\nSo the Trump administration has been ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran.\n\nIt has re-imposed many sanctions; it has designated the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation; and, most recently, it has not renewed sanctions waivers that allowed several countries to continue purchasing Iranian oil.\n\nThe pressure on Iran's economy has been severe.\n\nBoth in terms of responding to popular pressure at home and in an effort to relieve its worsening situation, the Iranian government has now decided to act.\n\nIt has taken the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the agreement - known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - to start setting conditions of its own.\n\nIran is pursuing what it sees as a deliberate and measured course.\n\nFirst, it says it is no longer going to respect restrictions on storing enriched uranium and heavy water.\n\nAnd it has given a 60-day deadline to the remaining countries involved in the JCPOA to implement what Iran calls \"their commitments\", particularly in the banking and oil sectors.\n\nIf this deadline passes, then Iran will suspend restrictions on the level of enrichment it is allowed to conduct and halt the modernisation of the Arak heavy-water reactor.\n\nIranians have remained defiant in the face of the sanctions and vowed to overcome them\n\nIran is presenting itself very much as the wronged party, forced to act by unrelenting US pressure. And, if you ignore wider concerns about Iran's regional behaviour or its missile programmes - which, to be fair were never part of the JCPOA - it has a point.\n\nIt has broadly stuck to the letter of the agreement. US sanctions that were supposed to be lifted have been reimposed. Its economy is suffering badly. Tehran is saying \"enough is enough\".\n\nThe pressure now is squarely upon the Europeans - in particular the French, the British and German governments which helped to negotiate the deal.\n\nIran is charging them with not having lived up to their promises.\n\nThey have to do something to relieve the economic pressure on Tehran or, after 60 days, it will move to stage two of its planned suspensions.\n\nAnd there is an explicit warning to the Europeans too.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has underlined his country's role in fighting the smuggling of drugs and in constraining the flow of refugees into Europe. US economic pressure, he insists, means that Iran could no longer afford such activities.\n\nIran wants the other signatories to the nuclear deal to shield it from the effects of US sanctions\n\nSo what can the Europeans do?\n\nThey have created an elaborate mechanism to facilitate trade with Iran. But it is unclear how effective this has been.\n\nMany companies with an international profile would prefer to avoid the risks and choose trade with the US over Iran.\n\nRelations with Washington have already been soured by this issue. The US wants the JCPOA gone and it is hard to see how the Europeans can do enough by themselves to satisfy Iran to save it.\n\nBut equally the Europeans, in wanting the nuclear deal to survive, cannot allow Iran to remain in breach of its terms.\n\nSo a difficult couple of months of diplomacy lie ahead.\n\nThe US secretary of state arrived in the UK hours after the Iranian nuclear announcement\n\nUnless there is a fudge, it is hard to see the JCPOA surviving.\n\nThe Europeans need to craft some modest understanding that gives Tehran the opportunity to back down and return to full compliance. It cannot be only partly in the JCPOA deal. Washington's unilateral rejection of it at least had the benefit of clarity.\n\nRussia and China were also key backers of the JCPOA.\n\nThey too have a diplomatic part to play, but Washington's position is inevitably causing additional tensions with Moscow and Beijing. Both governments have laid the blame for the JCPOA's problems squarely at Washington's door.\n\nThe Trump administration must see its ultimate goal - the collapse of the JCPOA - as now being in sight.\n\nIt will also be applying huge pressure on its European partners who are caught between a rock and a hard place.\n\nThe Europeans are to some extent ambivalent because they too are concerned about Iran's foreign policy, its support for terrorism, and its missile and missile-export programmes.\n\nThe US is sending the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Gulf following \"troubling\" Iranian actions\n\nThis is the context in which tensions are rising.\n\nUS military warnings are intended to send an unequivocal message that any anti-US actions by Iran or its proxies will have only one return address - Tehran.\n\nIs Washington gearing up for a war? Not yet.\n\nBut the logic of the Trump administration's policy is unforgiving - either Iran radically changes its behaviour, or the US will do as much as it can to bring the Iranian regime down.\n\nThe danger of conflict - albeit by accident rather than design - is growing.\n\nAnd the collapse of the JCPOA will be another step on the escalatory ladder.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn adventure sports enthusiast has found an extreme way of descending Wales' highest mountain.\n\nJosh Beinn, 29, is one of the leading base jumpers in the UK.\n\nHaving jumped from the highest points in Scotland, off Ben Nevis, and England, Scafell Pike, he completed the \"hat-trick\" by leaping 2,500ft (760m) off the side of Snowdon.\n\n\"It was exhilarating as I knew it was the highest yet (in Wales) and the epic cliffs added to the drama,\" he said.\n\nMr Beinn, from Cumbria, says it is the highest base jump recorded in Wales.\n\nHe took up Base jumping when skydiving no longer gave him the same 'buzz'.\n\n\"The epic cliffs added to the drama\" says Beinn\n\n\"I wanted to explore new territory and adventure and was planning to move abroad, but then I discovered base jumping,\" he said.\n\n\"Since starting to explore new cliffs in the UK, I've realised there is so much more adventure on offer right here on our front door step.\n\n\"Snowdonia particularly has some incredible mountain and coastal cliffs. \"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archaeology and history enthusiasts are being encouraged to dig deep into the massacre of Glencoe.\n\nThe slaughter happened in February 1692, when troops billeted with Clan MacDonald of Glencoe turned on their hosts.\n\nIt was punishment for their clan chief having been late in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs William and Mary.\n\nDozens of MacDonalds died. Exactly how many is still disputed.\n\nSo is almost everything else surrounding it: the motivation, the machinations behind it, its lasting consequences.\n\nGenerations of Scottish children - MacDonald children especially - have been told the tale with its many variations.\n\nOf how troops swept up the glen from the west, killing and burning.\n\nBut, perhaps surprisingly, down the intervening centuries there has been no large-scale attempt by archaeologists to uncover the physical evidence.\n\nNow, the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is taking the initiative.\n\nThe NTS head of archaeology Derek Alexander, his colleagues and volunteers, have begun excavating the remains of the abandoned clachan (settlement) of Achtriachtan.\n\nIn 1692 it was home to perhaps 40 to 50 men, women and children, their cattle and crops.\n\nNow it is a few bumps of turf on the hillside.\n\nEvery year millions of cars speed past on the A82 below, most of their occupants unaware of their significance.\n\nAchtriachtan was the clachan highest up the glen to the east.\n\nThe troops sent to block their escape were late coming over the Devil's Staircase.\n\nA warning was sent from the clachans lower down. This allowed many people to get away, but not all of them.\n\nA contemporary account states one old man in his 80s was shot while trying to flee. He died down by the River Coe.\n\nHe may have been a bard. Achtriachtan had a reputation for producing verse makers and storytellers.\n\nNow archaeology could be about to cut through myth and legend.\n\n\"It's the first time we've done any excavation work here,\" Derek says.\n\n\"We did a little work last year but this is a major open area excavation to recover the full plan of one of the houses that was here.\"\n\nA survey has revealed that Achtriachtan was a small but not insignificant clachan.\n\n\"We've found three houses and maybe a couple of barns,\" he says.\n\n\"Each of them has a little enclosure, a kailyard or something at the back.\n\n\"We've also found a grain-drying kiln so it's quite a little settlement.\"\n\nNow the first structure is giving up its secrets.\n\nHome or barn? Probably a bit of both.\n\nCattle appear to have been kept at the western end with people living on the eastward side of a central hearth.\n\nThis was design, not chance. The western gable end would have put its shoulder into the wind coming up the glen.\n\nThe heat from the fire and the cattle would have been driven towards the home's human inhabitants.\n\nThe archaeologists have been helped by volunteers on a working holiday, part of the NTS Thistle Camp scheme.\n\nSmall white tags dot the trenches, showing where finds have already been made: shards of pottery, beads of glass a vibrant shade of blue.\n\nWhat excites the diggers is the possibility of finding an artefact such as a coin that could be positively dated from the time of the massacre.\n\nThe fact that some of the finds appear to date from the 18th Century highlights something which has been lost from the popular story of the massacre: some MacDonalds came back.\n\nAchtriachtan is shown as standing once again on maps from the 1750s, some 60 years after the massacre.\n\nIt remained a poor, hard life: a few cattle, crops of oats, barley and kale.\n\nThen it was extinguished again during the Highland Clearances, as humans were expelled to make way for sheep.\n\nEven if no physical evidence of the massacre is found, Derek says the research will still be worthwhile.\n\n\"A lot of it is just about giving people a picture of what the settlements were like at the time,\" he says.\n\n\"There's not a lot of tangible remains that people can interact with.\"\n\nAs the layout of the building is uncovered, a full plan will be drawn up.\n\nHe hopes that could lead to a full-scale replica being built at the NTS Glencoe visitor centre towards the foot of the glen.\n\n\"I think that would be a really good result,\" he says.\n\nSo Achtriachtan, lost for centuries, may rise again.\n• None Ruin could be linked to massacre\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils in England are calling for tougher sentences for fly-tippers - as new analysis shows nobody has faced the maximum penalty at magistrates' court since new guidelines were introduced five years ago.\n\nFly-tipping incidents in England have risen by nearly 40% in five years, to almost one million in 2017/18.\n\nThe LGA wants the government to review its guidance to courts on the issue.\n\nHe added that the practice is \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nMinisters introduced new sentencing guidelines in 2014, with a £50,000 fine or 12 months in prison the maximum punishment, if a case is dealt with at a magistrates' court.\n\nIf a case is passed to the crown court, they can issue an unlimited fine, as well as a two-year prison sentence, or five years if the waste is hazardous.\n\nThere were 997,553 recorded fly-tipping incidents in England in 2017/18 - a 39.6% rise from 714,637 in 2012/13, according to the the LGA analysis of statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\nCouncils can issue fixed penalty notices for more minor offences of fly-tipping, but they say they have less money available to enforce such powers because of pressure on their budgets.\n\nOverall, councils took action on 494,034 incidents in 2017/2018, up by just under 70,000 cases in five years.\n\nMartin Tett, chairman of the LGA's environment board, said: \"Fly-tipping is unsightly, unacceptable and inexcusable environmental vandalism. Councils are doing everything they can to try and deter fly-tippers.\n\n\"However, prosecuting them often requires time-consuming and laborious investigations, with a high threshold of proof, at a time when councils face significant budget pressures.\"\n\nHe argued that \"consistent and hard-hitting prosecutions are needed to deter rogue operators and fly-tippers\" and that \"councils also need adequate funding to investigate incidents and ensure fly-tippers do not go unpunished\".\n\nThe Defra spokesman said: \"We have strengthened local authorities' enforcement powers and made it easier for vehicles suspected of being used for fly-tipping to be stopped, searched and seized.\n\n\"Our actions are delivering results, with no increase in the number of incidents over 2017/18 for the first time in five years.\n\n\"The maximum penalty on indictment for fly-tipping is imprisonment of up to five years or a potentially unlimited fine.\"", "A UN report says six migrants died every day in 2018 trying to cross the Mediterranean (file image)\n\nAt least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the UN refugee agency says.\n\nSixteen people were rescued, UNHCR said in a statement.\n\nSurvivors say the boat left Zuwara in Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves.\n\nAbout 164 people died on the route between Libya and Europe in the first four months of 2019, UNHCR figures show.\n\nThe incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants since the start of the year.\n\nThe survivors were brought to the coast by the Tunisian Navy and are awaiting permission to disembark. One person has been transferred to hospital for medical treatment, the UNHCR says.\n\nThe navy dispatched a ship as soon as it heard about the incident and came across a fishing boat picking up survivors, a statement from the Tunisian defence ministry said.\n\nThe passengers are understood to have been from sub-Saharan Africa.\n\n\"This is a tragic and terrible reminder of the risks still faced by those who attempt to cross the Mediterranean,\" the UNHCR's Vincent Cochetel said in a statement.\n\nSome reports put the number on board higher so the toll could rise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Women and children are being held in camps close to fierce fighting in Libya's capital Tripoli\n\nThousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year, and Libya is a key departure point.\n\nThose who make the journey often travel in poorly maintained and overcrowded ships, and many have died.\n\nBut since mid-2017, the number of migrant journeys has declined dramatically.\n\nThe decline is largely because Italy has engaged Libyan forces to stop migrants from setting off or to return them to Libya if found at sea - a policy condemned by human rights organisations.\n\nIn the first three months of 2019, some 15,900 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the three Mediterranean routes - a 17% decrease on the same period in 2018.\n\nIn January, a UN report said six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day in 2018.\n• None Who is responsible for migrants at sea?", "Ian Ogle had acted as a spokesman for the loyalist community\n\nA 40-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Ian Ogle in January.\n\nMark Sewell, from Aigburth Park, Belfast, is the third man to be charged with the murder.\n\nMr Ogle, 45, died after he was stabbed and beaten in the street near his home in Cluan Place off the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast.\n\nHis wife, son, and daughter, were in court on Friday as Mr Sewell appeared on a murder charge.\n\nThe hearing lasted only two minutes.\n\nMr Sewell was asked if he understood the charge and he responded by nodding his head.\n\nIn March, Glenn Rainey, 32, of McArthur Court, east Belfast was charged with murder.\n\nJonathan Brown, 33, of McArthur Court, has also appeared in court charged with murdering Mr Ogle.", "The maximum custodial sentence for animal cruelty in England and Wales - six months - is the lowest in Europe\n\nFewer than one in 10 people convicted of animal cruelty offences in Wales in the last decade have been jailed, research by BBC Wales shows.\n\nLast year, a man from Caerphilly avoided jail after he was convicted of having sex with his two dogs.\n\nThe maximum custodial sentence for animal cruelty in England and Wales - six months - is the lowest in Europe.\n\nMagistrates \"treat each individual case on its merits\", the chairman of the Magistrates' Association said.\n\nJust 102 of the 1,268 convictions for animal cruelty offences in courts in Wales - 8% - resulted in a custodial sentence between 2007 and 2017, an analysis of Ministry of Justice figures reveals.\n\nAnd there has been a significant decline in the number of custodial sentences issued by courts in Wales - from a peak of 17 in 2011, to just six in 2017 - despite animal cruelty cases being at a five-year high.\n\nResponding to the figures, the RSPCA has called for tougher sentencing. But the BBC has found that only two maximum six-month sentences were issued by Welsh courts in the past decade.\n\nA Caerphilly man who was caught having sex with his two dogs avoided prison and was banned from keeping animals for 10 years.\n\nRobert Gwynn, 60, received a three-month suspended sentence last May after his neighbours witnessed the him committing the \"disgusting and horrific\" acts against his own dogs, Taff and Ben.\n\nTaff and Ben were rehomed by the RSPCA after their owner was banned for keeping animals for 10 years\n\nIn another case prosecuted by the RSPCA, a Merthyr Tydfil cat owner spoke of his horror when he discovered CCTV footage of his cat being intentionally set upon and mauled to death by a dog.\n\nTwo boys, aged 15 and 17, were sentenced to a 12-month referral order to the youth offending team and were banned from keeping animals for 10 years after admitting causing unnecessary suffering.\n\nSully the cat was thrown in bushes after he was killed by a dog which had been intentionally set on him by two boys\n\nCases such as these have led the RSPCA to call for tougher sentencing powers for magistrates to act as a stronger deterrent.\n\n\"Though custodial sentences are comparatively rare for animal-related offences, it is vital magistrates have at their disposal stronger sentences to send a clear statement to those thinking of harming animals that this behaviour will not be tolerated,\" said Michael Flower, the RSPCA's deputy head of prosecutions.\n\nThe majority of custodial sentences (44%) were one month or less in length. Almost a third were more than three months but less than the maximum six months.\n\nIn Scotland, the maximum sentence is 12 months but the Scottish Government is consulting on whether to increase this to five years. The maximum sentence in Northern Ireland is five years.\n\nA 2017 survey by Battersea Dogs and Cats Home found 65% of the public agreed with increasing the maximum custodial sentencing powers of courts dealing with animal cruelty cases.\n\nThe UK government, which has previously committed to increase the maximum sentence from six months to five years, said it will do so \"as soon as parliamentary time allows\" to make the UK \"a world leader in the care and protection of animals\".\n\nThe BBC has found that only two maximum six-month jail sentences were handed down by courts in Wales between 2007 and 2017, raising the question whether tougher sentencing would make a difference.\n\nThe body which represents magistrates in the UK claims it would.\n\n\"Magistrates always treat each individual case on its merits and sentence in line with the law and appropriate sentencing guidelines,\" said John Bache, chairman of the Magistrates' Association.\n\n\"Maximum sentences are set by parliament, not the judiciary, but if they are increased this will change the range of sentences available and therefore affect sentencing guidelines and sentencing practice.\"\n\nAnimal welfare is a devolved matter, but justice is not - meaning there has been some confusion over whether the Welsh Government has the power to introduce tougher sentencing.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it supports the UK government legislating to increase the maximum sentence to five years in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have decided maintaining a comparative sentencing regime was important to ensure clarity for enforcement agencies, the courts and the public alike,\" a spokesperson added.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin was in the midst of a victory lap after a hockey match when he tripped and fell.", "Picture showing three damaged vehicles in the car park of the prison\n\nFire has destroyed a number of cars belonging to prison staff within the grounds of HMP Nottingham.\n\nThe fire service was called to the jail in Perry Road, Sherwood, Nottingham, in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said no one was hurt and that the safety and security of staff was the priority.\n\nThe service is working with Nottinghamshire Police to investigate what happened.\n\nHMP Nottingham is a category B male prison, which expanded in 2010 to hold 1,060 prisoners.\n\nIn April, a man was charged after a prison officer had his throat cut.\n\nLast year the government was ordered to make immediate improvements at the jail after a report warned it was in a \"dangerous state\".\n\nThe prison needed to do \"much more\" to tackle the problem of drugs which was \"inextricably linked\" to violence, chief inspector of prisons Peter Clarke said in his report.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alvin Sargent, the American screenwriter who won two Oscars and penned scripts for the Spider-Man film trilogy, has died at the age of 92.\n\nSargent died of natural causes at his home in Seattle on Thursday.\n\nHe won Oscars for Julia, a 1977 Holocaust drama based on the personal writings of Lillian Hellman, and Ordinary People, a 1980 film about a family facing bereavement.\n\nHowever, he will be equally remembered for his later work on Spider-Man.\n\nSargent wrote the screenplays for Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007. He also did a rewrite for the 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man.\n\nStarting as a writer for television, Sargent made it on to the big screen in 1966 with \"Gambit,\" a comedy thriller starring Michael Caine.\n\nAlong with his two Oscar wins, he was also nominated in 1974 for \"Paper Moon\" - an American comedy-drama film set in Kansas and Missouri during the Great Depression.\n\nSargent and his life partner, producer Laura Ziskin, married in 2010 after more than 25 years together. She died of breast cancer a year later.\n• None Stan Lee on how he created Spider-Man", "Several lawmakers were injured after a fight broke out in Hong Kong's legislature over planned changes to extradition laws.", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "The man was hit with the crossbow bolt outside his home\n\nA 74-year-old man has suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\" after being shot with a crossbow.\n\nIt happened outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey, in the early hours.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the victim was trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt.\n\nHe managed to get back inside and raised the alarm at about 00:30 BST on Friday. He remains in a critical condition at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.\n\nHospital staff alerted police at 02:45 after a medical examination showed the man had suffered injuries consistent with being shot with a crossbow, police said.\n\nThe victim's house is near South Stack Road\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"The elderly member of our community has received horrendous, life-changing injuries as a result of this incident, the motive of which remains totally unknown.\n\n\"We are in the early stages of our investigation and are working hard to establish the circumstances behind this incident.\n\n\"A number of inquiries are under way involving detectives from CID, the local policing teams and crime scene investigation.\n\n\"North-west Wales and Anglesey remains one of the safest parts of the UK. Incidents of this nature are extremely rare and we and determined to find out who has done this.\"\n\nHolyhead town councillor Jennifer Saboor said: \"This is a horrendous incident with a 74-year-old man fighting for his life in hospital. It's frightening that this can happen and our immediate thoughts are for the gentleman to pull through.\"\n\nPolice are trying to find anyone who saw anything suspicious near the junction of Porthdafarch Road and Plas Road between 18:00 on Thursday and 04:00 on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We will abolish the youth rate of the minimum wage\"\n\nLabour will extend its plans for a higher £10-an-hour minimum wage to include workers under the age of 18, party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nCurrently, under-18s are entitled to a minimum wage of £4.35 per hour, compared with £8.21 for over-25s.\n\nBut under a Labour government this \"youth rate\" for the minimum wage would be ended in 2020, Mr Corbyn said.\n\nOne business group said there was value in having the minimum wage set by an independent group, as it is now.\n\nMr Corbyn had already pledged to raise the National Living Wage - a legally binding hourly rate for workers aged 25 and over - to £10 an hour next year, if Labour gained power.\n\nHe said Labour's proposal would see workers aged 16 and 17 paid about £2,500 more a year.\n\nMr Corbyn said that young people's work \"should be properly valued\"\n\nIt is not clear how the proposed changes would impact those on apprenticeship schemes.\n\nAll UK pupils can leave school at the age of 16.\n\nBut in England, under-18s must then stay in full-time education, start an apprenticeship or traineeship or spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training.\n\nSpeaking at a party gathering in Birmingham on Saturday, Mr Corbyn said: \"Equal pay for equal work is hardly a controversial idea, so why are we discriminating against young people?\n\n\"You don't get a discount at the shops for being under 18.\n\n\"But if the person serving you on the other side of the counter is young, they could be on half the wage of their colleagues.\n\n\"It's time to end this discrimination. Young people's work should be properly valued, not exploited by employers to cut their wage bill. If they're doing the job, pay them the wage - the real living wage.\"\n\nThe rates are reviewed each year by the government which is advised by the independent Low Pay Commission.\n\nThe commission, made up of trade unionists, businesspeople and academics, has previously said different minimum wages have been set for different age groups due to \"evidence that younger workers are more at risk of being priced out of jobs than older workers, with worse consequences if they end up unemployed.\"\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the proposals were \"dramatic\" and that they could risk reducing the number of 16 and 17-year-olds in work.\n\nThat age group would not have much experience and were probably not going to be as productive as more experienced workers, he told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe added that a lot would be working part time - at the weekends or in the holidays - and that experience would be valuable to them and could include training.\n\nLabour said it would use fiscal savings from a reduction in the amount that the Treasury pays out in in-work benefits to provide support for small and medium-sized businesses.\n\nPeter Dowd, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the plans aimed to create fairness, claiming that spending on tax credits to top up low wages had \"ballooned\" from £1bn to £30bn - a sign wages had to rise.\n\n\"We've got to have a system that reflects the needs of small businesses, but also has to reflect the needs of the people they employ, whether they are 16 or 60,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson added that any compensation scheme would \"need to be very clear, transparent and easy.\"\n\nResponding to Labour's proposals, the Institute of Directors said there was value in having an independent, evidence-based approach from the Low Pay Commission.\n\n\"Politicians directly setting rates will always risk not taking full account of the implications for employers and jobs,\" the business lobby group said.\n\nStudent Neha Gohil began her first job as a tutor in Ealing, west London, aged 16.\n\nShe says that it \"didn't seem fair\" when she learned she was paid less than her older colleagues.\n\nNow 20 and a student at the University of Warwick, she says younger workers can be \"more flexible with their time and can offer a different dynamic\".\n\n\"They can offer something different in the workplace: be more creative, more innovative. They might know how to do things with technology that someone who's older might not.\n\n\"They can go into a company and offer fresh ideas.\"\n\nBusinessman Jack Palmer, 27, who owns and runs three hairdressing salons in Hertfordshire said he \"can't see it being affordable\".\n\nHe employs between 12 to 15 people aged 18 to 25. But, he says, if the £10 minimum wage was brought in for all, he might only be able to afford to employ half of them.\n\n\"If you've got someone coming straight out of school their skill set is pretty minimal to begin with.\n\n\"Of course, they learn on the job and through external training - and it gives us a lot of pleasure nurturing that talent.\n\n\"They'll get the opportunity to earn a high wage but to begin with, they're not worth that amount,\" he added.\n\nMatthew Percival, head of employment at the Confederation of British Industry, said: \"The minimum wage is an important part of the UK labour market and must not be used as a political football.\n\n\"Youth rates play an important role in helping to reduce youth unemployment and should be retained.\"\n\nChris Philp MP, Conservative vice-chairman for policy, said: \"Under the Conservatives, we have seen youth unemployment fall by half, the biggest increase in the minimum wage for under-25s in a decade and the economy continue to grow, giving young people the security of a better future.\"", "Thousands of small-scale investors who lost their savings by investing with London Capital & Finance (LCF) have been given fresh hope they may qualify for compensation.\n\nNearly 12,000 people put £236m into the firm which collapsed in January.\n\nThe Financial Services Compensation Scheme said it would \"explore whether there are grounds for compensation\"\n\nThe compensation body had earlier said investors wouldn't be able to lodge claims as the scheme was unregulated.\n\nThe FSCS was set up by the government to protect consumers if UK regulated firms went bust.\n\nBut its chief executive told the BBC in March that it was unlikely LCF customers would get compensation, explaining that the company was not regulated for the purposes of selling its products, which it marketed as low risk investments.\n\nHowever the FSCS has now said it is looking at whether any of the conversations LCF had with investors counted as providing financial advice or whether it conducted other activities which could trigger compensation.\n\nThe FSCS said LCF investors should register with the FSCS via its website for updates of its investigation.\n\n\"By registering with us they will get regular updates on our investigation and this will be the best way for them to hear whether we believe there are grounds for compensation.\n\n\"This is a highly intricate case though, so we expect our investigation may take some time,\" it said.\n\nLCF advertised itself as a low-risk ISA, and promised to spread funds from the sale of mini-bonds between hundreds of companies.\n\nIn reality, the fund did not qualify as an ISA, and the money was only invested in 12 companies - 10 of which were described as \"not independent\" from LCF, in a report by the fund's administrators.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office is conducting a probe into individuals associated with LCF.\n\nThe company's administrators Smith & Williamson released a report which found that:", "Fishing communities in Gwadar say they are concerned that a new road linking Chinese territory to Gwadar port may prevent them from earning a living.\n\nGwadar is at the centre of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).\n\nThe fishermen told the BBC they were no longer allowed to fish near the port and say the authorities are not taking their needs into account.", "Theresa May has rejected calls to resign\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May could set a date for her resignation in the coming days, the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee has said.\n\nThe PM said she will step down when her Brexit deal is ratified by Parliament - but some MPs want a fixed date.\n\nSir Graham Brady said he expected a \"clear understanding\" of that timetable once she has met the committee, which she would do on Wednesday.\n\nHe also said he expected Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nAnd Sir Graham also refused to rule out running himself to replace Mrs May.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster, he said the 1922 Committee had asked her to give \"clarity\" about her plans for the future, and she had \"offered to come and meet with the executive\".\n\n\"It would be strange for that not to result in a clear understanding [of when she will leave] at the end of the meeting,\" he added.\n\nThe 1922 Committee represents backbench Tory MPs and oversees the party's leadership contests.\n\nOn why the PM had so far been unwilling to set a date to step down, Sir Graham said: \"I do understand the reticence about doing it.\n\n\"I don't think it's about an intention for staying indefinitely as prime minister or leader of the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I think the reticence is the concern that by promising to go on a certain timetable, it might make it less likely she would secure Parliamentary approval for the withdrawal agreement, rather than more likely.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady did not rule out running as Mrs May's successor\n\nHe was also asked about the cross-party talks between the government and Labour over Mrs May's Brexit deal, which has been rejected three times.\n\nSir Graham said: \"I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution.\n\n\"If the customs union is agreed without a second referendum then half the Labour Party won't vote for whatever comes through regardless, and if a customs union is agreed then most of the Conservative Party isn't going to support it.\n\n\"So, I can't see that is a very productive route to follow, and I may be wrong, but I suspect it will peter out in the next few days without having come to any significant conclusion.\"\n\nWhen quizzed about running for the party leadership, Sir Graham said: \"It would take an awful lot of people to persuade me.\n\n\"I'm not sure many people are straining at the leash at the moment to take on what is an extraordinarily difficult situation.\"\n\nIn March, Mrs May pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement, but did not make it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal was reached.\n\nPressure has grown on her since the Tories' local election drubbing, and there have been warnings the party faces a meltdown in elections to the European Parliament as well.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nThe person who shot a 74-year-old man with a crossbow, causing him to suffer \"horrendous injuries\", has been urged to come forward.\n\nGerald Corrigan was struck outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey, at about 00:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe is critically ill at Royal Stoke University Hospital after the bolt went through his upper body and right arm.\n\nNorth Wales Police said the person should \"do the decent thing\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney, said: \"I am appealing to the person who discharged this weapon to come forward.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is an impartial search for the truth and I have no doubt that any person who discharged such a weapon accidentally at a human being would be significantly traumatised.\n\n\"You will be treated professionally by myself and my team of officers.\"\n\nA major incident team with more than 30 staff is dealing with the incident.\n\nInvestigators were at the house on Saturday\n\nDet Ch Insp Kearney also appealed to the public to inform the force of anyone they know who owns a crossbow and was on the island on 18 and 19 April, including visitors.\n\n\"We are asking our retail community if they sell crossbows, bolts or accessories in north west Wales, namely Anglesey or north Gwynedd, to also come forward so that we can conduct enquiries in that regard,\" he said.\n\n\"I have lived in Anglesey for 22 years. It is a safe area. I have never come across anything like this.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the family of Mr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer who has lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years, made an appeal.\n\nThey said: \"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner. We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nThe family of a 74-year-old man who suffered \"horrendous, life-changing injuries\" after being shot with a crossbow has made an appeal to catch those responsible.\n\nGerald Corrigan was struck outside his home in a remote area near South Stack Road in Holyhead, Anglesey.\n\nNorth Wales Police want to hear from anyone involved in lamping, hunting, game or pest control in the area.\n\nThe shooting happened at about 00:30 BST on Friday.\n\nThe force said due to his injuries, Mr Corrigan has now been transferred to a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nInvestigators were at the house on Saturday\n\nMr Corrigan's family said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family. We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner. We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\n\n\"We would like to pay tribute to the ambulance service and medical staff for the incredible work they have done. We remain hopeful and request privacy at this difficult time.\"\n\nCouncillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said: \"People are absolutely shocked by it.\n\n\"Who would be carrying a crossbow after midnight?\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Faulds was last seen on Sunday 28 April\n\nPolice have issued an appeal to trace the body of Emma Faulds after a man was charged with her murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and is expected to return to court next week.\n\nMs Faulds, 39, from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton on Sunday 28 April.\n\nDetectives have now confirmed they are conducting inquiries in the South Ayrshire/Dumfries and Galloway border area in an bid to locate her body.\n\nOfficers are keen to trace the movements of vehicles on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 April, particularly Jaguar and Mercedes models.\n\nAnd police want to speak to anyone who spotted anything odd or out of place within that timeframe in the area of Barrhill, particularly along the A714.\n\nDet Chief Insp Martin Fergus said: \"This is a harrowing time for Emma's family.\n\n\"They are in shock and are in the process of dealing with the fact that Emma will not be coming home.\n\n\"I am therefore seeking the public's help in trying to find Emma's body.\"\n\nThe officer wants to speak to anyone who may have been travelling along the A714, either north or south between Girvan and Newton Stewart.\n\nHe added: \"Did you see something a little odd or out of place, perhaps you noticed a car in a lay-by, do you remember anything which struck you as odd at the time?\n\n\"I am also keen to speak to anyone who travels this route regularly, northbound or southbound.\n\n\"If any motorists have dashcams, please check the footage as it may have captured something which could prove vital to our ongoing inquiries to locate Emma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About a fifth of Countess of Chester Hospital's patients are from north east Wales\n\nA funding dispute in which an English hospital refused to take patients from Wales, apart from emergency and maternity cases, has been resolved.\n\nThousands of people in Flintshire had routinely been using the Countess of Chester Hospital before the row.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said a new cross-border funding deal had now been agreed with UK ministers.\n\nWhitehall said it would pay for normal service to resume, with a rise in Welsh Government payments in future.\n\nThe hospital announced last month it would take fewer patients from Wales, but that it hoped to reverse the decision once a \"national agreement\" had been reached.\n\nIn a written statement on Friday, Mr Gething said he expected the hospital to \"honour the agreement reached and reverse the decision not to accept new elective referrals for Welsh patients\".\n\nHe said he remained \"disappointed\" with the action the hospital taken \"whilst negotiations were ongoing\".\n\n\"This was wholly avoidable and a transparent breach of the agreed protocol on cross border healthcare,\" he said.\n\nVaughan Gething said he hoped patients would be reassured by his statement\n\nMr Gething said changes to \"tariff costs in England since 2017\" had created a \"complex set of issues in relation to cross border arrangements\" but Wales would now be represented on the body advising on those charges.\n\n\"We need to fully track policy developments in England that will potentially impact on the tariff in future to aid planning in the Welsh context,\" he added.\n\nUK Health Minister Nicola Blackwood said: \"We will provide the necessary funding for this year so that normal services can resume for local residents with the Welsh Government committing to cover the costs in future years.\n\n\"We sympathise with anyone who was inconvenienced or adversely affected and I'm pleased this is now resolved.\"\n\nActing Welsh Tory health spokesman Darren Millar said his assembly group would be \"keeping a close eye on how the Welsh Government moves forward with this situation, holding it to account and ensuring patients are not left to suffer again thanks to its disastrous inability to plan ahead with our healthcare system\".\n\nSusan Gilby, chief executive officer for the Countess of Chester NHS trust, said she was \"grateful\" to the two governments and NHS England for \"working hard together to resolve this issue\".\n\n\"We now look forward to agreeing a contract with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in the knowledge that all patients will benefit from the planned safety investments enabled by appropriate resources,\" she added.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board chief executive Gary Doherty said: \"We will continue to work closely with the Countess of Chester Hospital to reinstate referrals and ensure that east Flintshire patients can access the services they need at the most appropriate hospital for them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man carries a wounded child after a Saudi-led airstrike that killed eight members of her family in Sanaa, August 2017\n\nFor a little more than three years, Yemen has been locked in a seemingly intractable civil war that has killed nearly 10,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of starvation.\n\nThe conflict has its roots in the Arab Spring of 2011, when an uprising forced the country's long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.\n\nThe political transition was supposed to bring stability to Yemen, one of the Middle East's poorest nations, but President Hadi struggled to deal with various problems including militant attacks, corruption, food insecurity, and continuing loyalty of many military officers to Saleh.\n\nFighting began in 2014 when the Houthi Shia Muslim rebel movement took advantage of the new president's weakness and seized control of northern Saada province and neighbouring areas. The Houthis went on to take the capital Sanaa, forcing Mr Hadi into exile abroad.\n\nThe conflict escalated dramatically in March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states - backed by the US, UK, and France - began air strikes against the Houthis, with the declared aim of restoring Mr Hadi's government.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition feared that continued success of the Houthis would give their rival regional power and Shia-majority state, Iran, a foothold in Yemen, Saudi Arabia's southern neighbour. Saudi Arabia says Iran is backing the Houthis with weapons and logistical support - a charge Iran denies.\n\nBoth sides have since been beset by infighting. The Houthis broke with Saleh and he was killed by Houthi fighters in December 2017. On the anti-Houthi side, militias include separatists seeking independence for south Yemen and factions who oppose the idea.\n\nThe stalemate has produced an unrelenting humanitarian crisis, with at least 8.4 million people at risk of starvation and 22.2 million people - 75% of the population - in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN. Severe acute malnutrition is threatening the lives of almost 400,000 children under the age of five.\n\nYemen's health system has all but collapsed, while the world's largest cholera outbreak has killed thousands.\n\nIn June 2018, Saudi-backed government forces began an assault on the key rebel-held port of Hudaydah, the entry point for the vast majority of aid going into Yemen and a lifeline for the starving. Aid agencies warned the offensive could make Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe much worse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPoet Simon Armitage, whose \"witty and profound\" work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK's next Poet Laureate.\n\nThe West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking over from Dame Carol Ann Duffy.\n\nOver recent decades, the role has moved away from mainly chronicling royal occasions to promoting poetry and capturing a wider view of British life.\n\nArmitage has published 28 collections and is on the national curriculum.\n\nHis 2017 book The Unaccompanied was described by The Guardian as a document of \"a world in social and economic meltdown\".\n\nIt opens with a poem about climate change called The Last Snowman, and includes another titled Poundland, about \"the Disney design calendar and diary set, three cans of Vimto/cornucopia of potato-based snacks and balm for a sweet tooth\".\n\nThe announcement comes five months after Armitage, from Marsden, won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2018, arguably the most prestigious accolade in poetry behind the laureateship.\n\nWhen that award was announced, Dame Carol Ann noted how he had \"touched the matter of our lives with characters and subject matter that lived among us: teachers and council tenants, chip shops and television shows, figures who drank in the local pub and shopped in the nearby supermarket\".\n\nHe has also translated medieval poems about King Arthur and Sir Gawain, retold The Odyssey as a radio play and written Last Days of Troy, a stage play for Shakespeare's Globe and the Manchester Royal Exchange.\n\nThe 55-year-old is currently professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and served as professor of poetry at the University of Oxford between 2015-2019.\n\nHe was made a CBE in 2010. His tenure as Poet Laureate will run for a decade.\n\nArmitage told BBC News that poetry was \"more valuable and more relevant than it's ever been\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to celebrate what's best in poetry and build on the work Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy have done over the last two decades in terms of encouraging and identifying talent, particularly among young people, among whom poetry might be a way forward, an outlet.\"\n\nThe poet laureate is an honorary position that is officially appointed by the Queen, acting on advice from the government.\n\nHe joked that he had \"missed the boat\" to write a poem for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\n\"It's been made very clear to me that although the monarch is my line manager, for want of a better word, there are no expectations or obligations in that direction.\"\n\nHe said he planned to use the profile to establish some sort of project or award for writing about climate change, and that he had a dream - \"very possibly completely unrealistic\" - to set up a National Centre for Poetry.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright praised Armitage for his \"witty and profound take on modern life [which] is known and respected across the world\".\n\nMr Wright added: \"He is a very worthy successor to Dame Carol Ann Duffy, who championed the importance of poetry over the past 10 years and made the position relatable to people across the country.\"\n\nI write in praise of air. I was six or five\n\nand I held in my palm the whole of the sky.\n\nI've carried it with me ever since.\n\nLet air be a major god, its being\n\nand touch, its breast-milk always tilted\n\nto the lips. Both dragonfly and Boeing\n\nAmong the jumbled bric-a-brac I keep\n\nand on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog\n\nwith a white handkerchief over its mouth\n\nand cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs\n\nMy first word, everyone's first word, was air.\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post\n\nThere had been reports that Imtiaz Dharker would be offered the post, but had decided to turn it down.\n\nArmitage said he believed there had been \"a lot of discussion behind the scenes\" about whether the job should go to a white man.\n\nHe stressed that he wanted part of his role to be about amplifying the voices of writers from \"diverse and disadvantaged\" backgrounds.\n\nHe added that he did not come from the establishment. \"When I grew up in a terraced house on the side of a hill in West Yorkshire, I did not feel like the chosen one,\" he said.\n\n\"When I was working as a probation officer in Greater Manchester, dragging junkies out of the gutter and sitting across the table from notorious criminals, it did not feel like a life of privilege.\n\n\"I suppose what I'm saying is, I understand to a lesser extent what it means to come from outside the establishment, even if I've arrived at certain established positions, and I need to keep those things in the back of my mind.\"\n\nThe role was established in 1668, and previous Poets Laureate include William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Captain Kevin Bennett (pictured with ball) and other players took up the same position in the photo as they did 40 years ago\n\nMembers of a primary school football team have met up to recreate a 40-year-old photo.\n\nKevin Bennett said he and three friends were inspired to track down all 15 players, after sharing the picture at a 50th birthday party.\n\nHe searched through Facebook, finding friends across the UK - and in Panama, and brought them together back in their home town of Alsager, Cheshire.\n\nMr Bennett said reuniting the team was \"quite emotional\" but \"brilliant\".\n\nMany of the boys went on to the same senior school but lost touch later\n\nThe sales manager, 50, now of Westbury Park, Newcastle under Lyme, said the picture was taken in their final year at Excalibur Primary School, in Alsager.\n\nMr Bennett, who was the team's captain, said he had happy memories of the time.\n\n\"Football was my life. We played all the time, even with a rolled up sock,\" he said.\n\nAlthough many of them went on to Alsager Comprehensive School, most later lost touch.\n\nThe idea to reunite the gang began when he and fellow team mates Richard Nixon, Tim Stubbs and Dave Moorhouse, were invited to a 50th birthday party for classmate Ian Beresford, where Mr Bennett took along the picture.\n\n\"After a few beers, we said why don't we get all the football team back together,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite nervous in case some of them didn't turn up, but when we got there it was brilliant,\" Mr Bennett said.\n\nThey now hope to make the gathering a more regular occurrence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nA man who suffered \"horrendous injuries\" when he was shot with a crossbow has died in hospital.\n\nGerald Corrigan, 74, was struck outside his home on South Stack Road, Holyhead, on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nNorth Wales Police have now confirmed Mr Corrigan died, nearly a month after he was injured.\n\nThe force previously urged the crossbow shooter to come forward and said its investigation into the attack was continuing.\n\nMr Corrigan had been trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly shocking case and our thoughts are with Gerald's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales.\n\nLocal councillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said it would be a \"very sad day for the family\".\n\nHe added: \"He must have put up a good fight to stay alive.\n\n\"There's no doubt it has shocked the community. It's a picturesque area, people will be in a big, big shock.\n\n\"In an area that's so quiet, after midnight, it makes you wonder what the heck is going on.\"\n\nMr Corrigan's family previously said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family.\n\n\"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner.\n\n\"We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Before the war: Mai (left) and her sister look out across the Sanaa skyline in 2009\n\nIt is two years since the start of the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen in support of the government ousted by Houthi rebels. In that time, thousands of civilians have been killed, parts of the country devastated and Yemen left teetering on the brink of famine.\n\nHere the BBC's Yemen-born Mai Noman, who has returned to her homeland to film short documentaries, reflects on what has become of her country.\n\nIt's been over two years since I was last here. The only place I call home.\n\nA lot has happened and much has changed. It's hard to keep my feelings in check.\n\nBeside the physical destruction, memories of what once was are buried under the heavy weight of emotional rubble.\n\nMai and her brother grew up in Taiz\n\nAs a Yemeni journalist working in international news, I have had to monitor every twist and turn of the civil war in my country, even when I wanted to look away.\n\nTruthfully, the thought of coming face-to-face with the new reality shaped by the furious conflict in Yemen has terrified me.\n\nBut living through the war from outside Yemen was isolating.\n\nAs we make our way to the capital, Sanaa, on a rugged 10-hour car journey from Aden, I think back to the number of times I quietly broke down after hearing news coming out of Yemen. Working in a newsroom, this happened often.\n\nThis trip takes me from the south to the north - two parts of a country divided by more than mere miles.\n\nIn simple terms, the south is under government control, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the north is controlled by the Houthi rebels. But the reality is more complicated.\n\nI've imagined arriving back home hundreds of times in the last few years. But on the day I was totally unprepared for what I found.\n\nUnlike the southern city of Aden, where life seems to be at a standstill, waiting in fearful anticipation of more fighting, Sanaa - apart from the obvious damage - appears the same as ever.\n\nSome beautiful buildings in Sanaa have escaped unscathed\n\nI can feel the rain approaching. After London that should make me shudder, but it somehow feels welcoming.\n\nThe jagged mountains which encompass the city slowly fill with clouds transforming the sky into a splendid portrait of misted rocky peaks. All at once telling me I'm home.\n\nThe Yemeni capital has suffered like other parts of the country, but life there goes on\n\nThere are more restaurants in town than I recall, and many are over-flowing with people.\n\nFor a moment I forget there's a war raging across the country. But then Sanaa can be deceptive.\n\nI feel exhausted by the time we arrive at my cousin Mona's house.\n\nI knock on the door in a typical Yemeni manner - very determinedly. Mona's youngest child, Abdullah, opens the door to greet me.\n\nMai's aunt's car sits where it was hit by a falling missile in the garden of her home\n\nIt's quite quiet here. A minute later I hear Mona making her way down the narrow stairs at the back of the house.\n\nWe embrace with joy. She holds my face to see what's changed.\n\n\"You're still you,\" she says. A lot kinder than comments I receive later about how my hair is too short or the few extra pounds I've gained.\n\nMona is just as beautiful but her voice has changed, she's gone through a lot in the last few years.\n\nThree years ago she lost her father suddenly. She had been very close to him and facing life without him, amid ongoing uncertainty, is hard.\n\n\"He was the biggest support I had,\" she tells me, breaking down in tears.\n\nLife hasn't been kind to her and the war has now brought with it seemingly endless questions.\n\nWould her family be able to leave if it had to? Is it better to be stuck inside surrounded by conflict, or outside separated from relatives and friends? Are Mona's children safe at school or sleeping in their beds? How many more funerals will she have to attend?\n\nEven with the most difficult issues I face in my own life, the choices are never so bleak.\n\nOur lives have become more different than ever.\n\nOver the course of three weeks in Yemen, I reconnect with old acquaintances and hear stories of separation, loss and incredible examples of the tight bonds that keep a community together.\n\nBut something else weighs heavily on my heart. There is one place I wasn't able to visit.\n\nIt's the place where I was born and where a more utopian notion of Yemen was engraved in my mind.\n\nBut sadly my grandmother is no longer with us and Taiz today is unrecognisable, sitting as it does on the frontline of the conflict. I wonder if I'd even know the house.\n\nThe fighting on the ground is brutal, the bombardment by the Saudi-led coalition is relentless and the siege on the city by the Houthis continues.\n\nIt's painful trying to accept the way things have become, one where precious memories have no place among the hardship of this grinding conflict.\n\nTo me, Taiz is where the heart of home is, and there's nothing harder than losing one's home.\n\nWhen I set off for Yemen it was with a mixture of dread and trepidation at what I might find after years of bombardment and fighting.\n\nOn arriving I fell into a false sense of relief that the people were still here; home was, in some form, still here.\n\nIn the days which followed though, it became clear that war damage isn't just the craters and the bombed out buildings.\n\nIt is the suffering of a population watching helplessly as their lives are being torn apart.\n\nThinking of the time I spent fearing what I'd find when I returned home, I know that regardless of the pain of seeing my country at war, the sense of longing to be part of Yemen, for good or bad, will always draw me back.", "The council posted letter explaining why the bins had been taken\n\nHouseholders are getting green bins confiscated for putting non-recyclable items in them, it has emerged.\n\nKirklees Council is seizing the bin for six months, telling its owner they will then have to apply to get it back, a letter seen by the BBC shows.\n\nThe West Yorkshire authority is using \"advisors\" to snoop on the contents of recycling bins, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Kirklees Council for a response.\n\nTony Swiffen, 32, from New Mill, said his bin was removed without warning.\n\nMr Swiffen said he returned home from taking his son to school to find his bin had vanished and a letter from the council had been posted through his door.\n\n\"They have snooped through the bags in my bin. But there's nothing I put in there apart from cans and paper. I take all my cardboard to the tip,\" he said.\n\nMr Swiffen says he believes he was targeted because previously he has bagged up his green rubbish in black bin liners.\n\nIn response to a previous warning he hand-sorted his rubbish to double check he was not breaking the rules.\n\n\"[But now] someone has come up the driveway and just taken my green bin from the house,\" he explained.\n\n\"It wasn't even green bin day. It was black bin day.\n\n\"For the next six months I'm going to have to put my green stuff in my black bin. How are they winning by doing that? It's ridiculous.\"\n\nThe letter from from the council said his bin had been taken as it had \"contained the wrong items on 2 separate occasions\".\n\n\"It is essential for us to only collect recyclable materials. If incorrect items are collected they mix with good recycling and spoil all of the recycling,\" the letter states.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "A lawsuit alleges that more than 100 generic drugs were included in a price-fixing scheme\n\nMore than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of common medicinal drugs.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that as many as 20 companies have been involved in fixing prices for over 100 drugs, including treatments for diabetes and cancer.\n\nOne of the firms accused is Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's largest producer of generic medicine.\n\nTeva, which has denied any wrongdoing, says it will defend its actions.\n\nThe legal action, which follows a five-year investigation, accuses drugs companies of involvement in a scheme to boost prices - in some cases by more than 1,000% - and was filed on Friday by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.\n\n\"We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,\" Mr Tong said.\n\n\"We have emails, text messages, telephone records and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs.\"\n\nA representative of Teva in the US said that the Israeli company \"has not engaged in any conduct that would lead to civil or criminal liability\", Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe other 19 firms implicated in the lawsuit have yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nFifteen individuals were also named as defendants accused of overseeing the price-fixing scheme on a day-to-day basis.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the drugs companies allegedly conspired to manipulate prices on dozens of medicines between July 2013 and January 2015.\n\nIt accuses Teva and others of \"embarking on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States\".\n\nMr Tong said the investigation had exposed why the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs was so high in the US.\n\nAmerica's healthcare system has been at the forefront of US politics for years.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has frequently promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, which was designed to make medical cover affordable for the many Americans who had been priced out of the market.\n\nStates have argued that eliminating Obamacare would harm millions of Americans who would struggle to meet the costs of medical care.", "A driver said he faced groups of trespassers \"every 200 yards\" along part of the route\n\nThe Flying Scotsman could be banned from main line tracks after people trespassed to catch a glimpse of it.\n\nThere was chaos between Derby and Birmingham last Sunday as fans vied to spot the legendary loco on its UK tour.\n\nThe situation was blamed for a string of delays to normal services, with reports of people refusing to move when challenged by drivers.\n\nNetwork Rail said a ban would be a \"move of last resort\" but could not be ruled out if lives were being risked.\n\nIt would not let \"a few thoughtless lawbreakers\" cause dangers and delays, it said.\n\nNearly 60 services were delayed for a total of 1,000 minutes as Flying Scotsman complete its tour of the Midlands last weekend, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe force has issued an image of two photographers it wants to trace, saying it was \"extremely disappointing that a small minority of rail enthusiasts put their lives in grave danger\".\n\nAn image of two people just metres away from the line as a train was due to pass was released by police\n\nOne passenger service driver, who asked to remain anonymous, said he saw trainspotting trespassers every 200 yards.\n\nDescribing it as \"probably the most stressful experience I have ever had\", he said it was \"only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed\" trying to get a photo.\n\nNick Brodrick, editor of Steam Railway magazine, said the problem was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"When you have drivers having to stop, get out and tell trespassers to move and even then be ignored, the situation is simply unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would be hard to argue with a ban if someone was injured or killed.\n\nA Flying Scotsman spokesman said a ban \"would not be a surprise\" but every effort, such as CCTV and extra police on the train, was being taken to avoid the situation.\n\nThe tour ends in Scotland on Friday.\n\nNetwork Rail said it did not want to stop people seeing an \"iconic piece of British engineering\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit talks with the Labour Party are a \"grave mistake\", according to former defence secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMrs May is hoping to reach a cross-party consensus on her withdrawal agreement after failing to get it through Parliament three times.\n\nBut Mr Williamson - sacked over the Huawei leak - told the Mail on Sunday the talks were \"destined to fail\".\n\nHe added Jeremy Corbyn's only real interest was a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said a Downing Street source had indicated Mr Williamson had been \"supportive of the process while he was in the cabinet\" and that he had \"not been involved in the talks himself\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for South Staffordshire said doing a deal with Labour on Brexit \"sounds so simple and so reasonable\" - but would not work.\n\n\"Even if Labour do a deal, break bread with the prime minister and announce that both parties have reached an agreement, it can only ever end in tears,\" he said.\n\n\"The Labour Party does not exist to help the Conservative Party.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn will do all he can to divide, disrupt and frustrate the Conservatives in the hope of bringing down the government.\n\n\"His goal, and he has made no secret of it, is to bring about a general election.\"\n\nMr Williamson said the prime minister seemed oblivious to the fact many Tories believe she is \"negotiating with the enemy\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even if we get to a point where Jeremy Corbyn agrees a deal with the prime minister, when it comes to detailed scrutiny of the votes, Labour will revert to form.\n\n\"Even if it passes the first few votes, it will fail later.\"\n\nMr Williamson's comments come after Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady said that he expected the government's Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, said he found it \"very hard\" to see the talks leading to a \"sensible resolution.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said that Labour was acting \"in good faith\" in the negotiations but was \"not getting very far\".\n\nHowever, Education Secretary Damian Hinds told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that no other person in Mrs May's position could change the \"parliamentary reality\" of needing to find a majority in the Commons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nAhead of European elections later this month, two separate polls, by ComRes and Opinium, give the Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nGavin Williamson was sacked by the PM earlier this month\n\nMr Williamson was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and announced Penny Mordaunt as his successor.\n\nThe inquiry came after details of a discussion by the NSC over a plan to allow Chinese tech firm Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network was leaked to a newspaper.\n\nMr Williamson, who was defence secretary between 2017 and 2019, \"strenuously\" denied leaking the information.", "Prakazrel Michel has been charged with making contributions to a presidential campaign\n\nA founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees and a Malaysian businessman have been charged with making illegal contributions in the 2012 US presidential election campaign.\n\nLow Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, allegedly transferred more than $21m (£16m) to musician Prakazrel Michel to make the payments.\n\nMr Michel has appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to the charges.\n\nMr Low, whose whereabouts are unknown, also denies any involvement.\n\nBoth men have been charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the US government. Mr Michel has been charged with one count of a scheme to conceal material facts and two counts of making a false entry in a record.\n\nMr Low's payments were allegedly made during June and November 2012.\n\nMr Michel reportedly paid $865,000 to around 20 people so that they could make donations in their names to a presidential joint fundraising committee.\n\nHe also allegedly made more than $1m in donations to a political committee in his name.\n\nCourt documents claim that they aimed to \"gain access\" to one of the presidential candidates, named as \"Candidate A\".\n\nMr Michel was known to be a strong supporter of Barack Obama, who was re-elected president in that year.\n\nMr Michel's attorney Barry Pollack said: \"Mr. Michel is extremely disappointed that so many years after the fact the government would bring charges related to the 2012 campaign contributions. Mr Michel is innocent of these charges and looks forward to having the case heard by a jury.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Low said: \"The allegations against Mr Low have no basis in fact. Mr Low has never made any campaign contributions directly or indirectly in the US and he unequivocally denies any involvement in or knowledge of the alleged activities.\"\n\nMr Low is facing separate criminal charges in the US in connection with a financial scandal in Malaysia. He is accused of being involved in the alleged theft of around $4.5bn from Malaysia's investment fund 1MDB.", "A massive waterspout has been filmed near the southern shore of Singapore.\n\nWitnesses who filmed the natural phenomenon said the waterspout was seen for around 20 minutes.\n\nA waterspout is a rapidly rotating column of air over water, under a shower cloud.", "It is a year on from the delivery of more than 1,000 letters to Downing Street, many of them from children, pleading for access to a cystic fibrosis drug, called Orkambi. But there is still no decision on whether it will be made available on the NHS.\n\nAt the time, in May 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May said there was an ongoing dialogue with the drug company Vertex and she hoped for a \"speedy resolution to the negotiations\".\n\nYet, despite months of talks, no agreement has yet been reached.\n\nMore than 10,000 people in the UK have the debilitating genetic lung condition cystic fibrosis.\n\nFor about half of them, a drug called Orkambi could make a big difference - but the NHS says it is too expensive to fund.\n\nSir Andrew Dillon is chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which last month celebrated its 20th anniversary as the body responsible for deciding which drugs offer value for money for the NHS.\n\nHe said in a recent BBC interview: \"In virtually all cases we have managed to find a way through. So I am hopeful that in continuing to talk to Vertex, we can persuade them of the need to think carefully and change their expectations of what the NHS should pay so we can get these new treatments available to patients.\"\n\nOrkambi has been licensed for use in the UK since 2015 - but is only available to a very small number of cystic fibrosis patients, on compassionate grounds, at the company's discretion.\n\nThe Cystic Fibrosis Trust says the drug has been shown to improve lung health by up to 42% and reduce hospitalisations by 61%.\n\nAnnabel's mum says it is \"heartbreaking\" her daughter cannot be treated with Orkambi\n\nThe official list price of the drug is around £105,000 per patient per year. Vertex says that, in practice, the price negotiated with healthcare systems is always lower than that.\n\nIt is available to patients in 10 countries, but NICE says the price quoted by Vertex is too high for the NHS in England.\n\nFour-year-old Annabel has cystic fibrosis. Like other patients, mucus can build up in her lungs and she is vulnerable to chest infections. Her mother Liz Brennan has to organise a complex combination of treatments for Annabel every day.\n\nShe cannot understand why her daughter is unable to get Orkambi on the NHS.\n\nShe said: \"It's heartbreaking. It feels like a clock ticking away - every opportunity that she could have this medication and stop the clock on her CF.\n\n\"It's scary as a parent to think what could happen. \"\n\nThe issue has now got to Westminster, with demonstrations by patients and the issue raised at Prime Minister's Questions. The Health Select Committee is investigating.\n\nThere have been high-level talks between the company, NICE and NHS England, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock involved as well.\n\nSo far no conclusion has been reached.\n\nThere are separate negotiations with the Scottish government and its regulator the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The administrations in Wales and Northern Ireland tend to follow decisions made by NICE.\n\nMike Boyle is one of the few cystic fibrosis patients who is given Orkambi by the manufacturer on compassionate grounds. That is because his condition has got a lot worse.\n\nHe still has to use an inflatable vest to free up his lungs, but he says the drug has transformed his life:\n\n\"I can see how it's made a difference to me. I was desperate to get it really.\n\n\"I'm always a positive person with cystic fibrosis. I always try and fight - my saying is 'I don't let CF win'.\n\n\"I control CF, not CF control me, as best as I can.\n\n\"That's been really hard over the last two-and-a-half years really.\n\n\"But now I feel that I've turned the corner and this drug has let me have my life back again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens came from behind to win their third European title in four years with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the Champions Cup final at St James' Park.\n\nThe Irish side held a 10-point lead until the 39th minute but Sarries drew level when Sean Maitland's try cancelled out Tadhg Furlong's opener.\n\nBoth defences stood firm after the interval but Owen Farrell kicked Saracens in front just before the hour.\n\nVictory was sealed when Billy Vunipola crashed over from the back of a scrum.\n\nFarrell kicked the conversion as the Londoners scored 20 unanswered points and put in a dominant second-half performance, despite losing both their starting props to injury in the first half.\n\nSaracens - who become the first English side to win three Champions Cups after ending their European campaign unbeaten - will play a Premiership semi-final later this month as they continue to pursue the double, while Leinster remain on course to defend their Pro14 title.\n• None European victory 'not about me' - Vunipola\n\nFarrell wins the battles of the 10s\n\nThe 2019 Champions Cup final was dubbed as the battle of the fly-halves as international heavyweights Owen Farrell and Johnny Sexton renewed their rivalry, in front of nearly 52,000 spectators at Newcastle United's home ground.\n\nBoth players were 100% successful off the tee but it was Englishman Farrell who was the more influential as Saracens avenged last year's quarter-final defeat.\n\nThe England captain produced moments of excellence to draw his side level at half-time, having only conceded seven points with Maro Itoje in the sin-bin after waves of relentless Leinster running.\n\nFarrell kicked the penalty to get Sarries on the scoreboard before his deft pass allowed Maitland an easy run-in to score their opening try, in a move BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Matt Dawson believed was \"straight off the training ground\".\n\nSexton ran more metres and made more passes than his opposite number after opening the scoring with an early penalty, but Farrell's game management in the critical moments allowed his side to gain an advantage.\n\nThe trophy's journey back to England was all-but confirmed when Vunipola dived over with 13 minutes remaining as the England forward continues to impress after a controversial few weeks.\n\nVunipola was booed again, this time by the vociferous Leinster support, for his controversial social media post defending the now-sacked Australian international Israel Folau's assertion that \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nSaracens will be hoping Vunipola's late injury to his left shoulder is not too serious as they return to domestic rugby looking to claim more silverware.\n\nWith just a minute remaining of the first half, the plan for defending champions Leinster had been effective.\n\nThe Irish province were more mobile at the breakdown and they looked to bully Saracens into submission up front, as the north London side lost props Mako Vunipola and Titi Lamositele to injury as early as the 29th minute.\n\nItoje was sent to the bin for his part in an accumulation of penalties close to the Sarries line just a minute later, before Furlong powered over from close range for the game's first try.\n\nBut when Saracens - with captain Brad Barritt leading from the front - regained their composure, Leinster found it difficult to contain their fast and fluid game.\n\nSaracens made 12 offloads compared to Leinster's four as they looked to keep the ball alive and stretch the game with strike runners Liam Williams and Maitland.\n\nThe English side were more clinical in the right areas, and while Leinster had 56% possession, they struggled for creativity and were unable to penetrate Saracens' defence - scoring only three points while Sarries had 15 players on the pitch.\n\nThat was a magnificent turnaround by Saracens. Who says they can't win it again and again and again over the next few years?\n\nMost of the team will be around for several years yet. It's a ridiculously talented squad with great coaches and infrastructure. They have been absolutely brilliant today.\n\nAt 10-0 up Leinster looked in control, but in a week of sporting comebacks, Sarries dug deep, scoring a brilliant try through Sean Maitland. In the final quarter Sarries were astonishingly relentless and Billy Vunipola's powerful try was the killer blow as Leinster ran out of steam.\n\nIt's three Champions Cups in four years for Saracens and, given the hunger and age of this squad, this legacy will only grow.\n\n'It's a game of small margins' - what they said\n\nSaracens fly-half Owen Farrell said: \"It's a massive occasion for the whole club. It's not just about the lads on this pitch, everybody that's behind the scenes makes this club what it is.\n\n\"We were playing against a really good team who've got to back-to-back finals and they tested us. But this is a tight-knit group and that's what makes us good.\n\n\"Billy's played well and that's what he does on a regular basis. It's not just off-field stuff, it's other things as well and we've allowed it to make us tighter. You saw that today.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton said: \"It's a game of small margins. We were 10-3 up and had the ball in their half and decided to go for an attacking play.\n\n\"I thought we could have won it and scored ourselves which would have put the foot on their throat, but they are a champion side and they scored instead.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we started really well but we didn't take our chances close to their line. They made their pressure tell and we didn't.\n\n\"There were a few decisions that didn't go our way and we felt there was a knock-on before that second try.\"\n\nReplacements: Tracy for Cronin (51), J McGrath, Bent for Furlong (70), Ruddock, Deegan for Toner (74), O'Sullivan, R Byrne, O'Loughlin.\n\nReplacements: Gray, Barrington for Lamositele (29), Koch for M Vunipola (29), Isiekwe for Skelton (62), Burger for B Vunipola (75), Wigglesworth for Spencer (56), Tompkins, Strettle.", "Signature Living has been developing luxury hotels across the UK, including in Liverpool, Cardiff and Belfast\n\nInvestors in a multi-million pound luxury hotel group said they have been through \"a nightmare\" trying to get money from the company.\n\nThey described months of delays and unanswered calls or emails to the Liverpool company, Signature Living.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to six investors, from the UK, Ireland, Singapore and Taiwan, who said they were owed money.\n\nCompany boss Lawrence Kenwright, who is considering running for mayor of Liverpool, said everyone would be paid.\n\n\"We are chasing them, begging for our money. I had many sleepless nights,\" said one of the investors, who all asked not to be named.\n\nThe company \"is giving Liverpool and the UK a bad name,\" he said.\n\nThree other investors told the BBC they had received money they were owed in recent weeks, after payments were delayed by months.\n\nWith several now demanding their investments be returned, Mr Kenwright said this would happen when the group's remaining hotels were sold or refinanced.\n\nSignature Living made £5.9m in annual profit, according to the most recent set of financial accounts.\n\nInvestors in Signature Living hotels were told to expect annual returns of about 8%\n\nMr Kenwright, who built his business up after being bankrupted in 2010, said he had made relatively little money from the company, although records show he shared in £610,000 of dividends in 2017.\n\n\"I never saw it, I don't know where it went,\" he said when asked about this money.\n\n\"The £610,000 you're talking about, I have never had a cheque. I have never had a bank account. I drive a five year-old car and wear an old watch,\" he said.\n\nInvestors in Signature bought individual rooms in luxury hotels being redeveloped by the company, with many paying hundreds of thousands of pounds and some investing their retirement savings.\n\nThe hotels included the Titanic-themed 30 James Street in Liverpool; Belfast's George Best Hotel, which has yet to open but it is said will be decorated with floor-to-ceiling portraits of the late footballer; and The Exchange Hotel in Cardiff, where rooms come with an en-suite hot tub.\n\nThese rooms were then leased back to Signature, which typically promised an annual return of about 8% and that it would buy the room back at a profit after a certain number of years.\n\n\"It started out fantastically,\" said one investor, who bought a room in The George Best Hotel. The company was offering higher returns than any bank.\n\nThen his payments were delayed, he said.\n\n\"The first came a little bit late, the second one came a little bit later and the third took a lot of phone calls, emails and shouting before it came.\"\n\nThe opening date for the George Best Hotel in Belfast has yet to be confirmed\n\nAs the delays continued, staff at Signature \"started getting more and more elusive. No-one would talk to me, everyone was in meetings and no one would return calls,\" said this investor.\n\nHe said he was finally paid the money owed in the past fortnight.\n\nAnother investor, whose family invested hundreds of thousands in two hotels in Merseyside, said she was still owed money after years of delayed payments.\n\n\"We have to email them and they say 'Yes, we will pay you today,' and then the money doesn't come and they stop responding,\" she said.\n\nA third investor said he had spent eight months trying to get money from the company with no result.\n\n\"This whole experience has been a nightmare and we just don't know when we will get this resolved,\" he said.\n\nSignature Living recently announced the sale of the Titanic-themed 30 James Street hotel\n\nIn a letter to investors in March, Mr Kenwright said there had been delays in developing one hotel and \"we have obviously run into a timing problem whereby several bedroom investors are requesting their money back\".\n\nIn another letter, sent in April, Mr Kenwright told investors \"all rental payments have been suspended and no further monthly or quarterly returns will be paid\", pending the sale or refinancing of five hotels, in Liverpool, Belfast or Cardiff.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to two investors who have taken legal action against the company.\n\nExtract from a letter sent to investors in April 2019\n\nMr Kenwright, who is well-known for his charitable work in Liverpool, including establishing homeless shelters, confirmed recent reports that he has considered running for mayor of the city.\n\nHe said he regretted the delays faced by his \"amazing\" investors and that investors in two of the group's hotels had now been paid in full.\n\nEvery other hotel investor would be paid what they were owed and bought out of their original investment by the end of the month, he said.\n\n\"I want them to get their money and be happy,\" Mr Kenwright said.", "Friday night's episode of TV panel show Have I Got News For You was pulled by the BBC as it risked falling foul of its pre-European election rules.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"inappropriate to feature political party leaders\" in an election period as it did not allow for \"equal representation\" of views.\n\nHat Trick Productions, which makes the show, said it \"tried everything\" to get the BBC to broadcast the episode.\n\nIt added it was told of the decision \"late this [Friday] afternoon\".\n\nAn episode of Would I Lie to You was shown on BBC One instead. European Parliament elections are due to take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Allen - who left the Conservatives to join the recently-formed party - tweeted to say she was taking part in the programme, which regularly features politicians.\n\nBut less than half an hour before the episode was due to be broadcast, the HIGNFY Twitter account announced the cancellation.\n\nIt wrote: \"Sorry everyone. The BBC have pulled tonight's edition of #HIGNFY - no, we didn't book Danny Baker. We booked Heidi Allen, a member of a party no-one knows the name of (not even the people in it), because the Euro elections, which nobody wants, may or may not be happening. Sorry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heidi Allen MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move prompted a strong reaction on social media, with some questioning why the show was cancelled but leader of the newly-established Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, recently appeared on the BBC's political debate programme, Question Time.\n\nIn a letter to the BBC, Change UK asked for a full explanation, claiming the broadcaster is giving Mr Farage more favourable coverage.\n\nThe BBC has been contacted for a response but earlier, the broadcaster's live political programmes editor, Rob Burley, commented in a tweet: \"A show can't, in an election period, only feature one party in a run of shows.\"\n\nUnder BBC editorial policy guidelines, programmes are expected to ensure parties are given proportionate coverage over an appropriate period of time.\n\nAn earlier statement from the BBC read: \"The BBC has specific editorial guidelines that apply during election periods.\n\n\"Because of this it would be inappropriate to feature political party leaders on entertainment programmes during this short election period, which does not allow for equal representation to be achieved.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said it would look to air the episode at a later date.", "An elephant calf has been rescued from a lake in north-east India, after it became separated from its mother.\n\nThe baby elephant became stranded in the Deepor Beel lake in Kamrup district, and was guided out by forest officials and locals.", "A young football fan was asked to be his team's mascot after the club saw his letter to teachers pleading for time off to watch them play.\n\nCameron Hoffman wanted to skip lessons at Dinglewell Primary so he could watch Forest Green Rovers in the play-offs.\n\nThe 11-year-old, who goes to games with his grandmother, told the school it was \"important\" he spent time with her as \"she isn't getting any younger\".\n\nHe was allowed to miss school and asked to be Forest Green Rovers' mascot.\n\nThe schoolboy, from Abbeymead, has been supporting Rovers for the last 18 months with his 66-year-old grandmother, Chris Adams.\n\nIn his handwritten letter, he asked his school if he could leave early so he and his grandma could watch his team \"battle for promotion\" in the first leg of the League Two play-off semi-final.\n\n\"If they get promoted it will be history for Gloucestershire,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I also need to take good care of her (his grandmother) at the football.\"\n\nTo sweeten the deal he also promised his teachers he would take his revision books and \"revise on the bus ready for the SATs\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis mother, Kay Hoffman, put his letter up online and said within minutes it went \"absolutely crazy\".\n\n\"I was really, really chuffed with what he wrote,\" she said.\n\nCameron's letter was also \"loved\" by \"all the boys\" at Rovers, and he was asked to walk out with the team on to the pitch as their mascot.\n\nBut despite the schoolboy's prediction of a 2-0 win for his team on Friday evening it finished 1-0 to Tranmere Rovers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Dan & Cam Hoffman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most people walk down the highest mountain in Wales, while many take the Snowdon Mountain Railway.\n\nBut for Base jumper Josh Beinn, there was only one way he was going to descend 2,500ft - by leaping from the side of the mountain.\n\nThis is the moment the daredevil made what he says is the highest Base jump in Wales.\n\n\"It was exhilarating,\" said the 29-year-old after he had touched down safe.", "A number of MPs are calling on a drug company to make a \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nCiting a BBC Newsnight report, MPs across several parties have written to BioMarin, which markets Kuvan but did not initially discover it.\n\nThe drug, which helps people who have PKU - a rare inherited disorder - is currently not available to NHS patients, as it costs £70,000.\n\nBioMarin says the NHS has not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nPeople with PKU (phenylketonuria) - which affects between one in 10,000 and one in 14,000 people in England - cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins. But in people with PKU the levels build up, and can cause brain damage.\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many people who have PKU.\n\nThe MPs, who include Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and shadow chancellor John McDonnell, say that BioMarin did not even discover the drug itself but licensed it from a laboratory in Switzerland. It was then researched, using public money, as a treatment for PKU.\n\n\"It seems likely that development costs associated with licensing this treatment have been recouped,\" the MPs said in their letter, adding: \"It is matter of public record that BioMarin has generated substantial revenues from Kuvan.\"\n\nLouise Moorhouse, 35, knows at first-hand the difference Kuvan can make.\n\nIn her early 20s she took part in trials while it was being developed by the US biotech company.\n\n\"Kuvan allowed me to eat a completely normal diet. It was almost like someone had opened curtains on my life and I could see everything in Technicolor,\" she told Newsnight.\n\n\"It just freed me up so much.\"\n\nAfter the trial, Louise was denied further access to Kuvan, but since Newsnight's investigation, BioMarin has said all ex-trial patients will be treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PKU and Kuvan - the campaign for an affordable drug\n\nHowever, in their letter, MPs say: \"BioMarin currently has no competition for pharmacological treatments for PKU. This monopoly position carries a particular obligation to have regard to your responsibility to patients.\n\n\"BioMarin needs to prioritise making this treatment available at an appropriate price across the UK as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe letter, signed by 17 MPs so far and originated from the office of MP Liz Twist, comes amid growing concern about the prices of drugs for rare illnesses across Europe.\n\nUnder a European incentive scheme to encourage companies to produce treatments for so-called orphan diseases, companies are granted up to 12 years market exclusivity. This is currently under review.\n\nThe Dutch government, for example, is looking at issuing compulsory licenses if a company does not make a drug affordable. This means another company will be allowed to make the drug at a cheaper price, even when it doesn't hold the patent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liz Twist MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBioMarin says the \"burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS\".\n\n\"Under current cost-effectiveness criteria, [the] NHS expects discount in the range of 80%, making it very difficult to reach a mutually acceptable agreement,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"The NHS does not offer a blank cheque to pharmaceutical companies. Instead, the NHS works hard to strike deals which give people access to the most clinically effective and innovative medicines, and at a price which is fair and affordable, which is exactly what our patients and the country's taxpayers would expect us to do.\"", "A boycott of social media sites could force firms to take action to safeguard children, a senior police officer says.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said the companies were able to \"eradicate\" indecent imagery on their platforms.\n\nMr Bailey, the UK's lead officer for child protection, said websites would take notice of \"reputational damage\".\n\nThe Internet Association, which represents tech firms including Twitter and Facebook, said the industry spent millions removing abusive content.\n\nThe number of images on the police's child abuse image database has ballooned from less than 10,000 in the 1990s to 13.4 million currently.\n\nStarting on Monday, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will hold two weeks of hearings focusing on internet companies' responses to the problem, during which Mr Bailey - and executives from Facebook, Google, Apple, BT and Microsoft - will give evidence.\n\nMr Bailey is the chief constable of Norfolk and also leads on child protection for policing body the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nHe told the Press Association that the government's online harms White Paper could be a \"game changer\", but only if it leads to effective punitive measures.\n\nPublished last month, the White Paper sets out plans for online safety measures and is currently open for consultation.\n\nThe White Paper suggests, among other things, that internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle issues such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse images.\n\nMr Bailey believes the really big platforms have the technology and funds to \"pretty much eradicate\" indecent imagery - but did not think they were \"taking their responsibilities seriously enough\".\n\n\"Ultimately, the financial penalties for some of the giants of this world are going to be an absolute drop in the ocean,\" he said.\n\n\"But if the brand starts to become tainted... maybe the damage to that brand will be so significant that they will feel compelled to do something in response.\n\n\"We have got to look at how we drive a conversation within our society that says 'do you know what? We are not going to use that any more, that system or that brand or that site because of what they are permitting to be hosted or what they are allowing to take place'.\"\n\nIn response to the calls, the Internet Association said online companies had invested in content moderators and developing technology to remove abusive content.\n\nA spokesperson said the companies also work with organisations around the world, including Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based child abuse watchdog, to remove these images from the internet.\n\n\"Internet companies are working hard to get this right and continue to engage with the government's recent online harms White Paper, but we must ensure that any new measures are proportionate and do not damage the significant benefits that the internet brings to the UK.\"\n\nFacebook says it has removed 8.7 million \"pieces of content\" that violated its policy around child nudity or sexual exploitation of children between July and September last year.\n\nIts global head of safety, Antigone Davis, said: \"Like Chief Constable Bailey, we think the safety of young people on the internet is of the utmost importance.\n\n\"We have strong policies, we are using the most advanced technologies to prevent abuse, we work with experts and the police, and we educate families and young people on the precautions they should take.\n\n\"Families and young people find social media valuable and we want to make sure we are doing our utmost to ensure their safety.\"", "This week's invite only \"Private View\" of the Venice Biennale (which opens today) was one weird affair. It was like being dropped into the middle of a Wes Anderson movie.\n\nThe place was heaving with characters. Artists, posers, dealers, curators, billionaires, bureaucrats, fakes, freeloaders, snobs, journalists, pseuds, hustlers, and narcissists all cramming themselves into tiny spaces and noisy halls to get a glimpse of some box-fresh contemporary art.\n\nThey are not a hip crowd like you might find at Coachella or XJAZZ in Berlin. They are more clamorous than glamorous. Art is a shared interest but not the thing that truly binds them. Money and status are the currencies that count. You don't need both, but you sure as hell need one or the other.\n\nThis is a once every-other-year event that was established in 1895 to promote Italian art before morphing into an international exhibition with countries competing to be Best in Show.\n\nMussolini latched onto it in the 1930s as a way of promoting his fascist agenda, leaving a faintly uncomfortable air of nationalism around what is now a global contemporary art event based around nation states.\n\nNobody has time for anything more than a quickie.\n\nTake a look, take a picture, post to Instagram, move on.\n\nVisitors experiencing the Japanese Pavilion, where recorders suspended from the ceiling are played by an algorithm\n\nThe spaces serving free alcohol always seem to be most popular. Or those that have suddenly become \"hot\" as word of some \"amazing work!!!!!\" spreads like a virus through the Giardini Gardens, which serve as the Biennale's picturesque base camp.\n\nAnxiety levels are at fever pitch, fuelled by double espressos and a FOMO so profound that you can see the terror lurking in the eyes behind every pair of Tom Ford sunglasses.\n\nThe scale of the event is staggering.\n\nThere are 90 national pavilions, each with its own bespoke exhibition featuring the work of an artist, or artists, commissioned to represent the host country.\n\nWith artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, the Belgian Pavilion say it's offering an \"anthropological experience, reminiscent of an old Europe\"\n\nAdded to this is a colossal one-off exhibition spanning two massive buildings, which this year has been put together by a curator called Ralph Rugoff whose day job is running the Hayward Gallery on London's Southbank.\n\nAs if the aforementioned wasn't enough to satisfy even the most insatiable art lover, there are myriad other off-site shows by those not invited to take part in the main event: a sort of Venice Biennale Fringe, I suppose.\n\nNo sane person needs this much art, it is totally overwhelming while, paradoxically, also frequently being totally underwhelming. If the Venice Biennale was a climbing rose it would have been hacked back to manageable proportions long ago.\n\nIt is a hugely successful trade show-cum-visitor attraction, to which hundreds of thousands of tourists will venture over the long hot summer looking for meaning, guidance and some intellectual sustenance in our increasingly secular, divided, complicated world.\n\nWill they find what they are looking for in the 2019 edition? You'd hope so. I did.\n\nNot in the German Pavilion, which contains an austere post-industrial installation so earnest it is unintentionally funny.\n\nThe German Pavilion says it is exploring possibilities of survival, resistance and solidarity\n\nQuite unlike the French Pavilion opposite, which is hilarious on purpose.\n\nThe Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost has created a surreal grotto full of love, humour and ebullient eccentricity. If the Venice Biennale is a theme park of sorts, then Prouvost's invitation to climb into the belly of an octopus is its star attraction.\n\nYou enter through a narrow back door and step into an excavated basement the artist and her bunch of merry pranksters dug in order to enter the locked Pavilion in January having tunnelled from the bed of Venice's Grand Canal. That's their story anyway. And by way of corroboration, they have laid out their evidence in the room above in the grubby form of dredged detritus such as old plastic bottles, rusted cans and stinking seaweed.\n\nThe floor is light blue with a translucent, gummy surface that tricks you into thinking you're tiptoeing through dirty canal water. Go with the flow and it eventually leads you into the guts of the artist's eight-limbed cephalopod, which is very dark place.\n\nLaure Prouvost's Deep See Blue Surrounding You at the French Pavilion is tipped to win the Golden Lion\n\nAn elegiac film plays amid scattered stone-effect chairs placed on a spongy carpet that genuinely feels as though it could be the lining of an octopus's stomach.\n\nIt's disconcerting. And nuts: an eccentric but sincere celebration of the wonderful gift that is the human imagination.\n\nIt might well win the top prize.\n\nBut there is some strong competition. The Lithuanians have built an off-site beach complete with sunbathers whom you peer down upon as they break out into operatic song.\n\nThe Lithuanian Pavilion has been transformed into a Sun and Sea Marina, where participants give a contemporary opera performance\n\nAnd there was a lot of chatter about the Philippine Pavilion, which features an archipelago of glass topped platforms on which you walk and look down at household objects arranged beneath your feet. It was fine, but rather like the glass walkway, hardly shattering.\n\nThe Ghanaian Pavilion, on the other hand, is excellent and will give Prouvost's watery world a run for its money when it comes to the award of the coveted Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion.\n\nIt has been designed by the architect David Adjaye who has created a series of galleries of roughly-finished curved walls, on which hangs some first-class art. A group of El Anatsui's famous bottle-top wall hangings fill one space; behind them is a tear-inducing three-screen film by John Akomfrah that tackles climate change, imperialism, and the mistreatment of animals. And best of all, in the circular centre, are nine portrait paintings of imagined subjects by the talented Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (who was a Turner Prize runner up in 2013 the year Laure Prouvost won).\n\nOne of the series of imagined portraits, Just Amongst Ourselves (2019) painted by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and shown at the Ghana Pavilion\n\nOther highlights include Michael Armitage's paintings (and sketches), which are in the main exhibition, as are those by rising star Njideka Akunyili Crosby.\n\nBoth are well worth seeking out, as is Arthur Jafa: three to see among a plethora of half-baked mechanical contraptions and dreary installations made by various artists who could be collectively known as Phil Hall.\n\nMichael Armitage, who weaves multiple narratives into his works, is one of the 79 artists included in curator Ralph Rugoff's exhibition\n\nThe Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby draws on political and personal references, to create densely layered figurative compositions\n\nAnother tip should you decide to take on the Venice Biennale challenge: Carve out some time to see Edmund de Waal's installation at the Jewish Museum (about 30 minutes from the Giardini Gardens by Vaporetto) in the Campo Ghetto Novo.\n\nThe potter and author of the best-selling memoire Hare with the Amber Eyes has made a delicate and thoughtful group of new work and placed it with sensitivity around the sixteenth-century synagogue, Canton Scuola.\n\nThe author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal created works of porcelain, marble and gold to reflect the literary and musical heritage of the Jewish Ghetto\n\nBy the end of your marathon art trek you'll be ready to finish yourself off with a couple of large Bellinis. The drink that is, not the painter.\n\nUPDATE, Saturday 11 May: Winners announced! The Golden Lion winners of 2019 are Lithuania for national pavilion, and Arthur Jafa for individual artist. Congratulations to both worthy winners.", "The army school attack in 2014 led to a comprehensive counter-terror plan, but impetus was lost\n\nAs Pakistan detains an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, Ahmed Rashid argues that Pakistan needs a broader, better co-ordinated strategy from state institutions and a willingness to face up to unpleasant truths if it really wants to curb resurgent extremism.\n\nPakistan faces a renewed threat of rising Islamic extremism, vigilantism, attacks on minorities and a reluctance to face up to how these threats are internally rather than externally inspired.\n\nAlso missing is the lack of a comprehensive narrative against extremism, articulated unanimously by all bodies of the state and civil society.\n\nThe result of the failure to push forward a clear counter-terrorism and counter-extremism narrative that embraces the entire public domain is that some extremist groups continue to be tolerated by elements of the state.\n\nJust over two years ago, on 16 December 2014, an attack on an army-run school in Peshawar which killed 150 people - the majority of them children - galvanised the civilian government, opposition parties and the military to articulate the need for a comprehensive counter-terrorism plan.\n\nFor the first time there emerged a 20-point National Action Plan - a list of pointers of what needed to be done, endorsed by the military and all political parties.\n\nHowever the 20 points were never turned into a comprehensive winning strategy or a common narrative and the fight against extremism has diminished ever since.\n\nThe army's Operation Zarb-e-Azb, launched six months earlier, had cleared out North Waziristan, a key staging area for dozens of militant groups - many of them foreigners.\n\nOther military operations also took place, dramatically reducing terrorist bombings nationwide. But they were always going to be tactical operations, which still needed to be backed by a strategic plan carried through by the government.\n\nPakistanis want the government to tackle the extremist threat\n\nA faction of the Pakistani Taliban said they were behind a recent bomb attack in a mainly Shia area in Parachinar, Peshawar\n\nIt was the task of the civilian government to carry out educational reforms, job creation, co-ordination among intelligence agencies, galvanising the legal system, a ban on hate speech and a clear strategy of de-radicalisation of the nation's youth.\n\nAll these aspects of a strategy to be carried out by the government, as opposed to tactical military operations, have been missing, as the government has slipped into inertia and paralysis.\n\nAt the same time the state gave a pass to those extremist groups who were supportive of Islamabad's foreign policy towards India and Afghanistan.\n\nThe lack of a strategy and the state support offered to some groups has led to a growing mood of defiance among extremist organisations.\n\nIn the past few weeks five bloggers have disappeared (three, including liberal activist Salman Haider, have now returned home), some threatened journalists and civil society activists have fled abroad, non-governmental organisations have been accused of being unpatriotic, the Ahmedi community has been ferociously attacked and minority Shia Muslims have been massacred.\n\nHate speech has become a growing phenomenon in some media outlets, especially television, while increasingly journalists and others are threatened with being charged with blasphemy, against which there is little legal defence. Innocent lives are at risk as public incitement and witch hunts continue.\n\nEarlier this week, Hafiz Saeed, the cleric blamed by the US and India for masterminding the Mumbai attacks, was placed under house arrest. The move is being seen as a response to suggestions by US officials that the Trump administration may ban his Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity, seen by the US as a front for terrorists. However a military official said it was \"a policy decision\" and had nothing to do with any foreign pressure.\n\nPakistani blogger Salman Haider went missing for more than 20 days - he has not yet disclosed where he was\n\nPakistan's media regulator has just banned Aamir Liaquat Hussain, a high-profile TV host, accusing him of hate speech that could put lives at risk.\n\nHafiz Saeed is accused by the US and India of masterminding terror attacks\n\nA key aspect of the growing defiance of extremists is the insistence that Pakistan's neighbours are to blame for acts of terrorism rather than recognising that it is a home-grown problem.\n\nWhen former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif took over the army three years ago, he repeatedly said that the country must look into itself to counter extremism and not blame foreign powers.\n\nThat was music to the ears of most Pakistanis, who hoped that the state would tackle the very real threats at home rather than blame outsiders.\n\nYet over the past year the state has been insisting that all major acts of terrorism have been perpetrated by India or Afghanistan, rather than domestic terrorists.\n\nMeanwhile, the civilian government has been indecisive and hesitant as to who to blame, while in its home base of Punjab it has clearly been allowing extremist groups to flourish.\n\nThe conflict between civil and military agencies has left the public bewildered, giving further space for extremist ideas to flourish. This confusion has clouded out the need for a common and united narrative as to how to deal with extremism.\n\nCanadian-trained Gen Bajwa has not set out where he perceives the terror threat exists\n\nSo far, the new army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa has not categorically restated that terrorism is a domestic rather than a foreign creation.\n\nMeanwhile, relations with India and Afghanistan have worsened and other neighbours have distanced themselves from Pakistan, leading to what many experts have claimed is the country's growing isolation in the region.\n\nIf Pakistan is to defeat extremism, a comprehensive strategy and common narrative, jointly agreed upon by the military and the politicians, needs to be implemented. Both need to ensure that all parts of the state are fully carrying out their responsibilities.\n\nMost importantly, the narrative that government agencies build up must be consistent and carry forward badly-needed social reforms that will promote de-radicalisation of young people.\n\nPakistan needs a single, inspired, pragmatic and inclusive narrative that is strictly adhered to and can raise the public's morale instead of adding to their confusion.", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "In April last year, the BBC launched its 50:50 challenge, aiming for an equal number of male and female expert contributors on-air and online.\n\nA year on, the results of last month's data have been revealed and show a big boost in female representation.\n\nNearly three-quarters of BBC news and current affairs/topical programmes had an equal number of male and female expert contributors.\n\nOnly 27% of 74 English language outlets involved had hit the target initially.\n\nSince then, the number of teams signed up to the project across the BBC has topped 500 and 57% of those groups, including recent joiners, have reached the 50:50 mark.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said: \"It's amazing to see such a remarkable change in just a year - you can see and hear it right across our programming.\n\n\"I want the BBC to lead the way on equality and fairness, and this project demonstrates what can be achieved.\"\n\nThe One Show reached its 50:50 target last month\n\nMore than 20 external media companies have also signed up to replicate the challenge, including the Financial Times and ABC News.\n\nSome of the BBC programmes that hit the 50:50 target last month included the Andrew Marr Show, BBC Breakfast, The One Show, Politics Live and Radio 4's Saturday Live.\n\nThere has also been progress from teams such as Sportsday, shown on the BBC News Channel.\n\nIt started with 20% female voices and in April reached 43%, more than doubling its female representation.\n\nContributors refers to all BBC reporters, commentators, spokespeople, analysts, academics and case studies featured across BBC content.\n\nThe BBC's 50:50 Project contributes towards the BBC's commitment to reach 50% women on-screen, on-air and in lead roles across all departments by 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The Duke of Sussex was presented with a teddy bear for newborn Archie during a visit to a children's hospital.\n\nPrince Harry met youngsters at Oxford Children's Hospital and was presented with the gift by former patient Daisy Wingrove, 13.\n\nHe then met patients and their families who are currently having treatment at the hospital.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nAston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion in a penalty shootout to reach the Championship play-off final for the second successive season.\n\nTammy Abraham's winning spot-kick, after keeper Jed Steer had saved Albion's first two penalties, settled the shootout 4-3 in Villa's favour after a gripping two hours of tension-packed derby drama.\n\nTrailing 2-1 from Saturday's first leg, Albion levelled the tie when Craig Dawson flicked home a near-post header from a long throw.\n\nBut, just as much as Dwight Gayle's red card proved crucial at Villa Park, so did the 80th-minute sending-off of Albion captain Chris Brunt as they finished with 10 men for the second time in four days.\n\nThey held on for penalties and, although Albert Adomah's miss in the shootout briefly gave them hope after Steer had saved from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi, Abraham kept his nerve to book a play-off final meeting with either Leeds or Derby at Wembley on 27 May.\n\nThey meet in the second leg of their semi-final at Elland Road on Wednesday, with Leeds 1-0 up from the first leg.\n\nTwo red cards in four days hinder Albion\n\nThe main sub-plot of a tight two-legged play-off semi-final concerned Albion's two red cards, with top scorer Gayle sent off on Saturday and captain Brunt dismissed at The Hawthorns.\n\nIf the Baggies were a bit unlucky at Villa Park over the controversial Gayle incident, this time there was no doubt at all.\n\nBrunt stepped on John McGinn's arm in their first tangle before the break, but referee Chris Kavanagh either did not see the incident or deemed it accidental.\n\nBrunt was then booked early in the second half for a late challenge on McGinn, which could easily have been interpreted as a sending-off offence in its own right.\n\nWhen he brought McGinn down again on the edge of the box, Brunt's resulting red card was inevitable.\n\nIt might have been a different story if Albion had stayed with 11 men, given what a force they had been when roared on from even before kick-off by their raucous home support.\n\nThey had already looked a threat before they finally took the lead after 29 minutes, not surprisingly from an aerial set-piece.\n\nAlbion won a throw close to the corner flag and, when Holgate hurled in a long one to the near post, it did not immediately seem that dangerous, but Dawson got in first - as he has done so often in such set-piece situations during his career - and steered in a flicked header which crept in at the far post.\n\nAlbion had other chances too - Tyrone Mings blocked a Jacob Murphy shot on his own goal line, Jay Rodriguez sent a powerful effort straight at keeper Steer, Matt Phillips powered a close-range header just over and Brunt shot just wide from long range.\n\nBut, although it took a fierce low shot from Anwar El Ghazi to test Sam Johnstone properly for the first time after the break, Villa were already starting to turn the tide before Brunt's departure.\n\nAnd, once they had a man advantage, they were hard to hold back.\n\nAdomah had a left-footed shot from 12 yards superbly saved by former Villa keeper Johnstone, while Conor Hourihane had an effort deflected over and then Adomah fired just wide.\n\nTwo tired sides then got through extra time as Villa still failed to break down the door before the drama of spot-kicks.\n\nAnd in Steer, Villa's third-choice goalkeeper at the start of the season, Dean Smith's side had just the man for the occasion.\n\nSmith - who left Brentford to succeed Steve Bruce as Villa boss in October - has guided Villa back to Wembley for the second time in 12 months.\n\nHaving experienced the disappointment of play-off final defeat by Fulham in last season's play-off final, they will get another opportunity to return to the Premier League following relegation in 2016.\n\nAs for the Baggies, they have ultimately failed in their bid to bounce straight back to the top flight after one year in the Championship and are likely to start next season with a new boss.\n\nJimmy Shan spent the final two months in caretaker charge of Albion following Darren Moore's sacking in March.\n• None 0-0 - Holgate missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's left\n• None 0-1 - Hourihane scored for Villa - drilled low and hard into corner\n• None 0-1 - Hegazi missed for West Brom - saved by Steer to goalkeeper's right\n• None 0-2 - Jedinak scored for Villa - sidefooted into corner, sending goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 1-3 - Grealish scored for Villa - sent goalkeeper wrong way\n• None 2-3 - Gibbs scored for West Brom - placed effort in bottom corner\n• None 2-3 - Adomah missed for Villa - blazed well over the crossbar\n• None 3-3 - Morrison scored for West Brom - fired into corner past Steer's right hand\n• None 3-4 - Abraham scored for Villa - Johnstone got foot to low penalty but could not keep it out and Villa's place at Wembley was confirmed\n\n\"I'd have taken this 15 games ago and we have cause to be very proud.\n\n\"We deserved it, but the disappointing for me was not winning. I couldn't believe we'd lost the game. That's our first defeat since losing at Brentford in February.\n\n\"They were always going to be threat from set-pieces but we had enough chances to have scored ourselves.\n\n\"We'd done our preparations though. We had prepared for penalties since the day we qualified for the play-offs. We had a lot of rehearsals and of course we had the inspired substitution of bringing on Mile Jedinak, who has never missed a penalty.\"\n\n\"We've been on the end of some unjust decisions over the course of the two ties but you just have to accept it.\n\n\"The momentum was with us. But for the lads to go down to 10 men again and perform they did was a credit to them.\n\n\"Their work ethic has been excellent since from the moment I took over and we can be proud of the effort that has been put in.\n\n\"The fans were magnificent too. They can be proud of the way they got behind their team. The atmosphere was electric.\"\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(4). Tammy Abraham (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(3), Aston Villa 0(3). James Morrison (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top left corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Albert Adomah (Aston Villa) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Albert Adomah should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(2), Aston Villa 0(3). Kieran Gibbs (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(3). Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1(1), Aston Villa 0(2). Tosin Adarabioyo (West Bromwich Albion) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(2). Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Ahmed Hegazi (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! West Bromwich Albion 1, Aston Villa 0(1). Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Mason Holgate (West Bromwich Albion) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. John McGinn (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPadded jumpers, sturdy boots and long training sessions - things that might help in a bid to become a tug-of-war champion at the Balmoral Show.\n\nBut there is one more special ingredient that could make or break your chance of winning.\n\nResin is used by most, if not all, competitors in tug-of-war competitions - apparently it improves your grip.\n\nAnd for the teams that make their own, the recipe is a closely-guarded secret.\n\nJames Bell holding a jar of resin he made ahead of the tug-of-war competition at Balmoral Show\n\nJames Bell makes the resin for Lisnamurrican Young Farmers' Club and is sworn to secrecy.\n\n\"It's mostly about grip,\" he explains.\n\n\"One of the older members of the club showed me how to make it. He said he would show me as long as I didn't tell anybody.\n\n\"I don't know many other clubs that make it themselves... but you just put it in your hands and it makes the rope stick to your hand.\"\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmers train in the shadow of Slemish Mountain\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmers' Club has been in training for the competition since January.\n\nIts training ground is a field at the foot of Slemish Mountain - a picturesque scene with dry stone walls and newborn lambs with their mothers.\n\nTraining isn't taken lightly; for these competitors this is the tug-of-war equivalent to the World Cup.\n\n\"I live for tug-of-war,\" says David Johnston, who is competing in the novice category.\n\nLisnamurrican Young Farmer's women's team hoisting a bag of weights in the air while training for the Balmoral show\n\nAlthough a cash prize and shield are up for grabs, it's all about the honour of winning.\n\n\"There's a lot of rivalry,\" says John Allen, who will be competing in Lisnamurrican's advanced team this year.\n\n\"It's basically great getting one over [on] your friends in other clubs,\" he laughs.\n\n\"We go to the same social events, so it's good to have the upper hand on people.\"\n\nJohn Allen, who will be competing in the advanced competition this year\n\nLisnamurrican is entering three teams into this year's event - two male teams and a women's team.\n\nClaire Adams, a member of Lisnamurrican's women's team, is keen for more girls to take part.\n\n\"There's not as many girls involved, which makes it quite difficult for us to prepare for Balmoral,\" she says.\n\n\"We don't have anyone to pull against or practice with.\n\n\"It'd be such a good thing for more girls to get involved with, it's just really good to be part of a team.\"\n\nClaire Adams is keen for more girls to take up the rope\n\nSo, are they feeling confident?\n\nClaire is out for the shield.\n\n\"We made it to the semi-finals last year. I'd really like to do better this year,\" she says.\n\n\"I hope we can get to the final and hopefully win.\"\n\nThe Young Farmers' tug-of-war competition will take place at Balmoral on Thursday.\n• None Balmoral Show 2019: All you need to know", "Ministers had previously aimed to end child poverty in Wales by 2020\n\nWales was the only UK nation to see a rise in child poverty last year, according to research by charities.\n\nIt suggested 29.3% of children were in poverty in 2017-18, a rise of 1%.\n\nSean O'Neill, of Children in Wales, said parents had to make \"impossible choices\" between feeding themselves or their children.\n\nThe Welsh Government blamed policies set by the UK government, which said it was helping families improve their lives through work.\n\nThe research by Loughborough University was commissioned for the End Child Poverty Network, a coalition of organisations which includes Children in Wales, Oxfam Cymru, Barnardo's Cymru and Save The Children.\n\nIt suggested more than 206,000 Welsh children were living in poverty in 2017-18.\n\nAlmost half of children living in Penrhiwceiber are said to be in poverty\n\nA child is considered to be growing up in poverty if they are living in a household where the income is below 60% of the median income.\n\nIt found the Cardiff South and Penarth, Cynon Valley and Rhondda constituencies had the highest proportion in Wales - all at 35% - after housing costs are taken into account.\n\nAround a third of children living in valleys council areas like Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf were also in poverty.\n\nBut the figures also break down child poverty into much smaller areas of deprivation, ward-by-ward across Wales.\n\nPenrhiwceiber near Mountain Ash in the Cynon Valley has nearly half of its children in poverty, according to the research.\n\nThree wards in Wrexham are proportionately the next worst, followed by two inner city areas of Cardiff - Butetown and Grangetown.\n\nA snapshot of child poverty during the year suggests seven out of the 10 wards in Wales with the highest numbers of children in child poverty are in Cardiff. It estimates there are 2,342 living in Grangetown, followed by 2,183 in Ely.\n\nYsgol Glan Morfa is a Welsh-medium primary school in Splott, Cardiff, an area with an estimated 35% of children living in poverty.\n\nYsgol Glan Morfa in Cardiff recycles uniforms to help parents cut costs\n\nHead teacher Meilir Tomos said: \"We realise that there are children in our school whose families are struggling in different ways.\n\n\"We believe it's vitally important for children to have the best start in life possible and there are many ways in which our school supports families.\"\n\nAs well as a breakfast club, there is a scheme to donate school uniforms which pupils have outgrown so other parents can buy them for a nominal amount.\n\nMr O'Neill said: \"In far too many parts of Wales, growing up in poverty is no longer the exception, with more children expected to get swept up in poverty in the coming years.\n\n\"What this means on a day-to-day basis is that parents are having to make really impossible choices.\n\n\"They have to make a choice about whether they feed their children, go without food themselves, and things that many people take for granted - like heating and leisure facilities.\n\n\"Parents are really struggling just to get by.\"\n\nAs well as calling for a new strategy to tackle poverty, the group of charities want Wales' political parties to commit themselves to \"ambitious\" child poverty reduction pledges in the run-up to the 2021 Assembly elections.\n\nIt also wants a \"credible\" child poverty reduction strategy from the UK government, including restoring the link between benefits and inflation and investing in children's services.\n\nRachel Cable from Oxfam Cymru agreed UK welfare policy had had a large impact, but said the Welsh Government needed to take responsibility as well.\n\n\"We had a minister with specific responsibility for tackling poverty. That role has now been scrapped and the tackling poverty role is across all cabinet portfolios.\n\n\"While I welcome that breadth of responsibility there needs to be some coordination from the centre… there needs to be some leadership and we need a strategy and ambitious targets.\"\n\nThe UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it recognised some families needed more support and it continued to spend £95bn a year on working-age benefits.\n\nIt said the study was based on estimates rather than actual measurements.\n\n\"Children growing up in working households are five times less likely to be in relative poverty, which is why we are supporting families to improve their lives through work,\" said a UK government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Statistics show employment is at a joint record high, wages are outstripping inflation and income inequality and absolute poverty are lower than in 2010.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the report was not surprising and believed initiatives to help people pay council tax and free school meals would help tackle the problem.\n\n\"Analysis by a range of respected organisations has predicted a significant rise in levels of poverty, including child poverty, in the coming years as a direct result of the UK government's tax and welfare reforms,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\nShe added that the first minister had appointed Lesley Griffiths as lead minister \"to ensure that Welsh Government's budget planning process has maximum effect in tackling poverty\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American Airlines pilots confronted Boeing about potential safety issues in its 737 Max planes in a meeting last November, US media are reporting.\n\nThey urged swift action after the first deadly 737 Max crash off Indonesia in October, according to audio obtained by CBS and the New York Times.\n\nBut this had not been rolled out when an Ethiopian Airlines' 737 Max crashed four months later, killing 157 people.\n\nCurrently 737 Max planes are grounded worldwide amid concerns that an anti-stall system may have contributed to both crashes.\n\nBoeing is in the process of updating the system, known as MCAS, but denies it was solely to blame for the disasters.\n\nIn a closed door meeting with Boeing executives last November, which was secretly recorded, American Airlines' pilots can be heard expressing concerns about the safety of MCAS.\n\nBoeing vice-president Mike Sinnett told the pilots: \"No one has yet to conclude that the sole cause of this was this function on the airplane.\"\n\nLater in the meeting, he added: \"The worst thing that can ever happen is a tragedy like this, and the even worse thing would be another one.\"\n\nThe pilots also complained they had not been told about MCAS, which was new to the 737 Max, until after the Lion Air crash off Indonesia, which killed 189.\n\n\"These guys didn't even know the damn system was on the airplane, nor did anybody else,\" said Mike Michaelis, head of safety for the pilots' union.\n\nBoeing declined to comment on the November meeting, saying: \"We are focused on working with pilots, airlines and global regulators to certify the updates on the Max and provide additional training and education to safely return the planes to flight.\"\n\nAmerican Airlines said it was \"confident that the impending software updates, along with the new training elements Boeing is developing for the Max, will lead to recertification of the aircraft soon.\"\n\nFollowing the Lion Air crash, Boeing issued additional instructions to pilots in case they faced a malfunction of the MCAS.\n\nBut in a letter obtained by the AFP news agency, Mr Michaelis said the instructions weren't sufficient to help pilots in the event of malfunction.\n\nMr Michaelis also reportedly asked Boeing executives at the meeting to consider a software upgrade for the 737 MAX 8 - which probably would have required the planes be grounded for some time.\n\nThe executives said they didn't want to rush out a fix, and said they expected pilots to be able to handle problems, according to the New York Times.\n\nInvestigators believe in both deadly crashes a faulty sensor triggered the plane's MCAS anti-stall system, which repeatedly pushed the nose of the plane down.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 on board\n\nEarlier this month Boeing admitted that it knew about another problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the fatal accidents, but took no action.\n\nThe firm said it had inadvertently made an alarm feature optional instead of standard, but insisted that this did not jeopardise flight safety.\n\nThe feature - an Angle of Attack (AOA) Disagree alert - was designed to let pilots know when two different sensors were reporting conflicting data.\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration said the issue was \"low risk\", but said Boeing could have helped to \"eliminate possible confusion\" by letting it know earlier.\n\nBoeing has been working on a software fix for its flight system and is hoping for quick approval from regulators.\n\nBut it is unclear if the planes will be back in the air before the end of the critical summer travel season.", "Annalise Johnstone's body was discovered in woodland in May 2018\n\nA woman has been acquitted of murdering her friend's sister in Perthshire.\n\nAngela Newlands was accused of killing Annalise Johnstone, 22, along with co-accused Jordan Johnstone, at the Maggie's Wall Memorial near Dunning.\n\nMiss Newlands was acquitted of the murder charge at the conclusion of the prosecution's case against the couple.\n\nThe 19-year-old still faces a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice, and the murder charge against Mr Johnstone remains.\n\nMs Newlands broke down in tears as judge Lady Scott told the jury there was insufficient evidence to convict her of murder.\n\nThe judge said: \"I have heard legal submissions made in respect of the second accused in terms of the charge of murder.\n\n\"I have made a ruling that there is insufficient evidence which would entitle you to consider the evidence and convict on that charge.\n\n\"Accordingly I have acquitted the second accused on charge four. She remains on charge five on the indictment, that's the attempt to defeat the ends of justice.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know this is a bit frustrating for jurors because you haven't heard the legal arguments and the decision's been made in your absence.\"\n\nBoth accused deny falsely reporting Annalise Johnstone missing last May, cleaning their car, disposing of a knife and burning items of clothing.\n\nDuring the final day of prosecution evidence, the jury heard Ms Newlands told police her relationship with Jordan Johnstone was not sexual, although they shared a bed when they stayed at her home in Auchterarder and at her parents' house in Inchture, also in Perthshire.\n\nMark Stewart QC, defending Ms Newlands, put it to witness Det Con Rachel Webster: \"Angela Newlands makes it clear they haven't had a sexual relationship. Beyond that statement (she) gave you some explanation why that might be so - because she believes him to be gay?\"\n\nMr Stewart also asked about clothing Mr Johnstone had been wearing.\n\nHe put it to Det Con Webster that Ms Newlands had stated that Jordan Johnstone had taken Annalise away, and later returned wearing entirely different clothes.\n\nMr Stewart added: \"The clothing wasn't his clothing, it was Angela Newland's father's clothing. She wasn't very happy about it.\n\n\"It was Jordan Johnstone alone who took Annalise away from Inchture late on the 9 May into the early hours of the 10th?\"\n\nMr Stewart then asked: \"Throughout this entire interview she's crystal clear Jordan Johnstone left Inchture with Annalise Johnstone in the Ford Galaxy and they left together and alone?\" The officer agreed.\n\nFollowing the cross examination, Lady Scott warned the jury that any allegations made by one accused against another were not evidence.\n\nEarlier in the trial, the jury heard agreed evidence that the cause of Miss Johnstone's death was a deep puncture wound to her neck which severed vital veins and arteries and caused death within a few minutes.\n\nThe prosecution and defence also confirmed that Mr Johnstone's car was near the Maggie's Wall Memorial at the time Miss Johnstone was attacked.\n\nThe trial at the High Court in Livingston continues.", "Carl Beech, a divorced father of one, claimed he was first sexually abused as a child\n\nA man told police a false \"extraordinary tale\" about a group of powerful figures who sexually abused and murdered boys, a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, is accused of lying about \"three child murders, multiple rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and widespread sexual abuse\".\n\nHis claims led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation, which ended with no further action being taken.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMr Beech, formerly from Gloucester and known as \"Nick\" when he first made the claims, was in Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday for the start of his trial.\n\nHe claimed that he was first sexually abused by his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, when he was seven years old and went on to allege abuse by a group of public figures, including from politics and the military.\n\nAmong those he accused was former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Beech picked his \"targets\" after browsing the internet.\n\nIn 2016, when the investigation into Mr Beech's claims ended, the Met asked Northumbria Police to investigate the accuser himself\n\nDetectives investigated Mr Beech's claims until 2016 when they asked another police force - Northumbria - to investigate the accuser himself.\n\nNorthumbria Police found his story to be \"totally unfounded, hopelessly compromised and irredeemably contradicted\", the court heard.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury: \"It is quite impossible to conceive of allegations of a worse kind to be made.\"\n\nHe said \"immeasurable distress\" had been caused to those accused and those close to them - and they had suffered \"obvious reputational damage\".\n\nMr Proctor has spoken freely in public to defend himself against the allegation that \"he is a sadistic child killer and that he committed other serious sexual offences\", the court heard.\n\nJurors were told that, as an entirely innocent man, Mr Proctor was \"still enraged\".\n\nCourt sketch of prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC, with defendant Mr Beech seen on screen during an interview he gave to police in 2014\n\nBoth Mr Proctor and Lord Bramall had their homes searched as a result of the allegations.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry - codenamed Operation Midland - and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nMr Beech claimed the abuse happened after school, when he was picked up by a driver and taken to \"parties\" where there were 10 to 15 men and around seven or eight boys.\n\nMr Beech \"claimed that he was the victim of much of the abuse and he was a direct witness to the killing of three young boys\", the court was told.\n\nJurors heard how Mr Beech alleged that at an army location, the former head of MI5, Michael Hanley, and the former head of MI6, Maurice Oldfield, subjected him to torture.\n\nMr Beech claimed he had spiders tipped on him, electric shocks and darts thrown at him.\n\nThe prosecutor said Mr Beech had described to police \"the most horrific sexual and physical abuse\", but that his medical records did not substantiate the claims.\n\nThe jury was shown sketches of the alleged crime scenes, which Mr Beech drew for detectives\n\nThe court also heard that the defendant's ex-wife, whom he married in his early 20s, did not notice any marks on his body and saw nothing physical that supported his claims of electric shock treatment nor any savage abuse.\n\nThe court was played a video interview Mr Beech had given to the Met Police in November 2014, during which he cried as he described details of the first alleged murder.\n\nHe claimed a schoolmate called \"Scott\" was deliberately run over in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1979.\n\nThe court heard Northumbria Police concluded \"there is no supporting evidence whatsoever\" to support Mr Beech's account about Scott.\n\nProsecutor Mr Badenoch told jurors: \"There was no such homicide. No missing boy.\"\n\nJurors were shown photos of Carl Beech as a child\n\nMr Beech also claimed that one of the boys he witnessed being murdered was Martin Allen, a 15-year-old boy who went missing in London in 1979 and has not been seen since, jurors heard.\n\nMartin Allen's brother Kevin was contacted by Scotland Yard in 2014 and told his brother may have been linked to a VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Badenoch said: \"The source of that false hope to Kevin Allen, 35 years after his brother went missing, was ultimately the false allegations of this defendant, Carl Beech.\"\n\nAnd jurors were also told that Mr Beech had claimed he had a lifelong fear of water and could not swim, because aspects of the alleged abuse involved being held underwater and thrown in a pool.\n\nBut, the prosecutor said, police found photographs and videos of him swimming all over the world over several decades, ranging from with children at theme parks, to honeymoon snorkelling for shells, and at a pool with flippers, mask and snorkel.\n\nIt was \"an adult lifetime of swimming memories\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nPhotographs of defendant Carl Beech in or near water were shown to the jury\n\nThe court heard how the Met Police spent £2m on their investigation into Mr Beech's claims and described them publicly as \"credible and true\".\n\nHe first contacted Wiltshire Police in 2012 with allegations of abuse by his stepfather as well as Jimmy Savile. Between 2014 and 2016 he made further allegations to the Met Police, with a list of alleged abusers.\n\nIn 2016, when that investigation ended with no further action, police began investigating Mr Beech himself.\n\nPolice searched Mr Beech's Gloucester home in November 2016 and seized several electronic devices.\n\nDuring their investigation, a number of Mr Beech's claims \"were found to be provably false\", the court heard.\n\n\"He had lied about the content of these allegations, taken active steps to embellish a false story, and then cover his tracks when challenged,\" Mr Badenoch said.\n\nWhen questioned by police about this, he \"fled the country and lived overseas as a fugitive\" before being located in Sweden.\n\nThe jury also heard that Mr Beech's former teachers had said he had good attendance - contrary to his claims of being taken out of lessons to be abused.", "Melissa Ede (left) died of \"a sudden heart attack\", her fiancee Rachel Nason (right) said\n\nThe fiancee of lottery winner and transgender LGBT rights campaigner Melissa Ede says she has been \"completely devastated\" by her death.\n\nThe 58-year-old, who won £4m on a lottery scratch card in 2017, died on Saturday night, police said.\n\nHer partner, Rachel Nason, said she found her slumped in a car at their home, near Hull, after a heart attack.\n\nMs Nason described her fiancee as \"clever\", \"funny\" and an inspiration to others.\n\nPosting on Facebook, Ms Nason said a post-mortem examination showed her partner had ischemic heart disease, which led to \"a sudden heart attack\".\n\nThe former taxi driver went out to get cigarettes but shortly afterwards Ms Nason noticed her car engine revving.\n\nMelissa Ede had been a taxi driver and was a transgender LGBT rights campaigner\n\nDescribing her rescue attempt, Ms Nason said: \"I ran to it and started shouting 'Mel, wake up' but she didn't even flinch.\n\n\"I put my hand on her chest and ear near her mouth but could feel no heartbeat or hear no breath.\"\n\nShe said she dialled 999 and started performing CPR, before paramedics arrived.\n\nMs Nason said the lottery winner suffered from minor symptoms all week \"like arm ache, fatigue and lots of burping\", since going into hospital on 5 May when she received \"the all clear\" from medics.\n\nBut she \"didn't feel ill enough to visit a GP\", she said.\n\nMs Ede bought the winning scratch card when she stopped for fuel in December 2017\n\n\"Mel obviously didn't know she had this otherwise she would of sought medical advice.\n\n\"It's completely devastated so many of us and to be taken so suddenly and unexpectedly is heartbreaking.\"\n\nMs Ede's funeral is due to take place on 30 May in Hull.\n\nBefore scooping the jackpot, she was known for her TV appearances and posting videos of herself online, attracting thousands of social media followers.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman has told a court she lay \"like a dead body\" during an alleged rape by a former pop star because she wanted it to stop.\n\nEx-JLS singer Oritse Williams \"jumped on\" the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016, a court heard.\n\nMr Williams, 32 from Croydon, south London, has pleaded not guilty to rape.\n\nProsecutors at Wolverhampton Crown Court said the woman and her two friends met the pair at a nightclub after the solo gig.\n\nOpening the crown's case, Miranda Moore QC said after one of the women \"blacked out\" and had to be put in a taxi home, the alleged rape victim and her other friend went back to the hotel with Mr Williams and his tour manager, Mr Nagadhana.\n\nDescribing how the woman had later returned without her friend to look for her mobile, Ms Moore said: \"Once she was back in the room - she had to knock on the door - Mr Williams effectively jumped on her.\n\n\"He picked her up and pushed her down on the double bed. She had already made it clear that she didn't want to have sex with him.\n\n\"All she thought was 'I don't want this to happen'.\"\n\nIn a police interview, Mr Williams said the woman, who cannot be identified, and her friend had wanted to go back to the hotel and had instigated sexual activity.\n\nThe jury heard he told police: \"I'm the artist. I think both of them, they both kind of wanted to be involved with me in some degree.\"\n\nThe woman claims Mr Nagadhana sexually assaulted her during the alleged rape.\n\nBut Ms Moore said Mr Williams had told police Mr Nagadhana was asleep and \"had nothing to do with it\".\n\nIn a video interview with police, which was played to the jury, the complainant said she had been swearing and telling Williams to stop during the alleged attack.\n\nAt one point, she said she had \"laid down like a dead body\" because she just wanted it to stop.\n\nShe said: \"I was quite scared. I felt more pathetic, if that makes sense. I felt just worthless.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has set a date for what's probably her last attempt to pass a Brexit deal - and she's told Labour there's an urgent need to compromise.\n\nThe odds of her succeeding are faint - and her time's nearly up.\n\nThere's every risk Mrs May will fail, again, to deliver Brexit when she introduces her Brexit legislation in the first week of June.\n\nThis will come after what look like being tough European elections and, by the way, during the week of President Trump's official visit to the UK.\n\nTonight, she also told Jeremy Corbyn time was running out to reach any deal with Labour. But the reality is there has been no breakthrough in those talks, and no obvious reason to expect one.\n\nA cross-party agreement which involved Labour's minimum demand of a customs arrangement with the EU would cause a mutiny among Tory MPs, as Tuesday's letter to the Times newspaper warns vividly.\n\nIt would also mean a revolt among Labour MPs if there's no guarantee of a new referendum, and Mr Corbyn has shown very little enthusiasm for that.\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May's under quite intense pressure. Her most senior MPs, the executive members of the 1922 committee, will press her this week for a timetable to step down.\n\nLocal Tory officials will gather in June and consider passing a humiliating vote of no confidence in her. And in the European elections, the polls are looking very promising for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nSo promising that Mrs May's last, best, hope may be that the elections shocks both big parties into backing her.\n\nAnd if that sounds like clutching at straws, well, Mrs May's in a corner, all but out of time, and reaching and clutching at any hope she can find in what are now the dying days of her premiership.", "Huawei is \"willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments\" including the UK, its chairman Liang Hua said.\n\nIt follows concerns from some countries that China could use products made by the telecoms firm for surveillance.\n\nThe Chinese company has denied that its work poses any risks of espionage or sabotage.\n\nHuawei has also said it is independent from the Chinese government, but some countries have blocked it from their 5G networks on national security grounds.\n\nA recent report suggested the UK could allow Huawei's telecoms equipment to be part of the country's 5G networks, with some limitations.\n\n\"We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including the UK government, to commit ourselves to making our equipment meet the no-spy, no-backdoors standard,\" Liang Hua said via an interpreter at a business conference in London on Tuesday.\n\nHuawei is the world's largest maker of telecoms equipment. It faces a growing backlash from Western countries on concerns over the security of its products used in next-generation 5G mobile networks.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have both blocked the use of Huawei gear in their 5G mobile networks.\n\nThe US has restricted federal agencies from using Huawei products and has put pressure on allies to shun them.\n\nOn Wednesday, Reuters reported the US was likely to tighten restrictions on Huawei with President Donald Trump expected to sign an executive order this week barring US companies from using telecoms equipment made by firms that pose a national security risk.\n\nThe move would come at a time when US-China tensions are already on the rise.\n\nThe US more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£154.9bn) of Chinese goods on Friday and China retaliated with its own tariff hikes on US products.\n\nThis escalated a damaging trade war which only recently seemed to be nearing a conclusion.\n• None The US cannot crush us, says Huawei boss", "Mobile phone subscribers will get a reminder ahead of their contract lock-ins coming to an end\n\nBroadband, pay-TV, mobile phone and landline customers must be told when their contracts are about to end and be informed of their providers' best alternative deals, under new rules.\n\nThe UK's communications watchdog Ofcom aims to help users avoid overpaying.\n\nIt said more than 20 million people have stuck with subscriptions beyond their lock-in, often without realising.\n\nAnd those that opt not to move to another package need to be reminded they can still do so on a yearly basis.\n\nThe watchdog first announced its plan to help people secure end-of-contract deals in July 2018.\n\nRelevant companies have nine months to update their systems and must start sending out the notifications from 15 February 2020.\n\nService providers will need to text, email or send a letter to their consumers between 10 to 40 days before their contracts come to an end saying:\n\nUsers will be able to choose how they should be contacted\n\n\"This will put power in the hands of millions of people who're paying more than necessary when they're no longer tied to a contract,\" said Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's consumer group director.\n\nAbout 14% of customers do not know whether or not they are still tied to their current contracts, according to research commissioned by the regulator.\n\nIt added that customers can typically cut the cost of a bundle of the services involved by about 20% if they sign up to a new deal rather than remain on a contract beyond its minimum period,\n\nHowever, some consumer rights organisations still have concerns the measures do not go far enough.\n\nDuring the consultation, Citizens Advice had told Ofcom that it believed providers should be made to send out more than one notification to each customer and that the companies should also be made to disclose how many of their subscribers are out-of-contract and how much extra on average they are paying compared to in-contract users.\n\n\"Almost nine in 10 people think that charging loyal customers more is unfair, and we agree,\" commented Gillian Guy, Citizens Advice's chief executive.\n\n\"We look forward to hearing about the concrete actions Ofcom will take to end this systematic scam.\"\n\nA trade group has also raised concern that small internet providers that specialise in serving business customers might struggle with the cost and complexity of adapting their systems to meet the rules.\n\n\"[The Internet Services Providers' Association] is concerned at the lack of clarity around small business customers... as it does not seem to take into account the scale and nature of this market,\" said a spokesman for the organisation.\n\n\"We hope that Ofcom will address this going forward.\"", "Two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50-storey building in Oklahoma.\n\nReports said the crane at the Devon Tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds.\n\nThe basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and lowered it down.\n\nOklahoma City Fire Deparment said the two workers were being checked for injuries.", "Much of Scotland's oil industry operates out of Aberdeen Harbour\n\nExtracting all remaining oil and gas reserves would see the UK miss its climate change commitments, Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) has claimed.\n\nThe group says the target of limiting global warming to 1.5C would not be met if the 5.7 billion barrels in current oil and gas fields is burned.\n\nThe industry expects to produce another 20 billion barrels and wants the focus to be on its use rather than volume.\n\nThey insist the sector is central to developing cleaner technologies.\n\nFoES has instead called for an urgent phasing-out of fossil fuels.\n\nThe environmental campaign group wants governments to stop issuing licences for new oil fields and revoke permits for undeveloped ones.\n\nIn a report, called Sea Change, it also calls for a rapid phase-out of subsidies and tax breaks for exploration, and suggests that jobs created in clean energy industries could be three times the number lost in oil and gas.\n\nThe Paris deal on climate change was hailed as a landmark\n\nMary Church, FoES's head of campaigns, told BBC Scotland: \"Climate science is clear that we urgently need to phase out fossil fuels, yet the government and big oil companies are doing everything they can to squeeze every last drop out of the North Sea.\n\n\"To tackle the climate emergency head-on we must ban oil and gas exploration now, and redirect the vast subsidies propping up fossil fuel extraction towards creating decent jobs in a clean energy economy.\n\n\"Real climate leadership means making tough decisions now that put us on a path to a climate safe future. A just transition for workers and communities currently dependent on high carbon industries is an essential part of that.\"\n\nThe report was written for FoES by Oil Change International, an organisation which advocates a move away from fossil fuels.\n\nIt found that opening new fields would nearly quadruple the emissions from UK oil and gas.\n\nIndustry body Oil and Gas UK estimates that there are 10-20 billion barrels of oil still to be recovered from UK waters, about three quarters of which have not be drilled or even discovered.\n\nChief executive Deirdre Michie said: \"The UK's offshore oil and gas industry is part of the solution. The facts show that we need a managed and comprehensive transition towards a lower carbon future.\n\n\"Our industry can play a key role in the transition, reducing emissions from offshore production and helping the UK to lead on carbon reduction technologies, including the switch to hydrogen and long-term storage of CO2.\n\n\"This will ensure the UK continues to enjoy secure and affordable energy alongside an accelerating transition to a low carbon future.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has committed to making Scotland \"net-zero\" by 2045 in line with recommendations from the Committee on Climate Change.\n\nThat will be the point where we're emitting the same volume of greenhouse gases as we're offsetting.\n\nAn amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which sets out the new target, has been put forward by ministers.\n\nWith a further pledge to reach net-zero only through domestic measures, it would make it the most ambitious target in the world.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"There is no bigger priority than tackling climate change, and Scotland is already well recognised as a world leader in doing so.\n\n\"The first minister has accepted the recommendations from the Committee on Climate Change to increase targets on tackling and reducing emissions. We have therefore committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2045, and are looking at a range of policies to make sure that they align with that increased scale of ambition.\n\n\"The domestic oil and gas industry and its supply chain can play a positive role in supporting the low carbon transition. We are committed to achieving a carbon-neutral economy and to managing that transition in a way that is fair for all.\"\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said in a statement: \"The UK is proud to be a global leader in tackling climate change.\n\n\"We were the first country to raise the issue on the international stage, and to introduce long-term legally-binding carbon reduction targets, and we have gone further than any other G7 nation by cutting our emissions by 40% since 1990.\n\n\"The best way to meet our climate targets in a sustainable way is to manage oil and gas production from our relatively small domestic basin while reducing our use of fossil fuels - which is exactly what we are doing.\"", "Babette Lucas-Marriott was in The Jeremy Kyle Show audience when Steven Dymond's story was filmed.\n\nThe 63-year-old man, from Portsmouth, was found dead after appearing on the programme, in which he took a lie detector test.\n\nMs Lucas-Marriot said the show was \"uncomfortable\" viewing and that Mr Dymond and his fiancee were \"completely and utterly devastated\".\n\nITV has announced that The Jeremy Kyle Show will no longer be produced. A review of the episode in question is under way and it will not be screened.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your experience at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nRead more on this story.", "About 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning\n\nA large warehouse fire blocked major roads in north London, causing delays during the morning rush-hour.\n\nThe North Circular in Neasden was closed both ways as firefighters tackled the blaze at a derelict building, but has now reopened.\n\nIt is open westbound with one lane operating eastbound, Transport for London (TfL) said.\n\nSeventeen people were evacuated from nearby buildings during the blaze which broke out at about 02:00 BST.\n\nIt was brought under control by about 06:20, the London Fire Brigade said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC London Travel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt its height, the blaze was tackled by 70 firefighters. Some remain at the scene dealing with \"pockets of fire inside the warehouse\".\n\nThe whole of the building has been damaged by fire.\n\nStation manager Robbie Robertson said: \"Firefighters have worked extremely hard overnight to prevent the fire spreading to an adjacent building.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by London Fire Brigade This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTfL said traffic on the A41, A406 and Edgeware Road was still moving slowly in the aftermath of the blaze.\n\nAll buses, which had been diverted, are now running on their normal routes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by TfL Traffic News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The precise circumstances of Steve Dymond's death are not known. But what is clear, from multiple sources, is that he was troubled and vulnerable before he participated in the show - even though he did so willingly - and that failing the lie detector test was a devastating blow.\n\nThat much was clear on Tuesday morning, when ITV said that they were minded to launch an inquiry and wait for the coroner's verdict. Yet this morning the show was taken off the air permanently.\n\nWhat happened that should cause the sudden change of mind?\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle show has been part of ITV's daytime schedule since it started in 2005\n\nTwo things at least. First, growing evidence of links between that failed lie detector test and Mr Dymond's death. ITV learned significant new information in the past 24 hours. And second, another morning of damaging front page headlines, especially in the tabloids that are still influential and widely read among ITV's heartland audience.\n\nThat is explicitly not to say that the decision to take the show off air permanently was primarily a commercial one. The driver may have been moral repugnance, at ITV board level, at what has happened. Certainly, if as part of their internal process board members saw footage of Mr Dymond's response to failing the lie detector test on the episode that was never aired, it must have prompted a visceral reaction.\n\nBut even if you accept that Carolyn McCall and the ITV board made this decision because of revulsion at what one of their shows did, that doesn't discount the commercial and editorial context in which the decision was made.\n\nAs an advertiser-funded broadcaster, albeit with multiple linear channels and a digital offering, ITV is under pressure. Kevin Lygo, its creative chief, has tried to reinvent the schedule, and with some success. But the feeling at the top of ITV is that Jeremy Kyle's show was a distinct anomaly within the new offering - and therefore not necessarily a good fit as part of its future. It is hard to imagine that the show would have been permanently scrapped if Lygo and other bosses were deeply admiring of it.\n\nIn reaching millions of people every weekday, many of them of the view that the mainstream media doesn't generally reflect their lives very well, ITV had a solid, regular offer to a big and loyal audience. In today's exceptionally competitive media environment, when the claims on our attention are multiplying by the minute, that isn't something you give up lightly. Especially when you know that whatever replaces Kyle will struggle to achieve its ratings, at least at first.\n\nThere is, as I mentioned on last night's bulletins, a massive disconnect here: between those who wanted the show off air, who generally don't watch it; and those who do watch it, and feel they can relate to it.\n\nThese fans, like ITV bosses, might proffer a liberal argument: people who go on the show are consenting, fully informed, capacitous adults who know what they're doing. In the show's 14-year history, thousands of contributors have been on-stage. And this is not a show that has traditionally led to Ofcom being inundated with complaints.\n\nSeveral people have said to me that, given two people who appeared on Love Island have taken their own lives, it is inconsistent to leave that show on air, and ITV's decision on Wednesday is partly about protecting that highly lucrative show.\n\nITV resist the latter point strongly, and it is important not to generalise from the specific circumstances of any death - particularly suicide. Moreover, Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show occupied very different parts of the schedule, and don't belong in the same category of programme.\n\nSteve Dymond, who was 63, was found dead a week after he was filmed on the Jeremy Kyle show taking a lie detector test to prove if he'd been faithful to his fiancee\n\nI wonder, however, if rising concerns about the mental health of participants in all TV programmes may prompt greater investment in after-care, or an expansion of Ofcom's remit to go much further on the duty of care programme makers have toward their contributors.\n\nCelebrity culture is as old as culture itself; but the advent of, first, mass media, and now social media, has rapidly expanded the circle of those who can be famous. But displaying, or even parading, private anguish and trauma in a public way can obviously have a disastrous impact on mental health.\n\nWhether it be Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine With Me, or The Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, contributors and contestants give up something of themselves, some degree of autonomy, when they become characters in productions whose goal is commercially motivated entertainment. The journey they go on, and which viewers are encouraged to go on with them, can be life-affirming, cultural gold-dust. That is television at its best.\n\nBut the spectacle can also lead contributors to a dark place. Even if that is not television at its worst, it is television that - for now - ITV believes should not be aired. No matter the ratings.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from BBC Radio 4.", "A man who accused multiple public figures of child sexual abuse is a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\", a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nPolice discovered the offences after seizing devices from his home while investigating him for alleging abuse by public figures, jurors heard.\n\nBeech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old's allegations, which included a claim that three young boys were murdered by members of a group, led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation between 2014-2016 that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nThe court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nDuring the police probe, Beech set up a fake email account to help corroborate his story, the court heard on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury that in email correspondence with police officers, Beech pretended to be a man known by the pseudonym \"Fred\".\n\nThe defendant claimed Fred was abused alongside him as a child and had witnessed one of the alleged murders, the prosecutor said.\n\nBut when detectives from Northumbria investigated the email account, they found \"the person behind the encrypted email account was Carl Beech\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nMr Badenoch said officers found \"indecent images of young boys, covert images of school boys taken by him, and recordings\" on Beech's devices.\n\n\"These child sex offences were committed whilst he was speaking to investigating officers,\" he continued.\n\n\"At the same time as he perpetuated these lies about Harvey Proctor and so many others, he was also viewing indecent images of the gravest kind and spying on small boys.\"\n\nJurors heard he installed a secret app on his iPad that appeared to be a calculator, but contained indecent images of children of the \"most serious kind\" and a covert recording of a boy in a toilet.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard he was prosecuted and initially pleaded not guilty, and in a police interview, sought to blame his teenage son.\n\nHe changed his plea to guilty after a jury had been sworn in.\n\nThe prosecutor said the defendant's convictions demonstrate \"Carl Beech is a committed and manipulative paedophile, capable of deceit to investigators and limitless manipulation when required, including if necessary, framing his own child\".\n\nHe said Beech was \"the sort of individual concerned only for himself, unconcerned with the impact on others\".\n\nThe court also heard that Beech craved attention, had written 150 pages of a memoir and planned to become an international speaker on \"survivors\".\n\nHe received £22,000 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for the abuse he alleged, which funded a £10,000 cash deposit for a white Ford Mustang, jurors were told.\n\nThe court heard on Tuesday that when investigators later began looking into Beech himself, he fled to Sweden.\n\nThe trial for perverting the course of justice and fraud continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSubstitute Jack Marriott was the hero as Derby stunned Leeds to set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa after a wild night at Elland Road.\n\nThe hosts took the lead on the night to go 2-0 up on aggregate when Stuart Dallas tapped in after Liam Cooper's header had hit the post.\n\nMarriott levelled with his first touch before half-time after a horrendous mix-up at the back between Cooper and keeper Kiko Casilla.\n\nFrank Lampard's side turned the tie on its head after the break through Mason Mount and a Harry Wilson penalty, only for Dallas to drift in and fire Leeds back level on aggregate.\n\nLeeds defender Gaetano Berardi was then sent off for a poor challenge on Bradley Johnson before Marriott won it late on with a composed finish.\n\nThere was still time for Derby defender Scott Malone to join Berardi in being dismissed after collecting a second booking in time added on.\n\nFor Leeds, who finished third in the table, defeat means their spell outside the top flight will stretch to a 16th year.\n\nDerby, meanwhile, become the first team to lose the first leg of a Championship play-off semi-final at home and go on to reach the final meaning Lampard's first season in management will end at Wembley.\n• None Bielsa will 'listen to proposal' from Leeds about staying\n• None Why Leeds have been left crying their heart out\n\nThere had been no indication of what would transpire on this crazy night in West Yorkshire when Dallas put Leeds in front.\n\nThey had won all three of the previous meetings between the two sides this season by an aggregate of 7-1 and Derby looked short of ideas when they did manage to launch any attacks.\n\nHowever, with half-time approaching, Lampard brought Marriott on for midfielder Duane Holmes and the former Peterborough man had an instant impact, tapping in after Cooper and Casilla ran in to one another to leave him with an open goal.\n\nA brilliant improvised finish from Chelsea loanee Mount put them in front on the night just moments into the second half and Harry Wilson, on loan from Liverpool, kept his composure to fire home from the spot after Cooper pulled Mason Bennett's shirt in the area to put Derby ahead in the tie for the first time and spark wild scenes amongst the travelling Rams supporters.\n\nLeeds responded well and Dallas deservedly pulled one back to draw them level at 3-3 on aggregate with a wonderful finish, but Berardi's red card shifted the momentum once more and defender Richard Keogh sprinted out of defence to play a measured pass for Marriott to poke in and book the Rams a trip to Wembley on Monday, 27 May.\n\nWith four games of the regular season to go, Leeds had been in the driving seat to win automatic promotion after a hugely impressive season under veteran Argentine head coach Marcelo Bielsa.\n\nHowever, they suffered a shock home defeat by strugglers Wigan on Good Friday before losing at Brentford three days later as their three-point lead over Sheffield United turned into a three-point deficit that they were unable to overturn.\n\nWith many fans fearing their moment had passed, they put in an assured performance at Pride Park in the first leg to come into this game with a one goal advantage but, once more, they could not finish the job.\n\nBielsa reflected that the defeat by Wigan that took their momentum away had been \"the decision of God\".\n\nBut that was only part of a hugely emotional campaign that saw him personally pay a £200,000 fine after the club were reprimanded for sending a member of staff to watch Derby train before the league game between the teams at Elland Road in January.\n\nThat 'Spygate' saga, which Derby boss Lampard described at the time as \"not right\", remained a key talking point before and during the play-off meetings.\n\nAnd after beating Leeds for the first time this season, it was clearly at the forefront of the minds of Derby's players as they celebrated by pretending to hold binoculars over their eyes.\n\nWill Bielsa stay or go?\n\nAfter failing to take Leeds up, Bielsa now faces a huge decision of his own whether to carry on as boss and try to mount another promotion challenge next season.\n\nPrior to joining Leeds on a two-year deal last June, the 63-year-old last completed a full season as a manager when he guided Marseille to fourth in Ligue 1 in 2014-15.\n\nHe was questioned about whether he would stay with Leeds in the immediate aftermath of his side's play-off disappointment but would not be drawn on where his future lay.\n\n\"If the club offers me the opportunity to carry on then I will consider the proposal,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd be naive to say I totally believed we could come back but I had belief in the players.\n\n\"As a manager, the pressure is more intense than as a player. I wanted this so badly, you worry you want it too badly. I'm very proud.\n\n\"I told Jack Marriott I thought he could have an impact in the game because he was disappointed not to be starting.\n\n\"We'll be underdogs in the final and tomorrow we start again.\"\n\n\"We should have had one or two more in the first half and then the second half broke immediately.\n\n\"We lost control. We had 20 minutes without control and I couldn't find a solution.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Isaiah Brown (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Second yellow card to Scott Malone (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Clarke (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Isaiah Brown.\n• None Attempt saved. Liam Cooper (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.\n• None Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 2, Derby County 4. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Richard Keogh.\n• None Harry Wilson (Derby County) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mason Mount with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Laura, who is halfway through her pregnancy, suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition of prolonged and severe nausea and vomiting.\n\nKnown by most as a condition suffered by the Duchess of Cambridge during her pregnancies, women can be left vomiting up to 100 times a day.\n\nLaura lost over a stone in weight in just eight weeks, and decided to film an intimate video diary to educate people about the condition.", "Kane Burns changed his plea during a murder trial to manslaughter\n\nA man who killed his friend with a sword for insulting his mother before burning his body and burying it has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years.\n\nKane Burns admitted he \"went too far in self defence\" against Mohamed Megherbi.\n\nThe \"skeletonised\" remains of the 24-year victim were found in a shallow grave on 30 November last year.\n\nBurns, 26, from Cardiff, denied murder but on the second day of his trial, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the city's crown court.\n\nMr Justice Clive Lewis said: \"An argument broke out between you and a struggle ensued lasting three minutes before you killed him.\n\n\"You struck Mr Megherbi a single blow to the skull with a weapon - a sword. It was described as a ninja sword.\n\n\"After the killing you sought to conceal the body.\n\n\"The remains of Mr Megherbi were found buried in a shallow grave about a metre deep - there had been attempts to burn the body.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Burns tried to cover up his crime\n\nMr Megherbi's remains were found in woodland by police, almost two months after being reported missing after he was last seen in the Roath area of Cardiff on 9 October.\n\nSearch teams found spades and what \"looked like the lower bones of a human leg\" when combing an area near Pentwyn leisure centre.\n\nBurns' murder trial heard Mr Megherbi, who was originally from Algeria, \"had received catastrophic and fatal head injuries at the hand of this defendant\".\n\nJurors were told neighbours described hearing \"loud banging\" and arguing between two men at Burns' flat in Llanedeyrn.\n\nMohamed Megherbi's body was discovered last November in woodland\n\nAfter the commotion, Burns bought lighter fluid and matches at a nearby petrol station, returning twice to buy bleach, paper towels and more lighter fluid.\n\nIn an unrelated raid on his flat, police spotted blood on the furniture and blinds, samples of which matched Mr Megherbi.\n\nA 2ft (61cm) sword was found in the wooded area near Mr Megherbi's body and police also found an axe, \"large rusty machete\" and Taser at Burns' home.\n\nJurors heard during the trial that Burns told a friend: \"I stabbed him up because he was saying stuff about my mother.\"\n\nBurns bought the shovel (similar to that on the right) which was found with the help of a bus driver stuck in traffic\n\nSouth Wales Police senior investigating officer Det Insp Andy Miles said: \"We cannot underestimate the role of the public in this case.\n\n\"From the beginning there was a willingness to support the investigation for which we are very grateful.\"\n\n\"Despite Kane Burns not choosing to assist the investigation at any stage, which included not revealing where he had put the body of Mohamed Megherbi, we are pleased that he has been sentenced here today.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "The RSPCA said Lloyd was found by workers at Lidl's Netherfield store as they unloaded fruit\n\nA tree frog from Costa Rica has been found in a box of bananas at a Lidl in Nottingham.\n\nIt was discovered more than 5,300 miles (8,500 km) away from its rainforest home by staff at the Netherfield branch on Sunday.\n\nWorkers, who named it Lloyd, told the RSPCA it was sitting on top of the bananas as they unloaded the fruit on to the shelves.\n\nLloyd is now in the care of a vet who specialises in exotic animals.\n\nLidl has been approached for comment.\n\nRSPCA officer Hayley Day said the supermarket staff \"seemed quite taken with him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RSPCA Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe added: \"He must have also had quite the shock when he emerged in a Nottinghamshire supermarket considering he's used to more tropical climates usually.\"\n\nReacting to the find on Facebook, Rob Loasby wrote: \"They have some amazing things in their specials aisle these days.\"\n\nSarah Conway said: \"It's not a Lidl frog, it's a big frog.\"\n\nWhile Lee Anne added: \"I'm never putting my hand in a box of bananas again... first spiders now this.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs Bradley sent a letter to victims' groups on Tuesday\n\nNI Secretary Karen Bradley has pushed back the prospect of taking legislation through Westminster to give compensation to victims of historical institutional abuse.\n\nPayments to victims were recommended by the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry in 2017.\n\nBut power sharing at Stormont collapsed days later and it stalled.\n\nDavid Sterling, the head of the NI Civil Service, had asked her to take control of the issue.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from Mrs Bradley, which was sent to victims' groups on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes a day after the Executive Office published responses to a public consultation on HIA redress.\n\nIn the letter, Mrs Bradley suggested putting HIA payments as an item in the Stormont talks process was the \"quickest possible way to bring this issue to a resolution\".\n\n\"Unfortunately we cannot simply take forward legislation without addressing the consultation feedback,\" Mrs Bradley said in her letter.\n\nThe HIA heard evidence from hundreds of people who spent their childhood in residential homes and institutions\n\n\"Urgent consideration needs to be given to the views expressed during the consultation.\"\n\nThe consultation received 562 responses - however the Executive Office said it has completed its analysis of them.\n\nMrs Bradley added that she has also written to Mr Sterling to ask him to include HIA matters in the current round of Stormont talks.\n\nHe is chairing the working group looking at the Programme for Government.\n\nLast week, the Head of the Civil Service David Sterling said the historical institutional abuse issue \"transcends politics\"\n\nShe added: \"The current talks are the best opportunity for these complex issues - such as the total redress payment - to be discussed by local politicians.\"\n\nMrs Bradley also said it is \"vital\" progress is made by the end of May, in line with the overall talks process being reviewed, so that \"draft legislation can be finalised\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said the secretary of state believes \"the quickest and best route to deliver for victims and survivors is to include this issue as a priority in the talks process\".\n\n\"This has a timeframe to make progress by the end of May,\" it added.\n\nThe HIA inquiry was set up by Stormont leaders to investigate allegations of abuse in children's residential homes run by religious, charitable and state organisations.\n\nIt was chaired by Sir Anthony Hart and its remit covered a 73-year period from the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1922 through to 1995.\n\nThe inquiry made a number of recommendations including compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.\n\nSince the inquiry ended two years ago, 30 survivors of historical institutional abuse have died.\n\nMrs Bradley said she will also meet the chair of the HIA inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, in the coming days, as well as a number of victims' and survivors' groups next week.\n\nAmnesty International has described the latest development as a \"shameful betrayal of abuse victims, who have been let down time after time\".\n\nLast week, Stormont's political parties echoed calls from David Sterling and victims' groups for the secretary of state to take immediate action on HIA compensation.", "About one million people watched The Jeremy Kyle Show every day\n\nITV has axed The Jeremy Kyle Show after 14 years following the death of a guest who took part in the programme.\n\nSteve Dymond was found dead on 9 May a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nITV's chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nFollowing the announcement, a committee of MPs launched an inquiry into whether enough support is offered to guests on TV shows during and after filming.\n\n\"Given the gravity of recent events we have decided to end production of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\n\"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\n\n\"Everyone at ITV's thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of Steve Dymond. The previously announced review of the episode of the show is under way and will continue.\n\n\"ITV will continue to work with Jeremy Kyle on other projects.\"\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said the broadcaster had made the right decision.\n\n\"However, that should not be the end of the matter,\" he said. \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\"\n\nProgrammes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risked \"putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences\", he said.\n\nThe committee will question broadcasting executives and regulators. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle Show was the most popular programme in ITV's daytime schedule, with an average of one million viewers and a 22% audience share.\n\nMore than 3,000 episodes have been broadcast since its debut in 2005. Following Mr Dymond's death, ITV initially took the show off air and suspended filming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pre-recorded episode Mr Dymond took part in was based on the subject of infidelity.\n\nA member of the audience who was at the recording told BBC News that Mr Dymond \"collapsed to the ground\" and was \"sobbing\" when he failed the lie detector test.\n\nLie detectors were a regular fixture on the programme, which often featured disputes between partners and family members.\n\nBroadcasting regulator Ofcom has told ITV to report back its initial findings on Mr Dymond's participation in the programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" an Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nThe watchdog is now examining whether to update its code of conduct to protect people taking part in reality and factual shows.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nYesterday morning, ITV were minded to wait for the coroner's verdict before deciding what to do with the show. In the past 24 hours, the evidence has grown that his appearance on the show had a devastating impact on Steve Dymond.\n\nThat evidence, and the fact that ITV is plastered across front pages once again, will have weighed heavily on the board's mind.\n\nThe company's director of television Kevin Lygo has tried to reinvent the broadcaster, and this programme was an anomaly within his offering: different in tone and editorial approach.\n\nNevertheless, it was a ratings hit, and much of its loyal audience will be despondent about it being pulled.\n\nFor all that, it's vital to remember that this is ultimately an exceptionally sad story of a troubled individual who was found dead in his flat.\n\nOwen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, was among those who welcomed the decision to pull the show, which he said \"consisted of putting vulnerable people from disadvantaged backgrounds in stocks to have eggs thrown at them\".\n\nPiers Morgan, who hosts Good Morning Britain - a show Jeremy Kyle has previously guest presented - defended the host on Twitter, saying there was \"so much snobbery an hypocrisy being spewed by his critics\".\n\nFormer EastEnders actress Danniella Westbrook, who has appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show, praised the care she was given.\n\nAppearing on Channel 5's Jeremy Vine Show, she said: \"If it wasn't for Jeremy Kyle I probably wouldn't be alive myself.\"\n\nShe added: \"They really have looked after me and you know, since I've been in rehab I've spoken to Jeremy all the time and [psychotherapist] Graham [Stanier] and the team, and went I went back on the show, reassessed and [I was] really looked after.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore told BBC Radio 5 Live she was surprised by the speed of ITV's decision to cancel the show.\n\n\"Usually these things take a review, and it's ages, but with this one the public opinion and the pressure they were under was so strong that they didn't really have another option,\" she said.\n\nITV has said it will still work with the host, who also fronts The Kyle Files.\n\n\"I don't think this is the end of this kind of television,\" Bullimore added. \"There's no getting away from the fact that whether you like it or you find it reprehensible, there is a loyal audience for this show.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One programme, former ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble said the cancellation was \"a good decision\", but that producers \"do take seriously their duty of care\".\n\nHe said: \"The producers of these programmes walk a very thin line and and they know they do. If you are always tip-toeing close to the edge as I think this show did, perhaps it is not surprising that something like this will eventually happen.\n\n\"They [ITV] have done the right thing - a speedy and effective review, and the faster these things are dealt with the better.\"\n\nAll previous episodes of The Jeremy Kyle Show have been taken down from the channel's catch-up service, ITV Hub. Episodes will not air on ITV2 either, and the show's YouTube channel has been deleted.\n\nA spokeswoman for Portsmouth coroner's office said an inquest into Mr Dymond's death would be likely to be opened within the next few days, following the result of the post-mortem investigation.\n\nThe lie detectors used on The Jeremy Kyle show are supplied by a company called UK Lie Tests, which declined to comment to the BBC.\n\nA lie detector test, or polygraph test, involves an examiner using various instruments to measure the subject's reaction to a series of questions - and determine whether or not they are giving truthful answers.\n\nAccording to the British Polygraph Association (BPA), two convoluted rubber pneumograph tubes are placed around the subject's chest and abdomen to record breathing and movement.\n\nSensors attached to the subject's fingers or hand monitor changes to skin resistance during the test, while a cardiosphygmograph traces changes to the subject's blood pressure and pulse.\n\nVarious charts are then generated, which the examiner reviews to establish the test results.\n\nThe BPA says the tests are \"the most reliable technique to test if someone is being deceptive to a specific issue\".\n\nHowever the results of lie detector tests are considered too unreliable for use in UK criminal trials.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your story at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett have broken their own policies by selling diet pills to a 17-year-old without checking for ID, the BBC has found.\n\nThe teenage actress, sent by BBC Watchdog, was able to buy diet pills in 17 out of 18 stores visited.\n\nA single branch of Boots was the only store to deny the undercover actress the sale because she didn't have ID.\n\nWhen presented with the findings all the retailers promised to take action.\n\nIn all, the teenager visited six different branches of Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett.\n\nIn both Holland & Barrett and Superdrug every store sold the actress the pills.\n\nSeveral of the Superdrug and Holland & Barrett stores attempted to sign her up to their loyalty card scheme.\n\nAnna Colton said the programme's findings were \"absolutely terrifying\"\n\nIt is not illegal to sell diet pills to young people - but Holland & Barrett, Superdrug and Boots all have policies in place which are supposed to make sure that they are not sold to anyone underage.\n\nIn addition, most of the products are clearly labelled with recommended age restrictions.\n\nShe added: \"You are better off having no recommendation than having a recommendation everyone ignores because it gives such a false sense of safety.\n\n\"I think staff should be trained that if someone comes in as they are with an energy drink or with alcohol, if someone comes in who looks underage, you ask for ID and then you say, 'I'm really sorry, no.'\"\n\nIn response to Watchdog's findings, Boots said it had a number of products and services to help customers lose weight in a \"responsible way\". It also said it had pharmacists and trained staff who were able to give advice on using diet aids safely.\n\n\"These products are regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Boots follows all the relevant guidance for their sale.\n\n\"On our website and on the product boxes it clearly states the recommended age guidance for the products in question.\n\n\"In addition to following the correct guidance as to how these products are currently sold in store, we are looking at how our colleagues communicate with customers to best meet their needs when buying these products.\"\n\nHolland & Barrett said ensuring its products were sold responsibly was of the \"upmost importance\" to it.\n\nIt said it was \"very disappointed\" that the investigation had highlighted cases where it had \"fallen short of the standards we expect in our stores, and are taking immediate actions to ensure this is addressed\".\n\n\"We are ensuring information around age restrictions is strengthened in our stores and online, and are reviewing our training to ensure all colleagues are clear on our policies relating to these products.\n\n\"Importantly, our colleagues will now be prompted to request ID for customers who look under 25 when purchasing all age-restricted weight management products, and we will decline the sale of these products to customers who cannot demonstrate they are above 18.\"\n\nSuperdrug said it wanted to reassure its customers that \"immediate action\" had been taken as a result of Watchdog's investigation.\n\n\"Our actions consist of checking that all appetite suppressant products have a till restriction. When scanned through the till, it activates a 'prompt' to flash up and remind cashiers that the product is not to be sold to those under the age of 18 years and to ask for photographic ID.\n\n\"We have also issued out specific training on age restricted diet products to all staff.\n\n\"In addition, only registered customers, who've confirmed their date of birth, can buy age-restricted products online. Furthermore, we want to help educate customers about these age restrictions and have plans to implement shelf signs in all stores that sell these diet products informing customers of our policy.\"\n\nKatie, now 21, said she was able to buy diet pills when she was 14 without getting ID'd\n\nPresenter Nikki Fox met Katie who is now 21 - she told the programme that at the age of 14 she was able to go into stores in her school uniform and buy diet pills without getting ID'd. Katie told the programme \"no-one questioned me, no one ID'd me\".\n\nStephen Powis said retailers should ensure they were not selling products to vulnerable people\n\nStephen Powis, the National Medical Director of NHS England, said: \"We know that these diet pills can cause physical problems on occasions such as abdominal pain or diarrhoea. But we're particularly concerned about potential effects on mental health.\n\n\"That there is a lot of pressure on young people today and many of them are particularly concerned by body image, about how they look and that potentially leading to an epidemic of mental health.\n\n\"We need retailers to ensure that they are not selling products to those that are vulnerable, particularly young people who are under the age of 18.\"\n\nYou can watch the full investigation on Wednesday 15 May at 20:00 BST on BBC One or on iPlayer afterwards.", "Virgin Mobile says it has restored services to customers across the UK who had been struggling to make calls, send text messages and use mobile data.\n\nVirgin Mobile said it would compensate customers for the problem which it said was due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nComplaints began coming in on Tuesday morning in London, the Midlands, the North West, Bristol and Scotland.\n\nCustomers vented their fury on Twitter, with some complaining they had been left in the dark.\n\nIn a statement Virgin Mobile said: \"We apologise for the disruption and inconvenience some of our Virgin Mobile customers have experienced today. This was due to a technical issue which we've now resolved.\n\n\"We will be compensating our customers for the loss of service and will let them know the details shortly.\"\n\nIt did not disclose the number of affected customers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dicky Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, which tracks mentions of mobile outages on social media, complaints began en masse at around 11:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nIt said most comments had been about mobile phone services, followed by mobile internet. A minority mentioned issues with their Virgin cable internet services.\n\nOne customer tweeted: \"@virginmedia why are you posting trivial polls and ads on your site, but nothing about the mass outage on mobiles? Incredibly frustrating and very poor comms.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I'm a full-time carer for my disabled mother. We're both on Virgin Mobile. You've crippled my day with this outage.\"\n\nAccording to Ofcom, the level of satisfaction with mobile providers is generally high across the UK.\n\nHowever, according to its most recent customer satisfaction survey, Virgin Mobile is the most complained about of the major telecoms companies.", "A Syrian boy who was attacked at his school in Huddersfield has told the BBC he’s worried about being recognised and attacked again.\n\nHis family came to Britain from Syria to escape the ongoing war there but after receiving death threats they’ve had to move and now say they wish they’d never come to the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One mother describes how her abusive ex-partner was granted unsupervised access to their children\n\nMore than 120 MPs have written to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nAt least four children have been killed by a parent in the past five years after a family court granted access.\n\nDozens of parents have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme their abusive ex-partners were granted unsupervised contact with their child.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a child's welfare was always the priority.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of domestic abuse, the courts are bound by law to consider potential harm to the child and this overrides any presumption of parental involvement,\" an MoJ spokesman said.\n\nWhen parents separate and cannot agree arrangements for their children, a family court judge can make a legally-binding decision on contact - including whether visits to a mother or father should be supervised.\n\nThe fundamental presumption in law is that it is in the best interests of the child to have contact with both parents.\n\nBut it has led to the courts ordering children to have contact with an alleged or known violent ex-partner - including some convicted of rape, assault and drug offences, the BBC has learned from dozens of affected parents.\n\nDue to legal restrictions the BBC cannot always view family court documents to substantiate the claims made by parents.\n\nHowever, analysis of serious case reviews for England since 2014, shows four children have been killed during access granted by the family courts.\n\nIt indicates that four further children had been sexually abused or seriously injured, or both.\n\nIn all of the cases, social services had been aware of a history of domestic abuse allegations against the partner. The youngest victim was five months old.\n\nIn one incident, a father who went on to kill both of his children was granted unsupervised contact with them in an interim order. The case review found that numerous professionals - including a social worker, a teacher and an official from court support service Cafcass - had been too scared to be left alone with him because of his aggressive behaviour.\n\nOther cases refer to a parent having what is known as a \"toxic trio\" of addiction, mental illness and a history of violence.\n\nThe number of children injured by a parent during court-ordered contact may in reality be much higher, as serious case reviews are generally conducted only in cases of serious harm or death.\n\nThey are carried out in order to find ways that local agencies can improve their safeguarding practices.\n\nThey do not investigate the family courts, so it is not possible to establish whether the courts' decisions led directly to the deaths.\n\n\"I was completely naive about the family courts,\" says Mary - not her real name.\n\nShe has spent £130,000 in legal fees to try to protect her children.\n\nHer ex-partner has been awarded regular, unsupervised overnight contact with them.\n\nShe says they have since come home with injuries - and she has taken them to A&E.\n\nMary says her ex had previously been abusive towards her - which began when she was pregnant, \"pushing, slapping, throwing me across the room\".\n\nAfter they separated, she called police when he turned up at her home uninvited and was aggressive towards her.\n\nMary says she has taken her children to hospital after they came home with injuries\n\nHe later applied to the family court for unsupervised contact with the children, which was granted.\n\nHe had numerous criminal convictions for violent and drug offences.\n\n\"I assumed they'd see that to enable a violent man to have a relationship with his children, contact needed to be supervised,\" she says, of the family courts.\n\n\"But that's not how they see it at all.\n\n\"My solicitor told me, 'Unless he's beaten you black and blue, he'll be deemed a good enough father. Don't even bother trying.'\"\n\nMary says her children now \"wake up sobbing, and I just reassure them that no-one is expecting them to stand up to their dad\".\n\nShe adds: \"Nobody is saying that a child shouldn't have a relationship with their father. It just it needs to be healthy and safe.\"\n\nThe BBC has learned that 123 MPs from seven different parties have now come together to sign a letter to Justice Secretary David Gauke calling for an independent inquiry into the family courts \"to establish the extent of the problem and if more fundamental reform is required\".\n\nThe letter continues: \"The lack of transparency in the family courts, while essential in maintaining the privacy of families and children, does not allow scrutiny and masks decisions that are made contrary to the interests of victims of domestic abuse, rape and violence - or their children\".\n\nLouise Haigh says it is \"horrifying\" that men are being granted access to their child after being convicted of a violent crime\n\nLabour's shadow policing minister, Louise Haigh MP, said it was \"horrifying that even in proven cases of sexual assault, severe domestic abuse, rape, murder in some cases, men are still being encouraged and granted access to their child\".\n\nShe added: \"If they're a known risk to mother or child, then we need to assume that contact probably isn't best for the child and grant it only in certain circumstances.\"\n\nWhen there is a court-ordered contact, a parent can be at risk of being fined or going to prison if they fail to send their child on the unsupervised visit.\n\nBarrister Charlotte Proudman, who specialises in cases involving violence against women, told the BBC she had witnessed a perception that mothers were preventing contact with fathers without good reason.\n\n\"I've heard judges say, 'Oh, it's just a little bit of domestic violence.' It's minimised rather than seeing the significance of that,\" she added.\n\nCharlotte Proudman says she has heard judges \"minimise\" domestic violence\n\nThe Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) said in a statement: \"One of our most challenging professional tasks is to assess what level of parental involvement is safe and in the child's best interests, in cases where a parent has a history of domestic abuse.\n\n\"We must continue to reduce [the risk of parents harming children] by understanding these cases better and looking wider than the court process.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK judiciary said judges were \"required to consider all the evidence put forward and to reconcile any conflicting interests at a time that they know is exceptionally stressful for all those involved.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said: \"The welfare of the child is the paramount consideration of the family courts when making decisions about their upbringing\".\n\nIt added that it would \"continue to explore\" ways to improve how the justice system deals with domestic abuse.\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Essex mum 'bedbound for six months of pregnancy'\n\nFor Hannah Dalton, pregnancy meant not being able to drink fluids for eight months without throwing up, going into hospital 27 times for intravenous drips and living off ice lollies and anti-sickness medication.\n\nHannah, 30, from Thundersley, Essex, had hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the severe pregnancy sickness the Duchess of Cambridge experienced during her three pregnancies.\n\nShe was bedridden for six months, ended up in a wheelchair and, at her worst, her body started to shut down.\n\n\"I seriously questioned was this still worth doing,\" Hannah says.\n\n\"We wanted a bigger family but was there a chance that we would lose me. I thought I was dying.\"\n\nWith support from her family, Hannah continued with her pregnancy and, in April, gave birth to a girl.\n\nThe moment she went into labour, the sickness stopped.\n\nMore than 5,000 women from across the UK have shared their experience of HG with BBC News:\n\nLast year, UK hospitals saw more than 36,000 admissions for pregnant women needing urgent care because of extreme sickness and dehydration.\n\nThe causes of HG are unknown. There is some evidence it runs in families. And if a woman had HG in a previous pregnancy, she is more likely to have it in the next.\n\nNow, scientists at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital are launching a four-year study - the world's largest - in the hope of finding some answers.\n\nBlood samples and medical histories will be taken from at least 1,000 women admitted to hospital with the most severe HG symptoms and others recruited via the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support.\n\nThe study will be looking for genetic links and hormonal changes, in particular a protein, GDF15, produced by the placenta, which affects the part of the brain controlling vomiting and nausea.\n\nConsultant obstetrician Prof Catherine Williamson says: \"The problem we have is that the treatments aren't good enough.\n\n\"Our ambition is to identify genetic causes of this condition so we can tell why women have it and identify those at risk.\n\n\"We can then develop new treatments that are much more effective so hopefully there won't be any more women with severe hyperemesis, because we can control it.\"\n\nEver since the thalidomide scandal 50 years ago, there has been concern about taking anti-sickness drugs during pregnancy.\n\nThe sedative, which was found to ease nausea and vomiting in expectant mothers, left thousands of babies with severe birth defects.\n\nBut most women with HG do end up taking some sort of medication to control the vomiting.\n\nOnly one, Xonvea, is permitted in Britain for use in pregnancy - but alternatives, such as cyclizine, prochlorperazine and ondansetron, are also regularly prescribed and considered safe by doctors who treat the condition.\n\nWomen may also be given vitamin B6 and B12 or steroids. If these don't work, women may need to be admitted to hospital for treatment including intravenous fluids.\n\nHere are the words of one woman who terminated three pregnancies because of HG. She now has a young child.\n\n\"It's your own personal hell that you can't escape from. It's devastating. It completely takes over your life, your family's life, so it would be easier either to just miscarry or die.\n\n\"The vomiting and retching was so violent and so intense, I couldn't breathe.\n\n\"I couldn't take a breath while I was retching, so I passed out and woke up on the bathroom floor and I thought, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'\n\n\"I did have some dark moments.\n\n\"I wanted this baby so badly but I felt like it was killing me and ultimately, out of pure desperation, led me to have three terminations.\n\n\"I developed PTSD. I had insomnia and nightmares when I could sleep.\n\n\"The senior consultant came round and said, 'Have you tried ginger biscuits and salty crackers?' and I was like, 'Oh my God.'\n\n\"It's like saying to somebody with a broken leg, 'Have you tried rubbing lavender oil on it?'... because if the senior consultant didn't understand, what hope did I have?\"\n\nCaitlin Dean, from Pregnancy Sickness Support, says not treating HG has serious risks.\n\n\"Increasingly evidence suggests that, while the actual nausea and vomiting is unlikely to harm the offspring, the complications of HG, such as malnutrition, dehydration and mental ill health, can cause lifelong consequences for both mother and baby,\" she says.\n\n\"There are many wonderful, compassionate doctors out there providing excellent evidence-based care for people with HG but unfortunately there are also doctors who do not recognise the condition, are reluctant to prescribe appropriate treatment or are unaware of the evidence base.\n\n\"This leads to a vast amount of unnecessary suffering, costly hospital admissions and, all too often, terminations of otherwise wanted pregnancies.\n\n\"In 2019, there is very little excuse not to provide this basic level of care for pregnant women.\"\n\nFelicity Collins, from Northamptonshire, was desperate for doctors to prescribe her stronger drugs to help her cope with HG.\n\nShe was already in hospital, and 24 hours away from terminating her twin pregnancy, when she was finally given steroids to ease the constant vomiting.\n\n\"It was such a dark time,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a decision we made because I knew without those drugs, I couldn't carry on.\n\n\"I couldn't eat or drink. Everything made me sick. It was so bad. That's how close it came.\"\n\nFor the next six months, she injected herself daily with steroids, finally giving birth to twin boys, Arthur and Harry, who are now three years old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn eight weeks of pregnancy, Laura Anderson lost one stone (6.3kg).\n\n\"I dream about eating again and drinking again,\" she says.\n\n\"This illness makes you a shadow of who you were… it's nine months of living hell.\"\n\nLaura faces about 20 more weeks of HG before she gives birth.\n\nShe says: \"I fully intend on getting to the end of this pregnancy with a baby, no matter what it does to my health.\n\n\"And when this baby girl is born and the HG has gone, I will spend the rest of my life trying to raise awareness about this awful illness.\n\n\"I'm doing it for my daughter, in case she gets it, and God forbid that she does.\"\n• None Bedridden for six months of pregnancy. Video, 00:01:34Bedridden for six months of pregnancy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Miller-Heidke (centre) wrote Zero Gravity with her husband Keir Nuttall\n\nAustralia will take part in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest for the fifth year running after making it through this year's first semi-final.\n\nSinger Kate Miller-Heidke qualified with Zero Gravity, a pop-opera combo she performed in Tel Aviv while suspended in mid-air on a bendy pole.\n\nLeather-clad punk band Hatari also went through for Iceland with their dark techno track Hate Will Prevail.\n\nBut there was no happy ending for the Finnish representative, DJ Darude.\n\nThe Sandstorm hit-maker was sent packing along with fellow countryman Sebastian Rejman and entrants from six other nations.\n\nA further 18 countries will take part in the second semi-final on Thursday.\n\nOther countries to be eliminated on Tuesday included Hungary, who failed to qualify for the first time this decade.\n\nSinger/rapper Joci Papai finished eighth when he represented his nation in 2017, but his heartfelt ballad My Father failed to find favour this time around.\n\nBelgium and Poland did not advance for the second year running, while there was disappointment again for habitual underachievers Montenegro.\n\nYet it was very much the opposite for San Marino's Serhat, who became only the second Sammarinese representative to ever make it past the semi-final stage.\n\nViewers in the UK missed some of the 54-year-old singer's celebrations when BBC Four's coverage of the event cut out shortly after his place in the final was confirmed.\n\nAn on-screen message apologised for the break in transmission.\n\nTuesday's show began with Israeli singer Netta Barzilai emerging from a giant lucky cat sculpture to perform a souped-up version of her song Toy.\n\nNetta won last year's contest with the clucking infectious dance number, earning Israel the right to host this year's edition.\n\nTransgender diva Dana International, who won Eurovision for Israel in 1998, was another local star to make a warmly received comeback.\n\nHer cover of Bruno Mars' Just the Way You Are was accompanied by \"kiss-cam\" shots showing couples of all genders expressing affection for one another in the auditorium.\n\n\"We all deserve to be loved,\" Dana International told the audience in Tel Aviv\n\nFrance, Spain and Israel's representatives also made brief appearances during Tuesday's live telecast.\n\nAll three automatically qualify for Saturday's final, along with acts from Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.\n\nThe countries making it through the first semi-final were:\n\nSerhat failed to qualify when he sang for San Marino in 2016\n\nThe countries eliminated in the first semi-final were:\n\nA fake beard and a bare-chested dancer was not enough to see Portugal progress\n\nThe fates of the semi-finalists were decided by a combination of votes from national juries and TV viewers.\n\nThe UK's hopes in Saturday's final will rest on Hartlepool-born singer Michael Rice and his power ballad Bigger Than Us.\n\nThe 21-year-old winner of talent show All Together Now was chosen as the UK's representative earlier this year on Eurovision: You Decide.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Edwards has lived with PKU since he was born\n\nA man with a rare inability to digest protein has said eating a normal diet would leave him brain damaged.\n\nMark Edwards, 35, has phenylketonuria (PKU), meaning he can only eat 6g (0.2oz) of protein per day - about one egg or two tablespoons of beans.\n\nEating more than his body could process could cause him to suffer depression, anxiety or even brain damage.\n\nA form of treatment, Kuvan, is not available on the NHS - which instead recommends a strict diet.\n\nA number of MPs are calling on drug company BioMarin to make the \"life-changing\" treatment affordable to UK patients.\n\nBioMarin said the NHS had not accepted its \"very competitive\" offer.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which advises the NHS, said it had not begun its appraisal of Kuvan to treat PKU, but has made the \"exceptional decision\" to ask a panel to look at the issue.\n\nAfter this, a formal referral will be required from the UK government's health minister to determine the process under which Kuvan will be assessed, a spokeswoman said.\n\nMr Edwards, from Llanegryn in Gwynedd, was diagnosed with PKU at birth after it showed up in the standard blood tests given to babies - the condition affects one in 10,000 people in the UK.\n\nHe spends about £4,000 a year on Kuvan tablets, which allow him to eat more protein - and said they could change the lives of people with PKU.\n\nAmino acids are the building blocks of protein and are broken down by the body to make our own proteins.\n\nBut people with PKU cannot properly digest the amino acid phenylalanine, and the levels build up in the bloodstream and the brain - leading to a number of health problems.\n\nContainers showing how much protein Mark can eat in a day\n\n\"I can't have any meat, no egg, so nothing. Just what is available on prescription, really,\" said Mr Edwards\n\nWith Kuvan, Mr Edwards is able to eat up to 15g (0.5oz) a day, which he called \"a massive difference\".\n\n\"It's been available for 10 years but BioMarin, the company which makes it, they've put a price on it which is too expensive for the NHS,\" he said.\n\nMr Edwards has met Westminster politicians to discuss how sufferers of conditions such as PKU have been \"massively failed by the system\".\n\nHe is being supported by Plaid Cymru's Westminster spokeswoman, Liz Saville-Roberts, who said any drug with the potential to improve the lives of those with PKU should be easily and freely available.\n\nThe company which makes Kuvan says the only countries not funding it in Europe are the UK and Poland\n\nKuvan reduces the levels of phenylalanine in many with PKU.\n\nBioMarin said it had put the drug forward for commissioning five times in the past 10 years with no success.\n\n\"The burden and severity of PKU as a disease in the UK is not recognised by NICE or the NHS,\" it said.\n\n\"BioMarin has made an offer to the NHS which is very competitive compared to other markets but it has not been accepted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Macdonald said he would not now be standing as a candidate for Change UK\n\nChange UK's lead candidate for the EU elections in Scotland has quit the race and is now endorsing the Lib Dems.\n\nDavid Macdonald is top of the Change UK list in Scotland, but said the party \"don't stand much of a chance\" of winning a seat in the 23 May poll.\n\nHe urged pro-Remain voters to back the Lib Dems to avoid \"splitting the vote\" and benefiting pro-Brexit parties.\n\nChange UK MP Chuka Umunna said it was \"disappointing\" that Mr Macdonald had \"let down his fellow candidates\".\n\nMr Macdonald is the second lead candidate to quit the Change UK list in Scotland, after David Russo withdrew one day into the race.\n\nBecause the deadline for registrations has passed he will still appear on the ballot paper for the party, but has written to MP Anna Soubry to announce his resignation and underline his backing for the Lib Dems.\n\nShould Change UK win a seat in the Scotland constituency, it would now pass to the next candidate on the list, Peter Griffiths.\n\nSpeaking alongside Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie outside Holyrood, Mr Macdonald - an independent councillor in East Renfrewshire - said it had been \"an honour\" to be Change UK's lead candidate in Scotland.\n\nHe said the new party was \"genuinely a force for good\", but that \"if things continue as they are, the Remain vote will split in Scotland and put at risk the representation that supporters of remaining in the EU collectively desire\".\n\nHe added that \"the numbers don't look good\" for Change UK in Scotland, and that voters should instead back the \"fundamentally similar\" pro-EU and pro-UK platform of the Lib Dems.\n\nMr Macdonald said: \"They share many of the values of Change UK and are now the most likely party in favour of both remaining in the EU and of Scotland remaining in the UK to have a chance of being elected.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Umunna said Mr Macdonald had \"let down his fellow candidates and activists\".\n\nHe said: \"We are focusing all our efforts on adding to the Remain vote in the UK and challenging the pro-Brexit Tory, Brexit and Labour parties.\n\n\"Winning voters over from the main parties and growing the Remain vote across the UK will continue to be our focus.\"", "Complaints against payday lenders have soared to a five-year high, the industry watchdog has said.\n\nThere were nearly 40,000 new complaints brought last year, up a \"startling\" 130% on the 17,000 the previous year, the Financial Ombudsman Service said.\n\nIn too many cases people have been left to struggle with debt, it said.\n\nShort-term lender industry body the Consumer Finance Association (CFA) said most of the complaints dated back a number of years.\n\nMost of the complaints were made about affordability. Some customers took out 20 to 30 loans in a short space of time, either to pay off other outstanding loans or for household bills.\n\nMany of the complaints came through claims management companies, the CFA said.\n\nA CFA spokeswoman said: \"These figures show a deeply disappointing increase, driven by a flood from claims management companies and we continue to see many a complaint that has no foundation.\n\n\"Now nearly nine in 10 of complaints to firms are generated by these companies. The complaints are often of poor quality.\"\n\nShe added that the lender has to pay the case fee regardless of who submits the complaint, and said some members had questioned the ombudsman's complaint figures.\n\nLast calendar year the highest volume of complaints were made against QuikQuid owner Casheuronet.\n\nJohn from Stockton on Tees says he has had payday loans with \"virtually every company out there\", including ones that have gone into administration.\n\n\"I am in contact with the administrators by email who tell me I am owed thousands but if I receive anything it will be next year and a small percentage of what I am owed,\" he says.\n\n\"I have also come to an agreement with one lender who has agreed to refund me £350 without involving the financial ombudsman.\n\n\"The problem with all this though is that I was paying back these debts with all the inflated interest and charges for months.\n\n\"Now these loans no longer exist will I get these payments back?\"\n\nOverall, complaints about financial services shot up to a five-year high, with more than 388,000 new complaints made in the last financial year, a 14% increase on the previous year.\n\nCaroline Wayman, chief ombudsman and chief executive of the Financial Ombudsman Service, said: \"Too often we see that the interests of consumers are not hard-wired into financial services.\n\n\"This marks a five-year high in the number of complaints that consumers have brought to us, and the behaviour we've seen from some businesses is simply not good enough.\"\n\nThe Financial Ombudsman Service added that complaints about fraud and scams increased by more than 40% in 2018-2019, with more than 12,000 received.\n\nGareth Shaw of consumer group Which? said: \"Bank transfer fraud is spiralling out of control, with people losing life-changing sums every day and then facing a gruelling battle to get their money back from the very banks that should be preventing them from falling victim in the first place.\"\n\nPayday lenders say that they have faced a flood of spurious compensation claims, driven by commission-hungry claims management companies.\n\nThe lenders are furious that if the borrower appeals to the Financial Ombudsman Service they have to pay £550 per case whatever the outcome.\n\nAnd since the collapse of Wonga, which fell into administration in August last year, the rush to complain has become even more urgent because of the fear that more firms will fail and the compensation will dry up.\n\nBut while the ombudsman agrees that the numbers of complaints are \"startling\", it has little sympathy for payday lenders which it says have left too many people struggling with debt.", "Child poverty is tightening its grip on Britain's poorest families, research suggests.\n\nAbout two-thirds of children are living in poverty-hit families in pockets of some large cities, the study for End Child Poverty Coalition estimates.\n\nMore than half of children in over 200 wards are below the poverty line, statistical analysis of official indices of poverty shows.\n\nThe coalition of poverty charities says whole areas are abandoned to poverty.\n\nThe research, carried out by Prof Donald Hirsh at the University of Loughborough, found the situation was getting worse in places where child poverty was already at the highest level.\n\nThese areas are in large cities like London, Greater Manchester and Birmingham, with the rankings changing around a little, depending on whether housing costs are taken into account.\n\nStreets like these in Bastwell, Blackburn, hide child poverty\n\nBut the ward with the highest level of child poverty in Britain is Bastwell in Blackburn. Here, 69% of children are living in poverty.\n\nA community worker in the area, Abdul Muller, said he was surprised Bastwell came top of the table for child poverty in wards.\n\nMr Muller, who runs the Healthy Living charity at the Bangor Community Centre in the area, said high poverty rates were down to low pay, zero-hours contracts and cuts to support services.\n\nThe top four hardest-hit areas, if housing costs are included, are the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney and Islington.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, the child poverty rate (before housing costs) is 40% - nearly double the UK average of 22%.\n\nCoalition chairwoman Anna Feuchtwang said: \"In many areas growing up in poverty is not the exception, it's the rule - and with more children expected to get swept up in child poverty in the coming years, with serious consequences for their life chances.\n\n\"Policymakers can no longer deny the depth of the problem or abandon entire areas to rising poverty.\n\n\"The government must respond with a credible child poverty policy.\"\n\nThe results were calculated by combining official data on poverty indicators in local areas, such as unemployment, benefit take-up and the number of lone parents, to calculate the relative child poverty rates in local authorities, constituencies and by individual electoral wards.\n\nFamilies are in relative poverty if they live on less than 60% of the middle household.\n\nThe cost of housing for each local area is factored in as well, to calculate real rates paid after housing costs are paid.\n\nThe method is used by the Office of National Statistics and the World Bank.\n\nIt shows that it was 2010 when child poverty began to rise again, after a long period in which it fell.\n\nProf Hirsch said: \"What's shocking rather than surprising is that over the previous 12 to 15 years, we had a period when it was going down.\n\n\"We are now getting close to the time when we will have lost the gains we have made - half of those gains in reductions of child poverty have already been lost.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said children growing up in working households were five times less likely to be in relative poverty, which was why it was supporting families to improve their lives through work.\n\n\"Statistics show employment is at a joint record high, wages are outstripping inflation and income inequality and absolute poverty are lower than in 2010.\n\n\"But we recognise some families need more support.\n\n\"That is why we continue to spend £95 billion a year on working-age benefits and provide free school meals to more than one million of the country's most disadvantaged children, to ensure every child has the best start in life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jon McCourt (centre) said some victims feel they are being used as a leverage tool in talks to restore devolution\n\nHistorical abuse survivors feel like they are being used as \"a blackmail tool\" in NI's political talks process, a campaigner has said.\n\nNI Secretary Karen Bradley has pushed back the prospect of taking legislation through Westminster to give compensation to abuse victims.\n\nPayments were recommended by the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry in 2017.\n\nJon McCourt, of the Survivors North West group, said some victims feel they are being used as a leverage tool in talks to restore devolution.\n\n\"Victims and survivors are seeing this as being used for leverage to drag a coalition of the unwilling around the table,\" Mr McCourt said\n\nHe added: \"In other words we are a blackmail tool for the secretary of state to use to force a government around a table at Stormont and we are not going to be used for it.\"\n\nMr McCourt said he was \"ashamed that Karen Bradley has the brass neck to call herself secretary of state.\"\n\nMrs Bradley sent a letter to victims' groups on Tuesday\n\nDavid Sterling, the head of the NI Civil Service, had asked Mrs Bradley to take control of the issue.\n\nBBC News NI has seen a letter from the secretary of state, which was sent to victims' groups on Tuesday.\n\nIn the letter, Mrs Bradley suggested putting HIA payments as an item in the Stormont talks process was the \"quickest possible way to bring this issue to a resolution\".\n\n\"Unfortunately we cannot simply take forward legislation without addressing the consultation feedback,\" Mrs Bradley said in her letter.\n\n\"Urgent consideration needs to be given to the views expressed during the consultation.\"\n\nWe are a blackmail tool for the secretary of state to use to force a government around a table at Stormont, and we are not going to be used for it.\"\n\nMr McCourt's views were shared by others representing survivors.\n\n\"It is utterly appalling that, yet again, the survivors are being used as leverage to pressure the political parties into an agreement,\" Claire McKeegan, a solicitor who represents some of the victims, told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"The reality here is that this is yet another political decision where the government will cherry pick issues which it will deal with... and yet when it comes to the survivors of institutional abuse ... the government just will not take steps.\"\n\nIt comes a day after the Executive Office published responses to a public consultation on HIA redress.\n\nThe consultation received 562 responses. However, the Executive Office said it has completed its analysis of them.\n\nMrs Bradley added that she has also written to Mr Sterling to ask him to include HIA matters in the current round of Stormont talks.\n\nHe is chairing the working group looking at the programme for government.\n\nLast week, the Head of the Civil Service David Sterling said the historical institutional abuse issue \"transcends politics\"\n\n\"The current talks are the best opportunity for these complex issues - such as the total redress payment - to be discussed by local politicians,\" she added.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said the secretary of state believes \"the quickest and best route to deliver for victims and survivors is to include this issue as a priority in the talks process\".\n\n\"This has a timeframe to make progress by the end of May,\" it added.\n\nThe HIA inquiry was set up by Stormont leaders to investigate allegations of abuse in children's residential homes run by religious, charitable and state organisations.\n\nIt was chaired by Sir Anthony Hart and its remit covered a 73-year period from the foundation of Northern Ireland in 1922 through to 1995.\n\nThe inquiry made a number of recommendations including compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.\n\nSince the inquiry ended two years ago, 30 survivors of historical institutional abuse have died.\n\nMike Nesbitt, a former victims' commissioner and Ulster Unionist Party leader, said Mrs Bradley was pushing him to \"breaking point\".\n\n\"There is not on penny in this year's budget for redress of historical institutional abuse victims,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's The Nolan Show.\n\n\"[UUP leader] Robin Swann will contact the secretary of state and 'say get on with it in Westminster', and he will contact the other four main party leaders and say, 'contact the secretary of state'.\n\n\"I have dealt in one way or another with the last 13 secretaries of state and she is the worst by a country mile.\"\n\nMrs Bradley said she will also meet the chair of the HIA inquiry, Sir Anthony Hart, in the coming days, as well as a number of victims' and survivors' groups next week.\n\nAmnesty International has described the latest development as a \"shameful betrayal of abuse victims, who have been let down time after time\".\n\nLast week, Stormont's political parties echoed calls from David Sterling and victims' groups for the secretary of state to take immediate action on HIA compensation.", "Asda could be listed on the stock market after its merger with supermarket rival Sainsbury's was blocked by the competition authorities.\n\nJudith McKenna, chief executive of Asda's owner Walmart, has told staff such a listing is being considered.\n\nBut, she told managers at an event in Leeds - where Asda is based - any listing could \"take years\".\n\nIt comes after the Competition and Markets Authority blocked its merger with rival Sainsbury's.\n\nThe CMA was concerned the tie-up would raise prices for consumers, raise prices at the supermarkets' petrol stations and lead to longer checkout queues.\n\nIt has left the giant US retailer Walmart looking at options for the supermarket chain it bought 20 years ago.\n\n\"While we are not rushing into anything, I want you to know that we are seriously considering a path to an IPO - a public listing - to strengthen your long-term success,\" Ms McKenna said.\n\nWalmart would have kept a 42% stake in the enlarged Sainbury's-Asda business if the £15bn tie-up had gone ahead.\n\nThe remarks by Ms McKenna are the first time that Walmart has spoken about the future of its UK operations since the CMA blocked the deal.\n\nManagers at the meeting were also told to prepare staff for the need for \"ongoing change\" amid proposals to make changes to contracts that increase the basic pay of staff and require more flexible working. There have been warnings that this could leave staff worse off.\n\nAsda is traditionally a value supermarket but had come under pressure from discounters Aldi and Lidl, which have rapidly expanded their market share in recent years. T\n\nWalmart, often described as the world's largest retailer, has already listed its Mexico operations and has been buying smaller companies, such as online shopping Jet.com, as well as brands such as Bonobos and Bare Necessities, to expand into new areas.\n\nThe GMB union said it had called for an urgent meeting with Walmart bosses to discuss the flotation plans.\n\nGMB national officer Gary Carter said there was \"uproar among the workforce\" over plans to change Asda employees' contracts.\n\nHe called on the supermarket to address that \"debacle\" before any stock market listing took place.\n\nMs McKenna told the 1,200 managers at the meeting: \"Walmart does not have a one-size-fits-all approach to operating its international markets, but a consistent focus on strong local businesses powered by Walmart.\"\n\nEven before the CMA formally blocked the deal, there had been reports that private equity house KKR could consider an offer for Asda and install former Asda chief executive Tony De Nunzio to run the operation.\n\nThe current Asda chief executive, Roger Burnley, also spoke to the managers at the meeting, which took place on Tuesday, and told them that there would be no change in strategy.\n\nAsda, which calls its staff \"colleagues\", intends to make £80m of price cuts during the rest of this year and trial new technology.\n\nA \"scan and go\" initiative was launched in 25 stores last week and more \"click and collect\" towers will be installed in stores.", "The government has rejected a definition of Islamophobia created by a cross-party group of MPs.\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims wanted to define it to tackle what it called a \"social evil\".\n\nBut a government spokesman said the wording needed \"further careful consideration\" and had \"not been broadly accepted\".\n\nThe secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, Harun Khan, called the decision \"truly extraordinary\".\n\nMPs will debate the definition in Parliament on Thursday. It says: \"Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.\"\n\nThe wording has the support of a number of political parties - including Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Conservatives - and several Muslim groups.\n\nBut concerns have been raised that the definition is too vague and could undermine efforts to tackle extremism.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May - seen by the Times - Martin Hewitt, who chairs the National Police Chiefs' Council, said it could cause confusion among officers and hamper the fight against terrorism.\n\nFormer Conservative chair Baroness Warsi - who became the first Muslim woman to attend cabinet, in 2010 - said the letter was \"irresponsible scaremongering\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"a non-legally binding working definition\" would not affect the work of the police and urged the government to back it.\n\nBaroness Warsi was the first Muslim woman to attend cabinet, in 2010\n\nThe APPG announced its definition in December, saying the fact Islamophobia had \"surpassed the dinner table test\" - a term used by Baroness Warsi in 2011 to describe how being Islamophobic had become socially acceptable - still needed addressing.\n\nIn its report, the group said: \"More than 20 years since the term Islamophobia entered our political and policy lexicon, and almost a decade since its 'passing the dinner table test' was raised, this is a good time to stop and survey the progress that has been made in challenging this social evil.\n\n\"It is with this intent, and to deter a further 20 years before substantive progress is made in tackling its blight on our British Muslim citizens, that the APPG on British Muslims opened its inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia.\n\n\"No amount of documentation of the evidence of discriminatory outcomes faced by Muslims... can satisfy our desire to reverse these results if we cannot begin from the point of an agreed definition.\"\n\nCritics have questioned whether the definition could lead to issues with freedom of speech.\n\nAn open letter signed by over 40 academics, writers and campaigners said it was \"unfit for purpose\", warning its \"uncritical and hasty adoption\" would \"aggravate community tensions\" and \"inhibit free speech about matters of fundamental importance\".\n\nBut the MCB's Mr Khan said the conclusion was \"deeply disingenuous\" and the government appeared to be \"wilfully misreading of the definition and aligned to a number of bad faith actors whose views - rather than those of Muslim communities - appear to be influencing this decision\".\n\n\"Being critical of Islam or any religion does not make you an Islamophobe,\" he added. \"You are only an Islamophobe if you use the language of racism targeting expressions of Muslimness.\"\n\nMs Shah, Labour's shadow minister for Women and Equalities, backs the definition and accused the government of being \"in denial\".\n\nShe said: \"The Conservative Party is in denial about Islamophobia and other forms of racism in its ranks and that denial flows from the very top.\n\n\"If Theresa May refuses to adopt the definition of Islamophobia, the message she sends to the Muslim community will be heard loud and clear.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Any hatred directed against British Muslims and others because of their faith or heritage is utterly unacceptable.\n\n\"We are conscious that the APPG's proposed definition has not been broadly accepted - unlike the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism before it was adopted by the UK government and other international organisations and governments.\n\n\"This is a matter that needs further careful consideration.\"\n• None 'No place' for Islamophobia in Tory party", "High-definition cameras \"map\" faces in a crowd and compare them to existing images\n\nLegislators in San Francisco have voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first US city to do so.\n\nThe emerging technology will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, such as the city’s transport authority, or law enforcement.\n\nAdditionally, any plans to buy any kind of new surveillance technology must now be approved by city administrators.\n\nOpponents of the measure said it will put people’s safety at risk and hinder efforts to fight crime.\n\nThose in favour of the move said the technology as it exists today is unreliable, and represented an unnecessary infringement on people’s privacy and liberty.\n\nIn particular, opponents argued the systems are error prone, particularly when dealing with women or people with darker skin.\n\n\"With this vote, San Francisco has declared that face surveillance technology is incompatible with a healthy democracy and that residents deserve a voice in decisions about high-tech surveillance,\" said Matt Cagle from the American Civil Liberties Union in Northern California.\n\n\"We applaud the city for listening to the community, and leading the way forward with this crucial legislation. Other cities should take note and set up similar safeguards to protect people's safety and civil rights.\"\n\nThe vote was passed by San Francisco’s supervisors 8-1, with two absentees. The measure is expected to be officially passed into city law after a second vote next week.\n\nThe move angered campaigners who said the tech would help fight crime\n\n\"Instead of an outright ban, we believe a moratorium would have been more appropriate,\" said Joel Engardio, vice-president of Stop Crime SF.\n\n\"We agree there are problems with facial recognition ID technology and it should not be used today. But the technology will improve and it could be a useful tool for public safety when used responsibly. We should keep the door open for that possibility.\"\n\nThe new rules will not apply to security measures at San Francisco’s airport or sea port, as they are run by federal, not local, agencies.\n\nSome campaigners unsuccessfully urged for the measures not to apply to local police. While San Francisco’s officers do not currently use facial recognition technology, a number of other police forces across the US do.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "A number of workers in Wales have paid the wrong amount of income tax after Scottish rates were applied instead.\n\nHMRC have not said how many workers were affected by a mix-up over the tax codes used to show where people live.\n\nIn April, the Welsh Rates of Income Tax were introduced and the tax code which should be used is C.\n\nHMRC said the error was down to some employers entering an S code for Scotland, which meant some paid too much tax and others not enough.\n\n\"We have been made aware of an error in the application of new income tax codes for Welsh taxpayers by some employers which has meant some taxpayers paid the incorrect amount of tax in April,\" an HMRC statement said.\n\nIt said any errors would be resolved through PAYE and the taxpayers affected did not need to take any action.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of the employer to apply the tax codes provided by HMRC and we are working closely with the employers affected and providing support as they investigate and correct the problem.\n\nBut the Welsh Assembly's finance committee chairman Llyr Gruffydd said HMRC was aware there could have been issues.\n\n\"HMRC's admission is deeply disappointing as this committee was repeatedly given assurances that mistakes like this would not happen,\" he said.\n\n\"We raised concerns about the flagging process for identifying Welsh taxpayers during our inquiries into fiscal devolution and the Welsh Government's draft budget.\n\n\"On each occasion we were told the matter was in hand and the lessons from the devolution of income tax powers to Scotland, where there were similar issues, had been soundly learned and would be put into effect.\"", "Alejandro González Iñárritu and jury member Elle Fanning took part in the opening ceremony\n\nThe Cannes Film Festival has got off to a hard-hitting start with its jury president accusing world leaders of ruling with \"rage and anger and lies\".\n\nMexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu said prevailing rhetoric around immigration - including the notion of a US-Mexico border wall - could lead to another world war.\n\n\"The problem is what is happening is ignorance,\" he added.\n\nHe spoke ahead of the opening premiere of Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die.\n\n\"I'm absolutely against what is happening all around and expect there will be something that will stop this dangerous thing that can return to us to 1939. We know how this story ends if we keep with that rhetoric,\" said the Birdman, Babel and Revenant director.\n\nReferring to climate change he said: \"The world is melting and these guys are basically ruling with rage and anger and lies and they are basically writing fiction and making people believe those are real thing and facts.\"\n\nThe 55-year-old, who was joined on the jury press conference panel by judges including Babel actor Elle Fanning and Oscar-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos, added: \"I'm not a politician but as an artist I can express through my job with a heart open what I think and be truthful to what I leave through the work that I did.\"\n\nThe Dead Don’t Die star Bill Murray and director Jim Jarmusch attended the opening screening\n\nA few hours later, the festival's opening film - Jarmusch's dark zombie comedy - provided a slightly more satirical swipe on the leading world authorities, regarding current climate change and immigration policies.\n\nThe film, starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton, concerns a zombie apocalypse brought about by \"polar fracking\" that sends the Earth off its axis.\n\n\"Maybe it'll all just go away like a bad dream,\" declares Murray.\n\n\"I doubt it,\" replies Driver, \"This is all gonna end badly\".\n\nThe topical movie comes just weeks after the Extinction Rebellion protests brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nThe Dead Don't Die, which also features Selena Gomez, Chloe Sevigny and a brilliant cameo by the undead coffee-addicted Iggy Pop, earlier saw Steve Buscemi lampoon US President Donald Trump's signature Make America Great Again cap.\n\nHis character donned a similar one bearing the slogan 'Keep America White Again'.\n\nChloe Sevigny and Selena Gomez walked up the famous red steps\n\nThere were fits of laughter across the press screening throughout, though, and none more so than when Murray appeared to briefly nod off during a meandering pre-screening speech by French comedian Edouard Baer.\n\nThe opening ceremony was simultaneously beamed into 600 cinemas across France.\n\nStars of The Dead Don't Die headed off into the lively Cannes night, but are set to appear before the press again to answer questions on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe film festival is expected to get even more political as the week goes on, thanks to new works by socially-conscious Cannes veterans Ken Loach and Terrence Malick, as well as the first ever competition-listed film by a black woman - in the form of Mati Diop's Atlantics.\n\nWhen Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at the festival next week for the premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he'll also be promoting Ice on Fire; a climate change documentary, produced and narrated by the actor.\n\nIñárritu and the eight-strong panel will watch and then discuss the merits of all 21 films in competition over the next fortnight.\n\nThe winner will be awarded the esteemed Palme d'Or prize at the festival finale and the boss declared on Tuesday that the panel would make a decision based on \"the art\" and not \"the name or fame\" of each director's offering.", "The Labour Party is unveiling plans to take the National Grid into public ownership.\n\nIt wants to create a National Energy Agency to own and maintain transmission infrastructure.\n\nLabour said its nationalisation pledge would \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution\" and tackle climate change.\n\nBut National Grid - the largest transmitter of electricity and gas in Britain - said the proposal was the \"last thing\" that was needed.\n\nThe firm, which does not operate in Northern Ireland, said the Labour plan would hinder the shift to green energy.\n\nLabour also set out plans to put solar panels on nearly two million homes.\n\nIts proposals are contained in a document entitled Bringing Energy Home, due to be presented on Thursday by leader Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow energy secretary.\n\nInstalling solar panels on social homes and those with low-incomes is part of Labour's plan to \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution in housing, transport and industry - creating over 400,000 jobs and tackling climate change\".\n\nLabour said the solar panels would reduce fuel bills, and that it would also offer interest-free loans, grants and make changes to regulations to help an additional 750,000 properties install solar panels.\n\nUnused electricity would be used by the National Grid, which would be nationalised.\n\n\"Energy networks that are owned by the public and responsive to the public interest will be able to prioritise tackling climate change, fuel poverty and security of supply over profit extraction, while working with energy unions to support energy workers through the transition,\" Labour said.\n\nBut National Grid said the plan would \"delay the huge amount of progress and investment that is already helping to make this country a leader in the move to green energy\".\n\n\"At a time when there is increased urgency to meet the challenges of climate change, the last thing that is needed is the enormous distraction, cost and complexity contained in these plans,\" it added.\n\nNational Grid chief executive John Pettigrew told the BBC's Today programme: \"We do not believe the Labour proposals are in the interests of customers.\"\n\nHe defended National Grid's record, saying it was \"in the middle of a huge transformation\" and \"investing hugely in the network\".\n\nHe said Labour had to consider what problem it was looking to solve.\n\nLabour is committed to generating at least 60% of the UK's electricity and heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.\n\nIt would take the four licensed and regulated electricity and gas transmission companies, including National Grid Electricity and National Grid Gas, back into public ownership and \"replace existing private monopolies with publicly owned and locally run institutions\".\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"Our Green Industrial Revolution will benefit working-class people with cheaper energy bills, more rewarding well-paid jobs, and new industries to revive the parts of our country that have been held back for far too long.\"\n\nHowever, Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, told the BBC that Labour's nationalisation plans could contravene international law, because of suggestions that it would not necessarily pay stock market value to buy back the assets.\n\nHe said that in every UK privatisation so far, the state paid market value, so it was not up to Labour to decide what was a fair price.\n\n\"That's not what the UK precedent is and that's not what international law says,\" he says.\n\n\"The courts have never said that's acceptable,\" he added. With the rare exception of Venezuela, \"you have to look quite hard for governments that have done that\".\n\nIf the UK did this, it might struggle to raise money in the bond market, he suggested.\n\nThe Conservative's vice-chairman for policy, Chris Philp, said Labour's \"ideological plan for the state to seize these companies would cost an eye-watering £100bn and saddle taxpayers with their debts\".\n\n\"It would leave politicians in Westminster in charge of keeping the lights on and leave customers with nowhere else to turn,\" he added.\n\n\"With no credible plan for how Labour would pay for this, more borrowing and tax hikes would be inevitable.\"", "Single parents and their children have lost challenges against the government's controversial benefits cap at the UK's highest court.\n\nThey said it was discriminatory to cap state benefits at £20,000 a year, or £23,000 for those in London.\n\nLawyers for the group of five women said the cap had left many families unable to afford basic necessities.\n\nBut Supreme Court justices rejected their appeals on Wednesday, saying it did not breach their human rights.\n\nParents can escape the cap by going out for work - a lone parent must do so for 16 hours a week.\n\nBut lawyers representing the lone parents said housing benefits had been \"drastically\" reduced by the cap.\n\nThey argued they should be exempted because of the difficulty for a single parent to find work and arrange childcare.\n\nLord Wilson, announcing the appeal had been rejected by a 5-2 majority, described the legislation which introduced the revised cap as \"tough\", and said the court had been faced with a \"difficult\" decision on the appeals.\n\nLady Hale ruled in favour of the women, saying it seemed to be \"a clear case where the weight of evidence shows that a fair balance has not been struck between the interests of the community and the interests of the children concerned and their parents\".\n\nAll seven justices agreed the cap has had a \"major impact on lone parents with children under school age\" because it \"is particularly difficult for them to go out to work\".\n\nBut Lord Wilson said \"we cannot go so far as to say that this application of the cap is manifestly without foundation\".\n\nCampaigners said the decision was very disappointing.\n\nShelter chief executive Polly Neate described it as \"a blow to the many lone parents who are struggling to keep a roof over their children's heads due to the benefit cap\".\n\nShe added: \"Some families we work with are left with 50p a week towards their rent.\n\n\"The court heard extensive evidence that the cap is not meeting the government's intended aims and is, in fact, causing severe hardship and destitution for families.\"\n\nAnd Carla Clarke, head of strategic litigation for the Child Poverty Action Group, said the benefits cap was \"increasing poverty while failing to deliver on its principal aim of work incentivisation\".\n\n\"There are very real and practical reasons, recognised by the court, as to why such a lone parent struggles to find sufficient work to escape the cap,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet, while failing to achieve its aim of getting such lone parents into work because of those wider obstacles they face, the cap, in the words of the court, 'push(es) a family well below the poverty line'.\n\n\"We continue to believe that the cap is structurally flawed and that pushing families who can't work deeper into poverty is totally unacceptable.\"", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nThe welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised by MPs and regulators in the wake of the death of a man who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nITV has cancelled the daytime programme following the death of Steve Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nMr Kyle told the Sun he was \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nIn a statement he said: \"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "The day in the Commons begins with questions to the Department for Exiting the European Union.\n\nStephen Barclay and his ministers will be at the dispatch box, responding to backbench MPs.\n\nOne minister took to Twitter to show he was ready...\n\nAfter that, Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom will outline what's coming up in Parliament in the forthcoming weeks.\n\nThere are two debates on subjects proposed by individual MPs and given the nod by the Backbench Business Committee.\n\nOne is on the definition of Islamophobia, and the other on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.", "Anglers claims the 4x4 vehicles were driven \"back and forth\" through bird nests\n\nA group of people damaged wildlife and disturbed protected species after driving 4x4 vehicles through a river, it has been claimed.\n\nDavid Lewis said he called Natural Resources Wales (NRW) when he saw the vehicles enter the River Usk in Monmouthshire, on Sunday.\n\nLandowner Bev Baker said he was not present at the event and will prevent it from happening in the future.\n\nNRW said its officers were not required to attend but is investigating.\n\nAngling journalist Mr Lewis often fishes on the stretch of the river, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC).\n\nThe landowner said he was \"gutted\" to hear about what had happened\n\nHe said sandpiper birds return to the area every May to nest on a small beach.\n\n\"Where are they going to nest now? The vehicles were driving back and forth over their nest site,\" he said.\n\nMr Lewis said anglers are also concerned because the shad - a protected species of fish - spawns in the river at this time of year.\n\nThe BBC has learned the group were taking part in a regular, marshalled event in woodland running alongside the river, but had no permission to enter the water.\n\n\"I was gutted to hear this, we have warned the club that this can't go on and we won't let this happen again,\" said landowner Mr Baker.\n\nMr Lewis said he reported the incident to NRW but was told no officers were available to attend.\n\nResponding to Mr Lewis' claims, NRW said it is investigating the incident, adding it did not require \"immediate attendance\" because it did not believe any fish were killed and there was no pollution.\n\nGwent Police was informed of the incident.", "Detectives searching for the body of Emma Faulds have said the movements of two black cars are central to their investigation.\n\nThey have appealed for mobile phone and dashcam video of a black Mercedes and a black Jaguar car.\n\nThe vehicles are known to have been on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road - the Mercedes on Monday 29 April and the Jaguar on Tuesday 30 April.\n\nA man has been charged with Ms Faulds' murder.\n\nRoss Willox, 39, made no plea at Ayr Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody.\n\nWhat Emma's family is going through is unimaginable and our priority is to find her\n\nMs Faulds, who was 39 and from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton in Ayrshire on Sunday 28 April.\n\nPolice have said their operation includes specialist search advisors and forensic officers.\n\nThe Police Scotland force helicopter is also being used to assist with mapping the area.\n\nMs Faulds was last seen in Monkton on 28 April\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Fergus, who is leading the inquiry, said: \"What Emma's family is going through is unimaginable and our priority is to find her.\n\n\"I am thankful to members of the public who have been in touch and have provided us with valuable information which has led us to explore this area.\n\n\"I believe the A714 route is key to helping us find Emma and I am appealing again to those who use this route regularly, please take time to think back and consider if you saw a Mercedes or Jaguar car on this road or parked up somewhere, or even off road.\n\n\"If you have dash cam footage, please take the time to go through and check it.\"\n\nHe added: \"You may not realise it but you could have captured footage of the vehicles in these locations which could provide us with vital information and assist us in finding Emma.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Livett described how he was rescued after coming face to face with one of the attackers\n\nThe first person stabbed in the London Bridge attack has described how he came \"nose to nose\" with Khuram Butt, who shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" in his face before stabbing him in the back.\n\nRichard Livett, who had been out watching football, first thought he had witnessed an accident when he saw a van crash into railings on June 3, 2017.\n\nHe told an inquest he went to check on the occupants.\n\nBut in a \"split second\", his attacker's face was \"an inch or so off\", he said.\n\n\"I felt what I thought initially was a punch in the back, which turned out to be him flailing his arm around the back of me and stabbing me,\" Mr Livett told the hearing at London's Old Bailey.\n\nHe said that after looking at photographs, he could identify the man as Khuram Butt, one of the three attackers.\n\nMr Livett said after he was attacked, he slumped on the ground for a few seconds before deciding to get up and move away.\n\n\"It was chaos all around. I was aware of screaming and shouting and people around me,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it was a personal mission to get help as quickly as I possibly could. I realised it was quite a serious blow I had taken.\"\n\nHe went on to describe how he felt weak before he collapsed and banged on the locked door of the nearby Globe Tavern.\n\nSome people, including a soldier and an off-duty doctor, came to his aid before he was helped back towards the bridge to receive medical attention, chief coroner Mark Lucraft QC was told.\n\nAnother witness, Jack Baxter, told how he saw French-born waiter Alexandre Pigeard, 26, running and holding his neck near Borough Market's Boro Bistro, where he worked.\n\n\"He had somebody else running to his right,\" he said.\n\n\"They were both running, looking at each other almost in shock at what happened and screaming to each other like 'what's going on?'\"\n\nFrench-born waiter Mr Pigeard, left, and chef Mr Belanger, also from France, were both killed in the attack\n\nHe told the Old Bailey that he then saw a man, now identified as 36-year-old chef Sebastien Belanger, who was cornered by three knifeman in an archway before being stabbed.\n\nAsked how the attackers were behaving, he said that they looked to be acting as a team and appeared to have been trained.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of eight victims has also been hearing from Rasak Kalenikanse, the doorman at the Barrowboy and Banker pub next to where the van crashed.\n\nMr Kalenikanse broke down in tears as he described seeing the three attackers standing with knives, while dead and injured people lay around them.\n\nHe said he heard one of them say: \"We are doing these things in the cause of Allah, you unbelievers.\"\n\nMuch of the inquest today has focused on witnesses' desperate attempts to save those who were wounded.\n\nThis afternoon Philippe Pigeard listened as a waiter described the moment he found his son, Alexandre Pigeard, mortally wounded on a walkway in the Borough Market area.\n\nDervish Gashi, a waiter at the nearby Cafe Brood, became upset when an image was shown to the court of the bloodied path where he found Mr Pigeard.\n\nHe wiped a shaky hand across his forehead as he described frantically searching for a pulse.\n\nDuring some of his evidence, Mr Pigeard's father closed his eyes with a pained expression on his face.\n\nAs Mr Gashi stepped out of the witness box, the bereaved father jumped out of his seat and approached him.\n\nHe whispered something in his ear and extended his hand out. They shook hands before enveloping in a spontaneous embrace.\n\nThe gesture of goodwill and solidarity was a brief moment of respite from the graphic narratives that have dominated this inquest.\n\nThe inquest also heard how three members of the public spent more than half an hour trying to save Mr Belanger after he was stabbed.\n\nCraig Smith and his girlfriend, Emma Thompson, were joined by Lisa Deacon, who told how she had been given first aid training a few weeks before the attack.\n\nMr Smith said the chef was initially conscious but became unresponsive as he tried to stop him from bleeding.\n\nThey were later joined by two police officers who helped them give CPR to Mr Belanger while also keeping watch in case the attackers returned.\n\nAfter 22:45 BST they brought Mr Belanger out to paramedics in Borough High Street.", "A school believed to be the first in the world predominantly for transgender children and their siblings opened in Chile last year.\n\nIt is named after the Mexican transgender politician Amaranta Gómez Regalado, and caters for children aged between 6 and 17.\n\nMany of the students dropped out of their previous schools once they began to transition.\n\nThey learn traditional subjects like maths, science, history, English and art and take part in state exams.", "Police are investigating the apparent suicide of a teenage Instagram user in Malaysia\n\nInstagram executives have said they are \"heartbroken\" over the reported suicide of a teenager in Malaysia who had posted a poll to its app.\n\nThe 16-year-old is thought to have killed herself hours after asking other users whether she should die.\n\nBut the technology company's leaders said it was too soon to say if they would take any action against account holders who took part in the vote.\n\nThe Instagram chiefs were questioned about the matter in Westminster.\n\nThey were appearing as part of an inquiry by the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee into immersive and addictive technologies.\n\nReports indicate the unnamed teenager killed herself on Monday, in the eastern state of Sarawak.\n\nThe local police have said that she had run a poll on the photo-centric platform asking: \"Really important, help me choose D/L.\" The letters D and L are said to have represented \"die\" and \"live\" respectively.\n\nThis took advantage of a feature introduced in 2017 that allows users to pose a question via a \"sticker\" placed over one of their photos, with viewers asked to tap on one of two possible responses. The app then tallies the votes.\n\nAt one point, more than two-thirds of respondents had been in favour of the 16-year-old dying, said district police chief Aidil Bolhassan.\n\n\"The news is certainly very shocking and deeply saddening,\" Vishal Shah, head of product at Instagram, told MPs.\n\n\"There are cases... where our responsibility around keeping our community safe and supportive is tested and we are constantly looking at our policies.\n\n\"We are deeply looking at whether the products, on balance, are matching the expectations that we created them with.\n\n\"And if, in cases like the polling sticker, we are finding more evidence where it is not matching the expectations... we are looking to see whether we need to make some of those policy changes.\"\n\nThe two Instagram executives are normally based in Instagram's California offices\n\nHis colleague Karina Newton, Instagram's head of public policy, told the MPs the poll would have violated the company's guidelines.\n\nThe platform has measures in place to detect \"self-harm thoughts\" and seeks to remove certain posts while offering support where appropriate.\n\nFor example, if a user searches for the word \"suicide\", a pop-up appears offering to put them in touch with organisations that can help.\n\nBut Mr Shah said that the way people expressed mental-health issues was constantly evolving, posing a challenge.\n\nDamian Green, who chairs the committee, asked the two if the Facebook-owned service could adapt some of the tools it had developed to target advertising to proactively identify people at risk of self-harm and reach out to them.\n\nInstagram already features a pop-up that appears if a user searches for \"suicide\"\n\n\"Would it not be possible, where there are cases of people known to have been engaged in harmful content and [who] may have been at risk, that analysis could be done to see what other users share similar characteristics?\" the MP asked.\n\nMs Newton replied that there were privacy issues to consider but that the company was seeking to do more to address the problem.\n\nMr Green also asked if Instagram might consider suspending or cancelling the accounts of those who had encouraged the girl to take her life.\n\nBut the executives declined to speculate on what steps would be taken.\n\n\"I hope you can understand that it is just so soon. Our team is looking into what the content violations are,\" said Ms Newton.\n\nUnder Malaysian law, anyone found guilty of encouraging or assisting the suicide of a minor can be sentenced to death or up to 20 years in jail.\n\nIt follows the earlier case of Molly Russell, a 14-year-old British girl who killed herself, in 2017, after viewing distressing material about depression and suicide that had been posted to Instagram.\n\nThe social network vowed to remove all graphic images of self-harm from its platform after her father accused the app of having \"helped kill\" his child.\n\nIf you've been affected by self-harm, eating disorders or emotional distress, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line.", "Stan Lee (left) became close to Mr Morgan (right) after his wife's death\n\nThe former manager of comic book co-creator Stan Lee has been charged with elder abuse against the late writer.\n\nKeya Morgan is facing five counts of abuse against Lee - including false imprisonment, fraud and forgery - all stemming from an incident last summer.\n\nThe Marvel superhero visionary died in November last year aged 95.\n\nA spokesperson for Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed an arrest warrant for Mr Morgan - who is yet to comment - had been issued.\n\nLee, who first helped dream up The Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in 1961 and went on to co-create titles including Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, endured faltering eyesight and memory loss towards the end of his life.\n\nHis final few months were marred by conflicting claims over who was running his affairs.\n\nNew York memorabilia dealer Mr Morgan, 42, became close to Lee after the death of his wife, Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95.\n\nStan Lee with his wife Joan, who died in 2017, also aged 95\n\nThe charges follow previous filings against Mr Morgan in May and June last year, including falsely reporting an emergency and falsely reporting a crime, along with a probation violation.\n\nThis culminated in a judge granting a restraining order brought by Lee's family, after Mr Morgan was accused of moving the magnate out of his home at midnight to isolate him from his caregivers.\n\nSpeaking to Variety at the time, Mr Morgan denied the accusations.\n\nThe Marvel Avengers film franchise features many of Lee's comic book co-creations\n\nA previous attempt to obtain a restraining order had been rejected after the attorney pursuing the order, Tom Lallas, was accused of acting without Lee's consent.\n\nThe superhero creations Lee helped to inspire have since formed the foundation of Marvel's record-breaking cinematic universe.\n\nThe most recent release, Avengers: Endgame, broke box office world records and became the fastest film ever to break the $1 billion barrier, doing so in just five days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The young have higher life satisfaction than those in their 40s\n\nWhat you spend rather than what you earn helps to determine how satisfied you are with life, a new study says.\n\nResearch from the Office for National Statistics found spending on hotels, restaurants and household furnishings was associated with life satisfaction.\n\nUnsurprisingly, spending on insurance and mobile phones was not.\n\nBut the ONS said that overall spending and income mattered less than personal circumstances when measuring life satisfaction.\n\nGood health, marital status and economic activity had the strongest associations with how positively life satisfaction is rated.\n\nIts analysis found that age also mattered: the young have higher life satisfaction than those in their 40s but life satisfaction rises again in later years, before falling again for those in their 80s.\n\nLiving circumstances were also important. Those who own their homes or have mortgages rate their life satisfaction more highly than those in private and social rented housing. Households with dependent children were also more likely to be satisfied than those without, the ONS found.\n\nBut while spending is more important than income, households with an income of between £24,000 and £44,000 would feel more satisfied if their income increased, the ONS found.\n\nThe ONS, which is looking beyond the official GDP gauge to try to form a broader picture of the economy, said: \"There is no evidence of a statistically significant association between household disposable income and life satisfaction overall after accounting for other characteristics [such as age, marriage and employment status]\".\n\n\"You are more likely to report higher life satisfaction if you have higher household spending and spending appears to matter more than household income to people's life satisfaction,\" the ONS said.\n\nBeing retired, among other factors, also had a positive impact on life satisfaction.\n\nWhereas being unemployed or economically inactive due to sickness or disability had a significant negative impact, the ONS said.\n\nHealth had a larger effect on reported life satisfaction than any other other characteristic or circumstance in the analysis.\n\nThe odds of reporting higher life satisfaction are three times greater for someone reporting very good health than for someone reporting fair health, the ONS said.\n\nThe odds of reporting higher life satisfaction are 5.7 times lower for someone reporting very bad health than for someone reporting fair health.\n\nHealth was also important the last time the ONS looked at this subject in 2013. The impact of someone's marital status also appears to matter more for people's life satisfaction than it did six years ago.\n\nThe ONS' findings are based on two separate surveys; its annual population survey and a separate survey on the effects of taxes and benefits.\n• None Does GDP tell the whole economic story?\n• None Getting creative really does boost mood", "The car - seen here in a police-supplied photo - is likely worth more than €2m (£1.7m)\n\nAn opportunistic car \"collector\" used a test drive to make off with a Ferrari worth €2m (£1.7m; $2.2m).\n\nThe suspect had expressed interest in buying a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO, police in the German city of Düsseldorf say.\n\nHe turned up by taxi to the dealership and two hours later, on a test drive, it was time to swap drivers.\n\nBut when the seller stepped out of the car, the would-be buyer quickly hit the accelerator and vanished. The car was later found in a garage.\n\nPolice say the \"historic vehicle\" with 43,000km (27,000 miles) on the clock should be valued at more than €2m.\n\nA listing for the car on the dealer's website says it once belonged to former Northern Ireland Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine – who raced for Ferrari between 1996 and 1999.\n\nSimilar vehicles are frequently listed with prices around £1.5–2m, or above $3m in the US. They are often sold through specialist auctions at the likes of Sotheby's.\n\nLuckily for investigators, the distinctive car - in bright Italian \"Rosso Corsa\" red - attracted so much attention that it was quickly found on Tuesday evening after police appealed for witnesses.\n\nIt was discovered hidden in a garage in the town of Grevenbroich, not far from Düsseldorf city centre.\n\nThe suspect, however, remains at large. Police have released a photograph of the man inspecting the Ferrari before the theft.\n\nPolice are seeking this man in connection with the speedy theft\n\nThe managing director of the dealership told Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper the man had exchanged calls and emails over the course of a number of weeks.\n\nBernhard Kerklo told the newspaper the car could never be sold on the market as it was \"too flashy\".\n\nInsiders - the only real buyers for such a rare collector's item - would instantly know it was the stolen vehicle, he said, as all the models of this type ever sold are well-known.\n\nOnly 272 of the Ferrari 288 GTO were ever built.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman who claims she was raped by ex-JLS star Oritse Williams has denied going to his hotel room and asking him to have sex.\n\nThe singer, 32, denies raping the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016.\n\nGiving evidence, the victim said she had \"bits and pieces\" memory of the night after drinking.\n\nThe former boy band member is standing trial alongside his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, 32.\n\nNagadhana, of Hounslow, west London, denies charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nProsecutors allege Williams, of Croydon, south London, \"jumped on the woman\" when she went to look for her phone.\n\nAt Wolverhampton Crown Court, Mark Cotter QC, representing Williams, asked the woman whether she could order her memories from the night.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: \"It's not impossible, I could give it a good guess. The memories I do have, I know took place.\"\n\nShe said she remembered kissing a female friend in the nightclub and her friend \"grinding\" on Williams' lap, but had no memory of sitting on his lap herself before they travelled in a taxi to his hotel.\n\nThe complainant told jurors she returned to the singer's room to find her phone and not because she wanted to have sex with him.\n\nShe also rejected claims from Mr Cotter that it was a consensual encounter that ended when he was \"unable to perform\" sexually.\n\nThe court heard her friend asked somebody to get help, leading to police attending the hotel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Jeremy Kyle Show has been suspended after a guest was found dead following the recording of an episode.\n\nThe news has opened up a debate around the most popular show on ITV's daytime schedule.\n\nBelow is a glimpse of what it's like to work on the programme from a former employee, who wants to remain anonymous:\n\nI have a confession to make. I worked on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nI was what the TV industry calls a runner - someone who, funnily enough, runs about the place fetching food for crew members, making tea and coffee and looking after guests coming onto the programme.\n\nI did it for a month about three years ago and had also been working on other programmes before I came to Kyle.\n\n\"Studio days\", when the live audience are there and the programme is recorded, were really long. There was no leaving the building unless it was to get the director a katsu curry, or to calm down a guest by taking them outside for a cig.\n\nI saw things that you would never imagine happening on any other TV programme - guests running around the place uncontrollably, screaming and swearing at production crew. Guests and producers would argue and you can guarantee a guest would tell you \"where to go\".\n\nTelevision runners are rarely seen without a headset (file picture)\n\nRunners were given a headset and clipboard that opened up - a useful place to store a pack of 20 cigarettes - and a lighter for guests who wanted a smoke before and after recordings.\n\nThe cigarettes were provided by ITV, because guests can't bring them in the studio. Guests were put up in a hotel close to the studio, sometimes with access to a mini bar so they could get wasted the night before.\n\nA friend who also worked on the show told me guests from the programme were banned from certain hotels because rooms were being trashed.\n\nRunners now have to ferry people to and from a hotel miles away from the studio in taxis.\n\nThe clothes you see the guests wear are sometimes not their own. The show might give them a basic jeans and T-shirt combo or sometimes a more stereotypical tracksuit and hoodie look - and those have to be given back afterwards.\n\nGuests had separate hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and green rooms - and their assigned runner on studio day would walk them around via selected coloured corridors to avoid contact.\n\nRunners would warn colleagues through the headset that they were taking their guest through the yellow corridor to make-up, for example. If you had the guest on the opposing side, you knew to use the blue corridor to avoid any conflict - producers wanted any arguments saved for the actual programme.\n\nProducers and researchers would be talking to guests for hours before the show began, passing information across. I heard them saying things like, \"You won't believe what I just heard your fella say to me just now\".\n\nOn one occasion I was in the dressing room and overheard a producer tell a guest that their girlfriend had called them a \"slag\". This was normal - you didn't even question it.\n\nJust before going on-air, the producer or researcher stood with guests just inches away from where they would meet Jezza for the first (and probably last) time, and say one final remark.\n\nI once heard a producer tell a guest: \"We don't want you to be violent - but you do whatever you need to do out there.\"\n\nSometimes, if guests don't like the way Jeremy has treated them or the show hasn't gone their way, they could get aggressive and even violent towards production staff.\n\nProducers suddenly changed their tune if that happened.\n\nJeremy once called a guest I was looking after a liar because he failed a lie-detector test.\n\nThe guest stormed off stage, pushed me over and the producer ran after them, screaming at them to come back.\n\nI remember them saying something along the lines of… \"You can't go. Have you forgotten what she said about you? Get back in there and tell her what you think!\"\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat contacted ITV about the claims made in this article by the former employee. A spokesman says it does \"not recognise this characterisation\" of The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nIn a more general statement to the BBC, ITV said The Jeremy Kyle Show \"has significant and detailed duty of care processes in place for contributors pre, during and post show\".\n\nITV says its \"guest welfare team\" - made up of a consultant psychotherapist and three mental health nurses - looks after people coming onto the show.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Glodi Wabelua, left, Michael Karemera, centre, and Dean Alford were sentenced at Inner London Crown Court\n\nThree county lines drug dealers who used vulnerable teenagers as runners in a coastal city have been jailed in a \"landmark case\".\n\nGlodi Wabelua, Dean Alford and Michael Karemera, all 25, recruited six youths to traffic crack cocaine and heroin to Portsmouth in 2013 and 2014.\n\nThe victims were used to carry drugs to Hampshire and money back to London.\n\nIt is believed the three are the first to be charged under the Modern Slavery Act in relation to county lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInner London Crown Court was told the victims - three girls and three boys - would sometimes be forced to stash drug packages in their body cavities and would usually be housed in the homes of addicts, often with needles and drug paraphernalia lying around.\n\nThey had to ask permission to use the proceeds from selling drugs for buying food, and were not allowed to return to London until all the drugs were sold.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said that when one victim tried to leave the gang lifestyle, he was stripped naked by associates of Karemera and had a gun placed in his mouth.\n\nPolice said a gun was used when one of the victims tried to leave\n\nJudge Usha Karu said: \"One of the main reasons [the victims] were chosen was because of their youth, many were arrested for possession with intent to supply and thus they too became embroiled in the justice system.\n\n\"The level of psychological harm they may have suffered is hard to gauge.\n\n\"For children who are vulnerable it is quick and easy money - the fact that they consented is plainly no defence.\"\n\nThe Met called it a \"landmark case\" as the three were convicted under modern slavery legislation.\n\nWabelua, of Tottenham, was convicted of one count of trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act and jailed for three-and-a-half years\n\nAlford, of Canterbury, pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking and was jailed for four years.\n\nKaremera, of Lewisham, also pleaded guilty to one like charge and was jailed for five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are being prescribed thyroid drugs unnecessarily, according to international researchers.\n\nThey advise against lifelong hormone treatment for mild underactive thyroid problems (hypothyroidism), saying there is not enough proof it helps.\n\nThe daily tablets do not appear to ease symptoms such as tiredness, low mood and weight gain, they claim in the BMJ.\n\nExperts stressed that patients should not stop taking their medication.\n\nIf they have questions, they should discuss them with their GP at their next routine medication review.\n\nHypothyroidism affects about one in 20 people but is more common in older age and among women.\n\nThe thyroid is a gland in the neck that makes hormones to help control energy levels and growth.\n\nPatients with hypothyroidism are often prescribed lifelong daily pills - levothyroxine (T4) or a more expensive drug, liothyronine (T3) - to replace the missing thyroid hormone.\n\nMore than 32 million prescriptions for levothyroxine were issued in England in 2018, NHS figures show.\n\nThe advice in the BMJ aims to give guidance based on new and best evidence.\n\nThe researchers looked at data from 21 trials, involving more than 2,000 patients (many over the age of 65) to reach their conclusions.\n\nThey say almost all adults with mild or \"subclinical\" hypothyroidism will not benefit from hormone treatment.\n\nTaking a pill and attending lifelong check-ups is burdensome and there is \"uncertainty\" over potential harms, they add.\n\nCurrent UK guidelines acknowledge that many patients will not need treatment but add that for some trying daily pills may be worthwhile.\n\nDr Mark Vanderpump, from the Society for Endocrinology, said: \"It can be reasonable to try the tablets for a few months and see how the patient feels.\n\n\"You do not have to commit someone to lifelong treatment.\"\n\nProf Simon Pearce, from Newcastle University, said: \"Thyroid disease is being overtreated currently but it's premature to make a recommendation not to treat young people on the basis of the available evidence. Some will feel better on treatment.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: \"Thyroid hormones are powerful drugs and GPs will only ever prescribe them if we think they are of genuine benefit to the person sitting in front of us, particularly as it usually means taking the tablets and being monitored in the long term.\n\n\"If evidence shows that they are not going to be of benefit to our patients, it is important that we know this and that it is reflected in the clinical guidelines that inform our decision-making.\n\n\"The authors make a powerful case based on emerging evidence and it is important that this new research is taken on board as clinical guidelines are updated and developed, in the best interests of our patients.\"\n• None Do you have an underactive thyroid?\n• None Thyroid drug to stay on the NHS\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former footballer has spoken about how being abused by youth coach Bob Higgins may have cost him his career.\n\nJamie Webb, who has waived his right to anonymity to speak to the BBC, was abused by Higgins when he was at Southampton FC.\n\nHiggins, 66, was found guilty of 45 counts of indent assault earlier at Bournemouth Crown Court, including one against Mr Webb.", "A top Chinese diplomat has warned that there could be \"substantial\" repercussions for her country's investment in the UK, if Huawei were to be banned from Britain's 5G network.\n\nChen Wen also told the BBC that Beijing had already \"witnessed some conscious moves\" in that direction.\n\nLast week, the US put Huawei on a list that curbs the ability of US firms to trade with it.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nHuawei is considered a world-leading provider of next-generation 5G technology, which will provide superfast mobile internet connections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One programme, Ms Chen, who is the Chinese chargé d'affaires in London, said the UK economy would be damaged by the message any ban on Huawei sent out to international and Chinese companies.\n\n\"The message is not going to be very positive,\" she said.\n\n\"Is UK still open? Is UK still extending a welcoming arm to other Chinese investors?\"\n\nWhen asked how large the repercussions would be, the embassy official said: \"It's hard to predict at the moment, but I think it's going to be quite substantial.\"\n\nMs Chen insisted that her government would never force a Chinese firm operating abroad to provide information to its intelligence agencies.\n\nShe went on to claim that there was a bit of \"hysteria\" in the United States about the rise of Chinese influence and the UK should make decisions based on its own national interest.\n\nShe called Huawei's investment in the UK \"a vote of confidence in the UK economy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Cambridge-based chip designer ARM told its staff they must halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nOn the same day, EE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei models.\n\nIt followed a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nActor Geoffrey Rush has been awarded the largest ever defamation payout to a single person in Australia.\n\nThe Oscar-winner was last month awarded A$2.9m (£1.57m; US$1.99m) after winning the case against Nationwide News, which publishes Australia's Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe Sydney newspaper had published stories accusing him of behaving inappropriately towards former co-star Eryn Jean Norvill.\n\nJudge Michael Wigney found that Ms Norvill was \"prone to exaggeration\".\n\nMr Rush has sought an injunction to prevent the Telegraph re-publishing accusations at the heart of the case.\n\nNationwide News has appealed against an initial ruling in the case.\n\nThe accusations detailed in the Telegraph article \"King Leer\" date back to a 2015 theatre production of King Lear in which Mr Rush acted alongside Ms Norvill.\n\nMr Rush was awarded $850,000 in general and aggravated damages plus more than $1m for past economic loss, $919,678 in future economic loss and $42,000 in interest, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.\n\nHe was originally seeking more than $25m in damages.\n\nThe judge called the reporting a \"recklessly irresponsible piece of sensationalist journalism of ... the very worst kind\", The Sydney Morning Herald reports.\n\nMr Rush's barrister, Sue Chrysanthou, said the Telegraph had shown a \"complete lack of impartiality and lack of commercial sense\".\n\nTom Blackburn, barrister for the newspaper, said Mr Rush was \"trying to shut down any criticism of the judgment\" and that the injunction on re-publishing allegations could have a chilling effect on coverage of the #MeToo movement.\n\nActress Yael Stone also accused Mr Rush of behaving inappropriately towards her, an allegation he denies.\n\nThe Telegraph had pushed to have Ms Stone's allegations admitted as evidence, however the judge blocked the move on the grounds it could have led to prejudice against Mr Rush.\n\nActress Rebel Wilson was awarded a A$4.7m payout last year, but that sum was reduced to $600,000 on appeal.\n\nShe sued magazine publisher Bauer Media over articles that she said had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar, but an appeals court later found that \"there was no basis in the evidence for making any award of damages for economic loss.\"", "Unless something extremely strange happens in the next couple of days, it is now, really, nearly over.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have told me they expect Theresa May to announce her departure from Downing Street on Friday.\n\nA senior minister said: \"She's going to go - if it's to be done, it's best to be done quickly.\"\n\nAnother said it would be \"unforgivable\" for her to try to stay on now.\n\nOne of those who has been most loyal to her said: \"It might be tomorrow or Saturday, but it can't be past Sunday.\"\n\nMultiple sources have said they expect the prime minister to give the timetable for her successor to be chosen on Friday, with 10 June likely to be the start of the official leadership contest.\n\nThat would be after the visit from President Trump and the Peterborough by-election the previous week.\n\nMost ministers I've talked to today say they hope the campaign for the next prime minister can be compressed, so it's finished by the end of July but there is not yet much clarity about that.\n\nWhy now though? It's not as if Theresa May's been having an easy time of it for months.\n\nYou guessed it, it's Brexit, and what's accelerated her departure was trying - again - to put her Brexit plans to Parliament.\n\nIt's only two days since she outlined the details of her planned offer. It made things worse in her own party, and had nothing like the impact on the Labour Party that Number 10 had hoped for.\n\nBut critically, as one member of her cabinet said, \"it crossed a line for them\".\n\nSo her party won't accept the plan and now her cabinet won't either, there is almost zero chance of it ever making it to Parliament.\n\nAnd with no hope for the deal she stayed on to try to pass, there is almost no hope for her.\n\nDowning Street was still tight-lipped on Thursday night, although senior figures have made it clear they \"get the mood\" of the party, and are no longer trying to look for a way out.\n\nTheresa May, meanwhile, was understood to be at home in her constituency with her husband - the only two people in the country who know exactly what will happen next.\n\nOne of Theresa May's cabinet colleagues was adamant to me earlier that instead she \"will stay and fight on - there's no way she'll be taken out by the men in grey suits\".\n\nBut she is already scheduled to meet Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers in the morning, who is thought to be planning to give her until Monday to name a date.\n\nIt is possible that an early statement outlining her plans to leave office, could come before that.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\n\"I was told I didn't look like a gymnast. I was told I looked like I'd swallowed an elephant, or looked like a pig.\"\n\nAfter a video of American gymnast Katelyn Ohashi performing a 'perfect 10' routine went viral in January, many on social media focused on her \"infectious passion\" and the fact she looked \"so fun\".\n\nBut the joyfulness of the performance told nothing of the difficult journey she had been on.\n\nOhashi was tipped for global success when she beat compatriot Simone Biles - now a four-time Olympic champion - in the 2013 American Cup.\n\nBut a back injury ended her elite career - and when she returned to the gym after taking a break, she began to struggle with body image.\n\n\"I was trying to work through the pain and crying literally every turn I took,\" said the 22-year-old. \"A coach was upset I had put on weight - he said it was why it was hurting.\n\n\"As gymnasts, our bodies are constantly being seen in these minimal clothing leotards. I felt so uncomfortable looking in the mirror.\n\n\"I felt uncomfortable walking back into the gym, like there were eyes just targeted at me. I hated taking pictures. I hated everything about myself.\n\n\"Even being home was hard. My mom's super skinny and super healthy and she'd be like, 'let's go swimming' and I'd be like, 'I'm not getting in a swimsuit in front of you'.\"\n• None Why eating disorders are more common in sport - Don't Tell Me The Score podcast\n\nBody image is described by the Mental Health Foundation as \"a term that can be used to describe how we think and feel about our bodies\".\n\nAnd a recent survey of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies.\n\nOhashi, who started gymnastics at the age of three, says comments from others made her feel self-conscious as a teenager.\n\n\"You start normalising things because that's what you know and you grow up surrounded by people that are going through the same thing as you, so it becomes what you expect almost,\" she said.\n\n\"But when you look back on it, I do think it's a form of abuse. It was common, especially in the elite world.\"\n\nLooking back, Ohashi describes her 16-year-old self as \"abnormally skinny\".\n\n\"Me and my friends would create sick jokes, not jokes but games like we wouldn't eat because we didn't understand what we were doing to our bodies and how dangerous that is,\" she added.\n\nGymnastics coaches run a higher risk of provoking body-image issues in their athletes because of the focus placed on appearance in the sport, according to Dr Jill Owens, a chartered sport and exercise psychologist.\n\n\"It can be a lot more complicated when there's an aesthetic element to the sport - like gymnastics,\" she said.\n\n\"Coaches in those kinds of fields have to tread even more carefully because in the past those sports have been associated with leanness and there's an element of being judged on how the sport appears.\n\n\"Because the body is such an obviously integral part of sport, it's vital that it is regarded positively.\n\n\"Subconsciously, if we're thinking negatively about it, we're much less likely to look after it properly. In sport, that's disastrous.\n\n\"It might go a stage further than that and we might be looking after it in an unhealthy way by not eating enough or by overtraining.\"\n\nWhile gymnasts can feel pressure to be lean, athletes in other sports generally need a larger frame - and in some cases a body shape that some would consider unfeminine.\n\nOne such sport is rowing, in which competitors are usually tall and powerful with broad shoulders.\n\nOlympic silver medallist Vicky Thornley was initially uncomfortable with that, but her rowing career has transformed her relationship with her body.\n\n\"Before I started rowing, I wanted to be a model,\" she said. \"I wanted to be really thin and not have any muscle.\n\n\"I speak to some junior rowers and they say: 'I don't want to get really muscly.'\n\n\"I'm horrified now that I even thought about those kinds of things. I never thought the person back then would want to be more muscular. I'm constantly trying to put more muscle mass on.\n\n\"I love it when my arms look big and I've got a vein coming out or whatever. I'm aware some people might not think that's attractive but it makes me feel stronger and more empowered when my body feels strong.\"\n\nOhashi experienced a turning point with her body image too. It came when she began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from where she recently graduated with a degree in gender studies.\n\nShe initially told her coach at the university that she \"didn't want to be great again\" because she \"correlated greatness with misery\", but says she was given the support she needed to succeed.\n\n\"Coming to UCLA and being pushed to go to the psychological services, being surrounded by a coaching staff which really puts athletes as people before the sport itself, has definitely been crucial in my growing as a person and my mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"Now I've been wanting to do this whole women thing. I go for women empowerment.\n\n\"Everybody's bodies are different and there's not a single body that is the perfect body because there are constant trends.\n\n\"Being comfortable with the only person that matters, yourself, is something that you can forever work towards. You're the only person that has your back and you're the only person that has your skin 100% of the time.\"\n\nReporting by Becky Grey, interviews by Jo Currie, Emma Cook, Kate McKenna and Melissa Sharman.\n\nFor details of organisations which offer mental health advice and support, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Late-night online access to credit is leading people to borrow more money than they can afford to repay, according to academics.\n\nNewcastle University researchers said a ban on online borrowing - primarily through payday loans - between 11pm and 7am could protect consumers.\n\nMoney is often borrowed to fund late-night, impulse buying, they said.\n\nThe option for people to block spending on gambling sites is already available on various apps.\n\nThe research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), warned that people were being encouraged to borrow more than they could pay back because sites were designed to give a false sense of control. It also found that people's mental health could be affected.\n\n\"Urgent reforms are needed to protect consumers from financial and psychological risks,\" said lead researcher Dr James Ash.\n\n\"The shift online has increased availability of payday loans to people previously excluded by mainstream lenders.\n\n\"But our research shows that digital access to credit only offers quick fixes - it does not address borrowing's root cause.\"\n\nThey found that some borrowers welcomed not having to explain themselves or face being judged, or rejected, by a real person when applying for loans online.\n\nHowever, the result was that they were targeted by loan providers with messages about extra credit through mobile devices.\n\nThe Consumer Finance Association, which represents a number of short-term lenders, said: \"The modern economy, and changing nature of the UK workforce, mean that financial needs are no longer restricted to regular business hours.\n\n\"The [researchers] clearly want to ignore the benefits of these loans, but for hundreds of thousands of customers this is an important financial service and something that they can now access when convenient for them.\"\n• None Can't save money? Is this the answer?\n• None Half of twenty-somethings have no savings", "Fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international paedophile ring.\n\nThe arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the US and more are expected, Interpol said.\n\nThe investigation began in 2017 and focused on a hidden \"dark web\" site with 63,000 users worldwide.\n\nPolice believe 100 more children have suffered abuse and are working to identify them.\n\nOperation Blackwrist was launched by Interpol after it detected images showing 11 boys aged under 13 being abused on a site where people can use encrypted software to maintain secrecy.\n\nThe dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.\n\nThe US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) department traced the IP address of the website, which was hosting photos and videos of abuse.\n\nPolice say the abusers uploaded new images on a weekly basis and often masked the children's faces to make it harder for investigators to identify them.\n\nThe first arrests came last year, when the site's main administrator, Montri Salangam, was detained in Thailand, and another administrator, Ruecha Tokputza, was caught in Australia.\n\nInvestigators at an operational meeting prior to the January 2018 arrests\n\nSalangam, who abused one of his nephews, was sentenced to 146 years in prison in Thailand, while an accomplice, a pre-school teacher, got 36 years.\n\nTokputza was sentenced to 40 years on Friday after pleading guilty to 51 charges against 11 babies and boys, the heaviest sentence ever handed down in Australia for child sex offences.\n\nPolice found thousands of images taken in both Thailand and Australia on his devices. In some of them Tokputza was the main abuser. The youngest victim to be identified was 15 months old.\n\n\"You are a child's worst nightmare, you are every parent's horror, you are a menace to the community,\" Judge Liesl Chapman said in Adelaide.\n\nThe identities of the others arrested are yet to be released, but some are residing in the US and held public positions of trust, said Eric McLoughlin, the HSI's regional attache in Bangkok.", "The court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nA man accused of making false claims of child abuse against public figures told police his dog was abducted \"as a warning\" from a paedophile gang which included the former head of MI5.\n\nIn a video interview shown in court Carl Beech claimed ex-spy chief Michael Hanley told him it was \"punishment\" for missing a meeting with his abusers.\n\nHis claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which resulted in no arrests.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nIn the video interview with police, recorded in October 2014, he also accused former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor of being part of the gang.\n\nMr Proctor will give evidence during the trial, the jury at Newcastle Crown Court was told.\n\nThe jury was shown a sketch that Mr Beech gave to police, saying it was meant to represent Mr Proctor.\n\nIn the interviews, Mr Beech - who was previously known by the pseudonym \"Nick\" - told police that his dog was taken while she was being walked by his aunt because he \"forgot\" to meet his abusers.\n\n\"The punishment was they took my dog,\" the 51-year-old former nurse from Gloucester said.\n\nHe described how Mr Hanley, who died in 2001, visited him outside his school in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, after his dog had gone missing.\n\n\"He didn't have her in the car, but they had taken Heron, my dog, and they had taken her as a warning. They kept her for five days and then they let her go.\"\n\nHe said he collected his dog from Surbiton police station and she was unharmed.\n\nIn the tapes, Mr Beech - who jurors have been told has himself since been convicted of paedophile offences - also alleged he was made to perform a sex act on Mr Proctor while former Tory Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath was present.\n\nMr Beech added that Sir Edward, who he said reminded him of his grandfather, stepped in to prevent him from being beaten by the former MP.\n\n\"The next thing, he just started laying into me and hitting,\" he said.\n\n\"Edward stopped him and he didn't like it. He didn't like it though he didn't question it.\"\n\nMr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor had wanted to cut him with a penknife but was stopped by another member of the alleged group of abusers.\n\nHe told police that Mr Proctor had issued the warning \"next time...\", and put the penknife in the then schoolboy's trousers.\n\nThe police tapes showed Mr Beech produce a penknife, which he claimed was the one given to him by Mr Proctor.\n\nHe also described having to attend annual \"Remembrance Day\" sexual abuse parties where, he claimed, generals and spies stuck poppies into his skin.\n\n\"I had poppies pinned to my chest whilst they did whatever they wanted to do,\" he said. \"As a mark of respect.\"\n\nHe claimed that attendees had included Sir Michael, ex-military chief Lord Bramall, now 95, and former head of the Army Field Marshall Sir Roland Gibbs, who died in 2004.\n\nMr Beech said the alleged abusers would \"just get a bit of skin and put a pin through it\".\n\n\"I don't like this time of year, with all the poppies around\", he said during the interview.\n\nPreviously, the court had heard that Mr Beech had convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nHe has been described in court by the prosecution as a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\".\n\nYesterday, the court heard that Mr Beech told the detective that he was part of a \"little group\" with Labour MP Tom Watson, a Exaro News journalist called Mark Conrad, and a retired social worker, who were trying to \"put my information out there to encourage other people to come forward\".\n\nMr Beech said he met Mr Watson in his office, where they spoke \"at some length\".", "Allison Williams and Prof Marcus Longley were questioned by AMs\n\nSenior managers at a health board with \"dysfunctional\" maternity services admitted the experiences of patients came as a \"complete shock\" to them.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board chief executive Allison Williams said mothers had not been listened to.\n\nA review last month found women at two hospitals had \"distressing experiences and poor care\".\n\nBut the assembly's health committee was told leadership changes could lead to \"hesitation and delay\" in improvements.\n\nMs Williams said some of the accounts of the families were \"nothing short of heartbreaking\".\n\n\"We can't make any excuses for that, their experiences were unacceptable on a whole range of levels,\" she added.\n\n\"The failings go right the way through the organisation.\"\n\nChairman Prof Marcus Longley said when they heard verbally from the royal colleges review team after a visit in January they were \"shocked\" at what was revealed and \"had not appreciated the full extent of the issues\".\n\nQuestioned by Merthyr and Rhymney AM Dawn Bowden, Ms Williams said when the health board made the problems public in October , they knew they had a problem around staffing and clinical practices but did not know the extent of the challenges.\n\n\"To be absolute frank, the extent of the feedback from families was a complete shock, even to me.\"\n\nShe said the numbers of complaints they were receiving did not reflect the scale of the problems experienced by mothers which have since emerged.\n\nProf Longley added: \"There's a need to review how we handle people who raise issues with us - we haven't done that in any way appropriately\".\n• None 8still births among those serious incidents\n• None 17reviews - not serious or care appropriate\n\nMs Williams - who has been chief executive since 2011 - denied a suggestion by Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones that she was more concerned with reputational damage to the health board.\n\nMs Jones said some families did not understand how change in culture could take place when those who preside over it remain in place and there has been no disciplinary action.\n\nProf Longley said: \"It's very important, I think, that the team who understands these problems and knew intimately now what needs to be done about them are charged with responsibility of getting on with it now.\n\n\"To have a change of leadership at this point will only result in hesitation and delay and that I'm sure is something nobody wants.\"\n\nJessica Western, with her eldest daughter, is pregnant again but will not use Cwm Taf maternity services\n\n'I don't think anything is going to change'\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born. Ms Western said issues at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital included being ignored, staffing shortages and having to see different consultants. She had a much better experience when Macie was transferred to Cardiff.\n\nShe was then frustrated with the complaints procedure - and unhappy with the internal report she received, which she felt had inaccuracies and was about \"getting me off their back\".\n\n\"I tried contacting the Glam numerous times and no-one wanted to help me, so I went to a solicitor,\" she said.\n\n\"I know numerous families who complained who've not had a response. I don't think anything is going to improve and if it is does it's going to take years.\n\n\"The people right at the top [of the health board] need to change.\n\n\"Any one of them losing their jobs is not going to make me feel better, it's not going to bring Macie back but I think it will bring a lot of reassurance to people having babies now.\"\n\nMs Western is now pregnant again but will not go the Cwm Taf hospitals and will use maternity services in Cardiff.\n\nMaternity services are now in special measures and an independent panel will oversee the changes.\n\nProf Longley added: \"The oversight regime has changed completely - the independent panel is starting its work and will scrutinise very closely our response to all the challenges and I hope that will give some reassurance that there can be no slipping on the changes which need to take place.\n\n\"There is also the need for us as a health board to get on effectively, quickly and determinedly - to make the changes happen. It would be unfortunate if we dithered and didn't take action now, that would let down people who had raised issues with us.\"\n\nSome frontline managers were no longer running wards and new people were in post.\n\nBut Prof Longley admitted cultural issues were embedded and would take a \"long time\" to resolve.\n\nSenior managers were asked if they would be happy that the service was safe enough for someone they care to use it.\n\nMs Williams said the head of midwifery was asked the same question in a recent board meeting and that yes she would be willing. \"That's a very powerful reassurance. We recognise that the cultural issues will take time. But there are checks and balances in the system now that were not in the system before.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Dai Lloyd told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales that the health board saying the extent of the problems came as a shock was \"bewildering\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said committee members could now meet families and staff - possibly confidentially.\n\n\"We're absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this,\" he added.", "St Andrew's Healthcare chief executive Katie Fisher said the causes of delays were complex\n\nUp to 50 patients, some with learning disabilities and autism who should be released, are stuck in secure units run by a mental health hospital charity.\n\nSt Andrew's Healthcare, which treats up to 900 patients, told the BBC there was a lack of suitable community places.\n\nFootage of a teenager locked in seclusion, able to touch their parent only through a door hatch at one of its units, has been shown to the BBC.\n\nThe hospital said seclusion was used as an emergency response only.\n\nSt Andrew's Healthcare runs four private hospitals that specialise in caring for patients with severe mental health and learning difficulties - 90% of referrals are from the NHS.\n\nPatients are supposed to be admitted to these assessment and treatment units (ATUs) for nine to 18 months but the average stay nationally is five years.\n\nChief executive Katie Fisher told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme one patient had been detained for an extra 524 days after they should have been released.\n\n\"It varies over time and of course the reasons for delays are complex,\" she said.\n\n\"This isn't someone sitting on something, who isn't doing their job properly.\n\n\"Maybe several attempts have been made to create a discharge and for several reasons that has fallen through.\"\n\nLast month, the programme reported that one St Andrew's Healthcare patient, Ayla Haines 26, had tried to kill herself after spending seven years in an ATU.\n\nFollowing this, Labour's shadow care minister, Barbara Keeley, announced an all-party parliamentary group to investigate mental health hospitals.\n\nOn Monday, research by the children's commissioner for England found too many children were being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily - despite a government pledge to move up to 50% of such patients into community settings by March 2019.\n\nMs Fisher said continuing to detain patients who no longer needed to be in ATUs was unacceptable,\n\n\"But actually, people's mental health and wellbeing can fluctuate over time, so it's not as simple as just saying someone needs to be here and someone doesn't need to be here.\"\n\nOne patient could have contact with their parent only through a hatch in a door\n\nHospitals use a seclusion room as a last resort if a patient is in extreme distress or is a risk to themselves or a member of staff.\n\nIn a damning report published this week, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) called for a review of every patient in long-term seclusion or segregation in mental health hospitals across the UK.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme was given footage of a teenager reaching their arm through a door hatch to enable contact with their parents during a visit to a St Andrew's hospital.\n\nThe parent told the programme the patient had been held in seclusion for months.\n\nA recent CQC inspection of St Andrew's Hospital in Northampton found one patient had had repeated and prolonged periods of seclusion over 18 months.\n\nThe hospital said it would not comment on individual cases.\n\nBut Ms Fisher said: \"In some seclusion rooms for certain types of patients, there is the opportunity to for food and other things that patient might need to be given to them through an opening of the door, which means the door itself doesn't have to be opened.\n\n\"The use of seclusion rooms is only ever used as an emergency response and if all other efforts of de-escalation, both verbal and low-stimulation rooms, have failed.\"\n\nPsychiatrist Paul Wallang says prone restraint should not be used\n\nAnother CQC inspection report, published in 2016, found a technique called prone - or face-down - restraint was being used widely across wards at the St Andrew's hospitals.\n\nIts use has reduced - but there were still more than 1,000 recorded incidents last year.\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, prone restraint was used by staff on patients 5,597 times.\n\nThis is despite a consultant psychiatrist at St Andrews telling the Victoria Derbyshire programme prone restraint should not be used.\n\n\"It is something that is associated with death in some circumstances - certainly within the charity, we have reduced the amount of prone restraint that we use drastically over many years,\" said Paul Wallang.\n\nBut he added: \"Sometimes when somebody is restrained they will move into the restraint position in a prone.\n\n\"If that happens, we immediately move them to supine, which is face-up, a much safer way to restrain - and all of our staff are trained in that technique.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"The NHS is committed to reducing numbers of people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 35% by the end of March 2020.\n\n\"And through the [NHS] Long Term Plan, we will reduce numbers even further by investing in specialist services and community crisis care and giving local areas greater control of their budgets to reduce avoidable admissions and enable shorter lengths of stay.\n\n\"The CQC is also undertaking an in-depth review into the use of seclusion, segregation and restraint - which should only be used as a last resort - in order to improve standards across the system.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Bob Higgins was youth development officer at Southampton until 1989\n\nSuch was the influence of Bob Higgins as a youth coach at Southampton, he was known as the \"star-maker\".\n\nHe was seen as instrumental in the development of several players who would go on to become household names; during his time at Southampton, players of the calibre of future England stars Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier broke into the football club's first team.\n\nBut Bob Higgins was also a ruthless, predatory paedophile, who used his position of power to groom and then abuse boys whose dreams of a playing career he could make or break.\n\nNearly 30 years after he was first accused - and cleared - of sexual abuse, the crimes of 66-year-old Higgins have finally caught up with him, with his conviction at Bournemouth Crown Court of 45 counts of indecent assault.\n\nHis unmasking as a serial sex offender was the consequence of scores of former players coming forward in 2016, when the extent of historical abuse in the game began to become clear.\n\nWhen, at the time of the scandal, the NSPCC set up a dedicated phone line to offer support to victims, 87 people called the charity and a further 32 contacted police directly with allegations of abuse relating to Southampton.\n\nOne name - and only one name - was mentioned time and again in connection with abuse at Southampton: Bob Higgins.\n\nHiggins abused youth players in his care over several decades\n\nThe eight-week retrial - held after a previous jury at Winchester Crown Court could not reach verdicts on 48 counts of indecent assault - was told Higgins kept an open house at his homes in Camberley, Surrey, and later Southampton.\n\nHe would let boys stay there while they attended training sessions at weekends or during school holidays.\n\nThis allowed him to groom his victims. He would give players lifts to and from training, playing songs by Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie in an effort to create a romantic mood.\n\nSitting on the sofa at his home, he would demand cuddles from the boys and go on to touch them inappropriately.\n\nHe would also use the pretext of treating injuries or performing soap-water massages to abuse youngsters at the club.\n\nThere is no suggestion that any of the club's biggest names who were coached by Higgins - including the likes of Danny Wallace and Steve Williams, as well as Shearer and Le Tissier - were abused by him.\n\nBut many of those youth players who were sexually assaulted were left so distressed that they gave up football entirely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Billy Seymour, a charity ambassador campaigning against abuse in football, waived his right to anonymity\n\nBilly Seymour, a trainee at Southampton from 1983 until 1986, was one of them.\n\nHe died before he could see his abuser face justice - although Higgins was found guilty of a single count of indecent assault at the earlier trial in 2018.\n\nThe 47-year-old died in a crash in Oxfordshire in January, shortly before the retrial was due to begin.\n\nIn an unusual step, audio of his appearance in the witness box from the first trial was played to the jury in the retrial, as well as a video of his police interview.\n\nMr Seymour said his life \"unravelled\" after the abuse; he struggled with anger issues and served time in prison.\n\nThe court heard how he \"nearly killed\" a taxi driver he had threatened to attack with a plasterer's knife, as he reminded him of Higgins.\n\nShortly before being sentenced, he told his mother that his victim \"looked like Bob, smelt like Bob\", adding: \"He's inside me.\"\n\nEngland internationals Alan Shearer and Matt Le Tissier were coached by Higgins\n\nRumours about Higgins's activities had circulated for years.\n\nNonetheless, the court heard how the coach was trusted by parents and idolised by youngsters, providing him with the cover he needed.\n\nThere was an implicit trade-off: boys knew they needed to keep quiet or risk losing their shot at a career as a footballer.\n\nMany said nothing, even to close family members, for up to 30 years.\n\nHiggins left Southampton in 1989 after being confronted by a colleague who had overheard youth players sharing stories about him.\n\nHe went on trial in the early 1990s but was acquitted. This allowed him to remain in football for many more years - and to continue offending.\n\nIt was only in 2016, when victims of child abuse in football aired their experiences on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, that a stream of complainants, including Mr Seymour, came forward.\n\nThe police reopened their investigation and began to build a new case against Higgins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Le Tissier said he was given a \"very, very wrong\" massage by Higgins\n\nDescribed in court as a \"rubbish\" player, he had nevertheless been a respected scout and youth coach.\n\nHiggins joined Southampton in the early 1970s and over the next two decades played a key role in bringing through some of the club's best players.\n\nIn the 1980s, Wallace and Williams, both acknowledged as his discoveries, were part of one of Southampton's most successful teams.\n\nHiggins also helped develop the skills of Shearer and Le Tissier.\n\nWhen the football abuse scandal broke in 2016, Shearer said he had \"huge respect and admiration\" for former team-mates who had come forward.\n\n\"Whilst I am lucky and have no personal experience of the terrible stories that have been described, I know from my work as an NSPCC ambassador the pain and lasting damage abuse can cause.\"\n\nLe Tissier told the BBC in 2016 he had been given a \"naked massage\" by Higgins. In the interview, Le Tissier said he was not abused but the incident was \"very, very wrong\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Les Cleevely was abused while watching Match of the Day at Higgins's home\n\nLes Cleevely, who went on to become a successful goalkeeping coach, recalled how, as a 12-year-old schoolboy scouted by Higgins, he was \"mesmerised\" by the \"young, trendy and charismatic\" coach.\n\nLike many others, he was invited to stay at Higgins's house. He described his night there as a \"horror story\".\n\n\"The whole thing [the abuse] went on in pitch black while we were watching Match of the Day,\" he said. \"So for the entire length of Match of the Day it was horrendous.\n\n\"And then the rest of the night spent at the house was with your eyes wide open wondering what was going to happen next.\n\n\"He had power over our careers. It was everything we wanted in life as kids he held the key to. Some people thought, 'is it going to put my situation in jeopardy?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamie Webb eventually tore up his contract with Southampton\n\nJamie Webb still recalls the \"magical moment\" he joined the club and met Higgins at Southampton's then home, The Dell.\n\n\"I was really in awe. I couldn't believe, walking down the old Dell steps,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Webb says his memories of his time at the club are tainted by the abuse he was subjected to by Higgins while he stayed at his house.\n\n\"We were all vying for affection in a way and the banter would be more like, 'Oh Bob loves you and you're one of Bob's favourites',\" he said.\n\n\"It was almost what you wanted to hear. I'd get given kit. Sometimes I'd buy some kit and I'd get an extra top thrown in and shorts.\"\n\nAt the time he was pleased with the attention, but now he sees the behaviour for what it was.\n\n\"For me, it's just grooming.\"\n\nBoys would be invited to stay with Higgins and his wife Shirley during weekend and school holiday training camps\n\nJurors were told Higgins would play pop songs on the car stereo as he touched boys inappropriately while driving to and from training sessions.\n\nMr Seymour recalled Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All playing and Higgins telling him: \"It reminds me of you.\"\n\n\"Whenever it comes on, it takes me back,\" he told the court last year.\n\n\"Looking back, I tried to normalise it, but it wasn't normal to be in that situation.\"\n\nSuch was his emotional hold over them that many boys wrote Higgins letters, expressing love and gratitude, calling him a \"second father\" or a \"brother\".\n\nOne victim said it made him physically sick when he was recently shown a letter he had written to Higgins.\n\n\"I was only 13 and I was just a kid and I didn't know any different,\" he said.\n\n\"Bob would put you under a lot of pressure to write those letters.\n\n\"He'd basically show you letters of famous players. You wanted to be that player and I wanted my career, and whatever it took, I'd do that.\"\n\nLawrie McMenemy said Higgins would have been \"out of the door\" if the club's management had known about his abuse\n\nLawrie McMenemy, Southampton's manager between 1973 and 1985, said he had not been in any way aware of Higgins's offending during his time in charge of the club.\n\n\"I didn't know he was taking kids home,\" he said. \"None of my staff knew that.\n\n\"It's horrific what he's done. If we'd have known, he wouldn't have lasted two minutes. He'd have been out the door.\"\n\nRumours about Higgins's activities were certainly circulating by the late 1980s, though.\n\nDave Merrington, who was youth team manager and would later manage the first team, recalled being \"troubled and disturbed\" when he heard banter among players in a minibus.\n\nDave Merrington said he challenged Higgins, who threatened to sue anyone who made claims about him\n\n\"I realised they were talking about Bob,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, the comments were of a sexual nature that I wasn't happy about.\"\n\nHe raised the matter at a staff meeting and was told it would be brought to the attention of the board.\n\nLater, he was told he should be the one to raise the issue with Higgins, which he did at a meeting in the players' lounge at The Dell.\n\n\"He jumped up, got extremely annoyed and said: 'I'll sue anyone who says anything about me,'\" Mr Merrington said.\n\n\"I tried to cool him down but he got extremely annoyed. He stormed out. Within a week or a fortnight he had resigned, as I understand it, and left the club.\"\n\nA police investigation followed and Higgins was accused of abusing six boys, but he was acquitted of one charge in 1991 and the other charges were discontinued.\n\nMr Merrington had given evidence along with complainant Dean Radford, who was 18 when he came forward in 1989.\n\n\"For a boy to open up at that particular stage of his career - he was a very, very brave young man,\" Mr Merrington said.\n\n\"No-one from the club spoke to us about [the court case]. That disappoints and hurts me.\n\n\"I felt the system let him down very badly.\"\n\nGuy Askham, who was Southampton chairman at the time, said the club's board had been part-timers who tried their best to deal with the issue.\n\n\"We believed the board had taken the right decision in reporting the allegations to the police,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Southampton player Dean Radford talking in 2016 about the abuse he suffered\n\nMr Radford recalled being \"scared to death\" giving evidence and being cross-examined.\n\n\"I was just told on the telephone he'd been found not guilty,\" he said. \"They let it go. That was it, he was a free man.\"\n\nFollowing Higgins's acquittal, the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence to secure a conviction on the remaining charges.\n\nHiggins gave an interview to the Southampton Daily Echo newspaper, headlined: \"My two years of hell\", and continued working in football, taking up a coaching job with the Malta Football Association.\n\nHe stayed there until 1994 when he began working with youth players at Peterborough United. The court heard how Higgins, who had recently claimed to have become a Christian, baptised boys in his bath at home.\n\nTwo charges in the retrial related to cases at Peterborough. One witness told the trial he was assaulted 10 to 20 times in Higgins's home.\n\nHampshire and Southampton social services warned parents about Higgins in 1997\n\nAllegations against Higgins were aired again in January 1997 in a Channel 4 documentary.\n\nAfter the Dispatches programme, both Hampshire and Southampton social services consulted police and wrote to local youth organisations expressing concern about him coaching boys.\n\nA joint letter from the departments, unearthed by the BBC through a Freedom of Information request, urged parents to \"make an informed choice about his contact with your child/ren\".\n\nDr John Beer, the head of Southampton Social Services at the time, said he received several replies from parents criticising him for impugning Higgins's good character.\n\n\"That is the standard way that we learn that paedophiles operated,\" he said.\n\n\"The safest way for them is to groom parents and figures who have status in the community, so if the young person made any allegations they were likely to be disbelieved.\"\n\nHiggins continued in the game in Hampshire, with coaching roles at Bashley, Winchester City and Fleet Town, until the football abuse scandal broke in 2016 and his career in football was finally brought to an end.\n\nDet Ch Insp David Brown, of Hampshire Constabulary, said the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme had been the \"catalyst\" that prompted many more victims to come forward.\n\nBut with allegations dating back decades, there was no forensic evidence or any paperwork that could provide a \"smoking gun\" to convict Higgins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bob Higgins \"did not speak a single word\" during 15 hours of interviews, police said\n\nMoreover, the media coverage, which encouraged more victims to come forward, proved a doubled-edged sword for the investigation team.\n\nIt meant they had to interview all of the complainants quickly to ensure they did not communicate with one other ahead of a trial and potentially jeopardise the criminal case.\n\nTheir testimony confirmed a pattern of predatory behaviour from Higgins.\n\n\"We had a large number of people and it was repeated similar factual evidence - the same songs played in the car, the same activities, the same bedtime routines - that helped build a compelling case,\" Det Ch Insp Brown said.\n\nYoung players would train in the gym at The Dell\n\nDetectives were unable to trace all the paperwork from the legal proceedings in the 1990s. However, they found trial documents from an unlikely source - Higgins himself.\n\nWhen they searched Higgins's house they discovered detailed accounts of the trial, statements boys had made to police, as well as memorabilia, letters and photos from the 1980s.\n\n\"Much of the material he retained was used as evidence of controlling, coercive behaviour,\" Det Insp Brown said.\n\nSeveral victims and witnesses at the recent trial explained how they had not felt able to talk of the abuse when interviewed by police in the early 1990s.\n\n\"I was not ready - mentally, physically or emotionally - to divulge the horrific things that had happened to me,\" Mr Seymour told the court.\n\n\"I knew something was seriously, seriously wrong. I was just not ready to deal with it at that precise moment.\"\n\nHiggins's wife Shirley stood by him in court. She claimed Mr Merrington had a \"vendetta\" against her husband and boys had been cajoled into making allegations against him.\n\nShe said she had acted as a \"second mother\" to the youngsters staying at their house.\n\nWhen asked if she had ever seen her husband act inappropriately with any boys, Mrs Higgins replied: \"No. Never. I wouldn't be married to him for 45 years if he had.\"\n\nMrs Higgins said it was she who had kept cards and photos from young footballers, which she said gave her \"happy memories\".\n\nHiggins covered his face while entering and leaving court throughout the retrial at Bournemouth Crown Court\n\nHowever, after more than a week of deliberation, the jury found Higgins guilty of dozens of offences.\n\nFor his victims, it meant a long wait for justice was over. Police believe more abuse survivors could come forward following his conviction.\n\nDouble jeopardy rules meant Mr Radford, whom Higgins was cleared of abusing nearly 30 years ago, was unable to be a complainant in the recent trials. However, he did give evidence as a witness.\n\n\"I'd like him to sit behind bars and know that he's there partly because of me,\" he said.\n\nVictims have spoken about how they remain haunted by the abuse. Many are also left wondering about what might have been.\n\nMr Webb eventually tore up his contract with Southampton.\n\nNow in his 40s, he cannot know how far he could have gone in football.\n\n\"A lot of people said I was good and everything, but it's hard looking back on that period.\n\n\"I just used to say to people that I wasn't mentally focused. I'll never know what might have been.\"", "A 102-year-old woman is suspected of having murdered her 92-year-old neighbour in a French retirement home.\n\nThe suspected killer is now in a psychiatric hospital. Earlier she told one of the carers that she had \"killed someone\", a prosecutor said.\n\nA carer at the home in Chézy-sur-Marne, northern France, found the victim dead in bed, her face severely bruised.\n\nThe cause of death was \"strangulation and blows to the head\", a post-mortem examination concluded.\n\nThe death was discovered just after midnight on Saturday by a carer, who found the victim lying in bed unconscious, AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe 102-year-old was \"in a very agitated state, confused, and told the carer that she had killed someone\", AFP news agency reported, quoting the prosecutor.\n\nPsychiatric tests are being done on the suspect, to determine whether or not she was criminally responsible for her actions at the time.", "One of the Chagos Islands - Diego Garcia - is home to a US military base\n\nThe UN has passed a resolution demanding the UK return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.\n\nIn the non-binding vote in the General Assembly in New York, 116 states were in favour and only six against, a major diplomatic blow to the UK.\n\nMauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean group - now a British overseas territory - in 1965 in exchange for independence.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Britain did not recognise Mauritius' claim to sovereignty, but would stand by an earlier commitment to hand over control of the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer needed for defence purposes.\n\nThe US, Hungary, Israel, Australia and the Maldives were the states voting with the UK against the resolution.\n\nIt comes months after the UN's high court advised that the UK should leave the islands \"as rapidly as possible\".\n\nThe fundamental question before the General Assembly was whether the decades-long dispute was at its heart a matter of decolonisation, or a bilateral sovereignty issue to be worked out between the UK and Mauritius alone.\n\nThe vote was decisive, with 115 countries standing with Mauritius.\n\nFormer colonies were also clear in their position. India said support for decolonisation was one of the most significant contributions that the UN had made towards the promotion of fundamental human rights.\n\nUK ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce, along with the United States, warned that the vote would set a precedent that should be of concern to all member states with their own sovereignty disputes.\n\nBritain purchased the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 for £3m, creating a region known as the British Indian Ocean Territory.\n\nBetween 1967 and 1973, it evicted the islands' entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US, which is still in place on Diego Garcia.\n\nUS planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq. The facility was also reportedly used as a \"black site\" by the CIA to interrogate terrorism suspects. In 2016, the lease for the base was extended until 2036.\n\n\"The joint UK-US defence facility on the British Indian Ocean Territory helps to keep people in Britain and around the world safe from terrorism, organised crime and piracy,\" the FCO said.\n\nBefore Wednesday's vote, Mauritian Prime Minister Pravid Kumar Jug-Nauth told the General Assembly the forcible eviction of Chagossians was akin to a crime against humanity.\n\nHowever, he said Mauritius would allow the military base to continue operating \"in accordance with international law\", if it were given control of the islands.\n\nMr Jug-Nauth said this would give the facility a \"higher degree of legal certainty\" for the future.\n\nThe UK has maintained that Mauritius gave up the territory freely in return for a range of benefits.\n\nAmbassador Pierce has insisted that the issue should be resolved only by the countries involved.", "University students are posting allegations of sexual abuse online, as they do not feel their universities are listening, a National Union of Students (NUS) official has said.\n\nNUS women's officer Sarah Lasoye said sexual assault was the \"biggest issue facing female students at university\".\n\nDuring the past month, there have been more than 15,000 retweets of claims from students at seven UK universities.\n\nUniversities UK said: \"Every case of sexual violence is one too many.\"\n\nThe group, together with the Office for Students, has been tasked by the government with tackling sexual abuse at universities.\n\nBoth organisations say they are making progress but more needs to be done.\n\nThe Next Episode, a new podcast available on BBC Sounds, has spoken to alleged victims of sexual assault, some of whom have posted about their experiences on Twitter.\n\nSome details have been changed to protect the identity of the women.\n\nStephanie, 20, said: \"I knew him from back home but we went to different universities.\n\n\"One night he tried to kiss me - he was drunk and he wouldn't take no for an answer.\n\n\"Then, later that night, he raped me. I went to the police and my university straight away but I didn't get support until I developed medical problems because of the stress that night caused.\n\n\"[Posting online] made me feel empowered - seeing others talking about it online gave me back my voice.\"\n\nAmelia, 21, said: \"He was a close friend and I trusted him before all of this.\n\n\"He stayed over at my house and I said he could sleep in my bedroom as long as he kept on his side of the bed.\n\n\"When I woke up, my top had been taken off and he was touching my breasts. I told him, 'No.'\n\n\"Unis love to say they care for students. But they're a business. You are a number to them. You are £9,000 a year. I don't believe they provide support. They didn't care for me.\"\n\nSasha, 21, said: \"He was a very close friend. One day, at a party, we ended up alone in a bedroom.\n\n\"He started kissing me. But then I stopped and said I wanted to go downstairs. He was persistent - he wouldn't let me go downstairs and he kept trying to sweet-talk me. I pleaded for him to leave.\n\n\"I spoke to my university but that made it even worse. The actual assault was traumatic, obviously, but the lack of support from the authorities just added to the stress. I tweeted about my experience because I wanted to let women know they need to be careful.\"\n\nSpeaking before this week's NUS women's conference in Bristol, which started on Wednesday, Ms Lasoye said that universities around the country were currently not doing enough to support students like Amelia, Sasha and Stephanie.\n\nShe added: \"Students are turning to social media because they don't see a place where their experiences will be listened to, validated or dealt with effectively.\"\n\nSarah Lasoye said sexual assault was the \"biggest issue facing female students at university\"\n\nIn 2016, a report by a Universities UK taskforce made a series of recommendations to help tackle sexual abuse.\n\nResponding to Ms Lasoye's comments, a Universities UK representative said: \"All students and staff are entitled to a safe and positive experience and all universities have a duty of care to provide that outcome.\n\n\"This includes ensuring we create an environment where students feel able to come forward with the confidence that an incident will be addressed.\"\n\nNicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students, said: \"Tackling the issue will require action and collaboration from a range of parties.\n\n\"The Office for Students has invested £2.4m in projects based in universities and colleges across England, to devise better ways of tackling sexual assault and harassment.\"\n\nIn February, a survey of more than 5,649 students by the Brook health charity found:\n\nThe universities themselves are taking different approaches to this issue. Some have set up help-lines for students, others offer counselling sessions to victims.\n\nNazir Afzal, a former solicitor who has worked on many cases that involve violence against women, said the best option was to go straight to the police.\n\n\"The earlier you involve the authorities, the more likely it is that the police can collect evidence that can be used in a trial,\" he said.\n\n\"I also suggest you seek help from all the various women's help groups that are out there.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article, information about help and support is available here.\n\nYou can listen to The Next Episode podcast via BBC Sounds.", "The BBC's Panorama programme has uncovered shocking evidence of patients with autism and learning difficulties being mocked, taunted and intimidated by abusive hospital staff.\n\nWhorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle in County Durham is a specialist hospital that cares for people with complex needs.\n\nPanorama filmed vulnerable adults being deliberately provoked by staff who then physically restrained them.\n\nThe investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye is to be released from prison, the Parole Board has confirmed.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nNoye later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Parole Board said he no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nNoye, who is currently at Standford Hill open prison in Kent, is expected to be released within weeks.\n\nWhen asked whether he had spoken to the Parole Board, he said: \"Yes, they're letting him out.\"\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nNoye's release case was considered at a hearing on 9 May after it was referred by the Justice Secretary.\n\nThe panel heard evidence from Noye's probation officer and Prison Service officials.\n\nNoye, who first became eligible to be considered for release on 21 April 2015, also gave evidence to the panel.\n\nThis was the third review of Noye's case by the Parole Board.\n\nThe panel heard how Noye was of \"good conduct and compliance\" in prison and had \"worked positively\" with officials dealing with his case.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nThe Parole Board's decision is likely to spark huge controversy, not least because of Noye's offending history - which stretches back to the 1960s - and his past connections to organised crime.\n\nThere are also likely to be those who question whether Noye has truly changed.\n\nLess than four years ago, a parole panel rejected his bid for release citing a psychological assessment that his \"main characteristic trait was criminal versatility, and that superficial charm, grandiose sense of self, lack of remorse, manipulative behaviour, failure to accept responsibility and poor behaviour controls were partially present\".\n\nThe panel said he had a \"need to be in control\".\n\nHowever, should Stephen Cameron's family wish to challenge the release decision their only option is to go to court and start judicial review proceedings, which are expensive and offer no guarantee of success.\n\nA far simpler internal review system, which the Government promised last year, won't apply in this case because it doesn't come into effect until July.\n\nKenneth Noye in custody at Dartford Police Station in May 1999\n\nThe panel said it was satisfied that Noye met the test for release and was suitable for return to the community.\n\nHe will have to reside at a designated address, be of good behaviour, and report as required for supervision or other appointments.\n\nThere will be strict limitations on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nRoy Ramm, a former commander in specialist operations at New Scotland Yard, said: \"Kenneth Noye is a career criminal. He's been involved in some of the biggest crimes in the UK.\n\n\"He has spent his life around criminal enterprises.\n\n\"He is a man who has been proven to be very violent in the past... there should be a great deal of supervision around him and about his conduct.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Clearly this will be a distressing decision for the family of Stephen Cameron and our thoughts remain with them.\n\n\"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, released subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nWhorlton Hall hospital had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before abuse of inpatients there was discovered, the BBC has learned.\n\nInspectors, council officials and NHS staff all visited the County Durham unit - sometimes in teams of two or three over the course of several days.\n\nBut the scale of mistreatment of people there with learning disabilities and autism was not spotted.\n\nCampaigners said the authorities had failed in their jobs.\n\nUndercover filming by the BBC's Panorama programme - aired on Wednesday - showed patients at the 17-bed unit being mocked, taunted, intimidated and repeatedly restrained.\n\nThe footage also included shocking scenes where some staff can be heard using offensive language to describe patients, while another calls the hospital a \"house of mongs\".\n\nA police investigation has been launched and 16 staff suspended.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates the sector, went in three times - in March, April and July of last year. One of the visits lasted two days and involved a team of three after concerns were raised by a whistle-blower.\n\nThe inspection found breaches of regulations in relation to staffing and good governance, but the hospital kept its good rating.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector Dr Paul Lelliott said it was \"now clear we missed what was going on\".\n\nHe said the regulator was sorry. He said inspectors spoke to staff and patients as well as independent people familiar with the hospital. But no concerns were raised.\n\n\"This illustrates how difficult it is to get under the skin of this type of 'closed culture',\" he added.\n\nIn one case, a patient at Whorlton Hall was told by her care worker that her family are \"poison\"\n\nOn top of the CQC visit, there were multiple visits by 10 different councils and local NHS bodies.\n\nDurham Council visited the hospital 33 times over the past year - 12 because of safeguarding concerns - with the rest largely related to the placement of new patients at the 17-bed unit.\n\nThe council's corporate director of adult and health service, Jane Robinson, said: \"We found no evidence suggesting issues of the nature shown in the programme.\"\n\nRichard Kramer, chief executive of disability charity Sense, criticised the approach taken by authorities.\n\nHe said agencies were maybe too likely to take the word of staff at \"face value\", rather than insist on observations and on seeing the person.\n\n\"This appears to be a case of professionals not investing time and resources to fully review the care and support,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Care Minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nMs Dinenage said that after the government and the Care Quality Commission were told of the allegations of abuse at Whorlton Hall, \"immediate steps\" were taken to ensure the safety of the patients there.\n\nAnd she questions needed to be asked over whether the activity at Whorlton Hall was criminal, if the regulatory and inspection framework is working and also over the commissioning of care services.\n\nThe unit has now been closed and all the patients moved to other services.", "A mural of the Clotilda in the city of Mobile, Alabama\n\nThe last ship known to have smuggled slaves from Africa to the US is said to have been discovered after a year-long investigation.\n\nThe remains of the Clotilda were found at the bottom of the Mobile river in Alabama.\n\nThe ship was used to smuggle men, women and children into America from Africa.\n\nIt operated in secret, decades after Congress banned the importation of slaves, and was intentionally sunk in 1860 to hide evidence of its use.\n\n\"The discovery of the Clotilda is an extraordinary archaeological find,\" Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.\n\nThe ship's journey \"represented one of the darkest eras of modern history\" and the wreck provides \"tangible evidence of slavery\", she said.\n\nThe Clotilda was discovered by archaeology firm company Search Inc, which was called in to help by the Alabama Historical Commission to investigate the hulk, says the National Geographic Society, which reported the find.\n\nResearchers discovered a ship with its identifying features under water in a section of the Mobile river, says National Geographic.\n\nA statue of Cudjoe Lewis, who was brought to the US on the Clotilda\n\nThe dimensions and construction of the wreck matched those of the Clotilda, as did building materials, the commission said.\n\n\"We are cautious about placing names on shipwrecks that no longer bear a name or something like a bell with the ship's name on it,\" maritime archaeologist James Delgado said in a statement.\n\n\"But the physical and forensic evidence powerfully suggests that this is Clotilda.\"\n\nThe US banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the slave trade carried on beyond this date as there was still demand for workers from southern plantation owners.\n\nA wealthy landowner and shipbuilder from Mobile is said to have made a bet with northern businessmen that he could smuggle a cargo of African slaves into Mobile Bay under the nose of federal officials, National Geographic says.\n\nThe Clotilda carried 110 men, women and children from Benin to Alabama in 1860, according to historians.\n\n\"It's the best documented story of a slave voyage in the western hemisphere,\" historian Sylviane Anna Diouf - who relied on testimony from the slave traders and their captives, some of whom lived in the 20th Century - told National Geographic.\n\nSome descendants of those carried on the ship still live nearby in an area that came to be known as Africatown.\n\nThey have welcomed the discovery.\n\n\"I think about the people who came before us who laboured and fought and worked so hard,\" Joycelyn Davis, a sixth-generation granddaughter of one of the slaves, told AP. \"I'm sure people had given up on finding it. It's a wow factor.\"", "The skaters of Middlesbrough Roller Derby team are proud of the work they have done to encourage more women to take part in sport.\n\nA 2016 survey found the town to be the worst place to be a girl growing up.\n\nBut the team says such reports do not take into account the town's \"tenacity\" and \"spirit to keep going\" and they \"know how brilliant Middlesbrough is\".\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "A Middlesbrough training academy has been helping women get into beauty industry jobs.\n\nOwner Lisa Fallow says her goal is to help change people's lives.\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Iraq's Christian community is one of the oldest in the world\n\nThe Archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, has accused Britain's Christian leaders of failing to do enough in defence of the vanishing Christian community in Iraq.\n\nIn an impassioned address in London, the Rt Rev Bashar Warda said Iraq's Christians now faced extinction after 1,400 years of persecution.\n\nSince the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, he said, the Christian community had dwindled by 83%, from around 1.5 million to just 250,000.\n\n\"Christianity in Iraq,\" he said, \"one of the oldest Churches, if not the oldest Church in the world, is perilously close to extinction. Those of us who remain must be ready to face martyrdom.\"\n\nHe referred to the current, pressing threat from Islamic State (IS) jihadists as a \"final, existential struggle\", following the group's initial assault in 2014 that displaced more than 125,000 Christians from their historic homelands.\n\n\"Our tormentors confiscated our present,\" he said, \"while seeking to wipe out our history and destroy our future. In Iraq there is no redress for those who have lost properties, homes and businesses. Tens of thousands of Christians have nothing to show for their life's work, for generations of work, in places where their families have lived, maybe, for thousands of years.\"\n\nIS, known in the Arab world as Daesh, was driven from its last stronghold at Baghuz in Syria in March after a massive multinational military campaign, effectively spelling the end of its self-declared \"caliphate\".\n\nBefore that, it had already been expelled from Iraq's second city of Mosul in July 2017.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut churches, monasteries and homes belonging to Christian families have been decimated and thousands of families have not returned.\n\nThis week the archbishop warned of what he said were a growing number of extremist groups that asserted that the killing of Christians and Yazidis helped to spread Islam.\n\nThe archbishop went on to accuse Britain's Christian leaders of \"political correctness\" over the issue - he called the failure to condemn extremism \"a cancer\", saying they were not speaking out loudly enough for fear of being accused of Islamophobia.\n\n\"Will you continue to condone this never-ending, organised persecution against us?\" he said. \"When the next wave of violence begins to hit us, will anyone on your campuses hold demonstrations and carry signs that say 'We are all Christians'?\"\n\nIraqi Christians have been targeted by Islamist militants, including IS\n\nHis views on political correctness are shared in part by the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen, who chairs the Independent Review into the Foreign Office's response to the persecution of Christians worldwide.\n\n\"I think the archbishop is right that a culture of 'political correctness' has prevented Western voices from speaking out about the persecution of Christians,\" he says. \"I think though this is mainly to do with a reluctance borne of post-colonial guilt.\"\n\nBishop Mounstephen maintains that Christian persecution needs to be viewed from a global perspective and has multiple causes.\n\n\"If we only consider it in the light of Islamic militancy,\" he says, \"we let a lot of other people off the hook who should otherwise be held to account.\"\n\nTaking a historical perspective, the Archbishop of Irbil lamented the fact that in centuries past there was a happy period of fruitful cooperation between Christians and Muslims in Iraq, a time that historians have referred to as the Islamic Golden Age.\n\n\"Our Christian ancestors shared with Muslim Arabs a deep tradition of thought and philosophy,\" says Archbishop Warda. \"They engaged with them in respectful dialogue from the 8th Century.\n\n\"A style of scholastic dialogue had developed, and which could only occur because a succession of caliphs [Islamic political and religious leaders] tolerated minorities. As toleration ended, so did the culture and wealth which flowed from it.\"\n\nElsewhere in the Middle East it is a mixed picture for Christians in 2019.\n\nEgypt's Copts, who constitute at least 10% of the country's 100 million-plus population, have come under sustained attack from jihadists who have bombed their churches and attempted to drive them out of northern Sinai.\n\nBut in February Pope Francis made a historic three-day visit to the UAE - the first ever by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula - in which he held a mass attended by an estimated 135,000 mostly migrant Catholics.\n\nThe archbishop warned the West not to be complicit through inaction\n\nAnd in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and a country that has enforced a narrow, austere interpretation of Islam for the last 40 years, the first Coptic Christian mass was allowed in December.\n\nIn Syria, the Christian minority felt deeply threatened by the largely Islamist element amongst the rebel groups. With President Assad's forces now in the ascendant, as a result of some often brutal tactics, Syria's Christians may be breathing a small sigh of relief.\n\nIn Iraq though, the outlook for Christians remains bleak. Sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims persist and there are still unknown numbers of IS fighters hiding out in the north and west of the country.\n\nArchbishop Warda has reached a bitter conclusion about what the future holds.\n\n\"Friends, we may be facing our end in the land of our ancestors. We acknowledge this. In our end, the entire world faces a moment of truth.\n\n\"Will a peaceful and innocent people be allowed to be persecuted and eliminated because of their faith? And, for the sake of not wanting to speak the truth to the persecutors, will the world be complicit in our elimination?\"", "Most families do not choose to send their children to their nearest school, shows the biggest ever study of state secondary school choices in England.\n\nMore than 60% opt for a school that is further away - usually because it is higher achieving.\n\n\"Contrary to a widely-held belief, only a minority of parents choose their local school as their first option,\" say researchers.\n\nIt also debunks the idea that richer families are more engaged with choices.\n\nThe study, from researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Bristol, is the most detailed examination of choices of secondary school places in England, using more than 520,000 applications from 2014 to 2015.\n\nIt found that parents were actively using the system of preferences - and were not passively accepting their nearest option.\n\n\"On average we found parents and pupils usually attempt to try to study at the highest-attaining school, rather than the one which is closest,\" said Prof Anna Vignoles, from the University of Cambridge.\n\nDespite any assumptions about the \"sharp elbows\" of middle-class families, there was no significant difference in behaviour between wealthier and more disadvantaged parents.\n\nBoth were similarly engaged in using choices to seek more desirable school places.\n\nParents in poorer areas were more likely to opt for schools further away - with researchers suggesting this was because richer families were more likely to live closer to high-performing schools.\n\nOn average across the country, about 39% make their nearest school their first preference.\n\nDifferent parts of the country allow different numbers of preferences - usually three or six options - and the study found that where more options were offered, parents made twice as many choices.\n\nThe researchers said parents wanted to express more preferences, and having three rather than six choices could push parents into making pragmatic choices, rather than what they might really want.\n\nParents of black and Asian children were likely to make more choices than parents of white children - and were more likely to seek places further from where they lived, usually for a higher-achieving school.\n\nThe study suggests that this could be because black and Asian families were less likely to live near the most sought-after school.\n\nThe research shows parents are actively using the choice system to get places in higher-achieving schools\n\nBut they were also less likely than white families to get into their first preference, says the study being published in the Oxford Review of Education.\n\nThis could be because black and Asian families were making more \"ambitious\" first choices, which were less likely to be available.\n\nWhile families were ready to look further afield for a better school, the admissions system can often prioritise places for those living closest to the school.\n\nThe study examines the big national patterns of choices in the state sector - it does not look at individual motivations or different types of school, such as parents applying to faith schools or grammars.\n\nIn a rural area there might also only be one realistic option - and in cities, some popular schools might be so oversubscribed that parents might not want to \"waste\" a choice on applying.\n\nProf Vignoles said choices were often made with a \"degree of caution\", particularly in places where there were only three preferences.\n\n\"Due to the limit in the number of options allowed, first choice schools may be 'safe' rather than 'ambitious',\" she said.\n\nAllowing parents more preferences would increase the \"quality\" of their choices, said Prof Vignoles.\n\nProf Simon Burgess, from the University of Bristol, said 85% of people getting their first choice could show people were making \"pragmatic choices based on the probability of admission\".\n\nA more successful system, he argues, could have a lower proportion getting their first pick, as it would show more people trying to get into the \"best schools\".\n\nAt present, because most entry is based on how close people live to schools, he says families often \"do not bother applying\" to the highest-achieving schools because they have no realistic prospect of getting a place.", "Six regional airports have come to the end of a 24-hour strike by air traffic controllers.\n\nThe affected airports were Benbecula, Dundee, Inverness, Kirkwall, Stornoway and Sumburgh.\n\nThe union Prospect has called for a staff pay rise of at least 10%, arguing that air traffic controllers in the private sector earn much more.\n\nHial, which is owned by the Scottish government, said it had to follow government pay policy.\n\nThe company said the travel plans of 6,000 people had been disrupted by the strike.\n\nWick John O'Groats Airport had also expected to be affected by the strike, but Hial said it had made arrangements to keep the site open.\n\nBarra, Campbeltown, Islay and Tiree airports also remained open on Thursday.\n\nSumburgh was one of six regional airports shut because of the strike\n\nThe controllers have been working to rule since the beginning of April.\n\nProspect agreed to suspend a strike planned for 26 April to allow for talks.\n\nBut the discussions, facilitated by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, broke down earlier this month and a strike date was set for Thursday.\n\nHial has said the controllers' wage demand \"greatly exceeds\" the policy, adding that the comparison with the private sector was \"misleading and unrealistic\" due to the different volume of air traffic movements.\n\nInglis Lyon, Hial managing director, told BBC Scotland: \"I think Prospect is being unreasonable. Prospect has dug in and maintained their requirement for the 10% wage award against no justification.\n\n\"It's an impossible ask for any employer, Scottish government-sponsored or otherwise.\"\n\nHowever, Prospect said the airports company should stop \"antagonising\" staff and focus on persuading the Scottish government to help resolve the dispute.\n\nDundee Airport was closed from midnight to midnight due to the industrial action\n\nDavid Avery, of the union, said Hial had made one pay offer - a 2% increase - to its member and they had rejected it three times.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that he did not know how long the dispute could \"drag on\" but that the current industrial action was scheduled to continue through to August.\n\nMr Avery said: \"We wouldn't want to take action if we don't need to and we would still like ministers and Hial to come forward with a proposal to resolve this.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has urged both Prospect and Hial to return to talks.\n\nUisdean Robertson, chairman of the Western Isles Transport Committee, has called on the Scottish government to intervene in the dispute.\n\nHe said with high demand on the islands' ferry services the \"last thing that was needed\" was cancelled flights.\n\nMr Robertson said: \"I think we have reached the stage now where the government needs to get involved.\n\n\"The sooner the whole issue is resolved the better.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Zuckerberg spent time in France last week, discussing regulation with President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFacebook has published its latest \"enforcement report\", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.\n\nDuring that six-month period, Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before.\n\nMore than seven million \"hate speech\" posts were removed, also a record high.\n\nFor the first time, Facebook also reported how many deleted posts were appealed, and how many were put back online after review.\n\nIn a call with reporters on Thursday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hit back against numerous calls to break up Facebook, arguing its size made it possible to defend against the network's problems.\n\n\"I don't think that the remedy of breaking up the company is going to address [the problem],\" he said.\n\n\"The success of the company has allowed us to fund these efforts at a massive level. I think the amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems... I believe is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year.\"\n\nFacebook said the rise in the number of deleted fake accounts was because \"bad actors\" were using automated methods to create large numbers of them.\n\nBut it said it spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to \"cause harm\".\n\nThe social network will now also report how many posts were removed for selling \"regulated goods\" such as drugs and guns.\n\nIt said it took action on more than one million posts selling guns in the six-month period covered by the report.\n\nFor some types of content, such as child sex abuse imagery, violence and terrorist propaganda, the report estimates how often such content was actually seen by people on Facebook.\n\nThe report said that out of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed on Facebook:\n\nOverall, about 5% of the monthly active users on Facebook were fake accounts.\n\nFor the first time, the report reveals that between January and March 2019 more than one million appeals were made after posts were deleted for \"hate speech\".\n\nAbout 150,000 posts that were found not to have broken the hate speech policy were restored during that period.\n\nFacebook said the report highlighted \"areas where we could be more open in order to build more accountability and responsiveness to the people who use our platform\".", "Brazilian cosmetics group Natura has announced that it is buying UK-based direct-selling cosmetics business Avon.\n\nNatura, which already owns The Body Shop and Aesop, is Brazil's top business in cosmetics, perfumes and toiletries.\n\nIts all-stock offer of about $2bn (£1.6bn) means Natura shareholders will hold 76% of the combined company, which will have annual revenue of over $10bn.\n\nThe deal will create the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company.\n\nThe new combined company will boast 3,200 stores worldwide with a presence in 100 countries.\n\nAvon has been struggling to modernise its global business over the last few years, as its door-to-door sales model has become less popular in the internet age.\n\nIn 2016, the company said it was moving its headquarters from New York to the UK \"over time\" while cutting 2,500 jobs worldwide as part of a turnaround plan.\n\nAt the same time, Avon sold its US operations to investment fund Cerberus.\n\nIn April, LG Household & Health Care agreed to acquire both Avon and Cerberus' stakes in the US business.\n\nAccording to analysts at Brasil Plural, Natura is \"pursuing the goal of becoming a global brand\", but warned it would need to significantly invest in Avon's operations in Brazil.\n\nAvon already has 2.2 million direct marketing consultants in Brazil.\n\nNatura has a similar business model and many Avon representatives in Brazil also sell Natura products too.\n\nThe Brazilian cosmetics maker purchased The Body Shop in a deal believed to be worth 1bn euros ($1.1bn; £880m) from French beauty group L'Oreal in 2017.\n\nSince then, Natura has been trying to turn The Body Shop around, which has suffered from increased competition and a difficult retail environment.\n\nL'Oreal bought the business for around €940m in 2006 at the height of its success but it has failed to thrive since.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams have been abandoned by Fifa.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino said last year the expansion from 32 teams could be brought forward from 2026 to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.\n\nThe change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties with other countries in the region.\n\nWorld football's governing body said after a \"thorough and comprehensive consultation process\" the change \"could not be made now\".\n\nFifa also said it explored the possibility of Qatar hosting a 48-team tournament on its own but has decided not to pursue those plans as there was not enough time \"for a detailed assessment of the potential logistical impact\".\n\nIn a statement, Qatari World Cup organisers said: \"Qatar had always been open to the idea of an expanded tournament in 2022 had a viable operating model been found and had all parties concluded that an expanded 48-team edition was in the best interest of football and Qatar as the host nation.\n\n\"With just three and a half years to go until kick off, Qatar remains as committed as ever to ensuring the 32-team Fifa World Cup in 2022 is one of the best tournaments ever and one that makes the entire Arab world proud.\"\n\nIn November, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said adding 16 teams to Qatar 2022 could create \"many problems\" and described the idea as \"quite unrealistic\".\n• None US, Canada & Mexico win right to host 2026 World Cup\n\nThose close to the Qatar 2022 organisers say this is a mutual decision that realigns them and Fifa, and that they are now concentrating on delivering the best possible 32-team World Cup.\n\nBut it will also have come as a major relief to the hosts, who no longer have to worry about sharing football's showpiece event.\n\nPerhaps with the Nobel Peace Prize in mind, Fifa president Gianni Infantino had pushed for an expansion against Qatar's wishes, hoping it may help heal diplomatic tensions in the region by staging some games in other countries, but he has now had to admit defeat.\n\nWith Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain all maintaining a blockade of neighbouring Qatar, such an audacious move was never going to be straightforward.\n\nThe crisis left only Kuwait and Oman as potential co-hosts, but a Fifa study concluded that neither would meet all logistical requirements.\n\nInfantino has previously collaborated with Saudi Arabia when proposing a revamped Club World Cup, and many suspected this was linked to his suggestion that the country could be part of the solution for an expanded 2022 tournament.\n\nBut given the condemnation that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country's consulate in Istanbul last year, along with its role in Yemen's bloody civil war, such a step would have sparked a major backlash from human rights campaigners, as it would have done if the UAE had been awarded games.\n\nSo while some national football associations and Infantino will no doubt be disappointed at the news, many others will welcome it.\n\nWhy does Fifa want to expand the World Cup?\n\nIn January 2017, Fifa voted unanimously in favour of increasing the World Cup to 48 teams for the 2026 event - which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.\n\nIn October 2018 Infantino said \"we have to see if it is possible\" to bring the expansion forward to 2022.\n\nInfantino has been a strong advocate of the expansion and said the World Cup has to be \"more inclusive\".\n\n\"We are in the 21st century and we have to shape the World Cup of the 21st century,\" he said when announcing the change.\n\n\"It is the future. Football is more than just Europe and South America, football is global.\"\n\nThe expansion in 2026 will see an initial stage of 16 groups of three teams precede a knockout stage for the remaining 32.\n\nThe number of tournament matches will rise to 80, from 64, but the eventual winners will still play only seven games.\n\nThe tournament will be completed within 32 days - a measure to appease powerful European clubs, who objected to reform because of a crowded international schedule.", "Prochlorperazine is prescribed for nausea and dizziness\n\nFour pharmaceutical firms have been accused of illegally colluding to restrict the supply of an anti-nausea tablet, driving the price paid for it by the NHS up by 700%.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the cost of prochlorperazine rose from £6.49 per pack to £51.68, after suppliers agreed not to compete.\n\nThe drug is often prescribed to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.\n\nOne of the firms named, Alliance Pharma, denied the allegations.\n\nIn a statement of objections, the CMA says that between 2013 and 2018, the annual cost of 3mg dissolvable prochlorperazine tablets increased from approximately £2.7m to £7.5m, even though the NHS dispensed fewer packs during that period.\n\nIt claimed that sharp increase was the result of four companies - Alliance Pharma, Focus, Lexon and Medreich - agreeing not to compete against each other for the supply of the prescription-only pills.\n\nAlliance supplied prochlorperazine exclusively to Focus, which the CMA says then paid Lexon a share of its profits from the sales.\n\nLexon, the competition regulator alleges, then shared these payments with Medreich.\n\nChemotherapy patients are often prescribed prochlorperazine to help with dizziness\n\nThe CMA alleges that, before entering into this arrangement, Lexon and Medreich had been planning to launch their own jointly-developed prochlorperazine.\n\nIn a statement, Alliance said it had \"no involvement in the pricing or distribution of prochlorperazine since 2013, when it was out-licensed by the company to Focus Pharmaceuticals Limited on an exclusive basis as is normal market practice\".\n\nThe firm added: \"Alliance has not had control of or influence on, and nor has it benefited from, any price increases.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Focus, Lexon and Medreich for comment.\n\nThe CMA's Ann Pope said: \"Agreements where a company pays a rival not to enter the market can lead to higher prices and deprive the NHS of huge savings that often result from competition between drug suppliers.\n\n\"The NHS should not be denied the opportunity of benefitting from an increased choice of suppliers, or lower prices, for important medicine.\"\n\nThe companies concerned will now have the opportunity to respond to the CMA's provisional findings.\n\nIf it eventually determines that competition law has been broken, the CMA can impose a financial penalty of up to 10% of each company's worldwide turnover.", "Cdre Cooke-Priest has been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October last year\n\nThe captain of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has been removed from the ship amid claims he misused an MoD car.\n\nCommodore Nick Cooke-Priest was flown off the ship as it was anchored in the Firth of Forth.\n\nThe navy said it was a \"precautionary measure\" in an \"ongoing investigation\".\n\nIt earlier said Cdre Cooke-Priest was being \"reassigned\" duties, but would sail from Rosyth on the Firth of Forth to Portsmouth as planned.\n\nDespite being removed from the ship, it is understood he remains officially in charge and will formally hand over to a new commanding officer of the £3bn carrier later this month.\n\nCdre Cooke-Priest, who joined the Royal Navy in 1990, has been in command of HMS Queen Elizabeth since October last year.\n\nLast week it was revealed the navy was investigating reports he had used his Ministry of Defence car - a Ford Galaxy - for his own personal trips.\n\nHMS Queen Elizabeth sits in the Firth of Forth on 22 May\n\nAnyone who has use of an MoD vehicle can only use it for official business, with each mile needing to be recorded.\n\nBut the BBC has been told that thousands of miles on the clock of Cdre Cooke-Priest's vehicle have not been accounted for.\n\nA Royal Navy spokesman said: \"In light of the ongoing investigation, as a precautionary measure, to protect the individual and the ship's company, the Royal Navy has decided that Capt Cooke-Priest will not be at sea with HMS Queen Elizabeth.\"\n\nThe Royal Navy has already been accused of handling this affair badly, and its latest actions may make matters worse.\n\nRemoving a commanding officer from his ship while still at sea is nothing short of brutal, particularly when many have already spoken out in his support.\n\nBut it's a sign that Cdre Cooke-Priest had already lost the trust of his superiors - and at least some of his crew.\n\nNot a mutiny, but certainly a question of confidence.\n\nThe offence of using a work car for personal trips may appear to be relatively minor. But to the top brass it was more serious.\n\nNavy sources have told the BBC he had repeatedly ignored warnings.\n\nIt wasn't just about breaking rules. It was seen as a sign of \"arrogance and sense of entitlement\".\n\nFriends of Cdre Cooke-Priest still plead that he was ignorant of the rules. But it is hard to see how his career will recover.\n\nWhat was at first described as \"administrative\" action might now turn into more serious disciplinary proceedings.", "The polls have closed in the UK for the European Parliament elections.\n\nSeventy-three members, known as MEPs, will be elected in nine constituencies in England, and one each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEach region's number of representatives is based on its population - from three MEPs in north-east England and Northern Ireland to 10 in south-east England.\n\nThe results will be announced once all EU nations have voted, expected to be completed by 22:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Netherlands also voted on Thursday while voting in other EU nations will take place at various times over the next three days.\n\nVoters had to be registered to vote, be 18 years old or over on 23 May, be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of an EU country.\n\nThey had to be resident at a UK address (or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years) and not be legally excluded from voting.\n\nMEPs are elected in the order listed by their party, based on the total share of the vote in each region.\n\nIn the nine English regions, Wales and Scotland, the number of MEPs is calculated using a form of proportional representation known as the D'Hondt formula, and each voter can choose one party or individual to back.\n\nThe process is slightly different in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used, allowing voters to rank the parties standing in order of preference.\n\nVoters could stop for a poll and a pint in the Cotswolds\n\nThe trend of dogs at polling stations continued with a vengeance\n\nThis caravan offered voters in Leicestershire the chance to have their say\n\nThese monks in East Lothian carried out their civic duty at the village hall\n\nThis supermarket car park in Bristol became a hub for democracy\n\nAnother multi-purpose polling station at this launderette in Oxfordshire\n\nAnd the West Blatchington Windmill in Hove offered another novel place to cast a vote\n• None EU citizens in UK turned away from polls", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Verve's Richard Ashcroft on the end of Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute\n\nOne of rock music's most famous injustices has finally been resolved.\n\nFor the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bitter Sweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.\n\nThe song was embroiled in a legal battle shortly after its release, as it samples an orchestral version of The Stones' song The Last Time.\n\nAs a result, writer Richard Ashcroft had to sign over his rights to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - until now.\n\nSpeaking as he received a lifetime achievement prize at the Ivor Novello Awards, Ashcroft announced: \"As of last month, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for Bitter Sweet Symphony, which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do.\"\n\nAs a result, all future royalties for the song will now go to Ashcroft.\n\nThe singer acknowledged that it was the Rolling Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, rather than the musicians themselves.\n\n\"I never had a personal beef with the Stones,\" he told the BBC. \"They've always have been the greatest rock and roll band in the world.\"\n\nHe went on to thank Jagger and Richards for acknowledging he was responsible \"for this [expletive] masterpiece\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAccording to Rolling Stone magazine, the royalty dispute arose in 1997 when The Verve sought permission to sample a short, staccato string sequence from the symphonic version of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra.\n\nThe Stones agreed to license a five-note segment in exchange for 50 percent of the royalties, but Klein claimed the Verve voided the agreement by using a larger portion of the song.\n\nABKCO Records, Klein's holding company, filed a plagiarism case, after which The Verve relinquished all their royalties and publishing rights to ABKCO, and the song credit reverted to Jagger and Richards.\n\nThe situation rankled The Verve for years.\n\n\"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split,\" recalled bassist Simon Jones.\n\n\"Then they saw how well the record was doing they rung up and said, 'We want 100 percent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice.'\"\n\nThe bitterest pill came when the song was nominated for a best song Grammy - with Jagger and Richards' names on the ballot.\n\nAsked in 1999 if he believed The Verve had been treated fairly, the Stones' guitarist replied: \"I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer [stuff].\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.\"\n\nAshcroft told the BBC that the dispute came to an end following negotiations with Klein's son, and the Rolling Stones new manager Joyce Smyth.\n\n\"It's been a fantastic development,\" he said. \"It's life-affirming in a way.\"\n\nOne unexpected benefit is that the singer can once again enjoy international football.\n\n\"They play it [Bitter Sweet Symphony] before England play. So I can sit back and watch England... and finally just enjoy the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, The Rolling Stones acknowledged that Ashcroft had been denied the rights to \"one of his most iconic songs, including the lyrical content\" for more than two decades.\n\n\"Of course there was a huge financial cost but any songwriter will know that there is a huge emotional price greater than the money in having to surrender the composition of one of your own songs. Richard has endured that loss for many years.\"\n\nBitter Sweet Symphony has sold 1,276,209 copies in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company, including 70,593 this year.\n\nAshcroft picked up the outstanding contribution prize at Thursday's Ivor Novello Awards, which recognise achievement in songwriting.\n\nOther winners included Deep Purple, Dido and Mariah Carey, who won the special international award.\n\n\"I rarely get acknowledged for my songwriting, which is the core of who I am,\" said the diva in a video message - due to the fact she's performing at an AIDS gala in Cannes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"It's a beautiful thing to feel appreciated for the music I've been making for my entire career.\"\n\nMariah Carey has had 18 number one singles in the US\n\nCarey has written or co-written 17 US number one singles, including Vision of Love, Hero, We Belong Together and Fantasy (her 18th number one, I'll Be There, is a cover of a Jackson 5 song).\n\nHer festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has become a modern-day standard, and was streamed a staggering 38 million times in the UK last year alone.\n\nGrime pioneer Wiley received the \"inspiration\" prize and instantly handed it over to his father, the reggae musician Richard Cowie.\n\n\"It's because of him that I do it,\" said the star. \"I want to big up my dad.\"\n\nSocially-conscious punk band Idles won album of the year, while The 1975 took home two prizes - songwriters of the year and best contemporary song for the state-of-the-nation pop anthem Love It If We Made It.\n\nOrganisers hailed the \"brilliantly diverse\" range of songwriting talent in the UK, noting that 70% of this year's nominees were being recognised for the first time.\n\nSongwriters of the year - The 1975\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The 1975 bag top awards at the Brits", "PSNI officers Mark Hamilton (below left) and Steve Martin (below right) are up against GB policemen Jon Boutcher (top left) and Simon Byrne (top right)\n\nThe new chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is expected to be named later.\n\nInterviews were held on Thursday and Friday, with four men in the running for the £207,000-a-year job.\n\nTwo PSNI officers - Steve Martin and Mark Hamilton - are up against GB policemen Jon Boutcher and Simon Byrne.\n\nThe new chief constable will take up his position after George Hamilton retires next month.\n\nMr Hamilton's successor is being chosen by a panel of seven Policing Board members, but only four of the five main parties are represented.\n\nA special meeting of the board has been called for 17:00 BST on Friday.\n\nAn announcement is due on Friday evening after Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley approves the appointment in the absence of a justice minister at Stormont.\n\nIndependent recruitment specialists have been hired to oversee the process.\n\nA senior occupational psychologist will \"dip sample\" notes taken by selection panel members and ask them to justify the marks they allocate to shortlisted candidates.\n\nMr Martin and Mr Hamilton hold the posts of deputy chief constable and assistant chief constable respectively.\n\nUntil last year, Mr Byrne was chief constable of Cheshire Police, while Mr Boutcher is the head of Bedfordshire Police.\n\nFor the past three years, Mr Boutcher has also been running a major inquiry into the historical activities of the Army agent within the IRA known as Stakeknife.\n\nNew oversight arrangements have been built into the recruitment process after claims that Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald had compromised the competition.\n\nIn February, she voiced opposition to the chief constable being replaced from within the PSNI.\n\nThe board took legal advice on keeping MLAs on the interview panel and its solution was to hire a firm of external advisors to monitor scoring.\n\nIt is understood that Mrs Kelly withdrew from the process at an earlier stage.\n\nAs the only SDLP MLA on the board, she could not be replaced by anyone else from the party.\n\nA Policing Board spokesperson said: \"The withdrawal has no impact as the panel remains representative.\n\n\"It will now comprise the following members: Anne Connolly, John Blair, Alan Chambers, Linda Dillon, Colm McKenna, Wendy Osborne and Mervyn Storey.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Undercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities\n\nThe abuse uncovered by the BBC at specialist hospital Whorlton Hall has been condemned as \"appalling\" by a government minister.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nUndercover BBC Panorama filming showed adults with learning disabilities and autism being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nA police investigation has been launched and 16 staff suspended.\n\nBBC Panorama aired the footage of its investigation into the privately-run, NHS-funded hospital in County Durham on Wednesday.\n\nIt was the result of two months of secret filming by undercover reporter Olivia Davies. Her footage included shocking scenes where some staff can be heard using offensive language to describe patients, while another calls the hospital a \"house of mongs\".\n\nPart of the abuse was described as \"psychological torture\" by experts.\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Dinenage - a minister at the Department of Health and Social Care - made a statement to MPs and called the footage \"disturbing\".\n\n\"The actions revealed by this programme are quite simply appalling, there is no other word to describe it,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I absolutely condemn any abuse of this kind, completely and utterly.\"\n\nShe added: \"On behalf of the health and care system, I am deeply sorry that this has happened.\n\n\"One thing we can all agree on... what was shown last night was not care, nor was it in anyway caring.\"\n\nMs Dinenage said after the government and the Care Quality Commission were told of the allegations of abuse at Whorlton Hall, \"immediate steps\" were taken to ensure the safety of the patients there.\n\nAnd she listed three questions that needed to be asked: whether the activity at Whorlton Hall was criminal; whether the regulatory and inspection framework is working; and also over the commissioning of care services.\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said one of the questions being asked today is why it took a BBC Panorama programme to expose this, and why the authorities did not spot what was happening.\n\n\"The Care Quality Commission had been in three times in the 12 months prior to Panorama going in and they didn't spot the serious problems that were happening,\" he said.\n\nDr Paul Lelliott, from the CQC, previously told Panorama: \"On this occasion it is quite clear that we did not pick up the abuse that was happening at Whorlton Hall. All I can do is apologise deeply to the people concerned.\"\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Ms Dinenage added: \"There are also a range of questions more broadly about whether these types of institutions and these type of inpatient settings are ever an appropriate place to keep the vulnerable for any extended length of time.\n\n\"Where it is essential that somebody has to be supported at distance from their home, we will make sure that those arrangements are supervised.\n\n\"We won't tolerate having people out of sight and out of mind. Where someone with a learning disability or an autistic person has to be an inpatient out of area, they will be now visited every six weeks if they are a child or every eight weeks if they are an adult.\"\n\nIn one case, a patient at Whorlton Hall was told by her care worker that her family are \"poison\".\n\nBBC Panorama's investigation comes eight years after the programme exposed the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View, another specialist hospital, near Bristol.\n\nWinterbourne View was shut down and the government committed to closing other specialist hospitals too, saying care should be provided in the community.\n\nBed numbers have been reduced - from 3,400 to below 2,300 since 2012 in England - but that falls short of the government's target to get the figure down to below 1,700 by March this year.\n\nCygnet, the firm which runs the unit, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it treated allegations of abuse with the \"utmost seriousness\", but could not comment any further because of the police investigation.\n• None How we uncovered abuse at specialist hospital", "Rekognition can match photos to databases holding millions of people's faces\n\nShareholders seeking to halt Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces have been defeated in two votes that sought to pressure the company into a rethink.\n\nCivil rights campaigners had said it was \"perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed\".\n\nBut investors rejected the proposals at the company's annual general meeting.\n\nThat meant less than 50% voted for either of the measures.\n\nA breakdown of the results has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe first vote had proposed that the company should stop offering its Rekognition system to government agencies.\n\nThe second had called on it to commission an independent study into whether the tech threatened people's civil rights.\n\nThe ballot in Seattle would have been non-binding, meaning executives would not have had to take specific action had either been passed.\n\nAmazon had tried to block the votes but was told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it did not have the right to do so.\n\nRekognition gives a confidence score as to whether a person's face is a match\n\n\"We will see what the tally is, but one of our primary objectives was to bring this before shareholders and the board, and we succeeded in doing that,\" Mary Beth Gallagher from the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment told the BBC.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of this movement for us and this campaign will continue. We have built links to civil rights groups, employees and other stakeholders.\n\n\"And the most important thing is that regardless of the result, we still want the board to halt sales of Rekognition to governments, and it has the capacity to do that.\"\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union added that the very fact there had been a vote was \"an embarrassment to Amazon\" and should serve as a \"wake-up call for the company to reckon with the real harms of face surveillance\".\n\nAmazon has yet to comment.\n\nBut ahead of the votes it said it had not received a single report of the system being used in a harmful manner.\n\n\"[Rekognition is] a powerful tool... for law enforcement and government agencies to catch criminals, prevent crime, and find missing people,\" its AGM notes state.\n\n\"New technology should not be banned or condemned because of its potential misuse.\"\n\nAmazon has promoted its tech as a tool to fight crime\n\nRekognition is an online tool that works with both video and still images and allows users to match faces to pre-scanned subjects in a database containing up to 20 million people provided by the client.\n\nIn doing so, it gives a confidence score as to whether the ID is accurate.\n\nIn addition, it can be used to:\n\nAmazon recommends that law enforcement agents should only use the facility if there is a 99% or higher confidence rating of a match and says they should be transparent about its usage.\n\nRekognition can be used to flag \"suggestive content\"\n\nBut one force that has used the tech - Washington County Sheriff's Office in Hillsboro, Oregon, - told the Washington Post that it had done so without enforcing a minimum confidence threshold, and had run black-and-white police sketches through the system in addition to photos.\n\nA second force in Orlando, Florida has also tested the system. But Amazon has not disclosed how many other public authorities have done so.\n\nPart of Rekognition's appeal is that it is cheaper to use than several rival facial recognition technologies.\n\nBut a study published in January by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto suggested Amazon's algorithms suffered greater gender and racial bias than four competing products.\n\nIt said that Rekognition had a 0% error rate at classifying lighter-skinned males as such within a test, but a 31.4% error rate at categorising darker-skinned females.\n\nAmazon said that it ran tests against images of men and women from six ethnicities to check for signs of bias\n\nAmazon has disputed the findings saying that the researchers had used \"an outdated version\" of its tool and that its own checks had found \"no difference\" in gender-classification across ethnicities.\n\nEven so, opposition to Rekognition has also been voiced by civil liberties groups and hundreds of Amazon's own workers.\n\nMs Gallagher said that shareholders were concerned that continued sales of Rekognition to the police risked damaging Amazon's status as \"one of the most trusted institutions in the United States\".\n\n\"We don't want it used by law enforcement because of the impact that will have on society - it might limit people's willingness to go in public spaces where they think they might be tracked,\" she said.\n\nBut one of the directors from Amazon Web Services - the division responsible - had told the BBC that it should be up to politicians to decide if restrictions should be put in place.\n\nRekognition can give a confidence score for several different features\n\n\"The right organisations to handle the issue are policymakers in government,\" Ian Massingham explained.\n\n\"The one thing I would say about deep learning technology generally is that much of the technology is based on publicly available academic research, so you can't really put the genie back in the bottle.\n\n\"Once the research is published, it's kind of hard to 'uninvent' something.\n\n\"So, our focus is on making sure the right governance and legislative controls are in place.\"", "A bullet missed a man by centimetres as police fired on the London Bridge attackers, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Edwards was in the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market when police shot dead the three knife-wielding assailants outside, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of their eight victims was shown a CCTV image of the moment a stray shot came through the pub window close to Mr Edwards.\n\nThe bullet hit a man behind Mr Edwards in the head, seriously injuring him.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, Mr Edwards said a friend of his rushed to give first aid to that man, Neil McLellan, and he survived.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people in the van and knife attack on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nKhuram Butt tried to enter the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Maket\n\nMr Edwards had actually just left the Wheatsheaf pub when he saw three armed men walking towards him, he told the court.\n\nHe said people were screaming and his wife Nicole dragged him back into the pub, where a member of staff locked the door.\n\nButt tried to enter the pub by forcing the door open.\n\nHe seemed \"calm\" and \"determined\", Mr Edwards told the Old Bailey.\n\nHe said Butt had \"canisters\" strapped to him, which later turned out to be part of a fake suicide vest.\n\nby Harriet Agerholm, BBC News reporter, at the inquests\n\nSimon Edwards had been out for a meal and then drinks with his wife and friends when the London Bridge attackers went on their murderous rampage.\n\nSuspense grew in the courtroom as Mr Edwards described how Butt repeatedly tried to kick down the door of the Wheatsheaf pub as scared people hid inside.\n\nAll that secured the door was a single bolt at the top, and the bottom of it flexed with the force of his kicks, he said.\n\nAfter failing to kick his way in, Butt began smashing the window panes surrounding the door with the handle of his knife, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHis voice shook as he told the Old Bailey that Butt only stopped when he saw Redouane and Zaghba set upon a man outside the pub\n\nAll three descended on the victim \"like a pack of wolves\", Mr Edwards said in a statement.\n\nMaking a stabbing movement with his arm, Mr Edwards demonstrated how they knifed the man repeatedly, \"trying to inflict as much injury as they could\".\n\nWhile the attackers were stabbing the man in the street, the pub \"filled with blue lights\" as armed police arrived outside, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHe told the court there were several volleys of bullets and he dropped to his knees to take cover.\n\nAfter noticing there was \"quite a lot of blood\" coming from Mr McLellan's head, he opened the door to shout to police for medical help.\n\nHe discovered later that he too had been cut by shrapnel from the bullet.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "A former footballer has told the BBC he was abused by Bob Higgins and described how young trainees would be desperate to impress the coach.\n\nDean Radford, who has waived his right to anonymity, gave evidence as a character witness because Mr Higgins was found not guilty of abusing him at a separate trial in the early 1990s.\n\nA jury at Bournemouth Crown Court earlier found Higgins guilty of 45 counts of indecent assault.", "Scotland Yard said investigations suggested that a \"blank-firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA man has been arrested after a gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on 9 May.\n\nA 28-year-old man was arrested earlier on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession with intent to supply, and assaulting a police officer.\n\nEvidence suggested the weapon was a blank-firing handgun, police said.\n\nNobody was hurt in the incident. The arrested man remains in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swimmers will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\"\n\nThe rights of transgender women to use a women-only pond in north London have been acknowledged in a new policy.\n\nSwimmers on Hampstead Heath will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\", the City of London Corporation's (CoLC) has said.\n\nAdmission will be granted on a case-by-case basis under the policy.\n\nHowever, Stonewall said the 2010 Equality Act already protected trans people from being discriminated against when accessing services.\n\nStonewall director Laura Russell said it was \"not a new rule\".\n\nShe added: \"Trans people's right to use single-sex spaces, regardless of whether they have legal gender recognition, has been the law for nearly a decade.\"\n\nBut feminist campaigner Amy Desir, who uses Kenwood Ladies' Pond at Hampstead, called the policy \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nMs Desir, from campaign group ReSisters UK, said the policy \"disproportionately discriminates against young women\" and was \"open to abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"Under the policy any man can self-identify and declare themselves a woman.\n\n\"The CoLC is deliberately misusing the Equalities Act and basing the policy on a biased survey.\"\n\nStonewall said transgender men and women had been legally accessing the ponds for \"many years\"\n\nWriter and trans-commentator Jane Fae said she was \"entirely unsurprised\" by the CoLC policy.\n\nShe said: \"All they have done is endorse the law as it stands. If they had done the opposite they would have been taken to court.\"\n\nJoanne Conaghan, a Professor of Law at Bristol University, said: \"Legislation governing the rights of trans people is complicated because the law relating to gender recognition and the rules governing discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment do not neatly align.\n\n\"In particular, the protections accorded to trans people under the Equality Act 2010 is wider than the right to gender recognition conferred by the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\n\"There are limited situations in which transgender people may be denied access to sex-specific services under the Equalities Act 2010, but the City of London's policy is correct to allow trans people a presumption of inclusivity to use ponds that align with their gender identity.\"\n\nA consultation on attitudes to gender identity held last year received nearly 40,000 responses.\n\nCoLC said 65% of the valid respondents to last year's survey favoured ensuring trans people did not suffer discrimination.\n\nBut 46% of the total responses to the consultation were disregarded as invalid on the basis that those respondents did not answer any questions, other than to identify themselves and declare the reason for their interest in the survey.\n\nHampstead Heath has three bathing ponds, including a male only, female only and mixed sex pond\n\nLast year, female activists demonstrated against the right of trans women to use the women's pond by using the men's pond.\n\nThe Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association said it welcomed the decision.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Ladies' Pond is a single sex space and the KLPA is committed to helping to create there an inclusive environment for all women, including transgender women, which is free from discrimination, harassment or victimisation.\"\n\nEdward Lord, chair of the CoLC establishment committee, said: \"This policy will ensure our public services do not discriminate against trans people.\n\n\"All communities should be fully respected, and equality and basic human rights upheld.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC, like other broadcasters, isn't allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election. They include more guidance about polling day, and you can read them here.\n\nOn polling day specifically, the BBC doesn't report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 GMT until polls close at 22:00 GMT, on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer.\n\nThe lists of candidates in each constituency and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information which will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been directly at issue or part of the campaign must not be covered while polls in the UK are open.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhilst the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 GMT, normal reporting of the election resumes, with rolling coverage.", "The Tiger Who Came To Tea author Judith Kerr has died at the age of 95, her publisher HarperCollins says.\n\nCharlie Redmayne, head of her publisher HarperCollins, said she was \"a wonderful and inspiring person who was much loved by everyone\".\n\nKerr, who published more than 30 books over a 50-year career, dreamed up the tiger to amuse her two children.\n\nCharlie and Lola author Lauren Child said she was a \"huge admirer of her work, as a writer and an illustrator\".\n\nRedmayne added: \"She was a brilliantly talented artist and storyteller who has left us an extraordinary body of work.\n\n\"Always understated and very, very funny, she loved life and loved people - and particularly she loved a party.\"\n\nKerr's most popular picture books also included the Mog series, which began with Mog the Forgetful Cat in 1970.\n\nAs a child of the pre-war German intelligentsia, Kerr had to leave her home country with her Jewish parents when Adolf Hitler came to power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Judith Kerr created a tiger story which charmed the world\n\nThe family came to London, via Paris, in 1936 when Judith was 13. She learned perfect English and went on to marry television scriptwriter Nigel Kneale and have two children of their own.\n\nHer books also included a trilogy of books about her childhood and her status as a refugee, the first of which was When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which became a set text in German schools.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judith Kerr: 'Drawing plays an important role in my life'\n\nChildren's author and TV personality David Walliams said he was \"so sad\" at the news of her death.\n\n\"She was a legendary author and illustrator, whose stories and illustrations gave pleasure to millions around the world, not least me and my son. Judith is gone but her books will live on forever.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judith Kerr revisits the childhood home in Berlin she was forced to flee with her family\n\nFrancesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry children's books, told BBC Radio 5 Live she was \"feeling so sad about this\".\n\n\"The fact that she was in her 90s and still so engaged with children's books, and the fact that she came to this country as a refugee and the life that she led.\"\n\nThe Tiger Who Came to Tea still entertains children today\n\nShe said of Kerr's famous Tiger tale: \"It is a perfect book, because it is a mysterious book.\n\n\"On the surface it's a very simple story. It's a tiger who comes in, and is this guest who you're not sure about. But her stories also have this undertone of emotion, which is I think why we keep going back to them, to kind of delve into their mysteries.\n\n\"As well as the most beautiful and glorious illustrations. Her artwork is fantastic.\n\n\"And I love, as a writer myself, that she was writing and illustrating up to the end. In fact I was just trying to get tickets to see her at Hay-on-Wye next week. So I love her continuous engagement with her profession. To me that's unbelievably inspiring.\"\n\nBBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis once asked Kerr if there was any layered meaning beneath The Tiger Who Came to Tea, but was set straight by the author.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by emily m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in 2014, Kerr told Newsnight: \"I've been ridiculously lucky. I'm always conscious of the fact that a million people would give anything.\n\n\"Just to have a tiny bit of what I've had. I've been very, very happy.\"\n\nTV talk show host Jonathan Ross described her most famous work as being \"a huge part of my children's life and I loved reading it for them.\"\n\n\"I doubt there is a more perfect children's book then The Tiger who came to Tea,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tony Parsons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKerr's publisher at HarperCollins, Ann-Janine Murtagh, said it had been \"the greatest honour and privilege to know and publish Judith Kerr for over a decade\", describing her as a person who \"embraced life as one great big adventure and lived every day to the full\".\n\nThe late author was also the patron of the Judith Kerr Primary School; the UK's only German and English bilingual state school, named in her honour.\n\nThe school tweeted to say how \"devastated\" they were to hear the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Judith Kerr Primary This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Seats in the European Parliament representing England, Scotland and Wales are distributed according to the D'Hondt system, a type of proportional representation.\n\nThe nations are divided into 11 electoral regions: nine in England, plus Scotland and Wales. For this election, Gibraltar votes as part of a combined constituency with the south-west of England.\n\nParties vying for election submit a list of candidates to voters in each region.\n\nA system devised by Victor D'Hondt, a Belgian lawyer and mathematician active in the 19th Century, dictates the results:\n\nBy way of example, here are the results for one region of England, the West Midlands, in 2014, which had a total of seven seats in the European Parliament up for grabs. For simplicity's sake, only the five largest parties by vote share are included:\n\nUKIP wins the largest number of votes and the candidate at the top of their list is elected.\n\nAs UKIP already has one candidate elected, its vote is divided by two (one, plus the number of MEPs it has). Now, Labour comes out on top and the candidate at the top of its list of candidates is elected.\n\nAfter Labour's vote is divided by two (one plus the number of MEPs it has), the Conservative Party wins and its top candidate for the region is also elected.\n\nAfter the Conservative vote has been divided by two, UKIP is back on top. The candidate in second place on its list is elected.\n\nSince two UKIP candidates have now been elected, their original vote tally is divided by three (one plus the number of MEPs elected) and Labour secures top spot and a second MEP for the region.\n\nThe original Labour vote is now divided by three (one plus the two MEPs from round five), leaving the Conservative Party to top this round and win a seat for the second person on its list.\n\nThe Conservative Party vote is now divided by three, leaving UKIP in first place to win the final seat for the third candidate on its list.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a different system is used to elect its three MEPs.\n\nVoters have a \"single transferable vote\", meaning that they are able to rank the candidates in order of preference.\n\nTo make the system work, officials first need to calculate a quota. They take the total number of valid votes cast, divide it by the number of seats available plus one, and then add one.\n\nIn the first round, if any candidate secures more first-preference votes than the quota, they are elected.\n\nSurplus votes, ie those received above the quota, are redistributed among the other candidates.\n\nIf not enough candidates have yet reached the quota, then the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the lower-preference votes of their supporters are again re-allocated.\n\nThis process is repeated until the three posts have been filled.", "Elections for the European Parliament are being held on 23 May 2019. Voters will choose 73 MEPs in 12 multi-member regional constituencies.\n\nEach region has a different number of MEPs based on its population. Search your postcode or click the links below to see lists of candidates for your area.\n\nMEPs are elected by proportional representation, in order as listed by their party.\n\nThe number of MEPs each party gets is calculated using a formula called d'Hondt, except in Northern Ireland, where the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system is used.\n\nResults are expected from 21:00 GMT on Sunday 26 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's last-placed Eurovision Song Contest entry has had its score lowered by five points, organisers say.\n\nA revision of scores means Michael Rice's song Bigger Than Us picked up only 11 points from Saturday's final.\n\nThe contest said an incorrect calculation had been used to create a \"substitute\" set of points after the Belarusian jury was dismissed.\n\nThe contest top four is unchanged - and Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands stays the winner with his song Arcade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nRice originally secured 16 points at the event in Tel Aviv, Israel - including three from the public vote - ending up in 26th place.\n\nAfter the revision of scores, the 13 points he was awarded by the juries from the other participating countries dropped to eight points.\n\nThe Belarusian jury had been dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final were revealed, against the contest rules.\n\nThe European Broadcasting Union said it then created a \"substitute aggregated result\" based on the results of other countries with similar voting records to determine the Belarusian jury scores for the final.\n\nHowever, \"due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used\".\n\nIt added: \"The EBU and its partners... deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again.\"\n\nRice told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he was \"really proud of [his] performance\".\n\n\"I enjoyed the whole experience, I was living the dream and I wouldn't change a thing,\" he added.\n\n\"It's just made me stronger. It built my confidence up - I'm back in the studio making my album, so there are things that came from this experience regardless of the result.\"\n\nAsked if he thought it was time for Eurovision's use of judging panels to end, he said it was not his decision to make.\n\nBut he added that the UK team \"walked away with our head held high\".\n\n\"It was an honour to represent the country.\"\n\nThe revision of scores did not impact on Duncan Laurence's victory\n\nUnder the corrected vote, the winning song from the Netherlands secured an additional six points - finishing up on 498 points.\n\nItaly, Russia and Switzerland made up the top four, all gaining extra points.\n\nNorway was among the other countries to have been deducted points, and fell from fifth to sixth place.\n\nDespite the UK result, Rice said he had enjoyed taking part, adding: \"I'm so thankful to the fans... as well as my whole team who have supported me throughout this whole amazing journey.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLionel Messi's two second-half goals - including a stunning free-kick - earned Barcelona a handsome advantage and left Liverpool with an almighty task in their Champions League semi-final.\n\nThe Reds were in the ascendancy despite going behind to Luis Suarez's first-half strike - but they were then hit by a double sucker-punch from the Barcelona number 10.\n\nThe Argentine forward's first was instinctive, as he followed up Suarez's shot that came off the bar, but the second was majestic as he found Alisson's top-right corner from around 25 yards out. That was his 600th goal for the Spanish giants.\n\nLiverpool came agonisingly close to a potentially crucial away goal when Roberto Firmino's strike was cleared off the line, before Salah somehow struck the post rather than scoring with the follow-up.\n\nBarcelona's Ousmane Dembele should have put the tie out of the Premier League side's reach in the closing seconds, but he scuffed it straight at Alisson from a few yards out.\n• None 'I don't know how he does it' - Messi marks 600th Barca goal in style\n• None I don't know if we can play much better - Klopp on Reds' 3-0 defeat\n\nReds out of luck at Nou Camp\n\nWhat more could Klopp ask of his men in the second leg on Tuesday (20:00 BST kick-off at Anfield) after a display where they constantly probed and pressured the competition favourites?\n\nMaybe some luck could have gone their way. Sadio Mane, with 15 goals in his past 18 games, shot well over from eight yards out after he was found by Jordan Henderson's ball from the right in the first half.\n\nAnd in their period of domination after the interval, Ter Stegen was at full stretch to push away Milner's shot before the German dived low to his right to make a one-handed stop from Salah's drive.\n\nLiverpool refused to let their heads drop after Messi's mini-show. However, they must have thought the gods are not shining on them this year after both Firmino and Salah missed clear-cut chances you would have put money on them to score.\n\nThe Reds have been known to produce miracles with a 3-0 deficit. They will need to produce another next week.\n\nThis was the La Liga champions at their most fluid - a supreme example of unpredictable, attacking football with the frontline of Messi, Suarez and Philippe Coutinho all on the same wavelength.\n\nPerhaps more importantly for coach Ernesto Valverde, his defence - disjointed at times against Manchester United in the last eight - was far more resolute against a more fearsome attack.\n\nAfter a period of pressure, they took the lead in the 26th minute when Suarez ran in behind Joel Matip and steered in Jordi Alba's excellent diagonal through-ball.\n\nThe Catalan side conceded possession after the break but, bar those two efforts from Milner and Salah, looked comfortable - before Messi relieved the pressure on his backline with two goals in a seven-minute spell.\n\nHis opener came slightly fortuitously to him after Suarez tried to capitalise on Matip's unintended through-ball.\n\nThat was goal number 599 for the club, so it was only fitting that the next one was something special - a free-kick that looked to be heading for the top corner as soon as it left his boot.\n\nSubstitute Dembele should have put the tie completely beyond the Reds but, like Mane, lacked accuracy with the goal in front of him.\n\nAnother bad away day for Reds - the stats\n• None Messi scored his 600th Barcelona goal, 14 years to the day since he scored his first against Albacete in May 2005.\n• None Barcelona extended their record Champions League run of 32 home matches without defeat (W29 D3 L0), with this their first home win over Liverpool in European competition at the fifth attempt.\n• None Liverpool suffered their joint-heaviest Champions League defeat, also losing 0-3 to Real Madrid in October 2014.\n• None The Reds have lost the away leg of their past six major European semi-finals, four of which have been in the Champions League (previously 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2017-18).\n• None Barcelona (502) became the second team to score 500 Champions League goals, after Real Madrid (551).\n• None Only former Real striker Raul (33) has scored against more different Champions League opponents than Messi (32), scoring his first goal in his third appearance against Liverpool.\n• None Messi has scored eight free-kicks this season - twice as many as any other player in the top five European leagues (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain).\n• None Attempt saved. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lionel Messi.\n• None Attempt missed. Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ivan Rakitic.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Roberto Firmino with a cross.\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An investigation by BBC Arabic has found evidence of alleged war crimes in Libya being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.\n\nThe BBC found images and videos on social media of the bodies of fighters and civilians being desecrated by fighters from the self-styled Libyan National Army.\n\nThe force, led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar, controls a swathe of territory in the east of Libya and is trying to seize the capital, Tripoli.\n\nUnder international law the desecration of bodies and posting the images online for propaganda is a war crime.\n\nThe Foreign Office says it takes the allegations extremely seriously and is concerned about the impact the recent violence is having on the civilian population.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nTottenham face a daunting task to keep their Champions League hopes alive after Ajax secured a crucial advantage in the semi-final first leg.\n\nDonny van de Beek's 15th-minute goal, steered cleverly past Hugo Lloris from close range, put Erik ten Hag's exciting young side firmly in the driving seat going into the second leg in Amsterdam next Wednesday.\n\nSpurs struggled to overcome the absence of forwards Harry Kane and Son Heung-min - injured and suspended respectively - and their job was made even harder by the loss of defender Jan Vertonghen after he suffered a facial injury in the first half.\n\nVertonghen's problem raised questions about player welfare after he was allowed to continue, albeit for only a few seconds, when he was clearly badly shaken up after an aerial collision involving team-mate Toby Alderweireld and Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana. He eventually had to be supported by two members of the Spurs staff as he went off.\n\nTottenham tried to force the pace after the break with plenty of possession, but it was Ajax who came close to adding a second when David Neres struck the inside of the post with Lloris beaten.\n\nAjax held on to their lead in relative comfort and it will need a stirring Spurs comeback to prevent the Dutch side facing either Barcelona or Liverpool in the final on 1 June.\n• None 'Don't rule out Spurs - but brilliant Ajax deal in brutal reality'\n• None 'We're still alive' - Pochettino says Spurs must 'believe' in second leg\n• None Analysis and reaction from the Tottenham v Ajax match\n\nTottenham were not lacking in effort on what many regarded as the biggest night in their history, a first Champions League semi-final staged in their magnificent new stadium.\n\nIt was quality and threat that was missing, with Spurs unable to compensate for the damaging suspension of Son and the injury to top goalscorer Kane.\n\nThe burden fell on to Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli, along with Lucas Moura, but they were simply unable to trouble Ajax on a night of pure frustration for manager Mauricio Pochettino, his players and the supporters who packed this arena and backed their team superbly.\n\nSpurs also missed the midfield industry of the injured Harry Winks and were hit further by the loss of defender Vertonghen, who was surprisingly allowed to carry on briefly despite a heavy blow to the head and apparent questioning by referee Mateu Lahoz.\n\nThe Premier League side are still not out of this tie, and if their Champions League run to the last four has proved anything, it is that they must never be discounted.\n\nHowever, they were second best and lacking in punch here. They will need to produce much better if their dream of advancing to the Champions League final in Madrid is to be realised.\n• None Tottenham v Ajax - how you rated the players\n• None Football Daily: Spurs toppled by Ajax & the handling of head injuries in football\n\nAjax's advance to the Champions League semi-finals has made them the talk of European football after the manner in which they eliminated holders Real Madrid and Italian champions Juventus.\n\nAnd it was easy to see what all the fuss is about as the visitors demonstrated maturity, composure and class in such a high-pressure environment to overcome Spurs.\n\nAjax took the game by the scruff of the neck early on, secured the goal their superiority deserved, then took the sting out of matters when required to close out the win.\n\nCaptain Matthijs de Ligt, just 19, showed leadership qualities beyond his years in defence, organising and ordering more experienced team-mates with expertise.\n\nAnd in Barcelona-bound Frenkie de Jong, 21, and fellow midfielder Van de Beek, who is just a year older, this is an Ajax team with the class and youthful appearance that plays to this club's greatest traditions.\n\nAjax have almost come from nowhere after the group stages - but this is a team that looks like they have the quality and confidence to go all the way.\n• None 'It's in our DNA': How Ajax build success, and prepare for break-up\n• None English sides have lost just three of their past 30 home matches against Dutch opposition in European competition, with Spurs accounting for two of those defeats (also in March 2008 against PSV).\n• None Only one of the 17 previous teams to lose the first leg at home in a European Cup/Champions League semi-final has progressed into the final (Ajax in 1996).\n• None Ajax have scored in nine consecutive Champions League away games for the first time.\n• None Ajax have won their past four away games in the Champions League, having failed to win any of their previous 12.\n• None Tottenham had scored in their previous 20 Champions League games before Tuesday, with Ajax the first side to stop them scoring since Bayer Leverkusen in November 2016.\n• None Ajax have scored 161 goals this season, 63 more than Spurs (98).\n• None Ajax's Dusan Tadic has created 32 chances in the Champions League this season, the most by any player.\n• None The Dutch side's Nicolas Tagliafico has been shown twice as many yellow cards than any other player in the Champions League this season (six). Indeed, only Alessio Tacchinardi (nine, Juventus 2002-03) has been shown more yellows in a single campaign.\n\n'A bit of a let down' - analysis\n\nThe control and calmness to finish the way Donny van de Beek did summed up the first half. He turned inside the area and there was no pressure on him at all. Spurs were just running around like they were in a practice match.\n\nThey never really got into their stride and they were being dominated by a young side. It was a bit of a let down.\n\nSpurs have got quality players but, as a team, there was a gulf in class. Ajax played together and took their training on to the pitch, whereas Spurs played like individuals in the final third.\n\n'We are still alive' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino on BT Sport: \"In the first half we did not start in a good way. Ajax showed more energy, it was difficult for us to play. It was our lack of energy.\n\n\"After we conceded the goal - 25 to 30 minutes in - we started to be in the game. Moussa Sissoko provided good energy.\n\n\"Second half we pushed them and tried to create chances. It was an even game in the second half.\n\n\"We are alive. It's only 1-0 down. We need to believe we can go there and win the game.\n\nOn playing with a five-man defence: \"I can accept it was a mistake the shape we used - but there were not too many options. I am not happy - you cannot guess what happens if we play in a different way.\n\n\"It was the not the shape that conceded the goal. Our approach to the game was not good. I am the manager so I have responsibility.\"\n\nOn Vertonghen's head injury: \"We will assess him in the next few days and we will see.\"\n\nAjax boss Erik ten Hag said: \"Winning 1-0 at Tottenham is an amazing result. We have to learn lessons from tonight, and next week we have to finish it.\n\n\"It's an excellent result. We won, we are satisfied - but we are only halfway through. If you want to get to the final, you have to improve - everyday we want to get better.\n\n\"We're good at defence too. We can play football in different styles, defend really well. I am satisfied.\"\n\nEpic comebacks, record-breaking all-English classics, the world's biggest superstars... is the Champions League your favourite football tournament?\n\nDo you prefer it to the World Cup, the Premier League with this season's incredible title race, La Liga or even the unpredictable EFL?\n\nTell us why. Get involved and contact us here.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Scientists found cocaine in freshwater shrimps when testing rivers for chemicals, a study said.\n\nResearchers at King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Suffolk, tested 15 different locations across Suffolk.\n\nTheir report said cocaine was found in all samples tested. Other illicit drugs, such as ketamine, were also widespread in the shrimp.\n\nThe researchers said it was a \"surprising\" finding.\n\nProfessor Nic Bury, from the University of Suffolk, said: \"Whether the presence of cocaine in aquatic animals is an issue for Suffolk, or more widespread an occurrence in the UK and abroad, awaits further research.\n\n\"Environmental health has attracted much attention from the public due to challenges associated with climate change and microplastic pollution.\n\n\"However, the impact of 'invisible' chemical pollution (such as drugs) on wildlife health needs more focus in the UK.\"\n\nProfessor Nic Bury from the University of Suffolk was one of the researchers\n\nThe study, published in Environment International, looked at the exposure of wildlife, such as the freshwater shrimp Gammarus pulex, to different micropollutants.\n\nResearchers collected the samples from the rivers Alde, Box, Deben, Gipping and Waveney.\n\nThey said in addition to the drugs, banned pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also widespread in the shrimp that were collected.\n\nThe potential for any effect on the creatures was \"likely to be low\", they said.\n\nDr Leon Barron, from King's College London, said: \"Such regular occurrence of illicit drugs in wildlife was surprising.\n\n\"We might expect to see these in urban areas such as London, but not in smaller and more rural catchments.\n\n\"The presence of pesticides which have long been banned in the UK also poses a particular challenge as the sources of these remain unclear.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A formal inquiry is to be held into the leaking of discussions about Huawei at the National Security Council, the BBC has learned.\n\nThis follows the Daily Telegraph publishing details of a meeting about using the Chinese telecoms firm to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have denied they were involved in the leak.\n\nCabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill is to lead the inquiry, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nBut following Tuesday's meeting, the Daily Telegraph reported that the NSC had agreed to allow Huawei limited access to help build Britain's new 5G network, amid warnings about possible risks to national security.\n\nIt also reported that various ministers had raised concerns about the plan.\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Wright told MPs: \"We cannot exclude the possibility of a criminal investigation here and everyone will want to take seriously that suggestion.\"\n\nAmid speculation about who was behind the leak, several ministers have denied any involvement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Huawei leak: Minister says he cannot rule out a criminal investigation\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said divulging sensitive information was \"completely unacceptable\", adding: \"If it happens it should absolutely be looked at.\"\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt denied the leak had come from them, with Mr Hunt calling it \"utterly appalling\".\n\nSources close to International Trade Secretary Liam Fox also categorically denied that he had been involved.\n\nAccording to the Daily Telegraph, Huawei would be allowed to help build the \"non-core\" parts of the UK's 5G network, such as antennas.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nEarlier, former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon told the BBC: \"All those involved should be investigated now to find out who this leaker is.\n\n\"Ministers are subject to the Official Secrets Act just like anybody else. It is an offence to divulge secret information from the most secret of all government bodies, which is the National Security Council. It has got to be stopped.\"\n\nWhen questioned, Prime Minister Theresa May replied: \"We don't comment on leaks and on those matters.\n\n\"On the overall matter of security and our telecoms network, we are very clear that we give that high priority. We want to ensure we see greater resilience in our telecoms network and that we are able to provide high levels of cyber security, but we also see diversity of suppliers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Alex Hepburn was found guilty earlier this month of rape following a retrial\n\nA \"foul sexist\" cricketer has been jailed for raping a sleeping woman.\n\nEx-Worcestershire player Alex Hepburn assaulted the victim at his Worcester flat after she had consensual sex with his then teammate Joe Clarke in 2017.\n\nThe 23-year-old was found guilty of rape earlier this month and sentenced to five years at Hereford Crown Court.\n\nJudge Jim Tindal told him the sexual conquest \"game\" he had set up on a WhatsApp group was \"laddish\" behaviour that \"demeaned women\".\n\nHe told Hepburn he had \"arrogantly\" believed his victim would consent, during the attack.\n\n\"You thought you were God's gift to women,\" he said.\n\n\"You did see her at that moment as a piece of meat, not a woman entitled to respect.\"\n\nHepburn was found guilty of one count of oral rape and cleared of one rape charge following a retrial at Worcester Crown Court.\n\nThe woman woke up after a night out on 1 April and wrongly believed she was having sex with Mr Clarke before realising it was actually Hepburn, the trial was told.\n\nHepburn posted rules of the \"stat chat\" game about many women he and Mr Clarke could have sex with on a WhatsApp group a week before the rape.\n\nHis bid to collect \"as many sexual encounters as possible\" as part of the game was \"foul sexism\", Judge Tindal said.\n\n\"It demeaned women and trivialised rape - a word you personally threw around lightly,\" the judge said.\n\n\"Only now do you realise how serious rape is.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, read to the court by prosecutor Miranda Moore QC, the woman said she suffered recurring nightmares in the form of \"a repeat of the rape\", which had also led to the collapse of her relationship with her then boyfriend.\n\nDescribing her ordeal as evil and a \"heinous crime\", she added: \"I take off my hat to anyone who can hold down a healthy happy relationship, after being raped.\n\n\"I am flooded with guilt that I can't ever seem to escape.\"\n\nThe trial was told the woman met Mr Clarke in a nightclub before returning to his flat where they had sex.\n\nHe left his bedroom during the night to be sick and remained passed out in his bathroom.\n\nHepburn found the woman asleep on a mattress after arriving back at the flat \"alone, drunk and frustrated\" and he \"saw a chance\" and attacked her, the court heard,\n\nThe woman only realised it wasn't Mr Clarke when Hepburn spoke in an Australian accent.\n\nHepburn's barrister, Michelle Heeley QC, said her client had expressed \"true remorse\", adding: \"He has lost everything: his career, his good character and ultimately his liberty.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A landslide destroyed more than a dozen homes in the Bolivian city of La Paz on Tuesday.\n\nLocal media reported that 17 houses were lost, but no deaths were reported as authorities had evacuated the area.", "The Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948\n\nMPs have reported the Home Office to the equalities watchdog over the Windrush scandal, accusing it of unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe group of 87 says the Home Office discriminated as a \"direct result\" of so-called hostile environment policies.\n\nThe letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission claims the government broke, and is breaking, equalities law.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation\".\n\nThe Windrush scandal involved the wrongful detentions and deportations of some members of the Windrush generation - the thousands of people who travelled to the UK from the Caribbean in the years after World War Two.\n\nIn the letter, David Lammy - chair of the all party parliamentary group on race - says the Home Office is acting in breach of equalities legislation by \"routinely\" discriminating on the basis of Britons' race.\n\nIt adds: \"Clearly, the Windrush scandal represents one of the gravest breaches of equality law and the rights of British citizens in recent memory.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK, who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries, have been called the Windrush generation, in reference to a ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed, despite living in the country for decades.\n\nA review by a Home Office taskforce of 11,800 Caribbean cases identified 164 who were deported or detained who might have been resident in the UK before 1973.\n\nThe taskforce has traced 137 of those people, of whom 19 are known to have died.\n\nAt least 18 would receive a formal apology, the government said last year. This month, the government said there was \"no cap\" on possible compensation for those affected.\n\nMany of the new arrivals were children\n\nIn the letter, the MPs call on the commission to look into how the Home Office contributed to the government's \"hostile environment\" policy and its impact on the Windrush generation.\n\nThey also argue the Home Office breached the public sector equality duty, which means public bodies have to have \"due regard\" to eliminate discrimination and advance equality.\n\nThe signatories are from six different parties, with most from Labour and none from the Conservatives.\n\nThey include shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Luciana Berger from The Independent Group, the SNP's Alison Thewliss and Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glenda Caesar wants compensation for loss of earnings, stress, and lost pension\n\nMr Lammy said: \"The gross mishandling and abuse of the Windrush generation by the Home Office raises serious questions over whether British citizens were discriminated against on the basis of their race and ethnicity, in breach of equalities legislation.\n\n\"More than a year after I first raised this in Parliament, nothing has changed. Justice must mean not only due compensation and reparation, but changes to the institution and immigration laws that created this crisis.\"\n\nThe \"hostile environment\" approach to curbing illegal immigration has been blamed for members of the Windrush generation, who were in the UK legally, being wrongly threatened with deportation.\n\nThe letter said the policy was \"deeply discriminatory\", arguing that black Britons are being discriminated against, while white Britons are not.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said: \"The home secretary and the immigration minister are committed to righting the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation and the recently launched compensation scheme is a crucial step in delivering on that commitment.\n\n\"The Windrush generation have given so much to this country and we will ensure nothing like this ever happens again, that is why the home secretary commissioned a lessons learned review with independent oversight by Wendy Williams.\"\n\nThe commission said it would consider the issues raised.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has revealed a series of changes to the firm's portfolio of social platforms, including Instagram and Whatsapp.\n\nThe new designs and features for its apps are a direct response to widespread criticism of how the firm protects user data.\n\nMr Zuckerberg said the company plans to put privacy first.\n\nHe acknowledged that there was much to do to rebuild trust.\n\nIn a speech to developers, Mr Zuckerberg described the firm's new focus on privacy as \"a major shift\" in how the company is run.\n\nSome of the more visible changes to those who use the firm's products will include:\n\n\"The future is private,\" Mr Zuckerberg said - adding, in a nod to the tech giant's stream of privacy scandals: \"I know we don't have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly\".\n\nHe said Facebook was focused on looking at ways to encode privacy across the firm's entire infrastructure.\n\n\"It's not going to happen overnight and to be clear we don't have all the answers,\" he said.\n\nHe has previously said that he believes that people will want to talk privately in small groups and communities in the future.\n\nHowever he will have to convince the public that Facebook is the place to do this, some commentators noted.\n\n\"The big question is how it will perform in a regulated social media world in 2019 and beyond,\" said social media consultant Matt Navarra.\n\n\"My verdict: it will go the distance and bounce back, but its reputation will remain in tatters for years to come.\"\n\nPrivate private private - that's the future of Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg has said before, but he offered more details today.\n\nThe design changes are the biggest refresh in around five years. It puts greater emphasis on groups and private interactions, encrypted messages that Facebook itself won't be able to access.\n\nAnd, here's the big news... it will no longer be blue. The desktop apps show Zuckerberg has things like Apple's iMessage in his sights.\n\nBut Facebook needs to prove this is more than just a paint job if it's to get out of its current troubles.\n\nMark Zuckerberg made a brief mention about the company not having a good reputation on privacy right now - almost smirking as he said it. The company is working to regain trust, he insists.\n\nAt the same time it must show it continues to innovate even with all its bigger distractions. That's perhaps the bigger risk to Facebook here: while it's fixing its problems, competitors are working hard to gain ground.\n\nOther announcements included a new feature called Secret Crush, part of Facebook Dating, which will let Facebook members in some countries tag up to nine of their friends to whom they are attracted.\n\nIf the recipient of the crush is also using the feature and nominates them as well, then both parties will receive a message to say they have matched.\n\nFacebook Dating will roll out in 14 new countries including the Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore. It is not currently available in Europe or the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee tries out the new Oculus Quest\n\nThe firm also revealed the launch date for its new stand-alone, wireless VR headset, Oculus Quest - which does not require a connection to a PC, smartphone or games console.\n\nMark Zuckerberg announced that everyone attending the conference would be given one as a gift.\n\nIt will go on general sale on 21 May.\n\n\"Facebook remains deeply committed to its vision for VR as the next computing platform despite a slow start,\" commented analyst Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.\n\n\"New Oculus products will further refine the VR experience but there remains a disconnect between Facebook's vision and the reality which is dominated by gaming rather than social interaction.\"", "Public hearings begin on Tuesday in the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal in the UK.\n\nThousands of NHS patients with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nMartin Beard found out he was HIV positive at the age of 17, and was told at the time he had only two years to live. He describes living through \"a very difficult, dark time\" at the height of the stigma surrounding HIV.\n\nThe inquiry opened in September 2018 and is expected to hear evidence from many people who have been affected.", "There are \"no plans\" for Jussie Smollett to return to the sixth season of Empire, TV network Fox says.\n\nThe actor, who plays Jamal, was accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January - which he's always denied.\n\nHe was charged with allegedly lying to police, but Chicago prosecutors later dropped the case.\n\nThe decision was criticised by Chicago authorities, with Mayor Rahm Emanuel calling it a \"whitewash of justice\".\n\nSmollett's character was removed from the final two episodes of season five and now it looks unlikely he will return for the new season.\n\nIn a statement, Fox said: \"By mutual agreement, the studio has negotiated an extension to Jussie Smollett's option for season six, but at this time there are no plans for the character of Jamal to return to Empire.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Jussie Smollett case has been a complicated one to keep up with:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 27 March: The two sides in the Jussie Smollett case\n\nPolice claimed the attack was planned by the actor as a publicity stunt but Smollett has always maintained his innocence.\n\nPresident Trump called the case an \"embarrassment\" for the country while Chicago's mayor said the actor took \"no sense of ownership of what he's done\".\n\nThe city of Chicago has started legal action against Smollett to try to recover the cost of its investigation into the alleged attack.\n\nHis legal team is also being sued for defamation by the Osundairo brothers who say they continue to be accused of carrying out the assault.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Link is increasing the fee it pays cash machine operators to keep remote free-to-use machines available.\n\nOperators will be offered up to £2.75 per withdrawal to persuade them to keep at-risk machines free.\n\n\"It is vital we continue to provide free access to cash to those who need it,\" said Link chief John Howells.\n\nBut Jenni Allen of Which? said: \"Boosting premiums for remote machines has so far not been enough to stop cashpoints closing around the country.\"\n\nMany of the machines are in deprived areas where cash use is higher, which means locals are hit if ATMs are withdrawn or a charge is introduced.\n\nLast year Which? claimed that 300 ATMs were closing a month, although the consumer group's analysis was disputed by Link.\n\nLink, the UK largest ATM network, said last summer that machines in remote locations could receive an extra subsidy, particularly if they are threatened with closure.\n\nToday it has announced a new super premium which will be introduced in April.\n\nIt will be offered to around 3,500 free-to-use ATMs that are currently 1km or more away from the nearest free-to use ATM, with between 50 and 100 eligible for the full £2.75 subsidy.\n\nCurrently, operators of eligible ATMs receive a top-up subsidy of up to 30p through Link's financial inclusion programme.\n\n\"These premiums will further safeguard ATMs in remote and less well-off areas,\" said Mr Howells.\n\nKaris Burns works at one of Britain's remotest cash machine locations\n\nOne of Britain's remotest cash machines is on Britain's most northerly island, Unst.\n\nIt's part of the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland and has an estimated population of 632.\n\nKaris Burns, pictured above, who works at P&T Coaches which houses the only cash machine on Unst, says: \"It's quite important to have a cash machine here, the only other place to get cash is at the local post office about half a mile away.\"\n\nShe said the machine is used \"about six or seven times a day, although in the summertime it's used a bit more\".\n\nThe summer usage is boosted by tourists who visit Unst, although Karis admits: \"We're quite remote.\"\n\nThe cost of taking out cash at the machine is £1.99.\n\nAccording to Link, Britain's remotest free-to-use machine is at Lloyds Bank branch in St Mary's on the Isle of Scilly (pictured).\n\nIt's 50km away from the next nearest ATM, at Penzance on the mainland, a ferry ride away.\n\nThere's just one ferry operator which sails up to seven times a week, with the journey taking a minimum of 2 hours and 45 minutes.\n\nLink's move follows a row over plans for a phased reduction in interchange rates, the fee operators receive from banks.\n\nThe fee is being cut from 25p to 20p over the next three years but the move which led to accusations that \"cash deserts\" could be created as operators shut less lucrative machines.\n\nThere are more than 50,000 free-to-use ATMs across the UK - and the vast majority will not be eligible for the new super premiums.\n\nCurrently, around 3,500 ATMs are protected - because they are more than 1km away from the next nearest free machine or are located in particularly deprived parts of the country where access to cash is vital.\n\nAround £100bn is spent in shops using coins and notes every year, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.\n\nIts national chairman Mike Cherry said the launch of the super-premiums \"highlight the fundamental failures of our ATM market\".\n\nHe said: \"The Payment Systems Regulator must now intervene and help the industry formulate a long-term strategy for maintaining free access to cash right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Allen of Which? Money agreed, saying: \"What is urgently needed is for a regulator to be given a duty to protect access to cash, so that the millions of people who rely on it in their lives are protected from rapid changes through ATM and bank branch closures.\"\n• None Thousands of cash machines may be axed", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Have drinking habits changed? The Nine spoke to a variety of people one year on from the introduction of minimum pricing\n\nMinisters are hopeful that new statistics will show Scotland's drinking habits have changed after a new law pushed up the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol.\n\nIt is a year since the introduction of a minimum price for drinks depending on how many alcohol units they contained.\n\nPublic Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said he was proud that the government had implemented the measure.\n\nHe was hopeful figures would show there had been a \"positive impact\".\n\nThere were 1,235 alcohol-related deaths in Scotland in 2017 and almost 35,500 hospital admissions.\n\nThe Scottish government introduced minimum unit pricing in May last year in a bid to cut consumption and save lives.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said: \"I'm really proud to be part of the government that introduced minimum unit pricing - the first in the world.\"\n\nHe told BBC Scotland that new data on the effect of the policy was due to be published in mid-June.\n\n\"I'm very hopeful that this will show that there has been a positive impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Anecdotally I'm hearing from a number of people who have changed their drinking habits and there's some anecdotal evidence to suggest that when the evidence comes out in June, it will be positive.\"\n\nBBC Scotland's The Nine has spoken to people around the country about how they have been affected by the new drinking laws.\n\nConor, Rebecca and James are studying in Dundee\n\nFirst-year anatomy student Conor, 18, reckons he drinks about 20 units a week - mostly lager.\n\nHe supports minimum unit pricing but it has had little effect on his drinking habits. In fact, he drinks more than he did last year as he has embraced his new university life.\n\n\"You're young, you drink and I don't think that will ever change, no matter what law you put in place,\" he said.\n\nRebecca, 21, is in her third year of an international business degree.\n\nShe \"pre-drinks\" gin with friends before going to bars and clubs, as she finds it more affordable.\n\n\"I don't think it's affected me too much,\" she said. \"It's affected more own brands and I wouldn't tend to buy them anyway.\"\n\nMeanwhile, engineering student James, 21, said he had seen his friends switch from drinking cheap cider to \"better quality\" drinks.\n\n\"It's cut out the really cheap and unhealthy stuff, it's made that less of an option,\" he said.\n\n\"Obviously it's there if you really want to drink it but why would you when you can pay the same amount for better-quality alcohol?\"\n\nSachin Patel has seen an increase in profits at his shop in Muirkirk\n\nSachin Patel no longer sells Frosty Jacks cider in his shop in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, after its price rose from about £3.50 to about £11.50.\n\nCustomers refused to pay the increased price, instead opting for fruit ciders or even spirits.\n\nMr Patel said he could now match the prices offered by supermarkets, which used to sell spirits as \"loss leaders\" to entice customers into the store.\n\nA bottle of Glens vodka used to be £9.99 - now he sells it at minimum unit price of £13.13.\n\n\"Because of that our profit margin is increased,\" he said. \"That works better for us as retailers even if the volume we sell is less, the margin is greater.\"\n\nHe has concerns that the new law has led to an increase in violence against retailers.\n\n\"If someone wants alcohol, they're going to beg, borrow or steal,\" he said. \"The retailers are taking the brunt.\"\n\nBut he is generally in favour of the policy.\n\n\"For us, it protects the retailers. It's helped people limit the amount of alcohol they consume because they're on a budget. On the whole I think it's a good idea.\"\n\nDanny is an alcoholic and has to beg for money for drink\n\nDanny, 45, is an alcoholic who says he \"drinks as much as possible\" every day.\n\nHe said he has seen an increase in shoplifting since the new law pushed up the price of cheap drink. He can get a bottle of stolen vodka for £5 on the black market.\n\nAnd he says he has to beg on the streets to feed his addiction.\n\n\"I don't want to say it's for a can of beer,\" he said. \"You say it's for something to eat, some place for the night.\n\n\"Because they'll not give you the money because they'll say you'll spend it on drink, you'll spend it on drugs.\n\n\"And I'm not a bad person, I'm an alcoholic. I've got serious problems, issues inside and I consume the drink to help with the problems.\n\n\"But the price of the drink is ridiculous.\"", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Football should introduce \"temporary concussion substitutions\" says a brain injury charity in the wake of a head injury suffered by Jan Vertonghen.\n\nThe Tottenham defender was treated for five minutes on the pitch and tried to play on but was led off after appearing unwell during a 1-0 Champions League semi-final first-leg defeat by Ajax.\n\nHeadway says a \"reliable diagnosis\" cannot be made on the pitch because the \"pressure is enormous and unfair, particularly in high-stake games such as Champions League semi-finals\".\n\nSpokesman Luke Griggs told BBC Sport: \"It is hugely disappointing that we are once again talking about concussion rather than the game itself.\n\n\"Concussion is notoriously difficult to diagnose. The symptoms may be hidden and require the individual to be honest about how they're feeling, while they can also be delayed in their presentation.\n\n\"Assessing a player for three minutes - or even five, as was the case with Jan Vertonghen - does not allow for medical staff to make a reliable diagnosis, particularly when this is conducted on the pitch under the gaze of tens of thousands of fans eager for the game to resume.\"\n\nHeadway has also called for an \"urgent review\" into concussion protocols.\n\n\"We believe the time has come for football to introduce temporary concussion substitutions that would allow for longer off-pitch assessments to be conducted,\" added Griggs.\n\n\"In addition, independent doctors with expertise in concussion and head injuries should make the ultimate decision as to whether or not a player is fit to continue.\n\n\"Not every head injury will result in a concussion. But allowing players to continue while showing clear signs of discomfort following a head injury is contrary to the 'if in doubt, sit it out' principle at the heart of all effective concussion protocols.\"\n\nSpurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said he believed medical staff followed the correct protocols before allowing 32-year-old Belgian international Vertonghen back on the pitch.\n\nNo ambulances were called to the stadium and Vertonghen was later seen walking freely through the media zone after the match.\n\n\"I wasn't involved. It was the doctor's decision,\" said Pochettino immediately after the game. \"The rules and the protocols are there. Our medical staff followed the protocol.\n\n\"He's OK. We hope it is not a big issue. He walked away from the stadium. We know we have to keep watching and monitoring him because it was a big knock.\"", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "British Steel has secured a £100m loan from the government to pay its EU carbon bill, a source close to the company has said.\n\nThe money means the private equity-owned firm will avoid a steep EU fine.\n\nThe firm said earlier this month it needed the funds to settle its 2018 pollution bill due at the end of April.\n\nSky News said the government money was used to pay for the company's carbon credits - and that British Steel would repay the money on commercial terms.\n\nThe firm has been hit by a European Union decision to suspend UK firms' access to free carbon permits until a Brexit withdrawal deal is ratified.\n\nThe EU's emissions trading system's rules allow industrial polluters to use carbon credits to pay for the previous year's emissions, or trade them to raise money.\n\nEach free permit gives a firm the right to emit a ton (1,000kg) of carbon dioxide (CO2).\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) declined to comment on British Steel specifically, but said it was in \"regular conversation with a wide range of companies\".\n\nBeis is expected to make a formal announcement on Wednesday.\n\nBritish Steel has previously said ministers and officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had \"been responsive and supportive\".\n\nPrivate equity firm Greybull Capital rescued Tata Steel's long products business - which makes steel for the rail and construction sectors - during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt paid a nominal £1 fee for the assets, but pledged to plough up to £400m into the business which it rebranded British Steel.\n\nWorkers had to take pay cuts and reductions in their pensions in return, but the company has since returned to profit.\n\nThe company employs 4,000 people at its Scunthorpe plant and has sites in Teesside, Cumbria and North Yorkshire.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"I have voted consistently in Parliament for us to leave the European Union.\"\n\nTheresa May has said she hopes the UK will leave the EU well before the new 31 October Brexit deadline.\n\nShe told MPs there was no reason the UK could not leave in a matter of weeks once MPs backed an agreement, which they have so far rejected three times.\n\nShe signalled she hoped to get Labour backing for any new customs proposal before putting it to Parliament again.\n\nShe said their aims were \"very similar\" and \"sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing\".\n\nLabour wants the PM to sign up to the idea of a customs union with the EU, something she has adamantly opposed up to now, and some have suggested she is moving in their direction.\n\nMost Conservative MPs have said they would not support the move, saying it would mean the UK would not have an independent trade policy.\n\nMrs May chose to open talks with Jeremy Corbyn after Parliament rejected the withdrawal agreement she has negotiated with the EU a third time late last month.\n\nAfter this defeat, the EU extended the deadline for the UK's departure - originally set for 29 March - until 31 October.\n\nMrs May told MPs she hoped the extension would be \"terminable\" well before this date and the UK would find itself outside the EU \"as soon as possible\".\n\nAppearing before the Liaison Committee of senior MPs, she said the choice facing Parliament was the same as when it last rejected her agreement.\n\nMPs could opt to agree a deal and leave in an orderly fashion, to leave without a deal, hold another referendum, or to stay in the EU by revoking Article 50 - only the first of which she found \"acceptable\".\n\nShe said she was \"convinced\" that reaching out to Labour to try and build a majority for any deal was the right thing to do.\n\nIf no agreement was reached, she said the government would stand by its commitment to give MPs the chance to vote on a series of options, with ministers abiding by the outcome.\n\nPressed by Labour MP Hilary Benn on whether this would include a customs union, Mrs May pointed out that Parliament had already rejected the idea on more than one occasion.\n\nBut she added: \"Various terms are used in relation to customs. Sometimes people use different terms to mean the same thing, sometimes it is meaning different approaches.\n\n\"But what I think is important when we comes to that process is that anything we put before the House, I hope would would be able to get agreement with the opposition so there is a process that everyone can stand behind.\"\n\nAsked whether she was prepared to soften her opposition to a customs union, she said both sides needs to \"identify\" what they were trying to achieve.\n\nOn the issue of post-Brexit trade, she said the government and Labour had \"very similar\" objectives, which were to protect jobs and to ensure as frictionless as trade as possible.\n\nBut Labour MP Yvette Cooper said MPs felt \"they were going around in circles and paralysed like nothing is changing\".\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, who voted against the deal three times, said the PM had been under no obligation to agree the terms of the extension offered by the EU.\n\nIn response, she told him that if all Conservatives had voted to leave the EU the UK would no longer be a member.\n\nWhile the UK's policy was to leave with a deal, she insisted this was \"not entirely in the hands of the UK government\" as it would be up to the EU to decide on any further extension.", "The four artists competing for this year's Turner Prize have been announced with investigative art, works blurring fact and fiction and explorations of oppression dominating the shortlist.\n\nThe nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who is British but based in Beirut, London-based Helen Cammock and Tai Shani and Colombian Oscar Murillo.\n\nTheir works will go on show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate from 28 September until January 2020.\n\nThe winner is announced on 3 December.\n\nArts editor Will Gompertz has been looking at the artists and their work.\n\nBeirut-based Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist more interested in the ear than the eye. He thinks of himself as an \"audio investigator\" who makes films, installations, and gives performative lectures based on earwitness (not eyewitness) accounts from oppressed individuals, or, in another project, from racially-profiled individuals who are being judged on the basis of how they pronounce certain words or syllables.\n\nHelen Cammock is also interested in sound and history. She too makes films and gives spoken word performances.\n\nBut her area of investigation is past events and their histories; not a single, definitive written account but a variety of views and texts, which can be perceived differently when spoken by other people.\n\nFellow London-based artist Tai Shani shares Cammock's interest in the written word and associated assumptions, depending on the gender and perceived status of the author.\n\nShe also organises performances, makes films, and creates installations.\n\nThe difference with Shani is she's not that interested in multiple viewpoints of history, more in creating alternative, almost gothic worlds that blur fact and fiction, or truth and myth, with the intention of disrupting a real world dominated by, and centred around, a white, western, male point of view.\n\nOscar Murillo is a Colombian-British artist and the most established name on the shortlist.\n\nHe became an instant art world hit when he first emerged on the scene six years ago. His work made huge sums for a relatively unknown 20-something artist.\n\nThings cooled for a bit - but now he's back, with his semi-abstract paintings on unstretched canvasses hanging limply like curtains in a bedsit with too few hooks.\n\nThey are, in a way, more like objects in an installation than pictures to put on a wall. He, like his fellow nominees, is exploring the politics of identity, oppression, and marginalised people.\n\nThe winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony broadcast live on the BBC.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mohamed Noor was taken into custody upon his conviction\n\nA former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been found guilty of murdering an unarmed Australian woman.\n\nMohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape behind her Minneapolis home on 15 July 2017.\n\nNoor, 33, testified last week that he opened fire because he feared he and his partner were being ambushed.\n\nMs Damond, 40, a yoga instructor from Sydney, was engaged and was due to marry a month after the shooting.\n\nThe death drew international criticism and Australia's prime minister at the time, Malcolm Turnbull, said it was \"inexplicable\".\n\nNoor was handcuffed and taken into custody immediately upon being convicted by a jury on Tuesday of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.\n\nHe was acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.\n\nThe trial heard the victim, a dual US-Australian citizen, lay dying from a gunshot wound just over a minute after ending a phone conversation with her fiance.\n\nShe had told Don Damond that police had just arrived after she called them to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind their home. No such attack was ever found to have occurred.\n\nNoor took the stand last week to say he recalled seeing a blonde female in a pink T-shirt approach his squad car on the night of the shooting.\n\nHe said he believed there was an imminent threat after he heard a loud bang and saw Ms Damond with her right arm raised.\n\nNoor said his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, shouted \"Oh Jesus!\" and fumbled with his gun in its holster before \"he turned to me with fear in his eyes\".\n\nThe defendant said he \"had to make a split-second decision\" and shot Ms Damond across his partner through the car window.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Damond's family hold a silent vigil at a beach in Sydney last year\n\nNoor told the court that upon realising he had shot an unarmed woman he \"felt like my whole world came crashing down\".\n\nProsecutors questioned whether the loud bang was real, pointing out that neither Noor nor his partner initially mentioned anything at the scene about hearing such a noise.\n\nMs Damond's fingerprints were not found on the squad car, the court heard.\n\nShe had moved to the Midwestern city to marry her boyfriend, Don Damond, and had adopted his surname ahead of their nuptials.\n\nMr Damond was in Las Vegas, Nevada, when investigators called him to say she was dead.\n\nHe told the court he learned from a second phone call that she had been shot by a police officer.\n\nMr Damond said contacting her family in Australia to tell them the news was the \"worst phone call\" he ever had to make.\n\nNoor is a former Somalian refugee whose family moved to the US and settled in Minneapolis.\n\nHe joined the police force in 2015, but was sacked after being charged in the shooting.\n\nThe fallout also cost Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau her job and was a factor in the election defeat of the city's mayor a few months later.\n\nThe Damond family have filed a civil lawsuit against the city and several police officers seeking $50m (£38m) in damages.\n\nMinneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo apologised to Damond's friends and family in a statement released after Tuesday's verdict was read.\n\n\"This was indeed a sad and tragic incident that has affected family, friends, neighbours, the City of Minneapolis and people around the world, most significantly in her home country of Australia,\" he said.", "Sales of Apple's iPhones fell at their steepest-ever rate, according to data for the three months to the end of March.\n\nThe firm said revenue from the iPhone dropped by 17%, compared with the same period a year earlier, to $31bn.\n\nHowever, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said sales were stronger towards the end of March, including in China where it cut iPhone prices to boost demand.\n\nApple lifted its outlook for the three months to June.\n\nThat sent shares more than 5% higher in after-hours trading.\n\nThe company had warned of slowing iPhone sales earlier this year, especially in China, where Apple competes with cheaper rivals such as Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi.\n\nBut Mr Cook said price adjustments in China, lower Chinese taxes on the iPhone and new trade-in and financing deals helped sales start to recover toward the end of the quarter.\n\nHe also credited improving demand for products such as the Apple Watch, along with progress in US-China trade talks.\n\nApple chief executive Tim Cook and Oprah Winfrey at the launch of Apple TV+ in March\n\n\"The trade relationship, versus the previous quarter, is better. The tone is better,\" Mr Cook told Reuters. \"The sum of all of this together, it helped us.\"\n\nApple has lifted its guidance for its third quarter revenue to between $52.5bn and $54.5bn.\n\nFor the three months to March, total sales hit $58bn compared to analysts' estimates of $57.3bn.\n\nHowever, that is below total sales of $61.1bn in the second quarter last year. And while demand improved in China, sales in the region were still down by 20%.\n\nProfits for the second quarter fell to $11.5bn compared to $13.8bn in the same period a year ago.\n\nApple is attempting to shift its reliance on the iPhone towards services and last month unveiled its new TV streaming platform, Apple TV+, to take on the likes of more established companies such as Netflix.\n\nServices revenue rose to $11.4bn from $9.8bn in the same quarter last year.\n\nBut Yoram Wurmser, principal analyst at eMarketer, said long-term growth in services and, to a less extent, other devices \"depend on having as many users as possible in the Apple ecosystem, and that's still primarily about the iPhone\".\n\n\"The long-term growth of the company still depends directly and indirectly on iPhone sales,\" he added.", "Derek Martindale was given a year to live\n\nIt has been a long time coming - more than three decades to be precise.\n\nAt long last a full public inquiry into the infected blood scandal has started a process which will attempt to give victims and their families some answers.\n\nPreliminary hearings last September set out the wide-ranging scope of the inquiry.\n\nNow witnesses, including those infected and affected, have begun giving evidence.\n\nIn other countries where haemophiliacs and others became infected with HIV and hepatitis C through treatment by their health systems, politicians have been held to account and full compensation has been paid.\n\nThe UK has not moved in the same way to try to establish who was responsible and why the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS was allowed to unfold.\n\nA clotting agent, Factor VIII, was made from donated blood, some of which was infected and had come from paid foreign donors including prisoners. The big question is who at high levels of the NHS and government knew what and when.\n\nHere in the UK there has been one privately funded inquiry with no powers to compel witnesses to attend.\n\nNow, under Sir Brian Langstaff, the new statutory UK-wide inquiry is under way which in his own words will be \"independent of government, and frightened of no-one in the conclusions it may draw\".\n\nHe is well aware of allegations of a cover-up in Whitehall with documents destroyed.\n\nThe opening day of evidence has served as a reminder of what was inflicted on patients who went to the NHS for treatment in good faith.\n\nDerek Martindale, comforted by his son John sitting beside him, described being treated with blood products for his haemophilia in the mid-1980s but with no warning about the risks of contracting HIV and hepatitis C.\n\nHe asked for an HIV test and was told he was positive but was instructed not to tell anyone including his family and parents.\n\nHis brother, also a haemophiliac, later died with Aids and he spoke of the devastating impact on his parents.\n\nAt the end of Mr Martindale's evidence, people in the room stood and clapped.\n\nDr Hill didn't find out for 20 years that she had hepatitis C\n\nDr Carole Hill had a blood transfusion in 1987 but it wasn't until 2017 that she was told she had hepatitis C.\n\nIt transpired clinicians had carried out a test a few months earlier after she went in for another appointment.\n\nDr Hill said she was angry at the way she had been dealt with by the NHS in recent years.\n\nShe said better communication was required and more effort should be made to contact others who had blood transfusions and might have been infected with hepatitis C.\n\nPerry Evans told the inquiry of his sadness at the impact on friends and family when he revealed his health condition.\n\nHe was told he was HIV positive in 1985 following treatment for his haemophilia but it transpired doctors had known several months before and not told him.\n\nHe spoke movingly about living with HIV at a time of scare stories and stigma.\n\nVictims and their campaigning groups, supported by the judge, have called for more generous financial support.\n\nThe Scottish government increased payouts after the Penrose inquiry but England, Wales and Northern Ireland have lagged behind.\n\nHours before the first inquiry, it was announced at Westminster that total annual funding would be increased from £46m to £75m for recipients in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Beard was told he was HIV positive at the age of 17\n\nThe authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to follow but this is subject to further discussions.\n\nComing late in the day and without much detail, the government's financial announcement did not seem to impress many of the key participants.\n\nThere has been no change to unpopular means-testing and no solid demonstration that there can be parity of payments across the UK.\n\nCompensation is another matter and could involve large sums of money.\n\nClaims could hinge on the findings of this infected blood inquiry and the extent to which it finds fault at the heart of government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ben McDonald's death was \"out of the blue\"\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen.\"\n\nBen McDonald, 25, died after going into cardiac arrest at the finish line of the Cardiff Half Marathon in October 2018.\n\nA defibrillator was used and although it did not save him, his family want more of them in public places.\n\n\"He was very special,\" said Ben's mother Ruth McDonald, from the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"He was just gorgeous, funny, happy, always smiling, he just wanted every moment to be special.\n\n\"One of his favourite mottos is 'happiness is only real when shared' and he just loved being with people.\"\n\nBen McDonald loved snowboarding and spent two seasons in the Alps\n\nBen's brother Andrew said he loved being active.\n\n\"He was just extremely sporty, extremely active, he loved being outdoors, he loved playing, everything you can hurt yourself doing,\" Andrew said.\n\nThe youngest of four children, Ben had worked at the Cardiff White Water Centre since the age of 16 and was also a qualified teacher.\n\nRuth McDonald said her son was \"always smiling\"\n\nThe 25-year-old was part of a group of seven who took part in the annually-held half marathon race, along with his girlfriend, his brother Steve and his wife, Andrew and his wife and his sister's husband. They had been \"planning it for months\" and were \"getting quite competitive\".\n\n\"It all started so happy, it was a beautiful sunny day, he ran the race, he exceeded the time he set for himself, he beat one of his brothers and then he collapsed as he crossed the finish line,\" Ruth said.\n\n\"He died more or less straight away.\"\n\nRuth said medics used CPR and a defibrillator, but he could not be saved.\n\n\"He was really fit, really healthy, there was no indication that was going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"I think what we've learnt is life is unpredictable, we don't know what lies around the corner.\n\nBen McDonald (third in from the left) ran the Cardiff Half Marathon with family members\n\n\"Screening might have saved Ben, it might not have done. A defibrillator could have saved Ben, but it didn't.\n\n\"But we really endorse the fact that we need defibrillators everywhere, so that people can get instant or as instant help as possible and screening might show things up.\n\n\"So it's important young people getting involved in sports activities have their hearts checked over.\"\n\nShe added: \"We didn't think this would happen to us... Ben was going to be fine and we'd see him get married and have children and get old and that didn't happen.\n\n\"Enjoy every moment with your children because you never know which moment is the last moment and family life is precious, tell those you love, you love them.\"\n\nA second man, Dean Fletcher, 32, from Exeter, also died at the event after crossing the finishing line within minutes of Ben on 7 October.\n\nIn the wake of Ben's death, his charity page, in aid of Maternity Africa in north Tanzania, received hundreds of donations, raising almost £21,000 for the charity.\n\nThe family have since all had heart screening and want to help raise awareness of the importance of defibrillators in public places.\n\nAndrew said: \"It's so stereotypical to be like 'he was a great guy, he was lovely, everyone loved him', but he was. He was above and beyond that.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was just so out of the blue, it could happen to anybody, our motto was live for that moment.\n\nThe family all have a tattoo, similar to one Ben also had, showing the things he loved\n\n\"You can't live your life scared, but there are things you can do, wear a helmet if you're out snowboarding, if you can get your heart checked out, get it checked out.\n\n\"If it saves one person's life [heart screening] that's good, because it's not just the person who dies that suffers, everybody suffers and that's the hardest part.\"\n\nVicki Edwards, Ben's sister said they are trying to do \"things that he loved\".\n\nAmong the plans is a festival style event, BenJam, which will be held on Thursday evening as a \"way to remember his birthday\".\n\nMoney raised from ticket sales will go to the Welsh Hearts charity.\n\nVicki said over 200 people have bought tickets and they hope to make it an annual event.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it has provided funding totalling £586,000 for a project called Save a Life Cymru, which aims to improve access to CPR training and increase the awareness and use of defibrillators.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Labour MP has accused Welsh ministers of being partly to blame for failings in Cwm Taf maternity services.\n\nAn independent review said units at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\" and mothers' worries were often ignored.\n\nPontypridd MP Owen Smith said issues seem to have been \"compounded\" by big service changes.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has said he was \"determined\" to see improvements delivered.\n\nMr Smith said Welsh Government needs \"to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through\".\n\nMr Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures on Tuesday, meaning it will face increased scrutiny.\n\nBoth Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru called on him to resign over the issue.\n\nPlaid has also laid a motion of no confidence in Mr Gething, which will be debated next week, saying the \"distressing\" report into Cwm Taf was \"part of a wider pattern of failing\".\n\nParty health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones kept up the pressure on Mr Gething in the assembly.\n\n\"I'm just really concerned that this is suggesting that we have a minister who doesn't really have a grip on the system,\" she said.\n\n\"Eight reports over six years and nothing was done, until you called for a report years ago.\n\n\"During those years, children died. Mothers were traumatised and families were traumatised.\"\n\nPrince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nMr Smith told BBC Wales said: \"I don't think we can forget the fact that part of the issue here is that there was a massive reorganisation of services.\n\n\"I and many other local politicians opposed it at the time, saying that amongst other things it wasn't necessarily going to solve the problem that it was meant to solve, i.e. difficulty in recruiting midwives.\n\n\"That seems to have been compounded by the reorganisation.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to look at itself about the way that decision was driven through in the light of significant local opposition and the way in which once the decision had been taken it was left to the health board to, sort of, clean up the mess.\"\n\nWhen asked about calls for Mr Gething to resign, Mr Smith said he had spoken to him earlier in the week and was reassured he was on top of the situation.\n\nEarlier, Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, called for Mr Gething and health board leaders to quit.\n\nMr Gething said: \"I am far from complacent about my responsibilities, not only in the sense of the whole performance of the service, not just the challenges but the good that the service does, but my responsibility to see through the improvement that I recognise is plainly required and [I'm] determined to see delivered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nThe chairman of the health board blamed a \"toxic\" culture for problems highlighted in the review.\n\nProf Marcus Longley told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme that the review's findings had \"sent a shock through the entire organisation\".\n\n\"Apologies are empty words if they aren't faced by action,\" he said.\n\n\"We have got some complex issues here that have built up over time. Clearly we have failed in our task.\"\n\nHe highlighted one issue raised in the report that \"doctors and midwives do not work as a unified team all of the time\".\n\n\"That is a really serious issue,\" he said. \"That has built up over many years. It has become custom and practice to work in the wrong way.\n\n\"It's not because we have got wicked or incompetent doctors or midwives at all.\n\n\"It's because those cultures, those working practices are developed which are toxic and we now need to unpack that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nDes Kitto, chief officer of the board of Community Health Councils (CHC) in Wales and former chief officer for patient watchdog Cwm Taf CHC, said the review was \"sickening to the stomach\".\n\nHe said the CHC raised concerns about the number of stillbirths and undertook unannounced visits but \"didn't seem to get any results\", so their concerns were escalated to regulators Health Inspectorate Wales which led to the Welsh Government involvement.\n\n\"Trust has been lost. It has got to be action now from the health board, and not words.\"\n\nHe also said he was unhappy the CHC was not made aware of an internal report by a consultant midwife, produced in September. The independent review criticised Cwm Taf for sitting on it.\n\n\"I don't think we had the full story,\" said Mr Kitto.\n\n\"I don't think there was an attempt to mislead, but patients have been let down and the responsibility goes back to the whole board - we should be looking at how they can rebuild the necessary trust.\"\n\nWhat does special measures mean for Cwm Taf maternity services?\n\nHealth organisations are rated regularly by Welsh Government, Wales Audit Office and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, who decide if they need extra support.\n\nThere are four levels of intervention - and the most serious is special measures. Cwm Taf Morgannwg's maternity units are now at that scale, while the whole health board has also been upgraded to a targeted intervention status.\n\nMr Longley said there was now an \"enormous amount going on\" internally to deal with the 70 recommendations in the review and this was now the health board's \"top priority\".\n\nHe has not put a deadline on the work ahead and believes a number of root causes will take a long time to put right.\n\nMeanwhile, an independent panel will oversee an existing review into 43 cases involving mothers and babies and it has been recommended that this review will also stretch back to examine many more cases stretching back to 2010.\n\nWith its maternity services in special measures, Cwm Taf Morgannwg will not be left to its own devices and will be monitored at every stage.\n\nSome improvements are already in place, but the issues are so varied and deep-rooted it could take months or even years before maternity services are up to scratch and sticking plaster solutions certainly won't be enough.\n\nWhen I spoke to Marcus Longley, its chairman, he said there was a \"chill\" when the full scale of the problems emerged, but the issues stretched back a number of years and there was no easy fix.\n\nWhat's clear, although the health board insist they are safe, maternity services face a long road to recovery and it could take even longer to rebuild public trust.\n\nThe tremors of the independent review will be felt for some time.\n\nLooking further afield, the Welsh Government insist there is no evidence of similar problems elsewhere, yet we know the watchdog Health Inspectorate Wales will be shortly undertaking a review of care for mothers and babies across the country.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children's services in England are at breaking point and need a £3.1bn minimum funding boost by 2025, MPs say.\n\nThe Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said current funding levels were unsustainable.\n\nIts report said as services tried to respond to growing demand, amid severe funding pressures, many were reliant on the goodwill of staff.\n\nThe government said £494m of funding would help children and social work improvements would reduce demand.\n\nThe MPs said overall, England's local authorities had been grappling with budget cuts of 29% since 2010.\n\nThe committee follows a long line of organisations, including councils, children's charities and economists, to raise the alarm over funding levels.\n\nIn children's services, this has led managers to divert funds from the early-intervention non-statutory preventative services that can catch problems before they become crises, to statutory services, which they are obliged to provide by law, at the more severe end of need.\n\nSpending data from the National Audit Office (NAO) shows England's local authorities spent 59% of their children's services budget on statutory services in 2010-11.\n\nBut by 2017-18, councils were spending 75% on statutory services.\n\nAnd despite this, budgets for statutory services in many areas were overspent.\n\nEarlier this year, the NAO found that 91% of councils had overspent the budgets they had set for children's services at the start of the year.\n\nThis amounted to a national overspend of £872m.\n\n\"In recent months, a growing number of local authorities have suggested that they may only be able to provide core services in the future,\" the County Councils Network said.\n\nClive Betts, who chairs the committee, said: \"Over the last decade we have seen a steady increase in the number of children needing support, whilst at the same time funding has failed to keep up.\n\n\"It is clear that this approach cannot be sustained and the government must make serious financial and systemic changes to support local authorities in helping vulnerable children.\n\n\"They must understand why demand is increasing and whether it can be reduced.\n\n\"They must ensure that the funding formula actually allows local authorities to meet the obligations for supporting children that the government places on them.\"\n\nEngland's Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, said this situation was letting down many vulnerable children who were not receiving the help they needed.\n\n\"We cannot just continue to cross our fingers and hope that vulnerable children will be all right - and this report must be a final wake-up call to the government,\" she said.\n\n\"This year's Spending Review is the moment to act. Ministers must accept that children's services are in desperate need of funding to improve what they offer children rather than just stand still or go backwards.\"\n\nThe government said it aimed to help parents \"who face difficulties, to strengthen their family relationships so they can properly support their children\".\n\nA spokesperson said the government was putting an extra £410m into social care this year, including children's, alongside £84m over the next five years to keep more children at home with their families to reduce the demand on services.\n\nThey said the number of children's services rated outstanding was growing, adding: \"To help continue this trend we are raising the bar in our social work profession, by focusing on improved training and recruitment.\"\n\nBut Kathy Evans, chief executive of Children England, said one very clear and urgent message emerged from the report.\n\n\"There is simply no getting away from the fact that austerity policies are leaving thousands of children and families and many essential local services at absolute breaking point.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Suzanne' says she believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nPolice officers and staff accused of domestic abuse are a third less likely to be convicted than the general public, figures from 37 forces suggest.\n\nThey show 3.9% of claims against police led to a conviction from 2015-18 in England and Wales, compared with 6.2% among the population as a whole.\n\nPolice domestic abuse lead Dame Vera Baird said the issue does not \"appear to be taken as seriously\" as it should.\n\nThe Home Office said it was bringing in reforms \"to improve police integrity\".\n\nFigures from the Freedom of Information request, conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), also found that more than four allegations of domestic abuse against police staff were recorded each week.\n\nFewer than a quarter of those allegations led to disciplinary action.\n\nThere are 200,000 members of the police workforce in England and Wales according to latest figures, of whom 122,000 are police officers.\n\nSuzanne - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme her ex-husband, a police officer, was violent towards her for years.\n\nShe said she eventually called police when he threatened her with a knife, but they did very little.\n\n\"The police turned up and the only advice they gave him was he should leave the house and go for a walk to calm down.\n\n\"I don't remember them talking to me at all,\" she added.\n\nSuzanne said the violence escalated and her ex-husband hit their six-year-old son.\n\nWhen she filed for divorce, she said he raped her.\n\nShe moved out with her children and reported him to his boss.\n\nSuzanne believes her ex-husband was \"protected because of his job\"\n\nA domestic abuse officer came to investigate, but Suzanne says they did not take a statement and no record was made on file.\n\nA few months later, her son was seen by a teacher being pushed into a car by his father.\n\nIn a police interview - which Suzanne says she only saw four years later - her son said his father \"tried to strangle him and had his hands on his throat\", she said.\n\nNo charges were brought against her ex-husband.\n\nShe believes he was \"protected because of his job\".\n\nAfter years of suffering post-traumatic stress, she decided to go back to the police and obtain access to her police file, but she found nothing on record.\n\nThe force said it would investigate her complaint but because there was nothing on file it closed the case.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), asked the force to reinvestigate Suzanne's case last year. And now 16 months later, the force has said it cannot uphold her complaint.\n\nHer husband has since retired but Suzanne now plans to sue the force - which cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nThe national domestic abuse charity SafeLives said the figures showed just \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nChief executive Suzanne Jacob said it \"would urge every police force to pay close attention to what these stories and statistics show us - that women are being silenced and abused by people in positions of trust and power.\"\n\nDame Vera Baird QC said she was \"not surprised that these issues don't appear to be taken as seriously as they should be by the police\".\n\nDame Vera Baird said some officers were \"quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues\"\n\nThere was a \"defensive, mutually supportive culture\" among police officers, she said, which can make \"forces and probably some individual officers quite resistant to hearing about wrongdoing in colleagues.\"\n\nIn Northumbria, where she serves as police and crime commissioner, she said she would look into creating a system where any criminal investigations against police staff would be handed over to a neighbouring force to carry out.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"essential that every allegation of domestic abuse is taken seriously.\n\n\"Where allegations are made against those working for the police, their status and powers mean it is even more important that these are thoroughly investigated to maintain public confidence.\"\n\nIt added: \"Where officers commit a serious breach of the standards expected of them, disciplinary and, if required, criminal proceedings should follow.\n\n\"We are also implementing a wide-ranging programme of reforms to improve police integrity, including improving the transparency of the disciplinary system and strengthening the powers of the IOPC.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None 'Domestic abuse happens to men too'", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGerard Batten has dismissed Nigel Farage's Brexit Party as a \"Tory-lite\" ego trip as he insisted only UKIP has a \"clear policy\" for leaving the EU.\n\nLaunching its European election campaign in Middlesbrough, the UKIP leader said democracy was under threat if the Brexit vote was not honoured.\n\nUKIP was a \"real political party\" with members and a rule book, he said.\n\nIts rival, he said, was a \"wholly owned subsidiary of one man's ego\" and a \"safety valve for disaffected Tories\".\n\nMr Farage, UKIP's figurehead for two decades, quit the party after a bitter fallout with Mr Batten last year.\n\nThe two parties are now competing against each other in elections to the European Parliament on 23 May.\n\nUKIP won the most votes and seats of any UK party when the polls were last held in 2014 but has been consumed by internal rows since then.\n\nMr Batten told activists EU membership had been a \"cancer at the heart\" of British life for more than 40 years, with the transfer of law-making powers \"rotting the soul\" of the country.\n\nHe said Theresa May \"never had any intention\" of delivering on the 2016 Brexit vote and had made the UK a \"laughing stock\".\n\nHe promised to campaign across England and Wales to get UKIP candidates elected on a policy of \"unconditional and unilateral\" withdrawal from the EU.\n\nThe UK should leave without a deal and offer to trade with the EU on a tariff-free basis, or under World Trade Organisation rules, with reciprocal rights for each other's citizens.\n\nLaunching a strong personal attack on Mr Farage, he suggested the Brexit Party was a \"safety valve for disaffected Conservatives\".\n\n\"UKIP is a real political party, that has a constitution, a governing body and a rule book,\" he said. \"It has members with rights who elect a leader.\n\n\"The Brexit Party has no members or structure. It is an autocracy. UKIP has policies and a manifesto. The Brexit Party does not.\n\n\"UKIP is a party of ordinary people from all social classes and backgrounds. The Brexit Party is an alternative Tory Party. It is Tory-lite.\n\n\"Their light blue colours tell you everything you need to know about it.\"\n\nOnly three of the 24 UKIP MEPs elected in 2014 have been selected to represent the party again, with the majority having since left the party.\n\nMr Batten has been criticised for selecting and then defending Carl Benjamin, a candidate in the South West of England who posted a message on Twitter in 2016 saying he \"would not even rape\" the Labour MP Jess Phillips.\n\nHe has described the comments as \"satire\" and said they should be seen in the context of Mr Benjamin's self-appointed stance as a freedom of speech campaigner.", "The failed bid to merge with rival Asda cost Sainsbury's £46m, the supermarket giant has said.\n\nIn April, a proposed merger between Sainsbury's and Asda was blocked by the UK's competition watchdog over fears it would raise prices for consumers.\n\nSainsbury's said that like-for-like sales growth slowed in the fourth quarter, especially over the Christmas period.\n\nIt added it would accelerate investment in its stores and technology.\n\nIn the year ending 9 March, profit before tax fell to £239m, from £409m the previous year.\n\nCosts for the year included the failed Asda bid, restructuring costs of £81m and defined benefit pension expenses of £118m.\n\nRetail analyst Steve Dresser said in a tweet that the second half of the year was \"poor for Sainsbury's really\", taking into consideration \"Halloween, Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Comic Relief\" and a \"hot summer in first half too\".\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe was not his usual Tiggerish self when presenting this set of results.\n\nHe gave the impression of someone trying to make the best of a less-than-ideal outcome - which, of course, he was.\n\nIn his ideal world, he would have been talking about the final preparations for the merger with Asda, but that was blown out of the water by the Competition and Markets Authority last week.\n\nInstead, he was left to describe a fairly mundane set of annual results in glowing terms.\n\nThey show a company that is fighting hard on all fronts - trying to compete against aggressive low-price rivals and a resurgent Tesco, while at the same time finding the money to improve its stores, reduce debt and maintain dividend payments to shareholders.\n\nOnce you include restructuring costs and a £46m hit on the failed deal with Asda, statutory profits were down one-third to £219m - a tiny number for a company that has annual sales of £32bn.\n\nSainsbury insiders had warned against expecting a big strategic relaunch, a Plan B after the Asda failure.\n\nShareholders will still be disappointed that there wasn't one, and will no doubt be pressing hard on whether - or rather when - it will emerge.\n\nChief executive Mike Coupe told the BBC's Today programme: \"Well, we draw a line under the past... The authorities blocked the [Asda] deal, but we think our business is adapting to the changing world of retail, and we will will carry on investing in our business.\"\n\nMr Coupe said Sainsbury's would invest in 400 supermarkets over the next year and would continue to put money into online sales.\n\nThe investment will include refurbishment of some big stores, including Hedge End near Southampton.\n\nHe added that he would be \"sticking to the company\" when questioned about whether he had been asked to step down after the failed merger.\n\nOn a media call, he said \"I'm planning to stay,\" adding that shareholders and the board had been supportive.\n\nSainsbury's shares took a big tumble in February after a preliminary decision against the merger by the competition watchdog, falling from 287.9p per share to 234.5p over the course of a day.\n\nThe share price dipped as low as 216p in the last week of April.\n\nLaith Khalaf, a senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The market's been worried about Sainsbury's ever since the tie-up with Asda fell through, and while underlying performance hasn't been stellar, the supermarket's beaten expectations, and that's provided the share price with a much-needed fillip.\n\n\"However, it's a bit premature to pop any champagne corks just yet.\"\n\nHe said one-off costs had led to a \"steep decline\" in reported profits, adding that \"the supermarket's debt pile also looks pretty high, though the good news is the pension scheme has moved into surplus\".\n\nMr Khalaf added: \"Perhaps most concerning is that sales growth is flatlining at best. In some bits of the business, notably clothing and general merchandise, sales are in retreat. Of course, this all contrasts with a resurgent Tesco, which makes Sainsbury's sales performance look pallid by comparison.\"", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is currently jailed in the UK, and is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.\n\nThe 48-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.\n\nHe sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied.\n\nAfter his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and is currently being held at Belmarsh prison in London.\n\nAn investigation into the 2010 rape allegation has now been dropped by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nBelow is more information on how events have unfolded:\n\nJulian Assange arrives in Sweden on a speaking trip partly arranged by \"Miss A\", a member of the Christian Association of Social Democrats. He has not met \"Miss A\" before but reports suggest they have arranged in advance that he can stay at her apartment while she is out of town for a few days.\n\n\"Miss A\" and Mr Assange attend a seminar by the Social Democrats' Brotherhood Movement on \"War and the role of media\", at which the Wikileaks founder is the key speaker. The two reportedly have sex that night.\n\nMr Assange reportedly has sex with a woman he met at the seminar on 14 August, identified as \"Miss W\".\n\nSome time between 17 and 20 August, \"Miss W\" and \"Miss A\" are in contact and apparently share with a journalist the concerns they have about aspects of their sexual encounters with Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange applies for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden. He hopes to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country's laws protecting whistleblowers.\n\nThe Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Mr Assange based on allegations of rape and molestation.\n\nBoth women reportedly say that what started as consensual sex became non-consensual.\n\nWikileaks quotes Mr Assange as saying the accusations are \"without basis\" and that their appearance \"at this moment is deeply disturbing\".\n\nA later message on the Wikileaks Twitter feed says the group has been warned to expect \"dirty tricks\".\n\n\"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,\" says one of Stockholm's chief prosecutors, Eva Finne.\n\nProsecutors say the investigation into the molestation allegation will continue, but it is not a serious enough crime for an arrest warrant.\n\nThe lawyer for the two women, Claes Borgstrom, lodges an appeal against this decision to a special department in the public prosecutions office.\n\nMr Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm and formally told of the allegations against him, according to his lawyer at the time, Leif Silbersky. The activist denies the allegations.\n\nSweden's Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange.\n\n\"Considering information available at present, my judgement is that the classification of the crime is rape,\" she says.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder (an Australian citizen) is denied residency in Sweden. No reason is given, although an official on Sweden's Migration Board tells the AFP news agency \"he did not fulfil the requirements\".\n\nStockholm District Court approves a request to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. Ms Ny says he has not been available for questioning.\n\nBy this time Mr Assange has travelled to London. His British lawyer, Mark Stephens, says his client offered to be interviewed at the Swedish embassy in London or Scotland Yard or via videolink. He accuses Ms Ny of \"abusing her powers\" in insisting that Mr Assange return to Sweden.\n\nSwedish police issue an international arrest warrant for Mr Assange via Interpol.\n\nThe Wikileaks founder gives himself up to British police and is taken to an extradition hearing. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing.\n\nMr Assange is granted bail by the High Court and is freed after his supporters pay £240,000 in cash and sureties.\n\nMr Assange held up a court document to the media after he was released on bail\n\nA British court rules that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nLawyers lodge papers at the High Court for an appeal against extradition.\n\nThe High Court upholds the decision to extradite Mr Assange.\n\nMr Assange wins the right to petition the UK Supreme Court directly after judges rule that his case raised \"a question of general public importance\".\n\nThe Supreme Court rules that he should be extradited to Sweden.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister says Mr Assange has applied for political asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London.\n\nEcuador's foreign minister claims the UK has issued a \"threat\" to enter the Ecuadorean embassy in London to arrest Mr Assange. The Foreign Office says it reminded Ecuador that it has the power to revoke the diplomatic immunity of an embassy on UK soil and says Britain has a legal obligation to extradite him.\n\nEcuador grants asylum to Mr Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited. Mr Assange describes it as a \"significant victory\", but the UK government expresses its disappointment.\n\nMr Assange spoke to the media and his supporters from the Ecuadorean embassy in August 2012\n\nThe UK insists it will not grant Mr Assange \"safe passage\" to Ecuador as it seeks a diplomatic solution. Downing Street says the government is legally obliged to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nNine people who put up bail sureties for Mr Assange are ordered by a judge to pay thousands of pounds each after his failure to appear in court.\n\nEcuador's ambassador says Mr Assange has a chronic lung infection \"which could get worse at any moment\". The embassy says it has sought assurances Mr Assange will not be arrested if he is taken to hospital.\n\nMr Assange says he will leave London's Ecuadorean embassy \"soon\" after two years of refuge. He does not clarify when he will depart but says it is \"probably not\" for the reasons reported in the UK press. Stories had suggested he required medical treatment.\n\nSwedish prosecutors drop their investigation into one accusation of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion against Mr Assange because they have run out of time to question him. The more serious allegation of rape is not due to expire until 2020.\n\nScotland Yard announces it will no longer be sending officers to stand guard outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Officers had been there since 2012, at an estimated cost of more than £12m.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the effort is \"no longer believed proportionate\" but it will be deploying \"a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest\" Mr Assange.\n\nA United Nations panel rules that Mr Assange should be allowed to walk free and be compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nThe UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says the Wikileaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by UK and Swedish authorities since his arrest in 2010, and the detention violates his human, civil and political rights.\n\nMr Assange hails it a \"significant victory\" and calls the decision \"binding\" - but UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond brands the ruling \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office says the report \"changes nothing\" and it will \"formally contest the working group's opinion\".\n\nBefore the ruling, police said he would still be arrested if he left the embassy.\n\nSweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travels to London to question Mr Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nMs Isgren listened as the questions were put to him by an Ecuadorean prosecutor, under an agreement worked out with Ecuador.\n\nOutgoing US President Barack Obama commutes the prison sentence given to US army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks.\n\nMr Assange says he stands by his offer to agree to be extradited to the US if Mr Obama granted clemency to Manning.\n\nUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions says arresting Mr Assange is a priority. No charges have been filed against him in the US, but American media outlets report that federal prosecutors are considering charges.\n\nChelsea Manning is released from Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.\n\nSweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Mr Assange is being dropped.\n\nThe Ecuadorean government confirms Mr Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship in December and asks the UK to recognise him as a diplomatic agent - a move that would give him immunity. The UK refuses.\n\nLawyers for Mr Assange ask for a UK warrant for his arrest to be dropped.\n\nAn arrest warrant for Mr Assange is upheld by Westminster Magistrate's Court.\n\nEcuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of Mr Assange from its London embassy have failed.\n\nEcuador removes extra security at its London embassy following claims that $5m (£3.7m) has been spent to protect Mr Assange.\n\nThe UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding talks over the fate of Mr Assange. Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says he was never \"in favour\" of Mr Assange's activities.\n\nMr Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy - which include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.\n\nThe cat could often be seen peering out of the embassy's windows\n\nHe is warned that his feline companion could be confiscated and is also told to look after its \"wellbeing, food and hygiene\".\n\nEcuador also says it will partially restore Mr Assange's internet connection.\n\nWikileaks lawyers say its co-founder is going to launch legal action against the government of Ecuador, accusing it of violating his \"fundamental rights and freedoms\".\n\nIt claims the government of Ecuador has refused Mr Assange a visit by Human Rights Watch general counsel Dinah PoKempner, and has not allowed several meetings with his lawyers.\n\nIn a statement, Wikileaks said: \"Ecuador's measures against Julian Assange have been widely condemned by the human rights community.\"\n\nMr Assange's lawyer, Barry Pollack, says his client will not be accepting a deal between the UK and Ecuador to allow him to be released.\n\nThe agreement was rejected over fears it could be used as a pretext to extradite him to the US.\n\n\"The suggestion that as long as the death penalty is off the table, Mr Assange need not fear persecution is obviously wrong,\" Mr Pollack says.\n\nThe passport would allow Mr Assange, who was born in Townsville, Australia, in 1971, to return to the country.\n\nThe Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed that the government had approved a passport application filed by Mr Assange in 2018.\n\nWikiLeaks tweets that a \"high level source within the Ecuadorean state\" has told them Mr Assange is to be expelled from the embassy within \"hours or days\".\n\nA senior Ecuadorean official says no decision has been made to remove him from the London building.\n\nMr Assange is arrested at London's Ecuadorean embassy by Metropolitan Police officers for \"failing to surrender to the court\".\n\nEcuador's President Lenin Moreno says Mr Assange's asylum was withdrawn after his repeated violations of international conventions.\n\nBut WikiLeaks tweets that Ecuador has acted illegally in terminating Mr Assange's political asylum \"in violation of international law\".\n\nMr Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail after being found guilty of breaching the Bail Act.\n\nSweden reopens an investigation into a rape allegation made against Mr Assange in 2010, which he denies.\n\nThe case was dropped two years before as Swedish prosecutors said they could not progress the case while Mr Assange was still inside the embassy.\n\nEva-Marie Persson, Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, said it would reopen because there was still \"probable cause to suspect\" that Mr Assange had committed the alleged rape.\n\nThe US justice department files 17 new charges against Mr Assange, accusing him of violating the Espionage Act by publishing classified military and diplomatic documents.\n\nThe indictment said Mr Assange had \"repeatedly encouraged sources with access to classified information to steal and provide it to Wikileaks to disclose\".\n\nWikileaks tweets that the announcement is \"madness\" and the \"end of national security journalism and the first amendment\".\n\nA Swedish prosecutor says an investigation into an allegation of rape against Mr Assange in 2010 has been discontinued.\n\nDeputy chief prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson says that because so much time has passed since the allegation was made, the evidence has weakened considerably.\n\nMr Assange fled to the UK when the allegation of rape, which he denies, was made in 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An investigation has begun after a defendant doused himself with acid as he was being sentenced in court.\n\nMarc Marshall, 54, was in the dock of Inner London Crown Court after being jailed for fraud when he poured a noxious substance onto his face.\n\nHe is in a critical condition in hospital and a female custody officer who was guarding him in the dock was also treated.\n\nThe Courts Service said it was \"deeply concerned\" about Monday's incident.\n\nThe case is likely to raise searching questions about security in court buildings and how the liquid, which has not yet been identified, was apparently taken into the dock.\n\nMarshall had been carrying a metal water bottle - although CCTV footage is believed to have shown that he had sipped from it as he passed through security.\n\nThe incident occurred at the south London court after Marshall had pleaded guilty to a series of cheque fraud offences involving £135,000.\n\nWhen the judge imposed a sentence of two years and four months imprisonment, Marshall was heard to wail and scream.\n\nAccording to one person who was present at the time, the defendant's face went white and there was a smell of acid.\n\n\"It looked like he had glue on his skin,\" the witness said.\n\nCourt officials ferried water jugs to the dock to dilute the substance on Marshall's face.\n\nIt is thought he had also drunk some of the liquid.\n\nHe was treated at the scene by a paramedic - who is said to have described his injuries as \"life-threatening\" - and taken by ambulance to St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nThe case had already been delayed because Marshall, who has changed his name a number of times, suffered serious medical problems after stabbing himself in the neck when he was arrested by police in 2016.\n\nA HM Courts and Tribunals Service spokesperson said: \"The safety and security of all court users is our priority and we're deeply concerned about the incident.\n\n\"Police are urgently investigating what happened and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they were called to Court 10, Inner London Crown Court at 12:01 BST on Monday after reports of a serious assault.\n\n\"Officers, London Ambulance Service and London Air Ambulance attended and found a male aged in his fifties was found to have doused himself with a noxious substance.\n\n\"He has been taken to hospital for treatment of his injuries. His condition is critical.\n\n\"A female dock officer was also injured by some of the substance. Her injuries are not believed to be serious and she did not require hospital treatment.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPotentially one of the most pivotal moments in modern sport occurred not on a track, pitch or court, but in a plush office building in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Wednesday.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected Caster Semenya's challenge of rules meaning athletics' world governing body can restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nIn short, one of the most dominant stars of modern athletics.\n\nA double Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion over 800m, the 28-year-old South African has won her past 29 races over the distance.\n\nHowever, since her rise from unknown teenager to world champion in 2009, her gender, and possible advantages in her biology, have come under scrutiny.\n\nThe results of gender testing carried out 10 years ago have not been made public, although media reports claimed it showed both male and female characteristics including a higher-than-normal level of testosterone.\n\nThe International Association of Athletics Federations, which runs the sport, proposed a rule to restrict the level of testosterone permitted in female runners in events between 400m and a mile.\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nWhat next after diagnosis?\n\nMost people with a DSD stay with the gender they were assigned as a baby. However others, who feel their assigned gender doesn't represent who they are, may choose to change their gender.\n\nPeople with a DSD may be infertile and need hormone therapy and psychological support to help them come to terms with their condition.\n\nWhat about elite athletes like Semenya?\n\nResearch commissioned by the IAAF showed in 2017 that female athletes with elevated testosterone had \"a competitive advantage\", claiming that high testosterone was responsible for as much as 3% improvement in runners.\n\nHowever those findings were contested by Semenya and her team.\n\nThey claim it is not clear how much DSD athletes benefit from their naturally higher levels of testosterone.\n\nDuring the early 1990s, Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino successfully fought against a ban imposed after she was discovered to have XY chromosomes typically seen in men.\n\nShe demonstrated that her condition made her insensitive to the 'excess' testosterone in her blood.\n\nWhy is Semenya's case so important?\n\nSport has traditionally been divided into male and female categories, but Semenya's case and the science it has brought to the fore shows it may be an artificially binary distinction.\n\nIt had been suggested that, had the verdict gone against the IAAF, athletics might have introduced an 'open' category that men and women could, in theory, compete in side by side, and a 'protected' category based on hormone levels, rather than gender.\n\nAnd what about the future for Semenya now she has lost the case?\n\nA leading sport scientist has suggested she would be five to seven seconds slower over 800m if she reduces her testosterone in line with the proposed limits.\n\nShe could change to a longer distance. She has run the 5,000m twice this season, winning on both occasions.", "Police and health and safety officials are investigating the incident\n\nA teenage boy has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a falling tree branch while on his way to school.\n\nThe incident happened on a footpath near Ysgol Bryn Elian in Old Colwyn, Conwy county, at about 08:55 BST.\n\nAn air ambulance took the boy to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool at 10:25.\n\nAn investigation by the Health and Safety Executive has been launched.\n\nNorth Wales Police has cordoned off an area of Llanelian Road while the investigation is ongoing.\n\nCh Insp Owain Llewelyn said: \"Although the boy sustained a number of serious injuries, they are not now thought to be life-changing or threatening.\n\n\"The boy is receiving the hospital treatment he needs and we wish him all the best with his recovery.\n\n\"I would also like to again thank everyone who assisted this morning, their quick response was greatly appreciated.\"\n\nPolice, firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene shortly before 09:00\n\nYsgol Bryn Elian tweeted: \"We can confirm that an incident has taken place this morning at Ysgol Bryn Elian involving one pupil.\n\n\"The fire service, police, ambulance and air ambulance were all in attendance. The school remain in contact with the family.\"\n\nConwy council said it has been informed and was offering support to the school.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court ahead of the hearing\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nThe 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act last month after his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy.\n\nHe took refuge in the London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nIn a letter read to the court, Assange said he had found himself \"struggling with difficult circumstances\".\n\nHe apologised to those who \"consider I've disrespected them\", a packed Southwark Crown Court heard.\n\n\"I did what I thought at the time was the best or perhaps the only thing that I could have done,\" he said.\n\nIn mitigation, Mark Summers QC said his client was \"gripped\" by fears of rendition to the US over the years because of his work with whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.\n\n\"As threats rained down on him from America, they overshadowed everything,\" he said.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Deborah Taylor told Assange it was difficult to envisage a more serious example of the offence.\n\n\"By hiding in the embassy you deliberately put yourself out of reach, while remaining in the UK,\" she said.\n\nShe said this had \"undoubtedly\" affected the progress of the Swedish proceedings.\n\nHis continued residence at the embassy and bringing him to justice had cost taxpayers £16m, she added.\n\n\"Whilst you may have had fears as to what may happen to you, nonetheless you had a choice, and the course of action you chose was to commit this offence,\" she concluded.\n\nAs Assange was taken down to the cells, he raised a fist in defiance to his supporters in the public gallery behind him.\n\nThey raised their fists in solidarity and directed shouts of \"shame on you\" towards the court.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said the sentence was an \"outrage\".\n\nThe extradition process was now the \"big fight\" and would be \"a question of life and death\" for Assange, he said.\n\n\"It's also a question of life and death for a major journalist principle,\" he told reporters.\n\nI apologise unreservedly to those who consider that I have disrespected them by the way I have pursued my case.\n\nThis is not what I wanted or intended.\n\nI found myself struggling with terrifying circumstances for which neither I nor those from whom I sought advice could work out any remedy.\n\nI did what I thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be done - which I hoped might lead to a legal resolution being reached between Ecuador and Sweden that would protect me from the worst of my fears.\n\nI regret the course that this took; the difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many others.\n\nWhilst the difficulties I now face may have become even greater, nevertheless it is right for me to say this now.\n\nAssange now faces US federal conspiracy charges related to one of the largest leaks of government secrets.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite Assange to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nHe faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nAs Julian Assange arrived at court from Belmarsh High Security prison, photographers got a picture of him defiantly pumping his fist.\n\nHe's still got a beard but it's been trimmed - it's not the white, bushy beard he was wearing when he was hauled out of the Ecuadorean Embassy last month.\n\nThere's big international interest, and more than a dozen TV cameras outside.\n\nJournalists had to queue for two hours before the case opened to get a ticket to Court Number One, or to an overflow court where there was a videolink to the live proceedings.\n\nSupporters of Assange are outside court making their voices heard - one has been reading from her notes saying Assange is a political prisoner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage shows Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy\n\nAustralian-born Assange was dramatically arrested by UK police on 11 April after Ecuador abruptly withdrew its asylum.\n\nAt a court hearing that same day, he was remanded in custody and called a \"narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest\" by district judge Michael Snow.\n\nDays later, Swedish prosecutors said they were considering reopening the investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against him.\n\nAt the time, Assange said he had had entirely consensual sex with two women while on a trip to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nProsecutors dropped the rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to formally notify him of allegations while he was staying in the embassy.\n\nTwo other charges of molestation and unlawful coercion had to be dropped in 2015 because time had run out.\n\nMore than 70 UK MPs and peers have signed a letter urging Home Secretary Sajid Javid to ensure Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they want his extradition.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has opened a parliamentary debate, calling on MPs to declare a national climate emergency on climate change.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said this is \"the first step towards taking more radical action\".\n\nLabour is also calling on the government to commit to achieving net zero emissions before 2050.\n\nThe UK is currently committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels by 2050.\n\nThe debate in Parliament comes after a series of protests by the environmental activists Extinction Rebellion.\n\nThe group described a meeting with Environment Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday as \"very disappointing\" because he refused to declare a climate emergency.\n\nMr Gove said he \"shared their high ideals\" to tackle climate change but added that \"we should show that we're making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change\".\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Long Bailey said Labour wanted the government to establish a target for net zero emissions \"well before\" 2050.\n\nShe also called for \"a green industrial revolution\" to \"harness the huge economic potential that low carbon and renewable technology will bring\" such as onshore and offshore wind and tidal technology.\n\n\"This isn't just about tackling climate change it is a huge economic opportunity to rebuild Britain,\" she said.\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nWhat would it mean to acknowledge a climate emergency or climate crisis? Well, it would put the climate at centre stage of government policy.\n\nFor years politicians have devised fine policies on the environment, only to see them fail as other issues jostled to the political fore.\n\nThe UK for instance is legally committed to long-term climate change targets - but it's already slipping away from its medium-term goals.\n\nTransport and agriculture are especially culpable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say it's inconceivable that any government caring about the climate thinks expanding Heathrow is compatible with cutting emissions.\n\nIn terms of how the government is run under an emergency scenario - it would have to move towards the equivalent of a war footing.\n\nThis sounds melodramatic, but it would mean that cutting greenhouse gas emissions becomes a central goal of the UK's economic policy, with all governments taking responsibility - not just the Business Department and Defra.\n\nThis, according to Professor Jim Watson from the UK Energy Research Centre, means a central role for the Treasury.\n\nIt would monitoring emissions as closely as we monitor GDP growth and employment, and ensure that all government decisions are compatible with a net zero pathway.\n\nDeclaring an emergency or a climate crisis could have psychological advantages too: If we keep repeating a phrase it tends to become reality in our minds. That would help keep the climate at the forefront of decision-making.\n\nThere are problem with the emergency definition, though.\n\nFirst, is the slow relentless nature of climate change itself. Can we see climate change as an emergency in the way we accept that, say a flu pandemic is an emergency?\n\nThen there's the timescale.\n\nFrom 1939-1945, a state of emergency won the war. But that was six years of toil and sweat… not 32 years as we struggle towards our 2050 date for eliminating emissions.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nPlans to classify female athletes by their testosterone levels \"contravene international human rights\" says the United Nations Human Rights Council.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Caster Semenya, 28, is challenging the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over its bid to restrict levels of testosterone in female runners.\n\nThe UN called the plans \"unnecessary, humiliating and harmful\".\n\nThe IAAF said the motion given to the UN contained \"inaccurate statements\".\n\nUnder the IAAF rules, female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels would have to race against men or change events unless they took medication to reduce those levels.\n\nThe regulations will apply to women in track events from 400m up to one mile and require that athletes have to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nThe issue was discussed at the UN Human Rights Council's 40th session in March, at which delegates asked for a detailed report to be put together for a future meeting.\n\nIn the meantime, the body put on record its \"concerns\" with the IAAF proposals.\n\nThe council said it wanted governing bodies \"to refrain from developing and enforcing policies and practices that force, coerce or otherwise pressure women and girl athletes into undergoing unnecessary, humiliating and harmful medical procedures in order to participate in women's events in competitive sports\".\n\nWriting in the British Medical Journal, experts recently claimed the IAAF's regulations risked \"setting an unscientific precedent for other cases of genetic advantage\".\n• None Semenya could miss most of 2019 season\n\nSpeaking in June, two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion Semenya called the rule \"unfair\", adding: \"I just want to run naturally, the way I was born.\"\n\nThe IAAF intended to bring in new rules on 1 November 2018 but the subsequent legal challenge prompted that to be delayed until the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) had ruled on the matter.\n\nThat ruling was due on 26 March but Cas has postponed it until next month.\n\nA win for Semenya would see her free to continue competing the way she has always done, but a loss means the South African athlete could end up not competing altogether, competing against men or having to take medicine to lower her hormone levels.\n\nSemenya has previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs, but no results have officially been made public.\n\nTestosterone is a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nHow has the IAAF responded to the UN's motion?\n\nIn a statement provided to BBC Sport, the IAAF said \"It is clear that the author is not across the details of the IAAF regulations nor the facts presented recently at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"There are many generic and inaccurate statements contained in the motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council so it is difficult to work out where to start.\n\n\"The common ground is that we both believe it is important to preserve fair competition in female sport so women are free to compete in national and international sport.\n\n\"To do this it is necessary to ensure the female category in sport is a protected category, which requires rules and regulations to protect it, otherwise we risk losing the next generation of female athletes, since they will see no path to success in female sport.\"", "Pete Wishart said he would release a \"substantial and far-reaching\" manifesto\n\nSNP MP Pete Wishart has announced his candidacy to replace John Bercow as the Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nThere is speculation Mr Bercow will announce his retirement this summer, although he has not yet confirmed this.\n\nConservative MP Sir Edward Leigh and Labour's Chris Bryant have both voiced an interest in the job.\n\nMr Wishart wrote on Twitter that he would release a manifesto on Wednesday to become \"the first post-war Speaker from beyond the two main parties\".\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons is in charge of selecting MPs to speak and keeping order during debates. The position is filled via a secret ballot of members.\n\nThe position is traditionally seen as an impartial role, and the Speaker is expected to resign from their party.\n\nMr Bercow has been in the job since June 2009, and was re-elected unopposed after the 2015 and 2017 elections.\n\nThere is speculation that he will announce his retirement this summer - although he has not spoken about his plans publicly, always insisting he would tell MPs first.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pete Wishart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant was one of the first to declare an interest in the job, saying the next Speaker should focus on \"tending to the wounds\" caused by Brexit rows and harassment scandals.\n\nSir Edward - who has represented Gainsborough since 1983 - said he would be a \"traditional speaker\" who did not speak very much.\n\nMr Wishart - who chairs the Scottish affairs select committee - meanwhile said his candidacy would be \"based on a solid agenda of reform seeking to secure equality of all MPs\", saying his manifesto would be \"substantial and far-reaching\".\n\nHis announcement prompted criticism from some independence supporters online, who told Mr Wishart that SNP members should be at Westminster to \"settle up, not settle down\".\n\nBut his party leader, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, defended the move, saying: \"For as long as the SNP is in the House of Commons, we should be trying to make it work as well as we can, and undo some of the barriers that are in the way - we've seen all too powerfully in the Brexit debate how Scotland's voice is not being heard.\"\n\nThere have also been calls for the next speaker to be a woman, with Labour's Gloria de Piero and Tory Nicky Morgan saying in a joint article in the Times that electing another man to the post would be a \"setback\" and a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nDame Eleanor Laing, currently a deputy Speaker under Mr Bercow, has announced her interest in taking up the top job.", "Sarah Handy was discharged from hospital with painkillers then baby daughter Jennifer died after she was born suddenly at home\n\nA mother whose baby died after failures at a hospital at the centre of a damning report has said she still has no faith in its maternity services.\n\nSarah Handy was sent home with painkillers and laxatives before giving birth to Jennifer, who died a short time later.\n\nA highly-critical report said maternity services at Royal Glamorgan and Prince Charles hospitals were \"dysfunctional\".\n\nThe independent review found services for expectant and new mothers were \"under extreme pressure\" with patients' worries often ignored.\n\nIt was prompted by concerns over the deaths of a number of babies.\n\nAfter the report uncovered numerous failings, Health Minister Vaughan Gething put Cwm Taf maternity services into special measures.\n\nMrs Handy said: \"I've lost all confidence and trust in the service. I would be very, very scared to use the services again. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nMs Handy's case was one of those highlighted in the accompanying report, which carried concerns expressed by women and families over the quality of care they received.\n\nThe review team said her case included at least five failings in how the maternity service responded and dealt with her in April 2017.\n\nMs Handy, from Merthyr Tydfil, wants to see more staff and more safeguards in place: \"Doctors, midwives, across the board really, listening to patients and patients feeling much more valued.\"\n\nSamantha Gadsden said, despite improvements, there were still staffing issues\n\nMeanwhile, doula Samantha Gadsden - a birth companion to pregnant women - said she saw some \"pretty horrible things\" while working in Cwm Taf.\n\n\"Coerced vaginal examinations, lack of informed consent, free-birthing women - choosing to give birth without a midwife - being reported to social services and I witnessed a midwife lose her temper and walk out of a house with a baby without telling the parents,\" said Ms Gadsen.\n\n\"One of my clients was criticised for her choice to free birth while her baby was there fitting in the hospital and she was there still being told off by the consultant.\"\n\nMs Gadsden told BBC Wales she was \"shocked\" the problems have only just come to light, but insists there have been improvements.\n\n\"There was a time when I would literally put my head in my hands knowing I was going to be working in that health board but that is no longer the case.\n\n\"There are new consultant midwives, there's the new birth centre there, so things are changing.\"\n\nUnison Cymru's head of health Paul Summers said there was a problem with staffing levels and a blame culture meant staff had been too scared to speak out - and those that did, did not feel they were listened to.\n\n\"There's a big job to do in rebuilding the trust and confidence of staff,\" he added.\n\nDr Clea Harmer, chief executive at Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, said: \"It is incredibly sad that for so many parents the first time they truly feel their voice has been heard, since suffering the devastation of the death of their baby, is a report into failings at a maternity unit that may have led to that bereavement.\"\n\nShe highlighted the testimony of one mother, who recalled a woman coming in and saying \"'Just to let you know the baby's died.' She didn't break it gently. Then she just walked away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board had already been planning changes and since March, specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a midwife-led unit for less complicated births.\n\nChief executive Allison Williams said: \"We completely understand the anxiety people may be feeling and we would encourage people to talk to their community midwife to ensure that they have their questions answered.\"\n\nShe offered a public apology saying she was \"deeply sorry for the failings\" identified.\n\nShe said the health board fully accepted the findings and putting things right was now the organisation's utmost priority.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing,\" she added.\n\n\"I would also like to say sorry to our staff who have felt that their concerns have not been listened to.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bag sold in Aldi in January, left, with the BabaBing bag launched in March 2018\n\nSupermarket chain Aldi has stopped selling a baby changing bag after being accused of copying another company's design.\n\nBabaBing, a Keighley-based child and baby products firm, claims a bag sold by Aldi in January has similarities to one it started selling in 2018.\n\nThe BabaBing bag retails at £49.99, with Aldi's selling for £17.99.\n\nThe retailer said it always listens to feedback and would be happy to meet the firm to discuss its concerns.\n\nBabaBing contacted the supermarket in early January to say its 'Mani' product was \"identical or at least very similar\" to a bag on sale in Aldi during a week-long baby-themed promotion.\n\nThe company said the Aldi bag and its internal items were the \"same size and shape\" as its bag, with similar design features across the two products.\n\nIn response Aldi told the company its research suggested that \"similar bags have been on the market for some time\".\n\nHowever, it said it would not be selling the product again in a future 'Specialbuys' promotion as planned, \"without any admission of liability\".\n\nThe BabaBing (left) and the Aldi bag (right) come with changing mats and bottle holders\n\nNick Robinson, managing technical director at BabaBing, said: \"It's no coincidence, the number of features that are identical to ours - it's not them designing a bag.\n\n\"In my view they've taken our bag and blatantly copied it.\"\n\nWhen asked about the price difference, the company said: \"They're not overpriced, they're very competitively priced and the quality is far better than Aldi.\"\n\nAn Aldi spokesperson said: \"We aim to provide our customers with products of a similar high quality to the leading brands, but at a fraction of the price.\n\n\"We sell a wide range of baby products that are hugely popular with parents and we will consider Mr Robinson's views when planning future ranges.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC Panorama investigation revealed Mr Curry's identity and that his home was in Los Angeles\n\nA man who plotted to dump a vulnerable American pensioner in England so he could be treated on the NHS has been jailed.\n\nRoger Curry, who had dementia, was discovered in a Hereford bus station car park on 5 November 2015.\n\nWorcester Crown Court was told Simon Hayes was part of the plot to \"abandon [Mr Curry] so he could receive care from local health care providers\".\n\nHayes, 53, claimed he had found Mr Curry \"face down\" in a country lane.\n\nMr Curry, who is in his 70s, was found without any identification, but later traced to Los Angeles after an international campaign for information.\n\nSimon Davis QC, prosecuting, said Hayes, of Henlade, Somerset, had told police a \"pack of lies\" which led them on a \"wild goose chase\".\n\nHowever, his motivations for getting involved in the plot remain unclear.\n\nThe court heard Mr Curry was cared for in a residential home for eight months - at a cost to the NHS of up to £20,000 - before being flown back to the United States in July 2016.\n\nMr Davis said Hayes had exchanged a series of texts and calls with \"best mate\" Kevin Curry, the victim's son.\n\nKevin Curry flew with his mother and father to London Gatwick in November 2015, but later left without his father.\n\nMr Davis said it had \"clearly\" been planned to \"dump\" Mr Curry so he could receive care from local health care providers.\n\nHayes, in a fake military uniform and putting on an American accent, took Mr Curry to Hereford bus station, close to the city's hospital, the court heard.\n\nHe told a nurse and paramedics he had found Mr Curry but could not give any contact details because he was \"working with the SAS\" at their nearby camp.\n\nWhile appealing for information, police suspected Mr Curry had been deliberately abandoned.\n\nAfter he was able to provide his name, they tracked down Kevin Curry in California, but he claimed nobody called Roger lived at his address.\n\nSimon Hayes admitted perverting the course of justice in March\n\nHowever, for reasons unknown, Hayes subsequently called West Mercia Police, identifying himself as the man who handed in Mr Curry.\n\nBut he again lied, claiming he and a \"Canadian Army serviceman\" had found Mr Curry, that he lived in Los Angeles, and at the time had been \"attending a course\" at the base, the court heard.\n\nPolice spoke to his father Ken, who Hayes claimed he had been visiting in Taunton. Mr Hayes confirmed his son knew Roger and Kevin Curry.\n\nHayes was arrested and in March admitted perverting the course of justice and a separate case of fraud, in relation to a false character reference.\n\nHe was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Tuesday.\n\nMr Davis said Mr Curry's son was under investigation in the US for elder abuse, fraud and kidnapping.\n\nKevin Curry previously told BBC's Panorama his father had become unwell on a trip to the UK and he had left him with a friend to take him to hospital.\n\nJudge Daniel Pearce-Higgins QC said Hayes' false information caused \"an enormous waste of police and public resources\".\n\n\"I cannot find any case remotely similar to the facts of this case, curiously because there appears to be no apparent benefit to the defendant,\" he said.\n• None The abandoned man with no memory\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "On Thursday, voters will go to the polls to elect 462 councillors to Northern Ireland's 11 councils.\n\nBut who are the young people who want your vote?\n\nBBC News NI met the youngest candidates from each of Northern Ireland's largest parties.\n\nTwo of them are canvassing while studying for their A-level exams and one is in her final week of university.\n\nThey spoke to the BBC's Erinn Kerr about moustaches, memes and making a difference.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nTo his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain.\n\nAssange is described by those who have worked with him as intense, driven and highly intelligent, with an exceptional ability to crack computer codes.\n\nHe set up Wikileaks, which publishes confidential documents and images, in 2006, making headlines around the world in April 2010 when it released footage showing US soldiers shooting dead 18 civilians from a helicopter in Iraq.\n\nBut later that year he was detained in the UK - and later bailed - after Sweden issued an international arrest warrant over allegations of sexual assault.\n\nSwedish authorities wanted to question him over claims that he had raped one woman and sexually molested and coerced another in August 2010, while on a visit to Stockholm to give a lecture.\n\nHe says both encounters were entirely consensual, and a long legal battle ensued which saw him seek asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition.\n\nAfter spending almost seven years inside the embassy, Assange was arrested by British police on 11 April 2019. It came after Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno tweeted that his country had taken \"a sovereign decision\" to withdraw his asylum status.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe Wikileaks founder had always argued that he could not leave the embassy because he feared being extradited from Sweden to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents.\n\nOfficers removed him from the embassy's premises and took him into custody at a central London police station.\n\nOn 1 May 2019, Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.\n\nWeeks later, an investigation into the 2010 rape allegation against Assange was reopened by Swedish prosecutors.\n\nAssange gestures with a thumbs up after he was arrested by Met Police officers at Ecuador's embassy in London\n\nLater that month, the US filed 17 new charges against Assange for violating the Espionage Act, related to the publication of classified documents in 2010.\n\nWikileaks said the announcement was \"madness\" and \"the end of national security journalism\".\n\nAs Assange prepared to fight against extradition to the US, Swedish prosecutors announced that the investigation into the 2010 rape allegation had been dropped.\n\nProsecutors said the evidence against Assange was \"not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment\", ending a case that spanned a decade.\n\nIn April 2020 it emerged that Assange had fathered two children while living inside the Ecuadorean embassy.\n\nStella Morris, a South African-born lawyer, said she had been in a relationship with the Wikileaks founder since 2015 and was raising their two young sons on her own.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange’s fiancée says she dreaded going public with their relationship\n\nCurrently jailed in London's Belmarsh Prison, Assange's legal fight against extradition to the US continues.\n\nDuring one extradition hearing in September 2020, a psychiatrist said Assange complained of hearing imaginary voices and music.\n\nMichael Kopelman, who had interviewed Assange about 20 times, told the court he would be a \"very high\" suicide risk if he were extradited to the US.\n\nAssange has been generally reluctant to talk about his background, but media interest since the emergence of Wikileaks has thrown up some insight into his influences.\n\nHe was born in Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland in 1971, and led a rootless childhood while his parents ran a touring theatre. He became a father at 18 and custody battles soon followed.\n\nThe development of the internet gave him a chance to use his early promise at maths, though this too led to difficulties.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to \"hacking\", Assange escaped prison on the condition he did not reoffend\n\nIn 1995 Assange was accused, with a friend, of dozens of hacking activities. Though the group of hackers was skilled enough to track detectives tracking them, Assange was eventually caught and pleaded guilty.\n\nHe was fined several thousand Australian dollars - only escaping a prison term on the condition that he did not reoffend.\n\nHe then spent three years working with an academic, Suelette Dreyfus - who was researching the emerging, subversive side of the internet - writing a book with her, Underground, that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity.\n\nMs Dreyfus described Assange as a \"very skilled researcher\" who was \"quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do\".\n\nThis was followed by a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University, where he became a prominent member of a mathematics society, inventing an elaborate puzzle that contemporaries said he excelled at.\n\nHe began Wikileaks in 2006 with a group of like-minded people from across the web, creating a web-based \"dead-letterbox\" for would-be leakers.\n\n\"[To] keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions,\" Assange told the BBC in 2011.\n\n\"We've become good at it, and never lost a case, or a source, but we can't expect everyone to go through the extraordinary efforts that we do.\"\n\nHe could go for long stretches without eating and focus on work with very little sleep, according to Raffi Khatchadourian, a reporter for the New Yorker magazine who spent several weeks travelling with him.\n\n\"He creates this atmosphere around him where the people who are close to him want to care for him, to help keep him going. I would say that probably has something to do with his charisma.\"\n\nWikileaks and Assange came to prominence with the release of the footage of the US helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq.\n\nHe promoted and defended the video, as well as the massive release of classified US military documents on the Afghan and Iraq wars in July and October 2010.\n\nThe whistleblowing website went on to release new tranches of documents, including five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence company Stratfor.\n\nBut it also found itself fighting for survival in 2010, when a number of US financial institutions began to block donations.\n\nAssange told the BBC that in order to protect sources he would \"encrypt everything\"\n\nCoverage of Assange was then dominated by Sweden's efforts to question him over the 2010 sexual allegations. He said such efforts were politically motivated and part of a smear campaign.\n\nAssange turned to then Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa for help, the two men having expressed similar views on freedom in the past.\n\nHis stay at the Ecuadorean embassy was punctuated by occasional press statements and interviews. He made a submission to the UK's Leveson Inquiry into press standards, saying he had faced \"widespread inaccurate and negative media coverage\".\n\nConcerns over his health also surfaced but in August 2014, but Assange dismissed reports that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment.\n\nAssange later complained to the UN that he was being unlawfully detained as he could not leave the embassy without being arrested.\n\nIn February 2016, a UN panel ruled in his favour, stating that he had been \"arbitrarily detained\" and should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his \"deprivation of liberty\".\n\nAssange dismissed reports in 2014 that he would be leaving the embassy to seek medical treatment\n\nAssange hailed it a \"significant victory\" and called the decision \"binding\", leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately.\n\nThe ruling was not legally binding on the UK, however, and the UK Foreign Office responded by saying it \"changes nothing\".\n\nIn 2016, Sweden's chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to question Assange over the 2010 rape allegation. Prosecutors had already dropped their investigation into the sexual assault allegations after running out of time to question him and bring charges.\n\nSince Sweden dropped its investigation into Assange, the European Arrest Warrant for him no longer stands.\n\nBut the Metropolitan Police said Assange still faced the lesser charge of failing to surrender to a court in June 2012, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine.\n\nAnd it was a warrant based on this charge which led to his arrest in 2019. Citing the warrant issued by Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 June 2012, the Metropolitan Police said Assange had been \"taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible\".\n\nMet Police officers dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had stayed since 2012\n\nThe police said they had been invited into the embassy by the Ecuadorean ambassador.\n\nEcuador's position vis-à-vis Assange changed after President Correa, a strong advocate of Wikileaks, was succeeded in office by Lenín Moreno.\n\nMr Moreno and his government had grown increasingly frustrated with Assange and his refusal to follow the rules they had imposed for his continued stay in the embassy.\n\nIn his video statement, President Moreno said he had \"inherited this situation\" and that Assange had ignored Ecuador's requests to \"respect and abide by these rules\".\n\nFrom the embassy's balcony in 2012, Assange urged the US to end its \"witchhunt\" against Wikileaks\n\nHis decision, Mr Moreno said, followed \"repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols\" by Assange.\n\nHe said that in particular, Assange had \"violated the norm of not intervening in the internal affairs of other states\", most recently in January 2019 when Wikileaks had released documents from the Vatican.\n\nIn a video statement, President Moreno also said that he had requested that Great Britain guarantee that Assange would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some see him as a reckless 'hacktivist' – others, a campaigner for truth.\n\nJulian Assange lived in the Ecuadorian embassy for seven years and is the man behind whistleblowing site Wikileaks.\n\nAfter being removed from the embassy and arrested, Assange is serving a jail sentence in the UK for jumping bail.\n\nBut why was he there in the first place?", "A church warden murdered a university lecturer and attempted to kill a former headmistress to benefit from their wills, a court has heard.\n\nBenjamin Field, 28, and Martyn Smith, 32, are accused of plotting the deaths of Peter Farquhar, 69, and Ann Moore-Martin, 83, in Buckinghamshire.\n\nOxford Crown Court heard Mr Field and Mr Smith persuaded the Maids Moreton residents to change their wills.\n\nThe pair deny murder and conspiracy to murder.\n\nPeter Farquhar lived at the house circled on the left, and Ann Moore-Martin on the right\n\nProsecuting, Oliver Saxby QC said Mr Field's \"project\" was to befriend a vulnerable person, get them to change their will and then \"make sure they died\".\n\nHe told the court Mr Field and Mr Smith murdered Mr Farquhar, who died in October 2015, and conspired to murder Miss Moore-Martin - who later died from natural causes in May 2017.\n\nMr Farquhar and Miss Moore-Martin lived three doors away from each other.\n\nMr Saxby said: \"The motive was financial gain - laced, as far as Benjamin Field is concerned, with a profound fascination in controlling and manipulating and humiliating and killing.\"\n\nHe said the church warden devised what he called \"exit strategies\" to use drugs and alcohol to make deaths look accidental.\n\n\"If he was to inherit their houses, they had to die. And if he was to enjoy his inheritance, he had to get away with it,\" he said.\n\nPeter Farquhar was a guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham and had written a number of books\n\nThe court heard the church warden \"relished\" his \"project\" and documented various stages in notes and diaries.\n\nMr Saxby told the jury Mr Field killed Mr Farquhar \"almost certainly by suffocating him\".\n\nHe said Mr Field \"tried to kill\" Miss Moore-Martin but his plan \"was cut short\" when her niece became involved.\n\nMr Saxby said Mr Smith, a magician, assisted Mr Field in his plan because \"he was greedy\".\n\nPeter Farquhar changed his will so Benjamin Field would inherit his home, pictured\n\nMr Field also burgled the homes of elderly people and planned to deceive a 101-year-old woman, the jury heard.\n\nThe court heard Mr Field's brother, Tom, defrauded Miss Moore-Martin by \"deceiving her\" into giving Benjamin Field £27,000 which she believed was for a dialysis machine he needed to survive.\n\nMr Saxby said Tom Field \"pretended to be extremely ill\" when he met Miss Moore-Martin.\n\nBenjamin Field, of Wellingborough Road, Olney, Buckinghamshire, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, possessing an article for the use in fraud and an alternative charge of attempted murder. He has admitted four charges of fraud and two of burglary.\n\nMr Smith, of Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, denies murder, conspiracy to murder, two charges of fraud and one of burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Radford, formerly known as John Worboys, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May\n\nJohn Worboys has been charged with four sexual offences, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who has changed his name to John Radford, was charged on 1 May with two counts of administering a substance with intent.\n\nHe was also charged with two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent.\n\nEach of the four charges relate to four separate individuals between 2000 and 2008 in London, the Met said.\n\nThe force added that the allegations were made in early 2018.\n\nRadford is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Motorhome owner Alan Nicoll recalls the \"terrible time\" he had during a finance dispute\n\nPolice are investigating claims that a West Lothian motorhome firm duped customers and business associates out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that dozens of Gill's Motorhomes clients are owed substantial sums for vehicle hire bookings that never materialised.\n\nSeveral customers also claim they lost thousands after buying used vehicles that were still owned by finance firms.\n\nAnd two men claim to have lost tens of thousands over a failed franchise plan.\n\nGill's Motorhomes, which has now ceased trading, told BBC Scotland that all of its customers who prepaid to hire a vehicle would receive a full refund.\n\nThe Dechmont-based company, whose sole director is David Gill, also said it aimed to \"recompense\" two businessmen who each invested close to £100,000 in planned Gill's-branded franchise operations in England \"as and when we are able\".\n\nIn a statement, police said they were \"investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian\".\n\nAlan Nicoll says he had to pay a finance company £10,000 or lose his motorhome\n\nBBC Scotland traced a number of Gill's customers, all of whom claimed to have lost thousands of pounds.\n\nAlan Nicoll, from East Kilbride, and Fort William-based Ingrid Anderson both bought ex-hire motorhomes from Gill's - only to discover later that the vehicles were still subject to leasing agreements.\n\nIn October Mr Nicoll, 55, paid Gill's a £5,000 deposit for a motorhome before finding out a few days later that there was outstanding finance on the vehicle.\n\nHe said he agreed to pay Gill's the outstanding balance of £32,000 after receiving assurances from the firm that it would clear the debt with the finance company as soon as it received his money.\n\nIn emails seen by BBC Scotland, Mr Nicoll was repeatedly told by Gill's that the issue was being addressed.\n\nBut the finance company did not receive the money.\n\nIn March, it informed Mr Nicoll that Gill's had ceased trading and that it wanted to recover the vehicle.\n\nMr Nicoll said: \"I decided to reach a settlement and paid the finance company £10,000.\n\n\"Between my partner and myself, it was a terrible time.\n\n\"You can understand a business going underneath, but for them to do what they did was just lowlife.\"\n\nMrs Anderson shows the receipt for her purchase of a used motorhome\n\nIngrid Anderson, who is in her 60s, told BBC Scotland that she paid Gill's company Motorhome Hire Scotland £35,000 for a second-hand Bailey Advance 655 in late 2017.\n\nBut when she tried to sell it a few months ago, a dealer informed her that there was still a lease agreement on the vehicle.\n\nMrs Anderson claimed she was later told by the finance company involved that she would have to pay an outstanding balance of £20,500 or it would repossess the vehicle.\n\nShe said she tried to resolve the matter with Gill's but the company went silent at the end of February.\n\n\"I was devastated when I discovered there was a lease agreement on the motorhome and I could lose it,\" she said.\n\n\"My lawyer is currently reviewing the legal position and I have informed the police about my case.\"\n\nIngrid Anderson faces a bill of more than £20,000 in order to keep her motorhome\n\nA statement emailed to the BBC by Gill's Motorhomes read: \"Historically every year since inception we have sold off our ex-hire motorhomes and in the majority of cases we paid off the finance owed on them.\n\n\"Regrettably due to a variety of unforeseen circumstances the business was unable to continue trading and as a direct result of those circumstances it rendered it impossible for us to make the final finance payments on three vehicles.\"\n\nA number of people also came forward to the BBC to say they had lost substantial sums trying to rent motorhomes from Gill's.\n\nDerek Burke paid Gill's £1,472 upfront after being offered an \"early bird\" rental discount on 23 February.\n\nDerek Burke set up an online group for people who lost money after dealing with Gill's Motorhomes\n\nMr Burke, from Burntisland, said he only found out that there might be a problem when he tried to alter the rental dates several weeks later.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We tried to contact them (Gill's) several times by phone to rearrange the dates, to see if that was possible but there was no answer on the phone.\n\n\"So I emailed them and again there was no answer.\"\n\nMr Burke set up an online group and found others with similar accounts of dealings with Gill's. So far more than a dozen have come forward.\n\nHe said: \"There were several people posting who had booked with Gill's Motorhome Hire Scotland and they couldn't get hold of anyone - the same situation I was in. And they had paid upfront as well.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of anger, as you can imagine.\"\n\nMr Burke has also approached the police over his case.\n\nThis page from Gill's Motorhomes was removed several weeks ago\n\nTwo Spaniards have also claimed to have lost substantial amounts of money in their dealings with Gill's.\n\nXavi Pena, from Barcelona, said that in January he hired a motorhome from Gill's to travel around Scotland with his wife, two-year-old son and parents-in-law.\n\nHe explained: \"We were asked to pay the full amount of £1,800 in order to lock the motorhome.\n\n\"That was clearly a mistake from our side, but we were keen to secure it given that my parents-in-law were travelling all the way from Australia, where they live.\n\n\"About 10 days before our trip I tried to contact the company again in order to agree on the pick-up location and time but they had vanished completely.\n\n\"Their website was not operative, they didn't answer emails or calls. In the end we had to rent another motorhome.\"\n\nSanti Miralda says the company failed to respond after he tried to amend his booking\n\nSanti Miralda, 49, also from Barcelona, said he paid Gill's more than £1,500 upfront in February to rent a vehicle.\n\nMr Miralda, who runs a language school in the Spanish city, said alarm bells started ringing when he tried to alter his booking a few weeks later.\n\n\"I tried to contact them (Motorhome Hire Scotland) to ask for a change and that was when I realised that I had been ripped off.\n\n\"The web page has disappeared and they do not answer any mail or phone calls.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has established that the Gill's Motorhomes' website went offline in early March, with the message: \"Our site is currently unavailable.\"\n\nIn mid-April, a new message appeared, stating that Gill's Motorhome Hire Ltd had ceased trading.\n\nIn a statement, Gill's Motorhomes said it took bookings in advance \"like any other motorhome hire company\".\n\nIt continued: \"All of our customers who prepaid will receive a full refund, indeed most have already.\n\n\"Like any other business associated with travel we provided an 'early bird' discount for customers who paid in advance. We have offered this facility since inception in 2015.\n\n\"We notified our customers via email as soon as it became clear that we were unfortunately unable to continue trading.\n\n\"We provided clear and concise instructions on how our customers could get their money back. Most, if not all, have now successfully followed those instructions.\"\n\nChris Nowell, 56, from Stafford, claims he is about £90,000 out of pocket after signing a franchise agreement with Gill's Motorhomes last year.\n\nHe said the fee of £75,000, plus VAT, included marketing and website costs involved in renting out Gills-branded vehicles in Birmingham from 1 April.\n\nChris Nowell says he has lost about £90,000 over the franchise agreement with Gill's\n\nMr Nowell, who is a former director of JCB, told the BBC that he had concerns back in February about how the franchise was proceeding and began a legal process of withdrawing from the agreement.\n\nHowever, on 1 March he received an email from Gill's saying that it had ceased trading.\n\nHe says he has not received a penny of his money back.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel that essentially I have been duped into taking on the franchise.\n\n\"I feel it was never a properly established franchise, and they weren't in a position to deliver what they promised when they started.\n\n\"I have lost so far a great deal of money but I also feel awful for the other people, particularly the people who were booking through the Gill's website for Birmingham where I was due to open a franchise.\n\n\"They've lost their holidays and they've lost, in some cases, their bookings.\"\n\nAnother \"franchisee\", Alan Amos, says he paid out about £100,000 late last year to take on a Gill's Motorhome hire franchise in Swindon.\n\nHe also claims to have received nothing back from Gill's.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I have to pay off a £50,000 loan and will have to sell off my house and downsize. I've also got to find a job.\n\n\"I can't figure out where all the money has gone. I have been stressed out in a way I have never been before.\"\n\nIn a statement, Gill's said: \"Two people progressed their intentions to proceed with our franchise model and they had invested funds in that regard.\n\n\"We had a very strong and sustainable franchise model which had been scrutinised by many industry professionals including representatives for both individuals concerned.\n\n\"A substantial investment was made by ourselves in our franchise model but very regrettably we were unable to sustain the costs associated with this business due to unforeseen circumstances.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed with what has happened and we aim to recompense these people as and when we are able.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"We are investigating reports of a fraudulent scheme linked to a business in Dechmont, West Lothian.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ineos chief Jim Ratcliffe was speaking to the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan\n\nBritain's richest man has called the government's attitude to fracking for gas \"pathetic\", accusing ministers of listening to a vocal minority rather than looking at the science.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe, whose firm Ineos is conducting exploratory fracking tests, said the north of England was sitting on potential huge energy resources.\n\nBut restrictions were making it unviable for firms, he told the BBC.\n\nOn Monday, the UK's shale gas tsar resigned after just six months.\n\nNatascha Engel, a former Labour MP, said fracking was being throttled by rules preventing mini earthquakes.\n\nCurrent government rules mean fracking must be suspended every time a 0.5 magnitude tremor is detected. But Ms Engel said the cautious approach to tremors had created a de facto ban on fracking.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he agreed with Ms Engel's criticism. \"I think the government has been pathetic on the subject, frankly - honestly, I do,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nThe government was listening to \"a very vocal, but a minuscule, minority of people, and I think there's a high degree of ignorance\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe, whose company is carrying out tests in Nottinghamshire and has exploration rights in Yorkshire and Cheshire, believes the UK could emulate the shale gas boom in the US.\n\n\"America today is self sufficient in oil and gas... and it is because of this new technology, which is extremely safe and well proven,\" he said. With the demise of huge swathes of manufacturing in the north of England, expansion of the fracking industry would be a big creator of jobs, he added.\n\nHe told the BBC's sports editor Dan Roan: \"I feel really strongly that the northern economy is really important to the UK, and fracking has been so successful in America - it's transformed places like Pittsburgh.\n\n\"We've got towns in England which are not the happiest of places at the moment, so it makes me cross when people don't look at the science.\"\n\nIneos and Cuadrilla - which is already fracking for shale gas - have faced major protests from campaigners who say the process is environmentally unfriendly and causes earth tremors.\n\nFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure in order to split rock formations and release gas. A number of countries have banned the process, including France and Germany.\n\nThe UK government defended its record on fracking against Mr Ratcliffe's criticism. A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government supports the shale industry \"because we believe it could have the potential to be a new domestic energy source, and create thousands of well paid, quality jobs\".\n\n\"We've worked to develop world-leading regulations based on the advice of scientists and in consultation with industry. We are confident these strike the right balance in ensuring the industry can develop, while ensuring any operations are carried out safely and responsibly,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has taken over cycling's Team Sky, and the renamed Team Ineos will compete in the Tour de Yorkshire on Thursday. There have been reports that environmental campaigners could protest along the route.\n\nThe billionaire rejected criticism that his move into cycling was an attempt to \"greenwash\" Ineos. \"It's nothing to do with it at all,\" he said. \"The sport is totally different.\"\n\nBut Simon Bowers, of Friends of the Earth, said Ineos's \"highjacking\" of cycling was \"shameless\", adding: \"Ineos's plans for fracking are completely incompatible with fighting climate change. Fossil fuels have no place in sports sponsorship.\"\n\nThe pro-Brexit businessman also dismissed reports about him allegedly leaving the UK to live in Monaco. \"I don't live in Monaco, I can tell you that,\" he said.\n\nBut is he thinking about a move? \"I don't really want to talk about where I live because that's my own private affair. But we have invested £2.5bn in the UK in the last 20 years... and I have never made a penny of profit in the UK. I'm many hundreds of millions short of getting that back.\n\n\"I have made lots of money in the US, Germany and Belgium, but am I supposed to go and live there? It's my private affair,\" he said.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's natural environment and deliver a \"zero waste economy\" within the next six months.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.", "The leaflets contained information on Conservative candidates Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett for the East Lindsey District Council elections\n\nA scout leader has resigned after getting children in his troop to deliver election leaflets on behalf of two Tory council candidates.\n\nThe group leader and other volunteers in Lincolnshire, quit after a complaint was made, the Scout Association said.\n\nAccording to the Grimsby Telegraph, the scouts were used by Daniel McNally and Paul Rickett in return for a year's use of allotment space to grow vegetables.\n\nMr Rickett said it was \"nothing more than an innocent decision on my part\".\n\nThe newspaper reported Matt Whall, leader of the Marshchapel scout group, near Grimsby, had apologised in a message posted on the village's Facebook page, saying he had not done it for financial gain but had \"hoped to run a soup kitchen for the community using veg grown in the village\".\n\n\"I did not ask the scouts to distribute leaflets for political gain or promotion but did something purely with the motive to provide an enriching opportunity for the young people in the group,\" he added.\n\nMr Rickett, a candidate in the East Lindsey District Council election, said: \"It is regrettable that, what was, in reality, local community minded people trying to help each other out, has taken on a political dimension.\n\n\"This was never my intention. Asking the scouts to help me leaflet around Marshchapel for me was nothing more that an innocent decision on my part.\"\n\nThe Scout Association said it was \"clear this was a genuine error\" and the leader's resignation prompted other group leaders to quit, but did not disclose how many had left.\n\n\"Members of the movement in uniform, or individuals when acting as representatives of the movement, must not take part in any party political meetings or activities that endorse any particular political party or candidate,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe Marshchapel scout group would continue to operate and volunteers were working to \"minimise the impact to the young people\" in the club, the spokesman added.\n\nMr McNally and the Conservative Party have been approached for a comment.", "Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against the government's decision to approve plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nFive councils, residents, environmental charities and London Mayor Sadiq Khan brought the action after MPs backed the plans in June.\n\nThe campaigners said the runway would effectively create a \"new airport\", having a \"severe\" impact on Londoners.\n\nBut judges rejected the arguments, ruling the plans were lawful.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"The expansion of Heathrow is vital and will provide a massive economic boost to businesses and communities across the length and breadth of Britain, all at no cost to the taxpayer and within our environmental obligations.\n\n\"I now call on all public bodies not to waste any more taxpayers' money or seek to further delay this vital project.\"\n\nBut John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: \"This verdict will not reduce the impact on local communities from increased noise and air pollution, nor will it resolve Heathrow Ltd's financial difficulties or the economic weakness in their expansion plans.\"\n\nShirley Rodrigues, deputy London mayor for environment and energy, said: \"In challenging the decision to expand Heathrow, Sadiq has stood up for Londoners who have serious concerns about the damaging impact it will have.\n\n\"We will now consider the judgement and consult with our co-claimants before deciding our next steps.\"\n\nCampaigners said a third runway would effectively create a \"new airport\"\n\nThe case was brought against the transport secretary by five local authorities in London affected by the expansion - Hillingdon, Wandsworth, Richmond, Hammersmith & Fulham and Windsor and Maidenhead.\n\nResidents and charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B also joined the action.\n\nThey argued that the government's National Policy Statement (NPS), setting out its support for the project, failed to account fully for the impact on air quality, climate change, noise and congestion.\n\nOutlining the case on behalf of campaigners, Nigel Pleming QC had said the plans could see the number of passengers using the airport rise to an estimated 132 million - an increase of 60%.\n\nBut lawyers representing Mr Grayling said the claimants' case was \"premature\", as they would have the opportunity to make representations at a later stage in the planning process.\n\nLord Justice Hickinbottom, sitting with Mr Justice Holgate, said in the ruling on Wednesday: \"We understand that these claims involve underlying issues upon which the parties - and indeed many members of the public - hold strong and sincere views.\n\n\"There was a tendency for the substance of the parties' positions to take more of a centre stage than perhaps it should have done, in a hearing that was only concerned with the legality, and not the merits, of the Airports National Policy Statement.\"\n\nThe ruling means the government will not have to devise a new NPS and put it to another vote in Parliament.\n\nIt won its first vote by a comfortable majority of 296 after Labour MPs were granted a free vote.\n\nThe decision to expand Heathrow follows almost half a century of indecision on how and where to add new airport capacity in south-east England.\n\nUnder the current £14bn plan, construction could begin in 2021, with the third runway operational by 2026.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWildlife organisations have welcomed new legislation making beavers a protected species in Scotland.\n\nIt is now illegal to kill beavers or destroy established dams and lodges without a licence.\n\nThe Scottish Wildlife Trust said legal protection for beavers was \"an important step\" to enable the species to \"expand its range.\"\n\nFarming leaders have raised concerns about the damage caused to agricultural land from beavers' dam-building.\n\nThe animals were reintroduced to Scotland's waterways a decade ago.\n\nThere are currently about 450 beavers in Scotland, in Tayside and mid-Argyll.\n\nScottish Wildlife Trust chief executive Jo Pike said beavers were \"unrivalled as ecosystem engineers.\"\n\nShe said: \"Granting beavers protected status is an important milestone for the return of the species to Scotland's lochs and rivers.\n\n\"It follows decades of work by countless organisations and individuals to demonstrate the positive impacts that beavers can have.\n\nMs Pike said the trust accepted that land managers must have the ability to deal with \"localised negative impacts\" caused by beavers.\n\nShe said: \"However, it is equally important to ensure lethal control is only used as a last resort, and this does not threaten the successful spread of beavers into other areas of Scotland.\"\n\nFarmer Adrian Ivory said beaver dams cost his business thousands of pounds every year\n\nAdrian Ivory is farm manager at Strathisla Farms in Perthshire. Last year beavers set up home close to his wheat field.\n\nHe told the BBC that the beavers damming on a nearby burn resulted in his crop being destroyed.\n\nHe said: \"The big problem for us with the dams is that it costs me as a business £4,000-£5,000 a year, pulling dams out of watercourses, trying to sort banks out.\n\n\"These are problems that we shouldn't really be having to deal with.\n\n\"We are trying to produce quality food for the population to eat and this is just causing real problems and a cost to my business.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Merseyside Police said the girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury\n\nA two year-old girl has been shot in the head with a crossbow bolt at a house in Liverpool.\n\nThe child was hurt at a home on Oakhouse Park in the Walton area of the city on Tuesday afternoon when a \"crossbow was discharged\", police said.\n\nThe weapon involved has been seized and was being forensically examined, but no arrests have been made.\n\nThe girl remains in hospital with a serious head injury, Merseyside Police added.\n\nDet Insp Sabi Kaur said: \"I am sure the community in Walton will share our shock and distress at the fact a child could have been hurt in this way.\n\n\"Our inquiries are at a very early stage and we are still trying to establish the full facts, but we know it was an isolated incident.\"\n\n\"This incident shows the obvious dangers posed by [weapons] stored in Merseyside.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the national champion at 100m and 200m, and an Asian Games bronze medallist.\n\nSuch was the excitement about her potential that the Sports Authority of India's director general Jiji Thomson described her as a \"sure shot Olympic medallist\" of the future, and a place in a final on her Commonwealth Games debut looked within her reach.\n\nBut then, less than a fortnight before the opening ceremony in Glasgow, she \"failed\" a test that had nothing to do with fitness, form or even doping, and was dramatically withdrawn from the national team.\n\nLike South African 800m sensation Caster Semenya before her, Chand discovered - in bold newsprint - that her natural levels of the hormone testosterone were normally only found in men. It did not take long before reporters were outside her parents' humble home asking them and her six siblings if she was a boy or a girl.\n\nThe third of seven children to a weaver couple from the state of Odisha, Dutee is born on 3 February 1996 Becomes Indian national under-18 champion for 100m when she clocks 11.8 seconds in 2012 Wins a 200m bronze at 2013 Asian Games and is first Indian to reach a global sprint final at the World Youths, coming sixth in 11.62 seconds 100/200m double at Asian Junior Athletics Championships, prompting the Athletics Federation of India to ask for a gender test in July Wins a case in July 2015 overturning her ban on competing\n\nShe has now been cleared to race by a landmark ruling questioning the validity of so-called gender tests around naturally high testosterone levels in female athletes.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has suspended the International Association of Athletics Federations' \"hyperandrogenism\" rules for two years. The rules will be scrapped if the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) cannot provide new evidence supporting them.\n\nHowever, Chand's career has been on hold for a year, leading to her missing both the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games after she refused to subject herself to the \"corrective\" treatment (hormone suppression therapy and sometimes even genital surgery) prescribed by the IAAF, International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other leading sports bodies.\n\n\"I am who I am,\" said Chand with a mixture of defiance and dismay at the time.\n\nInstead of the sprinter she has spent years training to be, she became the focus of a challenge to sport's rules on gender, a cause celebre and evidence in a scientific debate about testosterone.\n\nConcerns about men masquerading as women to win medals have been around for almost as long as women have been allowed to play sport, which is surprising given how rare it is. In fact, the last case most people can agree on is German high jumper Dora/Heinrich Ratjen. He nearly won a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympics.\n\nUndeterred by the unlikelihood of a man successfully passing himself off as a woman, the IOC started comprehensive \"gender verification\" testing in 1968.\n\nInitially, this was done by asking female athletes to drop their underwear, but eventually a less humiliating method was found: checking swabs of cheek tissue for chromosomes, women being XX, men XY.\n\nUnfortunately, Mother Nature is not as black-and-white as your typical blazer would like his competitions to be, and it turns out there are a dozen different conditions that would once have been lumped under \"hermaphrodite\", but are now referred to by the less pejorative term of intersex, or disorders of sexual development.\n\nSport first cottoned on to this when Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino was told in 1985 that she was an XY \"man\", but refused to quit or feign injury (as it is widely believed many had before) and spent the next three years fighting ignorance and ridicule to line up alongside women again.\n\nShe got there in the end, proving her Y chromosomes were the product of a rare genetic syndrome. She was also able to show that her condition meant she was insensitive to testosterone: it was in her blood, but it was no good to her.\n\nSadly, Martinez-Patino's most competitive years were behind her. It is not known what happened to the 13 women who \"failed\" gender tests at Olympics between 1972 and 1984.\n\nBut sport seemed to have learned something, though, mainly that it did not know enough about these complicated issues, and by the end of the 1990s gender verification was shelved, apart from in cases of extreme suspicion.\n\nAnd then Semenya burst onto the scene.\n\nA junior champion in 2008, the muscular teenager took seven seconds off her personal best for 800m over the next nine months, breaking the South African record and setting a world-leading time in the process. The IAAF felt \"obliged to investigate\", if only to rule out doping.\n\nHours before the start of the 800m final at the 2009 World Athletics Championships, a race Semenya would win by a huge margin, it was leaked that the sport's governing body had also asked for a gender test.\n\nAfter Semenya's crushing win at the 2009 Worlds, a Russian rival sniped, \"just look at her\".\n\nA young girl with a rare condition, and an even rarer talent, was subjected to a medical examination by media.\n\nSemenya, now 24, returned to racing in 2010, and won silver medals at the 2011 Worlds and 2012 Olympics. But she has never run as fast as she did as an 18-year-old.\n\nBruce Kidd, the 1962 Commonwealth champion in the imperial version of the 10,000m, the six miles, has spent the last half century as a leading academic in the field of physical and health education. The Canadian is also a self-confessed Olympian \"of the old school\", a champion of sport's ability to unite.\n\n\"What a remarkable story Semenya should have been,\" said Kidd.\n\n\"Wouldn't it have been better if the authorities had raised her hand as a great new champion? Instead they hit the moral panic button.\n\n\"There has been a long current in modern sport that there must be something wrong with strong women. In the last 20 years it has become a kind of biological racism.\"\n\nAshamed at the leaks and lack of scientific rigour, but stung by the reaction to Semenya's physique from some quarters, the IAAF asked an expert working group to come up with a plan for women with \"excessive androgenic hormones\", or hyperandrogenism.\n\nAndrogenic hormones are any natural or synthetic substance that control the development of male characteristics - everything from the formation of testes, to male pattern baldness - with the best known being testosterone.\n\nThere is some disagreement over the normal spectrum of testosterone levels for men and women in general, but everybody agrees that typically there is a gap that emerges between the sexes during puberty.\n\nAs we have seen, though, there are some women with conditions that give them masculine amounts of testosterone, which the IAAF's working group, in conjunction with the IOC's Medical Commission, decided was anything above the bottom of the male range, 10 nanomoles per litre (nmol/L) of blood.\n\nIn April 2011, the new rules came into force. From this moment on, a confidential investigation could be made into any athlete where there were \"reasonable grounds\". This could be a complaint from a rival, or as a result of an anomaly in a drugs test.\n\nThe process would be handled by experts, and \"an effective therapeutic strategy\" would be offered to any athlete found to have elevated levels of androgen.\n\nPart of this investigation would include finding out if the athlete is benefiting from the testosterone. As was seen in the Martinez-Patino case, androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) means those elevated levels of the hormone can give a false picture of what is actually happening.\n\nBut while all this is being established, the athletes are ineligible to compete. Sounds reasonable… doesn't it?\n\nPeter Sonksen is a professor of endocrinology (the study of hormones) at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was his research for the IOC that eventually led to the development of an anti-doping test for Human Growth Hormone, but he is far from impressed with its work on testosterone.\n\n\"They have got it completely wrong with this idiotic rule,\" Sonksen told me.\n\n\"This rule is unfair, gross and unscientific. It is clear discrimination.\"\n\nSonksen's main objection to the 10 nmol/L threshold is that the research he did for his HGH study found 16% of his male athletes had lower than expected testosterone, whereas 13% of his female athletes had high levels of testosterone \"with complete overlap between the sexes\".\n\nIn other words, the gap that exists for testosterone between men and women in the general population does not exist among elite athletes.\n\nThis research has been leapt upon by a growing body of campaigners who question the premise that testosterone is a significant factor in any discussions about differences between the sexes' athletic performances.\n\nFor them, men's greater height, leaner body mass, narrower hips and higher counts of oxygen-carrying red blood cells are all more persuasive than testosterone.\n\nBut this is where we enter disputed territory, and a number of experts reacted angrily to what they saw as the misuse of Sonksen's HGH data. For them, there is little doubt of testosterone's impact, although most admit it is part of the mix, as opposed to being the only ingredient.\n\nDavid Epstein is an award-winning writer for the US magazine Sports Illustrated, but he is perhaps better known as the author of \"The Sports Gene\", a myth-debunking look at \"nature versus nurture\".\n\nThe book details the many physical differences between men and women, including testosterone, which, when you add them all up, explain why unisex sport is a non-starter for most athletic pursuits. As he explains, elite men's running times are about 11% faster than women's, with even bigger differences in jumping and throwing.\n\n\"For lots of good reasons, we have decided to have a class of athletes who aren't men,\" Epstein explained.\n\n\"But biological sex is not binary. That means whichever line you draw between men and women it is going to be arbitrary.\"\n\nFor now, Epstein agrees with the IAAF's experts that testosterone is probably \"the best line we can draw\", although he would prefer it if those experts at least admitted they were making an educated guess.\n\nJoanna Harper is a medical physicist based in Oregon who could run two-hour-23-minute marathons as \"a young man\", but is now an age-group national champion as \"an old lady\".\n\nAs part of her sex change in 2004, she had therapy to suppress her testosterone levels. For her, there is no real argument about testosterone's effect.\n\n\"Women's sport is like a testosterone-handicap event,\" Harper told me.\n\n\"But you cannot have women's equality without women's sport, so you have a dilemma with no perfect solution.\"\n\nThere are two things that everybody does agree on: the women in question deserve to be treated with sensitivity and in confidence, and any consent they give to treatment must be informed.\n\nA 2013 report revealed that four female athletes from \"developing countries\" had recently come to France for hormone therapy and extensive genital surgery. These cases were dealt with anonymously, and as far as anybody knows they are still competing.\n\nBut confirmation that young women are being operated on to comply with sport's rules on what \"normal\" female genitalia should look like has provoked outrage. Are male athletes subjected to the same scrutiny?\n\nThe details of Chand's condition have not been published or leaked, thankfully, but it is believed she was offered hormone therapy and \"feminising\" surgery.\n\nIt is ironic then that her failure to tick the \"anonymity box\" on her test form saved Chand from being rushed into medical procedures a probably traumatised teenager cannot be expected to understand. The media attention she has received has been intrusive at times, but it also alerted intersex campaigners to her fate.\n\nThe first person to come to Chand's aid was Dr Payoshni Mitra, a researcher on gender issues, and she helped galvanise opinion behind taking Chand's case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\n\"We were able to convince (the Sports Authority of India) that these rules are unethical and need to be abolished,\" said Mitra. \"Institutionalised genital mutilation is just scary.\"\n\nChand's challenge was filed at CAS last October, with the SAI paying the bill. Her supporters hoped to get her reinstated immediately and the IAAF rules ripped up within six months. An online \"Let Dutee Run\" campaign got 5,646 signatures and the Indian media massed behind her.\n\nIn the end it was late July 2015 when Chand won her case and was allowed to run once more, with the IAAF \"hyperandrogenism\" rules suspended for two years pending further investigation.\n\nIt is impossible to research Chand's story without developing huge sympathy for the position she found herself in. Her life was turned upside down.\n\nIt is also clear that elite sport has always been about unfair advantages, be they Usain Bolt's long legs, Michael Phelps's out-of-proportion wingspan, or Sir Bradley Wiggins's cardiovascular system. Sport is not fair.\n\nBut if women's sport is to have meaning there must be some boundaries. And if testosterone is so irrelevant, how do we explain the fact that many of the best performances ever achieved by women came during an era when they were pumped full of it as part of an ideological struggle between East and West?\n\nThere are no easy answers here.\n\nAs Harper, with her special insight into testosterone's effect, puts it: \"A level playing field is probably impossible to ever achieve, but a more level playing field is worth striving for.\"\n\nThis feature was first published in October 2014 and updated in the wake of Dutee Chand being cleared to race on 27 July 2015.", "Baby orangutans on the island of Sumatra are being captured and sold as pets, but charities are working to rescue the animals and confront the owners.\n\nThis is a series about the animals of Indonesia's Leuser rainforest and the people trying to save them. Leuser is one of the most biodiverse places on earth.\n\nPart one of a five part series.\n\nAdditional camerawork and production support by Shinta Retnani, Haryo Wirawan and Irendra Radjawali.\n\nFind out more about why palm oil is so controversial.", "Three gang rappers, along with two other men, have been jailed for killing a teenager in Ipswich.\n\nA rivalry between two gangs, played out in music videos posted on YouTube, resulted in the murder of 17-year-old Tavis Spencer-Aitkens.\n\nHe was stabbed 15 times on 2 June in retaliation for a clash between the Neno and J-Block gangs earlier that day.\n\nPassing sentence at Ipswich Crown Court, judge Martyn Levett said: \"When they identified their target, they chased him, hunted him down as a pack and set upon him in a pitiless attack.\"\n\nYou can hear a special documentary about this story on BBC Sounds.", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Thanks for joining us for reaction to the sacking of Gavin Williamson as defence secretary - that's where we will leave our live updates for this evening.\n\nHis departure follows an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting, over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nHe has been replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who will become the UK's first female defence secretary.\n\nMr Williamson has \"strenuously\" denied leaking information from the meeting, but the PM said \"no other credible version of events\" has been found to explain the leak.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable have both said they think the police should get involved in the matter.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.", "Stephen Coxen had denied the rape charges against him and the case was found not proven in a criminal court\n\nA woman who successfully sued a man for raping her has said she is \"shocked\" but \"not surprised\" that he has declared himself bankrupt.\n\nLast October a sheriff ruled that Stephen Coxen had raped the woman after a night out in Fife in 2013 and ordered him to pay her £80,000.\n\nThe case was unusual because Mr Coxen had previously faced a criminal trial but the case was found not proven.\n\nThe woman, a former St Andrews University student who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was raped after a night out in the town by Mr Coxen, whom she had met earlier in the evening.\n\nThe victim was a student at the University of St Andrews\n\nMr Coxen, from Bury in Greater Manchester, had denied the charges, claiming the sex was consensual.\n\nThe case was found not proven, which means in legal terms that he was cleared, after a criminal trial in November 2015.\n\nThe woman, known as Miss M, later took out a civil action against Stephen Coxen, which was heard at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, the woman said her main focus had been gaining justice in the case and not money.\n\nShe said: \"Initially, the day I found out I was very shocked. I wasn't surprised.\n\n\"I think a little part of me always thought he might do this. He was the man that raped me, he is the man I've spent five years fighting against and I think it's just highlighting the type of person that he is.\n\n\"But I don't think people should just think about this as terrible that he's made himself bankrupt, because really, I've never wanted to go after him for money.\n\n\"The whole point of my whole process - my whole fight over the years is really just for a sheriff to say 'you know he did rape you - this did happen'.\"\n\nDamages were awarded at the Personal Injury Court in Edinburgh\n\nCivil cases require a lower standard of proof than criminal cases, with judgements made on the balance of probabilities rather than beyond reasonable doubt.\n\nIn this case - understood to be the first of its kind in Scotland - the sheriff in the civil court ruled Mr Coxen raped the woman despite the not proven verdict in the criminal court, and demanded he pay damages.\n\nSheriff Robert Weir said the evidence from Miss M had been \"cogent, compelling and persuasive\".\n\nHe said that Mr Coxen took advantage of the 18-year-old student when she was incapable of giving meaningful consent because of the effects of alcohol.\n\nDavid Robertson (left) and David Goodwillie faced a civil action after a decision not to prosecute them\n\nThe sheriff said Miss M had been distressed and had resisted, but Mr Coxen had continued to rape her.\n\nMr Coxen, who was also aged 18 at the time, denied rape and said they had consensual sex.\n\nIn 2017, another woman, Denise Clair, won a civil case against footballers David Goodwillie and David Robertson.\n\nBut the case was different as Ms Clair, who waived her right to anonymity, brought the civil action after the Crown had decided against prosecuting the pair in the criminal courts.\n\nThe judge in the civil court found the rapes had happened and awarded Ms Clair £100,000 damages from the men.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 250 free-to-use cash machines are disappearing a month as operators shut unprofitable ones, the network co-ordinator Link has said.\n\nThere are 53,000 free machines in the UK - but the number is shrinking at a record rate as people use less cash.\n\nNow the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is cracking down on the closures and asking for more network protection.\n\n\"Free-to-use ATMs continue to play a vital role in helping people access their money,\" the regulator said.\n\nHannah Nixon, the PSR's managing director, said: \"The requirements we intend to place on Link will help ensure that Link achieves their commitment to protecting the geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs across the UK.\"\n\nLink's ATM Footprint Report found that between the end of January and the start of July 2018, the number of free-to-use ATMs fell from 54,500 to 53,200.\n\nThat is partly because people are using cash less, Link said, thanks to the rise in popularity of new payment methods such as contactless transactions.\n\nBut it is also because cash machine operators such as Cardtronics and Note Machine, who get a fee from our banks each time we use one, are finding that fewer of their machines are economic to run.\n\nUnder pressure from banks, Link is cutting the fee it pays to operators while trying to restrict the resulting closures in city centres,\n\nLink said it had set up \"specific arrangements to protect free-to-use ATMs more than 1km away from their next nearest free-to-use ATM\".\n\nThe organisation has earmarked some 2,365 free machines in remote and rural areas that it wants to remain open.\n\nBut 76 of these protected cash machines closed between January and July, 21 of them without even a Post Office nearby to get cash over the counter.\n\nThe PSR says it is concerned and is taking action to ensure Link meets its commitments.\n\nIt is also seeking renewed commitments from banks that consumers will continue to be offered services, allowing them to access their cash.\n\nBut the regulator's intervention on ATM closures may be \"too little, too late\", warned Nicky Morgan, Chair of the Treasury Committee.\n\nShe said: \"The PSR is rightly concerned by the closures, but I fear its regulatory intervention may be too little, too late. It must ensure that Link is held to its commitment to maintain the broad geographic spread of free-to-use ATMs.\n\n\"The Committee has been clear that this is a major test of what is a relatively new regulator, but the banks, the ATM deployers, and Link itself also have a duty to ensure consumers don't lose out.\"\n\nJenni Allen, managing director of Which? Money, said: \"Link is failing on its commitment to protect access to cash for people in remote and rural areas who need it most.\n\n\"The PSR must now urgently intervene to stop further closures and ensure that no more consumers are suddenly stripped of their access to cash.\"\n\nThere are plenty of cash machines in King's Lynn town centre, you'll find most major banks here on the High Street.\n\nBut some of the surrounding villages have been listed as the worst places in the country when it comes to accessing cash.\n\nLauren, who lives in Narborough in Norfolk, told me she has to travel 10 minutes in her car to get to her closest ATM. She says she always has to be organised and often gets cash back at supermarkets.\n\nLily lives in King's Lynn and told me her closest cash machine is at a Tesco Express which is 15 minutes away. She says she avoids using cash when she can, but does need it for nights out and getting a taxi home.", "Some millennials have unrealistic expectations of inheritance and how it may unlock the door to buying a first home, a survey suggests.\n\nOne in seven young adults expect to inherit money before they are 35, although in reality the typical inheritance age is between 55 and 64.\n\nThe survey, by wealth manager Charles Stanley, suggested that young people expected to receive nearly £130,000.\n\nHowever, the median average amount handed down was only £11,000.\n\nAdvisers said that relying on an inheritance to pay a deposit for a first home was often misguided, even if older family members intended to pass on money when they died.\n\n\"People are living longer than ever, so relying on an inheritance to get on the housing ladder is a risky strategy as you may get less, and much later than planned,\" said John Porteous, from Charles Stanley.\n\n\"In reality, most people save and invest to get on the housing ladder. Starting early and planning ahead is essential to achieving the deposit you need.\"\n\nThe research suggested that 22% of millennials expected to receive inheritance to use as a deposit, although official statistics suggest only 7% actually did so.\n\nThe average expectation of when that inheritance would be received was the age of 50, yet figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that they would have to wait for at least another five years.\n\nEven when that money arrived, ONS data showed that inheritance was much less lucrative than many asked in the survey expected.\n\nOthers in the industry have argued that the UK public is \"largely ignoring\" financial planning for death.\n\nDan Garrett, founder of will writing service Farewill, said that 30 million people in the UK had not written a will, partly because it had dropped down the household \"to do\" list.\n\nHe also called on the government to clarify its plans for probate fees.\n\nThe government is planning to substantially increase the cost to bereaved families of settling the estates of deceased relatives.\n\nThe changes were expected to start last month but have been delayed.\n• None Which town pays the most inheritance tax?", "The boat arrived at the Belgian port early on Tuesday\n\nIn a sign of things to come, an autonomous boat has just made a cargo run from the UK to Belgium.\n\nThe 12m-long Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) SEA-KIT Maxlimer crossed from West Mersea to Oostende on Monday night, carrying a box of oysters.\n\nIt relied on a range of technologies to safely navigate what is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.\n\nThe boat's owner says the trip was the first commercial crossing of the North Sea to be made by an autonomous vessel.\n\n\"This voyage has been months in the making, and to see it all come together is amazing,\" said Ben Simpson of SEA-KIT International Ltd.\n\n“[The USV's] potential lies in its ability to be adapted to a range of tasks, whether it be transit, hydrographic surveys, environmental missions, or marine safety and security. We’re tremendously excited to push the technology to its limits and see what we can achieve.\"\n\nOn Thursday, the boat was making the return journey, again uncrewed but with a consignment of Belgian beer.\n\nOysters in Oostende: The USV has a maximum payload capacity of 2.5 tonnes\n\nThe SEA-KIT USV Maxlimer makes use of a communications and control system known as Global Situational Awareness via Internet.\n\nThis allows an operator to remotely access CCTV footage, thermal imaging and radar through the boat, as well as listen live to the USV’s surroundings and even communicate with others in the vicinity.\n\nThe Monday into Tuesday crossing took 22 hours in total; the vessel moves slowly at only a few knots.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boat was originally developed to launch and recover an AUV\n\nThe 5kg shellfish consignment is well below the maximum payload capacity of 2.5 tonnes, but it was the demonstration of capability that was the point of the exercise.\n\nSeveral agencies supported the crossing, including the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Department for Transport, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Space Agency, as well as partners in Belgium.\n\nThe boat was returning on Thursday with some Belgian beer\n\nDesigned by Hushcraft Ltd in Tollesbury, Essex, SEA-KIT Maxlimer was originally developed for the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team and its entry in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.\n\nThis XPRIZE competition is seeking novel methods to map the seafloor, and the USV is able to deploy and recover a sonar-equipped autonomous underwater vehicle that will acquire bathymetric data.\n\n\"We can do the same work as traditional vessels but using a fraction of the fuel, just 5%,\" Mr Simpson told BBC News. \"We're passionate about reducing carbon emissions and we look forward to doing more demonstrations and making this commercially viable.\"\n\nFuture concepts: Many different applications are being considered for the boat", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says cross-party talks have been \"difficult\" and that Labour \"backs option of a public vote\"\n\nLabour can \"unite our country\" and heal the divisions caused by Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn said, as he launched his European elections campaign.\n\nMr Corbyn said the party backed \"the option of a public vote\" if a \"sensible\" Brexit deal cannot be agreed and there is not a general election.\n\nHe said cross-party talks on Brexit were \"difficult\" as the government's \"red lines remain in place\".\n\nThe European elections take place in the UK on 23 May.\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but as no deal was agreed by Parliament, the EU extended the deadline to 31 October.\n\nIt can leave the bloc earlier, but if the UK has not left by 23 May, it is legally obliged to take part in the EU-wide poll and send MEPs to Brussels.\n\nCross-party talks between the government and Labour have been taking place to try to solve the Brexit impasse.\n\nHowever Mr Corbyn said the talks had been difficult and that \"so far there have been no big offers\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult to negotiate with a disintegrating government with cabinet ministers jockeying for the succession, rather than working for an agreement,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn launched Labour's campaign in Gillingham, Kent, where he issued an appeal to both sides of the Brexit debate.\n\nHe said: \"To transform our country, and tackle injustice, inequality and the climate crisis, we need to unite the overwhelming majority of people and take on the privileged and powerful.\n\n\"That's why we insist the real divide in our country is not how people voted in the EU referendum.\n\n\"The real divide is between the many and the few.\"\n\nThe party has selected 70 candidates across the 12 regions. They include the former cabinet minister and passionate Brexit critic Lord Adonis, who is second on the South West England list.\n\nOther stand-out names include Laura Parker, a leading figure in the Momentum campaign group, and Eloise Todd, chief executive of the Best for Britain group.\n\nEloise Todd, chief executive of the Best for Britain group, is a Labour MEP candidate\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour was \"the only party with a plan to unite our country\".\n\n\"Other parties appeal to just one side of the Brexit debate because they aren't really committed to taking on the tax dodgers, the big polluters, or the financial gamblers who crashed our economy a decade ago,\" he said.\n\nHe promised Labour's alternative plan for Brexit \"would end the chaos caused by the Conservatives and let us focus on the other big issues facing our country\".\n\n\"But we can never accept the government's bad deal or a disastrous no deal,\" he added.\n\n\"So if we can't get a sensible deal, along the lines of our alternative plan, or a general election, Labour backs the option of a public vote.\"\n\nThe issue of a further referendum has proved divisive in the party - with many MPs and frontbenchers opposed to the idea.\n\nBut Labour's governing body agreed last month to support a further referendum on Brexit under certain circumstances.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said Labour's \"great balancing act\" on Brexit continued, with Mr Corbyn \"trying to keep Labour Leave supporters on board while not alienating Labour Remain supporters\".\n\nResponding to the speech, Labour MP Mary Creagh, a Remain supporter, said that \"standing in the middle of the road means you get run over from both sides\".\n\nCross-party talks on Brexit between the government and Labour will continue next week.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, said on Wednesday that he believed the PM would ask the Commons to vote again on the terms of the UK's exit before elections to the European Parliament take place.\n\nThe withdrawal agreement has effectively been rejected by MPs three times already.", "Kerry Katona had previously told the court she would represent herself at her trial but a guilty plea was entered in her absence\n\nSinger Kerry Katona has been fined £500 for failing to send one of her children to school.\n\nThe former member of Atomic Kitten had previously denied the charge but her solicitor entered a guilty plea on her behalf at Brighton Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe prosecution said Katona, who lives in Crowborough, East Sussex, had \"failed to engage\" over the issue.\n\nBut Ed Fish, defending, said work commitments meant she sometimes had to take the child to work with her.\n\nKatona, 38, had previously been warned she could be jailed after failing to attend an earlier court hearing.\n\nShe did appear at the previous hearing on 6 March, when she pleaded not guilty.\n\nBut during the public part of Wednesday's hearing, when Mr Fish said she was pleading guilty, no reason was given for her absence.\n\nThe court was told Katona had failed to send the child - one of five, who cannot be named - to school for a \"significant\" number of days between April and November last year.\n\nGareth Jones, prosecuting on behalf of East Sussex County Council, said the child's attendance rate had dropped as low as 48%.\n\nKerry Katona failed to attend court, having appeared at the previous hearing, but her solicitor pleaded guilty on her behalf\n\nHe said: \"There's a failure to engage here. She's not attending meetings, letters are not being responded to. This is a problem that has gone on for some time.\"\n\nBut Mr Fish told the court some of the unauthorised absences were because Katona could not get childcare while working.\n\nHe said: \"She understands it fell below what was expected of her.\n\n\"On occasions [the child] missed school due to Kerry Katona's work commitments. She's not had childcare and has to take the children to work.\n\n\"She understands she should maintain better contact with the school.\"\n\nBut he added: \"The attendance has not been the worst [the court has seen].\"\n\nKatona was also ordered to pay £325 costs and a £100 surcharge and was given 14 days to pay.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Beckham has been given a six-month driving ban for using his mobile phone while behind the wheel.\n\nThe former England captain previously pleaded guilty to using the device while driving his Bentley in central London on 21 November last year.\n\nA court heard he was photographed by a member of the public holding a phone as he drove in \"slowly moving\" traffic.\n\nBeckham, 44, received six points on his licence to add to the six he already had for previous speeding matters.\n\nHe was also fined £750, ordered to pay £100 in prosecution costs and a £75 surcharge fee within seven days.\n\nDistrict Judge Catherine Moore said she acknowledged the slow pace of the traffic but told him there was \"no excuse\" under the law.\n\nBromley Magistrates' Court heard Beckham was seen \"operating a handheld device at knee level\" while driving along Great Portland Street in the West End.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Spratt said: \"Instead of looking straight forward, paying attention to the road he appeared to be looking at his lap.\"\n\nThe court heard Beckham was photographed driving in \"slowly moving\" traffic while holding a phone\n\nBeckham's defence barrister Gerrard Tyrrell said the former Manchester United midfielder had \"no recollection of the day in question or this particular incident\".\n\nHe added: \"There is no excuse for what took place but his view is that he cannot remember.\"\n\n\"He takes his children to school each day when he can and he picks them up when he can, and actually to deprive them of that is something that he will acknowledge,\" he said.\n\nIt's against the law in the UK to hold a phone while driving, although hands-free devices are allowed. It's punishable by six penalty points on your licence and a £200 fine - but, depending on the seriousness of the offence, you can also be taken court to face more severe penalties.\n\nIn England and Wales in 2017, there were 8,300 convictions for using a handheld mobile phone whilst driving. Almost all were dealt with through a fine, which averaged out at £180.\n\nConvictions have fallen a lot since their peak of 32,548 in 2010.\n\nLooking at who was convicted, 86% were men and 21% were under 25 years old.\n\nIn Scotland in 2017-18 there were 2,881 convictions for the category of \"other motor vehicle offences\", which covers using a mobile phone and not wearing a seatbelt. Again, almost all were dealt with through fines.\n\nIn September, Beckham was accused of \"shirking his responsibility\" as a role model when he avoided prosecution on a speeding charge because of a technicality.\n\nThe father-of-four accepted he drove a loaned Bentley at 59mph in a 40mph zone in west London in January last year.\n\nBut his lawyer Nick Freeman - known as Mr Loophole - successfully fought to prevent action being taken because a speeding notice arrived one day late.\n\nIn March 2017, the punishment for driving while on the phone was doubled to six penalty points - enough to ban those with less than two years' experience.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC Lee Jackson is one of thousands of officers to have been diagnosed with the condition\n\nPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among police officers in the UK is far more common than was ever thought, a new survey suggests. One PC describes his battle with the medical condition.\n\nLee Jackson is the kind of police officer who runs towards danger, the sort who is not afraid to break down doors or break up fights.\n\nA Taser-trained response officer at Durham Police with over 19 years' service, he's dealt with almost every crime imaginable and was once three minutes from death after becoming impaled on a broken car aerial while investigating a car crash.\n\nBut PC Jackson was floored by a medical condition that affects thousands of officers without them even realising - PTSD, which causes acute anxiety, sleep problems and recurring memories of disturbing events.\n\n\"I thought I was pretty much invulnerable,\" says the 47-year-old constable. \"I didn't see things building up or the problems that were going to affect us.\"\n\nPC Jackson said he let traumatic memories build up \"in a box in my brain\"\n\nIt all came to a head in 2015 when he was called to a violent domestic dispute.\n\n\"It was a Friday night on my own,\" he said. \"I pulled up to stop some people arguing because it was starting to get a little bit more physical\".\n\n\"I ended up being attacked - someone tried to gouge my eye out.\"\n\nHis eye became infected, leaving him temporarily blinded. He took a week off work but after returning began to have flashbacks at night.\n\n\"I would wake up sort of in a sweat and physically feel like I'd been back living that moment again,\" says PC Jackson.\n\nHis work suffered - he had doubts about whether he could do his job properly and felt everyone was out to get him - and he became a \"nightmare\" to live with at home.\n\nFinally, he sought help and PTSD was diagnosed - it had been caused by the dozens of traumatic incidents he had handled and witnessed.\n\n\"What I'd done is just to put them away in a box in my brain, left them, and never had a chance to go back,\" he explains.\n\nA major new survey suggests the health problems affecting PC Jackson are far more common in the police than was ever thought.\n\nThe study of almost 17,000 police across the UK found that 95% of officers and 67% of operational police staff had been exposed to traumatic events, almost all of which were work-related.\n\nOf those who had experienced trauma, 20% reported symptoms in the preceding four weeks that were consistent with PTSD or the more chronic condition, Complex PTSD, which is associated with emotional numbness and disconnection.\n\nTwo-thirds of those with PTSD were unaware they were suffering from it, according to the research.\n\n\"For the first time in the UK we can see behind the cultural trope of the 'burnt-out copper' who has seen too much,\" says lead researcher Dr Jess Miller from the University of Cambridge, which conducted the study.\n\n\"This is a clinical and public sector crisis,\" she says, pointing out that the rates of PTSD in the police are almost five times higher than in the general population.\n\nAmong the most concerning findings, Dr Miller says, is that more than half of those surveyed said they had insufficient time to process incidents before being sent back out on the next call.\n\n\"A stiff upper lip attitude will not work in contemporary policing,\" she says.\n\nOne officer told the survey he had developed night terrors after attending a series of murder scenes; another said he had a nervous breakdown and suicidal thoughts after reliving a death in custody during the formal inquiry; some spoke about the stress of spending months viewing \"horrific\" terrorism material or paedophile chatlogs online.\n\nGill Scott-Moore, chief executive of Police Care UK, the charity which funded the research, says: \"The service has real challenges around recognising and responding to the signs and symptoms of trauma exposure and is heavily reliant upon generic NHS provision that isn't equipped for the specialist treatment needed.\"\n\nIn April, a national police wellbeing service was launched to provide expertise on occupational health provision to forces across England and Wales.\n\nThe service, developed with £7.5m investment from the Home Office, has been overseen by the College of Policing alongside Lancashire Chief Constable Andy Rhodes, who leads on the issue nationally.\n\n\"The study does not surprise me and it provides evidence to support investment in prevention as well as acute services,'' says Chief Constable Rhodes.\n\n\"With stigma around mental health slowly reducing we are seeing hidden issues emerging such as high levels of stress and trauma impact, which can contribute to escalation if they aren't addressed,\" he adds.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales says some officers \"are at breaking point\"\n\nPC Lee Jackson managed to address his problems - after six months of one-to-one counselling.\n\nBut he says much more needs to be done to give officers and staff information about how to spot the signs of PTSD and where to go for support.\n\nHe says: \"We've got a tactic for everything in the police [but] we haven't for when you are dealing with traumatic incidents or trauma in yourself and we maybe need that.\"\n\nChe Donald, national vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, called for more government funding to help officers who \"are at breaking point\".\n\n\"If officers are breaking, then how can we expect them to adequately serve and protect the public?\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samantha's son Noah was born after she took part in a large trial\n\nGiving the hormone progesterone to women who have had a miscarriage and experience early bleeding in pregnancy could improve their chances of having baby, a study suggests.\n\nA small number of women could potentially be helped, a trial found.\n\nSamantha Allen, 31, experienced spotting when she lost her first baby and then again during her second pregnancy.\n\nAfter taking the hormone for eight weeks, she gave birth to her son Noah.\n\nProgesterone is a hormone essential in pregnancy - for maintaining the lining of the womb where the embryo is implanted and for supporting the immune system.\n\nSamantha was prescribed progesterone pessaries for the Birmingham trial, which she took twice a day until she was 16 weeks' pregnant.\n\nShe said the bleeding stopped within a week of starting the trial and the pregnancy progressed very smoothly.\n\nShe now hopes that more women who have had a miscarriage could benefit.\n\n\"I just hope they don't have to go through the same heartache - it does take its toll on you,\" she said.\n\nMiscarriage affects one in five women, and vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of it happening.\n\nWith progesterone already used in IVF treatment, Samantha said that she had no qualms about taking part in the trial.\n\n\"I feel happy that I did participate. It didn't feel like a risk because it wasn't an early stage trial.\"\n\nSamantha Allen with her husband and baby Noah\n\nThe University of Birmingham study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved one group of around 2,000 pregnant women given progesterone, while another group of the same number were given a placebo, or dummy pill.\n\nAll the women had experienced bleeding in early pregnancy.\n\nAlthough the study showed that not all women with early bleeding could be helped by taking the hormone, the benefits were greatest among women with a history of recurrent miscarriages (three or more).\n\nAmong those women, there was a 15% increase in the live birth rate - with 98 out of 137 women going on to have a baby, compared with 85 out of 148 in the placebo group.\n\nArri Coomarasamy, study leader and consultant gynaecologist at Birmingham Women and Children's Hospital, said the treatment could save thousands of babies' lives.\n\n\"We hope that this evidence will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and that it will be used to update national guidelines for women at risk of miscarriage,\" he said.\n\nAt present, when women are potentially miscarrying, \"there is nothing we can offer them\", he says.\n\nBut he said that the treatment would not work for all women who miscarry, because there were many complex reasons why miscarriage occurs.\n\nOnly those women with a progesterone-related problem could benefit, he added.\n\nJane Brewin, chief executive of miscarriage charity Tommy's, said: \"The results from this study are important for parents who have experienced miscarriage; they now have a robust and effective treatment option which will save many lives and prevent much heartache.\n\n\"It gives us confidence to believe that further research will yield more treatments and ultimately make many more miscarriages preventable.\"\n• None 'I felt like miscarriage was my fault'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christine Delcros was seriously injured in the attack and her fiance Xavier Thomas was killed\n\nThe fiancee of the first victim of the London Bridge attack in 2017 has told an inquest she had \"premonitions about terror attacks\" the day he died.\n\nThe body of Xavier Thomas was found in the River Thames after he was struck by a van driven by three attackers.\n\nMr Thomas's girlfriend Christine Delcros, who was also badly hurt, wept as she gave evidence at the Old Bailey inquest into the eight victims' deaths.\n\nShe told the court she was still \"madly in love\" with Mr Thomas.\n\nThe couple had arrived in London from Paris on the morning of 3 June for a weekend of sightseeing, the court heard.\n\nMs Delcros said Mr Thomas, 45, had arranged for them to have a cocktail in the Shard that evening.\n\nMs Delcros gave evidence at the inquest into the deaths of eight victims\n\n\"I had so many premonitions about terror attacks from the day before and I could feel it,\" she said.\n\nBut Mr Thomas had persuaded his girlfriend to stick to the plan.\n\n\"Not to disappoint him I said OK,\" Ms Delcros told the court.\n\nAt about 21:30 BST they decided to walk across London Bridge from their hotel, the Four Seasons, Ms Delcros said.\n\nXavier Thomas was the first fatality of the London Bridge attacks\n\nMs Delcros said she remembered feeling something was \"not normal\" as they walked on the bridge.\n\n\"Suddenly I was under the impression there was a lot of light and a van that mounted the pavement in the exact fashion to make sure they were not going to miss us,\" she said.\n\n\"I just heard myself say to myself, 'That's how one dies, that's it.'\"\n\nMs Delcros broke down in tears as she recounted lying on the ground thinking \"the curtain had fallen\" and she had died.\n\nAs she came in and out of consciousness, she asked where Mr Thomas was, the court heard.\n\nThe father-of-two had been thrown into the River Thames when the van hit him.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas's body was found by police more than a mile and a half from London Bridge, near Shadwell Basin, on 6 June.\n\nHis cause of death was given as immersion.\n\nSpeaking in French, Ms Delcros said she was still \"madly in love\" with Mr Thomas and \"nothing would destroy that\" connection.\n\nAs he gave the court her comments in English, the translator had tears streaming down his cheeks.\n\nMr Thomas and Ms Delcros were seen crossing the bridge on CCTV footage\n\nA police officer in charge of a patrol boat at the scene said his team had been \"desperate\" to find anyone who might have fallen from the bridge.\n\nPC Nicholas Bultitude said his team did not use an infrared camera on their boat because it was \"more practical\" to search visually.\n\nHe told the court his team covered \"every inch of that portion of the river\" and that if Mr Thomas had been on the surface he would have been seen.\n\nDominic Adamson, representing Mr Thomas' family, questioned PC Bultitude's decision to abandon the river search after gunshots were heard so he could warn crowds on the South Bank of the danger.\n\nBut PC Bultitude replied: \"When I made the decision, so far as I was concerned, if someone has gone in then tragically they are lost.\"\n\nKhuram Butt hired a van to use in the attack, the inquest heard previously\n\nWitness Holly Jones said she remembered seeing the French couple looking \"very happy together\" seconds before the attack.\n\nMs Jones said she was \"frozen in fear\" when she saw the \"demented\" driver, Youssef Zaghba, heading towards her.\n\n\"It was a feeling I described as like being punched into the chest,\" the BBC journalist told the court.\n\n\"Something in the back of my mind told me to get out of the way. I jumped to the right towards the railings,\" she said.\n\nThe witness said she felt the \"wind of the van\" as it sped past her.\n\nMs Jones said she then went to help Ms Delcros and told police to check the water for Mr Thomas.\n\nZaghba, 22, and his accomplices Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, were shot dead by police after killing eight people and injuring 48 others around Borough Market.\n\nOn Wednesday the inquest was told Mr Thomas and a second victim, Christine Archibald, 30, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe other victims were Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39.\n\nThe hearing ended for the day as it had started - with emotions running high.\n\nWith eyes closed and the tips of her fingers to her temples, she listened to analysis of how Mr Thomas had gasped for air upon entering the cold Thames and drowned as a result.\n\nSitting next to Ms Delcros was Christiane Pesez, Mr Thomas's mother.\n\nShe had her head lowered and tears streamed down her face as she heard of her son's last moments alive.\n\nHer husband and Mr Thomas's stepfather, Philippe Pesez, stared into space - a display of grief in one of its various forms.\n\nAs the hearing drew to a close, the final witness of the day, Tanya Lunt, struggled to contain her emotions the moment she started speaking - remembering back to that day in June 2017 when she realised that a deliberate attack was happening.\n\nMark Roberts was among a group of people who had set up tripods on London Bridge to take photographs of Tower Bridge.\n\nHe told the court on Thursday he saw the van moving at about 30mph or 40mph as it hit a group of people.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverría, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nHe said: \"It looked to me it was deliberately steering and aiming at the people. At that point it started driving along the pavement towards me.\"\n\nMr Roberts said he thought he was \"next in line\", but suddenly the van veered towards a group of people running away.\n\nHe told the court one woman was thrown into the air \"like a rag doll\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Dugdale spoke about the stress of living with dangerous cladding\n\nThousands of people in England are still living in tower blocks with unsafe cladding more than a year after the Grenfell disaster.\n\nMore than 400 high-rise residential buildings still have the same type of external covering blamed for the rapid spread of the deadly blaze, official figures show.\n\nBBC News found other buildings with different cladding also deemed unsafe.\n\nThe government said building owners should make their properties safe.\n\nIt ordered a review into cladding on high-rise blocks after the deaths of 72 people at Grenfell Tower in June 2017.\n\nOne of the tower blocks identified as still having Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) present in their structure is the 128-flat Skyline Apartments complex in Leeds city centre.\n\n\"We had a fire here in February 2018 and it was discovered that the building had cladding that is similar to Grenfell,\" said resident Nick Dugdale.\n\n\"We've known about this for months and it just feels like we're in a dark tunnel. I live on the 13th storey and I'm anxious about living here and I'm angry that this dangerous cladding hasn't been removed yet.\"\n\nLiv Group, which manages Skyline, said it had since taken measures such as the introduction of fire wardens to make the building safer.\n\nA spokesperson said resident safety was \"of paramount importance and work has already started to remove the cladding\".\n\nIn total, 419 residential buildings in 78 local authority areas across England have ACM cladding. This includes 61 student accommodation blocks.\n\nACM cladding is composed of a foam core between two aluminium sheets and is typically used to alter a building's external appearance.\n\nSome types have been found to be highly flammable.\n\nThe total number of buildings in England with unsafe cladding is likely to be higher, as the government's figures only include blocks with defective ACM cladding.\n\nBBC News has seen an assessment report of an award-winning tower block in Leeds called Saxton Parade.\n\nThe report states that the \"structural insulated panels and high-pressure laminate cladding are all combustible\" and, therefore, not compliant with previous or existing building regulations.\n\nThe 235-bed apartment block was redeveloped by Urban Splash, which said the building received all the necessary certificates upon its completion in 2011.\n\nSafety tests carried out on Saxton Parade in Leeds have found that the cladding system on the building is \"high risk\"\n\nWarren Smart, who bought a property in Saxton Parade in 2016, said he now felt \"trapped\".\n\n\"When I found out that something was wrong with the cladding I thought is Grenfell going to happen here? It's really scary, you could be asleep and the whole place could go up.\"\n\nLeaseholders at Saxton Parade have been told they might have to pay thousands of pounds for remedial work to be carried out to make the buildings safe.\n\n\"I haven't got the money to help pay for replacing the cladding. It's outrageous and ridiculous that they are even thinking about asking us to pay for cladding we knew nothing about,\" said Mr Smart.\n\nWarren Smart said he didn't know how he would find the money to pay for repairs at Saxton Parade\n\nA spokesman for Residential Management Group (RMG), the managing agent for Saxton Parade, said:\n\n\"The costs of the repair work will be met by the National House Building Council build warranty policy or from funds collected from the individual leaseholders. Our primary concern has been the continued safety of residents.\"\n\nA recent legal judgement ruled that freeholders can charge leaseholders to pay for dangerous cladding to be removed from buildings.\n\nLeeds Central MP Hilary Benn has now called on the government to change the law to protect leaseholders.\n\n\"It's unacceptable that people are still living in tower blocks that are unsafe, and now leaseholders are being asked for money they don't have, for a problem they're not responsible for\" said Mr Benn.\n\nJames Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, said leaseholders should not have to pay for any cladding to be removed, but he would not commit to changing the law.\n\n\"It should be for those owning the buildings, and the developers that will actually have the responsibility of removing the cladding to pay for the changes, and it is important that they make sure that people are safe in their homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More UK homes will be at flood risk in the future\n\nEngland’s coastal communities haven’t faced up to the reality of rising seas through climate change, a report says.\n\nAn increase of at least 1m is almost certain at some point in the future, the government’s advisors predict.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warns this huge rise may happen over the next 80 years - within the lifetimes of today's children.\n\nA government spokesman said the public would be protected from the impacts of climate change.\n\nBut the CCC says current shoreline management plans are unfunded and hopelessly optimistic.\n\nIt estimates that by the 2080s, up to 1.2 million homes may be at increased risk from coastal floods.\n\nWill more people have to abandon their homes in future?\n\nThe CCC’s chief executive, Chris Stark, told BBC News: “People know sea level is going to rise – but they haven’t grasped how bad this could be for them.”\n\nHis colleague Professor Julia King added: “We’ve got to wake up to the fact that we’ve got some very difficult challenges ahead.\n\n“We need local councils to have some honest discussions with people to help them prepare for the difficult choices they’ll face.”\n\nThe report says many coastal communities are particularly vulnerable because populations in coastal areas are often poorer and older than the UK average.\n\nIt highlights the issue of land-slips on the coast. It says 100,000 cliff-top properties could be at risk from coastal landsliding, but the public don’t have clear and accurate information about the issues and there’s no insurance or compensation for people who lose their homes.\n\nIs it just homes that are under threat?\n\nNo, it’s much wider than that. Transport, energy and waste infrastructure are also exposed to coastal flooding and erosion.\n\nApproximately 7,500km of road, 520km of railway line, 205,000 hectares of good farm land, and 3,400ha of potentially toxic historic landfill sites are currently at 0.1% or greater risk of coastal flooding in any given year.\n\nPower plants, ports, gas terminals and other significant assets are also at risk. The report says the government needs to focus on protecting these assets, as well as saving people’s homes.\n\nWhat’s more, coastal defences are likely to be at risk of failure as sea levels rise. A rise of 0.5m is projected to make a further 20% of England's coastal defences vulnerable to failure. The risk will be even higher if the current rates of deterioration of saltmarshes, shingle beaches and sand dunes continue.\n\nIn England, 520,000 properties (including 370,000 homes) are in areas with a 0.5% or greater annual risk from coastal flooding.\n\nBy the 2080s, that figure could rise to 1.5 million properties (including 1.2 million homes). In addition, approximately 1,600km of major roads, 650km of railway line, 92 railway stations and 55 historic landfill sites are at risk of coastal flooding or erosion by the end of the century.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The government has already committed £1.2bn of investment in coastal erosion and sea flooding projects over the next six years to better protect 170,000 homes.\n\n\"We welcome the committee's report which will inform our work to tackle increasing flood and coastal erosion risks, ahead of the publication of our Government Policy Statement on flooding and coastal erosion next year.\"", "The victims of the attack clockwise - Chrissy Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nOne of the London Bridge attackers was seen washing his knife and wiping it on his beard shortly after eight people were killed, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, was caught on CCTV cleaning his 12in pink ceramic knife inside the Black and Blue restaurant.\n\nIn the same footage, an accomplice, Youssef Zaghba, 22, was seen having a drink from behind the bar.\n\nThe inquest also heard two victims might still be alive if barriers had been put up after a similar attack.\n\nKhuram Butt, Youssef Zaghba and Rachid Redouane were shot dead by police after they drove a van into pedestrians, stabbed others, and confronted unarmed police officers shouting \"Allahu Akbar\" on 3 June 2017.\n\nCounsel for the coroner Jonathan Hough QC had warned the families of the victims at the inquest at the Old Bailey that \"distressing images\" would be shown and that Butt's reaction was \"the most chilling\".\n\nThe inquest was also shown footage of diner Roy Larner, dubbed the Lion of London Bridge, being savagely stabbed in the stomach.\n\nMr Larner appeared not to react after he was stabbed twice in quick succession before he stood up and ran away.\n\nIn other footage, the third attacker, Rachid Redouane, 30, was shown on CCTV bending down to tie his shoelaces in the street during the attack through Borough Market.\n\nRedouane was also seen, in other images, talking to an unidentified man and then walking away without attacking him, for reasons that are not known.\n\nMr Hough said: \"There is clearly some form of discussion. We don't know what was said. Despite appeals for witnesses, he [the man in the footage] never came forward.\"\n\nIn the space of three minutes, the attackers had struck Xavier Thomas, 45, and Christine Archibald, 30, with a van on the bridge then fatally stabbed Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, around Borough Market.\n\nWithin 10 minutes, the attackers, who injured 48 more people, had been shot dead by police marksmen.\n\nIn the CCTV, pedestrians were seen running for their lives as the attackers' van mounted the pavement on the bridge.\n\nAn image of the van used by the attackers\n\nThe inquest also heard that two victims of the attack, Christine Archibald, 30, and Xavier Thomas, 45, might still be alive if barriers had been put up following the Westminster Bridge attack, which took place two months earlier.\n\nThe pair were among 10 people struck by a 2.5-ton hire van driven by Zaghba.\n\nMr Thomas was knocked into the Thames and found dead three days later, while Ms Archibald died after being dragged under the wheels of the powerful vehicle.\n\nGareth Patterson, QC, representing some victims, questioned a senior officer about why no barriers were put in place on London Bridge following the earlier attack in Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"There were no barriers in place on that pavement protecting pedestrians from traffic on that road.\n\n\"If there had been barriers Christine Archibald and Xavier Thomas would now be with us today.\"\n\nSenior investigating officer Det Supt Rebecca Riggs agreed, saying: \"That may well be the case.\"\n\nThe court heard barriers were put up on London Bridge within two days of the attack.\n\nEarlier, the inquest heard armed officers kept shooting at the attackers even after gunning them down, fearing they were wearing explosive vests.\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Riggs said police withdrew but had to fire extra shots when they saw the men were \"still moving\".\n\n\"They believed they were going to activate the explosive devices they were wearing and they fired a number of shots,\" she said.\n\nNeil McLelland, who was looking out of the window of the nearby Wheatsheaf pub, was hit in the head by a bullet and fell to the ground, while five other people were injured by shrapnel from the shooting.\n\nThe court heard the officers then put \"themselves in harm's way\" to evacuate the pub, taking Mr McLelland and others to safety.\n\nThe armed officers who killed the knifemen have not been named at the inquest\n\nThe second day of the inquest was also told one victim was killed after he tried to beat the attackers with his skateboard.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria, 39, had been cycling with friends when he came across PC Wayne Marques and PC Charlie Guenigault trying to tackle the knifemen.\n\nThe officers had stepped in to help Oliver Downing and Marie Bondeville, who had been hurt by the trio.\n\nMr Echeverria, an HSBC financial crime analyst, ran across to help and swung his board at one of the killers but was knocked to the ground by Redouane, the inquest was told.\n\nIgnacio Echeverria was the last of eight people to be killed in the attack\n\nDet Supt Riggs said: \"Ignacio got off his bike and ran across to where the two officers were to assist [them].\"\n\n\"He had taken his board from his rucksack and swung at the attackers and managed to hit them. [Rachid] Redouane retaliated, causing him to fall on the ground,\" she added.\n\n\"The attackers then set upon him on the ground.\"\n\nCounsel to the coroner Jonathan Hough QC added: \"It was a brief but furious assault.\"\n\nOver several hours, the inquest watched the horrific attack unfold from every angle, second by second, from cameras on buildings, in restaurants, in taxis and buses, on police body-cams and the public's mobile phones.\n\nThe hearing gasped as the attackers' van was shown careering over London Bridge, knocking over pedestrians like skittles.\n\nOne camera captured Tyler Ferguson running to the side of his fiancée, Chrissy Archibald, as she lay dying in the middle of the road.\n\nOther footage showed the attackers striding side-by-side through Borough Market, indiscriminately stabbing anyone in their path.\n\nTheir victims are filmed bleeding in the street, clutching their faces, heads and chests.\n\nIn the Black and Blue restaurant, the men stabbed customers with their knives before ducking behind the bar to swig some water from a tap.\n\nOn their way out, they picked up a couple of bottles, smashed them on the side of a table - another weapon.\n\nOn Thursday, the hearing is due to hear from an eyewitness, Christine Delcros, whose partner Xavier Thomas was knocked off the bridge and into the Thames by the attackers' van.\n\nEarlier, Ms Delcros wept in court as CCTV footage showed the French couple walking hand in hand towards the bridge, their final moments together.\n\nIn a touching moment, Julie Wallace, the bereaved mother of Sara Zelenak, crossed the courtroom to take a seat beside Ms Delcros to comfort her.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why no charge of obstruction of justice? A law professor breaks down the legal questions\n\nOn 1 May the US attorney general spent five acrimonious hours in front of a congressional committee explaining his handling of the Mueller report. The intensity of some of the exchanges suggests multiple legal and political battles lie ahead between the Democrats in Congress and President Donald Trump.\n\nA day after Attorney General William Barr traded blows with senators, the stakes ramped up considerably as he refused to testify to another committee and the Democratic leadership accused him of lying under oath.\n\nHere's a look at five areas where the fighting could be the most heated - and where they could be headed.\n\nMr Barr's Senate testimony may have prompted as many questions as it answered, raising to a fevered pitch Democratic calls to hear from Robert Mueller himself.\n\nThey want to ask him why he failed to reach a conclusion on whether the president obstructed justice, and what he thinks about the attorney general's handling of his report.\n\nThey'll also want to question him about the contacts between the Trump campaign team and Russians - and how close they may have come to being a criminal conspiracy.\n\nAlthough Republican Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham says he has no interest in calling Mr Mueller before his committee - insisting that the matter is closed - House Democrats have other ideas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, said negotiations are continuing over finding a date, perhaps in May, when the special counsel can testify before his committee.\n\nMr Barr has said he has no objection to Mr Mueller making such an appearance and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also said that Mr Mueller - who is still, technically, a Justice Department employee - can testify.\n\nThe president, on the other hand, may have different ideas. He has tweeted that Mr Mueller \"should not\" testify and that Democratic in Congress are looking for a \"redo\" after being dissatisfied with the conclusions presented in the special counsel report.\n\nOutlook: Mueller spent most of his time as special counsel shrouded in secrecy and silence. It seems unlikely, however, that he will be able to quietly disappear from the national stage.\n\nIn a press conference on Thursday morning, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi straight-up accused William Barr of committing a crime.\n\nShe was specifically referring to the attorney general's claims, during congressional testimony in early April, that he was unaware of reports of dissatisfaction with his handling of the Mueller report expressed by members of the special counsel's office.\n\nDemocrats now believe this was a lie - based on a recent revealed letter from Mr Mueller to Mr Barr complaining that the attorney general's four-page summary did not \"fully capture the context, nature and substance\" of his work.\n\nAttorney General Barr wrote a summary of the Russia report before the full version was released\n\nMr Barr countered that his communications were with Mr Muller himself, not his team, and the dissatisfaction had to do with the media coverage of his letter, not how he relayed Mr Mueller's findings.\n\nNeedless to say, Democrats aren't buying it.\n\nThen there are other reasons Democrats are angry at Mr Barr - such as his refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee and his decision to ignore congressional document subpoenas.\n\nWhat are Democrats going to do about it? Mrs Pelosi only made vague references to a \"process\", but they have several options if they want to punish the attorney general.\n\nThe House Judiciary Committee, by a straight party-line margin, has already voted to hold Mr Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the unredacted Mueller report and supporting evidence.\n\nThe measure will now move to the full House of Representatives, where if a majority approves, Mr Barr would become only the second attorney general to receive such a sanction (Eric Holder, of the Obama Administration, was the first).\n\nCongress may ask the Justice Department, which Mr Barr runs, to enforce the contempt citation, which would be an unlikely prospect.\n\nThere has also been talk among Democrats of exercising the seldom-used power of \"inherent contempt\", which could empower the House sergeant-at-arms to arrest the attorney general - setting off an even greater crisis.\n\nSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says Mr Barr committed a crime\n\nThe House of Representatives could also vote to formally censure the attorney general, putting a black mark on his record but not much more.\n\nFinally, they could try to impeach the attorney general and have him removed from office. The process would be similar to that for removing a US president - a majority vote in the House of Representatives followed by a trial in the US Senate requiring a two-thirds vote to \"convict\".\n\nOnly one White House cabinet official has ever been impeached - Ulysses S Grant's Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876 - and he was ultimately acquitted of corruption charges by the Senate.\n\nOutlook: A court fight appears inevitable, but of uncertain outcome. Censorship appears pointless. Impeachment would be an uphill fight, but it could also serve as proxy battle for the impeaching Mr Trump himself, venting frustration for Democrats who are itching for a fight but wary of taking on the president directly.\n\nWhile Mr Mueller's appearance before the US Congress would be a blockbuster occasion, he's not the only individual Democrats want to question in open testimony. The special counsel's report detailed how former White House Counsel Don McGahn felt the president pressured him to fire Mr Mueller and, later, write a memo saying that Mr Trump issued no such directive.\n\nWhen Mr Barr was questioned about the matter by Senate Democrats, he said the president only suggested Mr Mueller be \"replaced\" because of a perceived conflict of interest - and then instructed Mr McGahn to write a memo to correct inaccurate media reports.\n\nDemocrats, needless to say, aren't buying this, viewing the episode as one of the most obvious instances of possible obstruction of justice. Mr Nadler has issued a subpoena calling on Mr McGahn to testify before his committee on 21 May so his committee can get the former Trump aide's account directly.\n\nDon McGahn left the White House, but Democrats still want to hear from him\n\nThe White House has responded by asserting \"executive privilege\" - a legal concept that presidents are entitled to candid and confidential advice from their aides - to block Mr McGahn from providing requested documents to Congress. Mr Trump has said he plans to fight all the congressional subpoenas, and in an interview on Fox News, he said: \"I don't think I can let him [testify].\"\n\nIf both sides dig in, Mr McGahn's freedom to talk to Congress could end up a matter for the courts to decide. Executive privilege is a controversial legal principle, but there are plenty of judges - and Supreme Court justices - who could be eager to see these presidential protections strengthened.\n\nMeanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee - chaired by Republican Richard Burr - has subpoenaed the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr for a second round of questioning, after his first appearance in 2017. The committee could be interested in further questioning Trump Jr on his involvement in 2016 negotiations for a Trump construction project in Moscow\n\nIn a statement released to the press, an unnamed source \"close to Trump Jr\" called the subpoena an \"obvious PR stunt\" and called Mr Burr a \"so-called 'Republican'\". Trump Jr could ignore the request, risking a contempt of Congress citation, or refuse to testify by invoking his constitutional protection against self-incrimination.\n\nOutlook: Mr McGahn would be a blockbuster witness, but with a legal fight brewing the Mueller report may end up being his only public account. Public testimony by Trump Jr would be equally riveting, but he seems uncooperative and even less likely to appear beneath the congressional lights.\n\nWhile most of the Mueller report was made public in mid-April, there are still roughly 36 pages that the Justice Department has redacted - because of sensitive intelligence data, grand jury information, material relevant to ongoing investigations or matters concerning \"peripheral third parties\".\n\nDemocrats in Congress want to see the entire report and have issued a subpoena - again courtesy of House Judiciary Chair Nadler - to force the Justice Department to hand it over.\n\nCongressman Nadler is leading the Democratic charge in Congress\n\nThe White House has said the report was produced by the special counsel for the attorney general, and Congress has no right to see it in its entirety.\n\nIt has subsequently claimed \"executive privilege\" over the report in its entirety, pending further to determine if any of the currently redacted portions of the report or its supporting documents also contain protected communications between the president and his aides.\n\nThere's also an unstated concern that if the report receives wider distribution, its sensitive contests will leak to the public.\n\nAttorney General Barr said in his Senate testimony, however, that there were no significant areas of disagreement between Mr Mueller and himself over what to redact. There's no guarantee that the blacked-out portions of the report contain any new, explosive information.\n\nWith contempt of Congress proceedings advancing against Mr Barr for refusing to turn over the full report, this is shaping up to be another battle between two branches of government, the executive and legislative, that will have to be decided by the third, the judiciary.\n\nOutlook: This could end up being a fierce battle over a hill that doesn't matter in the larger war.\n\nThere are two separate legal battles brewing over congressional requests for Donald Trump's business records and - that holy grail for many on the left - his tax returns.\n\nA month ago, Richard Neal, the Democrat in charge of the House Ways and Means Committee, formally requested that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide him with copies of the president's tax returns for six years, citing a seldom-used 1924 law as authority.\n\nSo far Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, whose department oversees the IRS, has only said he's reviewing the matter.\n\nSteven Mnuchin says the treasury department is reviewing the tax request\n\nThe president and his lawyers, on the other hand, have called the request improper and insisted that the IRS not comply.\n\n\"The Democrats are demanding that the IRS turn over the documents, and that is not going to happen and they know it,\" acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said a few days after the first committee request was filed.\n\nIf the Treasury Department continues to drag its feet, the Democrats could start court proceedings that eventually determine the constitutionality of that old federal law and the legality of the Democratic action.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump's personal lawyers have filed a flurry of lawsuits to prevent an accounting firm and two banks used by Mr Trump's businesses - Deutsche Bank and Capital One - from complying with requests by several Democratic-controlled House committees for Trump organisation financial records.\n\nCourts have previously given Congress broad subpoena powers as part of their legislative and investigatory responsibilities, but Mr Trump's lawyers are painting the move as a partisan fishing expedition that intrudes on the privacy of the president and his family.\n\nDemocrats counter that a thorough inspection of Trump businesses is the only way to ensure that he doesn't have financial involvements that are illegal or make him susceptible to foreign influence.\n\nOutlook: This appears set for another long, drawn-out legal battle. Democrats could find a way to circumvent the federal government, however, if New York state - which possesses the president's state tax returns and oversees many big financial institutions - hands over what they have to Congress.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLucas Moura scored a dramatic 96th-minute winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nTrailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs made the worst possible start in Amsterdam when a towering fifth-minute header by 19-year-old Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt doubled the advantage for Erik ten Hag's exciting young side.\n\nTottenham hit the post through Son Heung-min before Hakim Ziyech doubled Ajax's lead on the night with a sweeping finish after an assist by former Southampton winger Dusan Tadic.\n\nThat left Spurs 3-0 behind on aggregate yet, in another pulsating semi-final, Mauricio Pochettino's side scored twice within five minutes in the second half.\n\nMoura reduced the deficit with a composed finish before the Brazilian's shot on the turn, after keeper Andre Onana had denied substitute Fernando Llorente, levelled the scores on the night and left Spurs requiring one goal to reach the final in Madrid on 1 June.\n\nIn a frantic finish, Vertonghen headed against the bar from four yards before Moura completed his hat-trick with a left-foot shot from 16 yards deep into stoppage time as Spurs won on away goals to reach their first Champions League final.\n\nIt will be the second all-English final in the competition after Manchester United beat Chelsea on penalties in Moscow in 2008.\n• None Tactics were replaced by heart and desire for Spurs - Fletcher\n• None Kane 'hopeful' of being fit for final\n• None 'There. Is. Nothing. Like. Football' - how social media reacted to another stunning comeback\n\nPochettino could not contain his emotions at the final whistle and shed tears of joy as he celebrated wildly with his players on the pitch.\n\nThe Argentine, who marks his fifth anniversary in charge of Spurs later this month, was on his knees after a night that rivalled the jaw-dropping drama of Liverpool's incredible semi-final victory over Barcelona on Tuesday.\n\nHarry Kane, who is still recovering from an ankle injury, also joined his team-mates on the pitch at the end after their extraordinary comeback.\n\nSpurs looked dead and buried when Ziyech's outstanding first-time finish after a cut back by Tadic made it 3-0 on aggregate before half-time but they somehow pulled themselves together.\n\nMoura was the inspiration, producing three clinical finishes, the third and decisive goal coming when he picked the ball up from Dele Alli's flick and shot across Onana.\n\nHe is only the fifth player to score a Champions League semi-final hat-trick, and first since Cristiano Ronaldo in May 2017 for Real Madrid against Atletico Madrid.\n\nThis was a significant hurdle for Spurs to clear.\n\nThey had lost their three previous semi-finals, including an agonising penalty shootout defeat by Chelsea in this season's Carabao Cup.\n\nHaving moved into a new £1bn stadium last month, these are exciting times for Spurs as they chase a first trophy in 11 years.\n\nWith another top-four Premier League finish all but sealed, they are one win away from being crowned champions of Europe.\n\nThis after they took only one point from their first three group stage games and required late goals to beat PSV Eindhoven and Inter Milan, before an 85th-minute goal from Moura against Barcelona in the Nou Camp took them through to the knockout stage.\n\nAjax have been a joy to watch throughout this incredible European campaign, which started all the way back on 25 July in the second qualifying round against Austrian side Sturm Graz.\n\nThey have won a legion of new fans during their march through the rounds, which has included impressive wins over holders Real Madrid and Juventus.\n\nYet the four-time champions of Europe will need some time to recover after being denied a first appearance in the final since 1996 in the dying moments.\n\nBoasting a three-goal aggregate advantage at half-time, their fans were in party mood before Tottenham's amazing comeback.\n\nDe Ligt's early header from a corner after Hugo Lloris had denied Tadic was followed by Ziyech's clever finish and left Spurs with a mountain to climb.\n\nLittle did they know what was to come as the visitors, inspired by the exceptional Moura, produced an epic turnaround.\n• None The 2019 Champions League final will be only the third major European final in history to feature two English teams, after the 1972 Uefa Cup final (Spurs v Wolves) and 2008 Champions League final (Man Utd v Chelsea).\n• None Spurs are only the second team in Champions League history to lose the first leg of the semi-final at home and progress to the final - the other was Ajax in 1995-96 against Panathinaikos.\n• None Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt became the fourth teenager to score in a Champions League semi-final, after Nordin Wooter (1996, Ajax), Obafemi Martins (2003, Inter Milan) and Kylian Mbappe (2017, Monaco).\n• None Spurs will be the eighth different English team to feature in a European Cup/Champions League final, after Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest. England have had more different teams in the final of the competition than any other nation.\n• None English teams have come from two or more goals behind to win on seven occasions in Champions League history - four more than clubs of any other nation. Indeed, four of the past five occasions have been English teams.\n• None Spurs were the first team to come two goals behind to win in a Champions League semi-final match since Manchester United in 1999 against Juventus.\n\nWhen the dust settles, Tottenham will look to confirm a top-four finish for the fourth successive season when they host Everton on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday (15:00 BST).\n\nAnd then it's the small matter of the Champions League final against Liverpool in Madrid on 1 June (20:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Ajax 2, Tottenham Hotspur 3. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt missed. Fernando Llorente (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas Moura.\n• None Attempt missed. Dusan Tadic (Ajax) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Hakim Ziyech (Ajax) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daley Sinkgraven.\n• None Attempt blocked. Frenkie de Jong (Ajax) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Erik Lamela.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.\n• None Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Fernando Llorente following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Missing posters have been distributed in the Ayrshire towns\n\nA 39-year-old man has been arrested in connection with missing Kilmarnock woman Emma Faulds.\n\nPolice said inquiries into her disappearance are continuing.\n\nMs Faulds, a 39-year-old care worker, was last seen at about 21:10 on Sunday 28 April in Fairfield Park, Monkton.\n\nSpecialist officers have been searching properties in the Monkton area and detectives have reviewed CCTV for any images of Ms Faulds in an effort to piece together her movements.\n\nThey have also been carrying out a forensic examination of her car.\n\nMs Faulds was reported missing to police after failing to get in touch with family or friends, which was said to be \"completely out of character\".\n\nPolice said she was a \"sociable, outgoing person\", and said those who knew her were \"distraught\" at not knowing where she was or what might have happened to her.\n\nThey also said it was \"alarming\" that Ms Faulds had left behind her beloved west highland terrier who she would never leave for any length of time without ensuring someone was able to look after it.\n\nPolice said it was alarming that Ms Faulds had left behind her dog\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uber has been valued at $82bn (£63bn) ahead of its share listing in what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations this year.\n\nThe ride-hailing app is asking investors to pay $45 a share, at the lower end of the price range expected.\n\nUber's conservative price is an attempt to avoid the fate of rival Lyft whose shares fell by up to a third after its recent listing, said analysts.\n\nUber is yet to make a profit and warned recently it may never do so.\n\nSince its foundation in 2009, the company has lost about $9bn.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst at investment company Wedbush Securities, said the lower-than-expected valuation was Uber's attempt to deflect scrutiny of its financial performance.\n\n\"They know that they are going to have a target on their back in terms of, not just investors, but regulators as well as drivers, so they need to tread carefully here in terms of how they price it.\n\n\"Their success is not going to be determined over the coming days or weeks or months, it's really over the coming years. But the last thing they want is for stock to drop through the IPO price like Lyft has,\" he said.\n\nUber had originally suggested a price range of between $44-$50 for its share price listing, valuing the company at up to $120bn.\n\nInvestors are betting on Uber's growth prospects as it diversifies into several other sectors. As well as the original \"ride-hailing\" business, Uber is developing driverless cars, and has a food delivery operation, Uber Eats.\n\nUnion organiser Lydia Hughes joined Uber drivers in their strike in London on Wednesday\n\nUber's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, has emphasised that the firm's future is not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide technology platform shaping logistics and transportation.\n\nBut Brian Hamilton, a tech entrepreneur and founder of data firm Sageworks, said its losses were hard to overlook.\n\n\"Uber is basically Lyft 2.0. Good model, growing sales. But, yet again, here comes California math once more. It is still losing a ton of money,\" he said.\n\nThe firm's revenue last year surged 42% to $11.3bn, but its adjusted loss - following a tax benefit - still hit $1.8bn. In the first three months of the year, it was a similar story with the firm reporting a loss of around $1bn.\n\nThe firm's flotation comes days after drivers in the US and UK went on strike over pay and working conditions.\n\nUnions are urging Uber to cut the rate of commission it takes, to increase the average fare rate and for better job security.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nA surprise choice, Archie was not among the bookmakers' favourites of Alexander, Arthur and Albert.\n\n\"I don't think anyone of us saw either of these names coming,\" says Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty royal magazine.\n\nAs far as he is aware, Archie does not have any British royal connotations - and Harrison too is a totally new name for the Royal Family.\n\nArchie means \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\" - and is more popular in Britain than the US. It was originally a shortened form of Archibald but is now often used as a name on its own.\n\nIt was the 18th most-popular boy's name in England and Wales in 2017, with 2,803 baby boys called Archie that year, and has been in the top 50 consistently since 2003.\n\nHarrison is slightly more popular than Archie in the US - although it's still more common in the UK, where it was ranked the 34th most-popular boy's name in 2017.\n\nAnd, rather fittingly, Harrison - a name which was originally used as a surname - means \"son of Harry\".\n\nMr Little said: \"It may well be it's a name that Meghan is familiar with and again that's why they are using it,\" he said.\n\n\"Archie has a British feel to it, whereas Harrison is more of an American name. The first Harrison that springs to mind is Harrison Ford.\n\n\"They have wanted to do something a little bit different, and they have done.\"\n\nSome had wondered whether either of the new baby's grandfathers' or great-grandfathers' names might appear as a middle name - either Philip or Charles on the royal side, or Thomas on Meghan's.\n\n\"Again, it's down to the parents,\" said Mr Little. \"It's their choice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHarry and Meghan have also chosen not to use a courtesy title for their new son.\n\nAs the first-born son of a duke, Archie could have assumed the title of Earl of Dumbarton but he will instead simply be known as Master Archie.\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the individuality shown by Harry and Meghan in their choice of non-traditionally royal names was \"marvellous\" and would \"rejuvenate the monarchy\".\n\n\"It's a unique choice, by a unique couple who are doing things in a unique way,\" he said, adding: \"We are talking about brand Sussex, which is an international brand.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that a British royal baby has been given a name which is not traditionally royal. The name given to the Queen's first granddaughter - Zara Phillips - \"caused quite a sensation\" when it was unveiled, said Mr Little.\n\nFamous Archies include Archie Panjabi, who starred in The Good Wife; Archie Andrews in Archie comics in America and also the Netflix show Riverdale; and Archie Mitchell, a villain in the BBC soap EastEnders.\n\nFamily history website Ancestry said it expects the name Archie to become even more popular, having analysed the impact of other royal baby names. It said George and Charlotte both jumped up the rankings in the UK, as did William and Harry.\n\nMountbatten-Windsor is the surname which was created in 1960, combining the surnames of the Queen and Prince Philip when they married. The double-barrelled name was a concession to the Duke of Edinburgh, who was said to have complained that his children would not bear his name.\n\nThe three children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all have Cambridge on their birth certificates.\n\nRoyal author Penny Junor said she thinks the Duke of Edinburgh would be \"absolutely thrilled\" with his surname being used.\n\n\"Prince Philip was never allowed to call his children by his own surname,\" she said. \"I think that's a really nice tribute to Harry's grandfather.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The Army was called in to help protect homes against floods last year\n\nAs many as 530 key infrastructure sites across England are still vulnerable to flooding, according to a government review.\n\nThe report commits a total of £12.5m to new temporary flood defences in England.\n\nThe review was commissioned after 16,000 houses across northern England were flooded during the wettest December in a century last year.\n\nCritics at the time said defences were not up to the job.\n\nThe £12.5m means the Environment Agency would have four times as many temporary flood barriers than in 2015.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the review set out \"clear actions so we are better prepared to respond quickly in the event of future flooding and can strengthen the nation's flood defences\".\n\nShe added: \"Work is already underway towards £12.5 million of new temporary defences stationed around England, better protection for our infrastructure and new flood modelling that makes better use of data and technology.\"\n\nShe also said the government was investing £2.5bn by 2021 to protect families, homes and businesses from flooding.\n\nOther recommendations from the review include:\n\nMinisters offer communities the prospect of better protection from flooding but the report lays bare the scale of the work needed to achieve that. What does not appear in the press release accompanying the report is what many would judge to be the key finding: that as many as 530 important infrastructure sites across England - water supplies, telecommunications systems and electricity networks - are still vulnerable.\n\nAnd a fair question is what happens in the immediate future. The Met Office concludes that even without the effects of climate change, storms like those last winter could bring even greater volumes of rainfall - nearly one-third more in some cases. So I asked the Environment Agency if a city like Carlisle, inundated badly last December, would be any safer this winter. Not really, came the answer, reluctantly.\n\nThe new temporary barriers would not hold back the 2m of floodwater seen last winter. The hope for the moment is that vulnerable homes have been fitted with the latest protection systems. The uncomfortable truth is that it's impossible to defend everyone all the time. But no one in authority particularly likes to say so.\n\nThe National Flood Resilience Review was set up after devastating floods last winter across parts of northern England.\n\nIts aim was to assess how the country could be better protected from future flooding and increasing extreme weather.\n\nDuring storms last December in parts of northern England, flood defences did not work in some places, forcing thousands of people from their homes over Christmas.\n\nDr Stephen Gibbs, chairman of the Carlisle Flood Action Group, who lives in the Cumbrian city and has been flooded twice, was critical of the Government's approach.\n\n\"The issue is Government statutory powers to say 'we will defeat flooding',\" he explained.\n\n\"The Environment Agency [EA] have a pattern - they have a flood, they have a review, then they get out the [sticking plaster] and hope for the best until the next flood.\n\n\"Temporary flood defences are part of the filibustering that the EA are having to do. The Dutch defeated flooding because their senior politicians sat down and said 'How can we defeat this?' And they defeated flooding.\"\n\nThe report itself notes that just 30-40% of locally important infrastructure sites might be suitable for protection with appropriate temporary defences.\n\nLeeds City Council leader Judith Blake said: \"Leeds is barely mentioned in this report, which really does smack of the Government not taking the risk here seriously.\n\n\"Storm Eva caused absolute devastation for residents and businesses in Leeds, with many still recovering.\n\nAfter the floods, Ms Blake argued that there was a North-South divide in the response.\n\n\"As we know to our cost, there has been a severe lack of long-term planning when it comes to funding for flood defences and there is nothing in this report to offer comfort on that level,\" she said.\n\nCllr Martin Tett, environment spokesman for the Local Government Association (LGA) said the £12.5m was a step \"in the right direction\".\n\nHe added: \"Future funding for flood defences must also be devolved by the government to local areas. This will enable councils, working with communities and businesses, to ensure money is directed towards projects that best reflect local needs.\"", "In some prisons, inmates are being forced to double up in cells designed for one\n\nThe prison officers' union is to call for strike action as the number of inmates in Scotland's jails approaches record levels, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nThere are now about 700 more prisoners than a year ago.\n\nSome inmates have been forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor due to a lack of beds.\n\nThe union has also said violence inside prisons is increasing, along with the number of sick days taken by staff.\n\nPrison officers at a special delegate conference in Perth on Friday are likely to vote for a ballot on industrial action to highlight the problem. It would be their first strike for seven years.\n\nPhil Fairley, chairman of the Prison Officers' Association in Scotland, said that prisoner numbers ought to be decreasing as a result of current government policy and falling crime figures - but that other factors were putting pressure on the system.\n\n\"One of the factors we can point to is that we've got life sentence prisoners who are doing twice as long as they did for a life sentence 20 years ago,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"But it doesn't explain the whole growth in numbers.\n\n\"Today we've got nine out of 15 prisons (including two private prisons) that are overcrowded.\"\n\nPhil Fairley said the prison service was not far away from reaching record numbers\n\nThe BBC understands that prisoners at Perth - Scotland's oldest prison - have been sleeping on mattresses on the floor.\n\nAnd at Low Moss in East Dunbartonshire, the governor has been asked to take in another 100 prisoners, despite being at capacity.\n\n\"They have been asked to consider bunk beds for 100 prisoners in cells that are not designed for two to be in them,\" Mr Fairley said. \"We can't just sit back and watch it go in the direction it's going.\n\n\"We are not far away from reaching record high numbers.\"\n\nHe said the increase in prisoner numbers had an impact on staff being able to go about their daily jobs.\n\n\"The bit that matters to the public, to society, is the work that transforms individuals - challenging and tackling offending behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"That will become the first sacrifice in terms of the time that's available to prison officers to do their jobs.\"\n\nHe said this would start to affect the mood in the prisons.\n\n\"There is always the potential for violence,\" he said. \"Violence is on the increase - both prisoner on prisoner and prisoner on staff is increasing.\"\n\nMr Fairley said the prison service last year lost 17,000 days to sick leave, involving stress and mental health issues.\n\n\"This isn't just a problem for prisoner officers, it's a problem for the whole of society,\" he said, adding that it made a \"huge difference\" to the rehabilitation of prisoners.\n\n\"The fact that we're in behind closed doors and high walls shouldn't let the public get complacent or turn a blind eye to what's going on inside our prisons. It matters to them as much as it matters to us.\"\n\nWendy Sinclair-Gieben said she was worried about the pressures of overcrowding\n\nChief Inspector of Prisons Wendy Sinclair-Gieben said the reasons for the rising prison population were complex, but included the length of life sentences.\n\nShe said: \"About 12-15 years ago the average was about 10-12 years - it's now about 19-23 years.\"\n\nShe also said there had been considerable success in tracking down and convicting legacy sex offenders who were also given long sentences.\n\nAnother factor was a review of home detention curfews which had led to reduction in such curfews being used, she added.\n\nMs Sinclair-Gieben said the removal of automatic release at the half way point of sentences had also added to the numbers in prison.\n\nShe said there were now about 700 more prisoners than a year ago - the equivalent of a large prison.\n\n\"It's quite pressured at the moment which is really concerning,\" she said, adding that inmates being forced to share cells led to increased tensions and the extra numbers put a strain on resources.\n\n\"One of the things that worries me about the pressure of overcrowding is that inevitably the whole thing degrades slightly,\" she said.\n\nTom Fox said high prison numbers had an impact on the prison regime\n\nTom Fox, of the Scottish Prison Service, said: \"Numbers have risen fairly steeply over the past 12 months and that does have an impact on the entirety of the prison regime.\n\n\"The more people we have, the more pressure it places on the system, and I think it's fair to say the staff are doing a remarkably good job of coping with the pressure brought about by these numbers.\n\n\"But the more people we have, the less time we have to devote to working closely with individuals to make sure they receive appropriate support in rehabilitation before re-entering society.\"\n\nHe added: \"We're not complacent about violence but we haven't seen high levels of violence in our prisons for many years and I think that's a tribute to the way in which staff work with prisoners and the relationships they develop.\n\n\"I would hope that we could maintain that stability and that environment going forward.\"", "The \"Love Northampton\" campaign was a recent attempt to promote the town\n\nA plan to save a town centre described as \"decaying\" has been unveiled.\n\nNorthampton Borough Council said it hoped that £25m from the government's Future High Streets Fund could be used to redevelop the town centre.\n\nThe authority has put together a new board called Northampton Forward to tackle some of the town's long-standing issues.\n\nCouncil leader Jonathan Nunn said it \"promised action\" and wanted \"something better for the town\".\n\nBut university lecturer Kardi Somerfield, who lives in the town centre, said the plan \"feels like deja vu\" with similar proposal in the past.\n\nShe said the town would have to get government money \"otherwise who's going to pay for it\", adding: \"Businesses would only invest in a viable town.\"\n\nThe Market Square is one of Britain's largest and dates back to 1235\n\nThe council said footfall into Northampton had fallen by 15%, while problems such as vacant shops and homelessness are on the rise.\n\nIt has produced a vision for five sectors within the town, with ideas including an indoor food hall and new parks.\n\nThe plan said it would \"allow the retail core to shrink\" and increase the amount of flats and homes in the town centre\n\nRecently, retailers such as BHS and Marks and Spencer have left the town, leaving large empty units on the main shopping street.\n\nThat led local celebrity and broadcaster the Reverend Richard Coles to describe the town centre as \"decaying\".\n\nBut Conservative councillor Mr Nunn warned against quickly filling empty shops and selling off land, saying he did not want \"a mediocre thing that does not actually achieve anything for the town\".\n\nHe said if the council does not receive money from the fund it would attempt to secure other funding, but he admitted the plan needed \"serious public money\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex is in The Hague for an event to mark a year until the 2020 Invictus Games for armed services personnel and veterans.\n\nHis newborn son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was introduced to the world yesterday.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have presented their newborn son to the world.\n\nSpeaking in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle, Meghan said: \"It's magic, it's pretty amazing. I have the two best guys in the world so I'm really happy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nEden Hazard scored the winning penalty as Chelsea edged past Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties to set up an all-English Europa League final against Arsenal.\n\nHazard, who could have played his final game for the Blues at Stamford Bridge, converted after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga had saved from both Martin Hinteregger and Goncalo Paciencia.\n\nChelsea will now meet Arsenal in the final in Baku on 29 May and the result means both the Champions League and Europa League final will be played between English clubs this season - the first time all four finalists in Europe's top two competitions have come from one nation.\n\nWith the score 1-1 after the first leg, Chelsea took the lead in the second when Ruben Loftus-Cheek coolly stroked into the far corner in the 28th minute, but the night was far from straight-forward.\n\nFrankfurt levelled the tie four minutes after half-time when Luka Jovic slotted past Arrizabalaga after being played in by Mijat Gacinovic.\n\nJovic's goal punished Chelsea for a sloppy start to the second half and the Blues continued to be wasteful as Stamford Bridge became increasingly restless.\n\nIn extra time the Germans twice had efforts cleared off the line with David Luiz first denying Sebastian Haller and then Davide Zappacosta clearing Haller again at a corner.\n\nChelsea thought they had won it late in extra time but Cesar Azpilicueta, who later missed first in the penalty shootout, had a goal ruled out when the referee deemed he had bundled the ball out of Frankfurt keeper Kevin Trapp's hands.\n• None Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri unhappy about US trip before Europa League final\n\nThe shootout was Chelsea's first since they lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City on penalties in February.\n\nThat game was overshadowed by Arrizabalaga's refusal to be substituted - manager Maurizio Sarri wanted to bring on substitute goalkeeper Willy Caballero for the shootout - but at Stamford Bridge the Spaniard proved to be the hero.\n\nAfter Azpilicueta missed first, Arrizabalaga remarkably kept out Eintracht's fourth penalty by trapping the ball under his shin as he stood still when Hinteregger went for power and then dived low to his right to palm away the visitors' fifth.\n\nThat left Hazard with the opportunity to complete the win and the Belgian delivered - sending Trapp the wrong way, tucking the ball into the corner.\n• None Arsenal and Chelsea given 6,000 tickets each for final\n• None I don't know if final will be my last Chelsea game - Hazard\n\nHazard has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid this summer and if he does depart the game will be his final at Stamford Bridge after seven years at the club.\n\nThere were no waves to the crowd or clear indications he will leave in the summer and when asked whether the final would be his last game for the club he said \"in my mind I do not know yet\".\n\nIf he does leave in the summer it would be a fitting way for him to finish in west London.\n\nThe win also means Chelsea have a final chance to earn silverware in Sarri's first season in charge.\n\nLike the campaign as a whole, the night was far from smooth for the Italian and had difficult moments.\n\nHe become increasingly frantic on the touchline as his side lost control of the game in the second half and his decision to remove goal scorer Loftus-Cheek when bringing on Ross Barkley late on was loudly booed by the Chelsea fans.\n\nBut for all of the season's problems, including the Arrizabalaga affair and protests from fans against his style of play, Chelsea are quietly achieving their pre-season aims at the end of the season.\n\nLast weekend they secured a top four finish and Champions League qualification through their league position and are now into their first European final since winning the Europa League in 2013.\n\nHad either of their efforts cleared off the line in extra time gone in, it would have been hard to argue Eintracht Frankfurt were not worthy finalists.\n\nOver the two legs the German side, fancied by few at the start of the competition, had opportunities to seal a first European final since 1980.\n\nRather than sitting back after Jovic's equaliser - the highly sought after 21-year-old's 10th Europa League goal of the season - they continued to attack Chelsea in the second half and the tension around Stamford Bridge was clear.\n\nSubstitute Haller should have scored his first chance in extra time but failed to make proper contact with his volley, kicking the ball into the ground with his studs rather than side-footing into the net, and that allowed Luiz to clear.\n\nThe visitors were roared on by their vocal travelling support, some of whom were in tears at the end of the penalty shootout.\n\nDespite the disappointment those fans chanted in support of their team long after the final whistle as the players and backroom staff emotionally came together and linked arms in front of the away end.\n• None Chelsea have won each of their last four penalty shootouts at Stamford Bridge, with this their first in European competition at home.\n• None This is the first time that all four places in the Champions League/European Cup and Europa League/UEFA Cup finals will be filled by one country.\n• None Chelsea have reached their first major European final since the 2013 Europa League, when they beat Benfica 2-1 under manager Rafael Benitez.\n• None Chelsea have never lost a home game against German opponents in all competitions (W7 D3).\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have only lost one of their last nine away Europa League games (W5 D3). The German side have scored in all seven of their games on the road in the competition this season.\n• None Luka Jovic has scored 10 goals in the Europa League this season; no player has netted more (level with Olivier Giroud).\n• None Chelsea forward Eden Hazard has had a hand in 24 goals in 26 appearances at Stamford Bridge in 2018-19 (13 goals, 11 assists).\n• None Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 14 appearances for Chelsea (4 goals, 5 assists); as many as in his previous 45 games for the Blues.\n\n'We got into trouble' - Sarri reaction\n\nSpeaking to BT Sport, Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri said: \"I think we played a very good first half and then we got into trouble after the break. We conceded a goal in 10 minutes of panic.\n\n\"We were better in the last part of the match but we were tired in extra time and it was difficult.\n\n\"We started with three injuries and picked up two more during the match after we lost Andreas Christensen and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, so it wasn't easy but we are now in the final.\"\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(4), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Eden Hazard (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(3), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). David Luiz (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Martin Hinteregger (Eintracht Frankfurt) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, left footed shot saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(2), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jorginho (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(3). Jonathan de Guzmán (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! César Azpilicueta (Chelsea) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(2). Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1(1), Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Ross Barkley (Chelsea) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 1, Eintracht Frankfurt 1(1). Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Eintracht Frankfurt. Danny da Costa tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Sébastien Haller (Eintracht Frankfurt) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Adrian Edmondson, who is known for starring in anarchic TV comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, is joining the cast of EastEnders.\n\nThe comic actor will be seen in the BBC One soap as Daniel Cook, a new love interest for Jean Slater, played by Gillian Wright.\n\nThe BBC said Edmondson had already started filming, with his first appearance to air later this summer.\n\nHis character is described as \"charming and with a wicked sense of humour\".\n\nHe will be \"the perfect antidote for Jean as she continues her treatment for ovarian cancer\", producers added.\n\nThe 62-year-old actor said in a statement: \"There were only 15 boys on my drama course at Manchester Uni, and I'll be the third to appear in EastEnders - so I feel it's a kind of tradition! The other two being Tom Watt [Lofty Holloway] and Paul Bradley [Nigel Bates].\"\n\nLeft-right: Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson on the set of The Young Ones in 1982\n\nAfter breaking through as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, Edmondson found wider fame playing Vyvyan in The Young Ones and later as the manic Eddie Hitler in Bottom, which he also wrote with co-star Rik Mayall.\n\nSince then, Edmondson has taken on more sedate roles in the likes of Holby City, Bancroft and War and Peace, as well as fronting a series about the Yorkshire Dales for ITV.\n\nHe is the latest comedian to move into the soap world, following in the footsteps of the likes of Bradley Walsh, Les Dennis and Vic Reeves.\n\nEastEnders executive producer Jon Sen said: \"Adrian's a phenomenal talent who will bring his unique blend of intelligence, warmth and humour to the role of Daniel.\n\n\"We're all over the moon he's coming to Walford and can't wait for this love story to hit screens later this year.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The man in charge of England's flood defences has called for a debate on whether communities at the highest risk should be abandoned and their residents permanently relocated.\n\nSir James Bevan, the Environment Agency chief executive, said England could not continue to build taller, stronger and costlier concrete defences for ever.\n\nIn a speech in Telford, he asked if it would be safer for people to move.\n\nThe UK \"owed it to future generations\" to think the unthinkable, he suggested.\n\nAddressing the Flood and Coast Conference, he also called for homeowners to be more aware of the risks they faced and for businesses, councils and other organisations to share more of the cost of funding flood defences.\n\nCentral government accounts for about 90% of all English funding on flood risk management and defence.\n\nAccording to a 2016 government review, 12% of England's land mass, 8% of the population and 2.4 million homes and other premises are vulnerable to coastal and river flooding.\n\nIn the wake of the devastating 2013-14 winter floods across southern England, the then prime minister David Cameron pledged to spend whatever it took to rebuild communities and ensure they weren't swamped again.\n\nSir James said the UK had strengthened its capacity to deal with flooding since then and the equally devastating floods in the north of England in the winter of 2015-6.\n\nBut, in the longer term, he said government would have to rethink its approach \"from first principles\", suggesting what had worked so well in the past and continued to do so \"may not be enough in the future\".\n\nSir James Bevan said traditional lines of defence may not work in the future\n\nWhile vital infrastructure such as the Thames Barrier would likely have to be upgraded in the years to come, he said there was a limit to the protection \"hard\" structures could offer and \"more concrete was not the answer\".\n\n\"In the face of the rising risks and costs, it won't make sense to go on building ever taller, stronger and more expensive concrete defences as the default solution to flood risk,\" he said.\n\n\"The engineering won't work and the humans won't put up with it. You can only build a wall so high before people stop wanting to live behind it.\"\n\nWhile he made clear he was not calling for high-risk communities to be uprooted, he said the argument that it would be safer and cheaper to do so than to continue to defend them had to be confronted.\n\n\"There are places on the coast and on some of our major rivers which are already costing millions of pounds a year to defend and those costs will only rise over time,\" he said.\n\n\"Do we want to defend every inhabited location or should we consider moving some communities?\n\n\"I am not saying we should do that. I know how important place and community are to people. I am saying we should be prepared to have the debate.\"\n\nIn its 2016 flood resilience review, UK ministers acknowledged alternatives to \"hard solutions\" were needed, with more emphasis on natural flood management and water planning, both down river and upstream.", "More coastal erosion is expected in England\n\nEngland’s flood planners must prepare for the worst on climate change, the Environment Agency has warned.\n\nIts chairwoman, Emma Howard Boyd, said on current trends, global temperature could rise between 2C and 4C by 2100 and £1bn a year would need to be spent on flood management.\n\nShe said some communities may even need to move because of the risk of floods.\n\nThe government said it would be seeking evidence for its own flood policy in the autumn.\n\nMs Howard Boyd, launching the consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, said government policy should ensure that all publicly-funded infrastructure is resilient to flooding and coastal change by 2050.\n\n“We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences,” she said.\n\nShe called for more to be done to encourage property owners to rebuild homes after flooding in better locations, and with improvements such as raised electrics, hard flooring and flood doors, rather than just \"recreating what was there before\".\n\nHowever, she warned that in some places \"the scale of the threat may be so significant that recovery will not always be the best long term solution\" and communities would need help to \"move out of harm's way\".\n\nThe agency expects more intense bursts of rain and continuing coastal erosion.\n\nIt calculates that, for every person who suffers flooding, about 16 more are affected by loss of services such as power, transport and telecommunications.\n\nThe Army has been called in to help protect homes against floods in recent years\n\nMs Howard Boyd warned that climate change and population growth in England meant that properties built in the floodplain will double over the next 50 years.\n\nThe agency points towards research from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership which suggests that losses on UK mortgages could also double if global temperatures increase by 2C and triple if warming hits 4C.\n\nThese would be insurance-related losses related to outcomes of climate change such as more extreme weather.\n\nMs Howard-Boyd said the government’s six-year flood programme had given flood and coastal protection “a shot in the arm”, but she warned that more will be needed.\n\nEnvironment Minister Therese Coffey said: “Flooding and coastal erosion can have terrible consequences for people, businesses and the environment.\n\n\"That’s why we are already providing £2.6bn over six years, delivering more than 1,500 projects to better protect 300,000 homes.”\n\nBut she added that \"the threat of climate change will mean an increasing risk and preparing the country is a priority for the government, and the nation as a whole\".\n\nIn a statement, Friends of the Earth said: “Smarter adaptation and resilience building - including natural flood management measures like tree-planting - is undeniably important.\n\n“But the focus must be first and foremost on slashing emissions so that we can avoid the worst consequences of climate chaos in the first place.\n\n“With its relentless pursuit of fracking, airport expansion, and road building, and barely tepid support for renewable energy, our government is failing with this regard.\"\n• None BBC iWonder - Why are UK floods on the rise-", "Lyra McKee was observing rioting in Creggan when she was shot dead last month\n\nThree men and a teenage boy remain in police custody after being arrested in connection with the violence that took place on the night Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nThe 15-year-old youth, and three men aged 18, 38 and 51, were detained under terrorism legislation on Thursday.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in Londonderry on 18 April.\n\nViolence broke out in Creggan after raids were carried out by police.\n\nDetectives were investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe four have been taken to Musgrave Station in Belfast where they are currently being questioned.\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition in Derry when the violence started\n\nThe senior detective leading the investigation, Det Supt Jason Murphy, said: \"Detectives carried out searches at four houses in the city and arrested four people in connection with the violence which was orchestrated on the streets of Creggan on the evening of Lyra McKee's murder.\n\n\"I want to thank the public for the widespread support we have received to date, including more than 140 people who have provided images, footage and other details via our dedicated major incident public portal. I still want to hear from anyone who can tell us anything they know.\"", "Not everyone is as happy as Spurs' goal-scoring hero Lucas Moura\n\nOnline retailer Zavvi has apologised after telling customers they had won a VIP trip to the Champions League football final in Madrid.\n\nJoyous winners took to social media to announce their news - and dismay on learning of the error.\n\nWhat Zavvi called \"technical issues\" meant its entire subscriber list may have been told they were winners.\n\nZavvi, which emerged out of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, sell music, DVDs, clothing and homeware.\n\nA competition, in partnership with Mastercard, was offering two adults an all-expenses two-night trip to the much-anticipated Champions League final between Liverpool and Spurs.\n\nSupposed winners received an email addressed to them personally using their first name. It read: \"We here at Zavvi would like to wish you a huge congratulations as you have been chosen as the winner of our Mastercard competition, winning a VIP trip for two adults to attend the UEFA Champions League Final Madrid 2019.\"\n\nThe sister of one recipient tweeted: \"Oh my God, my brother has just won this amazing prize!! We're going to the Champions League final!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH @zavvi!!!!!\".\n\nIt is unclear how many people were emailed. The Liverpool Echo newspaper reported that among people getting the Zavvi emails were hundreds of Liverpool fans.\n\nBut after news seeped out on social media of multiple winners, Zavvi tweeted: \"Apologies, we're aware of the problem regarding the recent Mastercard Competition. We seem to have had some technical issues and we're currently looking into this.\"\n\nHowever, it appears that this tweet has now been taken down from Zavvi's twitter feed.\n\nNews of the \"winners\" came soon after Spurs reached the final on Wednesday after one of football's most amazing semi-final comebacks, against Ajax. That followed Liverpool's equally sensational comeback against Barcelona the night before.\n\nThe two remarkable games and an all-English club final has sparked soaring demand for tickets.\n\nSocial media lit up with people expressing their immediate delight, followed by disappointment.\n\nRob Kirkpatrick told the BBC that he was on his way to work on Thursday morning at 10:34 BST when he received the email from Zavvi.\n\nMr Kirkpatrick contacted Zavvi via the website to ask if the email was fake, and he was told that while the email wasn't fake, it had been sent to everyone who entered the competition.\n\nZavvi said it would not be able to confirm whether he had won until it had conducted further investigation.\n\n\"I feel angry and frustrated. I could have cried when I got the email, as I was just looking at flights last night just to go over for the experience and be with other Liverpool fans because I knew I couldn't get a ticket to the game itself because I'd missed the ballot,\" Mr Kirkpatrick told the BBC.\n\nAt about 17:00 BST, Mr Kirkpatrick received an email from Zavvi apologising and offering customers a 15% discount code to use on the website.\n\n\"I just think they should have handled it a little bit better,\" he said. \"It's just very disappointing, I know it's a mistake and mistakes happen, but it's a huge mistake.\"\n\nOne tweet said: \"I received this email from the actual @zavvi email address and lost my mind shaking buzzing... Devastated isn't the word I'm actually distraught.\"\n\nAnother said: \"This is horrible. Me and my brother have already sent in our holiday requests to work and I've cancelled a weekend in Edinburgh when this arrived. I thought at first it would be a scam but checked the email address was genuine.\"", "Former cabinet minister Esther McVey has announced she will stand for leader of the Conservative Party.\n\nShe told Talk Radio she had \"enough support\" from fellow MPs to \"go forward\" once Theresa May stands down.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart has announced he will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther senior Tories are expected to join them, with Mrs May promising to go once the first stage of Brexit is over.\n\nThe widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the Cabinet, including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nMs McVey, a Brexit supporter and former TV presenter, quit as Work and Pensions Secretary last November in protest at Mrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU.\n\nAsked on Talk Radio whether she would run for leader, the MP for Tatton, in Cheshire, said: \"I've always said quite clearly that if I got enough support from colleagues then, yes, I would, and now people have come forward and I have that support.\"\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nMrs May won a Tory MPs' vote of confidence in her leadership last December, and party rules mean that another such vote cannot be triggered until next December.\n\nBut the prime minister has come under pressure to name an exit date, after the Commons effectively rejected her agreement with the EU three times.\n\nThe Conservatives also lost more than 1,300 seats in last week's English council elections, increasing concerns over possible heavy losses to Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in European Parliament elections on 23 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs May has agreed to address a meeting of the 1922 Committee - an elected body of Tory MPs which represents backbenchers and oversees leadership contests - next week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Sir Graham Brady, said he believed she would ask the Commons to vote again on the terms of the UK's exit before the European Parliament elections.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on Mrs May's efforts to find a Brexit compromise with Labour.\n\nAnd local Conservative Association chairmen are to hold a non-binding no-confidence vote on the prime minister's leadership.\n\nIn the Commons on Wednesday, Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns urged Mrs May to resign, saying she had \"failed to deliver on her promises\" on Brexit.\n\nBut Mrs May replied that this was \"not an issue about me\" and that, if it was up to her, the UK would have already left the EU.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne has suggested the cabinet should move against the prime minister, so the Conservative Party can change leader and \"win over supporters who have disappeared\".\n\nBut Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd said this would be \"a mistake\".\n\n\"We need to hold our nerve,\" she added. \"[The prime minister] has said that she's going to leave after the first stage of Brexit is done.\n\n\"We are full tilt at trying to do the first stage and I think a leadership election now would be disruptive of a process that is taking so much of our energy right now.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs May has carried out a reshuffle of junior and middle-ranking ministerial roles.\n\nRobert Buckland moves from being solicitor general to a minister of state at the Ministry of Justice.\n\nLucy Frazer is now solicitor general. having previously been a parliamentary under secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice.\n\nPaul Maynard goes from being a government whip to replace Ms Frazer in the Ministry of Justice job.\n\nAnd Andrew Murrison becomes a minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir John Gillen has delivered his final report to the Department of Justice\n\nImprovements in how Northern Ireland deals with serious sex offence cases are possible within \"weeks and months\", according to a retired judge.\n\nSir John Gillen was speaking after delivering a final report to the Department of Justice.\n\nIt follows public consultation on recommendations he made last year, including controls on who attends rape trials, which will now be implemented.\n\nHe said 75% of the changes do not require legislation.\n\nHis review was launched last year, after former Ulster Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape at a high-profile trial.\n\nStuart Olding (left) and Paddy Jackson were cleared of rape charges after a nine-week trial in Belfast\n\nPublic access to trials involving serious sexual offences will be largely confined to close family members of the victim and the accused, although the media will still be allowed in.\n\nOther measures include preventing \"improper cross-examination about previous sexual history\" and new legislation \"to manage the dangers created by social media\".\n\nThe Department of Justice has now set up a special group to \"oversee the implementation of the Gillen Review\".\n\nIt said he had produced a \"groundbreaking report\".\n\n\"I am confident, given the level of public expectation, the department will carry out the thrust of my recommendations in a timely and efficient manner,\" Sir John said.\n\n\"The number of responses I had illustrates the genie is out of the bottle.\n\n\"The public are now aware of the flaws in the system. I do not think that the genie can be put back in the bottle.\"\n\nSir John has accepted that some of his recommendations will have to wait until there is an executive at Stormont\n\nGiven the absence of a devolved assembly, he accepted there would be a delay in delivering a quarter of what he proposed, but other things \"can be done fairly quickly in terms of weeks and months\".\n\nSir John and his review team had contact with more than 200 organisations and individuals to hear first-hand accounts of the criminal justice process.\n\nThey also examined systems and processes in 15 countries across Europe, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.", "Rail passengers seeking compensation for delayed journeys are required to submit up to 24 pieces of information to make a claim.\n\nConsumer group Which? is calling for the system to be simplified after it found companies were asking for between 10 and 24 separate details.\n\nGreater Anglia, London Northwestern, ScotRail, Transport for Wales, and West Midlands Trains asked for the most.\n\nRail bosses said the requirements guarded against fraudulent claims.\n\nThe amount of compensation which can be claimed following disruption varies between train companies and depends on the length of delay and the type of ticket.\n\nRecent research from independent transport watchdog Transport Focus found that just 35% of passengers who are eligible for compensation submit a claim.\n\nWhich?, which has previously filed a super-complaint about delays to compensation, argued that the system was \"fragmented and confusing\".\n\n\"This leads to people losing out on a lot of money when they have already suffered enough from unacceptable levels of delays and cancellations,\" said Alex Hayman, from Which?.\n\nThe consumer group found that some of the most complex claims forms requested 13 different pieces of information about the ticket.\n\nYet, it argued that most of this information was clearly displayed on a photo of the paper ticket - which all but one company required to be uploaded as proof of purchase.\n\nGreater Anglia argued that by registering online, the system remembered personal details so there was no need to resubmit information into a lengthy form on subsequent occasions.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of Transport Focus, said: \"It is now important that train operators actively encourage passengers to claim, making it quick, easy and automated as soon as possible.\n\n\"[We] will be campaigning to ensure more passengers affected by delays or cancellations claim. There is no better way for passengers to ensure the rail industry listens to them.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, chief operating officer from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents the rail industry, said that the questions were asked to ensure passengers \"receive what they are entitled to as quickly as possible while also guarding against fraudulent claims\".\n\n\"We are doing more to encourage claims, including sending reminders to people who booked online, making announcements on trains and handing out claim forms, which has led to an 80% increase in compensation over the last two years to £81m a year,\" she said.\n\nThe government said it wanted to see a \"one click\" system of online financial redress for passengers by the end of current franchises, some of which are completed in 2025.\n\nWhich?'s research found that Chiltern Railways and Heathrow Express asked for the fewest details, requiring 10 pieces of information. Several rail companies offer automatic compensation to customers with certain tickets.\n• None Rail delays: How to get your money back", "Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is led away after being sentenced\n\nA German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress to swindle New York hotels and banks has been sentenced to at least four years in prison.\n\n\"I apologise for the mistakes I made,\" Anna Sorokin, 28, said shortly before she learned her fate.\n\nShe was found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny, having stolen more than $200,000 (£153,580).\n\nSorokin, who rejected a plea deal, may face deportation to Germany.\n\nShe was sentenced on Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court to between four and 12 years in prison. The actual amount of time she will serve behind bars will depend on factors such as her behaviour.\n\nSorokin will receive credit for time already served, having been in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail since October 2017.\n\nAnna Sorokin (right), then known as Anna Delvey, at a fashion event at a New York hotel in 2014\n\nShe was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.\n\nAt the hearing, Judge Diane Kiesel rejected the defence lawyers' claim that Sorokin was merely trying to make it in New York, in the words of the Frank Sinatra song about the city.\n\nThe judge said the Sorokin case instead reminded her of the Bruce Springsteen song, Blinded by the Light.\n\n\"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City,\" said Judge Kiesel, according to Buzzfeed.\n\nThe judge reportedly also said she was \"stunned\" by the depths of Sorokin's deception.\n\nUnder her assumed name Anna Delvey, Sorokin falsely claimed she had a multi-million dollar trust fund at her disposal, as she hired a private jet, attended elite parties, and lived in a luxury New York hotel. She maintained the scam for almost four years.\n\nMeanwhile, prosecutors said, Sorokin had \"not a cent to her name\". Her father is reportedly a former trucker, who runs a heating-and-cooling business.\n\nIn court, her defence attorney, Todd Spodek, claimed that Sorokin had been \"buying time\" as she worked to pay back her debts. He maintained that Sorokin had no criminal intent but was instead an ambitious entrepreneur.\n\nAccording to court documents, Sorokin used her phony persona as a German heiress with $60m in assets to try to get a loan of $22m for a foundation in her name. She presented forged bank statements and would deposit bad cheques, then withdraw the money before they bounced.\n\nProsecutors say she went on a one-month shopping spree, spending $55,000 on a luxury hotel, high-end fashion purchases, personal trainer sessions, and Apple, among other personal expenses.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw said Sorokin had shown \"almost no remorse\".\n\nFollowing a month-long trial, a jury convicted Sorokin on eight counts.\n\nBut she was found not guilty of attempted grand larceny and stealing more than $60,000 from a friend who paid for a luxury holiday in Morocco.\n\nSorokin was described as a con artist\n\nEven up to her sentencing, Sorokin appeared intent on carefully crafting her image.\n\nShe worked with a stylist, Anastasia Walker, to create her courtroom look during the trial.\n\nThe initial story about Sorokin's swindling by New York Magazine was swiftly optioned by Netflix.\n\nThe production has been linked with Shonda Rhimes, who created TV hit shows Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.", "Critics warn that children risk becoming \"collateral damage\" if benefits are withdrawn\n\nThe maximum financial penalty for benefit claimants is to be cut, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.\n\nSanctions can be imposed on claimants who do not meet conditions such as attending job centre meetings.\n\nIn some \"high level\" cases, such as a failure to take up paid work, people can lose benefits for three years.\n\nMs Rudd said this maximum penalty will now be cut to six months, adding that she wanted a system which was \"fair\".\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions previously insisted its scheme was \"reasonable\".\n\nA report released by the Work and Pensions Committee in November 2018 found single parents, care leavers and people with disabilities and health conditions were \"disproportionately vulnerable\" to and affected by sanctions.\n\nAs well as missing appointments, sanctions can currently be imposed for failure to show efforts to find work, and can see claimants lose all of their jobseeker's allowance or universal credit standard allowance.\n\nLast year's report also warned that children risked becoming \"collateral damage\" as the withdrawal of parents' benefits harmed their welfare.\n\nSpeaking at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation in London, Ms Rudd said: \"In the future, the longest length of sanctions will be six months.\n\nAmber Rudd said policies should be compassionate and work for everybody\n\n\"I am undertaking an evaluation of the effectiveness of universal credit sanctions to see whether other improvements can be made.\n\n\"I feel very strongly about making sure that the policies of this department are fair, compassionate and that they work for everybody.\"\n\nShadow work and pensions secretary Margaret Greenwood said Labour had long been pressing for the government to scrap its \"punitive\" sanctions regime.\n\n\"Six months is still a very long time to leave someone without any income at all. It is not just the individual who is affected, but their family too,\" she said.\n\n\"There is clear evidence that sanctions and excessive conditionality do not help people into sustained employment.\n\n\"They also cause stress and anxiety for many and are one of the key reasons that people ask for help at food banks.\"", "Lora Haddock says she is thankful for the decision\n\nA sex toy that was banned from this year's CES tech show after winning an innovation award has been given the prize again, four months later.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator by Lora DiCarlo was originally given the prize by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in January.\n\nHowever, the CTA quickly changed its mind and ousted the device, causing outrage.\n\nThe organisation has now offered a \"sincere apology\" to Lora DiCarlo.\n\nThe CTA was accused of \"gender bias\" at the time in a blog by Lora Haddock, the founder and chief executive of the Lora DiCarlo company.\n\nMs Haddock argued that the organisation had rejected a product focused on female sexuality, whereas shopping or childcare-related items aimed at women were allowed to remain in the same award category as the vibrator.\n\n\"We firmly believe that women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQI folks should be vocally claiming our space in pleasure and tech,\" she said.\n\n\"The CTA did not handle this award properly,\" said Jean Foster, a marketing executive at the organisation.\n\n\"This prompted some important conversations internally and with external advisers, and we look forward to taking these learnings to continue to improve the show.\"\n\nMs Haddock said she appreciated the \"gesture\" from the CTA, which would serve to \"remove the stigma and embarrassment around female sexuality\".\n\n\"The incredible support and attention we've received in the wake of our experience highlights the need for meaningful changes, and we are hopeful that our small company can continue to contribute meaningful progress toward making CES inclusive for all,\" she added.\n\nThe Ose robotic vibrator was banned from CES", "As a day-old duckling, Ernie was given to Chloe as a present on her 10th birthday.\n\nTwenty-one years on he's still going strong, despite losing his sight and needing the help of his friend Elmo, at his home near Thame in Oxfordshire.\n\nSo far he's lived more than twice as long as the average for his breed, the Call duck, and he's still living life to the full.", "Scotland Yard said early investigations suggested that a \"blank firing handgun\" had been discharged\n\nA gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a \"masked\" man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford at 22:45 BST on Thursday.\n\nWorshippers ushered him out of the building and a gunshot - thought to have come from a \"blank-firing handgun\" - was then heard.\n\nNo injuries or damage were caused, the Met said, and it did not believe it was terrorism-related.\n\nScotland Yard said it believed it stemmed from an earlier incident in a street close to the mosque off High Road.\n\nWorshipper Ibraheem Hussain, 19, described hearing the gunshot about half an hour after prayers began.\n\n\"We were upstairs in the classrooms and about 30 minutes into the night prayer a large noise went off\", he said.\n\n\"It sounded like a firework or maybe something heavy had been dropped, so no-one really thought anything of it.\n\n\"But then someone said it was a gunshot and that someone had come into the mosque and he had a firearm on him.\n\n\"The managers had seen him. He was masked and acting suspicious.\"\n\nPolice were called to High Road in Ilford, east London\n\n\"At this early stage, ballistic evidence recovered from the scene suggests that the weapon was a blank-firing handgun\", the Met said.\n\n\"Officers will continue to work closely with representatives from the mosque and are providing reassurance to the local community.\"\n\nThere have been no arrests.\n\nIn a statement shared by a Muslim Council spokesman on Twitter, the mosque's imam Mufti Suhail said the suspect's motives had not been established.\n\nHe asked that people \"avoid speculating and circulating unconfirmed information\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"relieved nobody was injured in the incident\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are heightened security concerns at places of worship around the world after recent attacks.\n\nA mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, left 50 people dead.\n\nIn April, churches in Sri Lanka were targeted on Easter Sunday in a terror attack which killed at least 253 people.\n\nA week later, a woman was killed when a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mercer: The communities I come from are seething\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer says he has withdrawn his support for Theresa May and her government over the historical prosecution of servicemen and women.\n\nIn a letter to the PM, the Plymouth MP said he would only vote with the Conservatives on Brexit legislation.\n\nHe called on Mrs May to end the \"abhorrent process\" of \"elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland\" to face possible prosecution.\n\nHe has previously called for legislation to stop this happening.\n\nCommunities Secretary - and former Northern Ireland Secretary - James Brokenshire said he was \"very saddened\" by Mr Mercer's announcement and acknowledged that \"the system isn't working well in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said the government had been consulting on changing the existing system.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Mercer said the government had \"singularly failed to act for four years and I am simply not prepared to put up with it any more\".\n\n\"There is nothing loyal about watching the car go over the cliff and not doing anything about it,\" he added.\n\nIn his letter the former Army officer and member of the Commons Defence Committee, said: \"As you know, the historical prosecution of our servicemen and women is a matter that is personally offensive to me.\n\n\"Many are my friends; and I am from their tribe.\"\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the Conservative Party can \"ill afford to lose MPs from [the] rising generation who have been able to win marginal seats\" right now.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Mercer told the PM he cannot \"support your legislative programme any further until your government make some clear and concrete steps to end this abhorrent process\".\n\n\"The macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland to face those who seek to re-fight that conflict through other means, without any protection from a government who sent them almost fifty years ago, is too much,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It appears that my values and ethos may be slowly, but very firmly, separating from a party I joined in 2015.\n\n\"I will not be voting for any of the government's legislative actions outside of Brexit until legislation is brought forward to protect veterans from being repeatedly prosecuted for historical allegations and will be updating my constituents of this decision accordingly.\"\n\nA total of six former soldiers are now facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings.\n\nThe cases relate to Daniel Hegarty; Bloody Sunday; John Pat Cunningham; Joe McCann (involving two ex-soldiers); and Aidan McAnespie.\n\nNot all the charges are murder.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.", "Yolo lets Snapchat users request anonymous messages from specific friends or the wider public\n\nYolo - an app that lets anonymous questions be posed to Snapchat users - has become the most-downloaded iPhone app in the UK and US just a week after its release.\n\nIt is highly unusual for an app to top Apple's chart so soon after its launch without a major marketing campaign.\n\nHowever, the viral success of the product has raised concerns.\n\nPrevious anonymous online Q&A services have been blighted by abuse and bullying.\n\nAnd one UK-based children's charity has said that Snapchat itself might have to intervene.\n\n\"Apps such as Yolo that allow anonymous comments could be easily misused to send abusive or upsetting messages,\" the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)'s Andy Burrows told the BBC.\n\n\"Snapchat should justify how this app meets their duty of care to children.\"\n\nA US-based child safety campaign group has also suggested that Yolo's age rating is too low.\n\n\"Anonymity... has always created a breeding ground for hate and very poor teen decision-making,\" said Protect Young Eyes.\n\n\"The rating is too low at 12+.\"\n\nYolo is one of the first apps to have been built using Snap Kit - a software creation platform launched last year by Snapchat. The kit lets third-party developers integrate their products with the social network.\n\nIts name is an acronym for \"you only live once\".\n\nThe app works by letting people post a graphic inviting others to \"send me anonymous messages\", which is superimposed over a photo.\n\nThe post can be sent to a specific set of Snapchat contacts or attached to a Snapchat Story and shared more widely.\n\nThose who see the request can then send an anonymous message via Yolo itself. If the original poster decides to respond, their reply is in turn posted back to Snapchat.\n\nAnother app called Piksa offers similar features and is also in the top 50 of Apple's app store chart.\n\nYolo was created by Popshow Inc, a French start-up previously responsible for an app that let people post their reactions to funny videos.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to reach the team involved.\n\nBut one of the founders told Techcrunch that the team had not expected Yolo to be so popular.\n\n\"It was not supposed to be a success. It was just for us to learn,\" Gregoire Henrion told the news site.\n\n\"We just literally put it in the store, people typed Yolo into search, and the loop was so effective that the product caught on.\"\n\nPopshow appears to have been mindful about the risks involved.\n\nWhen first opened, the app shows a warning that states: \"Yolo has no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You'll be banned for any inappropriate usage.\"\n\nYolo users are told not to be abusive before they connect the service to their Snapchat accounts\n\nThe software has mostly received positive feedback within Apple's App Store, but some users have flagged concerns about whether steps are in place to tackle problems that arise.\n\nOne reviewer suggested that the app had been used to send messages wishing others dead, while another said they had been called a \"weirdo\".\n\n\"People will get bullied in this - it's not a good idea,\" wrote a third.\n\nPrevious anonymous Q&A apps that have faced complaints about bullying include Ask.fm, Whisper, Yik Yak and Lipsi.\n\nThe creator of Polly - another Snap Kit-based app with anonymity features - tweeted that his team had decided to avoid letting users send incognito posts, because the associated issues were difficult to manage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snapchat's owner Snap was unable to provide comment.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May\n\nA man accused of 21 offences including eight rapes has been visited by a judge in prison after refusing to appear in court.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is charged with the kidnap and rape of eight alleged victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have been committed between 20 April and 5 May, in London, Watford, Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire.\n\nMr McCann was arrested in Congleton in Cheshire following a police manhunt.\n\nThe 34-year-old is accused of eight rapes, four kidnappings, two charges of false imprisonment and one of actual bodily harm, as well as six other sexual offences.\n\nNine of the charges relate to offences allegedly committed on the same day.\n\nMr McCann had refused to leave his cell at Belmarsh prison in south London to attend Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said a hearing would instead be held in the visitors' room at Belmarsh.\n\nJournalists at the jail were not allowed into the hearing but were given details afterwards.\n\nMs Arbuthnot said Mr McCann \"turned his back on the court to begin with\" and he did not sit or give his name.\n\nHe is said to have health issues which are being investigated.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, said it was \"believed to be an unprecedented first appearance by a defendant in a criminal case\".\n\nEarlier, prosecutor Tetteh Turkson told Westminster Magistrates' Court Mr McCann was \"not being co-operative\".\n\nHe was also brought to court on Wednesday but refused to appear in the dock.\n\nIn one alleged incident, Mr McCann is said by police to have tied a woman up and committed sexual offences, including rape, against her 17-year-old daughter and son, 11.\n\nHe was arrested just over two weeks after he allegedly abducted a woman in her 20s in Watford before raping her.\n\nTwo other women in their 20s were also allegedly snatched off the street in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April and then raped.\n\nMr McCann is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 23 May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex named their newborn son Archie Harrison, many people were surprised. None more so than the Archie Harrisons in the UK.\n\nEngineering geologist Archie Harrison, 20, said he was at work when a news alert about the royal baby's name popped up on his phone.\n\n\"I thought it was sort of a joke,\" he said. \"Then I must have got 50 phone calls and WhatsApps. My mum was the first person to message me.\"\n\nArchie Harrison, left, said the name Archie is \"not too common, a bit out there\"\n\nHe added: \"It's quite weird we share exactly the same name, no hyphen. It doesn't happen to everyone.\n\n\"Archie isn't a common name. I have always been quite fond of the name so it's nice to get some recognition.\"\n\nMr Harrison said he has found the whole thing \"quite funny\", adding that, thanks to the royal baby news, he has now also learnt the meaning of his name - \"genuine\", \"bold\" or \"brave\".\n\n\"And then I heard people on the Tube talking about it saying they didn't like the name. I was sitting there thinking should I say something,\" he joked.\n\nMeanwhile Jody Harrison, from Worcester, had just come home after picking her children up from school when she heard that Prince Harry and Meghan had picked the same name as her six-year-old son.\n\n\"I came in, put the telly on and it said the royal baby was called Archie Harrison,\" she said.\n\n\"My little boy said, 'have they just said my name?'\"\n\nJody said her son Archie enjoyed finding out he has the same name as a royal\n\nMs Harrison, 51, said she loves Prince Harry and thinks the matching name is \"amazing\", adding: \"I think it's a great name, obviously.\n\n\"He's going to go into school tomorrow and tell the teacher, 'just call me Prince Archie, miss'.\"\n\nShe said the name was still quite unusual when she chose it, but it has since risen in popularity and she expects it to become even more popular.\n\nAnother Archie Harrison, 19, from Southam in the Midlands, said his friends and colleagues have been making jokes.\n\n\"They have been calling me your royal highness and leaving the room they do a little bow.\"\n\n\"I think there's going to be a lot of people named Archie now,\" added Mr Harrison\n\nMr Harrison, who works as a carer, said: \"I've never had anything like this happen to me before, it's quite nice actually.\"\n\nHe also found out while he was at work, and was bombarded with lots of messages from his family and friends.\n\n\"It's like my full name, what are the chances of that,\" he said. \"I've never been too keen on my name myself, I always thought it was a bit random.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the namesakes don't end at people. One man from London tweeted a picture of his mini labradoodle.\n\n\"Our dog is literally called Archie Harrison,\" he tweeted. \"That's what they call out at the vet.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Samuel Thomas was living in Australia when he died in June 2017\n\nA bricklayer died when an Uber driver did not take \"reasonable care\" and drove off with the man halfway out of the car, a coroner has ruled.\n\nSamuel Thomas, 30, was living in Australia when he died on 17 June 2017.\n\nHe was travelling home with friends from a party in Sydney when the Uber driver stopped at traffic lights and Mr Thomas started to leave the car.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said Mr Thomas, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, fell into the path of a bus.\n\nHe said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\".\n\nMr Sullivan, the senior coroner for Hertfordshire, said: \"The driver accelerated off when Mr Thomas was half way out of the car.\n\n\"He fell into the path of a bus which collided with him and he was killed instantly.\"\n\nMr Sullivan recorded the cause of death as \"severe catastrophic head injuries\" and concluded Mr Thomas died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nThe coroner said the Uber driver Nazrul Islam had \"not exercised reasonable care\"\n\nIslam, 32, was found guilty of negligent driving causing death at a trial in Sydney, Australia, in November.\n\nIn February, Australian broadcaster 9News reported he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service as part of a sentence to be served under supervision in the community.\n\nThe driver had argued that he did not notice his passenger's attempts to exit, but a magistrate ruled that he had not kept \"a proper lookout\" as Mr Thomas exited.\n\nThe court heard Mr Thomas and his friends were about five minutes from their destination when Mr Thomas, who was in the back seat, opened a rear door and began to get out.\n\nSecurity footage showed the car's internal light was illuminated for six seconds before Islam began to accelerate, causing Mr Thomas to fall.\n\nMagistrate Mary Ryan noted that Mr Thomas had opened the door \"without a word of warning\", but said: \"Six seconds of light within the car is a significant warning.\n\n\"The only explanation is that Mr Islam was much more fatigued than he admitted.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stormzy and Adele are among artists who've joined Grenfell survivors to call on the Government to remove \"dangerous cladding\" from buildings.\n\nThe group released a video on Thursday which shows them appealing for \"national change\".\n\nIt's 18 months since the tower fire in west London which killed 72 people.\n\nSince then, the government announced a ban on combustible cladding for all new schools, hospitals and residential buildings in England above 18m.\n\nHowever, it will not be applied to those where the materials have already been fitted.\n\nBut the group, Grenfell United, says since then, little has changed and official figures show there are more than 400 buildings that still have \"Grenfell-style cladding\" on them.\n\nThe group is calling for a new regulator for social housing to reform the system and remove dangerous coverings from buildings.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe emotional, black and white film, which also features Marcus Mumford and Akala, involved more than 50 survivors and bereaved relatives along with community supporters.\n\nIn it, Stormzy says: \"This is not a charity film, this is a clarity film\".\n\nIt's not the first time the rapper has spoken out about Grenfell.\n\nHe use his appearance at this year's Brit Awards to take a swipe at the prime minister.\n\nStormzy said he wanted to use a voice to say something \"bigger than me\"\n\nHe closed the show after winning two awards and rapped, \"Yo, Theresa May where's that money for Grenfell? What you thought we just forgot about Grenfell?\"\n\nAdele has also been supportive, in June last year she attended a vigil for the victims.\n\nIn the new video families and supporters affected by what happened at Grenfell talk about the impact of the fire.\n\n\"We are not asking for money, we are not asking for sympathy, we are demanding change,\" they say.\n\n\"Change so families up and down country are safe in their homes. Change so that people, no matter where they live, are treated with dignity and respect.\"\n\nGrenfell United believes that 18 months after the devastating fire, little has changed.\n\nLong term plans for the site of Grenfell Tower have yet to be finalised\n\n\"We are approaching the second Christmas since our loved ones died at Grenfell,\" says Karim Mussilhy, vice-chair of Grenfell United.\n\n\"But we've seen little change on the ground and people around the country are still living in buildings with dangerous cladding.\"\n\n\"Too often, people in social housing are treated with indifference by people who have a duty to care for them.\n\n\"Dangerous cladding needs to be taken off buildings and we need a new regulator for social housing to reform the system so people are listened to and treated with respect.\n\n\"We lost our loved ones, but it's not too late for others. We can't sit back while there is a risk another tragedy like Grenfell could happen again - that's why we're fighting for national change.\"\n\nCladding has been removed from numerous high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nThe appeal comes at the end of the last week of phase one of the Grenfell Inquiry.\n\nIt was set up to examine the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire.\n\nIt recently heard that residents were given the wrong advice to stay put in the block by 999 staff.\n\nMr Mussilhy said the inquiry had already shown \"beyond doubt\" that the 72 people were unlawfully killed.\n\n\"The Grenfell Inquiry has already shown... that our families were neglected, ignored and given cheap materials that turned theirs homes into a death trap.\"\n\n\"People across the country are still living in unsafe buildings, change cannot wait.\"\n\nThe government insists it's committed £58m to those affected by the tragedy.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Joy Worrall had said she would \"throw herself off the quarry\" if she was ever in ill health or financial difficulty, the hearing was told\n\nAn 82-year-old woman killed herself after an \"administrative error\" by the Department for Work and Pensions led to her pension being frozen, an inquest heard.\n\nJoy Worrall, from Rhes-y-Cae, Flintshire, was found dead in a quarry near her home in November last year.\n\nHer son Ben told the Ruthin court the family had discovered after her death her pension had been stopped.\n\nThe DWP apologised \"unreservedly\" to Mrs Worrall's family for the error.\n\nMr Worrall told the inquest his mother was reluctant to talk about her problems, but had previously stated if she was ever in ill health or in financial difficulty she would \"throw herself off the quarry\".\n\n\"My mother felt she couldn't discuss her finances with anyone,\" he said.\n\nThe inquest heard that in 2014 she received an inheritance, but the DWP told her it would not affect her pension.\n\nShe received a state pension, as well as a pension credit top-up.\n\nHowever, in 2017, \"action was taken to suspend her pension credit\".\n\nRather than her state pension continuing while the credits were reviewed, all payments were stopped \"due to an administrative error\".\n\nThe inquest heard there was no record of any correspondence from Mrs Worrall to the DWP about the matter.\n\nHer cause of death was given as multiple major traumatic injuries due to a fall from height.\n\nCoroner John Gittins recorded a conclusion of suicide and said it was \"indeed a deliberate act\".\n\nHe told Mr Worrall if it was not for the information he supplied about the DWP, he may have struggled to determine if his mother had decided to take her own life.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Mr Worrall said: \"I feel as though there was a duty of care that was not fully carried out as it should've been, causing her to be in a situation where the only course of action was to end her life, which is a disgrace really.\"\n\nHe said he had taken up the case with his MP, David Hanson.\n\nA DWP spokesman said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mrs Worrall. We apologise unreservedly to Mrs Worrall's family for the error that led to her pension payments being stopped and pledge to learn the lessons.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know is struggling with issues raised by this story, find support through BBC Action Line.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at a fertility clinic\n\nMore women in the UK are choosing to freeze their eggs than ever before, with treatment rates rising by 11% from 2016 to 2017, a report suggests.\n\nThe fertility regulator's figures show there were 1,463 egg freezing cycles in 2017 compared with 1,321 in 2016.\n\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) says the success rates of using frozen embryos has risen, with birth rates comparable to fresh ones.\n\nBut it cautions that egg freezing does not provide a guaranteed family.\n\nEgg freezing involves collecting a woman's eggs from her ovaries, storing them in a state of deep freeze and thawing them at a later stage.\n\nAt this point they are put together with sperm in the hope that an embryo forms and a pregnancy develops.\n\nThe procedure is still relatively new with only 581 egg thaw cycles (where eggs are defrosted) taking place in the UK in 2017 - a rise from 159 in 2012.\n\nDespite this, the HFEA says that advances in egg-freezing techniques, and more women freezing their eggs under the age of 35, are partly behind the rise in successful birth rates from 18% in 2016 to 23% in 2017.\n\nBut the regulator warns the age at which women freeze their eggs is one of the most important factors for success (with women under 35 having a better chance of a birth).\n\nThe HFEA's report gives a broad overview of other fertility trends in 2017.\n\nIt shows that IVF is becoming safer - with the rate of multiple births (which can be riskier than singleton pregnancies) declining sharply from 24% in 2008 to 10% in 2017.\n\nBut access to NHS-funded treatment continues to be patchy across the UK.\n\nCommenting on the trends, Prof Joyce Harper, at University College London, said: \"Fertility treatment is turning into a middle-class procedure, with the UK having some of the highest costs in Europe.\n\n\"It is time to address the commercialisation of IVF and how the NHS funds it.\"\n\nThe analysis shows that while 91% of IVE treatment cycles were undertaken by women with male partners, there has been a small rise in same-sex couples, single women and surrogates considering fertility procedures.\n\nSally Cheshire, chair of the HFEA, said: \"This reflects society's changing attitude towards family creation, lifestyles and relationships and highlights the need for the sector to continue to evolve and adapt.\"\n• None Egg freezing in your 40s 'not sensible'\n• None Welcome to the HFEA - Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "ACM cladding has been widely used on high rises, including Grenfell Tower\n\nThe £200m bill to replace Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private high-rise blocks in England is to be met by the government.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill should be footed by the owners, not the taxpayer.\n\nBut he said owners had been trying to offload the costs on to leaseholders and that the long wait for remedial work had caused anxiety for residents.\n\nLeaseholder groups said the news would be a \"relief\" but more was needed.\n\nSeventy-two people died when a fire destroyed Grenfell Tower, in west London, in June 2017, in one of the UK's worst modern disasters.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nA public inquiry into the fire heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nLatest government figures show that 166 private residential buildings out of the 176 identified with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding - the same type used on Grenfell Tower - are yet to start work on removing and replacing it.\n\nMr Brokenshire admitted he had changed his mind on demanding that freeholders pay up for safety work.\n\nHe said some building owners had tried to pass on the costs to residents by threatening them with bills running to thousands of pounds.\n\n\"What has been striking to me over recent weeks is just the time it is taking and my concern over the leaseholders themselves - that anxiety, that stress, that strain, and seeing that we are getting on and making these buildings safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Di Giuseppe: \"We're living in an unsafe building\"\n\nAlex Di Giuseppe, a leaseholder in a block with unsafe cladding in Manchester, said he has been dealing with the developer, freeholder and management agent but had got nowhere.\n\n\"It's taken its toll. We've been living in an unsafe building and we've had these huge costs placed upon our heads. The stress is insurmountable.\n\n\"If this was a car with an airbag issue, it would be recalled.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire said some building owners and developers were doing \"the right thing\".\n\nPemberstone, Aberdeen Asset Management, Barratt Developments, Fraser Properties, Legal & General and Mace and Peabody were named as having fully borne the costs for their buildings.\n\n72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nGrenfell United, a group of survivors and the bereaved, said the news offered hope to people feeling at risk at home.\n\n\"This result is a testament to residents themselves. The truth is we should never have had to fight for it,\" the group said.\n\nIt asked the government to consider financial support for residents as they continue night watches and wait for the remediation work to begin.\n\nRachel Loudain, from the UK Cladding Action Group, said leaseholders had exhausted all other options before the government stepped in to pay for the work.\n\n\"No developer was taking responsibility, no freeholder, we didn't have any option legally or any option with insurance,\" she said.\n\nThe group welcomed the news but pointed out that \"many, many\" leaseholders and social housing tenants living in blocks with other forms of unsafe cladding would be excluded from this help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Loudain from the UK Cladding Action Group: \"Nothing we could do to ensure building owners would pay\"\n\n\"Fire does not distinguish between the different types of failed cladding out there. This inadequate response will be looked back on in shame when the next Grenfell tragedy occurs,\" the group said.\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"frozen like a rabbit in the headlights\" in its response to the Grenfell disaster.\n\n\"Too weak and too slow to act at every stage and on every front,\" the shadow housing secretary John Healey said.\n\nThe government has already committed to funding replacement cladding in the social sector. There are currently 23 blocks still covered in it.\n\nOwners of private buildings will have three months to claim the funds, with one condition being that they take \"reasonable steps\" to recover the costs from those responsible for the cladding.", "Joseph McCann is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with kidnapping and raping multiple women.\n\nJoseph McCann, of Aylesbury, is accused of the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of kidnap, four counts of rape, one count of false imprisonment and three other sexual offence charges - all in London.\n\nThe 34-year-old has been remanded in custody to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nMr McCann has also been charged with two counts of causing a female to engage in sexual activity and one count of assaulting a female by penetration in London between 24 and 27 April.\n\nProsecutors are considering a file of evidence relating to further alleged offences, the Met Police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some content on pages for extremist groups was allegedly created by Facebook\n\nFacebook has been accused of \"auto-generating\" extremist content, including a celebratory jihadist video and a business page for al-Qaeda.\n\nThe material was uncovered by an anonymous whistleblower who filed an official complaint to US regulators.\n\nSimilar content for self-identified Nazis and white supremacist groups was also found online.\n\nFacebook said it had got better at deleting extreme content but its systems were not perfect.\n\nThe whistleblower's study lasted five months and monitored pages of 3,000 people who liked or connected to organisations listed as terrorist groups by the US government.\n\nThe study found that groups such as the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda were \"openly\" active on the social network.\n\nIn addition, it found that Facebook's own tools were automatically creating fresh content for the proscribed groups by producing \"celebration\" and \"memories\" videos when pages racked up enough views or \"likes\", or had been active for a certain number of months.\n\nThe local business page for al-Qaeda generated by Facebook's tools had 7,410 \"likes\" and gave the group \"valuable data\" it could use when recruiting people or seeking out supporters, the complaint said.\n\nOn the local business page, Facebook's algorithms populated the page with job descriptions that users put in their profiles. It also copied images, branding and flags used by the group.\n\nSimilar content was automatically produced for white supremacist and Nazi groups active on Facebook.\n\nThe complaint has been filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging Facebook has misled shareholders by claiming to remove extremist content while letting it persist on the site.\n\nJohn Kostyack, director of the National Whistleblower Centre, which released the study on behalf of the whistleblower, said he was \"grateful\" that the \"disturbing information\" had been released.\n\n\"We hope that SEC takes prompt action to impose meaningful sanctions on Facebook,\" he said in a statement.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"After making heavy investments, we are detecting and removing terrorism content at a far higher success rate than even two years ago.\n\n\"We don't claim to find everything and we remain vigilant in our efforts against terrorist groups around the world.\"\n\nThe study is the latest in a series of mis-steps for Facebook, which has faced repeated criticism over the way it handles hate speech and extremist content.\n\nThis week, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes said it was time to break up Facebook, in an editorial published in the New York Times.\n\n\"The government must hold Mark [Zuckerberg] accountable,\" he wrote.", "Prince Charles was photographed with the then Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993\n\nThe Church of England's response to child sex abuse allegations was \"marked by secrecy\", a report has found.\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey has been criticised for supporting former Bishop Peter Ball.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Ball \"was able to sexually abuse vulnerable teenagers and young men for decades\".\n\nIts report said the support given by the Prince of Wales to the shamed clergyman was \"misguided\".\n\nIt said his actions \"could have been interpreted as expressions of support\" for Ball and \"had the potential to influence the actions of the church\".\n\nThe IICSA described the \"appalling sexual abuse against children\" in the Diocese of Chichester, with 18 members of the clergy convicted of offences during a 50-year period.\n\nBishop Peter Hancock, the Church of England's safeguarding lead, said: \"We are immensely grateful to survivors for their courage in coming forward. Their testimonies have made shocking and uncomfortable listening.\n\n\"The report states that the Church of England should have been a place which protected all children and supported victims and survivors and the inquiry's summary recognises that it failed to do this.\"\n\nBall, who was Bishop of Lewes in East Sussex between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester in 1992, was jailed in 2015 for 32 months for offences against 18 teenagers and men between the 1970s and the 1990s.\n\nThe report found the Crown Prosecution Service had missed an opportunity to charge Ball with a string of offences in 1992, and it was not until 22 years later he admitted his crimes.\n\nThe IICSA said Ball sought to use his relationship with the Prince of Wales to further his campaign to return to unrestricted ministry.\n\nPrince Charles' actions in speaking about Ball to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duchy of Cornwall buying a property to rent to Ball and his brother were \"misguided\", the report added.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said it remained \"a matter of deep regret\" that the prince \"along with many others was deceived by Peter Ball over so many years\".\n\n\"At no time did he bring any influence to bear on the actions of the church or any other relevant authority,\" he added.\n\nPeter Ball was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men\n\nThe report, based on four weeks of public hearings between March and July last year, said victims were \"disbelieved and dismissed\" by those in authority at the Diocese of Chichester.\n\nOne of Ball's victims, Neil Todd, killed himself after being \"seriously failed\" by the church, which had \"discounted Ball's conduct as trivial and insignificant\" while displaying \"callous indifference\" to Mr Todd's complaints.\n\nLord Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford - his last formal role in the church - in June last year after a separate inquiry found he delayed a \"proper investigation\" into Ball's crimes for two decades.\n\nThe report said he \"failed to have sufficient regard for the wellbeing of complainants, victims and survivors affected by Peter Ball's behaviour\".\n\nIt also said the church's apology \"remains unconvincing\".\n\nEven during the inquiry's hearings, the report says senior clerics were squabbling about who was responsible.\n\nIn a church whose scriptures and creeds speak of \"loving one another as Christ has loved you\", there was no compassion for Neil Todd, who had been repeatedly abused by Bishop Peter Ball during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nThe most senior cleric in the Church of England, then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spoke frequently with Ball and wrote several letters, saying: \"You are on my heart and constantly in my prayers.\"\n\nBut when Ball resigned, the church issued a press release which the report says \"inappropriately praised Peter Ball, presented his resignation as an act of self-sacrifice - but offered no such apology to Mr Todd and expressed no concern for his welfare\".\n\nThe preferential treatment of a popular priest, and the lack of compassion for his victim, are the disturbing keynotes of this comprehensive report.\n\nBall, now in his late 80s, accepted a caution for one count of gross indecency in 1992 and resigned due to ill-health.\n\nHe was released from prison in 2017 and deemed too ill to give evidence to the inquiry in person, but submitted a statement saying his relationship with Prince Charles \"was one of support and respect\".\n\nProf Alexis Jay, chair of the inquiry, said the Diocese of Chichester \"failed victims and survivors of child sexual abuse by prioritising its own reputation above their welfare\".\n\nShe said the church's response \"was marked by secrecy and a disregard for the seriousness of abuse allegations\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government was warned last year that it would face a bill of up to £20m if sued over the procurement of no-deal Brexit ferry services, the National Audit Office has revealed.\n\nIt said the Department for Transport's (DfT) accounting officer thought there was a \"high likelihood\" of a challenge over the contracts with Brittany Ferries, DFDS and Seaborne Freight.\n\nShe also warned Eurotunnel could sue.\n\nIn March, the DfT agreed to a £33m settlement with the firm.\n\nIn response to the National Audit Office's (NAO) report, the government said it had \"carefully considered the legal risk at all stages of the procurement\".\n\nThe Eurotunnel case was brought after the government handed out three contracts worth more than £100m in total to Brittany Ferries, DFDS, and Seaborne Freight in December.\n\nThese were to provide additional freight capacity on ferry services between Britain and mainland Europe in the event that a no-deal Brexit led to disruption at UK ports.\n\nThe awards were not subject to a full public procurement process, which the DfT said was justified by \"reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseen by the contracting authority\".\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling has faced criticism over the payouts\n\nHowever, Eurotunnel challenged the government's handling of the spend, and began legal proceedings in January, seeking up to £80m in damages.\n\nIt claimed it had never been approached as a potential provider, despite having previously run a ferry service.\n\nThe Transport Secretary Chris Grayling previously called the company's decision to take legal action \"disappointing\".\n\nThe NAO report reveals that Mr Grayling's department was advised that while a procurement challenge was probable and \"likely to be successful\", any trial was unlikely to occur before the 29 March, the day Britain was scheduled to leave the EU.\n\nIt was also advised any disputes over the contracts would probably end in a payout of up to £20m.\n\nIn the event, Eurotunnel's case was expedited, forcing the DfT to pay out to protect its contracts for the delivery critical supplies in the event of a no-deal.\n\nAll three ferry contracts have since been terminated.\n\nSeaborne Freight's £13.8m award was axed in February, after its backers pulled out, while DFDS and Brittany Ferries' deals were cancelled earlier this month, in a move that could cost the taxpayer up to £50m.\n\nThe government is also facing a challenge from P&O Ferries to its settlement with Eurotunnel. P&O is arguing that the £33m deal amounts to state-aid and is a breach of procurement law.", "A reminder always to check the small print\n\nAustralia's latest A$50 note comes with a big blunder hidden in the small print - a somewhat embarrassing typo.\n\nThe Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) spelled \"responsibility\" as \"responsibilty\" on millions of the new yellow notes.\n\nThe RBA confirmed the typo on Thursday and said the error would be fixed in future print runs.\n\nBut for now, around 46 million of the new notes are in use across the country.\n\nThe bills were released late last year and feature Edith Cowan, the first female member of an Australian parliament.\n\nWhat looks like a lawn in the background of Mrs Cowan's portrait is in fact rows of text - a quotation from her first speech to parliament.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is a great responsibility to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasise the necessity which exists for other women being here,\" is repeated several times over in microscopic print.\n\nAlas, it's printed each time as \"responsibilty\" - with a missing i.\n\nIt took more than six months for someone with a good magnifying glass to spot the typo.\n\nThe typo lurks just above Edith Cowan's shoulder\n\nThe A$50 note is the most widely circulated in Australia, and the most commonly given out by cash machines. The other side of the note features distinguished Indigenous author David Unaipon.\n\nWhen the latest batch emerged in October, new security features were embedded in the design to improve accessibility and prevent counterfeiting.\n\nAnd for anyone wondering - yes, the \"typo note\" is still totally valid as currency.\n\nPhew. Now let's just hope we didn't make any typos in this artilce.", "Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the good values at NHS Highland had not always been reflected\n\nHundreds of health workers have potentially experienced inappropriate behaviour at NHS Highland, an independent review has suggested.\n\nThe review led by John Sturrock QC said staff had described suffering \"fear, intimidation and inappropriate behaviour at work\".\n\nConcerns raised by a group of clinicians prompted the review.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman apologised and said other health boards should learn lessons.\n\nAt Holyrood, Ms Freeman said the culture at the health board had been unacceptable, and she supported the review's recommendations.\n\nThese include educating all staff on the effects of bullying and providing a \"properly functioning, clear, safe and respected wholly independent and confidential whistleblowing\" mechanism.\n\nNHS Highland runs services in Argyll and Bute, and another recommendation was that a separate review be done of the \"functioning of management\" in this area, partly because of its geography.\n\nClinicians, including Dr Lorien Cameron-Ross and Dr Iain Kennedy, have been considering the contents of Mr Sturrock QC's report. They have thanked Ms Freeman for having the \"courage and honesty\" to commission the review.\n\nNHS Highland said it would not tolerate unacceptable behaviour under any circumstances and was committed to ensuring that lessons were learned.\n\nAmid the claims of bullying, the review said there were \"thousands of well-motivated, caring and supportive people providing excellent caring services to thousands of patients in the area served by NHS Highland, often sacrificially and well beyond the call of duty\".\n\nA group of senior clinicians called for an inquiry of their claims\n\nThe review was contacted by 340 people from most departments, services and occupations at NHS Highland. More than 280 took part in face to face meetings or made written submissions.\n\nThe majority - 66% - reported experiences of what they described as bullying.\n\nStaff said they had not felt valued, respected or supported in carrying out \"very stressful work\".\n\nOthers told of not being listened to when raising matters regarding patient safety concerns and decisions being made \"behind closed doors\".\n\nThe review also said that \"many described a culture of fear and of protecting the organisation when issues are raised\".\n\nNHS Highland's sites include Raigmore Hospital and its area includes Argyll and Bute\n\nMs Freeman said: \"NHS Highland has very many very caring, supportive, diligent, highly skilled staff.\n\n\"But this extensive review has identified a number of significant cultural issues that have contributed to both actual and perceived behaviours in NHS Highland that have not always reflected those values.\"\n\nShe said the review had implications for health boards across Scotland.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"I am well aware that concerns about bullying and a desire to secure a positive culture is shared across our health service.\"\n\nNHS Highland's chief executive Iain Stewart said an action plan would be drawn up following careful consideration of the review's report.\n\nHe said: \"I can assure you all that the response will itself be comprehensive and, over the coming weeks and months, NHS Highland will take whatever actions are required to ensure that its people are valued, respected and that their voices are heard.\n\n\"Already, it seems clear that the treatment of some staff within NHS Highland in the past has not always lived up to the high standards expected and, for that,\n\n\"I apologise on behalf of the board.\"\n\nJohn Sturrock QC led the review of allegations of bullying at NHS Highland\n\nLewis Morrison, chairman of BMA Scotland, said bullying was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nHe praised the doctors who raised concerns as \"brave\" and said staff had to feel able to speak out about bullying without fear about consequences for their careers, but said there was still some way to go.\n\n\"This report absolutely has to be a catalyst for change,\" he said. \"Clearly there are also lessons for the whole of Scotland.\n\n\"While there are aspects that are specific to NHS Highland, we are pleased that the Scottish government recognise this is not an isolated situation.\n\nLast year, a group of senior clinicians claimed there had been a culture of \"fear and intimidation\" at the board for at least a decade.\n\nNHS Highland covers large area, that includes Skye, Caithness and Badenoch and Strathspey. Its main hospitals include Lorn and Islands Rural General Hospital in Oban, Belford Hospital in Fort William and Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.\n\nMr Sturrock QC was appointed by the Scottish government to lead the review.\n\nHis report had been expected to be published in February, but was delayed.\n\nDr Iain Kennedy is among the senior clinicans who raised their concerns last year\n\nIn April, Mr Stewart said it was right that time was taken on producing the report.\n\nIn the time since the allegations were made in September last year, there have been changes to the management of the health board.\n\nElaine Mead left the role of chief executive in December and David Alston resigned as chairman in February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Danny Baker explains what happened when his 5 Live bosses called him\n\nThe BBC has sacked Danny Baker, saying he showed a \"serious error of judgement\" over his tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby.\n\nThe tweet, which he later deleted but which has been circulated on social media, showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\".\n\nThe BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the duchess's racial heritage.\n\nThe 61-year-old presented a Saturday morning show on the network.\n\nThe corporation said Baker's tweet \"goes against the values we as a station aim to embody\".\n\nIt added: \"Danny's a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter tweeting an apology, in which he called the tweet a \"stupid unthinking gag pic\", Baker said the BBC's decision \"was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity\".\n\n\"[It] took a tone that said I actually meant that ridiculous tweet and the BBC must uphold blah blah blah,\" he added. \"Literally threw me under the bus. Could hear the suits' knees knocking.\"\n\nHarry and Meghan, whose mother Doria Ragland is African American, revealed on Wednesday their new son was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.\n\nAfter the initial backlash on social media on Wednesday, Baker said: \"Sorry my gag pic of the little fella in the posh outfit has whipped some up. Never occurred to me because, well, mind not diseased.\n\n\"Soon as those good enough to point out its possible connotations got in touch, down it came. And that's it.\"\n\nIn a later tweet, he added: \"Would have used same stupid pic for any other Royal birth or Boris Johnson kid or even one of my own. It's a funny image. (Though not of course in that context.) Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque.\n\n\"Anyway, here's to ya Archie, Sorry mate.\"\n\nSpeaking to reporters outside his home, he said of the tweet: \"Ill advised, ill thought-out and stupid, but racist? No, I'm aware how delicate that imagery is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC \"right\" to sack Danny Baker over tweet says broadcaster Scarlette Douglas\n\nBroadcaster Scarlette Douglas, who works on 5 Live podcast The Sista Collective and The One Show, told the BBC: \"I think somebody told him, 'What you've tweeted was incorrect, so you should maybe say something or take it down.'\n\n\"Yes, OK, he took it down, but his apology for me wasn't really an apology. I don't think it's right and I think subsequently what's happened is correct.\"\n\nAyesha Hazarika, a commentator and former adviser to the Labour Party, told 5 Live she was \"genuinely gobsmacked\" by the tweet.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it,\" she said. \"I thought it was a joke at first. I thought it was a spoof. It was so crass. What was going through his head?\n\n\"You can't just say sorry and then carry on like it's business as usual. When you have an incredibly important platform like he does, you do have to think about what you do and the signals that it sends out.\"\n\nBaker must have been aware of recent incidences of racism at football matches and the resulting outcry, Ms Hazarika added.\n\nLinda Bellos, former chairwoman of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals, echoed those remarks. saying: \"A lot of black players are complaining about noises being made to them. He knows this stuff,\" she told Radio 4.\n\nHis tweet was \"foolish\", she said, adding: \"Never mind that it's royalty.\n\n\"The things that are happening to black children up and down the country are not enhanced by his words and I'm glad that prompt action has been taken, and let's hope we have come thoughtful dialogue and learning from this.\"\n\nBaker has won several awards for his radio shows\n\nBaker's Saturday Morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live won him a Sony Gold award for Speech Radio Personality of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2014 and a Gold Award for entertainment show of the year in 2013.\n\nHis irrepressible style made him one of the most popular radio presenters of his generation and saw him described by one writer as the \"ultimate geezer\".\n\nBaker was also a successful magazine journalist, scriptwriter and TV documentary maker.\n\nHe wrote a number of TV shows including Pets Win Prizes and Win, Lose or Draw and, in 1990, The Game, a series about an amateur soccer team in east London.\n\nA stint at BBC London station GLR in the late '80s saw him strike up an enduring friendship with fellow broadcaster Chris Evans, and Baker would later write scripts for the Channel 4 show TFI Friday, which Evans hosted.\n\nIt's the second time Baker has been axed by 5 Live and is the third time he has left the BBC.\n\nIn 1997, he was fired for encouraging football fans to make a referee's life hell after the official had awarded a controversial penalty in an FA Cup tie.\n\nHe later claimed he had never incited fans to attack the referee, only that he would have understood if they had.\n\nIn 2012, two weeks before he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, he was was back in the news after an on-air rant in which he resigned and branded his bosses at BBC London \"pinheaded weasels\". The outburst came after Baker had been asked to move from a weekday programme to a weekend.\n\nIn 2016, Baker took part on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here but was the first person to be voted off in the series.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Seventy-two people died as a result of a huge fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower - a 24-storey West London residential tower block. This week expert witnesses at an inquiry into the blaze detailed how the fire ripped through the building, minute by minute, one year ago.\n\nThe first call was made to emergency services to report a fire on floor four of Grenfell Tower just before 01:00 on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe man who lived in flat 16, Behailu Kebede, told the operator: \"Quick, quick, quick. It's burning.\"\n\nHe described how he was woken by a smoke alarm and had seen smoke in his kitchen.\n\nFour fire engines were sent to the scene, the first arriving at 00:59.\n\nA few minutes later, the fire could be seen in the flat from outside the building. It had spread from the kitchen window to the exterior and witnesses began seeing burning material falling to the ground.\n\nAround this time, Tiago Alves, then aged 20, ran down the stairs from the 13th floor with his younger sister Ines.\n\nCCTV showed their father, Miguel, leaving the building a few minutes later along with other residents - possibly fellow occupants of the 13th floor.\n\nThe first fire crew entered the flat, reaching the kitchen by 01:14.\n\nFirefighter Daniel Brown described seeing an \"isolated curtain of flame from about 2-3ft in the air to the ceiling\".\n\nThermal images captured by the fire crew appeared to show \"hot fire gases and flames had spread across the window space\".\n\nBarefoot and clutching his phone, the flat's tenant, Mr Kebede, left the building and watched in horror as the fire spread up the tower.\n\nHis mobile phone images show an orange glow of flames around the kitchen window, and later a fire burning more intensely in the area of the window filler panel and extractor fan.\n\nThe blaze was moving up the building's east side by this time and the fire service made its first request for a high-reach aerial appliance.\n\nOne minute later, the fire had spread to the 5th floor above. Fire crews began using external hoses to try to extinguish the flames.\n\nFurther burning debris could be seen dropping from the building.\n\nWithin a further six minutes, the fire had reached the 11th floor. One minute later, the fire had reached floor 13.\n\nA resident of flat 195 on the 22nd floor called emergency services to describe smelling smoke, but was advised to \"stay inside and keep your door and windows shut\".\n\nCCTV showed a number of people leaving from the 7th floor.\n\nA few minutes later, someone on the 14th floor said people could no longer exit via the lobby because it was filled with smoke.\n\nMobile phone videos show the blaze reaching the top floor on the east side of Grenfell Tower by about 01:26, less than 30 minutes after firefighters had arrived.\n\nIn approximately 12 minutes, it had spread up 19 storeys on the outside of the building.\n\nA resident of flat 95 on the 12th floor called 999 to report that the fire had reached her neighbour's flat. The flames were \"coming through the floor\", she said.\n\nThe fire service was still telling residents to \"stay put\" at this point - advice that lasted nearly two hours.\n\nSuch \"stay put\" safety advice is often given to people living in purpose-built blocks of flats. It is designed to stop residents unaffected by fire from unnecessarily evacuating the building and blocking the stairways.\n\nHowever, it assumes a building's design will contain a fire in a single flat for as long as it takes fire crews to bring it under control.\n\nDr Barbara Lane's report found that this policy had \"effectively failed\" barely half an hour after the fire started, given the unique circumstances at the tower block.\n\nThere was an \"early need for total evacuation of Grenfell Tower\", she said.\n\nThe number of 999 calls to emergency services increased as the fire reached the top of the building.\n\nIn desperation, some residents had headed upwards and were seeking refuge in flats of friends and neighbours on the upper floors. Smoke was coming from \"everywhere\", one said.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade increased their request for vehicles with pumps to 20 at this point. Two minutes later, crews asked for 25 pumps.\n\nPeople on the 3rd, 11th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd went on to make emergency calls to describe flames or smoke reaching their flats.\n\nThe fire continued to advance on two fronts - along the eastern side of the building and to the north. A total of 144 people had evacuated the building by this point, but 149 remained inside.\n\nThe fire service received a call from flat 205 on the 23rd floor, where flames \"just blew\" into the kitchen.\n\nThe occupants of flat 95 on the 12th floor also described a fire in the neighbouring flat, on the landing and near the lift, as well as below and around the flat's windows. They were advised to leave.\n\nPeople on the 10th, 12th, 14th and 22nd floors also called 999 around this time and described being trapped in smoke-filled flats. Some said they were going to try and escape.\n\nAs well as 26 flats ablaze externally, at least four flats were on fire inside by this time, according to the report by Dr Barbara Lane.\n\nThe number of people escaping the building slowed, however. There was a period, between about 01:50 and 02:06 when no-one left, according to the report by Professor José L. Torero.\n\nThis was the point when communal lobbies and stairwells in the middle and top of the building became, or appeared to have become, impassable.\n\n\"Thick smoke with low to zero visibility is described as filling the stair,\" said Dr Barbara Lane.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade declared a \"major incident\" just after 02:00. They had requested 40 pumps by this point.\n\nPeople started leaving the building again, but at a reduced rate. The reason for this is not clear, Prof Jose Torero said in his report, however, it corresponded with the point when the fire reached the centre of the building's east side and the north side, creating \"untenable\" conditions.\n\nThe fire spread across the north side of the building a few minutes later and fires were raging inside a number of flats.\n\nThe number of interior fires increased as the fire spread across the exterior of the building and by 02:25, the fire had spread to the south side of the building. Five minutes after that, at 02:30, the whole of the east of the building was on fire, Met Police records show.\n\nThe incident commander changed the policy recommending residents stay in the building at this point and people were advised to leave. By this time, the east, north and south sides of the building were in flames.\n\nBefore the stay-put advice was changed, 187 occupants had left the building - independently or with firefighter assistance. There were still 107 people in the building, of which 36 eventually got out.\n\nPeople inside the building described lobbies as \"incredibly hot\" or \"boiling hot\" as well as thick with smoke at this time, Dr Barbara Lane said.\n\n\"This smoke effectively created a barrier to residents on any level and so impacted on their ability and/or willingness to move from their flats down the stair to a place of safety,\" she added.\n\nSome 73 flats were ablaze externally by 03:21 and two minutes later, the northern side of the building was fully alight.\n\nBy 03:39, London Fire Brigade had stopped sending crews above the 4th floor.\n\nThe fire continued to spread towards the south-west corner of the building, reaching it by 03:56. No-one escaped from above the 12th floor after 03:55.\n\nJust before 04:00, 81 people were left in the building.\n\nThe fire spread laterally around the building to the north and south, and just after 04:00 it had reached all sides.\n\nThe flames had spread in different directions and converged on level 23 near the south-west corner of the building, fully enveloping the building's perimeter.\n\nFire could be seen spreading down the building on the west side and it was fully engulfed just before 05:00. Internal fires continued to rage.\n\nSome 70 people had not evacuated the building at this stage.\n\nThe incident commander concluded that there was \"no longer any saveable life in the building\" just before 20:00. Internal fires could still be seen on the north and west sides of the building at 21:50.\n\nThe blaze did not burn itself out until 01:14 BST on Thursday 15 June - 24 hours later - having destroyed 151 homes, both in the tower and surrounding areas.\n\nThey include six members of the Choucair Family and five members of the Hashim Family, who lived on the 22nd floor. Five members of the El-Wahabi family died on the 21st floor.\n\nSix-month old baby Leena Belkadi died in her mother's arms as she tried to escape and baby Logan Gomes was stillborn in hospital the morning after the fire.\n\nMaria Del Pilar Burton, who suffered from serious long-term health issues, died in hospital in January 2018.\n\nA total of 65 people were rescued from the building by firefighters.\n\nIn a statement to the inquiry, London Fire Brigade said Grenfell Tower was the largest single rescue operation in England since World War II.\n\nIt was \"by far the most challenging incident\" the service had experienced \"in living memory\", it said.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union has asked the inquiry to consider whether firefighters were put in an \"impossible situation\" when battling the blaze.\n\nNote: All timings as reported to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.\n\nWritten and produced by Lucy Rodgers. Designed by Gerry Fletcher, Zoe Bartholomew, Mark Bryson and Sumi Senthinathan.\n• None Why are people told to 'stay put'?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA sea mine has been detonated after being picked up in a fishing net off the coast of the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe 7ft (2.1m) device, dating back to World War Two, was caught by a vessel about one mile (1.6km) off the Needles at 08:00 BST on Saturday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.\n\nThe Royal Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, based in Portsmouth, destroyed it at 10:51 on Sunday.\n\nWarning broadcasts were issued to nearby vessels during the operation.\n\nThe Needles Coastguard Rescue Team also attended to ensure public safety, while divers placed the mine back on the sea bed and then blew it up.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Defence, it contained about 2000lb of explosives.\n\nDuty controller Piers Stanbury said: \"This is most likely an old German wartime sea mine.\"\n\nThe sea mine contained about 2000lb of explosives\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mother of Leah Heyes, Kerry Roberts (right), thanked people for the support she had been given\n\nAn emotional vigil has been held for a teenage girl who died after apparently taking ecstasy.\n\nAbout 150 friends and family gathered to remember Leah Heyes, who collapsed in a Northallerton car park on 11 May.\n\nPolice believe the 15-year-old had taken MDMA. Two teenagers arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs have been released under investigation.\n\nLeah's mother Kerry Roberts said she was \"overwhelmed\" by the support people had shown.\n\n\"I would like to thank everyone for all of the kind messages and tributes following the death of my beautiful daughter Leah.\n\n\"Thank you for coming together to remember Leah, it's such a fitting tribute to her as she loved to be around people and to spend time with her friends.\n\n\"She would be really happy to know that you all cared so much about her.\"\n\nLeah, who was from Northallerton, died in hospital after collapsing in the Applegarth car park at 21:30 BST that night.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested and North Yorkshire Police said it had \"not ruled out making more arrests\".\n\nThe force has appealed for anyone who has mobile phone footage taken on the night to come forward.\n\nChairman of the town's Street Angels Steve Cowey said drugs being brought to the town by \"county lines\" criminals were a real problem.\n\nHe said: \"We've got people who are young and vulnerable and are experimenting with [drugs].\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dutee Chand says she was encouraged to speak out after India decriminalised gay sex in 2018\n\nIndian sprinter Dutee Chand has revealed she is in a same-sex relationship, the first sportsperson in India to openly acknowledge being gay.\n\nThe 23-year-old athlete says she has been seeing her partner, who comes from her village, for five years.\n\nChand says the Indian Supreme Court's historic decision to decriminalise gay sex in 2018 encouraged her to speak publicly about her sexuality.\n\nBut some members of her family have not accepted her relationship, she says.\n\n\"I am having a relationship with a 19-year-old woman from my village [Chaka Gopalpur] for the past five years\", she told reporters from Hyderabad where she is training.\n\n\"I have found someone who is my soulmate. I have always believed that everyone should have the freedom to love. There is no greater emotion than love and it should not be denied.\"\n\nDespite attitudes slowly changing in India, Chand told PTI news agency that some members of her family do not accept her decision, and her sister has threatened to expel her from the family.\n\n\"My eldest sister feels that my partner is interested in my property. She has told me that she will send me to jail for having this relationship,\" she added.\n\nChand was the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event, the World Youth Championships in 2013.\n\nIn 2014, she was banned from competing by the Athletics Federation of India after failing a hormone test which found she had unusually high testosterone levels, a condition known as \"hyperandrogenism.\"\n\nHer legal team successfully argued the ruling was discriminatory and flawed at a hearing in March 2015.\n\nThe following year she qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics and in 2018 she won two silver medals at the Asian Games.", "Well, that's it for another year...\n\nThe bookies' favourite won out, the UK came last (again) and Graham Norton wasn't happy about it.\n\nYou win some, you lose some. But we're already looking forward to another big slice of cheese - make that Edam - in the Netherlands next year.\n\nSee you there!", "Mr Coveney suggested many British politicians do not understand the complexity of NI politics\n\nIreland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal if Theresa May is replaced as UK prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said \"the personality might change but the facts don't\".\n\nHe described Mrs May as a \"decent person\" and strongly criticised Conservative MPs at Westminster.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote.\n\nMr Coveney described political events at Westminster as \"extraordinary\", as he questioned the logic of politicians who believed a change of leader would deliver changes to the agreement struck by Mrs May.\n\nHe said Conservative MPs were \"impossible\" on the issue of Brexit.\n\n\"The EU has said very clearly that the Withdrawal Agreement has been negotiated over two-and-a-half years, it was agreed with the British government and the British cabinet and it's not up for renegotiation, even if there is a new British prime minister,\" he said.\n\nHe told RTÉ's This Week programme that many British politicians \"don't, quite frankly, understand the complexity of politics in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"They have tried to dumb this debate down into a simplistic argument whereby it's Britain versus the EU, as opposed to two friends tying to navigate through the complexity of a very, very difficult agreement,\" he added.\n\nMr Coveney also said the Irish government would continue to focus significant efforts and financial resources towards planning for a no-deal Brexit scenario, following Friday's collapse of Brexit talks in the UK.\n\nHe said time was of the essence for the UK to get a deal through Parliament, adding that he was concerned Britain would not \"get its act together over summer\" and leave without a deal.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs May announced that MPs would vote on the bill that would pave the way for Brexit in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nIf the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March.\n\nBut the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.", "James Charles has called the last week the \"darkest time in my life.\"\n\nIt's after fellow YouTube star Tati Westbrook accused him of manipulating someone's sexuality and promoting a rival product to hers.\n\nJames Charles, who is 19, has since lost millions of subscribers and received lots of hate on social media.\n\nOn Thursday she posted a second video lasting 18 minutes asking for the \"hate to stop\".\n\nDespite James Charles' denials Tati Westbrook says she \"stands by her videos\"\n\nBoth of them have amassed enormous social media followings through make-up tutorials and beauty product reviews.\n\nIn a new 41-minute video posted on Saturday James Charles, visibly upset and wearing no make-up says: \"The past week on the internet has been the darkest we've all ever seen and it's also been the darkest time I've had to go through in my life and my thoughts got to a really scary place.\"\n\nHe doesn't deny signing a contract with Tati Westbrook's competitor, saying he did it in a moment of stress as they had better passes, access and security at Coachella.\n\nUpon finding out she publicly said she was cutting all ties with him.\n\nHe says he tried to contact her but didn't hear anything back and put out this apology.\n\nJames Charles posted an apology to Tati Westbrook on Instagram\n\nIn the new video titled No More Lies, James Charles heavily denies her accusations of \"tricking a straight man to think he's gay\".\n\n\"I would never, have never and will never use my fame, money or power to manipulate or get any sexual actions from a guy.\"\n\nThis stems from his exchanges with a waiter who James Charles says told him he was bisexual, then said he was fully gay and then reverted to saying he was bisexual again.\n\nIn Tati Westbrook's video on Thursday she weeps and tells viewers she didn't expect the level of hate that James Charles received after she accused him of being disloyal and sexually harassing straight men.\n\nShe said: \"I do really want the hate to stop. I want the picking sides and abusive memes and the language and all of that, I really hope on both sides it can stop.\"\n\n\"This was really a wake up call and me trying to reach someone who I found completely unreachable and I'd been trying to deliver the same message so many times.\"\n\n\"I'm a 19-year-old virgin, I don't get a lot of action,\" says James Charles\n\nJames Charles ended his video on a positive note, explaining that he's planning to spend time with family to celebrate his birthday. He also added that he'll be taking a break from YouTube and will be working on his mental health.\n\nTati Westbrook has also responded saying she had seen the last post from him.\n\n\"I stand by my videos,\" she added, \"I do not twist my words into what they are not, hear the message.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tati Westbrook This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Thousands of teenagers are living in supported or semi-supported accommodation, which can often be a house on a residential street\n\nThousands of teenagers in care are being \"dumped\" in unregulated homes and \"abandoned to organised crime gangs\", the BBC has been told.\n\nThe number of looked-after children aged 16 and over living in unregistered accommodation in England has increased 70% in a decade, Newsnight has found.\n\nPolice forces have raised concerns, saying criminals see the premises as an easy target for recruitment.\n\nThe government said children in care \"deserve good quality accommodation\".\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) said local authorities do \"many things\" - including unannounced checks and DBS checks - to monitor provision.\n\nAs part of a special series of reports, Britain's Hidden Children's Homes, Newsnight has learned that - according to figures from the Department for Education - around 5,000 looked after children in England are living in so-called 16+ supported or semi-supported accommodation - up from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nThis type of accommodation is not inspected or registered by Ofsted, even though residents are in the care of the state.\n\nBut because they are deemed to be receiving support, rather than care, the accommodation is not subject to the same checks and inspections as registered children's homes.\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregistered accommodation if they deem it is in a child's best interests. This can often be simply a house on a residential street, with staff on site or visiting for as little as a few hours a week.\n\nAmy - now 19 - was moved to one of these homes in Bedfordshire, when she was 16 years old.\n\n\"There was a mattress but no bed sheets, it was freezing cold and I had to use my coat and blanket as a duvet. It made me feel sort of desperate and very alone.\"\n\nAmy - not her real name - said there were times she was frightened living in the home.\n\n\"I was hit in the face by one of the staff members,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on serious violence, said that more than half of the 60 homes for looked-after children in Bedfordshire are unregulated.\n\n\"They are the ones that we have the majority of the children going missing from because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police, said care is 'inconsistent'\n\nAmy was among these missing children, taking the train to \"meet random men in London, as anywhere is better than this\".\n\n\"We'd just get random men off the internet and then sometimes they would come and pick us up at the home and they'd take us places. A lot of them were just strange men who just wanted younger girls and they were very, very dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"They wanted sex and they wanted drugs and because they would buy you alcohol they would think you owed them something.\"\n\nAmy says she was not sexually assaulted.\n\nThe home Amy lived in told Newsnight it investigates complaints thoroughly and operates with high standards. It said it would support the 16+ sector being regulated.\n\nA Bedford Borough Council spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised which were fully investigated at the time.\n\n\"Semi-independent living accommodation for young people over 16 is not regulated by an inspection regime and this is an issue across the country. Many local authorities share our concerns and this has been discussed in parliament.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group for Missing Children and Adults has been looking into the issue, and wrote to 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nThirty-four responded, with at least three-quarters expressing concern.\n\nNewsnight has been given exclusive access to this research, which the group's chairwoman, Ann Coffey, described as painting an overall picture \"of dumping children in a twilight world and leaving them to fend for themselves and take their chances\".\n\nCambridgeshire Police said premises are often \"well known to local criminals\" and seen as \"an easy target location for recruitment of new children\".\n\nThis was echoed by Hertfordshire Police. The force said it had seen examples where young adults had been targeted and \"girls have been groomed and trafficked to other areas\".\n\nMs Coffey said \"we should be very concerned\" about this growing sector.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential that that market is regulated in a way that meets the needs of children,\" she said. \"If you don't have regulation then what will happen is it will meet the needs of the providers - the people who are basically making a profit out of this kind of accommodation.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't place my 16 or 17-year-old in this accommodation,\" she added.\n\n\"Why should we be placing other 16 and 17-year-olds in this twilight world where, at a very vulnerable age where they need the greatest level of support, we are abandoning them to paedophiles and organised crime gangs?\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"Exposing children to greater risks of criminalisation and exploitation isn't just wrong: it makes a mockery of joined-up government.\"\n\nThe Department for Education \"should be reviewing the situation urgently\", he added.\n\nJackie Sebire and the NPCC also want action from government.\n\n\"If you think about all the places we regulate the fact that we don't regulate those 16+ settings - it's just wrong and it really needs to change now… because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\n\"Ofsted could have a duty to regulate if the legislation and their remit changed and that is one solution we have proposed.\"\n\nBut ADCS said it would not advocate for total regulation, as it \"would limit flexibility\".\n\nThey added: \"We are keen to see providers of accommodation take their responsibilities to provide suitable accommodation seriously and to have open and transparent ways in which this can be assured.\"\n\nChildren and families minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"Semi-independent living can act as a stepping-stone for young people about to come out of care...\n\n\"Local authorities are required to make sure that children in care and care leavers are given suitable accommodation to meet their needs, including that they are safe and secure which is why I recently wrote to all Directors of Children's Services to remind them of this obligation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland comfortably defeated Pakistan in their final one-day international before the World Cup to complete a 4-0 series victory.\n\nJoe Root's 84 and 76 from captain Eoin Morgan helped lift the home side to 351-9, a total that looked like being much higher after a rapid start at Headingley.\n\nPakistan seemed all but beaten after Chris Woakes' new-ball burst reduced them to 6-3, only for Babar Azam (80) and Sarfaraz Ahmed (97) to share a partnership of 146.\n\nBut Babar was run out by a clever flick from Adil Rashid and Sarfaraz was brilliantly run out by Jos Buttler, either side of Rashid's flying catch to dismiss Shoaib Malik off his bowling.\n\nWith Woakes going on to claim 5-54, the tourists were dismissed for 297 to lose by 54 runs.\n\nEngland will name their World Cup squad on Tuesday, then play two warm-up games that do not have ODI status, against Australia next Saturday and Afghanistan the following Monday.\n\nThey open the tournament against South Africa at The Oval on 30 May.\n• None TMS podcast: Woakes in the wickets as England prepare for World Cup in style\n• None How England beat Pakistan - clips and analysis as it happened\n\nThis series has seen England demonstrate their awesome batting power and attempt to identify the pace bowlers that will be included in their final squad.\n\nOn a day when captain Morgan chose to bat in order to replicate losing the toss and being made to post a total in the World Cup, it was a last chance for fast bowlers David Willey and Tom Curran to push their claims.\n\nWilley offers a left-arm option, Curran yorkers and slower balls. Both can bat and made useful lower-order contributions, but neither bowled a telling spell.\n\nIn may be that Curran, Willey and Liam Plunkett are fighting for two spots to join Woakes, Mark Wood and Jofra Archer.\n\nJoe Denly, in England's provisional squad to bat and bowl some leg-spin, was not afforded another opportunity. If England want a stronger bowler, he could make way for Liam Dawson.\n\nAs for Pakistan, experts at peaking in tournaments and winners of the Champions Trophy here in 2017, they have shown glimpses of their potential at various times throughout the series.\n\nIn Leeds, their pace bowlers showed signs of improvement, while Babar and Sarfaraz were defiant.\n\nThey will be benefit from the return of leg-spinner Shadhab Khan, who can play in the World Cup after recovering from hepatitis.\n\nEngland's batsmen at it again\n\nAided by poor Pakistan bowling and worse fielding, the rate England began their innings hinted towards an absolutely massive total.\n\nThat it did not materialise was down to the control gained by Pakistan's spinners and the recovery of their pace bowlers, none more so than Shaheen Afridi, who picked up 4-82.\n\nBut that is to take nothing away from England's batsmen. Openers Jonny Bairstow (32) and James Vince (33) punished anything loose before Root and Morgan added 117 for the third wicket.\n\nRoot played drives off the pacemen, then flicked and swept the spinners. Morgan heaved two sixes into the leg side and lofted two more inside-out over extra cover.\n\nWhen Morgan became one of four England batsmen to fall to the short ball, it began a period where every home surge was halted by a wicket.\n\nJos Buttler (34) and Ben Stokes (21) made contributions, but there may be a slight concern over Moeen Ali, who registered a second successive duck.\n\nWoakes, Willey and Curran played cameos, the latter's 29 from 15 balls full of entertaining swipes and scoops.\n\nFor all the talk of the extra pace of Archer and Wood, it is Woakes who is likely to lead England's World Cup attack and his first two overs proved why.\n\nOn a surface offering just a hint of movement, his full length had Fakhar Zaman held at second slip, then both Abid Ali and Mohammad Hafeez lbw.\n\nThe classy Babar and doughty Sarfaraz rebuilt with deflections, guides and good running. They were comfortable before England's first flash of inspiration.\n\nSarfaraz sent Babar back, Buttler's throw was wide but Rashid, with his back turned, backhanded the ball on to the stumps to leave Babar short.\n\nIn response, Sarfaraz repeatedly sent Rashid to the leg-side boundary, only for the England man to leap to his left to take an excellent one-handed catch off Malik.\n\nThe captain presented England's last realistic obstacle until he was removed by Buttler's luck, anticipation and quick-thinking.\n\nAs Sarfaraz tried to run Moeen to third man, Buttler stuck out his right boot. The ball rebounded into his left foot and, with Sarfaraz trying to get back after setting off for a run, Buttler removed the bails.\n\n'I'm proud of the guys' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on Test Match Special: \"I am very proud of the guys and the way they have performed throughout the series. The nature of how we have chopped changed our team - the performance of the side has remained consistent.\n\n\"That shows a lot of hunger in the squad and no-one can be faulted. Everyone has performed and today was same.\"\n\nChris Woakes, who was named man of the match: \"It's been a great series for us and a great few weeks for us against a strong Pakistan team. The confidence is high and keeps everyone on their toes. We are always trying to improve and it is a great place to be.\n\n\"We are wishing each other the best and enjoying our success. Thankfully it was my turn to take the wickets today but we like to share it around.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent, TMS analyst: \"Clinical is what comes to mind about England throughout the series. Everyone stepped up.\n\n\"The key questions have been answered - Archer stepped up and the players who were injured held up nicely.\n\n\"There are selection issues but England have a luxury of players to turn to.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said her party has been the most consistent anti-Brexit voice during the European election campaign.\n\nLabour's Scottish deputy leader Lesley Laird said a new vote on Brexit was becoming more likely.\n\nConservative MP Colin Clark said next month's Brexit bill will be \"different\" from what has gone before.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said his party could support it, if the public were given the final say.\n\nUK voters take part in elections to the European parliament on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One that putting the Brexit issue back to people in a second vote would be the right way forward.\n\nShe added: \"There is nobody I think in Scotland or across the UK that could doubt that the SNP is unequivocally and unambiguously anti-Brexit.\n\n\"Scotland's not for Brexit. Scotland is for Europe and people in Scotland have an opportunity by voting SNP on Thursday to send that message very loudly and very clearly.\"\n\nLesley Laird told Gordon Brewer that a new referendum is possible\n\nSpeaking later on Sunday Politics Scotland, Ms Laird said a new referendum on Brexit was becoming more likely, but not certain.\n\n\"That is absolutely now the direction that we see this ending up,\" she said. \"You cannot yet say.\"\n\n\"We're going to have these indicative votes. We don't know what Theresa May will bring forward and we don't know therefore what that final deal will look like.\"\n\nColin Clark believes the prime minister will bring new ideas on Brexit before MPs\n\nMr Clark told the programme that the Brexit proposition being brought to the Commons was not simply a re-run of the measure which had previously been rejected by MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The bill will be different when it comes back. It has to be different when it comes back and has to bring more of the party together.\n\n\"And I believe if Labour were given a free vote, the bill would pass.\"\n\nVince Cable believes the voters should have the final say\n\nMr Cable said the Liberal Democrats could back the prime minister, but only if the public were given the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe said his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie thinks the European vote should be about more than Brexit\n\nPatrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens said voters on Thursday should not simply look at a party's stance on Brexit.\n\n\"Electing a Green MEP for Scotland will electing someone who'll stand up not just for Scotland's place in Europe,\" he said, \"but also for the issues like the climate emergency and tackling the refugee crisis in a humane and decent manner.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party the issue of making Brexit happen comes before everything else.\n\nTheir representative Louis Stedman-Bryce added: \"The message really is that we have to focus on democracy before we can focus on anything else.\n\n\"We have to make Brexit happen.\"\n\nLouis Stedman-Bryce of the Brexit Party wants leaving the EU to be an overriding priority", "The network was hit by widespread delays and cancellations a year ago\n\nThe new National Rail summer timetable has come into effect, with 1,000 new train services being introduced across Great Britain.\n\nThe operators and infrastructure firm Network Rail say they have learned the lessons of last summer's disruption.\n\nThen, a more extensive shake-up led to weeks of chaos on the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Northern networks.\n\nTrain operators say they will monitor the latest changes carefully and respond quickly to any problems.\n\n\"The railway has a long way to go to win back passenger confidence,\" said Darren Shirley, chief executive of pressure group Campaign for Better Transport.\n\n\"But we hope that the lessons of last year have been learnt and the introduction of the new timetable... will improve people's perceptions of the railways, rather than further damaging them.\n\n\"In the event that things do go wrong, we would expect the rail industry to have a robust contingency plan so that passengers aren't left stranded again.\"\n\nAnd Anthony Smith, boss of independent watchdog Transport Focus, said Monday morning's commute would provide a major test.\n\nRail passenger groups are hoping for a smooth timetable change this year\n\n\"Passengers waiting on platforms just want the trains to run on time... they have paid for a service, and want the service to be reliable,\" he said.\n\nThe timetable changes in May 2018 led to weeks of disruption to large parts of the network,\n\nThe number of trains cancelled each day by GTR and Northern hit up to 470 and 310 respectively.\n\nGTR says passengers should be confident about the new services\n\nGTR was fined £5m by the rail regulator over its poor communication during an eight-week period of upheaval.\n\nThe Office of Rail and Road (ORR) found that the company \"failed to provide appropriate, accurate and timely information\" to passengers.\n\nAmong operators adding extra services are South Western Railway, GTR, Northern, Scotrail and Transport for Wales.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said train companies and Network Rail have only made changes where there is a \"high confidence\" infrastructure, rolling stock and staffing plans are ready.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling was criticised for his role in the rail chaos\n\nRDG chief executive Paul Plummer said: \"Introducing 1,000 more services a week to meet demand on a congested network poses a significant challenge but we are working together to ensure improvements are introduced with the absolute minimum of disruption.\"\n\nFollowing the chaos of a year ago, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling was criticised after an ORR investigation found there was a \"lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities\", and that \"nobody took charge\".", "Railway fans visited Paddington Station to mark the last high speed train journey from London to Exeter.\n\nThe InterCity 125 trains have been replaced by newer models after more than 40 years of service.\n\nThe trip sold out days ahead of its run.", "Deontay Wilder produced a sensational first-round knockout of Dominic Breazeale to retain his WBC world heavyweight title in New York.\n\nWilder, 33, flattened his fellow American with 43 seconds of the opening round left - taking his record to 41 wins and a draw from 42 bouts.\n\nBreazeale was on the ropes early on before finding a solid shot to respond to the champion.\n\nBut Wilder finished the fight moments later with a huge right hand.\n• None Fury or Joshua? Wilder's next fight 'probably next year'\n\nAfter his victory, Wilder was approached by Cuba's Luis Ortiz in the ring - a man he beat in 2018 - but when asked about potential contests with British heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, said \"no doors are closed\" and that such fights \"are in discussion\".\n\n\"All parties involved are talking,\" Wilder told Showtime. \"There's too many people and opinions involved. It will take our teams to sit down, handle things, squash everything and get it done for the fans.\n\n\"The big fights will happen the way we all benefit. We risk our lives in here, so let us get our time to iron out our differences and you guys will know when it happens.\"\n\nBreazeale, 33, left the ring without talking to the media, fresh from a punch that left him sprawled on the canvas and unable to answer the count.\n\nHis counter-punch when cornered had briefly seen Wilder engage in a couple of grapples but - after a pause for breath - the champion followed a left-hand jab with a right to the jaw which was as accurate as it was destructive.\n\nIt was a 40th victory by knockout for Wilder and just a second career loss for Breazeale, following his 2016 defeat by Anthony Joshua.\n\n'I told him I love him' - Wilder swaps trash talk for compliments\n\nWilder will face a World Boxing Council hearing for pre-fight comments where he again raised the prospect of an opponent dying in the ring.\n\n\"This is the only sport where you can kill a man and get paid for it at the same time,\" Wilder had said in the build-up. \"It's legal.\"\n\nBut afterwards Wilder spoke warmly about his beaten rival.\n\n\"Everything came out of me tonight,\" Wilder told Showtime. \"I know it's been a big build-up, a lot of animosity, chaos and hatred to one another, a lot of words said. It just came out tonight.\n\n\"This is what makes boxing great. When you have stuff to overcome.\n\n\"I've told him I love him and I want to see him go home to his family. I know we say things we mean sometimes but when you get into a fight and settle your differences, if you can then hug him and kiss him, I wish the world was like that, handle things with our hands and then live to see another day.\"\n\nWilder's power a threat to the best\n\nWith this win, Wilder successfully defended his title for the ninth time, becoming only the 10th man to achieve that milestone in consecutive fights in the heavyweight division.\n\nThe Alabama fighter's ring craft has at times been ridiculed because of his unorthodox nature, and a controversial draw with Fury in December led some to say he had been exposed when coming up against a skilled fighter.\n\nWhat is undeniable is his vicious power, and a right hand that means he only needs to land sporadically to turn fights his way.\n\nFury, knocked down twice in their Los Angeles thriller, knows all about it - but will he face the threat in a rematch? And will we ever see Wilder and Joshua fight for the four world titles they possess?\n\nWilder said a rematch and the big fights will come but, with the three men signed to different broadcasters, each with their own financial goals, the biggest battles of all will need to take place at the negotiating table.\n\nThe American's manager Shelly Finkel told BBC Sport that fights of such magnitude are more likely in 2020 so, for now at least, heavyweight focus turns to Joshua's defence against American Andy Ruiz Jr on 1 June and Fury's contest with German fighter Tom Schwarz two weeks later.\n\nWilder has done his part and can bask in the glory of a highlight reel knockout. His rivals cannot slip up in the coming four weeks.", "Tyler, The Creator was banned from entering the UK in 2015\n\nA US rapper said a \"rowdy\" crowd forced him to cancel his first UK show since a ban on entering the country was lifted.\n\nTyler, The Creator announced the gig in Peckham, south-east London, a few hours after surprising fans by tweeting a video outside Buckingham Palace.\n\nBut soon after it was due to begin he wrote the \"cops cancelled it\" in a tweet that has since been deleted.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the venue called it off because of \"overcrowding issues\".\n\nFans flocked to Peckham after Tyler, The Creator announced he was in the UK and playing a gig\n\nToby Stanton, 19, said fans were climbing over cars while people were still sat inside them during the rush to get to the venue.\n\n\"Every time they opened the gate a little bit to the venue, people charged towards the gate and then bounced back when they closed it,\" he said.\n\nThe rapper, real name Tyler Okonma, was stopped from the entering the UK in 2015 by then home secretary Theresa May after claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nIt is believed the ban was lifted from 13 February and he arrived at Luton Airport in the early hours.\n\nThe Home Office said it did \"not routinely comment on individual cases\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Tyler, The Creator\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV and radio presenter Nicki Chapman has been praised for speaking out about her recent brain tumour diagnosis and subsequent recovery from surgery.\n\nThe 52-year-old, who was found to have a tumour \"the size of a golf ball\", told the Daily Mail she was \"petrified\" but tried to \"stay positive\".\n\nThe Brain Tumour Charity said sharing the experience would help \"end the isolation\" of fellow sufferers.\n\nChief executive Sarah Lindsell said she was \"grateful\" Chapman had spoken out.\n\n\"Nicki's decision to share her experience will make a real difference in helping to end the isolation felt by so many people who are diagnosed with a brain tumour,\" she said.\n\nThe charity tweeted its support on Saturday, following Chapman's interview in the Mail.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by The Brain Tumour Charity\n\nChapman, who said she would not be co-presenting the BBC's coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year, underwent surgery at a London hospital earlier this month following her diagnosis in March and is currently recuperating at home.\n\n\"I really hope other people who get a similar diagnosis have the excellent treatment I had, and find the same inner strength,\" she told the Mail's Frances Hardy.\n\nShe said the operation had gone well, that the tumour was benign and that most of it had been removed, but a \"little bit\" of the tumour which was growing close to one of the main cerebral veins had to be left because the risk from removing it was too great.\n\n\"I know it might come back, but if it does they'll deal with it before it gets too big.\n\n\"I don't know about the future but I'm as optimistic as I possibly can be.\"\n\nChapman, who rose to public prominence as a judge on the ITV talent show Pop Idol in 2001, said she first became aware something was amiss six weeks ago, when she noticed she was suffering from blurred vision and speech difficulties.\n\nShe said she assumed the symptoms were \"menopause-related\", but her doctor urged her to go to hospital.\n\nA scan discovered a tumour on the back, left-hand side of her head, \"the size of a golf ball, pressing on my brain\".\n\nChapman's colleagues from TV and radio have shown their support on social media, including tweets from fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce, and presenters Suzi Perry, Carol Vorderman and Lucy Alexander.\n\nJames Wong, one of her co-hosts on the Chelsea Flower Show, recalled Chapman's generosity when he was a novice on live TV, and how she gave up a day to help him prepare.\n\n\"Would you guys send me some big love her way as she recovers from her op?\" he tweeted. \"What a lady!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChapman said she was \"devastated\" not to be able to work on this year's Chelsea Flower Show - which she has co-hosted for 13 years - but was following doctor's orders.\n\n\"You have to give yourself the best possible chance to heal,\" she said. \"You don't get a second chance to recover.\"\n\nThe RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from 21-25 May.", "McGrath has worked on fashion runways as well as for editorial shoots, and now has her own product range\n\nMulti-millionaire make-up artist Pat McGrath says she used to use cocoa powder on her face because of the lack of beauty products for black skin.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the self-taught beauty expert said she learnt from her mother that if \"you can't buy it, make it\".\n\nMcGrath has worked with fashion designers including Alexander McQueen and Givenchy.\n\nShe added it was \"fantastic\" to see the fashion industry becoming more diverse.\n\nMcGrath, from Northampton, told presenter Lauren Laverne that growing up she used to borrow her mother's skincare products and lipsticks - which she used to experiment with.\n\n\"She even used cocoa powder, she came in from the kitchen with cocoa powder all over her face, and she was like, 'This is the right tone of powder.'\n\n\"And she had dusted it on her face and she looked amazing.\n\n\"So that's what I ended up doing as well, was making products that I needed backstage.\n\n\"That stems from my mother, if you can't find it, you can't buy it, make it.\"\n\nShe recalled making her own moisturiser for her dolls and herself, adding: \"I mixed oil and water together, whipped it and put it in the fridge and it looked like a cream... I was shining like a Belisha beacon for months.\"\n\nMcGrath working at a Christian Dior show at Paris Fashion Week in 2008\n\nMcGrath - who worked as a runway make-up artist as well as for magazine shoots and covers - said she was \"so happy\" to see the changes in the fashion industry.\n\n\"We have models from all different social backgrounds, different weight, body types, different religious backgrounds, shows that are over 50% women of colour and it just wasn't there for such a long time. And now, it's just so fantastic to see. Beautiful.\"\n\nShe was also asked about whether she experienced much racism growing up in the 1970s, but said she had a \"solid base\" around her, adding: \"I was very lucky, having the mother I had, who was like, 'Oh look at that person, they're racist, poor things, let's go shopping.'\"", "Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry, said the allegations \"are a lie\"\n\nLabour MP Geoffrey Robinson has denied claims that he was a Cold War spy who passed confidential government files to communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the allegations are contained in files archived by the current Czech government.\n\nThey centre on information about Britain's nuclear deterrent, including its Polaris missile programme, and details about Nato.\n\nMr Robinson said the allegations are a \"complete fabrication\".\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Robinson told the BBC in a statement: \"The allegations allegedly made by the Czech authorities are a lie.\n\n\"At no time did Mr Robinson ever pass confidential government documents or information to any foreign agent and he did not have access to such material.\"\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the claims are contained in 390 pages of files compiled by the StB security service in Cold War Czechoslovakia and now administered by the Czech Republic's state security archives.\n\nThe files allege scores of meetings with a Czech \"handler\" between 1966 and 1969.\n\nThe BBC has not independently verified the claims.\n\nIn a further statement given to the BBC, Mr Robinson's spokesperson said: \"The Mail on Sunday have sent Mr Robinson a one page document written by the Czech authorities but every key fact in this document about Mr Robinson is wrong.\n\n\"It is wrong about his then job (he was never secretary to Mr Denis Healey) and about his date of birth - and when it refers to the activities of Mr Robinson the document itself states 'these moments were neither proven nor clarified'.\"\n\nLast year in a separate development, the Labour Party denied claims that Jeremy Corbyn had either been a collaborator or an agent of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.\n\nThe party said the claims had come from a single source and were \"absurd and hallucinogenic\".\n\nMr Robinson, a former chairman of Jaguar Cars, was paymaster general in the late 1990s\n\nMr Robinson has been the MP for Coventry North West since 1976, and was paymaster general in 1997-1998 when Tony Blair was prime minister. He is also ex-chairman of Jaguar and Coventry City FC.\n\nCommunist rule lasted in Czechoslovakia from 1948 until the \"Velvet Revolution\" in 1989.\n\nLess than four years later, the \"Velvet Divorce\" saw the country divide into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.", "The vandals ransacked the hall, smashing years of work\n\nThousands of pounds worth of model railway exhibits have been destroyed in an act of \"total wanton destruction\".\n\nMarket Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work in the raid at Welland Academy in Stamford on Saturday.\n\nIts chairman Peter Davies, 70, said exhibits were smashed, thrown around and stamped on, including a locomotive unit worth about £8,500.\n\nFour youths have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage.\n\nA funding page set up to raise £500 for the club has made more than £32,000 in a matter of hours.\n\nOne contributor, Barry Cave, posted on the page: \"Horrendous act of vandalism, hope my donation helps a little.\"\n\nClub members had worked on their projects for many years - but found this damage\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe club had set up the exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday.\n\nMr Davies, who trained as a teacher and youth worker, said he was in \"total confusion\" over the vandalism.\n\n\"Models that were made over years were trodden on and thrown around. It's a total wanton destruction of the highest order.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like it. A hurricane would have done less damage.\"\n\nThe club had set up an exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday\n\nMr Davies said club members were \"devastated and distraught\".\n\n\"Can you imagine your life's work wrecked?\" he said.\n\n\"One guy spent 25 years on his work and it's wrecked, it's just horrendous.\n\n\"We will never have the time to build the sort of layouts again, that's where the anger comes from.\"\n\nHe said the club had received support from \"all over the world - as far away as New Zealand\".\n\nHe added: \"We will rise from this, no question, we will be bigger and better. But we'll never get the years back it took to build those exhibits.\"\n\nThe vandals did \"more damage than a hurricane\"\n\nThe models and buildings were stamped on and thrown around the hall during the attack\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"On arrival at the school we arrested four youths, who were on the premises, for burglary and criminal damage.\n\n\"We are continuing our investigation and confirm damage was done to model railway exhibits which had been set up in the school for a display today [Sunday].\"\n\nThe youths were released on Saturday evening on conditional bail pending further inquiries.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bodies were buried near where they were discovered\n\nKenya's authorities say the bodies of two babies, thought to be twins, have been found during a clean-up of a river in the capital, Nairobi.\n\nThis is the eighth such discovery in recent months.\n\nOfficials believe the bodies are being dumped in the city's rivers as a result of abortions, which are illegal in most cases in Kenya.\n\nNairobi Governor Mike Sonko has called for an investigation into what he called a \"worrying trend\".\n\nSeveral workers were cleaning up the badly polluted Nairobi River that flows through Korogocho, one of the city's biggest slums, when they made the grim discovery.\n\nThey found the babies' bodies in a plastic bag. One was still breathing but could not be saved.\n\nThe babies were buried near where they were discovered after the police said the parents could not be identified, governor's spokesperson Elkana Jacob told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.\n\nGovernor Sonko believes that hospitals and clinics are dumping the bodies after performing abortions.\n\nHe has given his officials a week to investigate the issue.\n\nAs well as eight babies, four dead adults have also been found during the exercise to clean up the city's rivers.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nVincent Kompany says joining Anderlecht as player-manager is the \"most passionate yet rational\" decision he has made after announcing he has left Manchester City.\n\nThe 33-year-old has signed a three-year deal with the Belgian club after 11 years at Etihad Stadium, eight of which he spent as club captain.\n\nSaturday's 6-0 FA Cup final win over Watford was Kompany's final game for City, after winning four Premier League titles, two FA Cups and four League Cups.\n\nIn an open letter on Facebook, Belgium defender Kompany said leaving City \"doesn't feel real\".\n\nHe defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart\n\n\"Countless of times have I imagined this day,\" he said. \"After all, the end has felt nearby for so many years.\n\n\"Man City has given me everything. I've tried to give back as much as I possibly could.\"\n\nIn a second letter released hours later, Kompany announced his move to Anderlecht, who said his arrival marked the \"return of the prince\".\n\n\"I want to share my knowledge with the next purple generations,\" said Kompany, who first joined Anderlecht at the age of six.\n\n\"With that, I will also put a bit of Manchester in the heart of Belgium.\"\n\n'The time has come to go'\n\nCentre-back Kompany joined City from Hamburg as a defensive midfielder in 2008 and was named club captain three years later.\n\nHe scored his final goal against Leicester on 6 May, a brilliant strike from 25 yards that was voted goal of the season on BBC Match of the Day.\n\nThat victory took City to within one win of the Premier League title, which they sealed on the final day of the season with victory at Brighton.\n• None 'Kompany enhances his legend with wonder goal'\n\n\"The time has come for me to go now,\" Kompany said.\n\n\"As overwhelming as it is, I feel nothing but gratefulness. I am grateful to all those who supported me on a special journey, at a very special club.\n\n\"I remember the first day, as clear as I see the last. I remember the boundless kindness I received from the people of Manchester.\n\n\"I will never forget how all Man City supporters remained loyal to me in good times and especially bad times. Against the odds, you have always backed me and inspired me to never give up.\"\n\nCity chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said: \"There have been many important contributors to Manchester City's renaissance, but arguably none are more important than Vincent Kompany.\n\n\"He defines the essence of the club. For a decade he has been the lifeblood, the soul, and beating heart of a supremely talented squad.\n\n\"A booming voice in the dressing room yet a quiet and measured ambassador off it, Vincent can be as proud of himself as we are of him.\"\n\nAfter the 1-0 win over Leicester - City's final home game of the season - Kompany was in tears as the team enjoyed a lap of honour.\n\nBy beating Watford 6-0 at Wembley, City became the first men's side to complete the domestic treble in England.\n\nIn September, the club will hold Kompany's testimonial match, from which he will donate all profits to Manchester's homeless.\n\nHe said: \"Sheikh Mansour changed my life and that of all the City fans around the world, for that I am forever grateful. A blue nation has arisen and challenged the established order of things, I find that awesome.\n\n\"I cherish the counsel and leadership of a good human being, Khaldoon Al Mubarak. Man City could not be in better hands.\"\n\nAl Mubarak said: \"He will always be part of the City family.\n\n\"I am not sure he expected to lift the Premier League trophy on four occasions during his captaincy but he will be remembered and revered whenever this period of unprecedented City success is spoken about by future generations.\n\n\"His leadership, intelligence and determination have seen him adapt brilliantly to playing under four different managers and overcome some debilitating injuries.\n\n\"He is a special character who has answered every demand the club has made of him.\"\n\nSince Kompany's first season with the club, City have won more domestic trophies (10) than any other English side Only David Silva (282) and Joe Hart (266) have made more Premier League games for City than Kompany (265) Kompany has played more Premier League games than any other Belgian player in the league's history Among defenders, only former Chelsea captain John Terry has kept more Premier League clean sheets (101) than Kompany (94) since his debut\n\n'I stopped at Anderlecht just to say hello'\n\nKompany scored five goals in 73 games for Anderlecht from 2003 to 2006.\n\nThe club are the most successful team in Belgian history but are currently sixth in the Belgian First Division A. They have won 34 league titles, the most recent in 2016-17.\n\n\"I stopped at their training grounds on my way to international duty last year. Just to say hello,\" Kompany said.\n\n\"[Marc] Coucke, the chairman, and sports director Michael Verschueren asked my opinion regarding the difficult situation the club was in.\n\n\"I shared my thoughts and listened to their vision for the future: ambitious, courageous and determined to get back to number one.\"\n\nKompany offered his help with \"no strings attached\", and said it was \"unexpected\" when they offered him the position of player-manager \"not so long ago\".\n\n\"I was left not only impressed, but also intrigued by this sign of confidence in me,\" he said.\n\nInjuries have taken their toll on Kompany in recent years, and he featured in only 17 of City's 38 league games this season because of muscle injuries.\n\nHowever, he will be remembered for his influence and contribution on the pitch, where he led City to a first top-flight title since 1968 in 2012.\n\nAlong with Sergio Aguero and David Silva, Kompany is one of only three survivors from that triumph, and they repeated the achievement in 2014 and 2018.\n\nCity retained their title this month, finishing one point ahead of Liverpool after one of the most thrilling seasons in Premier League history.\n\n\"How often does someone get the chance to end such an important chapter, representing a club with such great history and tradition, in such a great fashion?\" Kompany said.\n\n'We will miss you captain' - reaction\n\nManchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne: Playing for about 10 years with this man for club and country. And what a privilege it's been. Big player, big personality and big leader. Learned a lot from you. Wishing you all the best for the future.\n\nCity midfielder Phil Foden: Looked after me from day one. Led by example, showed everyone what it means to be a leader, wear their heart on the sleeve, and give everything for this club. We will miss you captain.\n\nCity defender Kyle Walker: From skip to gaffer, the man has it all!! Since I walked through the door Vinny has been amazing to me. He helped me settle in and I've learned a lot from the big man. Good luck with everything skip, you'll be missed\n\nCity centre-back Aymeric Laporte: Thank you for this years close to you. Thank you for all the moments, all the words to me and to be the best leader which need this big family. You are a legend and we wish you the best in your next stage\n\nCity midfielder Bernardo Silva: THANK YOU CAPTAIN! What a pleasure to share the dressing room and learn from you over the last two seasons. We'll miss you\n\nFormer City midfielder Yaya Toure: My brother Vinny!! It was an honour to share the pitch with you at City! Memories I will cherish. Trophies! Titles!! Making a plan a reality! You are a special man!! A leader. My friend.\n\nFormer City striker Paul Dickov: City loves you more than you will know.\n\nEx-England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker: Good luck to you, Vincent Kompany with your new challenge. One of the greatest players, leaders and role models to have played on the green carpets of this country. And what a way to bow out from Man City.\n\nEx-England and Manchester United defender Gary Neville: I didn't expect that. There are some players you wish played for your club. Vincent Kompany was one of them. A great centre-back whose influence on and off the pitch was huge.\n\nFormer England and Newcastle captain Alan Shearer: What a captain and player.\n\nEx-England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher: One of the best centre-backs the Premier League has ever seen & one of Man City's greatest ever players!\n\nFormer Oasis frontman and City fan Liam Gallagher: Thankyou Vincent Kompany for everything good luck see ya soon.", "Ms Toscan du Plantier's son Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud (l) and her brother Bertrand Bouniol in Cork this weekend\n\nThe son of a murdered French film producer has appealed for witnesses to come forward and give evidence in the trial of a British man accused of killing her.\n\nSophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death near her cottage in Schull, County Cork, in December 1996.\n\nIan Bailey, a neighbour of the victim, was arrested in Ireland over her killing but was never charged.\n\nIn 2016, a magistrate in France decided he should stand trial there.\n\nThat trial is due to begin in Paris on 27 May. There will be no jury because the trial will be taking place in Mr Bailey's absence.\n\nMr Bailey, a journalist who is originally from Manchester, has consistently denied involvement in the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier.\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Bailey, pictured above, dismissed the proceedings as a show trial\n\nOn Sunday, Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud attended a memorial Mass near his mother's holiday home in west Cork.\n\nHe appealed to anyone who had received requests from the magistrates in France to come forward.\n\nAsked what the upcoming trial meant to him and his family, he said he simply wanted justice to be done and that the trial was necessary.\n\nIn a statement addressing the Cork community, Mr Baudey-Vignaud said: \"In France, in two week's time, our history is at stake.\n\n\"It's the story of my mother's death and the story of a woman who needed you so much to recharge her batteries.\n\n\"I still come back here every year because it is the only way for me to defy this violence and destroy it.\n\n\"For 20 years, I've trusted you. Don't betray me. Don't betray yourself.\"\n\nA lawyer representing Mr Bailey has dismissed the proceedings as a show trial and claims they are invalid.\n\nFrank Buttimer said Mr Bailey would not be presenting himself for trial in Paris and would not be mounting a defence. Neither will he be legally represented.\n\nEvidence will be presented to three professional judges and the family's legal representative will be entitled to question witnesses.\n\nSophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death near her cottage County Cork in 1996\n\nMr Buttimer, who has represented Mr Bailey for most of the past 23 years since the murder, said Mr Bailey was being \"subjected to a living nightmare, from which he cannot escape\".\n\n\"He has been entirely exonerated in this country,\" he said.\n\n\"The Director of Public Prosecutions has long since decided that there is no evidence upon which he can be put on trial.\n\n\"The French have decided that the exact same evidence is sufficient to put him on trial.\"", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Heinz-Christian Strache has resigned as Austria's vice-chancellor a day after secret video footage mired him in a corruption scandal.\n\nHe said he resigned to avoid further damage to the government", "Baroness Grey-Thompson has said her parents would \"probably have terminated the pregnancy\" if they had known about her disability.\n\nHer comments follow the UK's first operation, at King's College Hospital, to repair a baby's spine in the womb.\n\nThe Cardiff-born Paralympian, who has spina bifida, said terminating a disabled baby is a \"complicated issue\".\n\nSpeaking to Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales, she said she believes in a woman's and family's \"right to choose\".\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said: \"When I was born there weren't the diagnostics for spina bifida.\n\n\"My mum had a really open conversation with me even when I was quite young, and she said they probably would have terminated the pregnancy if they'd known.\"\n\nSpina bifida is when a baby's spine and spinal cord don't develop properly in the womb, causing a gap in the spine.\n\nIt's not known what causes the condition, but a lack of folic acid before and in the early stages of pregnancy is a significant risk factor.\n\nThere are several different types, the most common of which is spina bifida occulta.\n\nIn most cases of spina bifida, surgery can be used to close the opening in the spine.\n\nBut the nervous system will usually already have been damaged, which can lead to problems including weakness or total paralysis of the legs.\n\nWith the right treatment and support, many children with spina bifida survive well into adulthood.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson added that people were \"shocked\" by this but she values her parents' honesty.\n\nBut she said that operations like the one carried out to repair the spine of Sherrie Sharp's son Jaxson might not mean everything is \"done and dusted\", as people can become disabled later in life.\n\nSurgeons at King's College Hospital operated on Jaxson while he was still in the womb after a diagnosis at the 20-week stage of his mother's pregnancy\n\nShe said: \"Early termination, the diagnostics, it means that people are choosing to terminate children who are disabled, so it ends up being a really complicated issue.\n\n\"The reality is pregnancies are being terminated far more than before and disability is seen as a negative thing.\"\n\nShe added: \"The whole spectrum of spina bifida, let alone any other impairment, is huge so I think you have to respect the family's right to make that choice.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released new photos from their wedding to mark their first anniversary.\n\nHarry and Meghan posted a compilation of 14 images, including some unseen pictures, on Instagram.\n\nThe photo montage is accompanied by the song This Little Light Of Mine, which played as they left St George's Chapel, Windsor, on their wedding day.\n\nIn the post, the couple thanked their followers for \"all of the love and support from so many\".\n\nThey added: \"Each of you made this day even more meaningful.\"\n\nMeghan is pictured in an unguarded moment with her mother Doria Ragland\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe pictures include a number of black and white images taken by photographers Chris Allerton and Joe Short, including one in which Meghan is holding hands with her mother Doria Ragland.\n\nA picture of the couple sharing a kiss on the steps as they left St George's Chapel - taken by Press Association photographer Danny Lawson - is also among the images shared.\n\nIn one black and white shot, Prince Harry appears to be thumbing a lift while another snap seems to have captured him in a pensive moment.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex wore a white boat-neck dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller for French fashion house Givenchy on the day.\n\nShe was walked down the aisle by Prince Charles after her father was unable to attend for health reasons.\n\nThe birth of Harry and Meghan's son came less than a year after the royal nuptials in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a wedding attended by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams and Priyanka Chopra.\n\nThe Sussexes have used their Instagram account to share images of private moments in their first year of marriage, including pictures of their baby son Archie's feet.\n\nThe birth of the couple's baby earlier this month was also announced on Instagram.\n\nShortly after a photocall to introduce Archie to the public, Harry and Meghan shared a more personal image on social media, showing the Queen and Prince Philip meeting their newest great-grandchild.\n\nThe moment was once again captured by photographer Chris Allerton.", "Sir Vince Cable says that his party believes in stopping Brexit in a \"proper and democratic way\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Liberal Democrats leader said that it would be \"unsatisfactory\" for parliament to simply revoke Article 50.", "Schwarzenegger urged fans to focus on the athletes at the event instead of the attack\n\nHollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will not press charges after being attacked at an event in South Africa.\n\nThe 71-year-old was talking to fans at his Arnold Classic Africa sporting event on Saturday when a man drop-kicked him from behind.\n\nThe attacker was restrained following the incident in Johannesburg.\n\nHowever on Sunday, Schwarzenegger said he would not be taking the case further, adding: \"I'm moving on\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe video footage, shared widely on social media, showed Schwarzenegger posing for photos and filming at the event when the man attacks him with a flying kick.\n\nThe Terminator star stumbles forward after the kick, while the attacker falls to the ground, where he is immediately restrained by a security guard.\n\nThe unnamed man was later handed over to police officers, event officials said.\n\nSchwarzenegger tweeted to his more than four million followers: \"I thought I was just jostled by the crowd, which happens a lot. I only realised I was kicked when I saw the video like all of you.\"\n\nIn response to tweets from his fans, he said on Sunday he would not be pressing charges against the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Arnold This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have 90 sports here in South Africa at the @ArnoldSports, and 24,000 athletes of all ages and abilities inspiring all of us to get off the couch. Let's put this spotlight on them,\" he wrote in a separate message.\n\nThe Arnold Classic Africa event takes place every May and features a range of events including bodybuilding and combat sports.", "Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries in various state guises, until the fall of its Habsburg dynasty after World War One.\n\nBut its position at the geographical heart of Europe, and its neutral status during the Cold War between Nato and the Soviet bloc, maintained the much-reduced country's strategic significance.\n\nAustria is now a member of the European Union, though not Nato, and an enduring legacy of its decades of post-war neutrality can be seen in the large number of international organisations that call its capital Vienna their home.\n\nThese include the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria, although the Social Democrats led by Bruno Kreisky ruled alone in the 1970s.\n\nMore recently, the centre-right People's Party ruled in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, but this coalition collapsed in May 2019 after a scandal involving the leader of the Freedom Party.\n\nAlexander Van der Bellen was first elected as president in the December 2016 re-run of a highly polarised election earlier that year, defeating Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party.\n\nVan der Bellen - a Green Party politician running as an independent - had won a extremely narrow victory in the initial run-off vote against Hofer in May, but the result was annulled because of vote-counting irregularities.\n\nIn October 2022, Van der Bellen was re-elected president, taking 57% of the vote in the first round. Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz came second with 18% of the votes, far short of what Hofer received in 2016.\n\nInterior Minister Nehammer took over on as chancellor and leader of the conservative People's Party in December 2021, following months of turmoil after the resignation of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.\n\nMr Kurz's departure was a condition for the Green Party to remain in the governing coalition, pending a corruption investigation. Foreign Minister Alexander von Schallenberg was chancellor in the interim, but resigned to make way for Mr Nehammer when the later assumed the post of People's Party leader in December.\n\nAustria's public broadcaster, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has long-dominated the airwaves. It faces competition from private TV and radio broadcasters.\n\nCable or satellite TV is available in most Austrian homes and is often used to watch German stations, some of which tailor their output for local viewers.\n\nA daily newspaper is a must for many Austrians. National and regional titles contest fiercely for readers.\n\nFor much of the post-war period, so-called \"grand coalition\" governments of left and right wing parties have ruled Austria\n\n1278 - The Habsburg Rudolf I of Germany acquires the duchies of Austria and Styria after defeating his rival, King Ottokar II of Bohemia, at the Battle on the Marchfeld.\n\n14th and 15th Centuries - Habsburgs acquire other provinces neighbouring the Duchy of Austria.\n\n1526 - After the Battle of Mohács, Bohemia and the part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans comesunder Austrian rule.\n\n16th and 17th Centuries - Ottoman expansion into Hungary sees frequent conflicts between the two empires.\n\n1529 - Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launches the first siege of Vienna. The besieging Turkish army retreats amid the snowfalls of an early winter.\n\n1683 - Second siege of Vienna. The city is freed after two months when the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under King John III Sobieski decisively defeat the Turkish army.\n\n1699 - The Treaty of Karlowitz, which ends the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) results in most of Hungary coming under Austrian control.\n\n1713 - The Pragmatic Sanction. Edict issued by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI to ensure the Habsburg lands - the archduchy of Austria, kingdom of Hungary, kingdom of Croatia, kingdom of Bohemia, duchy of Milan, kingdom of Naples, kingdom of Sardinia and Austrian Netherlands - could be inherited undivided by his daughter, Maria Theresa.\n\n1792-1815 - Austria engages in war with revolutionary and them Napoleonic France.\n\n1804 - The Empire of Austria is proclaimed, replacing the Holy Roman Empire which is dissolved two years later.\n\n1815 - Austria emerges from the Congress of Vienna as one of Europe's great powers.\n\n1848-49 - Hungarian revolution. This is eventually defeated with the aid of Russian forces, but leads to a constitutional government being founded in Hungary, which is now in a personal union with the Austrian emperor.\n\n1867 - The defeat leads to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishing the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states.\n\nIn the latter half of the 19th Century, ruling Austria-Hungary becomes increasingly difficult in an age of emerging nationalist movements in Europe.\n\n1908 - Following the Young Turk revolution in Turkey, Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, nominally part of the Ottoman Empire. The move provokes strong resentment in Serbian pan-Slav circles.\n\n1914 - The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip triggers the outbreak of World War One.\n\n1914-18 - Over one million Austro-Hungarian soldiers die in the war, which leads to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of Hapsburg rule.\n\n1933 - End of the republic, Chancellor Dollfuss suspends parliament and sets up autocratic regime\n\n1934 - Government crushes Socialist uprising, backed by the army. All political parties abolished except the Fatherland Front.\n\nImprisonment of Nazi conspirators leads to attempted Nazi coup. Dollfuss assassinated, succeeded by Kurt von Schuschnigg.\n\n1938 - The Anschluss (union): Austria incorporated into Germany by Hitler. Austria now called the Ostmark (Eastern March).\n\n1945 - Soviet troops liberate Vienna. Austria occupied and partitioned into four occupation zones by Soviet, British, US and French forces. Vienna is also divided between the four occupying powers.\n\n1955 - Treaty signed by Britain, France, US and Soviet Union establishes an independent but neutral Austria - a convenient buffer between the West and the Soviet bloc. The four powers withdraw their troops. Austria joins the United Nations.\n\n1986 - Ex-UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim elected president, despite controversy over his role in the German army in World War Two.\n\n1999 - Far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider wins 27% of vote in national elections.\n\n2000 - International outcry as People's Party forms coalition government with Freedom Party. EU imposes diplomatic sanctions before ending it seven months later on grounds it is counter-productive.\n\n2011 - Otto von Habsburg - the last crown prince of Austria - is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna amid much of the pomp associated with the days of the empire.\n\n2013 - Austrians vote to keep compulsory military service in a referendum.\n\n2017 - Government agrees to ban Islamic full-face veils in courts, schools and other public spaces.\n\nMozart's home town of Salzburg. Austria is seen by many as the birthplace of classical music\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How art treasures were hidden from Hitler\n\nAlmost 80 years ago Snowdonia prepared to keep a welcome in the hillside for some of the world's most treasured paintings.\n\nAcross Europe the advancing Nazis had already looted or destroyed millions of pounds worth of art.\n\nAs Allied troops fled Dunkirk, bombs fell on London and a German invasion seemed inevitable, attention turned to how to protect the National Gallery's collection.\n\nSince the beginning of World War Two, the paintings had been stored in various temporary Welsh locations but they were not entirely suitable for long-term use.\n\nIn 1940, Winston Churchill famously said of the nation's art treasures: \"Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island.\"\n\nA huge painting of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne is brought out for inspection at Manod Quarry in 1942\n\nExperts scoured the UK for a hiding place - until they found Manod Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.\n\nManod Mountain had been a working quarry for over a century.\n\nIts excavations created a cavernous space at the heart of the mountain, and covered with hundreds of feet of slate and granite it was virtually impregnable to bombing.\n\nAlso, its very remoteness made it easier to keep the mission top secret.\n\nStoring the art in the quarry during World War Two improved the National Gallery's understanding of preserving art\n\nSuzanne Bosman, the National Gallery's senior picture researcher and author of The National Gallery in Wartime, explains that moving almost 2,000 works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Turner and Constable proved to be quite an undertaking.\n\n\"Cold, damp quarries aren't really good places for priceless works of art, so before they were moved in, six air-tight climate controlled brick huts were built inside the mountain,\" she explained.\n\n\"In fact the conditions in which they were stored at Manod were considerably better than those in which they were exhibited at the National Gallery before the war, and the evacuation taught staff a lot about preservation, even after the war.\"\n\nThe largest paintings were packed in specially designed \"elephant cases\" and transported by road.\n\nThe smaller paintings were transported in Post Office vans and Cadbury delivery trucks in order to avoid attracting attention.\n\nVan Dyck's \"monster\" Equestrian Portrait of Charles I, measuring 12ft by 9.5ft, posed a particular challenge\n\nFrom there, they were loaded on to a purpose-built narrow gauge railway which carried them through an airlock in sealed wagons right up to the doors of the huts, only unloaded once they were inside in the strictly-controlled air-conditioned space.\n\nHowever, Ms Bosman said it did not always run that smoothly.\n\n\"Van Dyck's Equestrian Portrait of Charles I is a monster, at 12ft by 9.5ft, and in its case, loaded on the back of the truck, it was considerably taller,\" she said.\n\n\"On the approach to the quarry there is a tight S-bend, just where the road passes under the arch of a railway bridge.\n\n\"I liken it to trying to get a sofa around a corner on the stairs; there was enough height, but only if you could hit precisely the right angle.\n\n\"In the end they had to dig up the road surface to lower it by a few inches, and to this day you can see how the kerb in that section is noticeably higher than on the rest of the road; it's a measure of just how important the evacuation was.\"\n\nEngineer JR Jones takes a reading of the humidity in a subterranean chamber at Manod Quarry\n\nThe government retained its lease on Manod until the 1950s, and it was to have performed the same role in the event of a third world war.\n\nHowever, the quarry and the huts within are in a poor state of repair and access is strictly controlled.\n\nMs Bosman became one of the few people who have been inside in a quarter of a century, when she joined writer and explorer Will Millard as part of his BBC Wales series, Hidden Wales.\n\nMr Millard described it as one of the most moving experiences of his professional life.\n\nBotticelli's 'Mother and Child' is brought out for inspection\n\n\"I was in absolute awe of what had been achieved there in just six months, it is truly a testament to the ingenuity and determination Britain showed during the War,\" he said.\n\n\"Inside you can still see the marks on the wall where the paintings hung, and the floor is littered with the hygrometers and thermometers which would have controlled every aspect of the conditions.\n\n\"It's such a shame that very few people will get to see it in the future. We've let a piece of our national heritage slip away.\"\n\nThis piece was inspired by a question from reader Doug Cormack who got in touch to ask how the National Gallery's collection came to be evacuated to Wales during the war, and whether the paintings would ever come back to Wales for a commemorative exhibition.\n\nA spokesman for the National Gallery said it currently has no plans beyond the shows advertised on their website, however they regularly loan art to other organisations, and consider all requests.\n\nIf you have any questions we can turn into stories, use this form to send them in:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nWe may get in touch if we decide to follow up on your suggestion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "International Development Secretary Rory Stewart says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "Campaigners and a film crew have appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival chanting \"solidarity\" and wearing green in protest against Argentina's abortion laws.\n\nThey were showcasing the documentary Que Sea Ley, which translates as \"Let It Be Law\" and follows the intense battle over a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.\n\nThe country's senate rejected the bill in August 2018, meaning abortion is still allowed in Argentina only in cases of rape, or if the mother's health is in danger.\n\nAt the time. there were large-scale protests on both sides of the debate, in the country where the population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic.", "Laws covering so-called revenge porn are not fit for purpose and police still need more training, experts say.\n\nVictims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, according to Sophie Mortimer from the Revenge Porn helpline.\n\nFigures from 19 forces in England and Wales revealed police investigations have doubled in the last four years but the number of charges has fallen.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council said forces take the crime \"very seriously\".\n\nRevenge porn - the sharing of private or sexual images or videos of a person without their consent - became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015.\n\nSimilar laws were later introduced in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nFigures from 19 of 43 police forces in England and Wales show the number of alleged cases being investigated by officers has more than doubled in the last four years - from 852 in 2015-16 to 1,853 in 2018-19.\n\nHowever, the figures also reveal that the number of charges dropped by 23% - from 207 to 158 - during the same period.\n\nRevenge porn is currently categorised as a \"communications crime\", meaning victims are not granted anonymity.\n\nIn the last year, more than a third of victims decided not to proceed with the case.\n\nSome say it is because they are not granted anonymity, while others cited a lack of police support.\n\nAlice Ruggles died after an ex-boyfriend broke into her home in Gateshead\n\nIn October 2016, Alice Ruggles, 24, was murdered by a former boyfriend who cut her throat after breaking into her home in Gateshead.\n\nAfter her death it emerged that her killer, Trimaan Dhillon, had threatened to share intimate images of her online as part of a campaign of stalking and harassment.\n\nAlice's mother, Dr Sue Hills, said threatening to share images should be made part of the law.\n\nShe said her daughter may have sought help sooner if Dhillon had not held the threat over her.\n\n\"It causes immensely serious psychological damage - it is a crime,\" she said.\n\nMs Mortimer, from the Revenge Porn helpline, backed her call.\n\nShe added: \"We'd also like to see it made a sexual offence because that would guarantee anonymity for victims.\"\n\nSophie Mortimer: 'Key that frontline services understand what the law means'\n\nShe also called for better training of police officers.\n\n\"It's all very well changing the law and making these things illegal, but if the frontline services don't understand what the law actually means then you've only done half the job.\"\n\nResearch by the University of Suffolk found 95% of police officers who took part in a survey in 2017 said they had not had any training on revenge porn legislation.\n\nA joint Ministry of Justice and Home Office statement said: \"When we engaged with victims and campaigners in designing the new law they accepted that the motive for this crime is almost always malicious, rather than sexual, which is why the law considers it a non-sexual offence.\n\n\"We launched and continue to support the Revenge Porn helpline, which helps victims to speak with the police and to social media companies about removing the content.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey from the National Police Chiefs' Council said forces \"pursue all lines of inquiry and prosecute people where appropriate\".\n\n\"The College of Policing has produced a briefing and training note, which all officers involved in these types of investigations can access.\"\n\nTo find out more listen to 5 Live Investigates on Sunday at 11:00 GMT or on BBC Sounds\n\nFor information and support, including sources of support for those affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse, visit the BBC's Action Line.", "Martin Sellner is a member of the Identitarian Movement Austria\n\nAustria's chancellor has described as \"disgusting\" revelations that a far-right activist linked to the New Zealand mosque attacks suspect put a swastika on a synagogue when he was 17.\n\nChancellor Sebastian Kurz said he would not tolerate \"neo-Nazi activities\".\n\nMartin Sellner of the Identitarian Movement Austria said the incident had been long ago and he had since changed.\n\nLast month investigators raided his home after he said he had been given money by the Christchurch suspect.\n\nBut Mr Sellner, 30, denied any involvement in the New Zealand attacks.\n\nFifty people died and dozens more wounded in the 15 March shootings. Australian Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged over the attacks.\n\nChancellor Kurz has vowed to \"fight all forms of extremism\"\n\nMr Kurz - who campaigned on a harsh anti-immigrant message and is governing in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party - said that as chancellor it was his duty to \"fight all forms of extremism to preserve free and liberal law-based state\".\n\nIt follows a report in Austria's Kleine Zeitung that Mr Sellner had admitted to police in 2006 that he and a companion stuck a swastika poster on a synagogue in the town of Baden bei Wien, to the south-west of the capital Vienna.\n\nThe newspaper quoted Mr Sellner's companion as saying the pair had decided to carry out the act after British Holocaust denier David Irving was arrested in Austria in 2005 and jailed. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in Austria.\n\nMartin Sellner (centre) on a torch-lit march near Vienna in September 2017\n\nMr Sellner had also provided a badge saying \"aryan youth\" and an anti-Turkish poster, his companion said at the time.\n\nMr Sellner appeared regretful and was told to carry out 100 hours of community service in a Jewish cemetery, the newspaper report said.\n\nResponding to the report on Twitter, Mr Sellner said it was no secret that he had been active in the neo-Nazi scene when he was younger but had \"left that behind a long time ago\". He had never taken part in acts of violence, he added.\n\nMr Sellner has become one of the most prominent young activists of the far right in Europe.\n\nAustrian media say the far-right Freedom Party has come under pressure to distance itself from the Identitarian Movement Austria (IBÖ) following the revelations that Brenton Tarrant donated about €1,500 (£1,290; $1,700) to the IBÖ.\n\nIn March last year Mr Sellner and his girlfriend Brittany Pettibone - an alt-right vlogger and conspiracy theorist - were refused entry to the UK.\n\nThe authorities said their presence in the UK would not have been \"conducive to the public good\".", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nBilly Monger has claimed his first victory since having both his legs amputated after a crash two years ago.\n\nMonger, who is competing in Euroformula Open races, won the Pau Grand Prix.\n\n\"Can't believe it, I didn't think two years on I'd be winning races,\" said the 20-year-old Briton.\n\nThe Carlin driver - in a specially adapted car - dropped to last after switching to wet-weather tyres, a strategy which paid off as he surged past other drivers in France.\n\nWhen Motopark duo Julian Hanses and Liam Lawson collided and took each other out, Monger - who had qualified 11th - inherited the lead and held on for victory.\n• None 'I lost my legs but not my daredevil spirit'\n\nHe was seriously injured during a Formula 4 race at Donington Park in April 2017 but returned to racing less than a year after the accident at the British Formula 3 Championship.\n\nMonger and his family had successfully appealed to the sport's international governing body, the FIA, to change its regulations restricting disabled drivers.\n\n'Billy Whizz' became the first disabled driver to race a single-seater car and claimed his maiden British F3 pole position on his return to Donington Park in September 2018.\n\nHe finished sixth overall in the 2018 British F3 Championship, taking two pole positions and three podiums.\n\nMonger's remarkable fortitude saw him recognised with the Helen Rollason Award for courage in the face of adversity at the BBC Sports Personality show in December.\n\nBackstage, the lifetime achievement award winner Billie-Jean King - a tennis icon and equality campaigner - sought out the young racing driver and asked him for a selfie.\n\n\"I'm in awe of his tenacity. It was an honour to meet him,\" she said.", "Bringing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament is the last roll of the dice for the prime minister\n\nLabour has finally pulled the plug on the Brexit talks with the government, at the end of a week in which they appeared to be on life support.\n\nSo is it, as some suggest, time to read the last rites on Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement Bill?\n\nLet's be clear - it will be challenging, to say the least, for the legislation to get through the Commons.\n\nBut reports of its demise may well have been exaggerated. It may not go down to immediate defeat. And this is why.\n\nA leaked memo from the government side, not agreed by Labour or the cabinet, contained a wheeze that could have been attractive to both leaderships.\n\nEven before the Withdrawal Agreement Bill makes its appearance, the memo suggested there could be a \"free vote\" in Parliament on another referendum.\n\nThis is rather different from what the shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, was suggesting - that there ought to be a \"confirmatory\" vote, as part of a package, on any agreed deal.\n\nThe leaders of both the main parties aren't keen on another public vote, to say the least. So a stand-alone Commons vote on the issue, divorced from the deal, would be more likely to go down to defeat - as it has on previous occasions.\n\nJeremy Corbyn could say to People's Vote supporters in his ranks: \"Oh, I did try for a referendum, but oops, it didn't work - so now let's just leave with the best possible deal.\"\n\nBut it would seem that this approach has been scuppered by Labour's wider negotiating team and, presumably, by the cabinet. I have had a strong steer that this proposal in the leaked government memo won't go ahead in this form.\n\nBut this might not be the setback it seems for the prime minister because supporters of another referendum may have no option but to vote initially for her bill.\n\nThere will be a vote at what's called, in parliamentary speak, second reading in the first week in June. If the prime minister is defeated at this point, it's basically the end of the road for her deal and her premiership.\n\nTheresa May's immediate fate could be in the hands of Labour MPs\n\nBut if MPs vote for the bill at second reading, they then get an opportunity to change it - and that would include an amendment on another referendum.\n\nSo it's not impossible that some people who hate Theresa May's deal give it their temporary backing so they can discuss improving it, or putting it to a public vote.\n\nTalks with Labour are over - but efforts to win over individual Labour MPs are not. Note the wording of Downing Street's statement that \"complete agreement\" hasn't been reached.\n\nSo expect to see some incentives in - or around - the Brexit bill for opposition MPs to back the government. For example, a commitment to stay in step with the EU on workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nAllies of Sir Keir have blamed the breakdown of the talks on the PM's inability to get a customs union compromise past her cabinet.\n\nBut if she keeps Conservative MPs on board in the legislation by eschewing a customs union but delivers a \"comprehensive\" (trust me, this word is important to some Labour MPs) temporary arrangement to last until the next election, some soft opposition to her deal may crumble.\n\nThen there is the argument put forward by the former Conservative minister Nick Boles, echoed off the record by some in Downing Street.\n\nIf the prime minister's bill gets shot down in flames there is no other readily available vehicle to prevent the default option of no deal. Indeed, No 10 insiders expect to see \"vociferous\" arguments for no deal if Theresa May's legislation falls.\n\nSome unions, such as the GMB and Unison, favour another referendum. But the leadership of Unite, which is closest to Mr Corbyn, essentially favours leaving with a deal - and Labour MPs will be made well aware of this.\n\nSo even if Labour formally opposes the bill at second reading, there could be a sizeable rebellion from those former Remainers representing Leave areas - safe in the knowledge that they wouldn't exactly be upsetting some powerful forces in the party.\n\nAnd the MPs who support what's called Common Market 2.0 could be crucial to the outcome. These are, broadly speaking, Labour MPs who are neither Corbynistas nor in favour of another referendum - such as Lucy Powell and Stephen Kinnock - and they are very keen to avoid no deal.\n\nHowever, if the Labour whip is to oppose, expect it to be rigorously enforced irrespective of the views of the party leader's office. So Mrs May's immediate fate may still be in the hands of opposition MPs\n\nThe forthcoming leadership contest may firm up opposition to Theresa May's bill on the Conservative benches\n\nBy putting the Withdrawal Agreement Bill out of its misery almost as soon as it appears, the prime minister's critics know she will vacate office sooner rather than later.\n\nBut some candidates will be keener for her to get Brexit over the line, even with a less than optimal deal, so they don't immediately get bogged down with difficult votes. It would also allow them to make their pitch based on the future relationship with the EU.\n\nSo could some of their supporters - irrespective of their public criticism of the deal - quietly vote to get it over the line?\n\nSet against all this, there is plenty of analysis in the public domain which will tell you how impossible it is for a deal to go through.\n\nBut right now, No 10 might well see \"highly improbable\" as grounds for optimism. Hope dies last, does it not?", "Winners included My Dad Wrote A Porno, George The Poet and You Me and the Big C whose co-presenter, Rachael Bland, is pictured\n\nSpoken word performer George The Poet and the BBC's Brexitcast were among the winners at the British Podcast Awards.\n\nThe awards - which were launched in 2017 - also honoured BBC Radio 5 Live's You, Me and the Big C, a podcast about cancer whose co-presenter Rachael Bland died last year.\n\nHer husband, Steve Bland, collected the award along with the podcast's co-hosts who said: \"This one's for Rachael.\"\n\nThe main prize at the podcast awards, the Audioboom Podcast Of The Year, was scooped by George the Poet, for Have You Heard George's Podcast? - a series discussing topics such as the Grenfell Tower fire, poverty and music.\n\nHe also won four other awards including Best Arts and Culture and Smartest Podcast.\n\nGeorge the Poet is also known for singles like Follow the Leader, which he made with Maverick Sabre\n\nSpeaking afterwards, the London-born rapper and poet - whose real name is George Mpanga - said he first set up the podcast because he \"wanted to give young people a way to rethink their situation, especially if they're in the inner city like I was\".\n\nThe BBC's Brexitcast, featuring political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Europe editor Katya Adler and co-hosts Chris Mason and Adam Fleming, won the Listeners' Choice award.\n\nAccepting the award, Fleming joked: \"I've got no phone signal down here, has Brexit happened while we've been in here?\"\n\nMy Dad Wrote A Porno, hosted by Jamie Morton, James Cooper and Radio 1's Alice Levine, won the Podcast Champion award, presented by Welsh actor Michael Sheen.\n\n\"It started with an unpublished ebook written by Jamie's dad and handed to his son without telling him that the content was a little risque,\" said Sheen, to the audience in London's Kings Place on Saturday night.\n\n\"And when later, Jamie showed it to friends Alice and Jamie in the pub, podcasting was about to change forever.\"\n\nHe said the show - which has sparked multiple sold-out tours and three series - \"has done more than any other British podcast to show off the exciting future of podcasting\".\n\nAn HBO comedy special based on My Dad Wrote A Porno aired this month\n\nYou, Me And The Big C was awarded Acast Moment of the Year.\n\nNewsreader and presenter Bland, who died aged 40 last September nearly two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, was a host on the podcast along with Deborah James and Lauren Mahon.\n\nFollowing her death, the BBC announced a podcast award in her honour, and the first ever winners were announced on Saturday - three women whose upcoming series will launch in September and look at addiction and mental health.\n\nThe BBC's Grenfell Tower Inquiry With Eddie Mair was also among the winners, scooping Best Current Affairs podcast.\n\nThe podcast analyses and explains evidence heard at the inquiry into the tower block blaze on 14 June 2017 which killed 72 people.", "Recreational divers exposed the damage in Loch Carron after the 2017 incident\n\nA fragile flame shell reef which was severely damaged by scallop dredging on Scotland's north west coast has been granted permanent protection.\n\nMinisters had issued a temporary order banning mobile fishing on Loch Carron in Wester Ross after the 2017 incident.\n\nDivers who visited the reef, which is a nursery ground for scallops, found the area had been \"intensively\" dredged.\n\nBut it now officially has Marine Protected Area (MPA) status which safeguards 23 sq km of the sea loch.\n\nPhil Taylor, head of policy at environmental group Open Seas, described the initial devastation as a \"wake-up call\".\n\nHe added: \"These divers are unsung heroes - by showing the damage that is being done to our seabed, they have raised huge political and public awareness of the problem.\n\n\"However, Loch Carron is just one small area, and over the past few decades the same degradation has happened elsewhere in our seas.\n\n\"We urgently need to regenerate all of our coastal seas - safeguarding seabed habitats will deliver a sustainable long term future for our rural economy and communities.\"\n\nLoch Carron is home to millions of flame shells\n\nImages of the damaged reef captured two years ago\n\nThe MPA for Loch Carron, which comes into force on Sunday, means fishermen operating trawlers or dredging boats will not be able to fish.\n\nIt will mirror the area covered by existing emergency closure, with the exception of Plockton harbour where there is no evidence of a reef.\n\nOpen Seas has been calling for dredging to be banned around Scotland's coast because of the damaging impact it can have on the sea bed.\n\nBut fishing organisations have argued the move is unnecessary and that existing protections are enough.\n\nLoch Carron is home to the world's largest-known flame shell bed with an estimate 250 million brightly-coloured molluscs.\n\nThe scallop dredger which caused the damage was not operating illegally since the area had no protected designation.\n\nBut it left the sea bed littered with broken shells and led to calls for dredging to be banned completely.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK rail passengers lost an estimated 3.9 million hours to delays in 2018, according to consumer group Which?\n\nThe data covers trains which arrived at their destination 30 minutes or more late, and is based on 8.1 million such journeys in the year.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said \"rail companies are working together to improve punctuality\".\n\nAnother 660 trains per day were cancelled.\n\nIt was the highest figure for cancellations since comparable records began in 2011, according to Which?, which used Office of Rail and Road data to compile its results.\n\nPassenger groups are keen to avoid last year's chaos, when thousands of trains were cancelled amid a change of timetables.\n\nWeather, strikes and signalling failures last year also brought down train reliability.\n\n\"Passengers have faced a torrid time on the trains since the beginning of last year where the rail industry has fundamentally failed on punctuality and reliability,\" the group's head of campaigns Neena Bhati said.\n\n\"People then face a messy and complex compensation system which puts them off claiming when things go wrong.\"\n\nMuch of the information needed for a claim is on a standard rail ticket.\n\n1. Class of seat | 2. Peak or non-peak | 3. Single, return, or monthly | 4. Date the ticket is valid | 5. Ticket number, and adjacent reference number | 6. Where ticket is from and to | 7. End date | 8. Price | Other details can include the fact it is a paper ticket, any connections, proof of purchase, and how it was paid for\n\nWhich? said that 36% of passengers do not claim delay compensations they are owed, and suggested that the payments should be automatic.\n\n\"We know that services on some routes weren't good enough last year and rail companies are working together to improve punctuality and tackle delays across the country,\" said Robert Nisbet, regional director of industry body the Rail Delivery Group.\n\n\"Train companies want to make it simple and easy for customers to claim compensation if they've experienced a delay.\"\n\n\"Half of the franchises managed by the Department for Transport pay compensation after 15 minutes and some operators have introduced automatic refunds, helping claims to increase by 80% over the last two years.\"\n\nA review of the rail industry was commissioned last year, following criticism of the way the franchising model is run.\n\nIt is being led by former chief executive of British Airways, Keith Williams, who said it will consider all options, including renationalisation.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said the Rail Review is \"focused on reforms to put passengers at the heart of the railway and will consider all submissions closely\",\n\nPassenger satisfaction with rail services fell to a 10-year low, according to a report published in January by the independent transport watchdog, Transport Focus.\n\nA survey of 25,000 people found 79% were satisfied overall with services, the lowest since 2008, with more than one in five passengers not satisfied.", "A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting who later became a prominent advocate for fighting addiction has been found dead at his Colorado home.\n\nAustin Eubanks, 37, was shot in the hand and knee in the 1999 Columbine attack, in which 12 of his classmates and a teacher were killed.\n\nHe became addicted to drugs after taking pain medication while recovering from his injuries.\n\nOfficials say there were no signs of foul play in his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Columbine changed my life: Samantha Haviland was a student at when the 1999 shooting happened\n\nEubanks's body was discovered on Saturday at his home in Steamboats Springs, Colorado, Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said.\n\nA post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was planned for Monday.\n\nHis family said he had \"lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face\".\n\n\"As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time,\" they added in a statement reported by local TV station KMGH.\n\nEubanks told the BBC in 2017 of how the attack, which killed his best friend, led him to addiction.\n\n\"I was medicated on a variety of substances that were intended to sedate and to relieve pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I became addicted before I even knew what was happening.\"\n\nEubanks later worked at an addiction treatment centre and travelled the US telling his story and working to improve addiction recovery and prevention.\n\nThe Columbine High School shooting took place on 20 April, 1999 when two students killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher. They then killed themselves.\n\nIt was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in US history.", "The good will of nurses in England is being abused by politicians who have failed to get to grips with a desperate shortage of staff, nurse leaders say.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair will call for safe staffing levels to be enshrined in law in a speech on Monday.\n\nThere are currently nearly 40,000 nurse vacancies - one in nine posts.\n\nHowever, the government says it is committed to increasing the number of nurses in training.\n\nBut Dame Donna, in an address to the RCN's annual conference in Liverpool, will say this is not enough.\n\nA report earlier this year by three leading think tanks warned vacancies could rise to 70,000 within five years and 100,000 in 10 if action was not taken.\n\nDame Donna will say the situation has been made worse by the removal of a student bursary for trainees and the introduction of tuition fees in 2016.\n\nShe will also say the good will of nurses is being abused - and that ministers need to consider the financial and human cost of leaving jobs unfilled.\n\nShe will demand tougher rules on safe staffing be introducing, criticising the \"vague metric\" currently used which does not distinguish between care provided by registered nurses or healthcare assistants.\n\nDame Donna will point to the new staffing law in Scotland, which cleared its final parliamentary hurdle earlier this month, as evidence of how legislation can be introduced.\n\nScotland is now the second country in the UK to set staffing accountability in law after Wales became the first in Europe to legislate in 2016.\n\nShe will say: \"We will not stop until people are held to account for the desperate shortages each and every one of us has witnessed. Politicians must stop short-changing the public.\n\n\"They must stop the rot and put an end to the workforce crisis in nursing.\n\n\"Rather than only looking at the cost of educating and employing nurses, the government must think about the true cost - financial and human - of not doing it.\n\n'Employers, decision-makers and ministers with the power to change things should not let individual nurses take the blame for systemic failings.\n\n\"The goodwill of nursing staff is being abused and politicians must know it is running out. I will not stand by while this profession is denigrated.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has already announced plans to increase training places by 25% - and the NHS in England is now working on a long-term plan for the workforce.\n\nA spokeswoman praised the \"commitment\" of nurses and said the government would \"secure\" the staff the service needed.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is not defining voters on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, he rejected claims that his party does not have a clear position on Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"There's not an area of my life it hasn't touched,\" says Chrissy Chambers, reflecting on the secret sex tape her ex-boyfriend posted online.\n\n\"It has affected my life in every way imaginable and I'm sure it will continue to for the rest of my life.\"\n\nDuring her four-year legal battle against the man - who cannot be named for legal reasons - Ms Chambers went from YouTube musician to \"revenge porn\" campaigner.\n\nHere, she tells her story to the BBC's Jane Wakefield.\n\nJW: How did you first find out the video had been uploaded?\n\nCC: I initially found out through a friend and a fan who wrote to us and said: \"I just want to alert you that someone is spreading these links.\"\n\nSomeone was distributing links all over our YouTube channel, saying: \"You think Chrissy Chambers is a role model? She's actually a whore, look at these videos.\"\n\nI clicked the link and then realised for the first time what had happened. I literally fell down on the ground and it felt just like I was getting hit with a baseball bat.\n\nTo find out that the video existed and to find out that this had happened at all, it was like my world came crashing down.\n\nHow has it affected your life?\n\nIn every way imaginable. I have PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder], I became an alcoholic at 23. I almost died. I had depression, anxiety, night terrors. It affected my relationship.\n\nWe [Chrissy and partner Bria Kam] had a successful YouTube channel at that point and had about 50,000 young women who were following us and looking up to us.\n\nSome of them said: \"I looked up to you so much, I can't support someone who would choose to do this.\"\n\nIt was heartbreaking for me - but knowing that I had all these other people who loved us and supported us, I felt a huge responsibility to stand up for myself and seek justice.\n\nI wanted to set an example in case this ever happened to them.\n\nYou live in the United States but the videos were uploaded in the UK, so your case was fought here. What happened?\n\nMy ex uploaded the videos before the [revenge porn] law was passed here in the UK.\n\nI was here in the UK the day the law passed and we went to the police to try and get criminal charges. They said the statute of limitations on my case had long passed and I was not going to be able to pursue criminal charges\n\nThen you had a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a civil case.\n\nWe raised the money in a month. The public reaction to the situation was an outpouring of love and support - and also horror at the situation.\n\nI won monetary damages from my ex, as well as being assigned copyright to the videos. That was the most important piece of the puzzle, because if these videos are ever shared again I can now go to the websites directly and submit takedown notices or pursue legal action.\n\nWe have spent four-and-a-half years fighting to get the rights to get the videos taken down. It just means everything.\n\nThe money is important too. Since he got anonymity, there needed to be some reparation for the suffering and all of the therapy and things we had to go through.\n\nThe real victory for me was getting justice and setting a precedent for others.\n\nDid you contact websites previously to have the videos taken down? What did they say?\n\nIf websites actually responded, that would be great. When I reached out in the past I got no response.\n\nIt wasn't until we sent a letter from a lawyer that some of the videos started to come down.\n\nI would like to see these websites require some proof of consent for videos uploaded, and a much better system for takedown notices. If somebody says a video was not consensual, it should come down quickly to protect the victim.\n\nYou have become a figurehead for fighting revenge porn. What would you say to other victims?\n\nI would say to other victims who maybe don't have the confidence and don't know what to do about pursuing it, that I know exactly how you feel.\n\nI've been there. There are many days where I don't feel confident to keep fighting.\n\nJustice can be served. I finally learned that there was a light at the end of my tunnel. Don't give up hope.\n\nEven if it takes years you can get justice and you didn't deserve to have this happen to you.", "The government should add a public vote to the Brexit legislation which MPs will vote on next month, the shadow Brexit secretary has told the BBC.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said including another referendum in the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would \"break the impasse\".\n\nTalks between Labour and the government to find a compromise Brexit deal broke down on Friday without agreement.\n\nTheresa May has said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nLabour's preferred plan is for changes to the government's Brexit deal or an election, but if neither of those are possible, it will support the option of a public vote.\n\nThere have been calls for giving the public another say on Brexit. One widely discussed option is for a \"confirmatory vote\" with the choice between accepting whatever deal the government agrees, or remaining in the EU.\n\nOthers argue any new referendum should include the option of leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Keir suggested the government should seek \"further changes to the political declaration\", which sets out the UK's future relationship with the EU after Brexit.\n\nHe added: \"Or of course they could seek to break the impasse by putting a confirmatory vote on the face of a bill.\n\n\"But whatever happens they have to find a way of breaking the impasse. We've got five and a half months which seems like quite a long time but in reality, once we get to the summer recess, we've only got only two weeks in September and two weeks in October.\"\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for leaving Number 10 following the Brexit bill vote\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March - but after MPs voted down the deal Mrs May had negotiated with the bloc three times, the EU gave the UK an extension until 31 October.\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs will vote on her EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nThis will be the second reading vote on the bill, which is the key piece of legislation to implement the withdrawal agreement - the legally binding part of the Brexit deal that covers exit terms - and take the UK out of the EU.\n\nThe second reading is the first opportunity for MPs to debate the bill. If it is not passed by Parliament, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nSir Keir said Labour would vote against the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, accusing the government of attempting \"an experiment\" and bringing the UK to \"a cliff edge\".\n\n\"If that bill goes through second reading and then collapses at third reading we are then up against the cliff edge in October, which is why we've said we'll vote against that at second reading if there isn't an agreed deal before we start,\" he said.\n\nHe denied that would make a no-deal Brexit more likely. \"I don't accept that. What we can't do is keep on buying another week at a time which is what the prime minister has been doing for months.\"\n\nDiscussions between the Conservatives and Labour - to see if they could come to an agreement on Brexit despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday.\n\nSir Keir blamed the collapse of talks with the government on the inability to \"future proof\" a deal against an \"incoming Tory leader\" and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nHe said: \"During the talks, almost literally as we were sitting in the room talking, cabinet members and wannabe Tory leaders were torpedoing the talks with remarks about not being willing to accept the customs union.\n\n\"In terms of the team that we were negotiating with, I'm not blaming them.\n\n\"Circling around those that were in the room trying to negotiate were others who didn't want the negotiation to succeed because they had their eye on what was coming next.\"\n\nMrs May has previously blamed the collapse on the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour.\n\nIt comes as a poll of Conservative members for The Times suggest former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May.\n\nA YouGov poll commissioned by the Times suggests Mr Johnson is the first choice for 39% of those Tory party activists who responded.\n\nThe former London mayor, who announced his intention to run earlier this week, was three times as popular as the next closest choice, ex-Brexit secretary Dominic Raab (13%).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nOf the others, Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove were both on 9%, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on 8% and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on 1%.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock told the Daily Telegraph that Mrs May's successor as prime minister should not call a general election until Brexit is completed.\n\nHe said an early election risked losing to Labour and \"killing Brexit altogether\".\n\nHe added: \"We need to take responsibility for delivering on the referendum result.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The contest's highlights - from singing in the shower and bendy poles to the Netherlands' triumph.\n\nThe Netherlands' Duncan Laurence has won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest with his song Arcade.\n\nHe had been the bookmakers' favourite to win, and came through to the top of the leaderboard with 492 points after the public vote.\n\nThe UK's Michael Rice came bottom, after getting just three points from the public vote, and a total of 16 points for Bigger Than Us.\n\nLaurence said: \"Here's to dreaming big, this is to music first, always.\"\n\nThe last time The Netherlands won was 1975. The audience joined in as Laurence performed the track again at the end of the show.\n\nItaly finished second with 465 and Russia third with 369 points.\n\nThe ceremony also saw last year's winner Netta perform, while singers from previous contests also sang each other's songs.\n\nConchita Wurst, Mans Zelmerlow, Gali Atari, Eleni Foureira and Vjerka Serdjucka sang each other's songs\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The star's backing dancers were seen wearing Israel and Palestine flags during the show\n\nMadonna also performed just before the voting results were announced. She kicked off her set with a version of Like A Prayer, with backing dancers dressed as monks.\n\nShe went on to sing Future, her new single featuring the rapper Quavo.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Boring' winner...? 'Incredible atmosphere'? Fans in the arena share their views\n\nHer performance was felt by some, to be a little, well, flat.\n\n\"A slightly muted response to Madonna there,\" said BBC One's commentator Graham Norton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by emily m This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCapital Breakfast presenter Roman Kemp was also unimpressed, calling for autotune to come to the rescue.\n\nA section of her performance in which her backing dancers displayed Israeli and Palestinian flags was not an approved part of the act, organisers said.\n\nEurovision said: \"In the live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, two of Madonna's dancers briefly displayed the Israeli and Palestinian flags on the back of their outfits.\n\n\"This element of the performance was not part of the rehearsals which had been cleared with the EBU and the host broadcaster, KAN. The Eurovision Song Contest is a non-political event and Madonna had been made aware of this.\"\n\nIt wasn't just the Queen of Pop who was apparently breaking the rules either.\n\nThe organisers said Iceland's Eurovision act could face punishment after displaying Palestinian flags during the live broadcast.\n\nDuring the final, the band members held up Palestinian flags while their public vote was being announced.\n\nIn a statement, Eurovision said the \"consequences of this action\" will be discussed by the contest's executive board\".\n\nAlongside the contest, there were clashes in central Jerusalem as ultra-orthodox Jews protested against Eurovision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ultra-orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are angry that the contest was scheduled on the Jewish Sabbath\n\nThey objected to the scheduling of the Eurovision Song Contest on the Jewish Sabbath, resulting in angry scenes as demonstrators clashed with police.\n\nAt one point, a small number of women held a counter protest, showing their bras.\n\nThere were other protests in Tel Aviv over Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.\n\nThere have also been campaigns online.\n\nThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has been using social media to oppose holding the contest in Israel because of its treatment of Palestinians.\n\nIt accuses Israel of trying to whitewash (\"artwash\") discrimination, which it likens to apartheid, the system of racial segregation once used in South Africa.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Ellie Gould was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage girl who was found dead at a house in Wiltshire has been formally identified as 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nPolice said a 17-year-old boy who was arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody.\n\nOn Friday afternoon officers were called to a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, where Ellie was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police spokesperson said she was a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham.\n\nPolice said the arrested teenager was known to Ellie, and that a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death would be held on Sunday.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInquiries are continuing to ascertain the exact circumstances surrounding her death.\n\nSupt Conway Duncan said: \"Our thoughts remain with Ellie's family, her friends and schoolmates.\n\n\"Ellie's family will continue to receive support from specially trained officers and we are aware that her fellow pupils are being encouraged to seek support being organised by Hardenhuish School.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the level of shock, anxiety and upset in and around Calne and Chippenham and our officers are continuing to progress their inquiries as swiftly and diligently as possible.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hardenhuish School said: \"The Hardenhuish community is shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Ellie Gould.\n\n\"Ellie was a talented, popular and much-loved member of our school community who will be dearly missed.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with Ellie's family at this devastating time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann is wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nA man suspected of abducting and raping three women is being hidden by a friend or family member, police believe.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have attacked three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said there was no evidence Mr McCann had left the country and urged anybody helping him to \"please call us\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice is carrying out a review into whether Mr McCann had been released from jail by mistake.\n\nSpeaking outside of New Scotland Yard, Det Ch Insp Goodwin said whoever is hiding the 34-year-old \"possibly isn't aware of the full nature of his crimes\".\n\nShe said it appeared the women had been \"selected randomly\", then abducted \"in an incredibly violent manner\".\n\n\"Please consider if your mother, sister, daughter, niece or friend had experienced such an awful attack and put yourselves in the shoes of their family,\" the detective said.\n\nThe Met has offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to Mr McCann's arrest and prosecution.\n\nJoseph McCann is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nThe first attack took place in Watford on 21 April where a woman was approached by a man armed with a knife who drove her around in a car for six hours then raped her.\n\nOn 25 April, two women were abducted in Chingford and Edgware within the space of 12 hours.\n\nThey were both raped then driven to a hotel in Watford where their attacker was unable to book a room. Soon after they managed to escape during a struggle.\n\nThe force has described Mr McCann as a \"violent individual who is a risk to women and poses a threat to children\" and warned people against approaching him.\n\nA 63-year-old woman from Aylesbury was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of intimidation of witnesses in connection with one of the attacks. She has been released on bail.\n\nA 33-year-old man arrested on Sunday on suspicion of conspiracy to rape has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nBelfast City Marathon organisers have apologised after admitting that Sunday's course was 0.3 miles longer than it should have been.\n\nBelfast Marathon chairman David Seaton blamed \"human error\", saying the lead car diverted from the route.\n\n\"Approximately 460 additional metres were added to the officially measured course of 26.2 miles,\" he said.\n\n\"This was due to human error, with the lead car diverting from the official route.\"\n\nEarlier, John Glover, the event's course measurer, said runners had twice been \"taken off the measured route\".\n\n\"The route run was 469 metres in excess of the route measured and approved by the Association of International Marathons,\" said Mr Glover.\n\nA distance of 469 metres equates to 0.293 of a mile.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Seaton said \"protocols will be put in place to ensure this never happens again\".\n\nHe added that race organisers were in the \"process of adjusting runners' times to reflect the correct distance\".\n\nFollowing Sunday's race, a number of questions were raised on social media about the new course's length.\n\nIn 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Greater Manchester Marathon course was 380m too short, as a result of a measuring error. UK Athletics subsequently declared the times of those races invalid.\n\nKenyans Joel Kositany and Caroline Jepchirchir took victory in the first Sunday running of the event.\n\nKositany secured his fourth Belfast men's triumph as he crossed the line in two hours 18 minutes 40 seconds.\n\nJepchirchir repeated her 2018 win as she set the fastest ever women's time in Belfast, clocking 2:36:38.\n\nThis 38th staging of the event took place on a new course which organisers hoped would ensure faster times.\n\nHowever, the discrepancy with the course distance is now likely to be the main talking point following the race.\n\nEvent chairman Seaton admitted that the mistake will upset a number of competitors.\n\nHe said: \"I can understand if you have been aiming for a sub three-hour marathon time and because of the mistake you have ended up being just outside three hours on the clock, that you are going to be annoyed.\n\n\"It's a hiccup that we obviously could have done without. But I don't think it should overshadow what was a very successful day with the numbers up significantly because of the new Sunday date.\n\n\"People have been coming up to us congratulating us on the day and saying it was a great event with the spectator number also well up on previous years.\"", "The government has signed a round of new Brexit contracts with outside consultants worth almost £160m.\n\nMany of them are due to run until April 2020, six months after the UK's new scheduled departure date from the European Union.\n\nSince the EU referendum, Whitehall has hired companies to carry out consultancy work to prepare for Brexit.\n\nThe government said it would continue to \"draw on the expert advice\" of a range of specialists.\n\nIn February, an analysis for the BBC found the government had agreed contracts worth £104m for outside help on Brexit.\n\nAt the time, Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the professional association for civil servants, called the sum \"eye watering\".\n\nHe also said it was \"no surprise following almost a decade of austerity that has seen the civil service shrink by almost a quarter\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has now published a new round of contracts with consultants.\n\nThese could be worth up to a further £159m, according to the data provider Tussell.\n\nNine companies that were awarded contracts last year - including Deloitte and Ernst & Young - have had those extended by a year.\n\nAnother 11 firms, including smaller suppliers, have been given brand new contracts.\n\nRedacted documents published by the government state they're being paid between £3m and £6m each for IT, accounting and auditing work and management services, all related to Brexit.\n\nTamzen Isacsson from the Management Consultancies Association says companies are supporting the government at a critical time.\n\n\"What they have brought to the government at this unprecedented period of huge workload is capacity, insight and skills.\n\n\"This has enabled the government to set up and plan new systems to cope with a whole range of changes from border control to trade, border policy, immigration and other areas.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"As a responsible government we have, and will continue to, draw on the expert advice of a range of specialists to deliver a successful and orderly exit from the EU.\"", "Amy Schumer and her husband Chris Fischer announced the birth on Instagram\n\nComedian Amy Schumer and husband Chris Fischer are celebrating the birth of their first child - a boy.\n\nSchumer posted about the birth with the caption: \"10:55pm last night [03:55 BST on Monday]. Our royal baby was born.\"\n\nTheir new arrival was announced on the same day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's own baby boy was born.\n\nThe couple had also announced their pregnancy in October 2018 - by editing their faces onto a photo of Prince Harry and Meghan's bodies.\n\nSchumer posted a photo of herself, her husband and their baby at the hospital in New York, which appeared to have been taken soon after the birth.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSchumer also combined the news of her pregnancy with a list of more than 20 Democratic candidates that she was endorsing in the US mid-term elections the following month.\n\nIn another post on Monday, the comedian said she had stopped off at the Metropolitan Museum in New York to pose for a photo on her way to the hospital.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by amyschumer This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe museum is the venue for Monday evening's Met Gala, one of the most highly anticipated events in the fashion calendar.\n\nGuests are only admitted with a personal invitation from Vogue editor Anna Wintour, and must wear a designer look along a specific theme.\n\nThe theme this year is \"camp\", to coincide with an upcoming exhibition inspired by photographer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp, which will explore \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration\" in fashion.\n\nSchumer was wearing a pared-down cardigan-and-trainers combo, which she said was her \"Met look this year\".", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The death was the 29th fatal stabbing in London this year\n\nA teenager was stabbed to death after being chased down a street in south-east London.\n\nThe 18-year-old was chased by a man from Newington Gardens into Tiverton Street in Southwark, where he was stabbed, at 21:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nHe was taken by air ambulance to hospital but he died just before 23:00. Next of kin have been told and a post-mortem test is due to take place.\n\nThe Met Police said the attacker was wearing a grey or blue hoodie.\n\nNo arrests have been made and a murder investigation has been launched.\n\nThe teenager ran to Tiverton Street where he was stabbed\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Leonard said: \"We need those who have information about the culprit(s) for this murder to get in touch with police immediately.\"\n\nThe killing is the 29th fatal stabbing in London so far this year.\n\nTheresa Lola, the Young People's Laureate for London, tweeted she was speechless and asked when the lives of young people would be valued.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Theresa Lola This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A warehouse firm has become one of the first in Europe to introduce special \"exoskeleton\" suits that minimise the physical stress on manual workers as they carry heavy items.\n\nRS Components is trialling the suits at its at its main distribution centre in Nuneaton, where some of the lifting tasks involve awkward and heavy items.\n\nThe mechanical suit helps the wearer lift objects more easily, reducing compression at the base of the spine.", "Jessica Anderson knew that her record beating time would not be considered for the title\n\nGuinness World Records says its guidelines for the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform are \"long overdue a review\".\n\nIt comes after it refused to consider a nurse's record attempt because she was wearing scrubs instead of a dress.\n\nOfficials told Jessica Anderson that its criteria for a nurse uniform also involved a pinafore and cap, but tights were optional.\n\nShe ran the London Marathon knowing that her time would not count.\n\nShe finished the race 22 seconds faster than the current record holder and described the rules as \"sexist\" and \"outdated\".\n\nJess is a senior sister at the Royal London Hospital.\n\nHer work in an acute medical admissions ward is fast-paced and she wears scrubs to work every day.\n\nSo when she decided to challenge the title for the fastest woman to run a marathon in a nurse uniform, she sent Guinness World Records a photo.\n\nShe was told that her actual uniform did not meet its criteria for a nurse's uniform.\n\nShe went ahead and ran anyway, completing the course in three hours, eight minutes and 54 seconds.\n\nThat was fast enough to beat the record.\n\nJess believes the rules about wearing a dress apply to anyone wanting to challenge the record title - including men.\n\n\"Some of the male nurses I work with are really hopeful that they do change the definition,\" she said.\n\nThe story prompted nurses to tweet selfies of themselves, with very few dresses on show.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚊ᴿᴺ 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome pointed out that certain roles don't require any kind of uniform.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shal Henry-Treloar This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post 4 by Ruth May\n\nGuinness World Records has now responded, agreeing it is time for a review.\n\nIn a statement, it said that \"inclusiveness and respect\" were values it holds \"extremely dear\".\n\nIt continued: \"While we always need to ensure we can differentiate between categories, it is quite clear that this record title and associated guidelines is long overdue a review, which we will conduct as a priority in the coming days.\"\n\nIt is not yet clear if this could mean that Jess will be awarded the record, or if the criteria will only change for future attempts.\n\nShe says it would be \"perfect\" if Guinness World Records finds a way to give her the title.\n\nBut she said it was most important that officials modernise the guidelines.\n\n\"I would be quite happy if they changed it in the future or acknowledged that it's sexist and it's not really how we want the profession to be represented.\"\n\nIf she doesn't get the title though, she said she was very tempted to try again next year.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Two teenagers are recovering after being stabbed in north London in attacks which are being linked by the Met police.\n\nOfficers found a 17-year-old boy injured in Fairbridge Road in Upper Holloway, Islington, at about 17:35 BST on Monday.\n\nHe remains in a serious but stable condition.\n\nTen minutes later a man believed to be 18 years old was found stabbed less than half a mile away in Sussex Close.\n\nHis condition is said to be no longer life-threatening.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said there would be an increased number of officers in the area.\n\nA Section 60 order - which gives officers the right to stop and search anyone - was authorised for the borough of Islington until 07:00 BST on Tuesday.", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nJudd Trump dismantled John Higgins 18-9 to claim his maiden World Championship title in one of the most breathtaking Crucible finals ever witnessed.\n\nIn a classic contest, the two shared a record 11 centuries and brought up the 100th ton of the tournament.\n\nTrump took total control at 12-5 after the first day in Sheffield, helped by a run of winning eight straight frames.\n\nBoth missed chances of maximum breaks as Trump went 16-9 up, a lead he did not relinquish in the final session.\n\nTrump collects £500,000 in prize money, making him the first player in history to amass more than £1m in a single season.\n• None Trump poised for 'new era of dominance'\n\nThe Englishman has long been touted as a world champion, previously regarded as one of the best players never to win in Sheffield, but now he has finally fulfilled his potential and moves up to second in the world rankings.\n\n\"It is incredible achievement for me from where I was,\" Trump, 29, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I have worked so hard for this. For the people around me this is so special. It was an amazing final, the standard was so high from the very first ball.\n\n\"That is probably the best I have ever played in a major final.\"\n\nIn a remarkable exhibition of potting from both players, they took the standard of snooker to another level, making frame-winning breaks of 50 or more in 23 of the 27 frames played.\n\nHere is how the numbers stack up:\n• Most centuries in a professional match: Trump and Higgins shared 11 tons, one more than the 10 seen in the 2016 semi-final between Ding Junhui and Alan McManus.\n• Most centuries in a Crucible final: The total of 11 was three more than the previous record of eight, set in 2002 (Stephen Hendry v Peter Ebdon) and 2013 (Ronnie O'Sullivan v Barry Hawkins)\n• Most centuries by a player in a single match: Trump made seven centuries in the final, equalling Ding's record against McManus from 2016\n• Most tournament centuries overall: There were 100 in the tournament, smashing the previous best of 86 from 2015 and 2016\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis said on BBC Two: \"It was amazing. The standard in that final may have been the greatest we have ever seen and Judd Trump was at the heart of it.\"\n\nFrom 'naughty snooker' to finally coming of age\n\nOne of the pre-tournament favourites, the Bristolian reached the final in part by capitalising on the shock exits of world number one Ronnie O'Sullivan and three-time winner Mark Selby from his half of the draw.\n\nThis has been by far the best season of Trump's career, winning three ranking titles, and he becomes the first player since Mark Williams in 2003 to claim the double of World Championship and Masters in the same campaign.\n\nHe has now also completed snooker's Triple Crown following his victory at the UK Championship in 2011.\n\nEarlier that year, he was beaten 18-15 in his first world final appearance by Higgins, going agonisingly close with his all-out attacking style of play which he labelled himself as \"naughty snooker\".\n\nSome of that was on display again in this final, playing a black with the cue behind his back, which brought a smile from Higgins, and another red down the cushion that was described as \"Alex Higgins-esque\".\n\nBut he is a complete player now, having won 11 ranking titles in total, turning on the style with heavy scoring and possessing a potent safety game.\n\nTrump took apart O'Sullivan at Alexandra Palace in January and this was another demolition job of one of snooker's greats - a run of eight frames in a row and four centuries on the first day setting the platform for a tremendous triumph.\n\n'I never thought he was that good' - what the pundits said\n\nSeven-time champion Stephen Hendry: \"I certainly have not seen anything like that standard in a final, it was incredible. The scoring was phenomenal, every time a player got an opportunity they cleared up in one visit. Judd's performance in the final has been one of the most dominant I have ever seen.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"Judd Trump has demolished one of the greatest players to have ever held a cue. It's an astonishing performance. The second session was arguably the most violent and shocking session I have ever seen. I'd have hated to have watched it from John Higgins' perspective.\n\nFormer champion John Parrott: \"What Judd Trump did has usurped his performance at the Masters. What he did was just sensational. I never thought he was that good. I had no idea he was that good.\"\n• None Overturned a 6-3 deficit to win a thrilling final-frame decider against Thepchaiya Un-Nooh in the first round\n• None Fought past Ding Junhui in the second round after going 9-7 down\n• None Eased through to the semi-finals with a comfortable 13-6 win over Stephen Maguire\n\nFour-time champion Higgins came up short once more having been beaten in 2017 by Selby and Williams last year.\n\nThe 43-year-old has now lost four finals in Sheffield - only Jimmy White with six has been beaten in more - but he played his part against Trump.\n\nReaching the final was an achievement in itself for Higgins, bringing to an end a poor season by his high standards in which he failed to win a ranking event and hinted at retirement in December.\n\nAlthough he made four centuries in the match, taking his overall tally in Sheffield to 150, he was outclassed by a relentless Trump and admitted he was \"lucky to get nine frames\".\n\n\"I was the lucky one to not have to pay for a ticket, he was just awesome,\" the Scot added.\n\n\"It will be the first of many I am sure, to produce a standard like that is incredible. He was unplayable.\n\n\"I never expected to get to the final, I came up against an unstoppable machine.\"\n\nThe final that had everything\n\nA dazzling opening day was described by 1997 champion Ken Doherty as \"one of the best ever\" as the two players shared the first eight frames with four centuries and three further breaks over 50.\n\nThough Higgins made 125 at the start of the second session, Trump took total control thereafter by winning eight straight frames including two further centuries and runs of 71, 58 and 70.\n\n'The Wizard of Wishaw' came out firing in the third session, sinking a superb double on the 15th red while on a maximum 147 break which was heartily applauded by Trump in his seat, but he missed the next black. Higgins followed it up with 59, but Trump showed his class with knocks of 101 and 71 to go 14-7.\n\nTrump, nicknamed 'The Juddernaut', needed to win all four of the following frames to win the match with a session to spare, but Higgins' 67 in the 23rd frame guaranteed an evening finish.\n\nHe made a further 70 but Trump's brilliant 104 with 13 reds and 13 blacks put him two from victory heading into the final session.\n\nTrump's 94 put him on the cusp of snooker's biggest prize, which he took with another cool break of 62.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker on the BBC app", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's focus is now on the Europa League, says boss Unai Emery, after his lacklustre side's hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton.\n\nThe Gunners are three points behind Tottenham in fourth with one game to play but would need an eight-goal swing, as well as results going their way, to overtake their rivals.\n\nBarring that highly improbable scenario, Arsenal will need to win the Europa League to play in the Champions League next season and take a 3-1 advantage into their semi-final second-leg in Valencia on Thursday.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be difficult but our focus is now the Europa League,\" Emery, who won the competition three times in a row with Sevilla, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"We have the opportunity in the Europa League to do something important and we will try and do that.\"\n\nPierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal in front at Emirates Stadium with a ninth-minute penalty after Alireza Jahanbakhsh was judged to have fouled Nacho Monreal despite appearing to get the ball.\n\nAside from occasional bursts, Emery's side were shaky and sloppy, with Granit Xhaka committing an absurd foul on Solly March to concede a penalty that Glenn Murray converted on 61 minutes.\n\nArsenal frantically searched for a winner but Aubameyang volleyed wide from seven yards out and Brighton keeper Mat Ryan made a series of fine saves.\n\nPascal Gross could have won the game for Brighton late on but skewed his effort out towards the sideline with the goal unmanned after Bernd Leno's superb save from March, while the visitors withstood another flurry from Arsenal in the final stages.\n\nLooking to avoid a fourth straight Premier League defeat, Arsenal made a bright start in attack, though were fortunate to be awarded a penalty, despite referee Anthony Taylor being well placed, with replays showing Jahanbakhsh got to the ball before Monreal fell.\n\nStill, an early lead through Aubameyang's 20th league goal of the season should have allowed the hosts to exert control over the game, but instead they became nervy and vulnerable.\n\nGoalkeeper Leno sent an abysmal clearance straight to March before recovering to save Murray's free header moments later, while Stephan Litchtsteiner, making his first appearance since late February, was frequently exposed.\n\nThere was another promising spell at the end of the first half, with Aubameyang, Shkodran Mustafi and Henrikh Mkhitaryan testing Ryan, but Arsenal's inability to create clear chances gave Brighton increasing confidence in finding an equaliser.\n\nEven then it took a staggeringly poor decision by Xhaka. Running behind the surging March inside the area, the Switzerland midfielder initially held up his hands to indicate he was not touching the Brighton forward only to then whack his shoulder and concede a penalty.\n\nAnd so a game Arsenal should perhaps have dictated against an opposition who were already guaranteed Premier League survival became a manic attempt to salvage a dispiriting end to the league season.\n\nThey came close to scraping a winner but could not do it, the lap of honour conducted with glum faces as the Gunners must now focus on winning the club's first European trophy since 1994.\n\nBrighton's Premier League status was confirmed on Saturday when Cardiff were relegated following defeat by Crystal Palace.\n\nBut Chris Hughton's side looked determined not to let their season drift away, encouraged by Arsenal's defensive frailty.\n\nMarch menaced Litchtsteiner, forced a save from Leno shortly after the break and made a fine run to win the penalty, perhaps going down easily but drawing contact from Xhaka, with Murray sending Leno the wrong way to score his 12th of the season.\n\nCentre-backs Lewis Dunk and Shane Duffy made timely interventions and blocks, while Ryan continues to impress in goal.\n\nWith a more clinical edge, Brighton could have even won and completely ended Arsenal's top-four chances. First, Gross miscued his first-time strike after Leno had clawed away March's diving header in the 86th minute.\n\nThen in added time, substitute Florin Andone oddly failed to look up and play in the onrushing March when Brighton had a two-on-one situation against the stretched Arsenal defence.\n\n'That is more like us' - reaction\n\nArsenal boss Unai Emery, speaking to BBC Sport: \"We knew it was going to be difficult, but at 1-0 we needed to get the second goal. In the 90 minutes we controlled the match and after the first goal we tried to get the second.\n\n\"After their goal we created more chances to score but they defended very well, they are very strong defensively and they showed us that today.\"\n\nBrighton boss Chris Hughton, speaking to BBC Sport: \"That's more like us. It was a good reaction and a response to going a goal behind early in the game, people would have expected them to turn it into two or three. We had to dig deep.\n\n\"I was unhappy with the penalty decision, my feeling was that it was soft and I couldn't understand how he gave it. I saw it again and I haven't changed my mind. It wasn't a penalty, and a very poor decision.\n\n\"But we bounced back and showed a lot of character. Our responsibility is to try and get a result in every game - we will want to do as well as we can against Manchester City next week.\"\n• None Arsenal are winless in their last four Premier League games (D1 L3), their longest run without a victory in the competition since February 2016 (also four games).\n• None Brighton avoided defeat away from home against 'big six' opposition for the first time in the Premier League - they had lost each of their last 11 games before today.\n• None Arsenal have conceded 50 or more goals in consecutive top-flight campaigns for the first time since 1982-83 and 1983-84.\n• None Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is the sixth different player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season for the club, and the first since Alexis Sanchez in 2016-17.\n• None Since making his debut in the competition in February 2018, only Mohamed Salah (35) has scored more Premier League goals than Aubameyang (30).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 35% of Brighton's Premier League goals since the start of last season (24/68) - only Leicester's Jamie Vardy has netted a higher percentage of his team's goals in the competition in this period (36% - 38/107).\n\nOn the final day of the Premier League on Sunday, 12 May, Arsenal are away at Burnley, while Brighton host Manchester City, with both matches at 15:00 BST.\n\nBefore that, Arsenal face Valencia in the Europa League semi-final second leg on Thursday, leading 3-1 from the first leg.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Shkodran Mustafi (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alex Iwobi.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Mat Ryan tries a through ball, but Anthony Knockaert is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Shkodran Mustafi.\n• None Attempt missed. Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang with a cross following a fast break.\n• None Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Anthony Knockaert tries a through ball, but Yves Bissouma is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Pascal Groß (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Pascal Groß.\n• None Attempt missed. Yves Bissouma (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Shane Duffy.\n• None Matteo Guendouzi (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi tries a through ball, but Sead Kolasinac is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Met Gala, an annual benefit event for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is considered one of the world's biggest fashion events.\n\nIt is known for its exclusive guest list, its expensive tickets and - most of all - its extravagant outfits, based on a different theme each year.\n\nThis year, that theme was Camp: Notes on Fashion - to coincide with an upcoming exhibition at the Met, inspired by US writer and political activist Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, Notes on Camp.\n\nThe outfits this year were therefore, like the exhibition, based on \"irony, humour, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality and exaggeration\".\n\nAnd showing everyone how it was done at the very start of the night was singer Lady Gaga, who arrived in a billowing pink outfit which was not quite what it seemed at first glance.\n\nLady Gaga, one of the event's co-hosts, arrived in a billowing pink outfit...\n\nWhich opened up to reveal a black gown, her second outfit...\n\nWhich was then cast aside in favour of Lady Gaga's third outfit, a slim-fitting pink gown\n\n...Which she then took off, to reveal her final outfit\n\nSerena Williams, who is also co-hosting, arrived in a neon yellow gown - with matching Nike trainers\n\nActor Michael Urie has gone for two looks in one\n\nActor Ezra Miller shows off some very impressive (and unsettling) make-up art\n\nReality TV family the Kardashians were out in force for this year's event\n\nHere are newlyweds Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, who are said to have first met at the Met Gala in 2017\n\nThey were followed down the red carpet by Nick's older brother Joe and his even newer wife, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner\n\nLaverne Cox went for a sleek black dress and bold make up\n\nThe third co-host is Harry Styles, who wore a sheer black top and high-waisted trousers\n\nAlessandro Michele, of Gucci fashion house, is the event's final co-host\n\nSinger Billy Porter made an entrance before flexing his wings in front of the crowds\n\nAnd theatre owner Jordan Roth has, very aptly, turned himself into a theatre hall\n\nCeline Dion, perhaps the original queen of 'camp', did not disappoint\n\nActor Jared Leto clearly believes that two heads are better than one\n\nUS drag queen Aquaria went for painted hair and diamante hand-pieces\n\nWhile actor Yara Shahidi has gone all out with the feathers...\n\n...Much like the Met Gala's main host, Vogue editor Anna Wintour", "Joseph Merrick surprised doctors with his intelligence and sensitive nature\n\nThe unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed.\n\nMerrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak show attraction, then a medical curiosity.\n\nHis skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital since his death.\n\nBut author Jo Vigor-Mungovin says she has now discovered Merrick's soft tissue was buried in the City of London Cemetery after he died in 1890.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2016 calls were made to bury Joseph Merrick's bones in Leicester\n\nAfter a miserable adolescence and time as a travelling exhibit, Leicester-born Merrick ended up at what was then called the London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, where he surprised staff by proving to have an intelligent and sensitive personality.\n\nHe became a minor celebrity and in May 1887 was visited by Alexandra, Princess of Wales, who afterwards sent him Christmas cards.\n\nAfter his death, Merrick's body was dissected and his skeleton preserved as an anatomical specimen.\n\nMerrick's story was made into an acclaimed movie in 1980\n\nMrs Vigor-Mungovin, who has written a biography of Merrick, said a story about his soft tissue being buried had not been followed up due to the number of graveyards in use at the time.\n\n\"I was asked about this and off-hand I said 'It probably went to the same place as the [Jack the] Ripper victims', as they died in the same locality.\n\n\"Then I went home and really thought about it and started looking at the records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium near Epping Forest, where two Ripper victims are buried.\n\n\"I decided to search in an eight-week window around the time of his death and there, on page two, was Joseph Merrick.\"\n\nThe gates in this photograph are all that remains of the Leicester workhouse where Merrick stayed\n\nThe detailed Victorian records make it \"99% certain\" this is the Elephant Man, said Mrs Vigor-Mungovin.\n\n\"The burial is dated 24 April 1890, and Joseph died on 11 April.\n\n\"It gives his residence as London Hospital, his age as 28 - Joseph was actually 27 but his date of birth was often given wrong - and the coroner as Wynne Baxter, who we know conducted Joseph's inquest.\n\n\"Everything fits, it is too much to be a coincidence.\"\n\nDetailed examination of records have identified a specific plot where the remains were buried\n\nInitially, the area was narrowed down to a communal memorial garden, but Mrs Vigor-Mungovin said a specific plot had now been identified.\n\n\"The authorities said a small plaque could be made to mark the spot, which would be lovely.\n\n\"Hopefully, we can soon get a memorial in his hometown of Leicester.\"\n\nThe City of London Cemetery has been unavailable for comment.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City know they will retain their Premier League title if they win on the final day of the season after Vincent Kompany's wonder strike saw off a spirited Leicester side.\n\nWith 20 minutes remaining, the score goalless and nerves jangling at Etihad Stadium, the defending champions needed inspiration in a game where only victory would maintain their advantage at the top of the table.\n\nThey got it from an unlikely source in their long-serving captain, who strode forward and let fly from 25 yards with a strike that arrowed into the top corner of the net.\n\nThe hosts' victory means they move back above Liverpool and hold a one-point lead as they go into the last round of fixtures on Sunday, when Pep Guardiola's side travel to Brighton and the Reds host Wolves.\n\nAfter they had to fight so hard to gain victory here, it is unlikely Manchester City will take anything for granted as a pulsating title race reaches its climax.\n\nThe lead at the the top of the table has now changed hands 32 times this season, but for long spells on Monday night it seemed Liverpool would be staying in top spot until the weekend at least.\n• None 'No shoot Vinnie, no shoot!' - Guardiola glad Kompany ignored his calls\n• None Best of the reaction to Kompany's wonder goal\n\nManaged by former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, who came so close to bringing the title to Anfield in 2014, Leicester were resolute defensively and posed a significant threat at the other end.\n\nThey restricted Guardiola's famously free-scoring side to a handful of first-half chances, with Sergio Aguero's header against the bar the closest they came to breaking the deadlock.\n\nThe champions' frustration on the pitch and in the stands continued after the break until 33-year-old Kompany stepped up in spectacular fashion to score his first goal of the season, and his side's 159th.\n\nLeicester did threaten to ruin the party late on but former Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho fired wide, and the final whistle triggered cascades of relief for the home players and fans as they moved to within one win of their sixth title.\n\nThere is never any shortage of entertainment for Manchester City's fans, who have now seen their side score 100 goals in 29 games at the Etihad Stadium in 2018-19.\n\nBut they are not used to tension of the sort that was served up on Monday night, with Leicester stopping them scoring for longer than any other visiting team has managed in the Premier League this season - West Ham, who held out for 59 minutes, were the previous best.\n\nManchester City were still creating chances, going close before the break when Aguero's header hit the woodwork before it was clawed to safety by Kasper Schmeichel, and after it when the Foxes goalkeeper denied the Argentina striker with an outstretched leg.\n\nTheir fans were urging them forward but Guardiola's side lacked their usual composure in the final third and a first home blank of the campaign in all competitions looked on the cards, and at the worst possible time.\n\nThat was until Kompany, who scored a vital header to beat Manchester United and help bring the title to the Etihad in 2012, provided another memorable moment to help his side take a giant step towards more silverware.\n\nA domestic treble remains in Manchester City's sights, and they can also become the first team since United in 2007-08 and 2008-09 to win back-to-back titles.\n\nLeicester's hopes of nicking seventh place and a spot in next season's Europa League are over after this defeat, but their performance underlined their improvement since Rodgers took charge at the end of February.\n\nAs well as being disciplined in defence and comfortable on the ball, the visitors sent men flying forward in numbers on the counter-attack.\n\nThe hosts were growing increasingly jittery as their wait for a first goal continued, but their nerves were not helped by the threat the Foxes posed on the break.\n\nHarry Maguire ran the length of the pitch to set up James Maddison, who fired wide with the score at 0-0, and Leicester continued to look dangerous even when they went behind.\n\nIf Iheanacho, 22, had showed more composure after being fed the ball in front of goal then Leicester and Liverpool fans could have had a late equaliser to celebrate - instead it was the home fans who were smiling as their players marked their final home game with three points and a parade around the pitch at the end.\n\n'It's in our hands' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"One game left, and it will be so tough like today. We are away and we saw Brighton had a good game at Arsenal. But it is in our hands, don't forget but we could have been 10 points behind if we lost to Liverpool here.\n\n\"We were seven points behind, but we are in the last game and it is in our hands. We are going to prepare well.\n\n\"We'll see if Brighton defend deep or will be more offensive. It will be tough, but hopefully we will have the performance to be champions.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Our motivation was to come in for our own development and performance. We pushed City, arguably the best team in Europe, right to the very end.\n\n\"I thought defensively and tactically, the team played a good game. They are difficult to contain with their quality and some world-class players.\n\n\"We will learn from this and look to end the season strongly.\"\n• None Man City have now scored 100 goals in all competitions at the Etihad this season; extending their record for most home goals by an English top-flight team in a single campaign.\n• None Man City have won each of their last 13 Premier League games - it's the fourth run of a team winning 13+ games in a row in the competition's history, with City the only side to have done so twice.\n• None Man City have beaten every team they have faced in the league for the second consecutive season; the only other English top-flight team to achieve this were Preston between 1888-89 and 1889-90.\n• None Leicester have won just one of their past seven away games versus Man City in all competitions (W1 D1 L5).\n\nManchester City will wrap the title up with a win over Brighton at Amex Stadium on the final day of the season - Sunday, 12 May - while Leicester host Chelsea at King Power Stadium. Both matches kick off at 15:00 BST.\n• None Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hamza Choudhury.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Boeing has admitted that it knew about a problem with its 737 Max jets a year before the aircraft was involved in two fatal accidents, but took no action.\n\nThe firm said it had inadvertently made an alarm feature optional instead of standard, but insisted that this did not jeopardise flight safety.\n\nAll 737 Max planes were grounded in March after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed, killing 157 people.\n\nFive months earlier, 189 people were killed in a Lion Air crash.\n\nThe worldwide fleet of 737 Max planes totalled 387 aircraft at the time of the grounding.\n\nThe feature at issue is known as the Angle of Attack (AOA) Disagree alert and was designed to let pilots know when two different sensors were reporting conflicting data.\n\nThe planemaker said it had intended to provide the feature as standard, but did not realise until deliveries had begun that it was only available if airlines purchased an optional indicator.\n\nIt said it had intended to deal with the problem in a later software update.\n\nBoeing maintained that the software problem \"did not adversely impact airplane safety or operation\".\n\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration told Reuters news agency that Boeing had not informed it of the software issue until November 2018, a month after the Lion Air crash.\n\nThe FAA said the issue was \"low risk\", but said Boeing could have helped to \"eliminate possible confusion\" by letting it know earlier.\n\nThe flight angle of the plane has been identified as a factor in the disasters. Boeing has said that in both fatal crashes, erroneous AOA data was fed to the jet's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), an anti-stall system which has come under scrutiny since the crashes.\n\nBoeing is developing new software for MCAS.\n\nBoeing has admitted it was aware of a flaw on board the 737 Max months before the first accident, involving a Lion Air jet off the coast of Indonesia.\n\nBut was that flaw a factor in that accident? Would a working \"AOA Disagree\" alert actually have made any difference?\n\nAll it would have told the pilots was that the two angle-of-attack sensors aboard the plane were giving very different readings.\n\nThis mattered, because the MCAS system, which has been implicated in the crash, relied on data from a single sensor. A fault in that sensor may well have been the trigger for the crash.\n\nBut the pilots did not even know MCAS existed. It was a system designed to improve the handling of the aircraft and to operate in the background.\n\nIn the second accident, the pilots should at least have been aware of MCAS - and the sensor information could possibly have been of some use to them.\n\nBut given that they did in any case apparently follow procedures set out by Boeing to deal with an MCAS failure, but were still unable to maintain control, it is unlikely to have been a decisive factor.\n\nNevertheless, this will add to the pressure on Boeing - because despite being aware of an issue with the 737 Max, it initially chose not to inform airlines.\n\nYet as one 737 pilot told me: every warning system is there for a reason, so if you know there's a problem, why would you not fix it?\n\nBoeing insists the AOA Disagree alert was not necessary for safe flight.\n\nBut critics will be asking whether the company was complacent - and whether there is anything else which the company has chosen not to pass on to its customers, affecting this type of aircraft or its other models.", "Buckingham Palace has confirmed the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child - a boy.\n\nTheir son will be behind Prince Harry in the order of succession, making him seventh in line to the throne.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most striking pictures from Meghan's pregnancy.\n\nPrince Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37 announced they were expecting their first child after arriving in Sydney, Australia, on 15 October 2018, for their first official tour together\n\nHowever, the Queen and other senior royals were told about the pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding on 12 October 2018\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance at the 2018 British Fashion Awards in December, when she presented a prize to the designer of her wedding dress\n\nShe was then on hand to greet hundreds of well-wishers after attending the Christmas Day church service at Sandringham\n\nDuring a trip to Merseyside in January, the Duchess told well-wishers she was six months pregnant and did not know if it was a boy or a girl\n\nIn February, the royal couple went on their first official visit to Morocco, the couple's last overseas trip before the baby was due to arrive\n\nMeghan spoke at an event to mark International Women's Day, where she said she hoped her baby would be a feminist", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: 'We're dealing with a very unstable government'\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor says he does not trust Theresa May after details from cross-party talks on Brexit were leaked to the press.\n\nThe PM has called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"put their differences aside\" and agree a Brexit deal.\n\nBut John McDonnell said she had \"blown the confidentiality\" of the talks and \"jeopardised the negotiations\".\n\nThe UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March, but it was delayed to 31 October after MPs failed to agree a deal.\n\nMrs May put the plan she had negotiated with the EU to Parliament three times, but it did not have the support of the Commons.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, Mrs May said Mr Corbyn should \"listen to what voters said\" in Thursday's local elections - which saw the Conservatives lose 1,334 councillors and Labour fail to make expected gains, instead losing 82 seats.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats benefited from Tory losses, gaining 703 seats, with the Greens and independents also making gains.\n\nThe prime minister blamed the Brexit impasse for the losses - but said the elections gave \"fresh urgency\" to find a way to \"break the deadlock\".\n\nTheresa May appealed to the Labour Party to find a compromise over Brexit\n\nMrs May also said she hoped to find a \"unified, cross-party position\" with Labour - despite admitting that her colleagues \"find this decision uncomfortable\" and that \"frankly, it is not what I wanted either\".\n\nMr McDonnell agreed that the message from the polls was to \"get on with it\" and come to an agreement over Brexit quickly.\n\nBut while he said the talks between the two parties would continue on Tuesday, he said they had been undermined after an article in the Sunday Times detailed where Mrs May was willing to compromise - namely on customs, goods alignment and workers' rights.\n\nThe paper also said the PM could put forward plans for a comprehensive, but temporary, customs arrangement with the EU that would last until the next general election.\n\nMr McDonnell told the BBC's Andrew Marr show: \"We have maintained confidentiality as that is what we were asked to do. We haven't briefed the media.\n\n\"So it is disappointing the prime minister has broken that, and I think it is an act of bad faith.\n\n\"I fully understand now why she couldn't negotiate a decent deal with our European partners if she behaves in this way.\"\n\nAsked if he trusted the prime minister, the shadow chancellor said: \"No. Sorry. Not after this weekend when she has blown the confidentiality we had, and I actually think she has jeopardised the negotiation for her own personal protection.\"\n\nLabour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Sue Hayman have all been taking part in the cross-party talks\n\nClearly both sides think there is fresh impetus to get a deal after the local elections.\n\nThe government seems prepared to move towards Labour's position, but it's far from clear that it will be enough.\n\nThere's a real fear on the Labour side that if this isn't a permanent arrangement, a new Tory leader - perhaps Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - could come along and try to change it.\n\nSo success isn't guaranteed when the two sides get back around the table on Tuesday, and both sides need to know they can take a big chunk of their parties with them.\n\nIf Theresa May faces losing dozens of Tories opposed to a customs union, or Jeremy Corbyn faces losing dozens of labour MPs who want another referendum, they might not have the numbers to get this through the Commons.\n\nAnd in that case, a compromise is useless.\n\nSir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers, told the Daily Telegraph that staying in a customs union could lead to a \"catastrophic split\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nAnd Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme that millions of people would give up on Labour and the Conservatives if they agreed a deal, adding it would be the \"final betrayal\".\n\nBut the new International Development Secretary Rory Stewart told BBC Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics the Tories might have to \"take some short-term pain\" to finish the job.\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, also said her party needed to \"start walking ourselves back\" from the extremes of the argument to find a compromise, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr \"there is a deal to be done\" with Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson MSP: \"The answer is somewhere in the middle\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said it was \"absolutely right\" for the talks to continue, but told Pienaar's Politics: \"I don't think we should be in any doubt that the Labour Party membership and vast numbers of my colleagues in Parliament don't want us to just sign off on a Tory Brexit.\n\n\"They don't want us to bail the prime minister out of the problem of her own making and a very large number of our members think the people should decide on what that deal looks like.\"\n\nThe comments come after the People's Vote campaign - which wants a referendum on a final Brexit deal - published a letter signed by more than 100 opposition MPs saying any new, agreed deal should be put to the public for a vote.\n\nLabour MP Bridget Phillipson, who backs the campaign, told Sky's Sophy Ridge: \"I think we have reached a stage now that whatever deal is agreed... it has to go back to the British people.\n\n\"Something stitched up, cobbled together in Westminster will not be sustainable in the long run. I want to check it is what people want now.\"", "The cost of collecting hospital medical waste in Scotland has more than doubled since the collapse of Healthcare Environmental Services, figures show.\n\nThe Lanarkshire-based company went to the wall after becoming embroiled in a waste stockpiling scandal.\n\nContingency measures to remove waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy in Scotland were put in place.\n\nBut this has resulted in a \"significant increased cost\".\n\nContractors are receiving more than £460,000 per week to dispose of the hazardous materials following the collapse of Healthcare Environmental Services (HES), according to a Freedom of Information request made by the Press Association.\n\nBut Garry Pettigrew, the ex-boss of HES, which went into liquidation four months after all of its staff were made redundant, has claimed his firm charged a maximum of £11m per year - about £211,500 per week - for the collections.\n\nLawyers acting for the former HES workers believe they could be owed more than £1m in lost wages and overtime\n\nThe Scottish government said the contingency measures in place were robust and \"ensure that the environment and human health are appropriately protected\".\n\nHowever, leading bacteriologist Prof Hugh Pennington, of Aberdeen University, expressed concerns about both the safety risks and the value for money under the contingency plans and called for an inquiry into the situation.\n\nHe said: \"On the face of it it does sound as if there wasn't a contingency plan that was going to deliver value for money and there was a contingency plan that certainly wasn't as safe, from what I've heard, as the work that was being done before.\n\n\"If it's costing twice as much then the public is being put at a disadvantage.\n\n\"Waste is being generated 24/7 and has to be got rid of, safely as well.\n\n\"If what I've been told is true people are being put, unnecessarily, at a greater risk than they should be.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Health Monica Lennon added: \"Professor Pennington is right to raise concerns and the SNP government would be foolish to dismiss these. HES treated their staff appallingly and tax payers are having to clean up the financial and environmental mess left behind.\"\n\nThe FoI response from NHS Scotland shows that about £7m was spent on contingency waste measures in just 15 weeks - equivalent to about £465,000 per week.\n\nThe bulk of this went on \"operational and logistics\" measures for collecting the waste, while £2.2m went on disposal costs.\n\nEmails between NHS officials discussing waste contingency plans, which were also released under FoI, make reference to the \"significant increased cost compared to previously\".\n\nCorrespondence also shows some GP practices did not have any collections for nearly a month between December last year and January, resulting in \"lots of bags of smelly waste lying in corridors or stored in cupboards etc which is unacceptable and also a hazard\".\n\nWaste was piled on top of containers at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in January but has since been collected\n\nBBC Scotland published pictures in January showing bags of clinical waste piled high at three health centres in North Lanarkshire and at the time estimates suggested up to 300 tonnes of clinical waste and 10 tonnes of anatomical waste were also piled up at the HES plants in Dundee and Shotts, North Lanarkshire.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham told MSPs in January the majority of the human waste was at the HES Shotts headquarters and any clearance operation was likely to cost about £250,000.\n\nThe new waste disposal contract for Scotland has been awarded to the Spanish-owned firm Tradebe Healthcare National and is due to commence in August.\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish government provided £1.4m towards initial planning and once the contingency period ends the exact cost of these arrangements can be finalised.\n\n\"Procedures followed for clinical waste collection in hospitals are unchanged since HES ceased operating.\n\n\"All agreed contingency measures ensure that the environment and human health are appropriately protected.\n\n\"Scottish Environment Protection Agency is continuing to monitor the operation of these arrangements and to date their inspections have not identified any risk to human health or the environment.\"", "Privacy or publicity - what will the couple choose for their baby?\n\n\"Seclusion\", wrote former British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, \"is one of the few luxuries in which royal personages may not indulge\".\n\nSo what's going on with the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child?\n\nBuckingham Palace announced some weeks ago that there would be no information given out about the birth, beyond that it was happening.\n\nAnd so it was that shortly before 14:00 BST on Monday, a brief statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Meghan had gone in to labour, followed 40 minutes later by confirmation of the baby's arrival - a boy, weighing 7lbs 3oz.\n\nThat meant the strange British circus of journalists, photographers, royal superfans and bemused passers-by gawking at a hospital door for days on end would not happen.\n\nInstead, we have an arguably stranger British circus of the same group of people positioned at the end of Windsor's Long Walk, close to the Sussexes' new home.\n\nThe new family home is at Frogmore Cottage, Windsor\n\nThis is on the presumption that a birth is happening somewhere in the vicinity - but in the knowledge that nothing at all will be seen of mother, father, or indeed newborn child.\n\nThere is no great constitutional outrage here. The \"tradition\" of royal babies being paraded within hours of their birth goes back around four decades; not much more than the blink-of-an-eye in the history of the British monarchy.\n\nWhy the couple have chosen privacy over publicity is not too difficult to fathom. Harry still can't abide the media; he scowls at, or turns away from, cameras and casually throws insults at journalists covering his activities.\n\nMeghan has described social media as \"noise\"\n\nMeghan too has made it clear that she has little time for news coverage. She said a couple of months ago that she doesn't read the papers or look at social media, calling it \"noise\".\n\nWhy would either of them want to go through the arguably odd ritual of parading their newborn child in front of hundreds of cameras and journalists?\n\nWhat follows the birth is perhaps more important. They will have decisions to make about just how royal they want their child to be - in title, upbringing and public exposure.\n\nAnd the couple have a difficult line to tread between their public life and the life they would prefer to remain unseen.\n\nThat line, between the royals' public and private life, has shifted over the decades.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, here with newborn Prince Louis, have posed on the Lindo Wing steps after the birth of each of their three children\n\nFirst, the Queen, Prince Philip and their young children were presented as an example to the nation in the 1950s, a kind of \"first family\".\n\nThen in the late 60s, amid flagging interest in royalty, cameras were allowed into some of the family's more private moments - meals and barbecues and the like - in the BBC film The Royal Family.\n\nIt is difficult, if not impossible, to put that genie back in the bottle. Public exposure of what most people would think of as private life is part of royal duty.\n\nAnd that's the catch for Harry and Meghan going forward. They want to do good, to bring their star power to bear on causes that they care about.\n\nBut it is the lustre of royalty, not just plain old celebrity, that makes them different, giving them the power and platform to effect change.\n\nThey have sought to control the publicity around their lives, through insisting on privacy where they can, creating their own household, and establishing their own social media account.\n\nBut more fundamental choices loom, about how their child grows up, and whether they want the continued exposure that being royal brings.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks across the country\n\nA man arrested over the abduction and rape of three women in and around London is being investigated for other attacks involving nine further victims.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, was arrested in Congleton, Cheshire, after two girls, aged 14, were abducted in the town.\n\nHe is being investigated over attacks in Cheshire, Manchester and Lancashire, on victims aged between 11 and 71.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, of the Metropolitan Police, said the attacks were \"grotesque and horrifying\".\n\nThe officer urged other victims to come forward and said police wanted to hear from anyone who had been approached by Mr McCann or in contact with him between February and May.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nMr McCann was found in a tree in Smithy Lane on Sunday evening and arrested after a stand-off with police negotiators.\n\nHe had been spotted in the town after two girls were forced into a car that afternoon.\n\nMet detectives are now investigating him in connection with a number of other attacks earlier that day.\n\nThese include the false imprisonment of a woman in Haslingden, Lancashire, in which a teenage girl and a boy, 11, were raped and the abduction and rape of a 71-year-old in Bury, Manchester.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe suspect is also being investigated over the abduction of two 13-year-old boys and the abduction and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in Heywood, Manchester, at about 15:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Goodwin said the attacks were believed to have taken place between 21 April and 5 May.\n\n\"Detectives from the Met continue to lead on this investigation and are working very closely with policing counterparts where he is suspected to have carried out further offences,\" she said.\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London and raped in a car in London on 25 April.\n• None Man held after two more women abducted\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Signs have been created proclaiming that the Borders village of St Abbs is twinned with the fictional movie village New Asgard.\n\nThe film Avengers: Endgame features New Asgard, and location filming took place at St Abbs.\n\nThe lifeboat station was branded New Asgard Lifeboat Station during filming.\n\nScottish Borders Council made up the signs and the lifeboat crew have been posing with them at locations featured in the film.\n\nAccording to the lifeboat's Facebook page, filmmakers Marvel made a \"generous\" donation to the lifeboat.\n\nAvengers: Endgame is one of the most successful films of all time, having already earned in excess of $2bn (£1.5bn).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men were hit by a car on High Road in Leytonstone\n\nA murder investigation has been launched after a 52-year-old man was hit by a car in Leytonstone, east London.\n\nThe collision appears to have been \"a deliberate act by the driver of the car\" after an earlier altercation, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nTwo men were hit in High Road in the early hours of Sunday, the force said.\n\nThe 52-year-old died in hospital at 17:18 BST. A man, 32, has serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Wrigley, leading the investigation, said: \"At this early stage it appears that this was a deliberate act by the driver of the car.\n\n\"There had been an altercation in the street prior to this incident and I am appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information who has not yet come forward to contact police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The issue of biosecurity is set to become increasingly important to prevent alien invasive pathogens entering the UK habitat\n\nThe outbreak of ash dieback disease is set to cost the UK in the region of £15bn, it has been estimated.\n\nScientists expressed shock at the \"staggering\" financial burden on taxpayers.\n\nThe authors warn that the cost of tackling the fallout from ash dieback far exceeds the income from importing nursery trees.\n\nIt was an imported nursery tree that initially brought the deadly disease to these shores.\n\nThey added that it was the first time the total cost of the outbreak had been estimated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We estimate that the total may be £15bn,\" explained lead author Dr Louise Hill, a researcher at Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"That's a third more than the reported cost of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.\n\n\"The consequences of tree disease for people really haven't been fully appreciated before now.\"\n\nYoung and susceptible ash trees quickly succumb to the pathogen\n\nThe disease, also known as chalara dieback of ash, was first reported in the UK in a nursery in 2012, and was recorded in the wider environment for the first time in 2013.\n\nSince then it has spread to most parts of the UK.\n\nThe Forestry Commission says it has the \"potential to cause significant damage to the UK's ash population, with implications for woodland biodiversity and ecology, and for the hardwood industries\".\n\nIn Europe, the pathogen has caused widespread damage and has killed and infected millions of ash trees.\n\nAs well as estimating the loss from losing an economically important species, the £15bn figure takes in account the loss of \"ecosystem services\", such as water purification and carbon sequestration.\n\nReport co-author Dr Nick Atkinson, senior adviser at the Woodland Trust, said: \"What we were drawing attention to is that there is this huge financial and economic impact of a tree disease epidemic.\"\n\nThe authors, writing in the Current Biology journal, estimated that the total cost of ash dieback would be 50 times greater than the annual value of trade in live plants to and from Britain.\n\n\"What you have to look at is, essentially, the risk we are taking by trading across borders against the benefits, which is the financial gains coming from that market,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"The £15bn cost that we are now facing is the direct outcome of a trade that was worth a few million pounds.\"\n\nThe researchers said that the majority of the cost will be shouldered by local authorities.\n\n\"As we know, local authorities are not well funded and they are certainly not funded enough to deal with an epidemic of this magnitude,\" observed Dr Atkinson.\n\n\"There is this hole in the policy of responding to events like this.\"\n\nAnd it is something that is very likely to happen again in the near future, they warn, as there are 47 other known tree pests and diseases that could arrive in Britain and cause more than a billion pounds (or more) worth of damage.", "The building, which dates back to 1858, has been gutted by Monday's fire\n\nA suspected arson attack at a derelict Victorian fertiliser factory was likened to \"a disaster film\" scene.\n\nFire crews were called to the Grade II-listed former Fisons warehouse on Paper Mill Lane, in Bramford, near Ipswich, at about 05:00 BST.\n\nNo one is thought to have been hurt, but the building, dating back to 1858, was destroyed by the blaze.\n\nIan Bowell, from Suffolk Fire and Rescue, said there was \"no obvious natural cause\" for the fire.\n\n\"I have to say quite confidently that we are treating this as arson,\" he said.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters from both Suffolk and Essex fire services were called to the blaze, which is thought to have started in a smaller building before spreading to the wooden main factory building.\n\nEfforts to fully extinguish the fire are expected to go on for most of Monday and people living nearby have been told to close their windows and doors.\n\nSamantha Pemberton, who lives opposite the scene, said she and her family were \"met by a wall of fire\" when they looked outside.\n\n\"There were embers bigger than the size of your hand falling,\" she said.\n\n\"It was like walking onto the set of a disaster film.\"\n\nPaper Mill Lane was closed between Bramford and Claydon.\n\nFisons, a now defunct fertiliser company, operated at the site until 2003.\n\nIn 2014, a plan to turn the site into a £20m housing and business park was approved by councillors, but work had not begun.\n\nFisons operated at the site on Paper Mill Lane until 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Sussex said he was \"absolutely thrilled\" with the birth of his first child – but is yet to announce a name.\n\nHe said the Duchess of Sussex is also doing well.", "Australian DJ Adam Sky has died in an accident while on holiday on the Indonesian island of Bali.\n\nThe 42-year-old is said to have been badly hurt trying to help a friend who had suffered multiple injuries.\n\nWhile rushing to aid her, he smashed through a glass door, causing him to suffer severe cuts and blood loss, Nine News reported.\n\nAccording to the site the female friend had fallen several metres from their private terrace.\n\nThe woman survived and was taken to hospital, Indonesian media report.\n\nA statement confirming the Singapore-based DJ's death has been posted to his official Facebook page.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nTributes on the DJ's social media accounts praised him as a \"legend,\" and a great friend and colleague.\n\n\"You always burned so brightly,\" one read, while another described him as an \"amazing guy with a heart of gold\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted his management for comment.\n\nSky - real name Adam Neat - was ranked as the third most popular DJ in Asia last year, according to his website.\n\nThe site quotes JUICE Magazine Asia describing him as a \"rising Aussie superstar DJ\" and says he worked with well-known artists such as Fat Boy Slim, David Guetta and The Scissor Sisters.", "Joseph McCann was wanted over attacks in London and Watford\n\nPolice hunting a fugitive over the abduction and rapes of three women in and around London have arrested a man after two others were abducted in Cheshire.\n\nIn the latest attack on Sunday, two women were forced into a black Fiat Punto in Congleton town centre.\n\nJoseph McCann was found in a tree on a rural lane following a car chase.\n\nThe 34-year-old was spoken to by police negotiators and arrested, Cheshire Constabulary confirmed.\n\nSuspect Joseph McCann was seen in the back of a police car following his arrest\n\nThe Punto was seen in Congleton on Sunday evening by officers. Following a short chase, the car stopped on Obelisk Way having been in a crash with another car.\n\nThe women were left behind as the driver ran off. They were uninjured but have been left \"extremely shaken\", the force said.\n\nOfficers revealed they had found a suspect shortly after 23:00 BST.\n\nAndrew Kidd, who has a farm on Smithy Lane, said he was earlier told by police to stay inside his property.\n\n\"There were three or four police officers in my yard and they were looking up and down, looking in the trees,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw police running along the fence in a neighbouring field and the lane was full of police cars.\n\n\"The helicopter was round and my cows were stampeding because they were upset by the noise of it.\"\n\nThe car carrying the two abducted women crashed with another vehicle near Obelisk Way\n\nResident Robert Burns, 45, said he spoke to police who checked his outbuildings and wheelie bins in search of the suspect.\n\n\"We watched it all from upstairs. It was a long time, it went on for about three hours,\" he said.\n\n\"It was significant police presence, there were a lot of cars, all of the roads were closed.\"\n\nMr McCann was also wanted for questioning over the abduction and rape of a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 21 April.\n\nDuring that attack, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Met Police released a CCTV image of the suspect\n\nThe Met Police launched an appeal to find Mr McCann after two women in their 20s were snatched off streets in London on 25 April.\n\nA woman was abducted in Chingford at about 00:30, and another at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the attacker attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThe women escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "L to R: Line of Duty stars Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston\n\nMore than nine million viewers tuned into the final episode of Line of Duty on Sunday, giving it the biggest overnight audience of 2019 so far.\n\nThe tense conclusion to the BBC One drama's fifth series attracted an average audience of 9.1 million, according to overnight figures.\n\nCharlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content, said it was \"fantastic to see such a big audience\" for the show.\n\nCritics said the episode was \"breathtaking\" and \"deeply satisfying\".\n\nYet some expressed reservations about the series as a whole, saying it has been \"lacklustre\" and the \"weakest\" to date.\n\nThe BBC has already commissioned a sixth series from writer Jed Mercurio, who also wrote Bodyguard.\n\nLine of Duty's figures are the highest for a drama since last year's Bodyguard finale, which drew an overnight audience of 10.4 million last September.\n\nITV's royal drama Victoria, which went out at the same time as Line of Duty on Sunday, attracted an average audience of 2.5 million.\n\nDo not read on if you do not want to know anything else about Line of Duty's final episode.\n\nViewers on Sunday saw Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), head of anti-corruption unit AC-12, interrogated at length by his superior Patricia Carmichael (Anna Maxwell Martin).\n\nThe result, said the Telegraph's Allison Pearson, was \"an extraordinarily tense scene, a remarkable piece of theatre and one of the best things anyone will see this year on a TV screen.\"\n\nThe Times' Carol Midgley said the scene was \"forensically written and beautifully executed\", while Jan Moir from the Daily Mail called it \"beautifully scripted\".\n\nMoir also praised a \"killer twist\" at the conclusion of a \"nerve-shredding\" episode that kept audiences \"guessing right until almost the end.\"\n\n\"The latest twist was a classic Line of Duty curveball,\" wrote the Mirror's Ian Hyland - albeit one that \"stretched credibility to breaking point.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Lucy Mangan said it was \"as deeply satisfying as any in AC-12's history\" but said the series as a whole had \"felt like a placeholder season\".\n\n\"The twists are getting dafter but Line of Duty remains crazily compelling,\" wrote Mike Ward in the Express.\n\nThe Independent's Ed Power, meanwhile, said the \"exceedingly talky\" episode \"wrap[ped] up most of its loose ends... with excessive leisureliness.\"\n\nTwitter users have also had much to say about the episode, with praise being shared between the writing and its actors.\n\n\"The writing talent and sheer ballsy confidence of Jed Mercurio is breathtaking,\" wrote broadcaster Muriel Gray, going on to salute the \"outstanding\" cast.\n\nThe BBC's Dan Walker was particularly impressed by one scene featuring actors Vicky McClure and Martin Compston.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe British Transport Police also got in on the action, insisting its recruitment processes were \"much better\" than the ones depicted in the show.\n\nIn her own Twitter post, McClure gave \"a huge thank you to the LOD family for making this such a special series.\"\n\n\"Behind every good cast there's a phenomenal crew,\" wrote Compston. \"To make this show really is a team effort.\"\n\nThe credits for the 85-minute episode ended with a tribute to Graeme Livingstone, a crew member who died in a motorcycle accident in 2017.\n\nThe first episode of this series of Line of Duty drew an overnight audience of 7.8 million viewers when it aired at the end of March.\n\nThat figure rose to almost 11 million once the number of people who watched the show on devices was taken into account.\n\nFigures for the Line of Duty finale are also expected to grow once consolidated numbers are tabulated.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Forensics officers are working at the scene\n\nTwo men have died and two others were injured after a wall collapsed at a farm between Linlithgow and Falkirk.\n\nThe incident happened at Myrehead Farm in Whitecross at about 10:10.\n\nLocal road closures have been put in place while emergency services remain at the scene.\n\nOne of the injured men has been flown by air ambulance to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, while the other has been taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nNeither of the men in hospital is thought to have life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe incident happened on land at Whitecross\n\nCh Insp Damian Armstrong of Police Scotland said: \"My thoughts and sympathies are with the families of those affected by this incident and a multi-agency inquiry at the farm is ongoing.\n\n\"If anyone believes they have any relevant information that may be of use to this investigation then please come forward.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive have been informed of the incident.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said: \"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service responded at 10.11am on Monday, May 6 with emergency service partners to a farm in the Falkirk area following reports of a collapsed wall.\n\n\"Operations Control mobilised a number of fire appliances to the Whitecross area and firefighters currently remain in attendance.\"", "Hundreds of thousands of different species of animals and plants are facing extinction because of human activity, according to the United Nations.\n\nA report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found this biodiversity crisis is on a par with - and maybe exceeds - climate change.\n\nBut what is biodiversity and why is it important?\n\nBBC Health, Science and Environment correspondent, Laura Foster explains why biodiversity is important for the planet and how it affects humans too.", "Didier Lombard denies his reforms led staff to take their own lives\n\nThe ex-boss of France Telecom and six other former executives have gone on trial in Paris, accused of moral harassment linked to a spate of suicides among employees.\n\nDidier Lombard and his fellow defendants deny their tough restructuring measures were to blame for the subsequent loss of life.\n\nThe company, since renamed Orange, is also on trial for the same offence.\n\nThirty-five staff took their lives between 2008 and 2009.\n\nSome of them left messages blaming France Telecom and its managers.\n\nAt the time, the newly privatised company was in the throes of a major reorganisation. Mr Lombard was trying to cut 22,000 jobs and retrain at least 10,000 workers.\n\nSome employees were transferred away from their families or left behind when offices were moved, or assigned demeaning jobs.\n\n\"I'll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door,\" Mr Lombard was quoted as telling senior managers in 2007.\n\nMr Lombard has accepted that the restructuring upset employees, but rejected the idea that it led to people taking their own lives.\n\nIf found guilty, the defendants could each face a year in prison and €15,000 (£12,800) in fines.\n\nOrange itself could face sanctions of €75,000.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.", "Prince Harry said he and Meghan are still thinking about names for the child and he planned to make another announcement in two days' time \"so everyone can see the baby\".\n\nAnd that brings to a close our live coverage of today's announcement, but you can still keep up to date by reading our main news story.Thanks for following.", "The man died after the crash on Wide Lane, Eastleigh\n\nA 97-year-old man died after a crash involving his mobility scooter and a car.\n\nThe man was on Wide Lane, Eastleigh, when his scooter and a Ford Fiesta crashed on 1 May.\n\nPolice said the man was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where he died in the early hours of Saturday.\n\nHampshire Constabulary is appealing for the driver of a black Nissan Qashqai, who was behind the Ford, to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Are the UK's election laws fit for the era of digital campaigning? The Electoral Commission certainly does not think so.\n\nThe watchdog has called for a change in the law to make online political adverts show clearly who paid for them.\n\nIt wants online adverts to carry the same information as printed election material, which has to say who has produced it.\n\nThe director of regulation at the Electoral Commission Louise Edwards told me a new law was needed to make sure that it was clear who had paid for online advertising and make spending on digital campaigning far more transparent.\n\n\"What we need and what we're calling for, is a very clear change in the law to make parties and campaigners say on the face of their advert, who they are, who's paid for that advert and who is promoted,\" she said.\n\nShe says the Electoral Commission first recommended these changes in 2003 and is waiting for the outcome of a government consultation on the issue.\n\nWhen I asked whether the regulator's patience was running out, she paused: \"Impatient? These are things we think are important and we'd like to see them in place.\"\n\nThe government said it has committed to putting in place a digital imprint regime and technical proposals will be published later this year.\n\nThat will come too late for the European elections, in which the UK now looks certain to participate.\n\nThe regulator says online campaigning is becoming ever more significant in the UK, with spending doubling between the 2015 and 2017 General Elections.\n\nFacebook has recently started an online archive of political adverts on its site, with information about who is behind them and how they are targeted. Louise Edwards says that is a start but more information is needed on the adverts themselves.\n\nThe social media giant has opened an operations centre in Dublin to oversee its impact on the European Parliament elections.\n\nIt has faced criticism for its role in spreading misinformation and enabling foreign intervention in elections. The company says the poll in 28 countries is the most complex challenge its election monitoring team has yet faced.\n\n\"What we've learned over the last few years is that there are various threats to the democratic process,\" says Facebook's vice president for global security Richard Allan. \"And we're absolutely determined to try and minimize the risk of those threats as far as we can.\"\n\nAmongst the threats that Facebook has identified are voter suppression, where voters are deliberately given false information about where and when an election is taking place, and networks of fake accounts created by those trying to interfere in the democratic process.\n\nBetween October 2017 and September 2018 Facebook shut down 2.8 billion fake accounts. The company says people trying to abuse its systems often set up a computer which creates a new account every 10 seconds and it is engaged in a \"constant war\" to remove them.\n\nAfter the 2016 US Presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg said it was \"a pretty crazy idea\" to think fake news on Facebook had played any role in Donald Trump's victory.\n\nLater, he admitted he had been wrong to underplay the threat after it emerged that a Russian organisation had spent heavily on Facebook adverts promoting division during the election.\n\nNow Mark Zuckerberg's company is trying to show that it can be a positive force in the democratic process. I put it to Richard Allan that, given the catalogue of harms we have seen coming from Facebook, we might be better off if it just removed itself from elections.\n\nHe disagreed, admitting that bad actors had exploited the openness of the network but stressing that millions used it to engage with political issues in positive way: \"We believe that we can actually have the healthy democratic debate while minimizing these unhealthy attempts to interfere with it.\"\n\nFacebook has set about trying to regulate political activity on its hugely powerful platform. But the Electoral Commission thinks it is high time the government realised that its job is to bring what it calls our archaic and complex electoral laws into the digital era.", "Heatwaves could be made more severe by measures to reduce air pollution, according to research at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nScientists used a computerised model to mimic the impact of tiny man-made particles in the atmosphere.\n\nThey concluded that cutting pollution could disrupt the formation of clouds which reflect heat from the sun back into space.\n\nProf David Stevenson said it underlined the need for \"smart\" pollution control.\n\nThe research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests peak daytime temperatures could increase.\n\nIt predicts the northern hemisphere could be more likely to be affected because of widespread efforts to improve poor air quality.\n\nProf Stevenson, a specialist in atmospheric chemistry modelling, said: \"We desperately need to improve air quality.\n\n\"However, our results suggest that in doing so, we may inadvertently worsen heatwaves.\n\n\"Air pollution and climate change are inextricably linked and we need to develop smart pollution control policies that take these links into account.\"", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their first child in April\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have had their first child and along with the excitement and nerves of being new parents could come an unwanted tax bill.\n\nAs US citizens, Meghan - and her baby son - are liable to pay US taxes.\n\nThe US is one of only a few countries to charge tax based on citizenship and not residency. Other countries that tax non-resident citizens include Eritrea and Myanmar.\n\nThis means that even though the duke and duchess will be living at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, the US government still expects Meghan to file tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - the US tax authority.\n\nUS-born Meghan will pass her US citizenship on to her child\n\nThat goes for Prince Harry and Meghan's baby too. Any American who has lived in the US in the last five years automatically passes on their citizenship to their offspring.\n\nMeghan is expected to apply for UK citizenship, but that process takes time. Ahead of their wedding in 2018, Harry's communication's secretary, Jason Knauf, said Megan would be \"compliant with immigration requirements at all times\". That means she needs to live in the UK for at least five years.\n\nOnce she is a UK citizen, the duchess could renounce her US citizenship and her tax liability.\n\nThat process isn't simple either and it requires paying - you guessed it - more taxes. The US government charges an exit tax on all assets owned by anyone above the age of 18-and-a-half years renouncing their citizenship.\n\nWhile the Duchess of Sussex will be able to renounce her US citizenship in a few years when she becomes a UK citizen, her son will have to wait until he is at least 16.\n\nUnder US law minors under the age of 16 are \"presumed not to have the requisite maturity\" to relinquish citizenship.\n\nThe US and the UK have an agreement that gives US citizens a tax credit based on the amount of tax paid in the UK, but that's unlikely to erase either Meghan's or her son's US tax bill.\n\nUS citizens living abroad are obliged to file taxes each year reflecting their income, gifts over $15,797 (£12,080) assets over $200,000 (£152,930) and disclosing any foreign bank accounts and must pay applicable US taxes.\n\nMeghan and her baby will have to report any gift they received over the past year if the total value is over $15,797 (£12,080)\n\nFor Meghan, this will include baby shower gifts. Her son's birthdays could become an accounting exercise.\n\nAny future income from investments or trusts put in the child's name will also be taxable.\n\n\"All the royals are probably beneficiaries of various trusts and they will need to be careful,\" says Sam Ashley, US tax director at The Tax Advisory Partnership.\n\nMr Ashley does not advise any members of the Royal Family but says it's likely the advisers they do have started planning for this a long time ago, possibly even before the wedding.\n\nThe US requires all citizens - regardless of where they live - to pay taxes\n\nAs an actress, Meghan was reportedly paid $50,000 per episode of the show Suits. While she is no longer a working actress she will receive some payments whenever the show is rebroadcast.\n\nThe duke and duchess's expenses - such as living costs, travel, clothing - are covered by Harry's father for their role as working royals, representing the Queen. The Prince of Wales funds his sons and their families with income from the Duchy of Cornwall.\n\nIt's likely that when Harry accepts any money from his father he keeps his accounts separate from Meghan's to avoid giving the US tax authorities any insight into the Duchy or any other family trusts.\n\nAny money given by Prince Charles directly to Meghan or his grandson will have to be declared to the US authorities and will be taxable.\n\nThe potential exposure of the Royal Family's complicated finances is a bigger risk than a large tax bill.\n\n\"The Royal Family likely have some quite complicated trust structures to pass down family wealth and it's unlikely they would want the US to look into that,\" says Mr Ashley.\n\nAdvisers have probably been planning for Meghan's US tax return since her engagement was announced\n\nMost married couples in the US file their taxes jointly, but the duchess will probably file as an individual to avoid revealing her husband's finances.\n\nChildren who earn under $2,000 can file their taxes with their parents', but a royal baby will possibly have gifts and inherited assets that will have to be declared to the IRS.\n\nNo matter what insight the US government gains into the Royal Family's finances - and experts stress that is likely to be limited - the public won't get that same view. US tax returns are confidential.\n\nBut if both royals do give up their status as Americans they won't be alone. Many wealthy and well-known figures have given up their US citizenship and ditched US tax liability.", "Joseph McCann, 34, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA suspected triple rapist being hunted by police may have been mistakenly released from prison, it has emerged.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is alleged to have abducted and raped three women in north London and Watford last week.\n\nHe was not - but should have been - referred to the Parole Board before he was released from prison in February, while halfway through serving a sentence for burglary.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said an \"urgent review\" of the case was under way.\n\nMcCann was jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nHe was given an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) with a minimum term, or tariff, of two-and-a-half years.\n\nThis meant the Parole Board had to decide if it was safe to release him once his tariff expired in 2010.\n\nIn 2017 he was released on licence, which meant he could be sent back to jail if he reoffended or breached his parole conditions.\n\nLater that year, while on licence, McCann was arrested and charged with a further burglary.\n\nHe was given a three-year jail sentence.\n\nMcCann's case should have been referred to the board before he was released but in February this year he was dealt with as a \"determinate sentence\" prisoner.\n\nThis meant he was automatically released 18 months into his sentence.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about McCann's whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nDetectives described McCann as \"extremely dangerous\" and said people should call 999 if they saw him.\n\nHe is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair, a light-coloured short beard, and the name \"Bobbie\" tattooed on his stomach.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major fire, likened to scenes from a \"disaster film\" by eyewitnesses, broke out at a Grade II-listed building in Suffolk.\n\nFire crews were called to the former Fisons warehouse on Paper Mill Lane, in Bramford, near Ipswich, at about 05:00 BST.\n\nNo one is thought to have been hurt, but the building, dating back to the 1850s, was destroyed by the blaze.\n\nIt is being treated as suspected arson.", "A British backpacker has spoken for the first time about being kidnapped and raped by a man in Australia.\n\nElisha Greer, 24, was held captive by Marcus Martin during a 1,000 mile road trip in 2017 - during which she was beaten and had a gun held to her head.\n\nMs Greer, originally from Liverpool, told Australia's Channel 7 he \"seemed like a nice guy\" when they had met at a party in Queensland two months earlier.\n\nMartin, 24, pleaded guilty to rape and deprivation of liberty in October.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 28 May.\n\nMs Greer moved to Australia in 2015, aged 21. She told the Sunday Night programme she met Martin in Cairns in January 2017, and after swapping numbers, Martin moved into her hotel room.\n\nHe began asking her for money, and, according to Ms Greer, it was not long before he became abusive.\n\nShe said he bought a gun for \"protection\" and she was \"forced to drive the car with the gun to my head\" while he robbed a drug dealer.\n\nAfter he had taken drugs, Martin hit, raped and choked Ms Greer until she passed out.\n\n\"He turned around and he just started to hit me, hit me, hit me,\" she said of one attack.\n\nMs Greer said Martin would \"cuddle her\" and be apologetic after the assaults - but his violent and controlling behaviour continued.\n\nShe said he threw her contraceptive away because \"maybe he thought that he could control me more if I was with his child\".\n\nEventually, Ms Greer said Martin was receiving threatening text messages and he became \"determined to leave town before someone else found him\".\n\nMs Greer went on to describe the 1,000-mile road trip, where Martin's abusive behaviour intensified.\n\nIn one incident she said her face turned purple after he shoved her onto the floor, between the car door and seats - breaking her nose.\n\n\"I think he scared himself sometimes because of how much damage he was doing, but then I think he also felt power,\" said Ms Greer.\n\nShe said she contemplated killing Martin so she could escape, but feared it would make matters worse, if her attempt failed.\n\nDuring a stop she left a plea for help in a visitor's book - which was unanswered. Finally, after five days of driving the pair stopped for petrol at a service station.\n\nMs Greer, who was being forced to drive, said she left without paying - in the hope staff would call the police.\n\nAn attendant called the authorities and Ms Greer was rescued by police in Queensland after they stopped the 4x4 she was driving\n\nDescribing the injuries she suffered, Ms Greer said: \"He broke my nose, split my eyebrow open, I had various amounts of bite marks all up and down my arms.\n\n\"I had bite marks on my face, he had stabbed me in the neck with the key, I had two black eyes, hand prints all over my body from bruises. So many bruises.\"\n\nShe was taken to hospital but said she only felt safe days later, when she saw her mum.\n\nMartin, 24, of Cairns, pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and one count of deprivation of liberty in October 2018, and will be sentenced on May 28.", "Last updated on .From the section Norwich\n\nAnyone who has seen Norwich City this season will know they never park the bus - but they were left with no choice after their promotion parade vehicle broke down as they celebrated reaching the Premier League.\n\nThe Canaries, who sealed the Championship title on Sunday, were forced to ditch their specially-decorated yellow bus for a city sightseeing model as they paraded the trophy on an open-top tour.\n\nIt was reminiscent of a scene from the film Mike Bassett: England Manager, in which the Norwich parade bus takes a wrong turn onto a dual carriageway as they marked winning the fictional Mr Clutch Cup.\n\nIt is also a tale one of the city's most famous 'sons', Alan Partridge, would likely be proud of - especially with the city centre being pedestrianised for Monday's event.\n\nBroadcaster and fan Jake Humphrey opened the celebrations on the balcony at City Hall with players and officials speaking to the crowd before stepping aboard their ill-fated bus.\n\n\"It's really outstanding what this club and these supporters and this place has achieved during this season,\" said head coach Daniel Farke.\n\n\"All words are right. So world class, special, unique, extraordinary. We are all unbelievably proud.\"\n\nThe festivities continued later with a charity match at Carrow Road between two teams featuring current and former Norwich players, watched by nearly 20,000.\n\nA side led by Wes Hoolahan won 7-4 against an XI captained by Russell Martin.", "Ellie Gould, 17, was a pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham\n\nA teenage boy has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Ellie Gould.\n\nWiltshire Police said the 17-year-old suspect was from the Calne area and known to her.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody ahead of an appearance at Salisbury Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nEllie, a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School, was pronounced dead after being found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, on Friday. Police detained the suspect in Chippenham that afternoon.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive\n\nInsp Don Pocock said: \"I would like to again thank the communities of Calne and Chippenham for the support and patience they have shown so far to our officers as they have carried out inquiries as part of this murder investigation.\n\n\"A case like this takes time and will understandably have an impact on the local community - so thank you for your help and understanding.\n\n\"Over the past few days, people living in Calne and Chippenham would have seen an increased police presence which I appreciate can add more anxiety and upset to what is already a tragic situation.\"\n\nLisa Percy, head teacher of Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, said: \"The students, staff and parents have found comfort in being together and paying their respects to Ellie and our thoughts remain with her family and friends at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joseph McCann, 33, is said to have links to Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich\n\nA man wanted over the abduction and rape of two women in London has been linked to a third attack.\n\nJoseph McCann is wanted by detectives investigating the abduction of two women in Chingford and Edgware on 25 April.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary said he was also linked to the rape of a 21-year-old in Watford on 21 April.\n\nOfficers believe McCann, who is also wanted on recall to prison, could be using disguises.\n\nA £20,000 reward has been offered by the Metropolitan Police for information about his whereabouts that leads to his arrest and prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has been told he was originally jailed in 2008 for aggravated burglary after admitting breaking into the home of an 85-year-old man on 27 December 2007.\n\nHe was released on licence by the Parole Board in 2017 but had been recalled for breaching his licence.\n\nJoseph McCann is known to use false names, most recently Joel, the Met said\n\nDuring the attack in Watford, the victim was approached by a man holding a knife in Hagden Lane at about 03:30 BST.\n\nShe was forced into a blue Ford Mondeo and driven around the town for six hours before being raped.\n\nThe Hertfordshire force said the suspect had been identified after the attack was reported to them on 22 April.\n\n\"A significant amount of work was done to try and locate and arrest him, which proved unsuccessful,\" it said.\n\nThe next victim was abducted the following Friday in Chingford, north London, at about 00:30, with the third targeted at 12:15 in Edgware.\n\nBoth women, aged in their 20s, were raped before being driven to a hotel in Watford, where the suspect attempted to book a room but left when one was unavailable.\n\nThey both then escaped following a struggle in Osborne Road at about 14:30.\n\nThe Met said 33-year-old McCann, who has connections in Watford, Aylesbury and Ipswich, is known to use false names.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin said: \"We would ask anyone with any information about McCann's whereabouts to contact us immediately.\n\n\"McCann is considered extremely dangerous and a risk to the public and we ask people not to approach him, but instead call 999.\"\n\nMcCann is described as white, with a muscular build, a bald head or shaved blond hair and a light-coloured short beard.\n\nHe is said to have a distinctive tattoo of the name \"Bobbie\" on his stomach.\n\nA man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to rape and released as inquiries continue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nEliud Kipchoge will attempt to break the two-hour marathon barrier in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge later this year.\n\nThe Kenyan, 34, holds the world record of two hours one minute 39 seconds but this attempt would not be an official record as he will be assisted by in-out pacemakers.\n\nHe clocked 2:00:25 in a similar unofficial event in Italy in 2017.\n\nThe location and date for the challenge is yet to be confirmed, but it will take place in September or October.\n\n\"I always say that no human is limited,\" said Kipchoge, who won the London Marathon for the fourth time on 28 April.\n\n\"I know that it is possible for me to break this barrier.\"\n\nHe added: \"Running the fastest-ever marathon time of 2:00:25 was the proudest moment of my career.\n\n\"To get another chance to break the magical two-hour mark is incredibly exciting.\"\n• None Eliud Kipchoge on freedom, simplicity & power of the mind\n\nThe announcement comes on the 65th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's sub-four-minute mile, an achievement which many had previously believed to be impossible.\n\nKipchoge's latest London Marathon victory - in 2:02:38 - was the second fastest official time in history, and the Olympic champion believes he has what it takes to hit 1:59.\n\n\"I learnt a lot from my previous attempt and I truly believe that I can go 26 seconds faster than I did in Monza two years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"I am very excited about the months of good preparation to come and to show the world that when you focus on your goal, when you work hard and when you believe in yourself, anything is possible.\"\n\nWhen Kipchoge ran 2:00:25 at Monza - the home of the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix - on 6 May 2017, small groups of pacemakers ran pre-defined segments of the circuit before handing over to another group, and the Kenyan did not have to slow down for feed stations as drinks were delivered by scooter.\n\nThis meant the time was not recognised as a world record.\n\nHis official world record was set in Berlin in September.\n\nLondon could host the 2019 challenge, which is being sponsored by Ineos, who formally took over cycling's Team Sky last week.\n\nThe chemicals firm is owned by Britain's richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who said Kipchoge is the only athlete who has \"any chance\" of beating the two-hour mark.\n\n\"We are going to give him every support and hopefully witness sporting history,\" he said.", "The disgraced film producer was sentenced to 23 years in jail after his trial in New York\n\nHollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault by courts in New York and Los Angeles.\n\nHere is a summary of the key events that led him to court:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mumps leads to painful swellings under the ears\n\nA significant increase in mumps cases and continuing outbreaks of measles in England have led to calls for people to ensure they are immunised.\n\nPublic Health England said even one person missing their vaccinations was \"too many\".\n\nThere were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, compared with 1,031 in the whole of 2018.\n\nMost mumps cases are linked to teenagers mixing when they go to university.\n\nA large outbreak was centred on Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham at the beginning of the year and similar increases in cases have been reported in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe disease is caused by a virus that infects and causes painful swellings in the parotid glands under the ears.\n\nIn rarer cases, it can lead to viral meningitis and swollen ovaries or testicles.\n\nMumps is one of the infections the MMR vaccine protects against or at least lessens the symptoms of.\n\nHowever, many of the students now at university were born at the peak of the MMR-autism scare around the turn of the century, when vaccination rates dropped.\n\nThe autism link, made by disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield, has since been completely disproved.\n\n\"If you're going to university, now's the time to catch up if you missed out as a child,\" said Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at Public Health England.\n\nPublic Health England has also reported outbreaks of measles in London, the North West and the East of England.\n\nIn the first quarter of 2019, there were 231 confirmed cases.\n\nThe World Health Organization says we are in the middle of a global measles crisis.\n\nCases in the UK are largely within communities with low-vaccination rates and are linked to travel to other countries with outbreaks.\n\nDr Ramsay added: \"Measles can kill and it is incredibly easy to catch, especially if you are not vaccinated.\n\n\"Even one child missing their vaccine is one too many - if you are in any doubt about your child's vaccination status, ask your GP as it's never too late to get protected.\"\n\nHelen Bedford, professor of child public health at UCL, said: \"Measles is a highly infectious, potentially serious disease and England has not escaped the recent increase in cases we have seen globally.\n\n\"If you are unvaccinated or in doubt about whether you are protected, contact your GP practice.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign students may have been unfairly deported from the UK after being falsely accused of cheating in English language tests, a report has warned.\n\nThe government withdrew 30,000 visas from non-EU citizens after it emerged students were having other people sit their tests for them.\n\nThe National Audit Office concluded cheating had been \"large scale\", but innocent people may have been deported.\n\nThousands accused of cheating had since won leave to remain, it also said.\n\nThe Home Office said the NAO's report highlighted \"the scale and organised nature of the abuse\", adding that 25 people had received criminal convictions for their role in the scandal.\n\nIn 2014, BBC Panorama broadcast footage showing organised cheating in two English language test centres run by third parties for the non-profit organisation Educational Testing Service (ETS).\n\nThe service used voice recognition technology to try to find out who had cheated by having someone else sit their test.\n\nETS classified 97% of UK tests taken between 2011 and 2014 as suspicious, 58% as invalid, and 39% as questionable.\n\nIn the wake of the findings, the Home Office shut down colleges, excluded students and cancelled visas.\n\nThe head of the NAO, Sir Amyas Morse, said the Home Office \"should have taken an equally vigorous approach to protecting those who did not cheat but who were still caught up in the process, however small a proportion they might be\".\n\n\"This did not happen,\" he added.\n\nThe watchdog said it could not estimate accurately how many innocent people may have been wrongly identified as cheats.\n\nAs of March, 11,000 people who had taken the English tests had left the country after an accusation was made against them, the NAO said.\n\nOne student accused in 2014, who did not want to use his real name, told the BBC's Today programme the Home Office tried to deport him in 2017 and kept him in a detention centre for seven days.\n\n\"All this actually made my life really miserable, I cannot even finish my studies,\" he said.\n\nAt the beginning of May he launched an appeal to clear his name. He is waiting to hear the result.\n\nLast month, a woman who came to the UK from Bangladesh in 2010 told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she also had at one stage been detained after being accused of cheating.\n\nFatema Chowdhury, who finished her law degree at the University of London in 2014, denied the allegation and said no evidence of her alleged cheating had been presented to her.\n\nShe is not currently being threatened with removal from the UK, but while remaining in the country cannot work or use the NHS for free.\n\nShe said her \"dreams and hopes\" had disappeared, and she was \"desperate\" to speak to someone at the Home Office to \"prove my innocence\".", "Forensic officers have been at the scene around the home in Shiregreen, Sheffield\n\nTwo boys have died and four other children - including a seven-month-old baby - are in hospital after police swooped on a house in Sheffield.\n\nA man, 37, and a woman, 34, arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody as officers attempt to establish how the pair, aged 13 and 14, died.\n\nThe other children - aged 12, 11, three and eight months - remain in hospital but are conscious, police said.\n\nA cordon remains in place outside the home in the Shiregreen area.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police received \"reports of concerns for safety\" of those inside the address at 07:30 BST on Friday.\n\nNeighbours reported seeing more than a dozen police cars in the street and an air ambulance landing in a nearby primary school.\n\nSupt Paul McCurry said officers were not looking for anybody else in relation to the deaths and said it was an \"isolated\" incident.\n\nThe surviving children would be in hospital for \"certainly the next few hours\", he said, while post-mortem tests on the deceased were due to take place later.\n\nPolice earlier said there was no wider risk to the community and urged people to be \"mindful\" of what they posted online.\n\nEmergency services were alerted to a serious incident here at a semi-detached house and police have been on the scene ever since.\n\nForensics officers are coming and going all the time.\n\nThere's been speculation about what has happened here - there was even a suggestion of a shooting at one point, prompting police to say no guns were involved.\n\nOfficers won't be drawn on the circumstances, so there's lots of unanswered questions as the inquiry goes on.\n\nA large area remains cordoned off as that investigation continues.\n\nAaron Brunskill, who lives locally, said residents came out into the street at 08:00 to find about 15 police cars and four ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I know there's children there, I've just seen them walking back to the shops and that's all I know.\n\n\"Everyone speaking on the road said the first one out had to be resuscitated.\"\n\nLocal resident Aaron Brunskill said he went outside on Friday morning and saw the street busy with emergency vehicles\n\nYorkshire Air Ambulance confirmed it had landed in the grounds of Hartley Brook Primary Academy, which backs on to the road.\n\nThe school is not believed to have been involved in the incident.\n\nIn a statement, Gill Furniss, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, said she was \"deeply saddened by the tragic incident\".\n\n\"My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones of the children who have lost their lives and also with those who are currently in the care of Sheffield Children's Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"Shiregreen is a strong community but I know the whole area is deeply shaken by what has happened here.\n\n\"I would like to thank hardworking South Yorkshire Police and the NHS staff for their response in such a difficult situation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story\n\nMiddlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life.\n\nRobyn used to \"get mortal\" (drunk) and \"end up at random parties\". But when she was pregnant, she vowed to change.\n\nShe stopped drinking and smoking marijuana, saying: \"I used to be pretty crazy. Being pregnant has calmed me down.\"\n\nTeen births have been falling nationally but rising in Middlesbrough.\n\nRobyn's mother Shelly recalls one night when the police arrived at the house - yet again.\n\n\"It was around midnight and the police knocked on the door - they were bringing Robyn home from a party.\n\n\"She'd drunk an entire bottle of vodka at an unknown man's flat, passed out, got into the bath and was found sprawled naked on the living room floor. She was 15.\"\n\nRobyn added: \"When I met my boyfriend and got pregnant I realised that that couldn't happen any more.\n\n\"I'm so excited to meet my baby girl - we had a gender reveal party and even though I would have been happy with a boy, I really wanted my own little girl.\n\n\"When we popped the balloon and I saw the pink confetti, I cried with happiness.\"\n\nHer daughter is due at the end of June.\n\nRobyn says society has a double standard when it comes to boys and girls\n\nShelly said: \"Robyn is actually the fourth generation of teen mams in our family.\n\n\"I've told Robyn it's time to grow up now and she has - I'm proud of how she's changed for her baby.\n\n\"When Robyn was a bit older I went to Durham University and completed a degree in human science - I think of it as doing my life the other way around.\"\n\nIn Middlesbrough, there were 43.8 teen pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the year to December 2017, compared with an average of 17.9 in England and Wales.\n\nThe next highest rate was in St Helens in Merseyside with 37.1 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers.\n\nTeenage pregnancy is linked to fewer life chances - a higher risk of the child and the parent living in poverty, an increased risk of infant mortality and a higher chance of the mother experiencing mental health problems.\n\nIt is more then 15 years since the government launched its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in response to England having one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe.\n\nSince then, the under-18 conception rate has dropped by 60% and the proportion of teenage mothers in education and training has doubled.\n\nBut in Middlesbrough over the two years from 2015 to 2017 it jumped from 36.5 to 43.8 - a rise of 20%.\n\nMegan says she has to restrict herself in order to care for her baby\n\nMegan, who is also from Middlesbrough, was 17 when she learned she was 23 weeks pregnant with her baby boy.\n\nShe said: \"My baby will be loved and cared for.\n\n\"I've finished my college course in performing arts and after about a year out I plan to either go back to college or get a job.\n\n\"Being a teenage mam won't stop me. I'm lucky - my family are supportive.\"\n\nDurham University's professor of sociology Dr Kimberly Jamie said: \"We need to stop accepting the middle-class life trajectory as the 'right' way for young people, especially women, to live their lives.\n\n\"The school to university to career to house to marriage to children isn't possible or desirable for all young women, yet those who take a different route through life are positioned as irresponsible, or as having somehow failed.\n\n\"Teenage pregnancy is understood as a death knell for any kind of career success rather than acknowledging that post-16 education and careers are still available for women in their 30s or 40s when their children are grown up and they have time to start a new career.\"\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump will be welcomed by the Queen on his first official state visit to the UK next month, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA ceremonial welcome will be held in the palace's garden on the first day of his three-day trip next month.\n\nMr Trump will also meet outgoing PM Theresa May and royals including the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex will not attend.\n\nIt follows the birth of her son Archie, who will be less than a month old at the time of the visit.\n\nThe Queen will be joined by the Prince of Wales and Camilla for the official welcome of Mr Trump and his wife Melania on 3 June.\n\nIt will take place in the private grounds of the palace instead of the more usual venue of Horse Guards Parade.\n\nAfter the welcome, the Duke of Sussex will join the group for a private lunch at the palace.\n\nIn the evening, a state banquet will be held in the palace's ballroom where Mr Trump, the Queen, Charles and Camilla will be joined by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with UK public figures and prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn the second day, Mr Trump and Mrs May will host a business breakfast meeting, attended by the Duke of York, at St James's Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then visit Downing Street for talks with Mrs May, with whom he will hold a joint press conference. It will come just days before she steps down as Conservative leader on 7 June.\n\nIn the evening, the Trumps will host a dinner at Winfield House, the residence of the US ambassador, which Charles and Camilla will attend on behalf of the Queen.\n\nThe trip is expected to culminate with Mr Trump, the Queen and Prince Charles attending the national commemorative event for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nWhen the state visit was announced last month, Mrs May hailed it as an opportunity for the UK and US \"to strengthen our already close relationship\".\n\nThe White House said it would \"reaffirm the steadfast and special relationship\" between the two nations.\n\nBut the trip was condemned by shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who said the president had \"systematically assaulted all the shared values that unite our two countries\".", "May to form government with DUP backing\n\nTheresa May says she will govern with her Democratic Unionist \"friends\" and \"get on\" with Brexit after losing her majority, but rivals say she has caused chaos.", "Scottish shops are outperforming the rest of the UK\n\nRetail sales stalled in April, but warmer weather boosted sales of clothing, which offset falls in other areas of spending.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said sales in April were flat on March, and higher than the 0.3% fall expected.\n\nIn the three months to April, sales increased by 1.8%, with a record quarter for the online sector.\n\nONS statistician Rhian Murphy said three-month growth was strong, with warmer weather boosting sales.\n\nThe data illustrated the changes taking place on the High Street.\n\nSales from online-only retailers rose 9.4% over the three-month period - the highest three-month-on-three-month growth rate since records began, the ONS said, boosted by promotions and sales.\n\n\"Elsewhere, department stores continued to see their sales fall,\" Ms Murphy said.\n\nDepartment store sales fell by 0.5% and those in household goods stores declined by 2.9%.\n\nCompared with a year earlier, sales were up by 5.2% after a 6.7% annual rise in March.\n\nThe ONS said anecdotal evidence from retailers suggested warm weather in April boosted sales over the period, which included Easter, while economists said the figures showed Brexit was not having an impact on spending.\n\n\"April's retail sales figures are a timely reminder that political uncertainty is having no discernible impact on households' overall spending. The stability of volumes in April is a good result, following recent strong gain,\" said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\n\"Admittedly, warmer-than-usual weather - average temperatures were 1.1C above their 1970-to-2018 April average - probably temporarily stimulated clothing sales,\" he added.\n\nDuncan Brewer, retail partner at management consultants Oliver Wyman, said sales were boosted \"as consumers went out and spent money over the sunny holiday period\".\n\nBut, he said, that contrasted to \"continued bad news from our ailing High Streets, which continue to be challenged by the shift to online. Retail used to be simple: consumers went to stores, browsed products, then bought what they wanted\".\n\nConsumer spending helped drive the economy in the first quarter of the year and economists look to the retail sales figures as one potential gauge for the impact on economic growth.\n\nRuth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said sales volumes might have been weaker if retailers had not discounted over the Easter period and that growth could slow in the second quarter as household spending eased.\n\n\"And with other parts of the economy in no position to compensate, this supports our view that growth will moderate a little in [the second quarter] and remain sluggish for the rest of the year,\" she said.", "Sheffield's flamboyant former Lord Mayor Magid Magid has been elected an MEP by the Yorkshire and the Humber electorate.\n\nA former refugee, Mr Magid was Sheffield City Council's first Green Party mayor and its youngest at 29.\n\nHe took to Twitter to thank voters after the result was announced:", "Whorlton Hall, near Castle Barnard, looked after 17 adults with learning difficulties and autism\n\nTen workers have been arrested over the alleged abuse of patients with learning difficulties at a specialist hospital.\n\nSeven men and three women were arrested at addresses in Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Darlington and Stockton.\n\nUndercover filming by BBC Panorama at Whorlton Hall in County Durham appeared to show patients being mocked, intimidated and restrained.\n\nThe site had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before the abuse was discovered.\n\nThose arrested were being questioned about offences relating to abuse and neglect at the privately-run NHS-funded unit, Durham Police said.\n\nA spokesman said investigations were expected to take some time but repeated the force's \"immediate priority has been to work with other agencies to safeguard the victims at the centre of the allegations and their families\".\n\nThose arrested would be released under investigation pending further inquiries, he added.\n\nThe force said it was seeking the co-operation of the Panorama team to gather further evidence.\n\nCygnet, the firm that runs the 17-bed hospital unit for adults with learning difficulties and autism, said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by the allegations.\n\nThe company only took over the running of the centre at the turn of the year and said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the police investigation.\n\nAll the patients have been transferred to other services and the hospital closed down, Cygnet said.\n\nCare minister Caroline Dinenage told the House of Commons this week she was \"deeply sorry that this has happened\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the failure to deliver Brexit was a matter of \"deep regret\"\n\nEver since I first stepped through the door behind me as prime minister, I have striven to make the United Kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.\n\nAnd to honour the result of the EU referendum.\n\nBack in 2016, we gave the British people a choice.\n\nAgainst all predictions, the British people voted to leave the European Union.\n\nI feel as certain today as I did three years ago that, in a democracy, if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide. I have done my best to do that.\n\nI negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbours that protects jobs, our security and our Union.\n\nI have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times.\n\nI believe it was right to persevere, even when the odds against success seemed high.\n\nBut it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort.\n\nTheresa May got emotional as she announced she would resign as prime minister\n\nSo I am today announcing that I will resign as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party on Friday 7 June so that a successor can be chosen.\n\nI have agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 1922 Committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week.\n\nI have kept Her Majesty the Queen fully informed of my intentions, and I will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded.\n\nIt is, and will always remain, a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.\n\nIt will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum.\n\nTo succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in Parliament where I have not.\n\nSuch a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to compromise.\n\nFor many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton - who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport - was my constituent in Maidenhead.\n\nAt another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice.\n\nHe said, 'Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.' He was right.\n\nAs we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics - whether to deliver Brexit, or to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland - we must remember what brought us here.\n\nBecause the referendum was not just a call to leave the EU but for profound change in our country.\n\nA call to make the United Kingdom a country that truly works for everyone. I am proud of the progress we have made over the last three years.\n\nWe have completed the work that David Cameron and George Osborne started: the deficit is almost eliminated, our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to austerity.\n\nMy focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country, not just in London and the south east, through our modern industrial strategy.\n\nWe have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job.\n\nWe are building more homes and helping first-time buyers onto the housing ladder - so young people can enjoy the opportunities their parents did.\n\nAnd we are protecting the environment, eliminating plastic waste, tackling climate change and improving air quality.\n\nThis is what a decent, moderate and patriotic Conservative government, on the common ground of British politics, can achieve - even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced.\n\nI know that the Conservative Party can renew itself in the years ahead.\n\nThat we can deliver Brexit and serve the British people with policies inspired by our values. Security; freedom; opportunity.\n\nThose values have guided me throughout my career.\n\nBut the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless, to fight the burning injustices that still scar our society.\n\nThat is why I put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our NHS long-term plan.\n\nIt is why I am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nIt is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality, so it has nowhere to hide.\n\nAnd that is why I set up the independent public inquiry into the tragedy at Grenfell Tower - to search for the truth, so nothing like it can ever happen again, and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten.\n\nBecause this country is a union. Not just a family of four nations. But a union of people - all of us.\n\nWhatever our background, the colour of our skin, or who we love. We stand together. And together we have a great future.\n\nOur politics may be under strain, but there is so much that is good about this country. So much to be proud of. So much to be optimistic about.\n\nI will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold - the second female prime minister but certainly not the last.\n\nI do so with no ill-will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country I love.", "That's where we'll leave our live coverage for this evening, on a dramatic day when Theresa May announced she will stand down as Tory leader on 7 June.\n\nMaking an emotional statement in Downing Street, Mrs May became tearful as she said serving as PM had been \"the honour of my life\".\n\nAttention has now turned to who will replace her, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt today becoming the latest MP to indicate he would stand.\n\nHe joins declared candidates Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Rory Stewart, with more than a dozen others also believed to be considering throwing their hats into the ring.\n\nThe Conservative party says it hopes a new leader can be in place by the end of July - which is also when Sir Vince Cable wants to step down as Lib Dem leader.\n\nSir Vince said he would be handing over the reins to his successor on 23 July.\n\nIt looks like a couple of busy months ahead...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Oxford University student who had to carry an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed has been awarded her master's degree posthumously.\n\nRebecca Henderson, 24, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, died in February from transplant complications.\n\nShe was one of only two people in the UK with an artificial heart.\n\nMum Linda Henderson said she cried when she heard Rebecca had been awarded the degree.\n\nRebecca Henderson had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017\n\nMs Henderson said she was \"really happy\" as Rebecca was \"so brilliant academically and I saw all of the hard work she put in\".\n\nShe said: \"It depends how much work a student has completed as to whether or not [the university] will award a degree, and sometimes it's only a certificate.\n\n\"Rebecca had got about two thirds of the way through and it had to go all the way to the education committee where they were able to waive some of the criteria that she needed to fill.\n\n\"Becca had actually booked her graduation slot before she went into hospital, so we're still going on the same day and we will pick up her masters degree on her behalf.\"\n\nShe added the family were \"going to plant a shrub or a tree in the quad at St Anne's next to the library and scatter some of Becca's ashes there\".\n\nRebecca relied on this artificial heart to pump blood around her body\n\nOxford University said it made the decision based on her progress towards successfully completing a master's degree in English.\n\nHer tutors added: \"Becca was a person of extraordinary courage, humour and intellectual achievement.\"\n\nRebecca had her heart removed due to cancer in 2017. In October, she returned to study at St Anne's College and brought the 7kg artificial heart with her.\n\nAt the time she said: \"At no point did it ever occur to me to give up.\n\n\"No matter how hard it is for me, even if it is hard for me, it will then be easier for the next person.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An \"extremely rare\" 200-year-old gold sovereign is being sold by the Royal Mint for £100,000 - but collectors will hope their luck is in.\n\nThe Royal Mint says the George III sovereign was one of 3,574 to be struck in 1819 and there are around only 10 left in the world,\n\nIt says the coin is being offered via a ballot on 12 July at the fixed price, reflecting its rarity and high quality.\n\nPotential purchasers will need to apply online before 28 June.\n\nThey will also need to have their application approved before the winner is selected at random.\n\nThe Royal Mint said the sovereign - minted in the year Queen Victoria was born - has been sourced and verified by its historic coin experts.\n\nNicola Howell, director of consumer business at the Royal Mint, said the coin was an \"incredible opportunity for those who want to own a piece of history\".\n\nShe said: \"We know there are people in the UK and beyond who value such treasures.\"\n\nThe Royal Mint, based in Llantrisant, South Wales, is a company owned by the Treasury.\n\nIt produces coins for circulation in the UK and overseas countries, as well as commemorative editions and investment products.\n\nBefore it is sold, the 1819 sovereign will be on display at the Royal Mint Experience visitor centre in Llantrisant from 10 June.", "Unless something extremely strange happens in the next couple of days, it is now, really, nearly over.\n\nSeveral cabinet ministers have told me they expect Theresa May to announce her departure from Downing Street on Friday.\n\nA senior minister said: \"She's going to go - if it's to be done, it's best to be done quickly.\"\n\nAnother said it would be \"unforgivable\" for her to try to stay on now.\n\nOne of those who has been most loyal to her said: \"It might be tomorrow or Saturday, but it can't be past Sunday.\"\n\nMultiple sources have said they expect the prime minister to give the timetable for her successor to be chosen on Friday, with 10 June likely to be the start of the official leadership contest.\n\nThat would be after the visit from President Trump and the Peterborough by-election the previous week.\n\nMost ministers I've talked to today say they hope the campaign for the next prime minister can be compressed, so it's finished by the end of July but there is not yet much clarity about that.\n\nWhy now though? It's not as if Theresa May's been having an easy time of it for months.\n\nYou guessed it, it's Brexit, and what's accelerated her departure was trying - again - to put her Brexit plans to Parliament.\n\nIt's only two days since she outlined the details of her planned offer. It made things worse in her own party, and had nothing like the impact on the Labour Party that Number 10 had hoped for.\n\nBut critically, as one member of her cabinet said, \"it crossed a line for them\".\n\nSo her party won't accept the plan and now her cabinet won't either, there is almost zero chance of it ever making it to Parliament.\n\nAnd with no hope for the deal she stayed on to try to pass, there is almost no hope for her.\n\nDowning Street was still tight-lipped on Thursday night, although senior figures have made it clear they \"get the mood\" of the party, and are no longer trying to look for a way out.\n\nTheresa May, meanwhile, was understood to be at home in her constituency with her husband - the only two people in the country who know exactly what will happen next.\n\nOne of Theresa May's cabinet colleagues was adamant to me earlier that instead she \"will stay and fight on - there's no way she'll be taken out by the men in grey suits\".\n\nBut she is already scheduled to meet Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers in the morning, who is thought to be planning to give her until Monday to name a date.\n\nIt is possible that an early statement outlining her plans to leave office, could come before that.", "Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have all spoken out\n\nSalma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Gwyneth Paltrow are among dozens of women who have come forward with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHe is currently facing five charges relating to two women in New York.\n\nHe has previously admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nHere are some of those who have made allegations against him.\n\nThe actress has accused Weinstein of raping her by performing oral sex in a hotel at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when she was 23 and had just appeared in Scream.\n\nShe later reached a $100,000 settlement with him - and says he offered her $1m for a further non-disclosure deal to stay silent. She declined and has been one of his most vocal accusers.\n\nThe Emmy-nominated former Sopranos actress has alleged that Weinstein forced himself into her apartment in New York in 1992 and raped her.\n\n\"I was so ashamed of what happened,\" Sciorra told the New Yorker. \"And I fought. I fought. But still I was like, Why did I open that door?\"\n\nThe actress says Weinstein asked her to go to his hotel room under the guise of a business meeting, but appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower.\n\nShe refused, and says he got revenge by seeking to damage her career. Director Peter Jackson has come forward to say he removed her from a casting list \"as a direct result\" of what he now thinks was \"false information\" provided by Weinstein.\n\nIn May 2018 Judd sued Weinstein claiming he damaged her career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances but a Los Angeles court later dismissed her sexual harassment suit.\n\nHer defamation claim may still proceed, the judge said.\n\nMira Sorvino was photographed at a Weinstein Company party in January 2017\n\nThe Mighty Aphrodite star says he harassed her in a hotel room in 1995. \"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,\" she said.\n\nLike with Ashley Judd, Peter Jackson said Weinstein warned him off casting her.\n\nHayek said Weinstein threatened to kill her\n\nThe Frida actress says she turned down repeated sexual advances from Weinstein while making the 2002 film Frida.\n\nAnd she says his persuasion tactics included threats. Hayek said Weinstein once told her: \"I will kill you, don't think I can't.\"\n\nThe Italian actress and director Asia Argento says she reluctantly agreed to give him a massage in a hotel room on the French Riviera, but he then raped her.\n\nWeinstein \"terrified me, and he was so big\", she said. \"It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare.\"\n\nLucia Evans - nee Stoller - encountered Weinstein in 2004 in a New York club when she was an aspiring actress. She says she was forced to perform oral sex by the producer after going to his office for what she thought was a casting meeting.\n\n\"The type of control he exerted, it was very real,\" she told The New Yorker. \"Even just his presence was intimidating.\"\n\nThe Boardwalk Empire star has accused Weinstein of raping her twice in New York in 2010.\n\nThe first time was after he offered her a ride home, and the second was when he turned up uninvited at her apartment. \"I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, 'I don't want to do this',\" she said.\n\nPaltrow says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in his hotel suite after casting her in the leading role of 1996's Emma when she was 22.\n\nShe refused. \"He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal,\" she said. She told then boyfriend Brad Pitt - who threatened to kill the producer if he did anything like that to Paltrow again.\n\nFormer production worker Mimi Haleyi alleges that she was raped by Weinstein when he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 in his New York apartment.\n\n\"I told him 'no, no, no'. But he insisted,\" Ms Haleyi told a press conference in New York.\n\nThe actress also alleges she was raped by Weinstein when he performed oral sex on her without her consent. She says he lured her to a hotel room in 2010 under the guise of helping her procure future TV and film roles.\n\n\"I didn't know how to say no to someone like him at the time, which I regret,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian actress accuses Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel after the 2008 Bafta Awards ceremony.\n\nShe also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack at her London home in the late 1980s, which left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.\n\n\"He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room,\" she says.\n\nThe French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,\" she wrote in The Guardian. \"I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie with Gillian Anderson at the premiere of Playing by Heart in 1998\n\nJolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in 1998.\n\n\"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,\" she said.\n\nThe Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and \"tried to expose himself\" at the producer's hotel room in London during the 1990s.\n\n\"He tried to shove himself on me... He did all kinds of unpleasant things,\" Thurman said. \"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein and Heather Graham at a film party in 1999\n\nThe Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early 2000s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.\n\nShe alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in 1997. She said: \"I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.\"\n\nBefore long, she \"bolted\" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry.\n\nThe actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.\n\nHe insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so. She left.\n\nThe Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and \"burst[ing] in like a raging bull.\"\n\nHe asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds.\n\nThe actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nShe told the New York Times in the early 1990s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch.\n\nModel Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in 2015, saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.\n\nOther stars to have detailed how he made advances in his home or hotel rooms include Brit Marling, Lupita Nyong'O, Lena Headey and Kate Beckinsale.\n\nOther women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes.\n\nBritish model Kadian Noble, US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspiring actresses Dawn Denning, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record.\n\nTV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and masturbated in front of her.\n\nAnd other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor, who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances \"at least a dozen times\".\n\nActress Claire Forlani has said \"nothing happened\" between her and Weinstein - but only because she \"escaped five times\".\n\nIn an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nZelda Perkins, a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Libraries are more than buildings with books in. They are free gateways to infinite worlds and providers of help, advice and unexpected acts of kindness. As part of We Are Middlesbrough, the BBC has been finding out how the town's central library cares for its people.\n\nOccasionally, when librarian Jennifer O'Donnell was somewhere in Middlesbrough's Central Library, maybe putting books away, she was called back to the lending desk.\n\nShe was needed for something almost definitely outside her job description.\n\n\"An old lady used to ask for a hug when she came in to collect her books,\" she says.\n\n\"She lived alone and I think she just wanted a little contact.\"\n\nLibrarians regularly have stories like this.\n\nWhen first built, the library's boys' and girls' sections were separated by a screen and there was a reading room just for ladies\n\nMiddlesbrough has 11 libraries, some prettier than others. But the town's central library is a Victorian treat with a reference section that doesn't look like it's changed since the building opened in 1912.\n\nScottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie had a soft spot for libraries and donated the £15,000 cost of building it.\n\nOn a warm afternoon in May the book shelves have a few people browsing the thrillers and romances but every computer is in use.\n\nRobert Kaczkowski is sitting reading Islam for Dummies, part of a series of reference books that takes in subjects as diverse as parenting, carpentry and Shakespeare.\n\n\"My friend is a Muslim and I'm just trying to understand,\" he says.\n\nRobert Kaczkowski came to learn about another religion\n\nHe likes the central library because it's quiet.\n\n\"It's quite enclosed, it means you get a bit of privacy,\" he says.\n\n\"I don't like those libraries where it's open plan and everyone's watching you.\"\n\nHe lives up the road in Chester-le-Street but pushed Middlesbrough on to the fiction bookshelves with his novel Ironopolis, set on a council estate amid the town's industrial decline.\n\nLike many authors, he's not sure he would have become a writer had he not spent so much time in his local library as a child.\n\n\"I loved stories and I loved reading because of libraries,\" he says\n\n\"I still remember the thrill of going down there on a Saturday and the smell of the place.\n\n\"It's an access for anybody, from any walk of life. I mean, books cost money to buy. Not everybody has a lot of money.\"\n\nAuthor Glen James Brown believes libraries are for everyone, regardless of wealth or background\n\nBrown accepts the importance of creches and community hubs in today's libraries but he mourns that the \"books come second\".\n\n\"It's kind of this weird multi-use space now,\" he says.\n\nThey are still safe havens, but books \"aren't top of the list now\", he thinks.\n\nBut they still provide help, advice and information.\n\nThe men who call Ms O'Donnell from noisy pubs asking her to settle a bet still get what they need.\n\nLibrarian Jennifer O'Donnell paid off fines for a borrower who had been in hospital\n\nSome come for other reasons.\n\nShe once woke up someone \"with the imprint of the keyboard still on their face, swearing blind that they were not asleep\".\n\nThey are a big part of the library now, sitting rather incongruously in the Victorian building among its old card-filing cabinets and wooden desks.\n\nPeople use them for submitting job applications, honing their CVs, practising their driving test theory, applying for benefits.\n\nFor some, it's the first time they've gone near a computer and it is a bit of a shock.\n\n\"As well as being newly unemployed they're also being forced onto a PC,\" Mr Harrington says.\n\nThey need help - emotionally as well as practically - and \"sometimes you find yourself being a social worker\", he says.\n\nBut computers can only do so much.\n\nHe quotes author Neil Gaiman: \"Google can bring you back 100,000 answers - a librarian can bring you back the right one.\"\n\nThe number of books you are allowed to take out seems to have increased dramatically\n\nRichard Bailey has brought his daughters Isabel and Imogen.\n\nThey're allowed something like 13 books now, he thinks. Far more than the four it once was.\n\nIn the end, it comes down to what they can carry.\n\nDespite their proliferating computers, libraries are a useful tool against the assault of the internet, he thinks.\n\n\"It's drilling it into my daughters that you can pick anything,\" he says.\n\n\"Get them out of the mindset of head stuck in phone.\"\n\nCentral Library knows its audience, too, it seems. Young readers are offered a holiday reading challenge, with rewards and - highly rated by Isabel and Imogen - a magician.\n\nIsabel, collecting a stash of books about gymnastics, likes the relative silence, compared to home.\n\n\"I really like it because it's quiet and peaceful,\" she says, pointing out peace is not something her little sister will let her have normally.\n\nImogen, sitting nearby, is oblivious, quietly absorbed in her book.\n\nThis article was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with the people of the town to tell the stories which matter to them.\n\nFor more information about We Are Middlesbrough follow #BBCWeAreMiddlesbrough on social media. You can also email us wearemiddlesbrough@bbc.co.uk\n\nWhat are you proud of about the town and what are the stories you think we should tell more people about?\n\nHave you got a question about Middlesbrough you would like us to answer? You can use the tool below to submit your suggestions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech,\" said Morrissey on Friday\n\nPosters promoting Morrissey's latest album have been removed from railway stations after a commuter complained.\n\nAdverts for the new album by the former Smiths singer have been taken down on the Merseyrail network.\n\nMorrissey has previously expressed support for the far-right For Britain party and earlier this month wore a badge with its logo on during a TV show, but he denies he is a racist.\n\nMerseyrail apologised and said the posters did not reflect its \"values\".\n\nThe adverts, which contain no political message, were removed after a traveller on a Southport service to Moorfields contacted the company to ask if it agreed with Morrissey's opinions.\n\nThe man, who asked not to be named, told the BBC he was not \"offended\" by the posters and did not demand they were taken down.\n\nHe said he just questioned the company on whether they were appropriate.\n\nIn a statement, Merseyrail said: \"Any content used within advertising on the Merseyrail network does not reflect the organisation's values and we apologise for any offence the publication of these posters may have caused.\"\n\nThe company said advertising was managed by an external third party.\n\nMorrisey has not responded to the rail company's decision. But in a message on his website on Friday, he said: \"With voice extended to breaking point, I call for the prosperity of free speech; the eradication of totalitarian control; I call for diversity of opinion; I call for the total abolition of the abattoir; I call for peace, above all; I call for civil society.\"\n\nMorrissey expressed his support for For Britain in a 2018 interview\n\nEarlier this week, the world's oldest record shop, Spillers Records in Cardiff, took the decision to stop selling Morrissey albums.\n\nIt said on Twitter: \"Morrissey's views are not in synch with ours, in fact they are at complete odds and this is why (as an independent) we are not stocking / giving our shelf space to his music.\"\n\nMorrissey, 60, has denied on multiple occasions he holds racist views.\n\nEarlier this month, the Manchester-born singer appeared on The Tonight Show in the USA wearing a For Britain badge on his jacket.\n\nHe came out in support of the party in an interview in 2018 and in the past has criticised the production of halal meat and claimed London mayor Sadiq Khan \"cannot speak properly\".", "Celtic has expressed \"regret and sorrow\" 10 days after a former youth coach was jailed for a series of child sex abuse crimes.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was a coach and kit man for the club's youth team and also worked for Celtic Boys Club.\n\nLast week McCafferty admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys.\n\nDespite repeated requests by the BBC, Celtic only released a statement about the case on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe statement said: \"James McCafferty has pled guilty to offences he committed against young people between 1972 and 1996.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club wishes to express its regret and sorrow to those young people.\n\n\"McCafferty, who was employed by Celtic Football Club in the mid 1990s, committed these acts many years ago across a number of organisations, and all those who have come forward to report abuse and to give evidence deserve enormous praise for the courage they have shown.\n\n\"We offer our sincere sympathy to those young people, their families and all those involved.\"\n\nJim McCafferty was already serving a jail term after a trial in Northern Ireland\n\nBut solicitor Patrick McGuire, who represents several abuse survivors, criticised the club.\n\nHe said: \"It would be charitable to Celtic to describe this as too little, too late.\n\n\"There is no apology. There is no acknowledgement of Celtic's failures.\n\n\"There is no willingness to pay compensation and to follow the lead of Manchester City, particularly as we know some of the abuse took place when McCafferty was employed by Celtic and was in a position of considerable influence and power within the Celtic football club youth set-up.\"\n\nMcCafferty was sentenced to six years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh on 14 May.\n\nHe was already serving a jail term after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Belfast last year.\n\nIn relation to the latest charges against McCafferty, which spanned from 1972 to 1996, most of his victims played for youth teams he ran in North Lanarkshire.\n\nFour played for Celtic Boys Club and Celtic youth team. They were aged between 14 and 17.\n\nThe incidents took place in several locations across Scotland - including team showers, hotel rooms and minibuses.\n\nThe court heard that among the complainers were former professional footballers.\n\nSome of McCafferty's victims developed alcohol and mental health problems as a consequence of the abuse he subjected them too.\n\nJudge Lord Beckett said he was \"physically intimidating\" and used his \"overpowering\" nature to achieve his \"depraved objectives\" of abusing young boys.\n\nHe added: \"You took advantage of your position of trust as a football coach to groom and then sexually abuse boys who played for your teams.\n\n\"You were adept at identifying the circumstances of different boys so that you could manipulate them and in some cases their parents in a variety of ways.\n\n\"All of this was done to facilitate your sexually abusing children.\"\n\nMcCafferty's lawyer told the court he wanted to apologise to his victims and their families.\n\nHe is the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be found guilty of historical child sex abuse in the past year.\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nAfter his conviction Celtic took two days to issue a statement, which expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nOn Thursday he lost a bid to be released on bail while appealing his conviction.\n\nCeltic's statement on the latest case was published on the club's website at 16:10 on Friday.\n\nIt comes on the eve of the Scottish Cup Final which will see the club take on Hearts at Hampden.\n\nMr McGuire, of Glasgow-based law firm Thompsons, condemned the timing as \"cynical in the extreme\".\n\nPatrick McGuire said the timing of the statement was \"cynical in the extreme\"\n\nHe said: \"The conviction and sentencing of McCafferty was over a week ago.\n\n\"To put this statement out late on a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend on the day the prime minister resigns and before a potential Treble Treble weekend for the club is appalling.\n\n\"It is insult to everyone who suffered abuse and to their families.\n\n\"It is the worst kind of PR low cunning and casts the club in an even worse light than before. Every member of the Celtic board should hang their heads in shame. \"\n\nThe Celtic statement acknowledged the crimes were \"very sensitive issues, particularly for those who suffered abuse.\"\n\nIt said: \"When the allegations were published in the media in 2016, Celtic Football Club encouraged any individuals involved to report all information to the police so that these matters could be investigated fully and the club continues to encourage any victim of abuse to report these matters to the police.\"\n\n\"Celtic Football Club takes all of its responsibilities seriously, stands by its responsibilities and will continue to do so.\"\n\nThe statement noted the abuse of children has affected many areas of society across the UK, including football clubs, sports clubs, youth organisations, educational institutions and religious bodies.\n\nIt concluded: \"Celtic Football Club strongly believes that children and young people involved in football have the right to protection from all forms of harm and abuse and is committed to ensuring this and to promoting their wellbeing through continued co-operation with our children and young people, parents and carers and the relevant authorities.\n\n\"Celtic Football Club was the first club in Scotland to appoint a safeguarding officer, responsible for developing our policies for the protection of young people, and monitoring and reviewing our procedures to ensure they continue to reflect best practice.\"", "Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will stand down on 7 June, after pressure grew over her handling of Brexit negotiations.", "Mr Juncker said he would \"equally respect and establish working relations with any new Prime Minister.\"\n\nThe EU response to Theresa May's resignation speech was immediate.\n\nFrom across Europe came expressions of respect - though notably, not regret.\n\nThe Brexit process is a painful one for the EU - a constant reminder that the bloc is failing to keep a key member state, a constant shadow over other EU business and an economic drain - provoked by all the uncertainty - on European companies and outside investment.\n\nAs UK prime minister, Theresa May became associated with all that negativity.\n\nIt was a source of continuous frustration in Brussels that she - in EU leaders' opinion - repeatedly pandered to the extreme Brexiteers in her party, rather than face the inevitability of compromise and the necessity of cross-party co-operation (which Brussels believes finally came too late) to get an exit deal agreed.\n\nEuropean politicians and diplomats have always said to me: \"What we (the EU) need, is a British prime minister strong enough to be able to do a deal in Brussels and to sell it back home in Westminster, whoever they may be.\"\n\nTheresa May never was that prime minister.\n\nToday the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, described her as \"a woman of courage for whom he has great respect\" but he also made clear, as did other European leaders, that finishing the Brexit process was the EU's primary concern.\n\nMr Juncker declared he would \"equally respect and establish working relations with any new prime minister whoever they may be\".\n\nAdding those last four words \"whoever they may be\", alludes to the EU fear that Boris Johnson or another arch Brexiteer is most likely to become Mrs May's successor.\n\nThe EU has prepared for the prospect of \"Prime Minister Boris\" for months now. Theresa May's demise doesn't exactly come as a surprise.\n\nAs was the case when Donald Trump became US president, many Europeans have wondered whether \"populist Boris, the arch Brexiteer\" might be tamed by office into becoming calmer and (from the European perspective) more reasonable.\n\nThe worry here is that Mr Johnson, or another Brexiteer, keen to prove their mettle, will want to play to the gallery at home: obstructing EU business where they can, as long as the UK remains a reluctant member.\n\nThe EU has already taken legal advice on how to get around that potential problem.\n\nThey have concluded, for example, that if the new UK prime minister held up the next EU budget, which needs to be decided in the coming months, the 27 EU leaders minus the UK could informally sign the budget off. Their decision would then become legally binding once the UK officially left the EU.\n\nAll the speculation about post-May Britain has also got EU leaders thinking about whether to grant the UK a new Brexit extension. The current one runs out on 31 October.\n\nThe EU assumption is that the new UK prime minister will want more time to hold a general election or to try to renegotiate the current Brexit deal, particularly the controversial backstop guarantee for the Irish border. Good luck with that one, says Brussels, though Dublin will worry that the resolve of some EU leaders may falter if faced with the real prospect (this time) of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nWith all this in mind, a number of EU countries, notably France, think it probably best to close the door sooner rather than later, to a country that is leaving anyway. President Macron worries that the longer the UK stays reluctantly, the more it might poison the general EU atmosphere.\n\nGermany, however, would prefer to give the UK more time, if not to change its mind about Brexit, then at least to ensure an \"orderly exit\" - ie Brexit with a deal - to avoid the economic and political fallout of no deal at all.\n\nBut 31 October is still a long way away in political terms.\n\nRight now, EU leaders are far more preoccupied with this week's elections for the European parliament. The result promises to have a profound impact on the national governments of a fair few countries, including the EU's Big Two, Germany and France.", "Sales in the UK arm of baby goods retailer Mothercare plunged almost 9% last year as its losses widened to £87.3m.\n\nThe firm said its sales had fallen following reduced consumer confidence after last year's restructuring.\n\nThat led to it closing almost a third of its stores. It is now left with 79 and will develop its online sales.\n\nBut boss Mark Newton-Jones said the firm was on a \"sounder footing\" after the sale of the Early Learning Centre.\n\nThe results for the year to 30 March - delayed from Thursday - detail the attempt by the retailer to rebound from what it describes as last year's \"acute financial distress\".\n\nIt underwent a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), which allowed it to shut 55 shops in the space of a year, rather than the four it would have taken without the CVA.\n\nIt also sold the ELC to the Entertainer for £11.5m and its Watford head office for £14.5m.\n\nThere was also a \"fracture in the relationship\" with the non-executive directors and directors, the company said.\n\n\"We remain determined to differentiate Mothercare as a textbook recovery case, in parallel demonstrating that boards can and should foster a greater alignment between their debt and equity providers,\" said chairman Clive Whiley.\n\nEven so, the results detail a worst-case scenario - of further falls in sales and margins - under which it could renegotiate its debt, which has been cut from £44m to £7m,\n\nMr Newton-Jones - who left last year, only to be rehired a little over a month later - said: \"Whilst this major restructuring activity has resulted in significant headline losses for the year, the business is now on a sounder financial footing.\"\n\nThe £87.3m of losses include £47.3m of costs associated with the restructuring, including store closures and 800 job losses, and the discontinued operations of the ELC. Losses in the previous financial year were £72.8m.\n\nIts shares rose 19% to 24p, although they traded at 245p in 2015.\n\nLike-for-like sales - stripping out the impact of store changes - fell 8.9% in the UK. Online sales were down 8% and store sales down 15.8% because of what Mothercare described as declining footfall and nervousness from suppliers during the restructuring.\n\nInternational sales, largely in China, India, Indonesia, the Middle East and Russia, fell 4.7% - less than the 5.9% a year earlier.\n\nOperations are also being expanded in Vietnam, where there are six stores, with three more to open.\n\n\"The next phase of our strategic transformation plan is to develop Mothercare as a global brand, maximising the opportunities we see across many international markets,\" said Mr Newton-Jones.\n\nMaureen Hinton, retail research director at GlobalData, said that sales would have fallen because of the store closures, but added that Mothercare was a \"me-too\" type of business, with similar products to rivals.\n\n\"There are so many better competitors for baby care and children's clothes. Supermarkets are so strong, Next has got very strong children's range and on the nursery side, there is JoJo Maman Bebe and John Lewis,\" she said.\n\nAdded to that are the second-hand sales through online forums such as eBay, she said.", "The prime minister has announced that she will stand down on 7 June.\n\nSpeaking outside Downing Street, Theresa May said that it was \"matter of deep regret\" that she had failed to deliver Brexit.\n\nShe said she left office with \"no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have served the country that I love\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Belgium students among one million expected in more than 100 countries\n\nSchool students around the world have gone on strike to demand action on climate change.\n\nOrganisers said more than a million people were expected to join the action in at least 110 countries on Friday.\n\nThey are calling on politicians and businesses to take urgent action to slow global warming.\n\nThe strikes are inspired by student Greta Thunberg, who has become a global figurehead since protesting outside Sweden's parliament in 2018.\n\nCarrying a \"school strike for climate change\" sign, the then 15-year-old said she was refusing to attend classes until Swedish politicians took action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Swedish teen behind the climate strikes\n\nThe solo protest led to various movements across Europe, the US and Australia, known as Fridays for Future or School Strike for Climate.\n\nThe last co-ordinated international protest took place on 15 March, with an estimated 1.6 million students from 125 countries walking out of school.\n\nThe action on Friday began in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIn Melbourne, 13-year-old Nina Pasqualini said she was joining the strike because she was worried about \"weather disasters\".\n\n\"Every time we have huge a bushfire here another animal might go extinct,\" she told Reuters news agency.\n\nOrganisers are expecting more than a million students around the world to walk out\n\nAustralia just had its hottest summer on record and climate change is seen as the cause of the increasing frequency and severity of droughts, heat waves, floods and the melting of glaciers around the world.\n\nIn 2018, global carbon emissions hit a record high and UN-backed panel on climate change last October warned that to stabilise the climate, emissions will have to be slashed over the next 12 years.\n\nEarlier this month, a UN report warned that one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nSophie Hanford, a national organiser in New Zealand, said Friday's strike was \"only the beginning\".\n\nThe protesting students have vowed to continue boycotting classes on Fridays until their countries adhere to the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to prevent global temperatures from rising 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.\n\nAs countries around the world woke up, the action spread.\n\nStrikes were held in Asian nations including India, Afghanistan Thailand and Japan.\n\nIn Europe - where the movement first gained traction - images of mass strikes were shared on social media.\n\n\"Inaction equals extinction\" and \"save the world not your money\" read some of the placards on display.\n\nProtesters in Brussels warned that time is running out to take action\n\nStudents in Frankfurt were among those calling for policies to save the planet\n\nClimate protesters blocked the entrance to Norway's central bank, demanding that it stop investing in companies that burn coal\n\nDemonstrators in the Austrian capital said governments needed to act to \"stop climate change now\"\n\nIn London, scores of protesters congregated outside parliament, chanting \"climate change has got to go\".\n\n\"Act now or burn later\" and \"change the system not the government\" read some of the signs held up by participants, as they called for urgent action.\n\nStudent protesters want the government to reform the national curriculum to include more material on climate change.\n\nOrganisers said strikes had been organised in about 125 towns and cities across the UK.\n\nStudent protesters joined the global movement outside parliament in London\n\nYoung people are calling on their governments to \"act now\" on climate change\n\nIn an open letter published in Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung on the eve of Friday's strike, Ms Thunberg and prominent German climate activist Luisa Neubauer, 22, called on older generations to join the action in September.\n\n\"This is a task for all humanity. We young people can contribute to a bigger fight, and that can make a big difference. But that only works if our action is understood as a call,\" they wrote.\n\n\"This is our invitation. On Friday, 20 September, we will start an action week for the climate with a worldwide strike. We ask you to join us... Join in the day with your neighbours, colleagues, friends and families to hear our voices and make this a turning point in history.\"", "Mark Zuckerberg spent time in France last week, discussing regulation with President Emmanuel Macron\n\nFacebook has published its latest \"enforcement report\", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.\n\nDuring that six-month period, Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before.\n\nMore than seven million \"hate speech\" posts were removed, also a record high.\n\nFor the first time, Facebook also reported how many deleted posts were appealed, and how many were put back online after review.\n\nIn a call with reporters on Thursday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hit back against numerous calls to break up Facebook, arguing its size made it possible to defend against the network's problems.\n\n\"I don't think that the remedy of breaking up the company is going to address [the problem],\" he said.\n\n\"The success of the company has allowed us to fund these efforts at a massive level. I think the amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems... I believe is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year.\"\n\nFacebook said the rise in the number of deleted fake accounts was because \"bad actors\" were using automated methods to create large numbers of them.\n\nBut it said it spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to \"cause harm\".\n\nThe social network will now also report how many posts were removed for selling \"regulated goods\" such as drugs and guns.\n\nIt said it took action on more than one million posts selling guns in the six-month period covered by the report.\n\nFor some types of content, such as child sex abuse imagery, violence and terrorist propaganda, the report estimates how often such content was actually seen by people on Facebook.\n\nThe report said that out of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed on Facebook:\n\nOverall, about 5% of the monthly active users on Facebook were fake accounts.\n\nFor the first time, the report reveals that between January and March 2019 more than one million appeals were made after posts were deleted for \"hate speech\".\n\nAbout 150,000 posts that were found not to have broken the hate speech policy were restored during that period.\n\nFacebook said the report highlighted \"areas where we could be more open in order to build more accountability and responsiveness to the people who use our platform\".", "Harvey Weinstein is believed to be in Europe to seek therapy\n\nThe scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein shows it is impossible to understand the history of film and television without recognising the central role, and potential horror, of the so-called casting couch.\n\nThis colloquialism refers to the capacity for auditions to turn into mechanisms for sexual exploitation. The casting couch is a kind of erotic theatre in itself: one in which would-be performers exhibit their suitability for a particular role and provide sexual favours.\n\nIt is a place with a very hierarchical power dynamic: ambitious, not to say desperate, talent; and producer, director or whoever with the capacity to make dreams come true.\n\nAs both the cliche and the grim reality have it, the talent is often a young woman, and the dream-maker an older man. This is the situation in which a 22-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow found herself when, she alleges, Weinstein made unwanted advances towards her.\n\nIn the revolting revelations emerging about sexual bullying by Weinstein - who denies the bulk of allegations against him - the power dynamic of the casting couch is shown to be a forum for sickening exploitation and potentially criminal abuse.\n\nThe most striking thing about the New York Times and New Yorker's reports is the elaborate lengths to which Weinstein and those around him allegedly went to facilitate casting couch sessions, usually in hotels.\n\nAccording to several actresses quoted in recent stories, assistants would deliver on-screen talent before leaving them to their private rendezvous with Weinstein; and afterward, if they were upset, would help smooth things over by hushing things up or speaking to relatives.\n\nIt may be lazy or dangerous to extrapolate from the individual case of Weinstein to a broader problem in the media and film industries - though as I said in an earlier blog post, it is impossible not to see these awful allegations alongside those levelled at Bill O'Reilly, the late Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby and even Donald Trump.\n\nI also said perhaps some good could come of this awful story.\n\nIf the casting couch ceases to be a forum for sexual exploitation of vulnerable, desperate performers by perverts; and if other women who have experienced the sordid worst of the casting couch feel they can come forward, the media and film industries may yet benefit from the depredations of this Hollywood thug.", "The number of flights using British skies on one day is set to reach an all-time high of 9,000 on Friday.\n\nMore than than six per minute are expected, exceeding the previous record of 8,854 set on 25 May 2018.\n\nA bank holiday, school half-term, the Monaco Grand Prix, and Cannes Film Festival have added to the spike, air traffic controller Nats said.\n\nThe record may soon be broken again, with flights to the Champions League final in Madrid on 1 June contributing.\n\nPrices for flights from the UK to the Spanish capital have soared to more than £1,300 return since Liverpool and Tottenham both qualified for the final.\n\nThe UK's busiest airspace is over south-east England, where four of the country's five main airports are.\n\nNats' head of service performance, Wendy Howard-Allen, said demand for air travel was \"increasing all the time\".\n\n\"We've been planning for this busy summer period for a number of months - preparing for the worst and hoping for the best,\" she said.\n\n\"With many events coinciding at the end of May and in early June, it's important to realise the impact this will have on air traffic.\"", "Online booking for cancer screening should be introduced, says the report\n\nMaking an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England.\n\nProf Sir Mike Richards said text reminders and out-of-hours appointments were also a good idea.\n\nCervical screening or smear-test rates are at their lowest for a decade.\n\nHis interim report calls for technology to be used to stop the decline so more lives can be saved.\n\nThere are three national cancer screening programmes in England:\n\nThe screening programmes aim to detect cancer, or abnormal cells, early, often before symptoms develop, when treatment may be more effective.\n\nMore than 11 million invitations to screening were sent out last year.\n\nBut a recent report found that none of the programmes in England met its target last year, and many women experienced delays in getting results after cervical screening.\n\nSir Mike, formerly NHS cancer director and chief inspector of hospitals, said: \"Our screening programmes have led the world and save around 9,000 lives every year.\n\n\"However, people live increasingly busy lives and we need to make having a screening appointment as simple and convenient as booking a plane ticket online.\n\n\"The technology exists in many other walks of life and by adopting it across the NHS we can help identify even more cancers early when they are easier to treat and save more lives.\"\n\nIn his interim report, he also says IT systems need to be upgraded across the country and there should be more clarity over who is in charge of cancer screening.\n\nIn May 2018, a major failure in breast screening was announced by the health secretary in England, followed by a serious incident with cervical screening six months later.\n\nSir Mike's full report is published later this year.", "A Middlesbrough training academy has been helping women get into beauty industry jobs.\n\nOwner Lisa Fallow says her goal is to help change people's lives.\n\nThis story was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "David Cameron has told reporters that Theresa May is \"a dedicated public servant\" after she announced that she would leave office on 7 June.\n\n\"I feel desperately sorry for Theresa\" the former prime minister said, after his successor's emotional statement in Downing Street.", "Swimming is said to be Alannah's best option for exercise\n\nTwo-year-old Alannah has a rare lung condition that means she cannot use public pools - but thanks to the work of one woman, she has been able to swim with mermaids.\n\nAlannah's condition means she has to have a 24/7 supply of oxygen and needs to be fed through a tube. She is unable to walk distances, and has to use a wheelchair.\n\nEach week, Alannah and her family make the 30-mile journey from their home in Boddam, Aberdeenshire, to Aberdeen to take part in special swimming sessions run by Love Rara.\n\nThe experience with the mermaids and the swimming lessons that follow are free.\n\nZara Grant, the company's managing director, and her mermaids donate their own time to children who are unwell.\n\nStaff who work on the mermaid swim donate their own time, and there is no cost for the families of seriously ill or disabled children\n\n\"It was a part of a lot of children's bucket lists to swim with the mermaids,\" Zara told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\n\"That's why I first started it, so I could create these magical memories that parents can have forever.\n\n\"It allows children to come in and have memories or even just a day out at the pool with their family to have that normality while they're going through their treatment.\"\n\nZara undertook training as a swimming instructor so she would be able to safely work with the children in the water.\n\nAlannah is only able to get into a special area of the pool. Due to the oxygen supply that she needs constantly, she would be at risk if people pulled on her tube, so the area is closed to the public while Alannah is in the water.\n\nWatching Alannah swim, her mother Lauren Norris says: \"It's amazing to see, considering a couple of years ago we didn't think we'd ever get her in the water. It helps her a lot, she's getting exercise for her hyper-mobility.\n\n\"She can't go running or do gymnastics or dancing or other things kids her age can do, so I think swimming is the definitely the best option for Alannah.\"\n\nThe business has a number of donated dry suits that allow children like Eileidh to be able to swim safely\n\nThe first sessions took place in 2017, after a child with cancer, Eileidh Paterson, made a bucket list when her illness became terminal. Swimming with mermaids was on it.\n\n\"It's obviously upsetting for Eileidh's family because she's passed but at least they have this memory now that they can keep forever,\" says Zara.\n\n\"It's really hard, because I do get close to the families. I used to see Eileidh a lot so you do get a really good connection with the children, but I look at the positives - the fact I got to give them those memories.\"\n\nAlannah's family is grateful to Zara for the time they can now spend in the pool.\n\n\"The bond between Zara and Alannah is amazing. Zara goes above and beyond to make sure everything's safe for Alannah,\" says mum Lauren.\n\n\"It's amazing to see how far Alannah's come over the last two years. She's proved everyone wrong so far. I don't even think about half the things we do now. But when you look back a year ago, we struggled.\n\n\"We don't know what the future holds - if she's going to be on oxygen for the rest of her life, if she's going to be tube-fed for the rest of her life, if she's going to need a wheelchair for the rest of her life - we just don't know.\n\n\"We're just taking each day as it comes.\"\n\nAlannah's mum Lauren blogs about her daughter's illness using a Facebook page, Alannah's Diary", "Lance Armstrong says he \"wouldn't change a thing\" about the doping that helped him win and then subsequently saw him stripped of seven Tour de France titles between 1999-2005.\n\nThe American was banned from cycling for life in 2012 before admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs.\n\nBut the 47-year-old told NBC Sports he had \"learned a lot\" from his \"mistakes\".\n\n\"I don't learn all the lessons if I don't act that way,\" he added.\n\n\"We did what we had to do to win,\" Armstrong continued. \"It wasn't legal, but I wouldn't change a thing - whether it's losing a bunch of money, or going from hero to zero.\"\n\nArmstrong repeatedly denied doping allegations following his return from cancer until finally confessing during a television interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013.\n\nIn 2018, he agreed to pay $5m (£3.5m) to the US government to settle a long-running lawsuit that could have cost him $100m (£71m) in damages.\n\nHe was accused of fraud by cheating while riding for the publicly funded US Postal Service team.\n\n\"It was a mistake, it led to a lot of other mistakes. It led to the most colossal meltdown in the history of sport. But I learned a lot,\" he said in a 30-minute interview with the American network NBCSN that will be broadcast next Wednesday.\n\n\"I wouldn't change the way I acted. I mean I would, but this is a longer answer.\n\n\"Primarily, I wouldn't change the lessons that I've learned. I don't learn all the lessons if I don't act that way.\n\n\"I don't get investigated and sanctioned if I don't act the way I acted. If I just doped and didn't say a thing, none of that would have happened. None of it. I was begging for, I was asking for them to come after me. It was an easy target.\"\n\nArmstrong reiterated that he knew doping was widespread in cycling at that time.\n\nHe added: \"I knew there were going to be knives at this fight. Not just fists. I knew there would be knives.\n\n\"I had knives, and then one day, people start showing up with guns. That's when you say, do I either fly back to Plano, Texas, and not know what you're going to do? Or do you walk to the gun store? I walked to the gun store. I didn't want to go home.\n\n\"I don't want to make excuses for myself that everybody did it or we never could have won without it. Those are all true, but the buck stops with me. I'm the one who made the decision to do what I did. I didn't want to go home, man. I was going to stay.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flames and smoke poured from the building\n\nAt least 20 people, most of them students attending private tuition classes, have died in a fire in India, officials said.\n\nStudents were seen jumping and falling from the commercial building in the western city of Surat as black smoke billowed from windows.\n\nThe fire is believed to have been started by an electrical fault in the air conditioning, officials said.\n\nPolice said one of the owners of the tuition centre had been arrested.\n\nSurat police chief Satish Sharma told reporters that three people in total had been charged with culpable homicide and that the two others would be arrested soon. As anger mounted in the local community, he appealed to people to remain calm and not take the law into their own hands.\n\nAt least 20 other people suffered serious injuries in the fire and were being treated in hospital in Gujarat.\n\nMore than 50 students were said to have been in classes on the top floor of the building when fire broke out. Five had been due to receive exam results for university places on Saturday, officials said.\n\nThese students in Amritsar held a candle-light vigil for the victims\n\nLocal resident Ketan Chodvadiya, 22, has been hailed as a hero after he was caught on film trying to rescue students.\n\nHe described being unable to help one girl, who died, but said he managed to help at least eight others escape.\n\nAll of the dead were younger than 20, and many were trapped because the fire began near a staircase, Reuters reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn inquiry into the incident has been ordered and a report is expected within three days, said the spokesman for the office of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.\n\nThe fire is the latest in a long line of deadly blazes in India. In February at least 17 people died in a Delhi hotel fire.", "Swimmers will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\"\n\nThe rights of transgender women to use a women-only pond in north London have been acknowledged in a new policy.\n\nSwimmers on Hampstead Heath will be able to use ponds \"aligning with their gender identity\", the City of London Corporation's (CoLC) has said.\n\nAdmission will be granted on a case-by-case basis under the policy.\n\nHowever, Stonewall said the 2010 Equality Act already protected trans people from being discriminated against when accessing services.\n\nStonewall director Laura Russell said it was \"not a new rule\".\n\nShe added: \"Trans people's right to use single-sex spaces, regardless of whether they have legal gender recognition, has been the law for nearly a decade.\"\n\nBut feminist campaigner Amy Desir, who uses Kenwood Ladies' Pond at Hampstead, called the policy \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\nMs Desir, from campaign group ReSisters UK, said the policy \"disproportionately discriminates against young women\" and was \"open to abuse\".\n\nShe added: \"Under the policy any man can self-identify and declare themselves a woman.\n\n\"The CoLC is deliberately misusing the Equalities Act and basing the policy on a biased survey.\"\n\nStonewall said transgender men and women had been legally accessing the ponds for \"many years\"\n\nWriter and trans-commentator Jane Fae said she was \"entirely unsurprised\" by the CoLC policy.\n\nShe said: \"All they have done is endorse the law as it stands. If they had done the opposite they would have been taken to court.\"\n\nJoanne Conaghan, a Professor of Law at Bristol University, said: \"Legislation governing the rights of trans people is complicated because the law relating to gender recognition and the rules governing discrimination on grounds of gender reassignment do not neatly align.\n\n\"In particular, the protections accorded to trans people under the Equality Act 2010 is wider than the right to gender recognition conferred by the Gender Recognition Act 2004.\n\n\"There are limited situations in which transgender people may be denied access to sex-specific services under the Equalities Act 2010, but the City of London's policy is correct to allow trans people a presumption of inclusivity to use ponds that align with their gender identity.\"\n\nA consultation on attitudes to gender identity held last year received nearly 40,000 responses.\n\nCoLC said 65% of the valid respondents to last year's survey favoured ensuring trans people did not suffer discrimination.\n\nBut 46% of the total responses to the consultation were disregarded as invalid on the basis that those respondents did not answer any questions, other than to identify themselves and declare the reason for their interest in the survey.\n\nHampstead Heath has three bathing ponds, including a male only, female only and mixed sex pond\n\nLast year, female activists demonstrated against the right of trans women to use the women's pond by using the men's pond.\n\nThe Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association said it welcomed the decision.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The Ladies' Pond is a single sex space and the KLPA is committed to helping to create there an inclusive environment for all women, including transgender women, which is free from discrimination, harassment or victimisation.\"\n\nEdward Lord, chair of the CoLC establishment committee, said: \"This policy will ensure our public services do not discriminate against trans people.\n\n\"All communities should be fully respected, and equality and basic human rights upheld.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leo Latifi's face \"lit up the classroom\", his head teacher has said\n\nA nine-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped underneath a locker at a school in Essex.\n\nIt happened at an after-school swimming club at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford on Thursday evening.\n\nLeo Latifi, who was not a pupil at the school, was taken to hospital where he later died.\n\nThe head teacher of St Michael's Primary School paid tribute to her Year 4 pupil, who she said was a \"sparkle in our school\".\n\nEssex Police said Leo was with family members when he fell from a locker and got trapped.\n\nMaria Rumsey, head teacher at St Michael's, said staff, parents, governors and pupils were \"shocked and immensely saddened\" by Leo's death.\n\nShe said: \"He will be greatly missed by all. We wish to extend our thoughts and condolences to all of Leo's family and friends at this saddest of times.\n\n\"Leo was a sparkle in our school. His face lit up the classroom and his mischievous blue eyes made us all smile.\n\n\"He was an avid scientist, who only on Wednesday was in his element hunting for bugs on the school field.\n\n\"Leo was always keen to share his model-building and wowed the class when he brought in the finished masterpieces. He had a wide circle of friends in the year group, all of whom will miss him greatly.\"\n\nShe added the school would be supporting staff and pupils as they came to terms with the loss.\n\nGreat Baddow High School was closed on Friday other than for pupils sitting GCSE and A-Level exams.\n\nHead teacher Carrie Lynch said: \"The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Great Baddow High School are with the family and friends of the child who died yesterday evening, his school and swimming club.\"\n\nThe academy, which specialises in sport and science, has about 1,400 pupils and was rated \"good\" at its last Ofsted inspection\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it was investigating alongside Essex Police and had been on site.\n\nEssex Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met will push for the prosecution of more than 1,100 people arrested over last month's Extinction Rebellion protests, a senior officer has said.\n\nSo far more than 70 activists have been charged in connection with the demonstrations that brought parts of central London to a standstill.\n\nTen days of protests in April saw 1,130 people arrested for various offences.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said the Met wanted to deter other groups employing similar tactics.\n\nThe group's tactics included asking volunteers to deliberately get arrested to cause maximum disruption at roadblocks on Waterloo Bridge, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.\n\nOther protesters glued themselves to trains and buildings.\n\nMr Taylor said 70 people had so far been charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\n\"It is our anticipation that we are putting all of those to the CPS for decisions,\" he said.\n\nMr Taylor insisted the Met was equipped to deal with any upcoming actions and said officers from other forces would be called into action if needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the force was in discussions with the Home Office to review the current Public Order legislation with fears Extinction Rebellion's tactics could be adopted by other groups.\n\nMr Taylor added: \"I'm not saying going to jail, but we would like to see consequences for any activity at these events that is unlawful.\n\n\"Protest is not illegal. There is nothing unlawful about protest.\"\n\nIn 2011, courts in London and Manchester had to open over the weekend to deal with more than 1,000 people charged with riot-related offences.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The resignation of Theresa May has clear consequences for the Conservative Party - the starting gun on a leadership contest has been fired.\n\nBut what does it mean for Brexit?\n\nThe short answer is that both No Deal and No Brexit are now both more likely.\n\nWith Mrs May's \"bold new Brexit plan\" in tatters, there is no vehicle for leaving the EU with a deal, and the default is that the UK's membership will expire on Halloween.\n\nIf that is where things appear to be heading in the autumn, some MPs who previously opposed a second referendum might reconsider if it is the best option for avoiding no deal - putting Brexit at risk.\n\nAfter all, Jeremy Corbyn - who has been reluctant to weaponise Labour's \"option\" of a public vote - has said the Labour leadership would back a referendum to avoid either \"a bad Tory deal\" or \"no deal at all\".\n\nBut Mrs May called \"on all sides of the debate\" to find a compromise.\n\nThe question is whether, in the short term, the language of compromise is seen as an asset or liability by the Conservative leadership contenders.\n\nMPs will be able to choose from a wide range of options - from Rory Stewart and Matt Hancock, who have been emphasising the need to leave with a deal, through to Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom, who certainly don't fear no deal.\n\nBut polling evidence suggests many of the Conservative grassroots members don't just want Brexit to happen quickly, but they positively favour leaving without a Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nOnce MPs have whittled down the contenders to the final two in June, winning over the party faithful will require the remaining candidates to talk tough.\n\nThis will mean, at the very least, that \"no deal\" is back on the table.\n\nIf - for example - the eventual contest was between a former Remainer and a Brexiteer - say Jeremy Hunt or Sajid Javid versus Boris Johnson or Dominic Raab - then to attack their opponent on a wide range of issues, including fitness for high office, the former Remainer would have to dismantle any barrier to their support amongst the wider membership by stressing their willingness to leave with no deal.\n\nThe One Nation Group of Conservatives, who are largely former Remainers such as Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd, haven't ruled out backing Boris Johnson - so long as he pivots to the position of at least arguing for a deal with the EU.\n\nSo, let's just assume for a moment that this is the position any successor to Mrs May adopts.\n\nThe only version of the exiting PM's deal which passed the Commons was at the end of January\n\nThis was the so-called Brady amendment (after the chairman of the Conservatives' 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady), which called for a deal and support for the Withdrawal Agreement, but minus the contentious Northern Irish backstop.\n\nThis backstop is despised by many Brexiteers as it would keep the UK close to EU regulations in the absence of a trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollowing that vote, Mrs May said: \"There is a limited appetite for change in the EU, and negotiating it won't be easy.\"\n\nShe was right on both counts.\n\nWhile there were additional reassurances from Brussels around the backstop, there was no major rewrite, never mind replacing it with unspecified \"alternative arrangements\".\n\nNow, Mr Johnson believes that more robust negotiation is required and this could unlock a deal.\n\nMr Javid believes technical solutions to the problem of Irish border checks already exist - but that the EU would have to recognise this.\n\nThe trouble is, so far, the prospect of a change of leader hasn't led to a change of mind in Brussels.\n\nAnd the Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Simon Coveney, is already warning that the European Union would not offer the next prime minister a better Brexit deal.\n\nHe told an Irish radio station: \"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works.\"\n\nWhat he said the EU would contemplate is a longer extension of Article 50, and a further delay to Brexit.\n\nA new Conservative leader committed to a deal may well have to ask for this.\n\nThey would begin their tenancy in No 10 at the height of the European holiday season, and time will be short for any renegotiation.\n\nHowever, unless the EU is willing to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Mrs May, there may be little point in long, drawn out discussions.\n\nMr Johnson confirmed he wouldn't ask for an extension in any case, declaring that the UK would leave on 31 October with or without a deal.\n\nIt's possible some of the legislative legwork for a future deal will be done during the dying days of Mrs May's premiership.\n\nFor example, uncontentious aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement, such as citizen's rights, could be incorporated into UK law.\n\nBut the contentious issues would remain.\n\nAssuming a substantially different deal isn't on offer by October, and the Conservatives are led by a Brexiteer who will come out of the EU no matter what, we could be faced with the following scenarios:\n\nMrs May warned of 'division and uncertainty' if MPs didn't pass her deal.\n\nIn that respect, at least, she was right.\n• None PM's exit 'may be dangerous' for Ireland", "A top Chinese diplomat has warned that there could be \"substantial\" repercussions for her country's investment in the UK, if Huawei were to be banned from Britain's 5G network.\n\nChen Wen also told the BBC that Beijing had already \"witnessed some conscious moves\" in that direction.\n\nLast week, the US put Huawei on a list that curbs the ability of US firms to trade with it.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nHuawei is considered a world-leading provider of next-generation 5G technology, which will provide superfast mobile internet connections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World at One programme, Ms Chen, who is the Chinese chargé d'affaires in London, said the UK economy would be damaged by the message any ban on Huawei sent out to international and Chinese companies.\n\n\"The message is not going to be very positive,\" she said.\n\n\"Is UK still open? Is UK still extending a welcoming arm to other Chinese investors?\"\n\nWhen asked how large the repercussions would be, the embassy official said: \"It's hard to predict at the moment, but I think it's going to be quite substantial.\"\n\nMs Chen insisted that her government would never force a Chinese firm operating abroad to provide information to its intelligence agencies.\n\nShe went on to claim that there was a bit of \"hysteria\" in the United States about the rise of Chinese influence and the UK should make decisions based on its own national interest.\n\nShe called Huawei's investment in the UK \"a vote of confidence in the UK economy\".\n\nEarlier this week, Cambridge-based chip designer ARM told its staff they must halt \"all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements” with Huawei to comply with a recent US trade clampdown.\n\nARM's designs form the basis of most mobile device processors worldwide.\n\nOn the same day, EE confirmed that its range of 5G phones would not include Huawei models.\n\nIt followed a decision from Google to bar the smartphone maker from some updates to the Android operating system.", "Oil flattens the sea surface, reflecting radar energy away from the satellite. Oil therefore appears dark\n\nA sizeable oil slick developed in waters where tankers were damaged off the United Arab Emirates on 12 May.\n\nFinnish company Iceye says one of its radar satellites detected a long trail leading from the Saudi-flagged vessel Amjad two days later.\n\nThe crude oil tanker and three other ships suffered damage while anchored outside the port of Fujairah.\n\nNo-one has yet said they were behind the incidents. Nor is it clear precisely what happened.\n\nUS investigators reportedly believe Iran or groups it supports used explosives to damage the ships - but no evidence has emerged to show that Iran was involved.\n\nThe radar image on this page was captured by Iceye's X2 spacecraft on 14 May.\n\nThe Amjad is still anchored off Fujairah\n\nThe analysis cannot state how much oil was present on the water, but the interpretation has been validated by Kongsberg Satellite Services, a Norwegian company with expertise in oil slick detection.\n\n\"Oil on top of seawater is visible on radar satellite imaging because it changes the way the water surface reflects radio waves,\" explained Iceye CEO Rafal Modrzewski.\n\n\"Oil forms a layer on top of the seawater. This changes the water's viscosity, flattening and making the surface smoother. As a result, oil on water appears on the image as a dark patch,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe Amjad was reported to be empty of crude so the leak could well be engine fuel.\n\nFor comparison: The EU's Sentinel 2 satellite senses light at wavelengths similar to our eyes\n\nUAE and Saudi authorities have released few details about what happened on 12 May and an inquiry is under way.\n\nThe Reuters news agency reported that damage was inflicted on the Amjad; another Saudi tanker, Al Marzoqah; a UAE-flagged bunker vessel, A Michel; and a Norwegian tanker, Andrea Victory.\n\nThe event occurred amid rising tensions in the region.\n\nFujairah port is located on the east coast of the UAE in the Gulf of Oman and is at the funnel point into the Strait of Hormuz - the main shipping route linking Middle East oil producers with the rest of the world.\n\nAt any one time, many tens of ships will be anchored a few nautical miles from the port, either waiting to enter the Strait or stopping off before departing to destinations in Asia, Europe, the Americas and beyond.\n\nMany tens of ships will anchor off Fujairah at any one time\n\nIceye released the X2 image on Thursday as a demonstration of its spacecraft's capability. The start-up's satellite design is significantly smaller and cheaper to produce than traditional radar spacecraft.\n\nIceye already has two suitcase-sized satellites in orbit and plans a large constellation to obtain rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar's great advantage is that it sees the surface of the planet under all circumstances, during the day or night and in all weathers. Radar satellites can therefore see and sense things that will often be invisible to other Earth observers, such as imagers that view the planet at wavelengths of light similar to our eyes.\n\n\"Iceye is launching (another) five satellites in 2019. Naturally, the exact timelines can always change depending on launch providers. New satellites are planned to be up in orbit already within a few months,\" Mr Modrzewski said.\n\nBoth the Fujairah emirate government and the ship owner have been asked for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were at the scene of a security alert when they were attacked\n\nPolice in Londonderry are continuing to question a 12-year-old boy and two 16-year-olds after officers were attacked with petrol bombs during a security alert.\n\nFive petrol bombs were thrown after a suspicious device was found near a polling station in the Galliagh area.\n\nThe device close to St Paul's Primary School was later declared an elaborate hoax.\n\nPolice have described the attack as \"orchestrated disorder\".\n\nPolice recovered six other petrol bombs, two crates of empty bottles and 20 containers of paint.\n\nThe three boys were arrested on Thursday evening.\n\nSupt Gordon McCalmont said there was no doubt officers were lured into the area and that those involved in the \"orchestrated disorder had one aim in mind - to attack police\".\n\nHe added: \"This was all the more reckless by the fact that one of the petrol bombs hurled at police landed in close proximity to young children who could have been left seriously injured, or worse.\n\n\"This security alert is the second this month in this area, impacting the same community that was disrupted on May 2 during local council elections.\n\nArmy bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion on the device.\n\n\"It cannot be lost on anyone the disruption this has caused in the local community, let alone the potential for serious harm that could have been caused.\"\n\nVoting continued at the polling station during the alert.\n\n\"The police had cordoned off the area, there is a shop nearby, the young people were standing at the side of the shop, throwing blindly, not looking were they were going,\" she said.\n\n\"There were young people, people with children parking up and going into the shop, someone could have very easily been hurt last night.\"\n\nShe said there had been a number of incidents in recent months in the area in which young people had set bins alight to \"attract the police in so that they can have conflict with the police.\"\n\nBut DUP MLA Gary Middleton said he believed more sinister \"dissident republican elements\" were responsible for orchestrating the violence.\n\nHe said they are \"encouraging these young people to do this, and it's part of a wider game in targeting the PSNI\".\n\nSupt McCalmont said the blame for the inconvenience \"lies squarely with those individuals who left this close to a local school, which was being used as a polling station this evening.\n\n\"Those responsible have absolutely nothing to offer local people or society in general.\"", "Mrs May became emotional as she announced her intention to quit\n\nTheresa May's resignation puts Brexit in a new phase that may be \"very dangerous for Ireland\", Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said.\n\nMr Varadkar said the PM's departure could lead to the election of a \"Eurosceptic\" prime minister.\n\nMrs May said she would quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a leadership contest.\n\nThe taoiseach said her successor may scrap the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"We may see the election of a Eurosceptic prime minister who wants to repudiate the withdrawal agreement and go for no-deal, or we may even see a new British government that wants a closer relationship with the EU and goes for a second referendum,\" said Mr Varadkar.\n\nBut the taoiseach said that whatever happens, the Irish government will \"hold its nerve\".\n\n\"We are going to build and strengthen our alliances across the European Union and we will make sure that we see Ireland through this,\" he added.\n\nMr Varadkar said Mrs May was \"principled, honourable, and deeply passionate about doing her best for her country\".\n\n\"Politicians throughout the EU have admired her tenacity, her courage, and her determination during what has been a difficult and challenging time,\" he said.\n\nLeo Varadkar's deputy Simon Coveney (right), warned the UK would not get a better Brexit deal than that negotiated with Theresa May\n\nHowever, Tanáiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney warned the European Union would not offer Mrs May's successor a better Brexit deal.\n\n\"This idea that a new prime minister will be a tougher negotiator and will put it up to the EU and get a much better deal for Britain? That's not how the EU works,\" Mr Coveney told Ireland's Newstalk radio station.\n\nHe said a further Article 50 extension, delaying Brexit, was \"possible and may be likely\".\n\nPolitical leaders from across the island have been giving their reaction to Mrs May's resignation announcement.\n\nKaren Bradley said she was \"deeply saddened to see the prime minister step down from the job she loved\".\n\nShe said Mrs May was an \"extremely courageous and dedicated public servant\" who \"always does what she believes is in the best interest\" of the whole of the UK.\n\nMrs Bradley added that Mrs May \"worked tirelessly to deliver Brexit that works for all parts of the UK\" and \"passionately believed in working with all parties and parts of the community in NI \"to restore devolution and build a stronger, shared society for all\".\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster, whose 10 MPs prop up the Conservative government in Westminster, paid tribute to Mrs May's \"selfless service in the interests of the United Kingdom\".\n\nShe also thanked the prime minister for \"her willingness to recognise Northern Ireland's need for additional resources through confidence-and-supply arrangements\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme Theresa May had discovered that \"when you try to bounce the DUP it simply doesn't work\".\n\nMrs Foster said Mrs May had fundamentally misjudged the DUP's position on Brexit throughout the negotiations.\n\nThe DUP leader said she hopes the next Conservative leader has \"an understanding of what makes the DUP tick\".\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the \"chaos at Westminster\" cannot be allowed to distract from \"the very real threat that Brexit poses to Ireland\".\n\nShe also said the talks process should not be pushed off course.\n\nMs McDonald accused Mrs May of having prioritised a deal with the DUP at Westminster over re-establishing the power-sharing institutions.\n\n\"An agreement can be reached and a deal can be done. But the process must not be derailed nor responsibility abdicated in respect of people's rights and agreements.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the prime minister's resignation showed that Brexit was \"fundamentally undeliverable\".\n\n\"A new prime minister should recognise the mistakes made by Theresa May, revoke Article 50 and put an end to this political, diplomatic and economic car crash,\" he said.\n\nAlliance deputy leader Stephen Farry said that while Mrs May had been a dignified prime minister, she had \"left the UK in a worse place than when she took up the role\".\n\n\"While she attempted several times to get her withdrawal agreement through Parliament, she had her hands tied through mutually contradictory red lines over Brexit,\" he said.\n\nHe said Mrs May had also squandered a chance to build a consensus around a softer version of Brexit with a special deal for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"No matter who now replaces her, the same problems will still persist . They will face stark choices regarding Brexit and its consequences, and they need to approach them with honesty and realism.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann said Mrs May's successor \"should have an absolute commitment to the maintenance of the union and the prosperity of all its people\".\n\nMr Swann said \"the bind\" in which the prime minister's government found itself \"was of its own making\".\n\n\"A change of Conservative Party leader will not necessarily solve the problem unless there is a change in approach.\n\n\"The backstop is the problem that needs dealt with and it ultimately broke Theresa May's premiership,\" he added.", "The jury in the trial have been played a series of recordings from Carl Beech's police interview\n\nA man accused of lying about a VIP paedophile ring told police he witnessed three boys being murdered by his abusers, a court has heard.\n\nIn a police interview, Carl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, claimed that one boy was deliberately run over, another was strangled after being raped, and a third was beaten to death.\n\nProsecutors say that he lied to police about witnessing the killings.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe named former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor as being responsible for the second alleged murder and involved in the third.\n\nThe claims were made by Mr Beech during an interview with police in November 2014, which was played to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nIn the tape, a tearful Mr Beech described how a boy called Scott - a friend from primary school - was deliberately run over by a car in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, in 1979.\n\nHe is heard claiming a powerful paedophile ring had \"warned me not to be friends with him and I didn't listen\". He said the warnings were given by former head of MI5 Sir Michael Hanley, who died in 2001.\n\nJurors have been told that Northumbria Police, which charged Mr Beech with lying to the Met, found no evidence that \"Scott\" ever existed or that a boy was ever deliberately run over in that location.\n\nMr Beech told police: \"We were walking and I heard the car, the engine, and as I turned round to see what the noise was it hit him and he was thrown up into the air and everything just stopped.\"\n\nHe added \"there was a lot of blood, I had blood on my hands and I was dragged away and put in the back of the car\".\n\nThe video shows him saying he felt a pain in his arm before he blacked out and that he could remember nothing more of the incident.\n\nDuring the same interview Mr Beech is seen claiming he saw another boy being stabbed and strangled to death by the Mr Proctor.\n\nHe claimed it happened in the \"back room\" of a house in London around 1980.\n\nThe jury was told Mr Proctor will give evidence during the trial.\n\nDescribing the third alleged incident, Mr Beech claimed that Mr Proctor and Sir Michael beat a boy to death in front of former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Beech said he was one of four boys abused by the trio and another unidentified man, again in a London property.\n\nLater he said: \"I just went home as if nothing ever happened.\"\n\nProsecutors say Mr Beech later impersonated one of the boys, named as \"Fred\", using a fake email account to correspond with police while pretending to be a corroborative witness.\n\nMr Beech is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse. His claims led to the £2m Operation Midland, which ended without any charges.\n\nThe trial will continue on Wednesday.", "The scene of rioting in Londonderry on the night Lyra McKee was killed\n\nA woman whose home was searched during rioting on the night Lyra McKee was murdered in Londonderry said she was wrongly targeted by police.\n\nCreggan woman, Anne McGowan, 57, said she has no ties to dissident republicans.\n\nLocals blame the search on the riot, during which journalist Ms McKee was shot dead in Derry on 18 April.\n\nThe PSNI defended the search, saying it always assesses the impact of searches on \"wider community safety\".\n\nA police raid on Ms McGowan's home lasted from 21:00 BST until just before midnight on Easter Thursday.\n\nMs McGowan has questioned why her home was raided.\n\nNothing was found, and she said police actions have cast a cloud over her reputation.\n\nDuring the search, rioting broke out, during which a dissident New IRA gunman shot Ms McKee as he fired at police lines.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Londonderry's Creggan estate when she was shot\n\nMs McGowan said she has no idea why more than a dozen officers entered her home to search it.\n\n\"I honestly don't know. I have been asked that so many times,\" she said.\n\n\"It is not worth going out the door at times, because people are asking you and looking at you, like you are telling lies, that you know something and are not saying it.\n\n\"And it's not like that at all.\"\n\nMs McGowan said that, through no fault of her own, her reputation has been tarnished after the PSNI raided her house looking for materials belonging to dissident republicans.\n\n\"I am not involved in anything. I don't go anywhere. I keep myself to myself,\" she said.\n\n\"It is shameful to be accused of something you did not do.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nA dissident republican parade had been planned by the political party Saoradh, which has the support of the New IRA, for the Creggan area on Easter Monday.\n\nPolice said they carried out the raid on the previous Thursday night because they feared attacks by dissident republicans over that weekend.\n\nThe warrant used for the search said \"it was necessary to seize\" CCTV, media storage devices, mobile phones, sim cards and \"articles likely to be of use to terrorists\", but nothing was removed from the house.\n\n\"They looked through different things. They pulled out everything, searched everything,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter's laptop, and her old laptop. They did not take that. They did not take my phone.\n\n\"They did not even look at my phone. They did not take a thing,\" Ms McGowan said.\n\nShe believes police may have raided the wrong house, or false information was given to them in a bid to lure the PSNI into the area.\n\nWomen smear red handprints on slogans outside the office of Saoradh, a political group linked to the New IRA\n\nThe police declined a BBC request for an interview or to answer specific questions about the search, but defended their actions.\n\n\"Before we carry out searches, we will carefully assess information available to us and apply for a search warrant to be granted,\" Crime Operations Assistant Chief Constable, Barbara Gray said.\n\n\"The impact that police presence has in an area will always be balanced against the purpose of the search and wider community safety.\"\n\nA friend of Ms McGowan's, Paul McDaid, accused the police of heightening tensions in the run up to the planned dissident republican Easter commemoration:\n\n\"To be honest with you, I think the police set it up. They came in here to cause trouble on Easter Thursday,\" he said.\n\n\"Why come into the Creggan at 9 o'clock on a Thursday night, knowing that they were going to draw attention?\n\nThe spot where Lyra McKee was shot in the Creggan area of Derry is still marked with flowers\n\n\"That is the only reason I can come up with.\"\n\nPeople Before Profit Councillor Eamonn McCann also raised questions about the raid.\n\n\"We have to underline that no matter what the PSNI did, no matter what anybody did, it does not excuse what Saoradh and their associates did to Lyra McKee,\" he said.\n\n\"But the question has been asked a thousand times in Derry since, and I ask it now: why were the police raiding a house in the Creggan at that time of the night?\n\n\"Why not at six o'clock in the morning?\n\n\"It is common sense that there is going to be some kind of a riot... when the police went in. They must have known that.\n\n\"I think the PSNI should answer, so that we have a full picture of what happened on the night that Lyra McKee was so cruelly killed.\"\n\nACC Gray added: \"The PSNI priority will always be to protect communities and keep people safe from harm.\"", "Bob Higgins was convicted of dozens of counts of indecent assault\n\nFormer trainee footballers abused by paedophile Bob Higgins are to seek compensation from the clubs concerned.\n\nThe football coach was found guilty of indecently assaulting 24 boys, most of whom were youth players at Southampton and Peterborough United.\n\nA solicitor representing some of the 66-year-old's victims said the clubs had a duty of care and should \"accept responsibility\".\n\nPeterborough United said it dealt with all allegations \"appropriately\".\n\nSouthampton declined to comment on the compensation bid but said it had worked closely with police to uncover the truth.\n\nYoung players would train in the gym at The Dell in Southampton\n\nHiggins was convicted at his retrial on Thursday of 45 counts of indecent assault between 1971 and 1996. He was found guilty of another count last year.\n\nDino Nocivelli, who is representing some of the victims, said parents trusted the clubs with their children.\n\n\"Even after the convictions yesterday we're still waiting for an actual apology,\" he said.\n\n\"We are still waiting for answers as to what they knew about this man.\"\n\nDino Nocivelli confirmed former trainees would sue Southampton and Peterborough\n\nMr Nocivelli said he hoped the clubs would \"do the right thing\".\n\n\"There is no need to put these men through further litigation and a potential civil trial - the ball is in [the clubs'] court.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the clubs would follow the example of Crewe Alexandra. The club agreed a financial settlement with a victim of former coach Barry Bennell - a paedophile jailed for 31 years for abusing young footballers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bob Higgins \"did not speak a single word\" during 15 hours of interviews, police said\n\nBournemouth Crown Court heard Higgins groped and sexually touched boys during soapy massages, and in his car and at his home.\n\nA statement from Peterborough United said: \"We are greatly saddened that anyone in our care in the past has been subjected to any form of abuse, but do wish to stress that everything reported to the football club was dealt with in the correct and appropriate manner and in full compliance with the club's obligations.\"\n\nSouthampton previously offered \"sympathy and support to any player who suffered any kind of abuse or harm while under our care\".\n\nHiggins is due to be sentenced at a later date.", "A garden in a former disused corner of a Middlesbrough park is providing a lifeline for some asylum seekers living in the town.\n\nThe Community Growing project is based at Albert Park and aims to support the mental health of people, including those who are not allowed to work or study while their asylum claims are processed.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "People who suffer from chronic migraines are calling for a new drug to be offered on the NHS in England.\n\nThe monthly injection of Aimovig has been described as \"life-changing\" by those who have tried it.\n\nIf it gets approved, it will be for people who have tried other preventative treatments unsuccessfully.\n\nNICE - which gives advice on healthcare - rejected the drug for England on cost grounds in January, but the NHS in Scotland approved it recently.\n\nMigraines affect around 1 in 7 people, according to the National Migraine Centre.\n\nMore women get them than men, and they usually start to affect people when they're teenagers.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat spoke to sufferers for our latest documentary, which you can watch below. They told us whatever you do, don't ever refer to the condition as \"just a bad headache\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Newsbeat This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"When I have a migraine I can't see, any noise gives me excruciating pain, foreign smells hurt, light is a definite no-go, I get really dizzy and I can't stand up,\" 28-year-old Nathan Gayle tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nThe Londoner gets around 20 headache days a month.\n\n\"I have tried so many types of medications - I've not found anything that can stop it or prevent it. If Aimovig worked, it would change my life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is what happens when you have a migraine\n\nNathan was a classroom assistant but had to give up teaching because he was having so much time off.\n\n\"I was getting migraines so frequently and the intensity was so high that it wasn't fair on the school, the children I was working with or myself.\"\n\n\"Depression is definitely something I feel during an episode,\" Nathan says. He says he hates feeling isolated while stuck in a darkened room.\n\nDr Jess Briscoe admits it's hard to find a treatment that genuinely works\n\nThere is no known cure for migraines. People normally treat them with over-the-counter painkillers, but often the symptoms are too severe for those drugs to work.\n\nSome patients have reported botox and transcranial magnetic stimulation working, but everybody reacts in a different way.\n\n\"We tend to borrow things from other areas of medicine,\" explains Dr Jess Briscoe from the National Migraine Centre.\n\nShe hopes Aimovig - which is also known as Erenumab - will be able to help many people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the US, where it is available widely, there is evidence it can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks significantly. It works by blocking the protein thought to play a major role in starting an attack.\n\nThe National Migraine Centre recently did a survey of just under 2,000 migraine and headache sufferers.\n\nMost of them - 84% - said their migraines or headaches have impacted their mental health, and 65% linked their condition with experiencing depression.\n\nDr Giorgio Lumbru from Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is already prescribing Aimovig at its Chronic Pain Management and Neuromodulation Centre.\n\n\"For the first time we have a specific treatment designed for migraine that works really well,\" he says.\n\n\"Being able to improve the quality of life of patients for whom there was nothing else to try has been a great satisfaction.\n\n\"The drug is injected under the skin once a month and it acts as a preventative treatment.\n\n\"If you look at data you see patients that fail all the other treatments can have their life back when they use Aimovig.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jillian Tisdale needed surgery to her fingers after a 'degloving' injury\n\nSurgeons are warning dog owners not to wrap leads around their fingers or wrist because of the dangers of serious hand injury.\n\nThey say thousands of people could be at risk from lacerations, friction burns, fractures and ligament injuries.\n\nThere were 30 serious hand injuries caused by dog leads last year in Cornwall alone, the British Society for Surgery of the Hand said.\n\nOne of those was to Jillian Tisdale, 65, who has two retrievers.\n\nWARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE OF FINGER INJURY FOLLOWS BELOW\n\nShe had just finished walking one of her dogs when it became distracted by another dog and ran off excitedly on the lead.\n\nThe lead ended up wrapped tightly around Jillian's middle fingers on her right hand, causing severe damage, including the \"degloving\" of her finger - when the skin and some of the soft tissue are ripped off.\n\nShe said the retractable lead she used acted like a \"filleting knife\", causing \"terrible pain\".\n\nShe also suffered severe cuts and dislocated her index finger, after the incident several months ago.\n\nJillian needed surgery to remove the top part of her middle finger and a skin graft. She has been left with a shorter middle finger, as a result.\n\n\"I still can't form a proper fist yet and I'm continuing to do exercises to strengthen my hand,\" she says.\n\nBut she said she was planning to return to her hobbies of diving, mountain climbing, and even dog-walking, soon.\n\nJillian was treated by consultant surgeon Rebecca Dunlop, from Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, who also collected the data on hand injuries from dog leads.\n\nShe said she had noticed an increase in this type of \"devastating\" injury in recent years, which can need long-term treatment and means the fingers often do not return to normal.\n\nMrs Dunlop said: \"Having seen many serious injuries caused by dog leads and collars, I want dog lovers to be aware of the simple steps they can take to avoid severe damage to their hand.\"\n\nShe said hand injuries could also be very costly \"through time off work and medical costs\".\n\nJillian now has full use of her hand, but a slightly shorter middle finger - this is the index finger pictured\n• None The British Society for Surgery of the Hand The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brexit came to define her time as prime minister, but Theresa May had a long and varied political career.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Verve's Richard Ashcroft on the end of Bitter Sweet Symphony dispute\n\nOne of rock music's most famous injustices has finally been resolved.\n\nFor the last 22 years, The Verve haven't made a penny from Bitter Sweet Symphony, after forfeiting the royalties to The Rolling Stones.\n\nThe song was embroiled in a legal battle shortly after its release, as it samples an orchestral version of The Stones' song The Last Time.\n\nAs a result, writer Richard Ashcroft had to sign over his rights to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - until now.\n\nSpeaking as he received a lifetime achievement prize at the Ivor Novello Awards, Ashcroft announced: \"As of last month, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for Bitter Sweet Symphony, which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do.\"\n\nAs a result, all future royalties for the song will now go to Ashcroft.\n\nThe singer acknowledged that it was the Rolling Stones' late manager, Allen Klein, who had been responsible for the situation, rather than the musicians themselves.\n\n\"I never had a personal beef with the Stones,\" he told the BBC. \"They've always have been the greatest rock and roll band in the world.\"\n\nHe went on to thank Jagger and Richards for acknowledging he was responsible \"for this [expletive] masterpiece\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by TheVerveVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAccording to Rolling Stone magazine, the royalty dispute arose in 1997 when The Verve sought permission to sample a short, staccato string sequence from the symphonic version of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra.\n\nThe Stones agreed to license a five-note segment in exchange for 50 percent of the royalties, but Klein claimed the Verve voided the agreement by using a larger portion of the song.\n\nABKCO Records, Klein's holding company, filed a plagiarism case, after which The Verve relinquished all their royalties and publishing rights to ABKCO, and the song credit reverted to Jagger and Richards.\n\nThe situation rankled The Verve for years.\n\n\"We were told it was going to be a 50/50 split,\" recalled bassist Simon Jones.\n\n\"Then they saw how well the record was doing they rung up and said, 'We want 100 percent or take it out of the shops, you don't have much choice.'\"\n\nThe bitterest pill came when the song was nominated for a best song Grammy - with Jagger and Richards' names on the ballot.\n\nAsked in 1999 if he believed The Verve had been treated fairly, the Stones' guitarist replied: \"I'm out of whack here, this is serious lawyer [stuff].\"\n\nHowever, he added: \"If the Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money.\"\n\nAshcroft told the BBC that the dispute came to an end following negotiations with Klein's son, and the Rolling Stones new manager Joyce Smyth.\n\n\"It's been a fantastic development,\" he said. \"It's life-affirming in a way.\"\n\nOne unexpected benefit is that the singer can once again enjoy international football.\n\n\"They play it [Bitter Sweet Symphony] before England play. So I can sit back and watch England... and finally just enjoy the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, The Rolling Stones acknowledged that Ashcroft had been denied the rights to \"one of his most iconic songs, including the lyrical content\" for more than two decades.\n\n\"Of course there was a huge financial cost but any songwriter will know that there is a huge emotional price greater than the money in having to surrender the composition of one of your own songs. Richard has endured that loss for many years.\"\n\nBitter Sweet Symphony has sold 1,276,209 copies in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company, including 70,593 this year.\n\nAshcroft picked up the outstanding contribution prize at Thursday's Ivor Novello Awards, which recognise achievement in songwriting.\n\nOther winners included Deep Purple, Dido and Mariah Carey, who won the special international award.\n\n\"I rarely get acknowledged for my songwriting, which is the core of who I am,\" said the diva in a video message - due to the fact she's performing at an AIDS gala in Cannes on Thursday evening.\n\n\"It's a beautiful thing to feel appreciated for the music I've been making for my entire career.\"\n\nMariah Carey has had 18 number one singles in the US\n\nCarey has written or co-written 17 US number one singles, including Vision of Love, Hero, We Belong Together and Fantasy (her 18th number one, I'll Be There, is a cover of a Jackson 5 song).\n\nHer festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has become a modern-day standard, and was streamed a staggering 38 million times in the UK last year alone.\n\nGrime pioneer Wiley received the \"inspiration\" prize and instantly handed it over to his father, the reggae musician Richard Cowie.\n\n\"It's because of him that I do it,\" said the star. \"I want to big up my dad.\"\n\nSocially-conscious punk band Idles won album of the year, while The 1975 took home two prizes - songwriters of the year and best contemporary song for the state-of-the-nation pop anthem Love It If We Made It.\n\nOrganisers hailed the \"brilliantly diverse\" range of songwriting talent in the UK, noting that 70% of this year's nominees were being recognised for the first time.\n\nSongwriters of the year - The 1975\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The 1975 bag top awards at the Brits", "Lewis Capaldi says it \"feels good\" to see his debut album race to the top of the UK charts in 2019 record time.\n\nHis LP Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent sold the equivalent of 89,506 records in week one and outperformed the rest of the top 10 combined.\n\nThe Scotsman beats Ariana Grande's record of 65,214 first week sales for Thank U, Next in February.\n\nHe told the Official Charts: \"It feels like I'm going to make some money finally, after years of slogging.\"\n\nMore than half of the sales came from streaming or downloads, with the album racking up 40.5 million plays across audio and video streaming platforms.\n\n\"It makes me so proud to have made this album,\" added the 22-year-old singer. \"Thank you for everyone who went out and bought it.\"\n\nCapaldi captured the imagination of the nation earlier this year through his power ballad Someone You Loved, one of the album's lead tracks, which topped the UK singles chart for seven weeks.\n\nThe song, which is back up to number three following the album release, also enjoyed its biggest week to date, and two others - Hold Me While You Wait (number five), and Grace (number nine) - also make the top 10.\n\nSpeaking just ahead of the album release, the singer - who performs at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough on Saturday - told the BBC: \"I don't think I'm a pop star necessarily. I don't think I have the poise or grace or air about me for that.\"\n\n\"I'm a singer,\" he went on, \"I've definitely done that a lot!\"\n\nAfter selling out an arena tour for later this year, social media phenomenon Capaldi has already done the same for a stadium tour in 2020, where he revealed his plans to help fellow sufferers of anxiety by setting up an escape room and gig buddy system.\n\n\"This is my attempt at helping make these shows enjoyable for as many of those people who have been supporting this journey for me,\" he told Newsbeat.\n\nJust below Capaldi in the album chart are US alternative indie outfit The National with their eighth album, I Am Easy To Find - their fourth UK top 5 album.\n\nMeanwhile the self-titled seventh full-length effort from German heavy metal band Rammstein gives them their first top 10 album.\n\nBBC Sound of 2019 star Slowthai's debut record, Nothing Great About Britain, arrives in at an admirable number nine.\n\nAt the start of the year, he told the BBC his music was about \"telling the story of the people for the people\".\n\nIt's sheer joy for Sheeran and Bieber\n\nIn the singles charts it's sheer joy for the new duet of Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, who enjoy a second week at the summit with I Don't Care.\n\nThe single, which will appear on Sheeran's upcoming collaborations album, had an impressive second week, notching up 98,000 combined sales.\n\nLil Nas X remains at number two with Old Town Road after his biggest week of sales so far following the release of the song's music video.\n\nAnd finally, another rapper, Tyler, The Creator, has the week's highest new chart entry with his track, Earfquake, going in at 17. It's taken from his fourth-placed new album Igor.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A bullet missed a man by centimetres as police fired on the London Bridge attackers, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Edwards was in the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market when police shot dead the three knife-wielding assailants outside, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nThe inquest into the deaths of their eight victims was shown a CCTV image of the moment a stray shot came through the pub window close to Mr Edwards.\n\nThe bullet hit a man behind Mr Edwards in the head, seriously injuring him.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquest, Mr Edwards said a friend of his rushed to give first aid to that man, Neil McLellan, and he survived.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, killed eight people in the van and knife attack on the evening of 3 June 2017.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nKhuram Butt tried to enter the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Maket\n\nMr Edwards had actually just left the Wheatsheaf pub when he saw three armed men walking towards him, he told the court.\n\nHe said people were screaming and his wife Nicole dragged him back into the pub, where a member of staff locked the door.\n\nButt tried to enter the pub by forcing the door open.\n\nHe seemed \"calm\" and \"determined\", Mr Edwards told the Old Bailey.\n\nHe said Butt had \"canisters\" strapped to him, which later turned out to be part of a fake suicide vest.\n\nby Harriet Agerholm, BBC News reporter, at the inquests\n\nSimon Edwards had been out for a meal and then drinks with his wife and friends when the London Bridge attackers went on their murderous rampage.\n\nSuspense grew in the courtroom as Mr Edwards described how Butt repeatedly tried to kick down the door of the Wheatsheaf pub as scared people hid inside.\n\nAll that secured the door was a single bolt at the top, and the bottom of it flexed with the force of his kicks, he said.\n\nAfter failing to kick his way in, Butt began smashing the window panes surrounding the door with the handle of his knife, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHis voice shook as he told the Old Bailey that Butt only stopped when he saw Redouane and Zaghba set upon a man outside the pub\n\nAll three descended on the victim \"like a pack of wolves\", Mr Edwards said in a statement.\n\nMaking a stabbing movement with his arm, Mr Edwards demonstrated how they knifed the man repeatedly, \"trying to inflict as much injury as they could\".\n\nWhile the attackers were stabbing the man in the street, the pub \"filled with blue lights\" as armed police arrived outside, Mr Edwards said.\n\nHe told the court there were several volleys of bullets and he dropped to his knees to take cover.\n\nAfter noticing there was \"quite a lot of blood\" coming from Mr McLellan's head, he opened the door to shout to police for medical help.\n\nHe discovered later that he too had been cut by shrapnel from the bullet.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Vince Cable will be replaced with a new leader on 23 July\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have begun the process of choosing their next leader.\n\nThe party's current leader, Sir Vince Cable, announced in March that he would step down after the local elections.\n\nBut in a statement on Friday - following the PM's announcement of her departure date - Sir Vince confirmed he would be handing over the reins to his successor on 23 July.\n\nHe said: \"We have rebuilt the Liberal Democrats. I will be proud to hand over a bigger, stronger party.\"\n\nSir Vince took over as leader in July 2017 after his predecessor Tim Farron stepped down, saying he could no longer reconcile his strong Christian faith with his responsibilities as leader of a liberal party.\n\nNominations are now open for the leadership and will close on 7 June.\n\nMembers will then have the final say on who gets the job.\n\nThe Lib Dems celebrated good results in the local elections earlier this month, with the party seeing gains across the country and taking seats from both Conservative and Labour-run councils.\n\nSir Vince said the new leader needed to continue \"the battle to stop Brexit\", and to seize \"the opportunity created by the conflict and decay within the two main parties to build a powerful, liberal, green, and social democratic force in the centre ground of British politics\".\n\n\"As we do so, I am confident that we will regain ground at Westminster, with a big group of MPs and more influence on the national stage\".", "Thousands of visitors descending on Middlesbrough are being greeted by the stars of Radio 1's Big Weekend - in wool.\n\nCreated by Nunthorpe & Marton Knitters, acts including Miley Cyrus, Little Mix, The 1975, Stormzy and James Arthur have been displayed at Nunthorpe train station.\n\nThe community group wanted to welcome everyone and show how much they care about their town.\n\nThis video was created as part of We Are Middlesbrough - a BBC project with people of the town to tell the stories that matter to them.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home on 19 April\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry following the death of a 74-year-old man three weeks after being shot with a crossbow.\n\nGerald Corrigan was being treated in hospital after being hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm.\n\nHe was shot while fixing a satellite dish at his home at Holyhead, Anglesey, in the early hours.\n\nNorth Wales Police confirmed on Sunday, a murder probe was under way following Mr Corrigan's death on Saturday.\n\n\"However, we continue to keep an open mind in relation to the sequence of events that led to Gerald's death,\" said Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney.\n\nTributes were paid to Mr Corrigan following news of of his death.\n\nMr Corrigan was fixing a satellite dish at his home when he was fatally injured\n\nMr Kearney said he wanted to express his \"sincere condolences to Marie, Gerald Corrigan's partner, Neale and Fiona, his two children and the wider Corrigan family\".\n\nHe said Mr Corrigan's death was \"truly devastating news and the thoughts of the entire investigation team are with the Corrigan family\".\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer, had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales, following the incident on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nMr Kearney said, while the force was pursuing a number of leads, he wanted to renew an appeal for people to come forward with any information.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA number of gay rights activists have been arrested after clashing with police at an unauthorised pride march in Cuba's capital, Havana.\n\nSaturday's event followed the unexpected cancellation by the communist authorities of the country's 12th annual march against homophobia.\n\nActivists condemned the move and then organised their own demonstration, largely through social media.\n\nMarching in Cuba without permission can be met with a strong police response.\n\nOn Saturday, more than 100 demonstrators took to the streets of the capital. Some said they were subjected to violence after they were stopped by plainclothes security officers.\n\nAfter setting out on Havana's Paseo del Prado, one of the city's main boulevards, the marchers came up against a large number of police and state security forces.\n\nA number of people marching without permits were arrested in the capital\n\nAt least three activists participating in the gay parade in Havana were detained.\n\nHavana's annual gay pride march is an important event for the island's gay and lesbian community, which spent decades in the shadows and under persecution, says the BBC's Cuba correspondent Will Grant.\n\nAs such, our correspondent adds, the decision by the government to cancel this year's event was met with disbelief by many of those who had intended to participate.\n\nThe annual gay pride march is an important event for Cuba's LGBT community\n\nLast week, the state-run National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) said the official Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia march was cancelled because of \"new tensions in the international and regional context\".\n\nIn response, activists set up Facebook groups calling for a gathering in the capital on Saturday afternoon.\n\nCuba holds events around this time every year ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on 17 May.\n\nOther official events celebrating LGBT rights in the country will reportedly be going ahead as planned.\n\nDiscrimination due to someone's sex or gender is illegal in Cuba.", "When Carole Farish left school 11 years ago, she thought it would be quite easy to find a job in retail or hospitality.\n\nBut like many of her peer group, she found it was not so straightforward.\n\nCarole belongs to a generation that, according to a new report, has been \"left scarred\" by joining the workforce just as the financial crisis hit.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says this \"crisis cohort\" has suffered from lower pay and worse job prospects for up to a decade since the downturn.\n\nCarole's early optimism over job seeking faded when it took her five months just to get an interview, only to find she was competing against candidates with business degrees.\n\n\"It was a bit disheartening,\" she says. \"It took a lot of perseverance to keep applying. I didn't expect it to be as tough.\"\n\nSince then, she has worked in a leisure centre, in catering and looking after children. Although she has in the meantime been to university, she is now working as a carer.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says those who entered the world of work between 2008 and 2011 bore the brunt of the sharp economic decline, when compared to young people entering work before or after the downturn.\n\n\"Low-skilled workers faced a higher risk of unemployment, while graduates were more likely to trade down the types of jobs they did, with their pay and prospects stunted as a result,\" said Stephen Clarke, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These scarring effects have stayed with the crisis cohort for up to a decade, reducing their living standards at a time when they may be facing the additional financial strains of buying a home, or bringing up kids,\" he said.\n\nPolicy makers should look at ways to mitigate the impact, he added.\n\nAlthough unemployment did not rise as sharply as in previous recessions, in 2012 it was still twice the rate for the population in general, the report says.\n\nThose who \"trade down\" to a low-paying occupation because they are struggling to find work rarely move into a higher-paying occupation, even after the economy has picked up, the report adds.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions highlighted new jobcentre programmes which it said were examining ways to support people to change jobs and improve their pay and career progression.\n\n\"Employment is at a record high, with youth unemployment having halved since 2010. And we believe every worker should be in a job which reflects their skills and offers opportunities to progress,\" the DWP said.\n\nIn 2018, analysis carried out for the BBC by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showed that people in their 30s were earning £2,100 a year less than people in the same age group in 2008.", "Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill, pictured with dog Duffy, founded the bank in 2010\n\nMetro Bank has said its plans to raise £350m to strengthen its finances are \"well advanced\" as it tries to quell questions over its financial health.\n\nThe bank's shares have plummeted around 75% since January when it announced it needed the money to boost its capital after an accounting error.\n\nReports have suggested the bank was struggling to raise the cash.\n\nBut Metro Bank said it was now in \"final discussions\" with shareholders and new investors over its plans.\n\n\"Feedback continues to be positive,\" it added.\n\nThe bank - which has 67 branches in London and the South East - said it expected to raise the cash by the end of June.\n\nIt said it would raise the money via a share placing, with additional shares created and offered to new and existing investors.\n\nThe bank revealed in January that it had underestimated the risk level of some of its commercial loans, meaning it didn't have the required shock-absorbing capital it needed to support a number of its business loans.\n\nThe funds it raises via its new share placing are aimed at making up for the shortfall.\n\nThe bank said the share sale had been underwritten by the banks arranging the sale.\n\nIn a separate move, Metro Bank is also considering selling the commercial loans affected by the accounting error.\n\nChief executive Craig Donaldson told the Financial Times it was an option, but stressed the bank had not made a final decision.\n\nMetro Bank has been under close supervision by regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority after the capital miscalculation.\n\nThe issue has also weighed heavily on its performance, with its recent results for the first three months of the year showing a sharp drop in pre-tax profit to £6.9m from £10m for the same period a year ago.\n\nChief executive Craig Donaldson said \"adverse sentiment\" has also impacted deposit growth, but said that 2019 would be \"a year of transition\" for the bank.\n\nThe bank was founded in 2010 by American Vernon Hill, becoming Britain's first new High Street bank for over 100 years.\n\nIts unusual focus, in a world where most banks are drastically cutting back on branches, has been on building physical branches, which open earlier and longer than any of their rivals.", "Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch won the top two acting awards\n\nBBC thriller Killing Eve was the big winner at the Bafta TV Awards, scooping three trophies including best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series.\n\nI'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and Britain's Got Talent also picked up prizes, despite Ant McPartlin taking time out from both series last year.\n\nBGT won best entertainment show and I'm A Celebrity won the reality prize.\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his drama Patrick Melrose, which was also named best mini-series.\n\nThe Sherlock star, who received his first of seven previous Bafta nominations in 2005 but hasn't won until now, told the audience: \"Oh gosh, I think I'm going to fall over, I'm very used to being a bridesmaid not the bride.\"\n\nThe ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.\n\nIn Killing Eve, Comer played offbeat assassin Villanelle, who was pursued by intelligence agent Eve, played by Sandra Oh. Both were nominated for best actress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars of the small screen chatted to BBC's Lizo Mzimba ahead of the ceremony\n\nAccepting the award, a tearful Comer - who dedicated her award to her late grandmother - said: \"Thank you so much. Sorry, I'm the only one who's turned on the waterworks.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sandra Oh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Sandra Oh\n\nPaying tribute to the show's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she said: \"I feel so lucky to say I worked with you, also to call you a friend. You're the most talented person I know, also an inspiration.\"\n\nFiona Shaw was named best supporting actress for playing spy boss Carolyn Martens, a role she said had been \"probably the greatest pleasure of my life\".\n\nFiona Shaw won best supporting actress - the first Bafta of her career\n\nShe also expressed gratitude to Waller-Bridge and her \"glass-shattering genius and wayward imagination\".\n\nKilling Eve's inclusion this year was unusual, in that Bafta bent the rules to allow it to be nominated.\n\nIn the entertainment programme category, BGT triumphed despite the fact Declan Donnelly had to host the live shows solo after Ant McPartlin's drink-drive conviction.\n\nAnt and Dec were together on the Bafta red carpet\n\nAnt missed last year's I'm A Celebrity completely, with Dec joined by Holly Willoughby for hosting duties.\n\nSpeaking backstage, Dec said: \"It's been a tough year personally and professionally. I was just trying to do my best, and just keep the shows warm for him for when he was ready to come back.\n\n\"And they have both won Baftas, so how cool am I?\"\n\nBut the duo lost out on the best entertainment performance award to Lee Mack, who scooped the prize for his appearances on comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch (left) and winners of the mini-series award for Patrick Melrose\n\nBenedict Cumberbatch won his first Bafta for Sky's Patrick Melrose, adapted from novels by Edward St Aubyn, 14 years after his first nomination.\n\nCumberbatch, who played a man grappling with the ghost of his abusive father, thanked his wife, writer and theatre director Sophie Hunter, saying: \"You're my rock, I had to go pretty weird for this one and it was nice to come home and feel stable again.\n\n\"It's all right, I've got one [award] and I'm going to bring it home.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Daisy May Cooper, who was nominated for the best female comedy performance award for This Country, turned up on the red carpet wearing a dress made from bin liners.\n\nIt cost \"about £5\", she said. \"The reason I'm wearing this is if I wore a normal dress, that would cost a lot of money and I thought I'd donate that money to a local food bank and wear bin bags instead.\"\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell was honoured with the Bafta Fellowship.\n\nShe told the ceremony she had been inspired by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 12, and had been determined to make it in a male-dominated industry.\n\n\"It has been a long journey, and along the way I've had the encouragement and professional support of many, many women, making their own bid to [have] as much a chance as men. And possibly earn as much. That would be nice.\"\n\nHappy Valley and Queer As Folk producer Nicola Shindler was presented with a special award in recognition of her contribution to the television industry.\n\nThe Bafta Craft Awards - which recognise behind-the-scenes talent like writers and sound editors - took place last month, with A Very English Scandal going home with the most trophies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary Damian Hinds: 'This is not about the leader of the party'\n\nThe European Parliament elections will be seen as an opportunity for the ultimate protest vote, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has said.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme the elections would be difficult for the Conservatives and that \"for some people this is the second referendum\".\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage told the show there had been a breakdown in trust between people and politicians.\n\nElections for 73 MEPs to the European Parliament will take place on 23 May.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nThe government is continuing to talk to the Labour party about progress in the Brexit process, and those cross-party talks are due to continue on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has told the Guardian that he doubts a cross-party deal lacking a confirmatory referendum could pass Parliament.\n\nMr Hinds said: \"I don't think anyone is in any doubt these are going to be difficult elections for us - that much has been clear from the very start.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he added.\n\nMr Hinds said he would have preferred the government \"didn't have to go into talks with Labour\" but asked: \"What's the alternative?\n\n\"I disagree with Labour on many things... but there is some commonality of interest here.\n\n\"This is about our democracy, about our system and to repay the trust that people put in us we need to get things done for our constituents.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour had put forward alternatives in its negotiations in the Brexit process.\n\n\"We're trying to negotiate that with the government, as I say it's not getting very far, but we are still engaging in those negotiations in good faith.\"\n\nIn a tense interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Farage said that if the Brexit Party was successful in the European Parliament elections, he would ask for the party's MEPs to become part of the government's EU negotiating team.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MEP Nigel Farage says immigration \"isn't the burning issue of the time\" now\n\n\"We've got a two-party system that now serves nothing but itself,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and our politicians and frankly they revealed themselves to be grossly incompetent.\"\n\nAhead of European elections, two separate polls - by ComRes and Opinium - give Mr Farage's Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nFormer prime minister Tony Blair expressed frustration with Labour's position on Brexit saying it was \"clear they are not Remain in an unequivocal sense\".\n\nOn Sky's Sophy Ridge On Sunday, the former Labour leader urged Labour supporters who can no longer vote for the party to endorse one which backs Remain.\n\nHe said it was \"important the anti-Brexit side is larger and stronger than the Farage side\" in the European elections.\n\n\"I do come across people who cannot vote for Labour, in which case I say 'don't stay at home - vote for any of the other parties',\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nRangers secured back-to-back home wins over Celtic for the first time in seven years with a dominant and determined display against the Scottish champions.\n\nSteven Gerrard's side got the ideal start as James Tavernier's free-kick deceived goalkeeper Scott Bain with only two minutes gone at Ibrox.\n\nCeltic were left angry as Jon Flanagan escaped with a yellow card for an elbow in the face of Scott Brown.\n\nRangers took advantage as Scott Arfield finished off a fine, flowing move.\n\nThe derby win takes the hosts to within six points of their city rivals, but with the title already returning to Celtic Park, it more importantly was a signal of intent ahead of next season as Rangers secured a sixth consecutive win.\n\nIt also ends Celtic's 12-game unbeaten run since Valencia ended their Europa League hopes - and a run of 16 without loss in the league since their December defeat at Ibrox.\n\nWhile the title was long won by the visitors, there is no such thing as a meaningless Old Firm derby and there was still plenty more on the line as the players emerged into a sun-kissed Ibrox.\n\nNeil Lennon is still trying to win a permanent contract with Celtic after taking over as interim manager following Brendan Rodgers' departure to Leicester City.\n\nCounterpart Gerrard is out to prove both his worth in his first managerial job - and that the December win over their city rivals was no flash in the pan. It didn't take long for the former England captain's side to take an early lead and help his case.\n\nTavernier had already found the net 16 times this season - 14 from the penalty spot - before the right-back's in-swinging free-kick whipped past Bain as it skimmed clear of a sea of heads and nestled in the far corner of the net.\n\nCeltic were rattled. Shorn of the injured James Forrest and Kieran Tierney, rested ahead of the Scottish Cup final, and adopting a back three, Lennon's side lacked the width to trouble a blue tide feverishly chasing down anything resembling a Celtic shadow.\n\nGerrard had decided against restoring top scorer Alfredo Morelos to the starting line-up on the Colombian's return from a suspension resulting from his red card in the last Old Firm derby.\n\nIn his absence, Jermain Defoe, the veteran on loan from Bournemouth, has formed a fruitful partnership with Arfield and the pair responded by giving the Celtic backline a torrid afternoon.\n\nDefoe's dummy after Glen Kamara cleverly shrugged off Brown to thread a ball towards the Celtic penalty box set up the former Burnley midfielder to slot home the second goal.\n\nOliver Burke should have reduced the arrears late on when goalkeeper Wes Foderingham was able to beat away the on-loan West Bromwich Albion winger's close-range drive, which was Celtic's first shot on target after 83 minutes.\n\nHowever, it seemed like the only thing that was going to prevent a Rangers win was a return to the indiscipline that led to three players being sent off for clashes involving Brown in that March defeat at Celtic Park.\n\nIndeed, referee Kevin Clancy, taking charge of his first Old Firm derby, could have changed the course of the game had he decided on a harsher punishment for Flanagan after the defender's forearm smash in the Celtic captain's face as they awaited a corner with just a goal in the game.\n\nThe talk before kick-off was about Rangers' decision not to give Celtic a guard of honour in their first game since retaining an eighth consecutive title.\n\nLennon's side certainly not did deserve one in the wake of a disjointed performance as Rangers enjoyed a deserved ovation from home support encouraged by what may lie ahead next season.\n\nRangers totally dominated. I expected a response from Celtic and it didn't materialise. They were well beaten.\n\nRangers overran the Celtic midfield. They couldn't handle Davis, Arfield, Kamara and Jack.\n\nThe only talking point that might have changed the game was at 1-0 and then Flanagan throws his left arm into Brown and maybe a red card might have changed it - because Celtic certainly weren't going to change it.\n\nThat's the best I've seen Rangers play in years. They nullified Celtic's threat brilliantly. There was an energy, a wit and confidence about them that Celtic couldn't live with. It was a very complete Rangers performance.\n\nThere will be changes this summer, but on that performance, you wouldn't be changing much about that Rangers team. If they can get Ryan Kent on another season-long loan from Liverpool, what a difference that can make.\n\nThis is a big black mark against Neil Lennon and his chances of getting the job permanently because his team were beaten in every department.\n• None Attempt missed. Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Ryan Kent (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt saved. Oliver Burke (Celtic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Jermain Defoe (Rangers) hits the bar with a left footed shot from the centre of the box.\n• None Attempt saved. Jermain Defoe (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Thick smoke was visible after the plane came down\n\nA light aircraft has crashed on to a main road but managed to avoid hitting any cars.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the three people on board survived the incident on the A40 near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nThe service was called to the crash at about 11:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nIt said the three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nTwo motorists, Daniel Nicholson and Joel Snarr, a former army bomb disposal officer, helped to rescue those on board the aircraft.\n\nMr Nicholson, who was first on the scene, said the plane was upside down.\n\nHe said: \"We could only see two people at first - they were screaming as the plane was on fire.\"\n\nMr Nicholson added that he was \"worried we weren't going to be able to get them out\".\n\nHe went on to say that without Mr Snarr's help, he probably would not have been able to rescue those on board.\n\nMr Snarr explained he saw the plane appear \"out of nowhere\" and \"burst into smoke and some flames\".\n\n\"It was a miracle no one else was on the road,\" he said.\n\nIn total 19 firefighters attended the site and used foam to extinguish the aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from Daniel Nicholson. The plane crashed on the A40 near Abergavenny\n\nThe fire service said three people were treated for minor injuries at the scene\n\nRhodri Jones, who lives about two miles from the scene at Llanover said: \"I was in the house and heard a loud explosion.\n\n\"Initially we thought it was rail crash because the line is nearby. There was thick smoke.\"\n\nBBC reporter Rhodri Tomos' train from Cardiff to Manchester had to make an emergency stop just before Abergavenny.\n\nHe said: \"The guard said that a light aircraft has crashed into some power cables and the cables have hit the train.\n\n\"We could smell some burning and we were at a stop for about 15 minutes.\"\n\nThe smoke could be seen by motorists on the A40\n\nGwent Police said in a statement: \"The aircraft was reported to have made an unscheduled landing in the area, colliding with overhead wiring.\n\n\"Three occupants of the light aircraft were treated by paramedics at the scene. Their injuries are not life-threatening.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch is aware of the incident and is making initial inquiries.\n\nIt is the second time in three years in which a light aircraft crashed on the same stretch of road.\n\nThree people sustained minor injuries when the four-seater Piper Warrior II came down in 2016.", "This Country writer and actress Daisy May Cooper took to the Bafta TV Awards red carpet wearing a dress made from bin bags and rubbish, made by her mother.\n\nShe told BBC entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba she donated the money she would have spent on a proper dress to her local food bank.", "The Duchess of Sussex has celebrated her first US Mother's Day as a parent by posting a picture of her son Archie's feet.\n\nThe SussexRoyal Instagram account shared an image of Meghan, who is American, holding her son's heel.\n\nIn the caption, the account paid tribute to \"all mothers today, past, present, mothers-to-be, and those lost but forever remembered\".\n\nWhile Mother's Day is in March in the UK, it was marked in the US on Sunday.\n\nIt was also celebrated in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya and Japan.\n\nThe photo was accompanied by the poem Lands, by writer Nayyirah Waheed.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first son is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - and Prince Harry.\n\nHe is the Queen's eighth great-grandchild.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said he felt the need to intervene\n\nA cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.\n\nCardinal Konrad Krajewski said he acted in \"desperation\" because the occupants of the state-owned property had spent a week without power and hot water.\n\nActivists have been using the building to provide shelter for the homeless.\n\nThe electricity supplier cut the power due to debts of €300,000 (£260,000).\n\nThe sum is believed to have accumulated in the years since the unused building was taken over in 2013. It now houses more than 400 people, including nearly 100 children.\n\nMatteo Salvini, Italy's populist deputy prime minister, has said he now expects the papal aide to pay the overdue utility bills, according to the Italian daily La Repubblica.\n\nOn Sunday, Cardinal Krajewski described how he had climbed down a manhole and removed seals covering a switch in order to turn the building's power supply back on.\n\n\"I intervened personally last night to reattach the meters. It was a desperate gesture. There were over 400 people without electricity, with families, children, without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators,\" he told Italy's Ansa news agency.\n\n\"I didn't do it because I was drunk,\" he reportedly added.\n\nThe building on Via di Santa Croce not only provides shelter, but today also houses workspaces, including a craft beer laboratory and a carpentry shop, Italian media report.", "Theresa May has rejected calls to resign\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May could set a date for her resignation in the coming days, the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee has said.\n\nThe PM said she will step down when her Brexit deal is ratified by Parliament - but some MPs want a fixed date.\n\nSir Graham Brady said he expected a \"clear understanding\" of that timetable once she has met the committee, which she would do on Wednesday.\n\nHe also said he expected Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nAnd Sir Graham also refused to rule out running himself to replace Mrs May.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's The Week in Westminster, he said the 1922 Committee had asked her to give \"clarity\" about her plans for the future, and she had \"offered to come and meet with the executive\".\n\n\"It would be strange for that not to result in a clear understanding [of when she will leave] at the end of the meeting,\" he added.\n\nThe 1922 Committee represents backbench Tory MPs and oversees the party's leadership contests.\n\nOn why the PM had so far been unwilling to set a date to step down, Sir Graham said: \"I do understand the reticence about doing it.\n\n\"I don't think it's about an intention for staying indefinitely as prime minister or leader of the Conservative Party.\n\n\"I think the reticence is the concern that by promising to go on a certain timetable, it might make it less likely she would secure Parliamentary approval for the withdrawal agreement, rather than more likely.\"\n\nSir Graham Brady did not rule out running as Mrs May's successor\n\nHe was also asked about the cross-party talks between the government and Labour over Mrs May's Brexit deal, which has been rejected three times.\n\nSir Graham said: \"I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution.\n\n\"If the customs union is agreed without a second referendum then half the Labour Party won't vote for whatever comes through regardless, and if a customs union is agreed then most of the Conservative Party isn't going to support it.\n\n\"So, I can't see that is a very productive route to follow, and I may be wrong, but I suspect it will peter out in the next few days without having come to any significant conclusion.\"\n\nWhen quizzed about running for the party leadership, Sir Graham said: \"It would take an awful lot of people to persuade me.\n\n\"I'm not sure many people are straining at the leash at the moment to take on what is an extraordinarily difficult situation.\"\n\nIn March, Mrs May pledged to stand down if and when Parliament ratified her Brexit withdrawal agreement, but did not make it clear how long she intends to stay if no deal was reached.\n\nPressure has grown on her since the Tories' local election drubbing, and there have been warnings the party faces a meltdown in elections to the European Parliament as well.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City have sealed the Premier League title, needing a 14-game winning run to keep themselves above Liverpool - the best second-placed team in English top-flight history.\n\nIt felt like an absolutely relentless battle between two great Premier League sides. But do the stats back that up?\n\nThe best top two ever\n\nIt has been a title race of unparalleled quality and the numbers bear that out.\n\nThis is the form guide for the second half of the season:\n\nThe top two have amassed 195 points - a top-flight record for the champions and runners-up. They actually passed the previous Premier League record in their 36th games of the season. They also recorded the most combined wins (62) for a top two.\n\nIn both those instances, the previous record was last season, although City had provided a much greater share of the combined figures than second-placed Manchester United.\n\nCity and Liverpool have also broken the record for the fewest combined defeats - five. The top two in 2004-05 (Chelsea and Arsenal) and 2008-09 (Manchester United and Liverpool) had six defeats between them.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nAll season the title race has seemed too close to call, not least because the lead at the top has changed so many times.\n\nIn fact, it has never changed hands so many times in a season.\n\nBy the time the title was won, it had switched 32 times at the end of a day this season, although plenty of those came as a result of staggering City's and Liverpool's games.\n\nThe previous record had been 2001-02, when the lead changed 28 times. Arsenal won the title that season, but both Manchester United and Liverpool had led in the final 10 games - and Newcastle and Leeds were both top over the festive period.\n\nLiverpool have spent 141 days top of the Premier League - 16 more than Manchester City. Chelsea spent nine days top - and Manchester United were top for one day, beating Leicester 2-1 in the first game of the season.\n\nThe last time Liverpool spent more days on top in a season was 1990-91 (163 days), when they also finished second. They are far away from the Premier League record for a team spending the most time top without winning the league though - Newcastle United's 212 days in 1995-96 may never be surpassed.\n\nCity's points haul in itself was not record breaking - mostly because of their 100-point tally in 2017-18. But they have broken plenty of other records.\n\nOnly five top-flight title-winning teams have ever won 30 games in a season, including football before the Premier League and 42-game seasons. City's record 32 wins last season put them on the list, and this season's vintage are on it again with the same figure.\n\nAnd they are the first team in English Football League history to win 30 games in three different seasons (2001-02 First Division, 2017-18 and 2018-19 Premier League).\n\nCity have also scored more goals than any English top-flight team in a season. They have managed 163 in all competitions. They also had the previous record, 156 in 2013-14. In fact City have three of the top five scoring seasons, with 143 in 2017-18.\n\nSo near, yet so far for Liverpool.\n\nThe Reds have the highest points tally of any team to finish second in the English top flight. Their 97 beat the previous record of Leeds United in 1970-71 (91) - adjusted to three points for a win. The previous highest Premier League total which failed to secure the title came when Manchester United finished behind Manchester City on goal difference with 89 points in 2012.\n\nLiverpool's 97 points would have won them every single Premier League title apart from last season and this season.\n\nThey are one of only 10 teams in the Premier League era to pick up 90 or more points. Unfortunately for them City this season are one of the others.\n\nLiverpool have won 18 English titles, but only once have they ever picked up more points than they did this season - 98 in 1978-79, adjusted to three points for a win. And that was from 42 games, making this Liverpool's best-ever points per game return.\n\nIn fact, the Reds have the highest tally of a runner-up in any of Europe's top five leagues - eclipsing Real Madrid's 96 in 2009-10. The champions that season? Guardiola's Barcelona.\n\nFor two such attacking sides, it is only right that players from both teams recorded historic goalscoring feats this season.\n\nCity's Sergio Aguero, with 21 goals, became only the second player to score 20 or more Premier League goals in six different seasons. Alan Shearer managed it in seven - three for Blackburn and four times for Newcastle.\n\nAguero also becomes the second man to score 20 Premier League goals in five consecutive seasons, level with Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.\n\nLiverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane have also hit at least 20 league goals. That is only the fourth time two players in the same team have reached that landmark in a Premier League season.\n\nThey shared this season's Golden Boot with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22 goals.\n\nTeam-mates to score 20 goals or more in a Premier League season", "Brothers Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja have a combined net worth of £22bn, the Sunday Times estimates\n\nThe billionaire Hinduja brothers have been named as the wealthiest people in the UK for a third time, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nSri and Gopi Hinduja saw their fortune increase by £1.356bn in the last year to £22bn, the paper estimates.\n\nMeanwhile, chemicals firm founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who topped last year's list, has slipped to third place.\n\nAnd Valerie Moran becomes the first black female entrepreneur ever to make the paper's Rich List.\n\nFamily business the Hinduja Group was founded in Mumbai in 1914, and now has interests around the world including in oil and gas, banking, IT and property.\n\nBritish citizens Sri, 83, and Gopi, 79, who are based in London, are two of the four brothers controlling the empire.\n\nAmong the properties they own is the Old War Office in Whitehall, which they hope to reopen as a luxury hotel.\n\nThe two brothers topped the newspaper list in 2014 and in 2017.\n\nThe list, which estimates the 1,000 richest people in the UK, is based on identifiable wealth including land, property, other assets such as art, and shares in companies, the Sunday Times says. It does not include the amount contained in people's bank accounts.\n\nBrothers David and Simon Reuben - who made their fortune in property, carpets and scrap metal - are in second place on the list, with a combined wealth of £18.664bn.\n\nMeanwhile, the richest person on last year's list, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who founded the Ineos chemicals firm, saw his net worth drop by £2.9bn since last year, the paper says.\n\nSir Jim Ratcliffe once lived in a council house near Manchester and now has an estimated net worth of £18.15bn\n\nInventor Sir James Dyson - who campaigned for Brexit and has announced he would be relocating his company headquarters to Singapore - comes in at fifth on the list, up from 12th last year.\n\nZimbabwe-born Ms Moran is the first black female entrepreneur on the Rich List, ranking joint 970th alongside her husband, Noel. The couple, whose combined fortune is estimated at £122m, have a 81.5% stake in financial technology company Prepaid Financial Services.\n\nKirsten Rausing, part of the Rausing family which was behind the Tetra Pak drinks carton empire, is the highest ranked woman on the list. She appears alongside her brother Jorn Rausing in sixth place, with a combined estimated wealth of £12.256bn.\n\nKirsten Rausing and her brother Jorn's wealth was reported to have increased £1.408bn in the last year\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Philip Green and his wife Tina are placed at 156th on the list, down from 66th last year.\n\nHis fortune has been estimated at £950m - the first time in 17 years that Sir Philip has not been listed as a billionaire.\n\nSir Philip's company, The Arcadia Group, has been coping with a pensions deficit.\n\nSir Philip Green's Arcadia Group - which includes Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins - was valued at worthless in this year's list\n\nRobert Watts, who compiled this year's list, said: \"On the face of it this looks like a bumper year for the super-rich, with record wealth, more billionaires and the entry level rising to £120m.\n\n\"But many of the rich are nursing big losses after a year of turbulence on the stock market and political deadlock in Westminster.\n\n\"Technology is making and breaking fortunes. We are finding young entrepreneurs making vast sums of money from online fashion retail, dating apps and creating YouTube videos.\"\n\nHe added that online shopping \"continues to have a profound effect\" on UK high streets, adding that well known retailers \"are seeing their fortunes smashed by this seismic change\".\n\nMexican-born film star Salma Hayek is married to French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, the chairman and CEO of the Kering group that owns the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion brands\n\nFor the sixth year in a row, Scotland's richest person was named as Glenn Gordon and his family, the Jersey-based tycoon behind distillers William Grant & Sons. The group produces whisky including Grant's, Glenfiddich and The Balvenie, as well as Hendrick's gin.\n\nThe richest sports star aged 30 or under was named as Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy.\n\nRich List debutant Stormzy celebrated his first UK number one single, Vossi Bop, earlier this month\n\nMeanwhile, top of the Music Rich List in the UK - which includes writers and performers - is Andrew Lloyd Webber with a fortune of £820m.\n\nMusician Ed Sheeran doubled his wealth last year, while grime artist Stormzy made his debut on the rich list of young musicians with £16m.", "The van crashed down the cliff on to Undercliff Walk\n\nA driver was killed when his van plummeted nearly 100ft (30m) off a cliff in Brighton.\n\nSussex Police received calls just after 06:30 BST on Sunday telling them a van had \"gone over the cliff\" from Marine Drive.\n\nThe silver Vauxhall was found badly damaged on Undercliff Walk. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe force said it was investigating and has appealed to drivers with dash-cam footage to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The threat of organised crime is \"chronic and corrosive\" to the UK and more money is needed to tackle it, according to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHead of the agency Lynne Owens said organised criminals were killing more citizens per year than terrorism, war and natural disasters combined.\n\nShe said offenders took advantage of the ever-changing face of technology to dominate local communities.\n\nThe government said it invested in the right tools to fight organised crime.\n\nBut the NCA is calling for \"significant new investment\" to combat it.\n\nOn Tuesday, the agency will launch its annual national strategic assessment (NSA), which exposes how organised criminals are exploiting advances in technology.\n\nAdopting new methods, and using these alongside old-style violence, organised criminals commit a multitude of crimes, dominate communities and chase profits, the NSA will show.\n\nNCA director-general Lynne Owens says more investment is needed to fight organised crime\n\n\"Against a backdrop of globalisation, extremism and technological advances, serious and organised crime is changing fast and law enforcement needs significant new investment to help combat it,\" Ms Owens said.\n\n\"This is the most comprehensive assessment we have ever produced and describes in detail the growing and ever-changing nature of the threat posed by serious and organised crime - to individuals, to communities and to wider society.\"\n\nThe NSA draws on information and intelligence from sources across law enforcement, as well as many public and private sector organisations, the NCA said.\n\nThe NCA is the agency charged with apprehending those who pose the most serious risk to the UK.\n\nIn response to the calls, the government said it would \"mobilise the full force of the state\" to tackle serious and organised crime, as it set out in its strategy published in November last year.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said serious and organised crime was \"a fast-evolving and highly complex threat to our national security\", impacting on people, communities and businesses.\n\n\"As criminals' use of technology evolves so must our response. We continue to invest in the right capabilities and tools in law enforcement, across government and in partnership with the private sector,\" he added.\n\nThe government estimates serious and organised crime costs the UK economy around £37bn a year.", "The traditional German hotel is in a popular hiking location in Bavaria\n\nGerman police are investigating the deaths of five people, three of which were found in a rural Bavarian hotel impaled by crossbow bolts.\n\nA room maid discovered the bodies in a room alongside two crossbows.\n\nThe relationship between the three victims - a man aged 53 and two women aged 30 and 33 - remains unclear.\n\nPolice found the bodies of two more women when searching the home of the 30-year-old in northern Germany, officials said on Monday.\n\nPolice said they are investigating \"possible connections\" between the hotel deaths and the two bodies found at the home in the town of Gifhorn.\n\nThe hotel stands by the Ilz river near Passau, about 650km (400 miles) to the south.\n\nAn autopsy on the three bodies is scheduled to begin on Monday.\n\nAnother hotel guest, who was staying in the hotel for a short break, told local newspaper Passauer Neue Presse that it had been a \"completely quiet night\".\n\nThe hotel manager said the three dead, who were all German, had planned to stay for three nights but had not ordered breakfast.\n\nIt has been established that the man and 33-year-old woman were resident in Rhineland-Palatinate state, western Germany.\n\nTheir room had a double bed and a single bed. According to the daily Bild, the man and 33-year-old woman were found lying hand-in-hand on the bed, shot with bolts to the head and chest; the other woman was lying in a pool of blood on the floor, with a bolt through the chest.\n\nPolice have seized a white pickup truck, parked outside, which has stickers reportedly linked to a hunting club. It was registered in Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate.\n\nA hotel guest said the man had a long white beard and the women were dressed in black, and described them as \"strange\".\n\nOn arrival on Friday evening they simply wished other guests a \"good evening\", then went upstairs to their second-floor room with bottles of water and Coca-Cola, said the guest, quoted by the Merkur news website.", "Captain Kevin Bennett (pictured with ball) and other players took up the same position in the photo as they did 40 years ago\n\nMembers of a primary school football team have met up to recreate a 40-year-old photo.\n\nKevin Bennett said he and three friends were inspired to track down all 15 players, after sharing the picture at a 50th birthday party.\n\nHe searched through Facebook, finding friends across the UK - and in Panama, and brought them together back in their home town of Alsager, Cheshire.\n\nMr Bennett said reuniting the team was \"quite emotional\" but \"brilliant\".\n\nMany of the boys went on to the same senior school but lost touch later\n\nThe sales manager, 50, now of Westbury Park, Newcastle under Lyme, said the picture was taken in their final year at Excalibur Primary School, in Alsager.\n\nMr Bennett, who was the team's captain, said he had happy memories of the time.\n\n\"Football was my life. We played all the time, even with a rolled up sock,\" he said.\n\nAlthough many of them went on to Alsager Comprehensive School, most later lost touch.\n\nThe idea to reunite the gang began when he and fellow team mates Richard Nixon, Tim Stubbs and Dave Moorhouse, were invited to a 50th birthday party for classmate Ian Beresford, where Mr Bennett took along the picture.\n\n\"After a few beers, we said why don't we get all the football team back together,\" he said.\n\n\"I was quite nervous in case some of them didn't turn up, but when we got there it was brilliant,\" Mr Bennett said.\n\nThey now hope to make the gathering a more regular occurrence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Corrigan was struck outside his home\n\nA man who suffered \"horrendous injuries\" when he was shot with a crossbow has died in hospital.\n\nGerald Corrigan, 74, was struck outside his home on South Stack Road, Holyhead, on 19 April at 00:30 BST.\n\nNorth Wales Police have now confirmed Mr Corrigan died, nearly a month after he was injured.\n\nThe force previously urged the crossbow shooter to come forward and said its investigation into the attack was continuing.\n\nMr Corrigan had been trying to fix a satellite dish on his home when he was hit with the bolt through his upper body and right arm, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly shocking case and our thoughts are with Gerald's family and friends at this very sad time.\"\n\nMr Corrigan, a former photography and video lecturer had lived on Anglesey for more than 20 years.\n\nHe had been taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the major trauma centre serving north Wales.\n\nLocal councillor Trefor Lloyd Hughes said it would be a \"very sad day for the family\".\n\nHe added: \"He must have put up a good fight to stay alive.\n\n\"There's no doubt it has shocked the community. It's a picturesque area, people will be in a big, big shock.\n\n\"In an area that's so quiet, after midnight, it makes you wonder what the heck is going on.\"\n\nMr Corrigan's family previously said: \"This is a horrific incident that has happened to our family.\n\n\"We cannot think of anybody who may have wanted to hurt our father and dear partner.\n\n\"We are trying to come to terms with this shocking incident.\n\n\"If anybody has any information at all about what has happened, however small, please come forward to the police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Henry McLeish is calling for first past the post voting system used to elect most MSPs to be replaced\n\nA former first minister is calling for first past the post voting system used to elect most MSPs to be replaced with proportional representation (PR).\n\nHenry McLeish, who was first minister between 2000 and 2001, told Good Morning Scotland he believes PR would force parties to work together.\n\nThe interview coincides with the 20th anniversary of the reconvening of the Scottish Parliament on 12 May 1999.\n\nIt was the parliament's first meeting in 292 years.\n\nHe said said the first past the post element of the election should be scrapped and replaced, adding: \"You could have a PR system that could retain the constituencies, but possibly have two members but elected on a different basis what that would do in my view is give you a parliament that would never have an overall majority.\n\n\"That would be one box that I would gratefully tick.\n\n\"Secondly, it would mean that people would have to speak to each other.\"\n\nHe also said it was still to early to say whether the parliament had been a success.\n\nMr McLeish, who led a Labour-Lib Dem executive in the parliament's first session, said that Holyrood has barely come of age.\n\nHe added: \"It's in its infancy... In the stock of things, Westminster has been on that site in some form for nearly 1,000 years - we're just on the foothills of building a new Scotland, a new parliament, so in that sense I think there is a great opportunity to reflect seriously and then look forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City retained their Premier League title and finally ended Liverpool's magnificent challenge after surviving a scare to come from behind and outclass Brighton at the Amex.\n\nPep Guardiola's side started the day knowing victory would ensure they would be the first team to retain the crown since Manchester United 10 years ago - but any slip-up could let in their relentless pursuers Liverpool, who were hosting Wolves at Anfield.\n\nAnd when Glenn Murray gave the Seagulls the lead with a glancing header from a corner after 27 minutes, anxiety rose in Sussex and hopes rose at Anfield that Liverpool might win their first title in 29 years.\n\nManchester City's response was instant, emphatic and ruthless as they swept Brighton aside to end the campaign with a record 14 successive league victories, making it 32 in all, which equals the record they set last season.\n\nSergio Aguero pounced in the area to equalise inside 83 seconds and Aymeric Laporte arrived unmarked on the end of a corner to put City ahead before half-time.\n\nBrighton had no way back and City completed the formalities in spectacular style as Riyad Mahrez fired high past Mat Ryan just after the hour and Ilkay Gundogan's spectacular 72nd minute free-kick sparked wild celebrations.\n\nCity may not have repeated the 100 points that won the title last season but this was arguably an even sweeter success given the season-long battle with Liverpool.\n\nThey will now aim to complete a unique domestic treble when they face Watford in the FA Cup final at Wembley on 18 May.\n• None From the chief exec's Pep talk to Silva surprise - unseen moments that defined Man City's season\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None The 11mm title? The tiny margins that decided an extraordinary battle\n\nCity knew their task at kick-off in Sussex - but whether it was a combination of nerves or unwitting complacency, it took the fright of going behind to kick them into action.\n\nCity were careless and lacking in urgency until Murray bundled in a near-post header.\n\nIt was the signal for the last assault on the title.\n\nAguero swiftly put the show back on the road and once Laporte escape the attentions of Murray to head home, this was job done.\n\nIt was a fitting decoration that the final two goals of City's season were thunderous efforts from Mahrez and Gundogan, demonstrating the quality that is spread so liberally through this squad.\n\nBrighton, to their credit, did not simply stand aside and allow the party to take place: Chris Hughton's side were organised and resilient but once they levelled matters up, City were irresistible.\n\nAnd even the home fans accepted the inevitable by the final whistle, rising to first give a standing ovation to City captain Vincent Kompany when he was substituted and then to Guardiola and his team once referee Michael Oliver had sounded the final whistle that confirmed they were were Premier League champions for the fourth time and for the sixth time in total.\n\nCity's achievement, completed with that astonishing 14-game win towards the winning post, is underscored by the fact they saw off a Liverpool side that lost just once this season - to City - and amassed 97 points.\n\nThis is a magnificent feat by Guardiola and Manchester City.\n\nThe best team always ends as Premier League champions - and no matter how superbly Liverpool have performed, they came up against a truly outstanding team that was just one point better.\n\nThis was a day of celebration for Manchester City - and also one of satisfaction for Brighton as they look forward to another season in the Premier League.\n\nIt was a particularly special day for their iconic 38-year-old Spanish defender Bruno, who was making his final appearance. He was cheered throughout and made an emotional farewell when he was taken off.\n\nBruno, clearly loved down here, was also acclaimed during a post-match speech.\n\nThe Brighton fans left for summer in good heart after surviving late worries they may be hauled into the relegation fight and now shrewd manager Hughton will start plotting again to ensure they are in position for another season of consolidation when it all starts again in August.\n• None Manchester City have won their fourth Premier League title - only Manchester United (13) and Chelsea (5) have ever won more in the competition.\n• None Overall, City have won their sixth English top-flight title. They're the first side to retain the title since Manchester United in 2008-09.\n• None This was the eighth time the Premier League title has been decided on the final day of the season, with Manchester City winning it on three of those occasions (2011-12, 2013-14 and 2018-19).\n• None City's haul of 98 points is the joint-second highest for any team in English top-flight history (converting to three points for a win) - only City themselves have ever earned more (100 in 2017-18).\n• None City conceded the first goal in a Premier League game for the first time since their 2-0 defeat at Chelsea in December - they were behind for just 83 seconds before Sergio Aguero's equaliser.\n• None City have won their last 14 Premier League games - only City themselves (18 in December 2017) have had a longer winning run in the competition.\n• None City have won 32 Premier League games this season - equalling their own record in the competition from last season for most wins in a single campaign in the competition.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored 32 goals in all competitions for Man City this season - only in 2016-17 (33) has he scored more in a single campaign for City.\n• None City's David Silva has provided 18 assists for Sergio Aguero in the Premier League - only three players have ever assisted another for more goals in the competition (Frank Lampard to Didier Drogba, Darren Anderton to Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman to Robbie Fowler).\n• None Glenn Murray has scored 36% of Brighton's overall Premier League goals (25/69), the highest proportion of any team's goals in the competition's history.\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We have to say congratulations to Liverpool and thank you so much, they pushed us to increase our standards.\n\n\"It's incredible, 98 points, to go back-to-back. We made the standard higher last season and Liverpool helped us. To win this title we had to win 14 (league games) in a row. We couldn't lose one point.\n\n\"It's the toughest title we have won in all my career, by far.\"\n\nManchester City forward Raheem Sterling, speaking to Sky Sports: \"I'm just delighted, this is exactly what I came to the club for, to win trophies and be in these moments.\n\n\"The manager here... his mentality is the best. It's always about winning. It's the way he sets us up. I'm happy to be here learning and winning.\n\n\"As a manager, he's got multiple players in each position challenging each other. No one is comfortable here but everyone is ready to take their chance - like Riyad today. He's not played much recently but I knew he was going to score today.\n\n\"It's been a lovely season after a difficult World Cup. Hopefully I can go one better next year.\"\n\nBrighton manager Chris Hughton, speaking to Sky Sports: \"The next step for us is to learn from the disappointment we had in periods this season.\n\n\"We need to score more goals, that's the biggest thing. There are really good parts of our game that we can hold on to, but goals are the most important thing.\"\n\nOn Bruno's retirement: \"Bruno's an exceptional individual. It's not just about him being a great captain. The way he looks after himself and gets in the shape he is, it's great dedication.\n\n\"He's a fantastic individual and a person. That's why he's held in such high esteem here.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nNever before have the Premier League top two amassed so many points, never before have they suffered so few defeats.\n\nThe battle for the title has gone to the final day seven times in the Premier League era but, the Aguerooooooo season aside, few have been as compelling as the one between Manchester City and Liverpool this year.\n\nLiverpool were even top for 21 minutes on a nervy final day. So just how close did the Reds come to winning their first title in 29 years?\n\nDepending on how you look at it, the fine margin between success and failure, becoming heroes or remaining nearly men, was just the width of a paracetamol...\n• None The best top two in history - the numbers behind remarkable title race\n• None Rejuvenated and reconnected - the silver lining amid the pain for Klopp and Liverpool\n• None The long wait to be champions: Tales of Liverpool's title near-misses\n\nNine grains of sand away from the title?\n\nAll credit to BBC Sport reader Dan Middlehurst, who tweeted back in January: \"I've got a sneaky suspicion that the John Stones clearance might be one of the defining moments of the season.\"\n\nHow right he was.\n\nLiverpool came to Etihad Stadium on 3 January with a seven-point cushion at the top of the Premier League. Jurgen Klopp's side were unbeaten and knew that a win would put the defending champions 10 points behind them and potentially out of sight.\n\nAfter 18 minutes, with the score locked at 0-0, Sadio Mane poked a shot past Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson that hit the post, only for Stones' attempted clearance to rebound off the keeper and come agonisingly close to crossing the line, before the defender hooked it away.\n\nIt was a moment Stones would describe as \"something special\" as he celebrated on the pitch at Brighton after the final-day victory that clinched the title by a single point.\n\nSo how close was it? Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...\n\nIfs, buts, and maybes. But had Liverpool taken the lead would they have gone on to win? Ten points is an awful lot to make up in the remaining 17 games of the season.\n\nAs it was, goals from Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane gave City the win and inflicted Liverpool's only defeat of the whole campaign.\n\n11.7mm from the title, 11.7mm from an Invincibles season.\n\nFast forward a few months and Pep Guardiola's side were grateful for another bit of sharp work from the goalline technology cameras.\n\nWith Liverpool on top of the league again, City were being held to a frustrating draw at Burnley when Aguero squeezed off a shot in the 63rd minute.\n\nClarets defender Matthew Lowton blocked it on his chest and hoofed it away. But it was over the line. By 29.51mm this time. A comparative chasm. But still only half as long as a golf tee. We're talking 2% of Danny DeVito.\n\nWould an assistant referee have given it? Maybe not. But that's what technology is for, right?\n\nIn a title race so tight and so intense, the two head-to-head games were always going to be massively significant. City may have landed a crucial blow with that win in Manchester in January, but they missed a chance in October that would have helped them out even more.\n\nChampions City had not won a league game at Anfield in 15 years. They had a great chance to end that run but Riyad Mahrez fired an 85th-minute penalty high over the bar. The game ended 0-0.\n\nWhy was Mahrez taking it? The £60m summer signing had missed three of his previous five penalties and unsurprisingly hasn't taken one since.\n\nLiverpool had a few helping hands on the way, certainly from opposing goalkeepers.\n\nEverton and England number one Jordan Pickford served up a howler in the Merseyside derby back in December, inexplicably shelling a hopeful punt on goal by Virgil van Dijk and allowing Divock Origi to head in.\n\nA month later and Julian Speroni caught the bug, or rather failed to catch it, juggling a routine cross from James Milner back over his own head to gift Mohamed Salah a tap-in. A needed tap-in too, as Liverpool scraped a 4-3 win.\n\nFulham's Sergio Rico got in on the act in March, dropping a Salah effort at the feet of Sadio Mane and then hauling the Senegal striker over for a penalty just when it looked like a costly draw was on the cards. Milner converted from the spot to give the Reds another win.\n\nLose one game and lose the title?!\n\nLiverpool fans, players, and management have a right to feel cheesed off.\n\nNo team had finished as Premier League runners-up with more than 89 points before now. In the top five European leagues, the runners-up to finish with the most points were Real Madrid in the 2009-10 La Liga season (96 points), an unwanted record Liverpool can now claim as their own.\n\nWhen Arsenal's 'Invincibles' went unbeaten en route to the title in 2003-04 they picked up 90 points, while only one other side has gone through a whole season losing just once - Jose Mourinho's Chelsea team who were champions in 2004-05.\n\nPremier League sides to have lost three games or fewer in a season\n\nBernardo Silva's performance in the game between the title rivals in January was one of the standout individual displays of the season - former England winger Chris Waddle told BBC Radio 5 Live that night that he \"was everywhere and kept dragging the team forward\".\n\nSilva and fellow forward Raheem Sterling both made it on to the six-man shortlist for the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award, while along with Aguero and Sane they have formed a devastating attacking line-up.\n\nYet it could all have been very different.\n\nIn January 2018, Manchester City and Manchester United were involved in a transfer tug-of-war over Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.\n\nThe Chile striker eventually moved to Old Trafford, after City pulled out of a deal over fears his wage demands might affect team spirit.\n\nSince then Sanchez has scored five goals in all competitions for United, while City's forwards have thrived. Eight City players have scored more this season than Sanchez has managed in 16 months at Old Trafford.\n\nGoals in 2018-19 in all competitions\n\nHow much less game time would they have got if Sanchez had moved to Etihad Stadium? We will never know - but perhaps that decision not to sign a player was just as important as the ones to sign the likes of Silva, Sterling and Sane in the first place.", "Cesar Barron, known as Silver King, was performing in the Greatest Show of Lucha Libre at Camden's Roundhouse\n\nA professional wrestler and actor has died after collapsing during a bout in London.\n\nCesar Barron, known as Silver King, was a star in his native Mexico and appeared alongside the comic actor Jack Black in the 2005 film Nacho Libre.\n\nThe 51-year-old was performing at the Roundhouse in Camden when he fell to the canvas.\n\nA fellow Mexican wrestler paid tribute to his \"great rival\", saying: \"He went as he wanted: fighting!\"\n\nEl Hijo del Santo, aka Jorge Rodriguez, tweeted his \"deep regret\" at the death of his \"partner in so many battles\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by stuartdhughes This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarron had been in the middle of a match at the Greatest Show of Lucha Libre event on Saturday. Reports in Mexican media suggest he may have suffered a heart attack.\n\nRoberto Carrera Maldonado, who attended the fight, said it initially looked like his collapse was part of the show.\n\n\"It felt like it was staged,\" he told the BBC. \"Obviously it was quite normal in the fight.\"\n\nBut the wrestler stayed on the floor despite the referee's efforts to revive him. Footage posted online shows the referee and several other men coming to his aid after he collapsed.\n\n\"All of us were really shocked - it wasn't clear what was happening,\" Mr Carrera said. \"I had the impression they didn't know what to do.\"\n\nMr Carrera said another fighter was pressing Barron's chest, and added that it seemed to be a long time after the wrestler collapsed before paramedics arrived.\n\nThe show was initially paused, but a loudspeaker announcement later asked the audience to leave.\n\nAmbulance medics arrived five minutes after being called at 22:21 BST, London Ambulance Service said, adding: \"Sadly a person died at the scene.\"\n\nThe Roundhouse confirmed there had been an \"incident\" during the show but said it was unable to comment further.\n\nIt later tweeted its condolences, saying: \"Last night Silver King sadly lost his life during an event at the Roundhouse.\n\n\"At this stage the details are still being investigated so we don't have more information we can share.\"\n\nCesar Barron appeared without his mask at the premier of the 2005 comedy Nacho Libre\n\nLucha Libre features masked competitors, or Luchadors, facing each other in acrobatic, choreographed battles.\n\nBarron grew up in a Mexican wrestling family and his father was a popular lucha libre fighter.\n\nAs Silver King, Barron found worldwide success, appearing in the USA's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1997 to 2000.\n\nIn 2005, he starred as the villain Ramses in Hollywood comedy Nacho Libre alongside Jack Black.\n\nHe reprised his role as the \"evil Ramses\" during Saturday night's performance.\n\nTributes have flooded in from the wrestling world, with US company WWE among those mourning the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer World Championship Wrestling (WCW) president Eric Bischoff said he was \"saddened to hear about the passing of Silver King\".\n\n\"Like so many of the great Luchadores that helped Americans appreciate Lucha Libre and make Nitro [a WCW flagship show] the success it was, he will be missed,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "A lawsuit alleges that more than 100 generic drugs were included in a price-fixing scheme\n\nMore than 40 US states have filed a lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical firms of conspiring to artificially inflate the cost of common medicinal drugs.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges that as many as 20 companies have been involved in fixing prices for over 100 drugs, including treatments for diabetes and cancer.\n\nOne of the firms accused is Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's largest producer of generic medicine.\n\nTeva, which has denied any wrongdoing, says it will defend its actions.\n\nThe legal action, which follows a five-year investigation, accuses drugs companies of involvement in a scheme to boost prices - in some cases by more than 1,000% - and was filed on Friday by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.\n\n\"We have hard evidence that shows the generic drug industry perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud on the American people,\" Mr Tong said.\n\n\"We have emails, text messages, telephone records and former company insiders that we believe will prove a multi-year conspiracy to fix prices and divide market share for huge numbers of generic drugs.\"\n\nA representative of Teva in the US said that the Israeli company \"has not engaged in any conduct that would lead to civil or criminal liability\", Reuters news agency reports.\n\nThe other 19 firms implicated in the lawsuit have yet to comment on the allegations.\n\nFifteen individuals were also named as defendants accused of overseeing the price-fixing scheme on a day-to-day basis.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, the drugs companies allegedly conspired to manipulate prices on dozens of medicines between July 2013 and January 2015.\n\nIt accuses Teva and others of \"embarking on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States\".\n\nMr Tong said the investigation had exposed why the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs was so high in the US.\n\nAmerica's healthcare system has been at the forefront of US politics for years.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has frequently promised to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, which was designed to make medical cover affordable for the many Americans who had been priced out of the market.\n\nStates have argued that eliminating Obamacare would harm millions of Americans who would struggle to meet the costs of medical care.", "A driver said he faced groups of trespassers \"every 200 yards\" along part of the route\n\nThe Flying Scotsman could be banned from main line tracks after people trespassed to catch a glimpse of it.\n\nThere was chaos between Derby and Birmingham last Sunday as fans vied to spot the legendary loco on its UK tour.\n\nThe situation was blamed for a string of delays to normal services, with reports of people refusing to move when challenged by drivers.\n\nNetwork Rail said a ban would be a \"move of last resort\" but could not be ruled out if lives were being risked.\n\nIt would not let \"a few thoughtless lawbreakers\" cause dangers and delays, it said.\n\nNearly 60 services were delayed for a total of 1,000 minutes as Flying Scotsman complete its tour of the Midlands last weekend, British Transport Police (BTP) said.\n\nThe force has issued an image of two photographers it wants to trace, saying it was \"extremely disappointing that a small minority of rail enthusiasts put their lives in grave danger\".\n\nAn image of two people just metres away from the line as a train was due to pass was released by police\n\nOne passenger service driver, who asked to remain anonymous, said he saw trainspotting trespassers every 200 yards.\n\nDescribing it as \"probably the most stressful experience I have ever had\", he said it was \"only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed\" trying to get a photo.\n\nNick Brodrick, editor of Steam Railway magazine, said the problem was \"deeply troubling\".\n\n\"When you have drivers having to stop, get out and tell trespassers to move and even then be ignored, the situation is simply unacceptable,\" he said.\n\nHe said it would be hard to argue with a ban if someone was injured or killed.\n\nA Flying Scotsman spokesman said a ban \"would not be a surprise\" but every effort, such as CCTV and extra police on the train, was being taken to avoid the situation.\n\nThe tour ends in Scotland on Friday.\n\nNetwork Rail said it did not want to stop people seeing an \"iconic piece of British engineering\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of hardy competitors have battled their way across a muddy riverbed to raise money for charity.\n\nThe Maldon Mud Race sees participants run, leap and crawl across a 400m (1,312ft) stretch of the River Blackwater in Essex at low tide as they look to be crowned the winner.\n\nThe annual springtime event attracts people from across Europe and regularly raises tens of thousands of pounds for good causes.\n\nRace chairman Brian Farrington said: \"We are hoping to raise even more money for the charities.\"", "Brian Walden, the TV interviewer and former Labour MP, has died at the age of 86.\n\nThe broadcaster was known for his tough political interviews, including with Margaret Thatcher in 1989 which helped speed up the then-prime minister's downfall.\n\nMr Walden died following complications from emphysema at his home in St Peter Port, Guernsey, on Thursday.\n\nHis widow, Hazel, said he was \"always happy and got on well with people\".\n\nMr Walden served as Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood from 1964 until 1977.\n\nHe was best known politically for an impassioned speech calling for the abolition of capital punishment.\n\nMrs Walden, who says she was \"happily married\" to him for 43 years, said her husband was a passionate Brexiteer and that his biggest regret would be that he had not lived to see Brexit.\n\nShe said: \"He agreed with Nigel Farage that the only way is out, unless we wish to give up our British rights and tradition to be held in a superstate.\"\n\nAfter being elected as a Labour MP in four elections, he resigned from Parliament to become a journalist and broadcaster.\n\nHe presented the ITV political programme Weekend World as well as other TV shows including The Walden Interview and Walden.\n\nHe became known for his tenacious interviewing style, and often grilled the then-prime minister Mrs Thatcher. According to the Press Association, Mrs Thatcher enjoyed being interviewed by him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of Brian Walden's broadcasting highlights, including his 1989 interview with Margaret Thatcher\n\nDuring his most famous interview with Mrs Thatcher in October 1989 - when her own party was turning against her - he asked her: \"You come over as being someone who one of your backbenchers said is slightly off her trolley, authoritarian, domineering, refusing to listen to anybody else - why? Why can't you publicly project what you have just told me is your private character?\"\n\nThe then-PM replied: \"Brian, if anyone's coming over as domineering in this interview, it's you. It's you.\"\n\nMr Walden's own political views shifted away from Labour and towards the Thatcherite right wing. He maintained his libertarian beliefs and opposed the fox hunting ban.\n\nHis friend John Wakefield, who he worked with at ITV, said: \"Initially he was on the Gaitskell wing of Labour but found it all rather tawdry under Wilson.\"\n\nMr Walden won several awards for his broadcasting, and was named ITV personality of the year in 1991.\n\nMr Wakefield said he and Mr Walden had a \"terrific time\" together.\n\n\"Brian was an immensely lively and entertaining person to work with,\" he said.\n\n\"He was very much a team guy who loved what everybody had to say, including the most lowly, recent researcher, and was hugely gregarious and fun.\n\n\"He was brilliant because he was such a fantastic public speaker and, as a former politician, he knew how they operated - he was able to read their minds.\"\n\nMr Walden later presented BBC Radio 4's A Point of View programme, as well as documentaries for the BBC including Walden on Heroes and a series of profiles on former Labour Party leaders.\n\nBBC political presenter Andrew Neil paid tribute to his friend on Twitter, saying Mr Walden was \"always wise and witty\" and praised him for his role in inventing the British political interview style.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Neil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd LBC radio presenter Iain Dale called his interviews \"the stuff of legends\".", "Nigel Farage has accused Theresa May of \"wilfully deceiving\" people over her negotiated EU deal.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Marr the PM's proposed Brexit deal was a \"new European treaty\".\n\nIn a tense interview, Mr Farage said he would demand his party became part of the government negotiating team if it was successful in the forthcoming European elections.\n\nElections to the European Parliament take place on 23 May.\n\nAsked why he did not advocate a no-deal Brexit at the time of the EU referendum in 2016, Mr Farage said: \"Because it was obvious that we could do a free trade deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The problem is the prime minister never asked for it, so we finished up in the mess that we're in,\" he said.\n\n\"She chose to go for this close and special partnership. Basically right from the start she was happy for us to be kept very close to the customs union.\n\n\"So where we are now, the only way the democratic will of the people can be delivered is to leave on a WTO (World Trade Organization) deal.\"\n\nThe interview on the BBC programme also saw Mr Farage asked about past comments on NHS privatisation, climate change, gun control, immigration and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nResponding angrily to the line of questioning, he said: \"This is absolutely ludicrous, I've never in my life seen a more ridiculous interview than this.\n\n\"You're in denial, the BBC is in denial, the Tory and Labour parties are in denial.\n\n\"I think you're all in for a bigger surprise on Thursday week [the EU elections] than you can even imagine.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Farage's fellow guests on the Marr programme included Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who said the European Parliament elections would be seen by some people as a protest vote.\n\n\"For some people this is the ultimate protest vote opportunity. Actually, ironically this is, in a sense, for some people, this is the second referendum,\" he said.\n\nMr Farage said he believed that if there was a second referendum, the campaign to leave the EU would win by a bigger margin.\n\nHe said he was \"mentally preparing myself for one\", adding: \"I'm thinking we may well have it forced upon us.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader and People's Vote supporter Jo Swinson said Mr Farage had refused to \"own up to well-documented and abhorrent views on NHS privatisation, his admiration for Vladimir Putin and his denial of the facts about climate change\".\n\nShe said: \"Despite his claims to the contrary, everyone remembers that he promised in 2016 that there would be an amazing cost-free Brexit deal available to Britain if we voted to leave the EU.\n\n\"To say today that he always advocated 'no deal' is a mark of just how shameless he is, and how little he cares for the jobs and livelihoods of the people of this country.\"\n• None European elections: What you need to know", "Thousands of Albanians have been protesting against Prime Minister Edi Rama, with some throwing petrol bombs at his office.\n\nFor the last three months, there have been anti-government demonstrations in Albania. Mr Rama faces allegations of electoral fraud and corruption.\n\nOpposition leader Lulzim Basha urged crowds to continue protests until Mr Rama steps down from power.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit talks with the Labour Party are a \"grave mistake\", according to former defence secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMrs May is hoping to reach a cross-party consensus on her withdrawal agreement after failing to get it through Parliament three times.\n\nBut Mr Williamson - sacked over the Huawei leak - told the Mail on Sunday the talks were \"destined to fail\".\n\nHe added Jeremy Corbyn's only real interest was a general election.\n\nBBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake said a Downing Street source had indicated Mr Williamson had been \"supportive of the process while he was in the cabinet\" and that he had \"not been involved in the talks himself\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for South Staffordshire said doing a deal with Labour on Brexit \"sounds so simple and so reasonable\" - but would not work.\n\n\"Even if Labour do a deal, break bread with the prime minister and announce that both parties have reached an agreement, it can only ever end in tears,\" he said.\n\n\"The Labour Party does not exist to help the Conservative Party.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn will do all he can to divide, disrupt and frustrate the Conservatives in the hope of bringing down the government.\n\n\"His goal, and he has made no secret of it, is to bring about a general election.\"\n\nMr Williamson said the prime minister seemed oblivious to the fact many Tories believe she is \"negotiating with the enemy\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even if we get to a point where Jeremy Corbyn agrees a deal with the prime minister, when it comes to detailed scrutiny of the votes, Labour will revert to form.\n\n\"Even if it passes the first few votes, it will fail later.\"\n\nMr Williamson's comments come after Conservative MP Sir Graham Brady said that he expected the government's Brexit talks with Labour to \"peter out\" within days.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, said he found it \"very hard\" to see the talks leading to a \"sensible resolution.\"\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said that Labour was acting \"in good faith\" in the negotiations but was \"not getting very far\".\n\nHowever, Education Secretary Damian Hinds told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that no other person in Mrs May's position could change the \"parliamentary reality\" of needing to find a majority in the Commons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but the deadline was pushed back to 31 October after Parliament was unable to agree a way forward.\n\nAhead of European elections later this month, two separate polls, by ComRes and Opinium, give the Brexit Party the biggest share of the vote with the Conservatives in fourth place behind Labour and the Lib Dems.\n\nGavin Williamson was sacked by the PM earlier this month\n\nMr Williamson was sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and announced Penny Mordaunt as his successor.\n\nThe inquiry came after details of a discussion by the NSC over a plan to allow Chinese tech firm Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network was leaked to a newspaper.\n\nMr Williamson, who was defence secretary between 2017 and 2019, \"strenuously\" denied leaking the information.", "A massive waterspout has been filmed near the southern shore of Singapore.\n\nWitnesses who filmed the natural phenomenon said the waterspout was seen for around 20 minutes.\n\nA waterspout is a rapidly rotating column of air over water, under a shower cloud.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nSaracens came from behind to win their third European title in four years with a 20-10 victory over Leinster in the Champions Cup final at St James' Park.\n\nThe Irish side held a 10-point lead until the 39th minute but Sarries drew level when Sean Maitland's try cancelled out Tadhg Furlong's opener.\n\nBoth defences stood firm after the interval but Owen Farrell kicked Saracens in front just before the hour.\n\nVictory was sealed when Billy Vunipola crashed over from the back of a scrum.\n\nFarrell kicked the conversion as the Londoners scored 20 unanswered points and put in a dominant second-half performance, despite losing both their starting props to injury in the first half.\n\nSaracens - who become the first English side to win three Champions Cups after ending their European campaign unbeaten - will play a Premiership semi-final later this month as they continue to pursue the double, while Leinster remain on course to defend their Pro14 title.\n• None European victory 'not about me' - Vunipola\n\nFarrell wins the battles of the 10s\n\nThe 2019 Champions Cup final was dubbed as the battle of the fly-halves as international heavyweights Owen Farrell and Johnny Sexton renewed their rivalry, in front of nearly 52,000 spectators at Newcastle United's home ground.\n\nBoth players were 100% successful off the tee but it was Englishman Farrell who was the more influential as Saracens avenged last year's quarter-final defeat.\n\nThe England captain produced moments of excellence to draw his side level at half-time, having only conceded seven points with Maro Itoje in the sin-bin after waves of relentless Leinster running.\n\nFarrell kicked the penalty to get Sarries on the scoreboard before his deft pass allowed Maitland an easy run-in to score their opening try, in a move BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Matt Dawson believed was \"straight off the training ground\".\n\nSexton ran more metres and made more passes than his opposite number after opening the scoring with an early penalty, but Farrell's game management in the critical moments allowed his side to gain an advantage.\n\nThe trophy's journey back to England was all-but confirmed when Vunipola dived over with 13 minutes remaining as the England forward continues to impress after a controversial few weeks.\n\nVunipola was booed again, this time by the vociferous Leinster support, for his controversial social media post defending the now-sacked Australian international Israel Folau's assertion that \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nSaracens will be hoping Vunipola's late injury to his left shoulder is not too serious as they return to domestic rugby looking to claim more silverware.\n\nWith just a minute remaining of the first half, the plan for defending champions Leinster had been effective.\n\nThe Irish province were more mobile at the breakdown and they looked to bully Saracens into submission up front, as the north London side lost props Mako Vunipola and Titi Lamositele to injury as early as the 29th minute.\n\nItoje was sent to the bin for his part in an accumulation of penalties close to the Sarries line just a minute later, before Furlong powered over from close range for the game's first try.\n\nBut when Saracens - with captain Brad Barritt leading from the front - regained their composure, Leinster found it difficult to contain their fast and fluid game.\n\nSaracens made 12 offloads compared to Leinster's four as they looked to keep the ball alive and stretch the game with strike runners Liam Williams and Maitland.\n\nThe English side were more clinical in the right areas, and while Leinster had 56% possession, they struggled for creativity and were unable to penetrate Saracens' defence - scoring only three points while Sarries had 15 players on the pitch.\n\nThat was a magnificent turnaround by Saracens. Who says they can't win it again and again and again over the next few years?\n\nMost of the team will be around for several years yet. It's a ridiculously talented squad with great coaches and infrastructure. They have been absolutely brilliant today.\n\nAt 10-0 up Leinster looked in control, but in a week of sporting comebacks, Sarries dug deep, scoring a brilliant try through Sean Maitland. In the final quarter Sarries were astonishingly relentless and Billy Vunipola's powerful try was the killer blow as Leinster ran out of steam.\n\nIt's three Champions Cups in four years for Saracens and, given the hunger and age of this squad, this legacy will only grow.\n\n'It's a game of small margins' - what they said\n\nSaracens fly-half Owen Farrell said: \"It's a massive occasion for the whole club. It's not just about the lads on this pitch, everybody that's behind the scenes makes this club what it is.\n\n\"We were playing against a really good team who've got to back-to-back finals and they tested us. But this is a tight-knit group and that's what makes us good.\n\n\"Billy's played well and that's what he does on a regular basis. It's not just off-field stuff, it's other things as well and we've allowed it to make us tighter. You saw that today.\"\n\nLeinster fly-half Johnny Sexton said: \"It's a game of small margins. We were 10-3 up and had the ball in their half and decided to go for an attacking play.\n\n\"I thought we could have won it and scored ourselves which would have put the foot on their throat, but they are a champion side and they scored instead.\n\n\"At the start of the second half we started really well but we didn't take our chances close to their line. They made their pressure tell and we didn't.\n\n\"There were a few decisions that didn't go our way and we felt there was a knock-on before that second try.\"\n\nReplacements: Tracy for Cronin (51), J McGrath, Bent for Furlong (70), Ruddock, Deegan for Toner (74), O'Sullivan, R Byrne, O'Loughlin.\n\nReplacements: Gray, Barrington for Lamositele (29), Koch for M Vunipola (29), Isiekwe for Skelton (62), Burger for B Vunipola (75), Wigglesworth for Spencer (56), Tompkins, Strettle.", "Police were called to the Applegarth Car Park in Northallerton at 21:30 BST on Saturday\n\nA 15-year-old girl has died after apparently taking ecstasy in North Yorkshire.\n\nPolice were called after the teenager collapsed in Applegarth Car Park, Northallerton, at 21:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in Middlesbrough where she later died.\n\nDet Insp Jon Sygrove warned other people \"to be cautious and aware of the potential consequences of taking the drug\".\n\n\"This is an incredibly sad and tragic event and police inquiries are ongoing to determine the events around the girl's death,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with her family and friends.\"\n\nMr Sygrove appealed for any witnesses to contact the force.\n\nHe said a police cordon was in place at the car park to allow officers to conduct a search.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A newly-wed couple re-ran their wedding two weeks after the original ceremony so the bride's 93-year-old mother, who lives in a care home, could attend.\n\nElizabeth Mannion-O'Keeffe was devastated that her mother Jean, who lives in Warrington, Cheshire, was unable to attend their Yorkshire wedding in April due to illness.\n\nShe re-staged the event with her mother's carers as bridesmaids.", "Concerns about body image are making large numbers of people depressed and even suicidal, a survey suggests.\n\nThe poll of 4,500 UK adults found a third had felt anxious about their bodies, with one in eight experiencing suicidal thoughts.\n\nThe Mental Health Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the issue could affect anyone at any age.\n\nThe charity wants advertising and social media firms to take more care with the way bodies are portrayed.\n\nThe issue of body image is one of the main theme's of this year's Mental Health Awareness week.\n\nThe charity is promoting a number of personal stories as part of its push to raise awareness about the issue.\n\nThey include one from Justyn Bravescar, 25, from Croydon, south London.\n\nJustyn was left with scarring on his body after a childhood accident\n\nHe is a film-maker, blogger and mental health advocate, and has adopted Bravescar as his surname.\n\nAs a toddler he accidentally poured a pan of boiling water over his body, resulting in severe burns all over the upper half of his body, including his neck.\n\nHe was always very self-conscious about this and thought he would never find love or be at peace with himself.\n\nWhen he was older he started looking into reconstructive surgery, but says he had an epiphany when a skin camouflage tattoo artist told him that his scars were beautiful.\n\n\"As my scars were covered much of the time, it was very much an internal battle for me\" said Justyn.\n\n\"I worried about my scarring and what people would think. It has only been in the last few years that I have really accepted them. They are part of me.\"\n\nHe now has tattoos that highlight and celebrate his scarring.\n\nMental Health Foundation chief executive Mark Rowland said there needs to be greater awareness of the issue.\n\n\"Our survey indicates that millions of adults in the UK are struggling with concerns about their body image. For some people this is potentially very severe.\n\n\"Women, and particularly young women, are showing the highest rates of distress.\n\n\"Significant numbers have felt feelings of disgust and shame or changed their behaviour to avoid situations that make them reflect negatively about their bodies.\"\n\nBut he warned it was not just young people who were affected - one in five people aged over 55 and over said they had felt anxious because of body image.\n\nHe also said more needed to be done by social media companies and the advertising industry to promote a diversity of body types. He said there needed to be clear ways to report abuse and bullying online - something the government is looking into.\n\n\"Many people identified social media as an important factor causing them to worry about their body image - and the majority of respondents felt the government needed to take more action,\" he added.", "Labour's team including Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer have been negotiating with the government\n\n\"Constructive and detailed\" - that sounds quite positive - Number 10's description of the talks today.\n\n\"Robust\" - not quite so chirpy - Labour's use of political speak for what most of us might call a bit tricky.\n\n\"Disingenuous\" - oh dear - a different Labour source's description of ministers' claim that what they were putting on the table in the cross-party talks today was something genuinely new on the vexed question of customs arrangements after we leave the EU.\n\nAs we reported this morning there didn't really seem to be much from the government that was concrete beyond what's already possible under the agreement that's been hammered out with Brussels.\n\nThe divorce deal and indeed yes, you guessed it, the backstop, both have forms of temporary customs unions in them to make trade between the UK and the EU easier.\n\nOf course the precise language and mechanisms matter enormously.\n\nBut was there some big shiny new offer today? The short answer is: no.\n\nAnd after hours of talks this afternoon, Labour sources suggest ministers in the end more or less admitted that in pointed discussions.\n\nAs we've talked about here before, the cross-party talks process is real.\n\nPlenty of people in the Tory party hate it. Plenty of people in the Labour Party hate it.\n\nBut inside both leaders' camps, there is a genuine desire, more intense since they both had a bad night at the polls on Thursday, to see if they can sketch out a joint escape route from the mess of Brexit.\n\nBut the historically awful result for the prime minister does not seem to have shocked her into ditching her red lines - at least not yet.\n\nIt's important to understand this process is always unlikely to end up with some kind of joint defining pact - sources involved joke about the preposterous idea of some kind of May-Corbyn Rose Garden love-in - fond or awful memories of that summer's day when the Cameron-Clegg bromance was born in public (take your pick which).\n\nThe fact the talks have gone on for so long hint that there is serious merit in finding some kind of agreement on some kind of process.\n\nAt the very least senior figures in the government hope that the talks might mean Labour would allow the Brexit legislation to move on to its next phase.\n\nIn nerd terms, this is to allow the Withdrawal Bill to get through its so-called \"second reading\", knowing that at the next stage in Parliament where a committee of MPs would pore over every line, multiple layers of objections would be made, suggestions and changes put forward and then voted on, before finally, the bill would have its third reading, when MPs are able to give their final yes or no.\n\nIt is hard right now though to make a call on whether that is viable.\n\nOne former minister, experienced and not prone to make wild prediction, told me Number 10 was in \"la la land\" if they believed that could happen.\n\nAbout half an hour later, another former and experienced minister told me they believe, in fact, it will fly and perhaps by the end of this month.\n\nWhoever you ask, it is clear it is not straightforward.\n\nSo when the two teams sit down again on Wednesday afternoon, whether it is \"constructive\" or \"robust\", there's still an awful lot to do.", "An elephant calf has been rescued from a lake in north-east India, after it became separated from its mother.\n\nThe baby elephant became stranded in the Deepor Beel lake in Kamrup district, and was guided out by forest officials and locals.", "A woman who went to Greece for her 90th birthday has spent weeks in hospital unable to come home after a fall.\n\nMaysie McLeod was staying at her family holiday home on the Greek island of Lesbos when she broke her hip.\n\nShe has now been in hospital for more than two weeks, and her upset family are trying to get her insurance company to bring her home to Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe insurers said they would get Ms McLeod home as soon as possible, once it was safe for her to travel.\n\nThe claim is being handled by Emergency Assistance Facilities for Free Spirit, which caters for those who have been refused by other providers due to their health, disability or age.\n\nMs McLeod paid more than £200 for the comprehensive policy with £10m coverage.\n\nEmergency Assistance Facilities said the travel in a pressurised aircraft after a hip fracture was not recommended until 10 to 14 days after surgery, meaning the earliest Mrs McLeod could be considered able to travel was Tuesday 14 May.\n\nHer daughter Lesley McLeod has remained at her mother's bedside and has been trying to arrange for the insurers to provide transport either by air ambulance or private jet.\n\nThe pensioner is not well enough to travel home on the multiple commercial flights it would take for her to reach her Bridge of Don home from Lesbos, according to her doctors in Greece.\n\nMs McLeod Jnr arranged the holiday to celebrate her mum's 90th birthday on 4 May, but Ms McLeod Snr \"lost her footing\" and broke her hip on 27 April.\n\nShe spent her big day distressed and confused in hospital.\n\nAfter emergency surgery to have pins inserted, her family hoped to arrange transport back to the UK.\n\nTwo weeks since being admitted to hospital, the pensioner - who is registered blind - had developed bed sores and was suffering persistent hallucinations due to medication, shock and pain, and could not sit for more than 100 minutes.\n\nHowever, her doctors in Lesbos said she was fit to be discharged.\n\nHer family said the insurance company were \"dragging their feet\" to avoid paying out for the expensive trip home because she must be transported by stretcher.\n\nMs McLeod Jnr has taken special leave from work to remain by her mother's bedside in Greece until arrangements can be made to bring her mother home.\n\nShe told the BBC Scotland news website: \"They seem to be trying to find the cheapest way to get us home despite saying that money is not the object.\n\n\"As far as we can tell they don't do anything about mum's case unless we constantly chase them up. All I can do is sit and watch my mother suffer - it's heartbreaking.\n\n\"She is confused unhappy and in pain at the moment. She needs to get home, but will have to travel by stretcher.\n\n\"Unless the insurance company send an air ambulance then the only way they get home would be a charter flight.\n\n\"Otherwise we'd have to take several [commercial] flights to get back to Scotland, which she is not well enough to do.\n\n\"Her health is deteriorating - she is anxious and needs home. It's horrible; it's heartbreaking to watch your mother crying and not knowing where she is.\"\n\n\"This was meant to be something special for her and it's turned into an unimaginable nightmare.\"\n\nMrs McLeod Jnr has been in touch with her mother's GP, who has advised that Mrs McLeod Snr would require a short hospital stay in Scotland and support from her local authority when she is discharged.\n\nShe plans to have her mother stay with her in Edinburgh until she is well enough to return to her own home.\n\nA spokesperson for Emergency Assistance Facilities said: \"We are sorry that the family is unhappy with our service. We are doing everything we can to get Ms McLeod home as quickly and more importantly, safely as possible.\n\n\"When people fall ill or suffer accidents abroad it's understandable that they want to get home as soon as they can and we want this too, but this has to be balanced with achieving optimal recovery.\n\n\"It is grossly unfair to claim that we are trying to save money. Far from it. We are simply trying to find the safest way to get Ms McLeod home in order to achieve an optimal clinical outcome following her terrible accident.\"\n\nHe said hip fractures were particularly challenging for repatriation by air.\n\n\"The pressurised environment of a plane can put dangerous stresses on the body, and it's not recommended to repatriate someone with this kind of injury earlier than 10 to 14 days after surgery,\" the spokesman said. \"In Ms McLeod's case, this is no earlier than 14th May.\n\n\"We are still looking at all the options available for repatriation and will continue to discuss this with the family. Nothing has been decided for definite and the family can be assured we are doing everything to get her home as quickly and safely as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"We are still talking to the family who gave us the clear impression that they understand the reasons for the delay in getting Maysie home.\"", "Two Londonderry men have appeared in court charged with rioting in the city on the night last month that writer Lyra McKee was murdered.\n\nChristopher Gillen, 38, of Balbane Pass and Paul McIntyre, 51, of Ballymagowan Park, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe city's magistrates' court was told evidence against them has been obtained from mobile phone footage and a documentary filmed by MTV.\n\nPolice believe the two men are members of the New IRA, the court heard.\n\nMr Gillen, who is unemployed, is charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the hijacking and arson of a tipper truck.\n\nMr McIntyre, who works as a taxi driver, is accused of rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson of a hijacked vehicle.\n\nLyra McKee was observing rioting in Derry when she was shot dead\n\nA police officer told the court that officers had gone into Derry's Creggan estate on 18 April to conduct searches but that was followed by a \"sustained attack\" by people who were wearing masks.\n\nFour vehicles were hijacked, he added.\n\nPolice believe the two men can be connected to the rioting by clothing shown on various sources of video footage, including the MTV material, which was described by the officer as \"excellent\".\n\nThe prosecution lawyer said they believed that people in the area were using the filming of the MTV documentary, fronted by Reggie Yates, for their own purposes as \"a propaganda operation\".\n\nA solicitor representing Mr McIntyre described the case against him as \"extremely weak\".\n\nHe said his client was willing to live outside the city and accept a number of conditions if he was granted bail.\n\nThe police officer told Mr Gillen's solicitor that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) believes both men were members of the New IRA.\n\nWhen the solicitor said the police had \"no evidence\" to support that belief, the officer replied: \"That's correct.\"\n\nPolice were searching for weapons and ammunition when violence started on 18 April\n\nDuring his deliberations about bail applications for both men, the judge referred to what he described as \"disgraceful graffiti\" that appeared in the Creggan estate recently, warning people not to give information to the police.\n\nMs McKee, 29, was shot while observing rioting in the Creggan area on 18 April.\n\nThere was disorder throughout the evening leading up to her death.\n\nViolence broke out after raids were carried out by police, with detectives investigating dissident republican activity in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas.\n\nThe New IRA said its members carried out the murder.\n\nAn 18-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, who were arrested last week by detectives investigating Ms McKee's death, were released without charge.", "Problems with the partial privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales have cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government spending watchdog says.\n\nUnder the changes, which began in 2013, firms were given contracts to supervise low and medium-risk offenders.\n\nThe National Audit Office said reforms were \"rushed\" and the numbers returning to prison for breaching their licence conditions had since \"skyrocketed\".\n\nThe government said this was because more offenders were being monitored.\n\nPrior to the reforms, which were designed to drive down re-offending rates, convicts who had served less than one year did not have to be supervised by probation services.\n\nBut from 2015 every criminal given a custodial sentence became subject to statutory supervision and rehabilitation upon release into the community.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said this meant an extra 40,000 offenders were being supported each year.\n\nThe NAO report said that between January 2015 and September 2018, the number of offenders recalled to prison for breaching their licence condition increased by almost half, from 4,240 to 6,240.\n\nOver the same period, the percentage of offenders recalled to custody who had received sentences of less than 12 months increased from 3% to 36%.\n\nThe NAO said the MoJ had \"set itself up to fail\" after it used a payment-by-results model which was \"inappropriate\" for probation services.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the \"scathing\" report raised \"serious questions about decision-making at the Ministry of Justice\".\n\nIn 2013 the MoJ began a major reform of probation services, partially privatising it in England and Wales.\n\nIt involved 21 companies - known as community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) - monitoring people who had been released from jail after serving short sentences.\n\nBut the report says the MoJ designed and implemented its reforms too quickly.\n\nBy March 2018, the CRCs were facing losses of £294m over the lifetime of their contracts - compared with the profits of £269m they had been expecting to start with.\n\nFour months later, the government acknowledged that the quality of probation services being delivered was not good enough and announced the MoJ would end the contracts with the CRCs in 2020 - 14 months early.\n\nThe report estimates that additional payments to CRCs beyond the original terms of the contracts will cost the department £296m, and terminating the contracts early will cost at least £171m.\n\nThe full cost to the taxpayer will not be known until at least December 2020, the report says.\n\nIt concludes that the MoJ's contracts were \"ineffective\" and hampered its ability to hold providers to account for poor services.\n\nOverall, it noted \"little progress\" had been made on transforming probation services.\n\nRory Stewart, prisons and probation minister, said the performance of CRCs was \"too often deeply disappointing\".\n\n\"That is why we have stepped in to end contracts early and invested an extra £22m a year in services for offenders on release,\" he said.\n\nMeg Hillier, who chairs the Commons Public Accounts Committee which scrutinises the value for money of public spending, said the MoJ's \"botched contracting\" had left this \"essential service\" underfunded.\n\n\"The ministry now needs to reflect and ensure that its new proposals can deliver the much-needed improvements to probation services,\" she added.\n\nKatie Lomas, chair of the probation officers union Napo, said bringing in providers with no experience in probation and splitting the service into two separate organisations was always going to bring additional costs.\n\nShe told the BBC that the government should \"pause and reflect\" before enacting further reforms to ensure the same mistakes were not repeated.\n\nThe chief inspector of probation, Dame Glenys Stacey, welcomed the NAO report, for bringing \"greater transparency\" to probation funding and contracts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One mother describes how her abusive ex-partner was granted unsupervised access to their children by the family courts\n\nFamily courts in England and Wales are not properly accommodating children's voices and needs because the government has suggested \"it would all cost too much\", their former head has said.\n\nSir James Munby added the courts are \"shamefully\" behind in victim support.\n\nAt least four children have been killed in the last five years by a parent with a known history of violence, after a family court granted access.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a child's welfare was always the priority.\n\nSir James's comments come as more than 120 MPs wrote to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.\n\nAnd dozens of parents have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that their abusive ex-partners were granted unsupervised contact with their child.\n\nSir James, who was president of the Family Division of the High Court from 2013 to 2018, said it would be \"very foolish\" to ignore such findings.\n\n\"The only way we are going to get to the bottom of this once and for all is if there is a detailed independent analysis by reputable academic researchers,\" he said.\n\n\"It would be vital that the research be published, whatever the conclusions.\"\n\nAsked if the courts - which can place restrictions on what information is published to protect the identities of children - needed to be more transparent, he said: \"Many more judgements are now being published than previously but... nothing like as many as I would think appropriate\".\n\nSir James Munby said that because of legal aid cuts the family courts had effectively become a \"lawyer-free zone\"\n\nHe also raised concerns over how those attending courts were treated.\n\nHe said the system was failing to accommodate the voices of children \"well enough\" - including in cases where they wished \"to see the court, give evidence or meet the judge\".\n\nSir James added that \"detailed proposals\" to improve this had been worked up, \"but nothing can come into effect without the approval of the minister\".\n\nHe said he was told approval had not been given because, \"in plain English, it would all cost too much\".\n\nSir James also revealed that cuts to legal aid - and the increased number of people representing themselves in court - had effectively led to the family courts becoming a \"lawyer-free zone\", risking the \"quality of decisions and prejudicing cases\".\n\nAnd he said it was \"scandalous\" that in the family courts - unlike in other areas of the justice system - alleged perpetrators could still cross-examine alleged, potentially vulnerable victims.\n\nThe Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service said that its social workers \"help the courts to understand the impact of domestic abuse on the child by listening to their wishes and feelings and using our resources to understand their individual experience of the abuse\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it continued to look to improve how the justice system dealt with domestic abuse.\n\nIt said this included making it easier \"to access legal aid for victims, separate waiting areas for vulnerable court users, and action to ban abusers from cross-examining their victims\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.\n• None Call for inquiry into abusive parents' access to children", "Microsoft and Sony have formed a partnership on video games streaming, despite being fierce competitors.\n\nIt is expected Sony will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud service to host its upcoming PlayStation streaming service.\n\nMicrosoft has been trialling a streaming offer of its own, under its Xbox brand.\n\nThe firms said they would also work together on semiconductors and artificial intelligence applications.\n\n\"For many years, Microsoft has been a key business partner for us, though of course the two companies have also been competing in some areas,” said Kenichio Yoshida, Sony’s chief executive.\n\n“I believe that our joint development of future cloud solutions will contribute greatly to the advancement of interactive content.”\n\nMicrosoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, said: \"Sony has always been a leader in both entertainment and technology, and the collaboration we announced today builds on this history of innovation.”\n\nThe two companies have been bitter rivals in gaming since the launch of the first Xbox console in 2001.\n\nBut in its pursuit to compete with Amazon Web Services, hosting PlayStation’s streaming service would be a major coup for Azure, the fastest growing part of Microsoft’s business.\n\nFor Sony, if its PlayStation is to remain competitive, it too is likely to need to move heavily into streaming full, high-quality games over the internet.\n\nIndustry analysts say Sony might have struggled to do it alone.\n\n\"Everybody else has a head start on them,” said Rebekah Valentine, from GamesIndustry.biz.\n\n“There was a lot of discussion that Sony seemed to going the traditional route of making a normal console and continuing with what they had been doing in the past. This partnership with Microsoft shows they are fully exploring streaming technology.”\n\nSony already has a significant footing in games streaming - its PS Now service, which offers streaming access to the PlayStation back catalogue, accounts for 36% share of the $387m global games streaming market, said analyst Piers Harding-Rolls, from IHS Markit.\n\nHowever, with the streaming market expected to expand rapidly over the next five years, Sony’s comparative lack of expertise and infrastructure left it exposed.\n\n\"It is clear that Microsoft is the best choice for Sony even with the competitive dynamic between Xbox and PlayStation,” Mr Harding-Rolls said.\n\n\"Working together they have a better chance to head off competition from the likes of Google, which has gone on to dominate the last wave of technology disruption in the mobile space alongside Apple.\"\n\nWhile precise details of the partnership are still vague, the companies also said they would be working together on new semiconductors, image sensors and artificial intelligence.\n\nFor Microsoft, that opens the door to getting its cloud technology integrated into more consumer products, such as cameras and televisions, rather than working mostly on business applications as it does today.", "Gucci, pictured at Milan Fashion Week in February, is one of the brands owned by Kering\n\nFashion company Kering has announced that it will no longer use models who are under the age of 18.\n\nThe French luxury group owns several major fashion houses, including Gucci, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen.\n\nThe policy will come into effect in time for the 2020-2021 Autumn/Winter collections, Kering said.\n\nChief executive François Henri-Pinault said in a statement that the company was \"conscious of the influence exerted on younger generations\" by its images.\n\n\"We believe that we have a responsibility to put forward the best possible practices in the luxury sector, and we hope to create a movement that will encourage others to follow suit,\" he said.\n\nMarie-Claire Daveu, Kering's chief sustainability officer, added: \"The physiological and psychological maturity of models aged over 18 seems more appropriate to the rhythm and demands that are involved in this profession.\"\n\nSara Ziff, founder of the campaign group Model Alliance, told BBC News the announcement was \"a positive step towards eliminating the intense pressure models currently face to maintain an adolescent physique and to go to extremes to lose weight\".\n\nBut she added that it lacks a \"mechanism for actual enforcement\" - and that she fears the pledge could \"amount to little more than lip service to critical issues that have plagued the industry for far too long\".\n\nKering's decision comes as fashion brands are increasingly trying to become more ethical, both in their designs and in their working practices.\n\nIn August last year Condé Nast, which publishes Vogue magazine, announced that it would not use models under the age of 18 in editorial shoots, unless they were the subject of an article.\n\n\"This is partly the result of an internal reckoning,\" an editorial in Vogue said at the time. \"Vogue, along with a number of other publications, has played a role in making it routine for children - since that's what they are - to be dressed and marketed as glamorous adults.\"\n\nIt continued: \"No more: it's not right for us, it's not right for our readers, and it's not right for the young models competing to appear in these pages. While we can't rewrite the past, we can commit to a better future.\"\n\nKaia Gerber, a rising star in the industry, is just 17 years old\n\nThe Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) made a similar declaration last year. Its CEO Steven Kolb said: \"Young models are still developing. There can be a lack of the confidence, strength, experience, and maturity it takes to deal with the pressures of this work.\"\n\nIn 2017, both Kering and a rival fashion group LVMH signed a charter agreeing to - among other things - stop hiring models who were under the age of 16.\n\nIt has long been common across the industry to cast models who were under 18 - and indeed, many supermodels got their start in the fashion industry at a young age.\n\nNaomi Campbell, now 48, was just shy of 16 when she launched her career. Kate Moss, 45, was discovered at the age of 14. Brooke Shields was just 14 when she appeared on the front cover of Vogue in February 1980.\n\nCurrently, 17-year-old Kaia Gerber is a rising star, while the late Karl Lagerfeld's godson Hudson Kroenig, 11, was regularly seen on the catwalk.\n\nBut a spotlight was shone on the treatment of young models in October 2017, when 14-year-old Russian model Vlada Dzyuba collapsed backstage at Shanghai Fashion Week and later died in hospital.\n\nVogue, in making its decision, also cited a number of allegations of sexual harassment in the fashion industry, which were publicised as part of the #MeToo movement.\n\nIt added that in the mid-1980s, when Campbell launched her career, there were so few fashion shows a year that \"a model could stay in school if she wished\" - but nowadays the work is much more demanding.", "Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn says Disney \"totally had the right\" to fire him over decade-old tweets that joked about rape and abuse.\n\nHe was rehired to direct the third instalment of the Marvel franchise in March, after the film's stars signed an open letter asking for his return.\n\nGunn says he \"feels bad\" about some of the ways he's spoken in public in the past and \"some of the jokes I made\".\n\n\"I feel bad for that and take full responsibility,\" he told Deadline.\n\nGunn was fired in July over tweets that Disney described as \"indefensible\".\n\nHe apologised at the time and said he took full responsibility.\n\nBut 10 days after he was fired, Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista - who all star in Guardians - signed an open letter saying they supported the director.\n\n\"In casting each of us to help him tell the story of misfits who find redemption, he changed our lives forever. We believe the theme of redemption has never been more relevant than now,\" they wrote.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by prattprattpratt This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking in his first interview since being fired and then rehired, Gunn called the day he was kicked off Guardians the \"most intense\" of his life.\n\n\"There have been other difficult days in my life, from the time I got sober when I was younger, to the death of friends who committed suicide.\n\n\"But this was incredibly intense. It happened, and suddenly it seemed like everything was gone. I just knew, in a moment that happened incredibly quickly, I had been fired.\n\n\"It felt as if my career was over.\"\n\nBut the director, who already had a script ready for the third Guardians, says being sacked by Disney also made him feel love \"for the first time\".\n\n\"From my girlfriend Jen, my producer and my agents, Chris Pratt calling me and freaking out, Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillan, all calling and crying.\n\n\"That amount of love that I felt from my friends, my family, and the people in the community was absolutely overwhelming.\n\n\"So a part of that day was the worst of my life, and a part of it was the greatest day of my life.\"\n\nHe says that \"people have to be able to learn from mistakes\".\n\n\"If we take away the possibility for someone to learn and become a better person, I'm not sure what we are left with.\"\n\nGunn says he was \"set to really finish\" Rocket's story arc in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3\n\nThe Guardians of the Galaxy films grossed more than £1.2bn, according to Box Office Mojo, and Gunn says he got \"a little bit teary-eyed\" when he was asked to return for Volume 3.\n\nHe says Disney co-chairman Alan Horn asked him to come back because \"he thought that was the right thing to do\".\n\n\"I was touched by his compassion.\"\n\nGunn says not being able to complete the story of Rocket, played by Bradley Cooper, was one of the things he felt saddest about when he thought he wouldn't get to direct the third Guardians.\n\nThe lovable raccoon's character has developed significantly since the first film, with him taking on a much larger role in the latest Avenger's movie, and Gunn says that arc is set to be finished in the next movie.\n\nBefore that though is DC's next Suicide Squad film, which he was hired to write after leaving Guardians.\n\n\"I don't think I've had as much fun writing a script since maybe Dawn of the Dead. That's what this whole movie has been like.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Boeing has completed development of a software update for its 737 Max plane which was grounded following two fatal crashes within five months.\n\nThe US firm announced that it had flown the 737 Max with the updated software on 207 flights.\n\nIt added it would provide data to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on how pilots interact with controls and displays in different scenarios.\n\nThe FAA expects Boeing to submit the upgrade for certification next week.\n\nAn Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed in March, killing all 157 people on board.\n\nIt followed the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October, in which 189 people died.\n\nBoth crashes were linked to the Boeing 737 Max's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System - a new feature on the aircraft which was designed to improve the handling of the plane and to stop it pitching up at too high an angle.\n\nBoeing said that once information on how pilots work with the upgraded system is submitted to the FAA, it will work with the regulator to schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 people on board\n\nThe company also said it had completed associated simulator testing on the upgraded system and had developed training and education materials that are now being reviewed by the FAA, global regulators and its airline customers.\n\nThe FAA said earlier this week that it would hold a meeting on 23 May with air regulators from around the world to provide an update on reviews of Boeing's software fix and new pilot training.\n\nAviation safety analyst Todd Curtis told the BBC that the US regulator was not the only one that Boeing had to satisfy.\n\n\"You also have other national authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom and in Europe who have said they would like to have their own tests and their own evaluation before certifying this aircraft for flight,\" he said.\n\n\"It's unclear whether or not there will be approval, let's say from Canada, to have this aircraft fly, which could directly affect US carriers, since many routes - even domestic US routes - overfly Canadian airspace.\n\n\"If the authorities there don't certify the 737 Max, they'll have to avoid that airspace.\"\n\nPilots are expected to undergo extra training on the new system once it receives certification. Mr Curtis said it would take a lot to convince them and other flight crew members that the aircraft was safe.\n\n\"They probably will have a fairly high bar to be satisfied before they'll give the seal of approval, as it were, that the aircraft is safe to fly,\" he said.", "The world's first drugs designed to stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment could be available within the next decade, scientists have said.\n\nA £75m investment to develop the drugs has been announced by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).\n\nChief executive Prof Paul Workman said cancer's ability to adapt to drugs is the biggest challenge in treatment.\n\nThe new drugs could make cancer a \"manageable\" disease in the long term and \"more often curable\", he said.\n\nResearchers say existing treatments such as chemotherapy sometimes fail because the deadliest cancer cells adapt and survive, causing the patient to relapse.\n\nProf Workman said: \"Cancer's ability to adapt, evolve and become drug resistant was the cause of the vast majority of deaths from the disease and the biggest challenge we face in overcoming it.\"\n\nHe said the institute was \"changing the entire way we think about cancer\" to focus on anticipating the way cancer cells will evolve to prevent them from becoming resistant to drugs.\n\nThe ICR aims to attract a further £15m of funding for its new Centre for Drug Discovery at its campus in Sutton, south London, which is intended to bring together almost 300 scientists from different fields.\n\nAll cancers are constantly evolving and that is a major problem because patients relapse if their cancer develops resistance to therapy.\n\nThe approach by the Institute of Cancer Research is to harness the process of evolution, to turn to the theories of Charles Darwin in the hunt for new therapies.\n\nOne idea is to develop drugs that limit a cancer's ability to evolve.\n\nAnother is \"evolutionary herding\" that guides a cancer's development into a state that makes it more vulnerable to drugs.\n\nOr combinations of therapies could present an impossible hurdle for cancer to overcome.\n\nEarly-stage experiments using these ideas have had promising results, but any changes to the way patients are treated are at least a decade away.\n\nScientists aim to use new approaches including multidrug combination treatments and artificial intelligence to predict and influence the evolution of cancer cells, creating weaknesses that treatments can exploit.\n\nDr Andrea Sottoriva, deputy director of cancer evolution in the new centre, said: \"Artificial intelligence and mathematical predictive methods have huge potential to get inside cancer's head and predict what it is going to do next and how it will respond to new treatments.\"\n\nResearchers are already working on new drugs designed to stop a type of protein molecule called Apobec, which is part of the immune system hijacked by more than half of cancer types to speed up the evolution of drug resistance.\n\nProf Workman said laboratory testing and clinical trials for the new drugs would take around 10 years before they could potentially become available for patients.\n\nHe added: \"We firmly believe that, with further research, we can find ways to make cancer a manageable disease in the long term and one that is more often curable, so patients can live longer and with a better quality of life.\"", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "Eilidh MacLeod was among the 22 people killed in a bombing two years ago\n\nA major fundraising effort has begun for a charity set up in memory of a victim of the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.\n\nEilidh MacLeod, 14, was one of the 22 people killed by a bomb on 22 May.\n\nThe fundraising drive includes volunteers taking part in Sunday's Great Manchester Run and next weekend's Edinburgh Marathon.\n\nThe Eilidh Macleod Memorial Trust will use donations to fund music tuition for young people and a memorial to Eilidh.\n\nThe teenager played bagpipes with Sgoil Lionacleit Pipe Band and was passionate about music.\n\nEilidh's cousin Alex White will be running at the Great Manchester Run\n\nThe attack at the arena came as fans were leaving an Ariana Grande pop concert.\n\nEilidh's friend Laura MacIntyre, also from Barra, survived but was badly injured.\n\nAlex White, a 15-year-old cousin of Eilidh's living in Cheshire, will be among those taking part in the Great Manchester Run.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"I feel that I want to give something back to her for everything she's given to me. I miss her every single day.\n\n\"I feel that this is one time in the year I get to give something back to her and I get to be there with her.\"\n\nSuzanne White says the fundraising effort will recognise all those affected by the events of 22 May 2017\n\nAlex's mother, Suzanne White, who will also be running, said: \"Physically it is going to be a challenge. It is also going to be quite an emotional challenge as well.\n\n\"This will be the first fundraising event that we have really done since we started the charity up.\n\n\"It's not just for Eilidh, it's for each one of the victims and all the people who were impacted.\"\n\nIagan Macneil, of the Eilidh Macleod Memorial Trust, said the runners' involvement in the Great Manchester Run would help to recognise the link Eilidh's family now had with the city.\n\nHe said: \"It is really important to take to the streets of Manchester in solidarity with the city, but also to remember Eilidh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Playing the bagpipes gave Eilidh Macleod the \"confidence that no other pastime could\"\n\n\"Eilidh went to Manchester very innocently, but sadly never came home and we want to make sure that legacy of Eilidh's continues, and that link with Manchester continues.\"\n\nMr Macneil, who is from Barra and lives in Edinburgh, added: \"One thing we are determined to do is change the future and make a positive difference for other young people through music education.\n\n\"We cannot change the past, but we can certainly do our very best to change the future.\"\n\nAndy Burnham ran the Boston Marathon in aid of charities set up following the Manchester Arena attack\n\nAndy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, ran the Boston Marathon in April in aid of Eilidh's trust and others set up in memory of victims of 2017's attack.\n\nHe said: \"To be running for a charity set up by families, including Eilidh's, was just an enormous privilege. I felt humbled doing it.\n\n\"It is about turning what happened into a positive in whatever way that we can.\"\n\nEilidh was passionate about music and played in her local pipe band", "The system which sees private firms monitor criminals serving community sentences is \"fundamentally flawed\", the chief inspector of probation has said.\n\nDame Glenys Stacey told Today: \"Much more needs to be done to protect the public... but even if that is done it will not be enough, the system is not able to deliver as well as it could.\"", "HS2 bosses say the project will transform the UK economy\n\nHS2 will not offer value for money and risks \"short changing\" the North of England, a group of peers has warned.\n\nA report from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee also said it was \"far from convinced\" the new high-speed railway will be built within the £55.7bn budget.\n\nIt said the project should not go ahead without a new assessment of its costs and benefits.\n\nThe government said it \"fundamentally disagreed\" with the report.\n\nThe committee, which includes former chancellors Lord Darling and Lord Lamont, said that more than £4bn had already been spent on the first phase of HS2, which will run between London and Birmingham.\n\nBut it said the scheme had put too much emphasis on cutting journey times and not enough on the economic impact on regions.\n\nIt said the first phase of the project offered \"little benefit\" to northern cities, despite them being in most need of better rail infrastructure.\n\nAnd it said the second phase, which would improve journey times between Leeds and Sheffield, risked never going ahead because of spending overruns.\n\n\"The northern sections of High Speed 2 must not be sacrificed to make up for overspending on the railway's southern sections,\" said Lord Forsyth, who chairs the committee.\n\nThe report called for the Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme - a separate scheme connecting towns and cities in the region - to be completed alongside HS2.\n\nCurrently work on that scheme does not begin until the mid 2020s.\n\nIt also urged the government to control the costs of HS2, amid warnings that \"nobody knows\" what the final cost will be.\n\nIt suggested lowering the speed of HS2 or placing its terminal in west London rather than Euston would save money.\n\nThe report is the latest in a series of warnings about the railway, amid concern over its finances and environmental impact.\n\nHS2 is planned to run up to 18 trains per hour at a top speed of 225mph, with phase one set to open in 2026.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"By 2020, the government will have invested a record £13bn in transport across the North, and we have a clear plan for linking the Midlands and the North through HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail - the full benefits of which can only be delivered on the back of HS2.\n\n\"This is not either/or, we are clear we want both.\n\n\"HS2 will deliver additional rail capacity, significantly improve connections and provide opportunities for economic growth - with around £92bn in benefits - for people and businesses across the North.\"", "Two window cleaners have been rescued from a metal basket which was swinging out of control near the top of a 50-storey building in Oklahoma.\n\nReports said the crane at the Devon Tower was unstable and the incident took place in high winds.\n\nThe basket smashed several windows before emergency responders stabilised the crane and lowered it down.\n\nOklahoma City Fire Deparment said the two workers were being checked for injuries.", "I M Pei, the architect behind buildings including the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris, has died aged 102.\n\nTributes have been pouring in, remembering him for a lifetime of designing iconic structures worldwide.\n\nPei's designs are renowned for their emphasis on precision geometry, plain surfaces and natural light.\n\nHe carried on working well into old age, creating one of his most famous masterpieces - the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar - in his 80s.\n\nIeoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou in 1917, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard.\n\nHe worked as a research scientist for the US government during World War Two, and went on to work as an architect, founding his own firm in 1955.\n\nOne of the 20th Century's most prolific architects, he has designed municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures across North America, Asia and Europe.\n\nQatar's Islamic Museum of Art is one of Pei's most famous designs\n\nThe architect also designed the Suzhou Museum in China, which was completed in 2006\n\nHis style was described as modernist with cubist themes, and was influenced by his love of Islamic architecture. His favoured building materials were glass and steel, with a combination of concrete.\n\nPei sparked controversy for his pyramid at the Louvre Museum. The glass structure, completed in 1989, is now one of Paris' most famous landmarks.\n\nHis other work includes Dallas City Hall and Japan's Miho Museum.\n\n\"I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity,\" he once said.\n\nHe was won a variety awards and prizes for his buildings, including the AIA Gold Medal, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture.\n\nIn 1983 Pei was given the prestigious Pritzker Prize. The jury said he had he \"has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms\".\n\nHe used his $100,000 prize money to start a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study architecture in America.", "Ateeq Rafiq died a week after becoming trapped at Birmingham's Star City on 16 March 2018\n\nA cinemagoer died after his neck got trapped in an electronic footrest as he searched for his phone and keys, an inquest heard.\n\nAteeq Rafiq, 24, had been in a \"Gold Class\" seat at the Vue multiplex at Star City, Birmingham, last March.\n\nHis wife and staff spent 15 minutes trying to free him from the mechanism, a jury heard.\n\nCoroner Emma Brown said Mr Rafiq died from \"catastrophic\" brain injuries after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nAyesha Sardar told the inquest her husband \"went fully under the seat with just his legs sticking out\" while reaching for his possessions at the end of the film.\n\nJurors heard the footrest was initially in a raised position but started to come down \"very quickly\".\n\nMrs Sardar noticed it descended and tried unsuccessfully to hold it up before running for help.\n\nCinema staff then attempted to release Mr Rafiq for 15 minutes while she was taken outside, she said.\n\nStaff eventually managed to free Mr Rafiq by removing a bolt from the seat, which had trapped either the back or right side of his neck, the inquest was told.\n\nMrs Sardar said she \"ran back in\" when she heard he was not breathing, and \"saw that he was blue\".\n\nMr Rafiq, from Aston, Birmingham, died in hospital a week later.\n\nHis cause of death was confirmed as a cardiac arrest following compression of the neck.\n\nCharles Simmons-Jacobs, from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said he found it was \"impossible\" to lift eight of the footrests in the 52-seat theatre.\n\nThe seats only work when a customer was seated, he said, and after they vacated the control box waited four seconds before returning to a vertical position.\n\nMr Rafiq's seat had blown a fuse in its control box, he said, adding that the force that came down on him would have been the equivalent of three-quarters of a tonne.\n\nMrs Sardar said her husband was \"always happy and positive\".\n\n\"His smile was the kindest and his heart was the greatest,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest, due to last a week, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pret a Manger is reportedly planning to buy rival Eat and turn the chain's 94 stores into vegetarian outlets.\n\nPret, which has 400 stores in the UK, has four branded as \"Veggie Pret\" and is aiming to jump on the trend for vegetarian and vegan foods.\n\nIt comes as plant-based foods are increasing in popularity, with shares in US company Beyond Meat soaring at this month's stock market debut.\n\nBoth Pret a Manger and Eat declined to comment.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that talks between the two chains were understood to be at an advanced stage, with Pret in line to buy the majority of Eat's 94 shops or the whole business.\n\nThe paper reported that in February Eat's private-equity owner Horizon Capital appointed Spayne Lindsay, a corporate advisory firm, to offload the business.\n\nBoth food chains are owned by private equity companies.\n\nPret a Manger was sold by Bridgepoint to Luxembourg-based JAB Holdings last year and as result all 12,000 staff employed at Pret received a £1,000 bonus. It has 500 stores globally.\n\nThe Financial Times reported that \"nothing had been signed\" but that the \"details were being ironed out\" on a deal. It also added that there were potential other bidders for Eat.\n\nIn April, Eat reported a pre-tax loss of £17.2m in the year to end of June 2018, but said that it had since experienced 11 consecutive months of like-for-like sales growth.\n\nVeganism is becoming more popular in Great Britain.\n\nResearch by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were about 540,000 vegans in the country, compared with about 150,000 in 2006.\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut earlier this month as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson on Tory leadership bid: \"Of course I'm going to go for it\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after Theresa May stands down.\n\nAsked at a business event in Manchester if he would be a candidate, the former foreign secretary replied: \"Of course I'm going to go for it.\"\n\nMrs May has said she will resign once MPs back her Brexit deal.\n\nA decision on her exit timetable will now take place after the House of Commons votes on her Brexit bill early next month.\n\nSir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, made the announcement following a meeting between the prime minister and his committee's executive on Thursday. He said it would bring \"greater clarity\" to Mrs May's intentions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Huw Edwards This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral senior Conservatives are expected to enter the contest for the leadership, with the winner also becoming prime minister.\n\nAsked at the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester whether he wanted to be in charge of his party, former London mayor Mr Johnson said: \"I'm going to go for it. Of course I'm going to go for it. I don't think that is any particular secret to anybody. But you know there is no vacancy at present.\"\n\nMrs May's withdrawal agreement with the EU has been rejected three times by the Commons. And she has come under increasing pressure to go after the Conservatives lost more than 1,300 councillors in recent local elections.\n\nMany Conservative MPs are also unhappy that Mrs May is holding cross-party talks with Labour in an effort to get her withdrawal agreement through the Commons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMr Johnson, a leading Brexiteer who quit the cabinet last year over the terms of the agreement, said: \"I do think there's been a real lack of grip and dynamism in the way we approached these talks [with the EU].\"\n\nThe MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip added: \"We've failed over the last three years to put forward a convincing narrative about how we can make sense of Brexit and how to exploit the opportunities of Brexit.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a Conservative leadership contest, MPs hold a series of ballots, with the candidate gaining the fewest votes eliminated at each stage.\n\nOnce the field is reduced to two, the winner is chosen by a vote of party members. This wider vote did not occur in 2016, when Mrs May became leader, after the second-placed candidate among MPs - Mrs Leadsom - stood aside.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart and former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey have announced they will run and Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said she is \"considering\" doing so.\n\nOther widely touted possible contenders include former and current members of the cabinet, including Michael Gove, Amber Rudd, Sajid Javid, Dominic Raab, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss.\n\nPublisher William Collins has announced that the biography of David Cameron - whom Mrs May replaced at Conservative leader and prime minister following the EU referendum - will be released in September.", "That's it from Holyrood Live on Thursday 16 May 2019.\n\nA woman whose uncle took his own life after being sent home by health workers despite three suicide attempts in four days has criticised an inquiry into the services provided, the Scottish Labour leader said.\n\nRichard Leonard quoted Gillian Murray at FMQs as saying: \"Nothing seems to have happened. We're not kept involved. It's definitely not been transparent.\"\n\nThe Scottish government commissioned an independent inquiry into mental health services in NHS Tayside after concerns were raised by Ms Murray after the death of her uncle David Ramsay.\n\nNicola Sturgeon stressed the inquiry was independent from government and that its report was expected imminently.", "Babette Lucas-Marriott was in The Jeremy Kyle Show audience when Steven Dymond's story was filmed.\n\nThe 63-year-old man, from Portsmouth, was found dead after appearing on the programme, in which he took a lie detector test.\n\nMs Lucas-Marriot said the show was \"uncomfortable\" viewing and that Mr Dymond and his fiancee were \"completely and utterly devastated\".\n\nITV has announced that The Jeremy Kyle Show will no longer be produced. A review of the episode in question is under way and it will not be screened.\n\nHave you appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show? Email us with your experience at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nRead more on this story.", "Chris Evans took over the Virgin breakfast show in January\n\nChris Evans has helped Virgin Radio break the one million listener barrier, the latest Rajar ratings show.\n\nHis new breakfast show attracted an average weekly audience of 1.05 million in the first three months of 2019.\n\nVirgin Radio as a whole was averaging about 480,000 listeners per week before he joined.\n\nEvans moved to Virgin in January after leaving BBC Radio 2, where he attracted around nine million listeners during his decade on the breakfast show.\n\nThe DJ said he moved to Virgin because he \"wanted a new mountain to climb\", adding: \"I'm back in my spiritual home and loving every minute of it.\"\n\nThe new host of the Radio 2 breakfast show, Zoe Ball, kept the audience there relatively steady in her first three months in the job.\n\nShe recorded 9.05 million listeners in the first quarter of this year - just 18,000 down on Evans's last set of figures.\n\nBall said she was \"supersized giddy\" over the figures and thanked listeners \"for giving us a chance and for getting so involved in the show's antics\".\n\nLauren Laverne, who took over 6 Music's breakfast show in January, delivered record figures for the timeslot, with 1.28m listeners tuning in every week.\n\nThere was a considerable increase in listeners for news programmes and stations in the three months running up to UK's intended departure date from the European Union at the end of March.\n\nAbout 364,000 extra listeners tuned in to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, taking its average weekly audience to 7.16 million.\n\nJustin Webb and Mishal Husain are among the Today programme's presenters\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's breakfast show also went up by 214,000 listeners to 2.14 million.\n\nSimilarly, commercial news station LBC celebrated the highest reach of its 47-year history, with 2.25 million weekly listeners on average.\n\nElsewhere, Radio 1's breakfast host Greg James dropped slightly, by 67,000 listeners, to 5.04 million.\n\nThe Kiss breakfast show also saw a dip of around 50,000 listeners, to 1.7 million nationally, after the departure of Rickie, Melvin and Charlie, who spent a decade with the station.\n\nZoe Ball took over the Radio 2 breakfast show from Evans in January\n\nGiven how many schedule changes have recently taken place in radio, this is the most significant Rajar quarter for some time.\n\nBut, as always, the raw numbers don't give us the full picture.\n\nFirstly, Zoe Ball and Chris Evans haven't yet technically completed what's known as a \"full book\" (the quarter begins on New Year's Day and Ball didn't start her show until 14 January, while Evans's began on 22 January).\n\nIt's also worth noting that many station bosses care more about total hours than reach, particularly in commercial radio, where more advertising can be sold depending on how long listeners are tuning in for.\n\nSome of the other big radio beasts are missing from this quarter's figures entirely. For example, Simon Mayo's new show is absent from the latest Rajar data.\n\nThat's partly because the former Radio 2 drivetime presenter has joined a brand new station, Scala, which only launched in March and won't report any results at all until later this year.\n\nBut even if we did have data for Scala, we wouldn't have figures for Mayo's show specifically because he hosts the mid-morning slot, and Rajar only publicly releases data for breakfast programmes and stations overall.", "Five banks have been fined €1.07bn (£935m) by the European Commission after traders clubbed together to rig the foreign exchange market.\n\nFour banks in the \"Banana Split\" cartel - Barclays, RBS, Citigroup and JP Morgan - were fined €811m in all.\n\nThree banks in the \"Essex Express\" cartel - Barclays and RBS again, plus MUFG - were fined €258m.\n\nA sixth bank, UBS, was excused financial penalties for revealing the cartels' existence.\n\nThe European Commission said the market-rigging took place from 2007 to 2013.\n\nThe Commission's investigation, which began in September 2013, revealed that some individual foreign exchange traders, using online chatrooms, exchanged trading plans and occasionally co-ordinated their trading strategies.\n\nCompetition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the banks' behaviour \"undermined the integrity of the sector at the expense of the European economy and consumers\".\n\nRBS said its €249m share of the fines was \"fully covered by existing provisions\". Barclays also said it had set aside money to cover the fine.\n\nSimilar fines for manipulating the currency markets were imposed in 2014 by UK, US and Swiss regulators.\n\nMargrethe Vestager was critical of the banks' behaviour\n\nUBS, which escaped the latest fines, said: \"This is a legacy matter where UBS was the first bank to disclose potential misconduct. We've made significant investments to further strengthen our control framework since then and are pleased this matter is resolved.\"\n\nBut the matter may not end there. Lambros Kilaniotis, a partner at City-based law firm RPC, said the Commission's announcement was \"an open invitation for parties who may have been impacted by these cartels to sue these banks\".\n\n\"If they haven't already, any party involved in forex trading, such as institutional investors, pension funds and large corporates, should now be reviewing what losses they have incurred,\" he added.\n\n\"Most of the traders participating in the chatrooms knew each other on a personal basis,\" said the Commission.\n\n\"For example, one chatroom was called Essex Express 'n the Jimmy because all the traders but 'James' lived in Essex and met on a train to London.\n\n\"Some of the traders created the chatrooms and then invited one another to join, based on their trading activities and personal affinities, creating closed circles of trust.\"\n\nOther chatrooms used included Semi Grumpy Old Men, Two and a Half Men and Only Marge.\n\nInformation that the traders exchanged related to:\n\nTheir chats \"enabled them to make informed market decisions on whether to sell or buy the currencies they had in their portfolios and when\", the Commission said.", "The precise circumstances of Steve Dymond's death are not known. But what is clear, from multiple sources, is that he was troubled and vulnerable before he participated in the show - even though he did so willingly - and that failing the lie detector test was a devastating blow.\n\nThat much was clear on Tuesday morning, when ITV said that they were minded to launch an inquiry and wait for the coroner's verdict. Yet this morning the show was taken off the air permanently.\n\nWhat happened that should cause the sudden change of mind?\n\nThe Jeremy Kyle show has been part of ITV's daytime schedule since it started in 2005\n\nTwo things at least. First, growing evidence of links between that failed lie detector test and Mr Dymond's death. ITV learned significant new information in the past 24 hours. And second, another morning of damaging front page headlines, especially in the tabloids that are still influential and widely read among ITV's heartland audience.\n\nThat is explicitly not to say that the decision to take the show off air permanently was primarily a commercial one. The driver may have been moral repugnance, at ITV board level, at what has happened. Certainly, if as part of their internal process board members saw footage of Mr Dymond's response to failing the lie detector test on the episode that was never aired, it must have prompted a visceral reaction.\n\nBut even if you accept that Carolyn McCall and the ITV board made this decision because of revulsion at what one of their shows did, that doesn't discount the commercial and editorial context in which the decision was made.\n\nAs an advertiser-funded broadcaster, albeit with multiple linear channels and a digital offering, ITV is under pressure. Kevin Lygo, its creative chief, has tried to reinvent the schedule, and with some success. But the feeling at the top of ITV is that Jeremy Kyle's show was a distinct anomaly within the new offering - and therefore not necessarily a good fit as part of its future. It is hard to imagine that the show would have been permanently scrapped if Lygo and other bosses were deeply admiring of it.\n\nIn reaching millions of people every weekday, many of them of the view that the mainstream media doesn't generally reflect their lives very well, ITV had a solid, regular offer to a big and loyal audience. In today's exceptionally competitive media environment, when the claims on our attention are multiplying by the minute, that isn't something you give up lightly. Especially when you know that whatever replaces Kyle will struggle to achieve its ratings, at least at first.\n\nThere is, as I mentioned on last night's bulletins, a massive disconnect here: between those who wanted the show off air, who generally don't watch it; and those who do watch it, and feel they can relate to it.\n\nThese fans, like ITV bosses, might proffer a liberal argument: people who go on the show are consenting, fully informed, capacitous adults who know what they're doing. In the show's 14-year history, thousands of contributors have been on-stage. And this is not a show that has traditionally led to Ofcom being inundated with complaints.\n\nSeveral people have said to me that, given two people who appeared on Love Island have taken their own lives, it is inconsistent to leave that show on air, and ITV's decision on Wednesday is partly about protecting that highly lucrative show.\n\nITV resist the latter point strongly, and it is important not to generalise from the specific circumstances of any death - particularly suicide. Moreover, Love Island and The Jeremy Kyle Show occupied very different parts of the schedule, and don't belong in the same category of programme.\n\nSteve Dymond, who was 63, was found dead a week after he was filmed on the Jeremy Kyle show taking a lie detector test to prove if he'd been faithful to his fiancee\n\nI wonder, however, if rising concerns about the mental health of participants in all TV programmes may prompt greater investment in after-care, or an expansion of Ofcom's remit to go much further on the duty of care programme makers have toward their contributors.\n\nCelebrity culture is as old as culture itself; but the advent of, first, mass media, and now social media, has rapidly expanded the circle of those who can be famous. But displaying, or even parading, private anguish and trauma in a public way can obviously have a disastrous impact on mental health.\n\nWhether it be Strictly Come Dancing, Come Dine With Me, or The Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, contributors and contestants give up something of themselves, some degree of autonomy, when they become characters in productions whose goal is commercially motivated entertainment. The journey they go on, and which viewers are encouraged to go on with them, can be life-affirming, cultural gold-dust. That is television at its best.\n\nBut the spectacle can also lead contributors to a dark place. Even if that is not television at its worst, it is television that - for now - ITV believes should not be aired. No matter the ratings.\n\nIf you're interested in issues such as these, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook; and subscribe to The Media Show podcast from BBC Radio 4.", "A man who accused multiple public figures of child sexual abuse is a \"committed and manipulative paedophile\", a court has heard.\n\nCarl Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.\n\nPolice discovered the offences after seizing devices from his home while investigating him for alleging abuse by public figures, jurors heard.\n\nBeech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old's allegations, which included a claim that three young boys were murdered by members of a group, led to a £2m Metropolitan Police investigation between 2014-2016 that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, former head of the armed forces Lord Bramall and former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor.\n\nLord Bramall's wife died during the police inquiry and Lord Brittan died while under investigation.\n\nThe court was shown a 2014 police interview with Carl Beech\n\nDuring the police probe, Beech set up a fake email account to help corroborate his story, the court heard on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury that in email correspondence with police officers, Beech pretended to be a man known by the pseudonym \"Fred\".\n\nThe defendant claimed Fred was abused alongside him as a child and had witnessed one of the alleged murders, the prosecutor said.\n\nBut when detectives from Northumbria investigated the email account, they found \"the person behind the encrypted email account was Carl Beech\", Mr Badenoch said.\n\nMr Badenoch said officers found \"indecent images of young boys, covert images of school boys taken by him, and recordings\" on Beech's devices.\n\n\"These child sex offences were committed whilst he was speaking to investigating officers,\" he continued.\n\n\"At the same time as he perpetuated these lies about Harvey Proctor and so many others, he was also viewing indecent images of the gravest kind and spying on small boys.\"\n\nJurors heard he installed a secret app on his iPad that appeared to be a calculator, but contained indecent images of children of the \"most serious kind\" and a covert recording of a boy in a toilet.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard he was prosecuted and initially pleaded not guilty, and in a police interview, sought to blame his teenage son.\n\nHe changed his plea to guilty after a jury had been sworn in.\n\nThe prosecutor said the defendant's convictions demonstrate \"Carl Beech is a committed and manipulative paedophile, capable of deceit to investigators and limitless manipulation when required, including if necessary, framing his own child\".\n\nHe said Beech was \"the sort of individual concerned only for himself, unconcerned with the impact on others\".\n\nThe court also heard that Beech craved attention, had written 150 pages of a memoir and planned to become an international speaker on \"survivors\".\n\nHe received £22,000 in compensation from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for the abuse he alleged, which funded a £10,000 cash deposit for a white Ford Mustang, jurors were told.\n\nThe court heard on Tuesday that when investigators later began looking into Beech himself, he fled to Sweden.\n\nThe trial for perverting the course of justice and fraud continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Championship\n\nSubstitute Jack Marriott was the hero as Derby stunned Leeds to set up a Championship play-off final against Aston Villa after a wild night at Elland Road.\n\nThe hosts took the lead on the night to go 2-0 up on aggregate when Stuart Dallas tapped in after Liam Cooper's header had hit the post.\n\nMarriott levelled with his first touch before half-time after a horrendous mix-up at the back between Cooper and keeper Kiko Casilla.\n\nFrank Lampard's side turned the tie on its head after the break through Mason Mount and a Harry Wilson penalty, only for Dallas to drift in and fire Leeds back level on aggregate.\n\nLeeds defender Gaetano Berardi was then sent off for a poor challenge on Bradley Johnson before Marriott won it late on with a composed finish.\n\nThere was still time for Derby defender Scott Malone to join Berardi in being dismissed after collecting a second booking in time added on.\n\nFor Leeds, who finished third in the table, defeat means their spell outside the top flight will stretch to a 16th year.\n\nDerby, meanwhile, become the first team to lose the first leg of a Championship play-off semi-final at home and go on to reach the final meaning Lampard's first season in management will end at Wembley.\n• None Bielsa will 'listen to proposal' from Leeds about staying\n• None Why Leeds have been left crying their heart out\n\nThere had been no indication of what would transpire on this crazy night in West Yorkshire when Dallas put Leeds in front.\n\nThey had won all three of the previous meetings between the two sides this season by an aggregate of 7-1 and Derby looked short of ideas when they did manage to launch any attacks.\n\nHowever, with half-time approaching, Lampard brought Marriott on for midfielder Duane Holmes and the former Peterborough man had an instant impact, tapping in after Cooper and Casilla ran in to one another to leave him with an open goal.\n\nA brilliant improvised finish from Chelsea loanee Mount put them in front on the night just moments into the second half and Harry Wilson, on loan from Liverpool, kept his composure to fire home from the spot after Cooper pulled Mason Bennett's shirt in the area to put Derby ahead in the tie for the first time and spark wild scenes amongst the travelling Rams supporters.\n\nLeeds responded well and Dallas deservedly pulled one back to draw them level at 3-3 on aggregate with a wonderful finish, but Berardi's red card shifted the momentum once more and defender Richard Keogh sprinted out of defence to play a measured pass for Marriott to poke in and book the Rams a trip to Wembley on Monday, 27 May.\n\nWith four games of the regular season to go, Leeds had been in the driving seat to win automatic promotion after a hugely impressive season under veteran Argentine head coach Marcelo Bielsa.\n\nHowever, they suffered a shock home defeat by strugglers Wigan on Good Friday before losing at Brentford three days later as their three-point lead over Sheffield United turned into a three-point deficit that they were unable to overturn.\n\nWith many fans fearing their moment had passed, they put in an assured performance at Pride Park in the first leg to come into this game with a one goal advantage but, once more, they could not finish the job.\n\nBielsa reflected that the defeat by Wigan that took their momentum away had been \"the decision of God\".\n\nBut that was only part of a hugely emotional campaign that saw him personally pay a £200,000 fine after the club were reprimanded for sending a member of staff to watch Derby train before the league game between the teams at Elland Road in January.\n\nThat 'Spygate' saga, which Derby boss Lampard described at the time as \"not right\", remained a key talking point before and during the play-off meetings.\n\nAnd after beating Leeds for the first time this season, it was clearly at the forefront of the minds of Derby's players as they celebrated by pretending to hold binoculars over their eyes.\n\nWill Bielsa stay or go?\n\nAfter failing to take Leeds up, Bielsa now faces a huge decision of his own whether to carry on as boss and try to mount another promotion challenge next season.\n\nPrior to joining Leeds on a two-year deal last June, the 63-year-old last completed a full season as a manager when he guided Marseille to fourth in Ligue 1 in 2014-15.\n\nHe was questioned about whether he would stay with Leeds in the immediate aftermath of his side's play-off disappointment but would not be drawn on where his future lay.\n\n\"If the club offers me the opportunity to carry on then I will consider the proposal,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd be naive to say I totally believed we could come back but I had belief in the players.\n\n\"As a manager, the pressure is more intense than as a player. I wanted this so badly, you worry you want it too badly. I'm very proud.\n\n\"I told Jack Marriott I thought he could have an impact in the game because he was disappointed not to be starting.\n\n\"We'll be underdogs in the final and tomorrow we start again.\"\n\n\"We should have had one or two more in the first half and then the second half broke immediately.\n\n\"We lost control. We had 20 minutes without control and I couldn't find a solution.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Isaiah Brown (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Second yellow card to Scott Malone (Derby County) for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Clarke (Leeds United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Stuart Dallas (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Isaiah Brown.\n• None Attempt saved. Liam Cooper (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pablo Hernández with a cross.\n• None Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Leeds United 2, Derby County 4. Jack Marriott (Derby County) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Richard Keogh.\n• None Harry Wilson (Derby County) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Mason Mount with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The agency, Splash, apologised to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for \"distress\" caused by the images\n\nThe Duke of Sussex has accepted damages and an apology from a news agency which used a helicopter to take photographs of his home in the Cotswolds.\n\nPrince Harry's lawyers told a High Court hearing the pictures taken by Splash News and Picture Agency included one of the inside of a bedroom at the privately-rented Oxfordshire property.\n\nThe court heard the pictures had \"seriously undermined\" Harry's safety.\n\nSplash said it had made an \"error of judgement\" which would not be repeated.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"We apologise to the Duke and Duchess (of Sussex) for the distress we have caused.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke \"acknowledges and welcomes the formal apology\" from Splash.\n\nThe court heard the photos, which were \"published by the Times newspaper and elsewhere online\", were of living and dining areas, and included a shot taken \"directly into the bedroom\".\n\nThe duke's lawyers told Mr Justice Warby that Harry and his wife Meghan had chosen to make the Oxfordshire property their home because of its \"high level of privacy\".\n\nBut Gerrard Tyrrell, who read a statement in court on the duke's behalf, said the couple had subsequently felt unable to live there.\n\nThe duke and duchess now live at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor\n\nWhen the photos were published in mid-January, the couple's official residence was Kensington Palace.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the Sussexes said they had spent a lot of time at their country retreat in the Cotswolds, which had been privately rented by Harry.\n\nThe duke and duchess moved from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage, Windsor, in April - shortly before Meghan gave birth to their son Archie.\n\nMr Tyrrell said Splash had agreed to pay a \"substantial\" sum of damages and legal costs to settle the privacy and data claims faced by the agency.\n\nHe added Splash would \"not repeat its conduct by using any aerial means to take photographs or film footage of the duke's private home, which would infringe privacy or data rights or otherwise be unlawful activity\".\n\nSplash News and Picture Agency sells news, photos and videos across the world, including paparazzi images of celebrities.\n\nIt boasts of taking more than 150,000 photos a day across the globe.\n\nIn its code of conduct, Splash says it is \"committed to the fair and ethical treatment of our subjects, our contributors and our customers\".\n\nBut the case brought by Prince Harry is not the first time Splash has been accused of taking intrusive photos.\n\nIn 2014, Corbis Images UK Limited - which was trading under Splash's name - made photos of Adele's two-year-old son available for publishing in the English press.\n\nThe singer's lawyers accepted a five-figure sum to settle the case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An international crime gang which used malware to steal $100m (£77m) from more than 40,000 victims has been dismantled.\n\nA complex police operation conducted investigations in the US, Bulgaria, Germany, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.\n\nThe gang infected computers with GozNym malware, which captured online banking details to access bank accounts.\n\nThe gang was put together from criminals who advertised their skills on online forums.\n\nThe details of the operation were revealed at the headquarters of the European police agency Europol in The Hague.\n\nIt said that the investigation was unprecedented, especially in terms of cross-border co-operation.\n\nTen members of the network have been charged in Pittsburgh, US on a range of offences, including stealing money and laundering those funds using US and foreign bank accounts.\n\nFive Russian nationals remain on the run, including one who developed the GozNym malware and oversaw its development and management, including leasing it to other cyber-criminals.\n\nVarious other gang members now face prosecution in other countries, including:\n\nAmong the victims were small businesses, law firms, international corporations and non-profit organisations.\n\nEuropol said it was a great example of cross-border co-operation\n\nOne of the things that the operation has highlighted is how common the selling of nefarious cyber-skills has become, says Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist from University of Surrey.\n\n\"The developers of this malware advertised their 'product' so that other criminals could use their service to conduct banking fraud.\n\n\"What is known as 'crime as a service' has been a growing feature in recent years, allowing organised crime gangs to switch from their traditional haunts of drugs to much more lucrative cyber-crime.\"\n\nIt is a hybrid of two other pieces of malware, Nymaim and Gozi.\n\nThe first of these is what is known as a \"dropper\", software that is designed to sneak other malware on to a device and install it. Up until 2015, Nymaim was used primarily to get ransomware on to devices.\n\nGozi has been around since 2007. Over the years it has resurfaced with new techniques, all aimed at stealing financial information. It was used in concerted attacks on US banks.\n\nCombining the two created what one expert called a \"double-headed monster\".\n\nScott Brady said the case represented a \"milestone\" in the fight against international cybercrime\n\nUnsuspecting citizens thought they were clicking a simple link - instead they gave hackers access to their most intimate details.\n\nUS attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Scott Brady stood alongside prosecutors and cyber-crime fighters from five other nations inside Europol's high security headquarters, to announce the takedown of what he described as a \"global conspiracy\".\n\nThe suspected ringleader used GozNym malware and contracted different cyber-crime services - hard to detect bulletproof hosting platforms, money mules and spammers - to control more than 41,000 computers and enable cyber-thieves to steal and whitewash an estimated $100m from victims' bank accounts.\n\nGang members in four countries have been charged - a coup for cyber-crime fighters who say the discovery of this sophisticated scam demonstrates the borderless nature of cyber-crime and need for cross border co-operation to detect and disrupt these networks.", "More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests.\n\nOf 1,151 LGBT people polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% saying colleagues had made unwanted comments about their sex life.\n\nMore than a quarter (27%) said they had received unwelcome sexual advances.\n\nThe government said it was planning to shortly consult on how to strengthen existing laws on harassment.\n\nThe survey - released on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - was conducted by the Trade Union Congress and is believed to be the first major study into LGBT sexual harassment at work in the UK.\n\nAccording to the survey, of the 68% who said they had experienced sexual harassment, 66% did not tell their employer, sometimes because they were afraid of being \"outed\" at work.\n\nThe figure of 68% for LGBT people in the TUC's survey compares with a figure of 37% for the wider population in a BBC survey carried out in 2017.\n\nOf the 2,031 British adults questioned for BBC Radio 5 Live 53% of women and 20% of men said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nHelen describes herself as pansexual. She works as a psychologist and says she regularly experiences sexual harassment at work.\n\n\"Recently I was working out in the gym at work and two male colleagues were standing behind me. One said, 'She's such a waste of a woman,' referring to the fact I am in a relationship with a woman.\n\n\"When I was leaving the gym one of them asked me, 'Is it because you've never had a real man?' He laughed and then they both wolf-whistled at me. I haven't been back to the work gym since.\"\n\nHelen said the sexual harassment she has experienced hasn't only been verbal.\n\n\"I returned home early from my work Christmas party because a colleague asked to see a picture of my partner.\n\n\"When I showed him my Facebook profile picture, he said, 'I would pay £100 to watch you two.' I was really upset and he said, 'Don't be touchy,' and slapped my bum as I walked off.\"\n\nHelen also has concerns about what reporting sexual harassment would mean for her at work. She said: \"I worry what it might do for my reputation and my chances of career progression to report these incidents.\"\n\nFor some people who have suffered sexual harassment at work, reporting their experiences did not make things easier.\n\nPatrick, not his real name, works in the public sector. He says he has endured years of sexual harassment.\n\n\"After a colleague found out I was gay, he asked me how much I charge as a rent boy. I reported it but nothing came of it.\n\nAfter an investigation into his experiences, Patrick's work life impacted his personal life too.\n\n\"All of my team were preparing for an away day, which was going to involve different sports activities.\n\n\"A few weeks before the away day, I was pulled into an office and told that the others didn't want to do the activities with me as they'd be uncomfortable about taking showers with me there.\n\n\"I was told I wouldn't be going on the away day. I reported it and I was off work for over a year during the investigation. The investigation outed me to my family.\"\n\nPatrick says he went on to try to take his life twice.\n\nThe TUC survey also suggested LGBT women were more likely to experience unwanted touching and sexual assault at work than men.\n\nOver a third of the women (35%) surveyed had experienced unwanted touching, for example placing hands on their lower back or knee. One in eight (12%) had been seriously sexually assaulted or raped at work.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the research revealed a \"hidden epidemic\" of LGBT abuse.\n\nShe said: \"In 2019 LGBT people should be safe and supported at work. But instead they're experiencing shockingly high levels of sexual harassment and assault.\"\n\nShe said the government needed to \"change the law to put the responsibility for preventing harassment on employers, not victims\".\n\nLaura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at Stonewall, said the figures were \"shocking\", but added: \"We know from our own research and this report that LGBT people still face abuse and discrimination in Britain's workplaces.\"\n\nA Government Equalities Office spokesperson said: \"It is appalling LGBT people are suffering this harassment. Workplaces should be safe, supportive environments for everybody.\n\n\"The government will consult shortly on how we can strengthen and clarify existing laws on third-party harassment, as well as making sure employers fully understand their legal responsibility to protect their staff.\"", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "A man accused of making false claims of abuse and murder against a string of public figures named just two people - his stepfather and Jimmy Savile - when he first told police, a court heard.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, said in a police interview in 2012 - which was shown to the jury at Newcastle Crown Court - that he had been abused by a \"group\".\n\nBut he did not name all those he later accused at that point.\n\nHe denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nBeech, who has been described in court as a \"committed and manipulative\" paedophile himself, claimed he witnessed three child murders and had been sexually abused by a dozen senior figures.\n\nThe allegations prompted a Metropolitan police investigation between 2014 and 2016 costing £2m that ended with no further action being taken.\n\nAmong those he accused were former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath, ex-Tory home secretary Lord Brittan, one-time Conservative MP Harvey Proctor, and the former heads of MI5 and MI6.\n\nHe also named former head of the armed forces Lord Brammall and two other senior generals.\n\nThe court has heard that detectives from the Met Police, which investigated his account between 2014-2016, publicly described the claims as \"credible and true\".\n\nFootage of Beech's first police interview showed him telling a detective from Wiltshire police he had been abused by a group as a schoolboy and that Savile had joined in on occasion.\n\nOperation Yewtree - an investigation into the now-disgraced TV presenter who died in 2011 - was under way at the time and had referred Mr Beech to the Wiltshire force.\n\nDuring the interview, Beech said his alleged abuse started with his stepfather, Major Raymond Beech, who has since died.\n\nBeech said his stepfather introduced him to a \"Lieutenant Colonel\" in an army office, who later raped him on many occasions.\n\nAccording to the footage, when asked if he knew the identity of the Lt Col, Beech responded: \"I don't know names. I don't know how to describe him really.\"\n\nHe said the man was \"white, but not white, white but not suntanned. Just normal\".\n\nAsked how he knew Savile was one of those who allegedly abused him, Beech said: \"It was his voice\".\n\n\"He had a gold necklace. It's quite a long necklace,\" the defendant said.\n\nHe said there were about 20 people in the group, but when asked how many he could name, he replied: \"Definitive names? Two then I think. I don't know the others.\"\n\nWhen asked if there were any others he could describe, the defendant had replied: \"A lot of them just blur into one really. I don't know which goes with which.\"\n\nThe jury has previously heard that Beech told police an \"extraordinary tale\" when he made the accusations of abuse against a group of powerful figures.\n\nDuring his trial it has been revealed that Beech has convictions for voyeurism and making and possessing indecent images of children.", "Christopher Lowson said he was \"bewildered by the suspension\"\n\nThe Bishop of Lincoln, Christopher Lowson, has been suspended.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury acted saying it was in relation to a safeguarding children inquiry.\n\nJustin Welby added that \"if proven\" he would consider the bishop \"would present a significant risk of harm by not adequately safeguarding children and vulnerable people\".\n\nBishop Lowson said he was \"bewildered\" by the suspension and would co-operate fully.\n\nIn a statement, the archbishop continued: \"I would like to make it absolutely clear that there has been no allegation that Bishop Christopher has committed abuse of a child or vulnerable adult.\"\n\nBishop Lowson said: \"I am bewildered by the suspension and will fully co-operate in this matter.\n\n\"For the sake of the diocese and the wider Church I would like this to be investigated as quickly as possible to bring the matter to a swift conclusion.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Grimsby, David Court, will take on the leadership of the diocese.\n\n\"It should be noted that suspension is a neutral act and nothing further can be said at this stage while matters are investigated,\" the archbishop added.\n\nThe Diocese of Lincoln is the largest in England by area\n\nAs part of Operation Redstone, Lincolnshire Police has been investigating historical sex abuse cases.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said: \"The investigation is continuing into wider safeguarding issues and management decisions within the diocese.\"\n\nIn April, a BBC Panorama investigation found clergy and staff from the diocese were referred to police in 2015 over allegations church leaders \"turned a blind eye\" to claims of child abuse.\n\nLincolnshire Police and the Lincoln Diocese investigated 25 people over alleged abuse from a list of 53 names passed to officers, with three cases leading to convictions.\n\nThe programme claimed some of the names could have been referred years earlier as part of the Church of England's national Past Cases Review, which examined tens of thousands of Church records in 2008 and 2009 to discover whether abuse cases had slipped through the net.\n\nPaul Handley, editor of the Church Times, said the suspension had \"cast a cloud\" over the bishop and his colleagues.\n\nHowever, he said: \"I think what people need to take from this is the Church is taking safeguarding seriously, and nobody is beyond reproach if something is discovered that needs investigation.\"\n\nThe Diocese of Lincoln covers Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire, making it the largest diocese in England by area.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nJeremy Kyle has said he is \"devastated\" following the death of a guest and cancellation of his TV show.\n\nThe controversial long-running chat show was axed by ITV bosses after the death of Steve Dymond last week.\n\nMPs and broadcasting regulators are now looking into the care of participants in reality and factual TV shows.\n\n\"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, MPs announced the welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised in the wake of the death of Mr Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in the programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "Marine Le Pen was one of 11 leaders from Europe's populist far right who joined Matteo Salvini for a rally in Milan on 18 May\n\nThe populist far right are looking to this week's EU parliamentary elections to kick-start a pan-European nationalist alliance.\n\nFor years, they have tried to form a cohesive group, and now they have a figurehead in Italy's most powerful politician - Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, previously the leader of a half-forgotten regional party.\n\nBut the challenges are clear. Days before the vote, one of the very few far-right parties in power in Europe was forced out of government in Austria amid a secret video scandal.\n\nBBC correspondents report on the would-be alliance from around Europe.\n\nMatteo Salvini does not like to be interrupted. A few minutes into his campaign rally in this northern Italian town, a small group of hecklers caught his attention.\n\nHe raised his finger. \"If you touch any of the good people in the crowd,\" Matteo Salvini shouted at the hecklers, \"I will get angry like a beast. OK? OK?\"\n\nMr Salvini has travelled across Europe in an attempt to drum up support for a nationalist alliance\n\n\"Salvini is the future of Europe,\" one woman told me.\n\nItaly's League party leader aims to bring together Europe's disparate far right into a cohesive movement.\n\nThe far-right, populist movements are united by their condemnation of EU bureaucracy, migration, and Islam. They aim to take enough seats in the EU parliamentary election to be able to disrupt the institution from within.\n\nTheir election campaign culminated in Milan on 18 May, when far-right, populist politicians from 11 EU countries joined Mr Salvini at a rally. Anti-fascist campaigners in Milan held their own counter-protests, and called on the populists to leave.\n\nIt would have been 12 countries, but Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache could not attend as he was caught up in the secret video scandal and had to resign.\n\nIf they do succeed in winning more seats in the European Parliament, they may also end up revealing the divisions within their ad hoc alliance - particularly over economic policy.\n\nThe Freedom Party is arguably Europe's most well-established far-right movement, but has become embroiled in a full-blown corruption scandal.\n\nWith its anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim messages, the FPÖ has been a source of inspiration for many of Europe's populist parties, notably Germany's main opposition AfD, the Finns Party and the Danish People's Party.\n\nIn a matter of days, it has gone from influential coalition partner to national disgrace, its leader caught in a video sting apparently promising public contracts in return for political and financial support to a woman posing as a Russian oligarch's niece.\n\nThe scandal could hit the party at the polls.\n\nLeader Heinz-Christian Strache has enjoyed cordial relations with Matteo Salvini and signed up to his European alliance, taking part before the scandal broke in a series of what appear to have been carefully choreographed meetings.\n\nMr Strache resigned hours after the video emerged of him and a party colleague caught in a sting in the Spanish resort island of Ibiza\n\nBut analysts believe they have competing nationalisms. They have clashed over Freedom Party proposals to give dual citizenship to the German-speaking minority in South Tyrol in northern Italy.\n\nIn the same way, parties in the far-right alliance may agree on what they oppose in Europe, but they may find it harder to agree on a common course of action.\n\nNorthern and southern parties have very different views on the EU's budget.\n\nMr Salvini, Mr Strache and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen are interested in closer relations with Russia, but that goes down very badly with parties in Eastern Europe, notably Poland.\n\nThere's been a certain stiffness in the air around Marine Le Pen's new political courtship. Perhaps it's not surprising; company is not something her party is used to.\n\nIt's not that France's populist leader is unenthusiastic about her Italian partner's rise to power.\n\nAn early campaign poster for the European elections featured a large portrait of Ms Le Pen alongside Matteo Salvini: \"All over Europe, our ideas are coming to power,\" the caption said.\n\nMarine Le Pen's embrace of Matteo Salvini's European alliance has not come naturally\n\nAnd the growing strength of populists across Europe has led her National Rally (Rassemblement National in French) party to change its policy on EU membership. There's no more talk of \"Frexit\", or even a referendum on the subject; the party now talks of changing Europe \"from within\".\n\nThere's no doubt Europe's grand, old, populist party lends weight to Mr Salvini's new alliance, but both the politics and the diplomacy of its role are tricky.\n\n\"Lega is the Italian Rassemblement National,\" one senior RN adviser told a French newspaper. \"Salvini created his party on our model. Even as a young man, he was asking Marine for selfies.\"\n\n\"We have no ego contest,\" Marine Le Pen said recently. But there's no doubt who is now leading Europe's nationalist parties - and it's not clear how well her party fits in.\n\nThe RN is not popular among Europe's other populists. Its warmth towards Russia, its historic image of anti-Semitism, and alleged fraud in its handling of European parliament funds have all contributed to tensions.\n\nHungarian PM Viktor Orban recently said he wanted nothing to do with Ms Le Pen.\n\nIt shows the challenge of uniting Europe's populist parties, all of whom pride themselves on putting national interests first.\n\nAnd even if they get the seats they're hoping for, the new group won't amount to more than a quarter of the EU chamber; what Le Monde newspaper this week described as a \"blocking minority that will let them carry on undermining things\".\n\nAs the poster boy of the far right in Europe, any new nationalist alliance would look pale without Viktor Orban.\n\nHungary's leader has invited both Matteo Salvini and Heinz-Christian Strache to Budapest in recent weeks, but he has been reticent about joining a new \"nationalist bloc\" after the EU elections.\n\nHis ruling Fidesz party still belongs to the EU's biggest political grouping - the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) - even though the EPP suspended its membership because of its right-wing policies.\n\nMr Orban met President Trump on Monday - his first visit to the White House\n\nHis hope until now was that he could drag the EPP to the right, then weld it into a tight alliance with a new, Salvini-led grouping, without quite merging with them. But his relationship with the centre right is getting no better, and he identifies with the nationalist right so much more.\n\nA long-awaited recent audience with President Donald Trump in the White House has put further wind in Mr Orban's sails.\n\nHis slogan in this election is: Support Viktor Orban's Programme, Let's Stop Immigration.\n\nIt is a populist, popular, but peculiar message in a country where there are very few immigrants, in an EU in which more than 600,000 Hungarians are regarded as immigrants themselves.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Essex mum 'bedbound for six months of pregnancy'\n\nFor Hannah Dalton, pregnancy meant not being able to drink fluids for eight months without throwing up, going into hospital 27 times for intravenous drips and living off ice lollies and anti-sickness medication.\n\nHannah, 30, from Thundersley, Essex, had hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the severe pregnancy sickness the Duchess of Cambridge experienced during her three pregnancies.\n\nShe was bedridden for six months, ended up in a wheelchair and, at her worst, her body started to shut down.\n\n\"I seriously questioned was this still worth doing,\" Hannah says.\n\n\"We wanted a bigger family but was there a chance that we would lose me. I thought I was dying.\"\n\nWith support from her family, Hannah continued with her pregnancy and, in April, gave birth to a girl.\n\nThe moment she went into labour, the sickness stopped.\n\nMore than 5,000 women from across the UK have shared their experience of HG with BBC News:\n\nLast year, UK hospitals saw more than 36,000 admissions for pregnant women needing urgent care because of extreme sickness and dehydration.\n\nThe causes of HG are unknown. There is some evidence it runs in families. And if a woman had HG in a previous pregnancy, she is more likely to have it in the next.\n\nNow, scientists at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital are launching a four-year study - the world's largest - in the hope of finding some answers.\n\nBlood samples and medical histories will be taken from at least 1,000 women admitted to hospital with the most severe HG symptoms and others recruited via the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support.\n\nThe study will be looking for genetic links and hormonal changes, in particular a protein, GDF15, produced by the placenta, which affects the part of the brain controlling vomiting and nausea.\n\nConsultant obstetrician Prof Catherine Williamson says: \"The problem we have is that the treatments aren't good enough.\n\n\"Our ambition is to identify genetic causes of this condition so we can tell why women have it and identify those at risk.\n\n\"We can then develop new treatments that are much more effective so hopefully there won't be any more women with severe hyperemesis, because we can control it.\"\n\nEver since the thalidomide scandal 50 years ago, there has been concern about taking anti-sickness drugs during pregnancy.\n\nThe sedative, which was found to ease nausea and vomiting in expectant mothers, left thousands of babies with severe birth defects.\n\nBut most women with HG do end up taking some sort of medication to control the vomiting.\n\nOnly one, Xonvea, is permitted in Britain for use in pregnancy - but alternatives, such as cyclizine, prochlorperazine and ondansetron, are also regularly prescribed and considered safe by doctors who treat the condition.\n\nWomen may also be given vitamin B6 and B12 or steroids. If these don't work, women may need to be admitted to hospital for treatment including intravenous fluids.\n\nHere are the words of one woman who terminated three pregnancies because of HG. She now has a young child.\n\n\"It's your own personal hell that you can't escape from. It's devastating. It completely takes over your life, your family's life, so it would be easier either to just miscarry or die.\n\n\"The vomiting and retching was so violent and so intense, I couldn't breathe.\n\n\"I couldn't take a breath while I was retching, so I passed out and woke up on the bathroom floor and I thought, 'Oh my God, I can't do this.'\n\n\"I did have some dark moments.\n\n\"I wanted this baby so badly but I felt like it was killing me and ultimately, out of pure desperation, led me to have three terminations.\n\n\"I developed PTSD. I had insomnia and nightmares when I could sleep.\n\n\"The senior consultant came round and said, 'Have you tried ginger biscuits and salty crackers?' and I was like, 'Oh my God.'\n\n\"It's like saying to somebody with a broken leg, 'Have you tried rubbing lavender oil on it?'... because if the senior consultant didn't understand, what hope did I have?\"\n\nCaitlin Dean, from Pregnancy Sickness Support, says not treating HG has serious risks.\n\n\"Increasingly evidence suggests that, while the actual nausea and vomiting is unlikely to harm the offspring, the complications of HG, such as malnutrition, dehydration and mental ill health, can cause lifelong consequences for both mother and baby,\" she says.\n\n\"There are many wonderful, compassionate doctors out there providing excellent evidence-based care for people with HG but unfortunately there are also doctors who do not recognise the condition, are reluctant to prescribe appropriate treatment or are unaware of the evidence base.\n\n\"This leads to a vast amount of unnecessary suffering, costly hospital admissions and, all too often, terminations of otherwise wanted pregnancies.\n\n\"In 2019, there is very little excuse not to provide this basic level of care for pregnant women.\"\n\nFelicity Collins, from Northamptonshire, was desperate for doctors to prescribe her stronger drugs to help her cope with HG.\n\nShe was already in hospital, and 24 hours away from terminating her twin pregnancy, when she was finally given steroids to ease the constant vomiting.\n\n\"It was such a dark time,\" she says.\n\n\"It was a decision we made because I knew without those drugs, I couldn't carry on.\n\n\"I couldn't eat or drink. Everything made me sick. It was so bad. That's how close it came.\"\n\nFor the next six months, she injected herself daily with steroids, finally giving birth to twin boys, Arthur and Harry, who are now three years old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn eight weeks of pregnancy, Laura Anderson lost one stone (6.3kg).\n\n\"I dream about eating again and drinking again,\" she says.\n\n\"This illness makes you a shadow of who you were… it's nine months of living hell.\"\n\nLaura faces about 20 more weeks of HG before she gives birth.\n\nShe says: \"I fully intend on getting to the end of this pregnancy with a baby, no matter what it does to my health.\n\n\"And when this baby girl is born and the HG has gone, I will spend the rest of my life trying to raise awareness about this awful illness.\n\n\"I'm doing it for my daughter, in case she gets it, and God forbid that she does.\"\n• None Bedridden for six months of pregnancy. Video, 00:01:34Bedridden for six months of pregnancy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Madonna's latest album, Madame X, comes out in June\n\nMadonna will perform during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, it has finally been confirmed.\n\nThe singer will perform two songs: her 1989 hit Like A Prayer and new single Future, featuring US rapper Quavo.\n\nAn announcement was made ahead of the contest's second semi-final on Thursday, ending days of speculation over whether she would indeed appear.\n\nEarlier this week organisers said a contract had yet to be signed and that she could not perform without one.\n\nYet the singer was seen arriving in Israel on Tuesday and has reportedly been rehearsing at a secret location.\n\nEarlier on Thursday she posted a cryptic video on social media that appeared to be filmed on the stage of the Expo Tel Aviv.\n\n\"We are pleased to finally confirm that the incomparable music icon Madonna will join us at this year's Eurovision Song Contest,\" said Jon Ola Sand, the event's executive supervisor.\n\n\"We know that it will be an evening to remember and can't wait to share it with everyone watching.\"\n\nMadonna's appearance was announced by her US and UK publicists in April, but it has taken weeks for it to be announced officially.\n\nOrganisers said she would be accompanied by a 35-strong choir during Like A Prayer, which was released 30 years ago this spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the hunt for Madonna at Eurovision\n\nEarlier this week, Madonna appeared to respond to those critical of Israel hosting the contest and her participation in it.\n\n\"I'll never stop playing music to suit someone's political agenda, nor will I stop speaking out against violations of human rights wherever in the world they may be,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"My heart breaks every time I hear about the innocent lives that are lost in this region and the violence that is so often perpetuated to suit the political goals of people who benefit from this ancient conflict.\n\n\"I hope and pray that we will soon break free from this terrible cycle of destruction and create a new path towards peace.\"\n\nThe decision to hold Eurovision in Israel is not popular with critics of the country's policies towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.\n\nThe Eurovision Song Contest final will air on BBC One on 18 May from 20:00 BST.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Madonna 'to play two songs' at Eurovision\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June.\n\nThe agreement follows a meeting between the prime minister and senior Tory MPs who are demanding a date for her departure from Downing Street.\n\nIf she loses the vote on her Brexit plan, already rejected three times, sources told the BBC she would resign.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson has said he will run for leader once Mrs May goes.\n\nThe prime minister survived a confidence vote by Conservative MPs at the end of last year and party rules mean she cannot formally be challenged again until December.\n\nBut Mrs May has come under increasing pressure to leave Downing Street this summer, amid the Brexit impasse and poor results for the Conservatives in the recent local elections in England.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said senior sources had told her it was \"inconceivable\" the prime minister could remain in office if MPs rejected her Brexit plans for a fourth time.\n\nBut the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nThe chairman of the 1922 committee of Conservative MPs, Sir Graham Brady, said he had reached an agreement over the prime minister's future during \"very frank\" talks in Parliament.\n\nHe said the committee's executive and Mrs May would meet again to discuss her future following the first debate and vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nSir Graham said there was now \"greater clarity\" about the situation.\n\nAsked if that meant the prime minister would quit immediately if MPs rejected her Brexit plans once more, he said that scenario went \"beyond\" what had been agreed.\n\nMPs have rejected the prime minister's Brexit agreement with the EU three times.\n\nBut she will have another go at gaining their support in the week beginning 3 June, when the Commons votes for the first time on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill - legislation needed to implement her deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer foreign secretary Boris Johnson has joined the growing list of Conservatives who say they will stand for leader when Mrs May announces her departure.\n\nHe told a business conference in Manchester: \"Of course I am going to go for it.\"\n\nConservative MP Grant Shapps welcomed the announcement that a timetable would be set out for Mrs May's departure, suggesting it would inject greater ambition and dynamism into the Brexit process.\n\nThe former party chairman told BBC News the Brexit bill had no chance of passing in its current state but holding another vote would allow Mrs May to demonstrate she had \"tried everything\".\n\n\"It is right to bring this whole saga to a conclusion,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nBut fellow Tory Phillip Lee, who backs another Brexit referendum, said replacing the prime minister would not \"solve the crisis\" the UK found itself in or build a parliamentary majority for the terms of the UK's departure.\n\n\"Forcing the PM's resignation and spending this summer locked in a leadership election where candidates trade ever more fantastic visions of unicorn Brexits…is neither in the interests of the Conservative Party nor of the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nLast month, the 1922 Committee executive narrowly decided against changing the party's leadership rules to allow an early challenge to Mrs May.\n\nLocal Tory associations have confirmed they will hold a vote of confidence in her leadership on 15 June, although its result will not be binding.\n\nMuch of the anger in the Conservative parliamentary party is focusing on the prime minister's talks with Labour, aimed at reaching a cross-party compromise to get her deal through the Commons.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said he understood the talks will \"soon be drawing to a close\" adding that Tory whips had \"given up on this phase of the negotiations and are looking to pack the legislation with goodies for Brexiteers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would not support the Withdrawal Agreement Bill unless it guaranteed membership of a customs union with the EU, and protected workers' rights, consumer rights and environmental rights.\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said his party would \"happily support\" the legislation, provided it was subject to a \"confirmatory public vote\".", "Boris Becker won the first of his three Wimbledon titles at the age of 17\n\nA serial burglar dubbed the \"Wimbledon prowler\" has admitted trying to raid the home of tennis star Boris Becker.\n\nAsdrit Kapaj, 42, burgled a string of residences in the London suburb, home to the All England Lawn Tennis Club.\n\nHis \"sustained campaign\" spanned more than a decade, netting him high-end items and thousands in cash.\n\nAfter pleading guilty to 21 burglaries last month, he returned to court on Monday to admit an attempted burglary at Mr Becker's home.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard Kapaj travelled from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, to target homes in south-west London from 2008 until his arrest in February.\n\nHe attempted to raid Becker's house on 31 October 2013.\n\nThe 51-year-old German, who won six Grand Slam singles events during his career - including Wimbledon three times - lived in the area with his then wife Lilly at the time.\n\nBecker said: \"He didn't actually get into the house,\" before adding \"I'm pleased he's been caught.\"\n\nHis estranged wife Lilly said: \"He had no choice but to admit what he'd done.\"\n\nScotland Yard had linked the \"prowler\", who wore a distinctive fisherman's hat, to 200 burglaries in total.\n\nHe was accused of meticulously destroying security equipment and police said he may have used a device to pick locks.\n\nAsdrit Kapaj travelled from his home in Greater Manchester to carry out the burglaries\n\nOver the years, Kapaj's haul included a diamond ring, a gold necklace and a gold watch.\n\nAs well as the attempted raid on Becker's home, Kapaj admitted another burglary in the area on 25 January 2014.\n\nJudge Peter Lodder QC described the married father of two as having \"identified a particular area and conducted a sustained campaign\".\n\nA large group of residents went to court last month to celebrate Kapaj's guilty pleas.\n\nOne, Laurie Porter, said homeowners were now \"sleeping more easily\" after he admitted the burglaries.\n\nKapaj will next appear in court on 7 June.\n\nHe was already due to be sentenced for his other offences, which also included two counts of attempted burglary, on 21 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Viewers have praised Nadiya Hussain for opening up about her lifelong struggle with \"extreme anxiety\", and her journey to get help, in a BBC One documentary.\n\nThe 2015 Great British Bake Off winner allowed cameras to follow her as she sought a diagnosis and treatment.\n\nShe was seen having therapy, speaking about how her anxiety and panic attacks stemmed from childhood bullying and serious health problems in her family.\n\nIt was an \"incredibly open, honest and moving account\", one viewer wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Nadiya: Anxiety and Me, which was shown on Wednesday, she spoke about her regular panic attacks and voices in her head telling her she's not good enough.\n\nAnxiety was \"often an overwhelming feeling I can't control\" and \"a monster\" that stops her functioning, she said.\n\n\"Having anxiety is probably one of the most lonely, most isolating things to have because you are your own worst enemy and you live inside your head,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Nadiya Jamir Hussain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring her cognitive behavioural therapy, she traced her problems back to when her brother and sisters both had life-threatening illnesses as young children, and the severe bullying she suffered at primary school.\n\nRacist bullies would pull her hair out, slam her fingers in doors until all her fingernails fell out, and flush her head down the toilet.\n\n\"I still have that memory of the water going up my nose and feeling like if they don't pull me up now I am going to drown with my head in this toilet,\" she said.\n\nAfter that, she hid under a sink and had her first panic attack.\n\n\"If I could erase my memory, then I would take that one memory out of my head, because that memory is always there,\" she said.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's TV critic Isabel Mohan wrote: \"By opening up about the severity of her condition and tackling it head-on, Hussein should now become an inspiration to her fellow anxiety sufferers.\"\n\nThe programme also followed Hussain speaking to other sufferers, and doing something that would have been unthinkable before - taking an unplanned train trip to London.\n\nMohan wrote: \"It feels bizarre that this familiar, friendly face, regarded as Bake Off's biggest success story and a huge role model for many British Muslims, would ever be so scared of a simple trip, and is an important reminder that we shouldn't assume that our friends and family are doing OK just because they're all smiles when we see them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting in The Huffington Post, Rachel Moss said: \"In a world where nearly nine in 10 people with mental health problems say stigma and discrimination have a negative effect on their lives, honesty like Nadiya's feels like something we all need.\"\n\nNadiya added during the programme: \"I'm also aware I'm incredibly lucky because there are lots of sufferers who are undiagnosed or who are not getting professional treatment.\"\n\nThe documentary was part of a string of special programmes made for Mental Health Awareness Week.\n\nIn David Harewood: Psychosis and Me, on BBC Two at 21:00 on Thursday, the Homeland actor will speak about being sectioned after a psychotic breakdown at the age of 23.\n\n\"As Nadiya said last night, we need to talk about these things,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAlastair Campbell: Depression and Me, fronted by the former Labour spin doctor, will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 21 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The WJEC has said no pupil will be disadvantaged by the issue\n\nAn apology has been made to GCSE pupils after a \"technical issue\" affected their computer science exam.\n\nParents complained problems meant the start was delayed while pupils could not answer one of the questions.\n\nIt is unclear how many schools were affected, but people in Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Pembrokeshire and Rhondda Cynon Taff highlighted issues.\n\nThe WJEC exam board said it is investigating the matter and no pupils would be disadvantaged.\n\nA parent of a pupil at St Cyres school, Penarth, said teachers were unable to log on to the online resource for the exam at the scheduled start time of 13:30 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt was then delayed for half an hour.\n\nWhen it did get under way, she added students could not answer the final question, worth 16 marks, on a programme called Greenfoot.\n\nThis was because the exam question was on version 3 while school computers had version 2.5 installed, the parent claimed.\n\n\"He had already sat chemistry and ICT exams, so after this was a bit miserable coming home,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't know what will happen but will raise it with the school.\"\n\nParents and pupils are unsure what the implications of the problem will be\n\nThe mother of a pupil at a Rhondda Cynon Taff school reported similar problems, saying her son had to wait in a room for more than an hour for his exam to start.\n\nShe added: \"For those who want to do software development and gaming development, it's really important.\n\n\"It's a stressful enough time anyway and they have messed it up.\"\n\nProblems were also reported in other areas, including at Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni on Anglesey and Bishop of Llandaff school, Cardiff.\n\nThe WJEC did not give a figure of schools affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are aware of a technical issue with today's GCSE computer science paper, and are currently investigating the matter further.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to those who experienced difficulties, and would like to reassure those affected that no student will be disadvantaged.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Giving the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei a role in building the UK's 5G network poses an unnecessary risk to national security, a former MI6 chief has said.\n\nSir Richard Dearlove said such a move could give the Chinese government a \"potentially advantageous exploitative position\" in the UK's telecoms network.\n\nIt follows reports last month that the PM is ready to let the firm supply some parts of the UK's 5G infrastructure.\n\nA Huawei spokesman said Sir Richard's warnings were \"short on fact\".\n\nSir Richard's intervention comes as US President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively banning American firms from using foreign telecoms deemed to pose a threat to national security.\n\nAlthough it does not name Huawei, it is widely considered to be aimed at the firm following repeated warnings by US officials that it could be used by the Chinese state to spy on or sabotage foreign networks.\n\nThe company has vehemently denied the allegations and insists it is independent from state control.\n\nIn a foreword to a new report by the Henry Jackson Society think tank, Sir Richard said: \"The fact that the British government now appears to have decided to place the development of some of its most sensitive critical infrastructure in the hands of a company from the People's Republic of China (PRC) is deeply worrying.\n\n\"The PRC uses its sophisticated technical capabilities not only to control its own population (to an extreme and growing degree), but it also conducts remotely aggressive intelligence gathering operations on a global scale.\n\n\"No part of the communist Chinese state is ultimately able to operate free of the control exercised by its Communist Party leadership.\n\n\"To place the PRC in a potentially advantageous exploitative position in the UK's future telecommunications systems therefore is a risk, however remote it may seem at the moment, we simply do not need to take.\"\n\nFormer defence secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked after details concerning Huawei from a National Security Council meeting were leaked\n\nLast month, former defence secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked after details about Huawei's potential involvement in the UK's 5G network - discussed at the National Security Council - were leaked to the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIn the paper's report, Mrs May was said to have overridden ministers who had expressed concerns about the plans.\n\nThe government has insisted no final decision has been taken on Huawei's involvement in the UK network, although the issue remains highly sensitive in Whitehall.\n\nSir Richard said the government - which has been seeking to build economic links with China - should not be influenced by fears of economic reprisals by Beijing if Huawei is excluded.\n\n\"If Australia can blackball Huawei as its 5G provider, the UK can certainly do the same without undue concern about the consequences,\" he said.\n\nA Huawei spokesman said: \"This report is long on politically motivated insinuation but short on fact.\n\n\"It fundamentally misunderstands the nature of modern China, global technology markets and of 5G.\n\n\"The isolationist approach they recommend may support an America-first trade agenda but it's hard to see how it's in UK's national interest.\"\n\nA government spokesman said individual countries were taking \"a range of different approaches\" to the issue of 5G security.\n\n\"There are no universal solutions,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Whatever final decision the UK government takes about 5G network infrastructure, the UK is not considering any options that would put our national security communications at risk, within the UK and with our closest allies.\"", "Simon Forman courted public attention with his mix of medicine, magic and astrology\n\nWhat would you do if you thought your children had turned into \"rats and mice\"? Or if you had the \"French disease\"? Or had trouble with witches?\n\nIn 16th Century England, you might have visited two celebrity \"doctors\", Simon Forman and Richard Napier.\n\nAfter 10 years of research, Cambridge historians are digitising some of their patient records, showing how they prescribed magic as well as medicine.\n\nThe records also show patients being told to wear dead pigeons as slippers.\n\nThere are 80,000 separate case notes, from the 1590s to the 1630s, in what is described as one of the biggest such historical medical collections in existence.\n\nBut they have been notoriously difficult to decipher and a team of Cambridge University researchers spent years transcribing their contents, with 500 being digitised, put into accessible English and made available online.\n\nThese give an insight into the physical and mental anxieties of Shakespearean England - whether being \"thrust with a rapier in his privy parts\" or suffering from being \"mopish\" or \"melancholy\".\n\nA patient with venereal disease in 1601 is described as having \"morbum gallicum\" or the \"French disease\"\n\nProf Lauren Kassell, who headed the research, describes the illnesses and cures as a \"wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of 17th Century medicine, magic and the occult\".\n\nWitchcraft seemed to be a significant worry - blamed by patients for a whole range of ailments and with the notes making reference to a number of witches who had been executed as a result.\n\nProf Kassell says both doctors and patients moved seamlessly between the physical world, astrology, magic and religion, all of which were mixed together to come up with remedies.\n\nThat witches or evil spirits had caused an illness would have been \"entirely credible at the time\", she says, with counter-curses available.\n\nThe case notes show astrological calculations as part of offering a remedy\n\nIn one of the cases, evil spirits had overtaken a patient so that he kept offending people by shouting: \"Kisse myne arse.\"\n\nEven by the standards of 17th Century medicine, some of their approaches were seen as eccentric.\n\nProf Kassell says Richard Napier would often get extra help by consulting angels.\n\nBut it wasn't always good news. One patient was given the rather gloomy outlook from an angel adviser: \"He will die shortly.\"\n\nSimon Forman, an astrologer and healer, provoked a different type of suspicion, with his energetic courting of famous patients drawing the distrust of \"real\" physicians.\n\nWhether any of the cures \"worked\", Prof Kassell says, is a complex question.\n\nIn the context of the time, these were efforts by people to overcome problems, she says. If they followed the recommendation to use leeches from Beaconsfield rather than Dorchester, did it make them feel better?\n\n\"People always want to do something about an illness,\" she says. Even if the \"cures\" seem improbable, it is difficult to assess the benefit of going to get help and talking about problems.\n\nMental-health problems are often raised - whether people bringing depressive symptoms, under the label of \"melancholy\", or other repeated references to \"lunatics\".\n\nThere were often harsh treatments, with people being tied and restrained, and one man who claimed to be falsely accused of madness worried he would be \"bagged as a lunatic\".\n\nVenereal diseases also seemed to be widespread, with many cases talking about what was called the \"French disease\".\n\nA patient suffering from the \"pox, with boils and itch\" was prescribed a combination including roses, violets, boiled crabs and deer dung.\n\nProf Kassell says many of cases might seem unlikely.\n\n\"But even the odd things might turn out to be rooted in reality,\" she says.\n\nIn one case, a woman was described as suckling puppies.\n\nProf Kassell says this would have been seen as a broad hint about witchcraft - but it was also the case that if women had problems breastfeeding, there was a folk belief in using puppies to encourage the flow of milk.\n\nThat still might not explain the cure of \"pigeon slippers\", which rather literally involved opening up pigeons to attach to a patient's feet.\n\nThe light cast on 17th Century society by the casebooks is both uplifting and disturbing, Prof Kassell says.\n\n\"In one way, it's a really horrible view - but on another, there is this nice pastoral society,\" she says.\n\nIt also shows a very different worldview, living close to the natural environment and suffused deeply in religion and mystical beliefs.\n\nThere was no gap between the \"spiritual and the natural\", Prof Kassell says, and people moved between the two realms.\n\nThe transcriptions so far are the \"tip of the iceberg\", she adds. There are \"thousands of pages of cryptic scrawl full of astral symbols\" and transcribing the whole collection would take another 20 years.", "Helen Kennett said she spoke to a knifeman with \"evil\" in his eyes after he stabbed a waiter\n\nAn off-duty nurse asked one of the London Bridge attackers what was wrong with him before he stabbed her in the neck, an inquest has heard.\n\nHelen Kennett told the Old Bailey she was trying to help Alexandre Pigeard, who was fatally wounded, when she was confronted by his \"evil-eyed\" attacker.\n\nWhen she spoke to him, he replied, \"no, what's wrong with you?\" before wounding her too.\n\nEight people were killed in the attacks on the night of 3 June 2017.\n\n\"I was convinced I was going to die but I didn't want to die there,\" Ms Kennett told the court.\n\n\"I wanted to die round the corner with my family.\"\n\nMs Kennett had been drinking prosecco to celebrate her birthday with her mother and sister in the courtyard of Boro Bistro, at the southern end of London Bridge.\n\nMinutes after she saw the attackers' van plough into railings above where they were sitting, she noticed a waiter, Mr Pigeard, was bleeding.\n\nShe told the court she then saw the man holding a knife behind Mr Pigeard, describing him as having an \"empty\", \"soulless\" and \"evil\" look in his eyes.\n\n\"Before I could process what I was seeing was happening... he stabbed me in the neck to the left side,\" she said.\n\nAlexandre Pigeard had been working as a waiter\n\nAlthough she escaped with her family, she did not get to an ambulance for two hours, the inquest heard.\n\nEight people, including Mr Pigeard, who were killed by three men who drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThe victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAnother witness told the court he believed the man who killed Mr Pigeard was Rachid Redouane.\n\nGeoffrey Huet said he locked eyes with the attacker as he dealt what looked like the fatal blow to Mr Pigeard.\n\n\"He had this craziness in his eyes, this anger. He was furious,\" Mr Huet added.\n\nThe witness ran away and tried to get help, the court heard.\n\nRedouane, 30, was shot dead by police minutes later, alongside his accomplices Khuram Butt and Youssef Zaghba.\n\nAnother witness told the court she too saw Mr Pigeard being wounded as she celebrated a friend's birthday.\n\nAndzelika Abokaityte said in a statement read to the court that she watched as the \"evil and smiling\" attacker grabbed hold of Mr Pigeard before stabbing him from behind.\n\n\"As he was stabbed, the attacker was looking around as if to find the next person to stab.\"\n\n\"I remember thinking: 'I'm going to die'\", the court heard.", "Protesters are opposed to the teaching of LGBT equality in schools\n\nSchools across England have received letters opposing the teaching of relationships and sex education (RSE) and LGBT equality, the BBC has learned.\n\nProtests started in Birmingham and letters, predominantly from conservative Muslims, have been sent to a number of schools elsewhere.\n\nOne campaigner said relationship lessons due to start in schools in 2020 \"proselytise a homosexual way of life\".\n\nSupporters of the lessons said there was a \"lot of misinformation\".\n\nLetters opposing the lessons have been sent to schools in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Croydon, Ealing, Manchester, Northampton and Nottingham, BBC Newsnight has discovered.\n\nSome have also been sent from Christian parents in Kent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lead campaigner Amir Ahmed says morally, homosexuality is not \"a valid sexual relationship\"\n\nMainly Muslim families have been protesting outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham after pupils were given books featuring transgender children and gay families.\n\nProtest leader Shakeel Afsar: \"All we are concerned [about] is we are having our children come home with material that contradicts our moral values.\"\n\nAnother protester, Amir Ahmed, said: \"It's not about gay lesbian rights and equality. This is purely about proselytising a homosexual way of life to children.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed children could be \"recruited to be gay\", Mr Ahmed said: \"You can condition them to accept this as being a normal way of life and it makes the children more promiscuous as they grow older.\"\n\nHe added: \"Whether they become gay or not, they can still enter into gay relationships.\n\n\"They want to convert you, they want to convert your morality and that's just wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that some parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park headteacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson said she had spoken with parents, but days later leaflets circulated accusing the school of \"lying\" and having a \"gay ethos\".\n\nProtesters have insisted they are not homophobic, but the BBC has seen Whatsapp groups with large numbers of contributors in which some people use homophobic language.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, who is openly gay and co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, said: \"When you are standing alongside people talking about the proselytising of children, a homosexual agenda, promiscuity, I'm afraid you're homophobic.\"\n\nShaykh Ibrahim Mogra said there had been a lot of misinformation about the lessons\n\nShaykh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam from Leicester, said he was \"disappointed\" with the reaction of the protesters.\n\nHe said: \"We really need to calm down and think very carefully, it is a very very sensitive topic.\"\n\nShaykh Mogra said Mr Ahmed's use of the word \"proselytising\" was very unfortunate, adding: \"I don't believe there is an active effort on the part of LGBT communities to try and convert me and others to become gay people. It's something you don't choose into or opt out of.\n\n\"There is a lot of misinformation. It is not about promoting [homosexuality], it's about making our children aware.\n\n\"The whole driver for this is not the promotion of the LGBT agenda, it's about inclusivity and to ensure the bullying of such communities is ended.\"\n\nAaliyah Hussain said there is not a fight between religion and equality\n\nAaliyah Hussain, of Women Empowered against Racism, Injustice, Sexism and Extremism, said she had come across concerns in Bristol from parents and schools.\n\nShe said some children have been withdrawn from school and there are threats to remove others.\n\nMs Hussain said the \"anxiety\" is caused by the spread of information on social media, but it was \"absolutely not the case\" that this was division between religion and equality.\n\nShe said: \"It's very dangerous to go down that road.\n\n\"This idea that it is religion versus equality is a misnomer because Muslims believe in equality and freedom as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The woman in charge of the trust running Parkfield school defends its LGBT rights teaching\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"Pupils should be taught about the society in which they are growing up.\n\n\"These subjects are designed to foster respect for others and for difference, and educate pupils about healthy relationships.\"\n\nCompulsory relationship and sex education lessons are due to start in all secondary schools in England from September 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anne and Anders Holch Povlsen wrote an open letter to express their gratitude\n\nDanish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne have thanked the people of Scotland for their \"words of comfort\" after three of their four children died in the Sri Lanka attacks.\n\nThe couple are thought to be Scotland's largest landowners.\n\nTheir children Alfred, five, Agnes, 12 and Alma, 15, were among more than 250 people killed in the bombing attacks on churches and hotels in April.\n\nThe couple said the messages they had received had touched their hearts.\n\nTheir children died when Islamist extremists targeted the hotel they were staying in, the Shangri La in Colombo, during the attacks on Easter Sunday. Churches and other hotels were also targeted.\n\nIn full page adverts, taken out in The Scotsman and Press and Journal newspapers, Mr and Mrs Povlsen said: \"We extend our heartfelt gratitude for the condolences, sympathy and many warming thoughts we have received following the tragic loss of our three beloved and beautiful children, Alfred, Agnes and Alma.\n\n\"The Scottish Highlands has granted us abiding, special memories for our family.\n\n\"It is for this reason that many of the words of comfort have fortified us and touched our hearts.\"\n\nCitizens gathered in Stavtrup, near Aarhus in Denmark, to remember the victims\n\nTributes were left in front of the office of clothing chain Bestseller\n\nThe couple said that their thoughts and condolences also went to the many other innocent families who lost loved ones in the tragedy in Sri Lanka.\n\nThey added: \"In the immense sadness, we are genuinely grateful that we remain united with our daughter, Astrid.\n\n\"The loving memory of our three children, their wonderful spirit and souls will always be in our hearts.\"\n\nMr Holch Povlsen, who is the biggest single shareholder in the clothing giant Asos and also owns the international clothing chain Bestseller, is said to own more than 220,000 acres across the Highlands, including Aldourie Castle.", "The Labour Party is unveiling plans to take the National Grid into public ownership.\n\nIt wants to create a National Energy Agency to own and maintain transmission infrastructure.\n\nLabour said its nationalisation pledge would \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution\" and tackle climate change.\n\nBut National Grid - the largest transmitter of electricity and gas in Britain - said the proposal was the \"last thing\" that was needed.\n\nThe firm, which does not operate in Northern Ireland, said the Labour plan would hinder the shift to green energy.\n\nLabour also set out plans to put solar panels on nearly two million homes.\n\nIts proposals are contained in a document entitled Bringing Energy Home, due to be presented on Thursday by leader Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long Bailey, shadow energy secretary.\n\nInstalling solar panels on social homes and those with low-incomes is part of Labour's plan to \"usher in a Green Industrial Revolution in housing, transport and industry - creating over 400,000 jobs and tackling climate change\".\n\nLabour said the solar panels would reduce fuel bills, and that it would also offer interest-free loans, grants and make changes to regulations to help an additional 750,000 properties install solar panels.\n\nUnused electricity would be used by the National Grid, which would be nationalised.\n\n\"Energy networks that are owned by the public and responsive to the public interest will be able to prioritise tackling climate change, fuel poverty and security of supply over profit extraction, while working with energy unions to support energy workers through the transition,\" Labour said.\n\nBut National Grid said the plan would \"delay the huge amount of progress and investment that is already helping to make this country a leader in the move to green energy\".\n\n\"At a time when there is increased urgency to meet the challenges of climate change, the last thing that is needed is the enormous distraction, cost and complexity contained in these plans,\" it added.\n\nNational Grid chief executive John Pettigrew told the BBC's Today programme: \"We do not believe the Labour proposals are in the interests of customers.\"\n\nHe defended National Grid's record, saying it was \"in the middle of a huge transformation\" and \"investing hugely in the network\".\n\nHe said Labour had to consider what problem it was looking to solve.\n\nLabour is committed to generating at least 60% of the UK's electricity and heat from renewable and low-carbon sources by 2030.\n\nIt would take the four licensed and regulated electricity and gas transmission companies, including National Grid Electricity and National Grid Gas, back into public ownership and \"replace existing private monopolies with publicly owned and locally run institutions\".\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"Our Green Industrial Revolution will benefit working-class people with cheaper energy bills, more rewarding well-paid jobs, and new industries to revive the parts of our country that have been held back for far too long.\"\n\nHowever, Dan Neidle, a partner at law firm Clifford Chance, told the BBC that Labour's nationalisation plans could contravene international law, because of suggestions that it would not necessarily pay stock market value to buy back the assets.\n\nHe said that in every UK privatisation so far, the state paid market value, so it was not up to Labour to decide what was a fair price.\n\n\"That's not what the UK precedent is and that's not what international law says,\" he says.\n\n\"The courts have never said that's acceptable,\" he added. With the rare exception of Venezuela, \"you have to look quite hard for governments that have done that\".\n\nIf the UK did this, it might struggle to raise money in the bond market, he suggested.\n\nThe Conservative's vice-chairman for policy, Chris Philp, said Labour's \"ideological plan for the state to seize these companies would cost an eye-watering £100bn and saddle taxpayers with their debts\".\n\n\"It would leave politicians in Westminster in charge of keeping the lights on and leave customers with nowhere else to turn,\" he added.\n\n\"With no credible plan for how Labour would pay for this, more borrowing and tax hikes would be inevitable.\"", "Tiffany Gillard and James Francis' son Jenson died 40 minutes after he was born in June last year\n\nA newborn baby died due to a number of \"systemic failures\" in his care at a Welsh hospital, a coroner has said.\n\nReturning a narrative verdict, coroner David Regan found Jenson James Francis died 40 minutes after he was born.\n\nHis mother Tiffany Gillard gave birth to him at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on 21 June 2018.\n\nThe head of midwifery at Cwm Taf health board said a number of changes had since been implemented. Its maternity services are in special measures.\n\nMs Gillard told the inquest that when she was told what had happened, she was left \"shocked and numb\".\n\nMr Regan found Jenson died of cardiopulmonary failure due to \"a failure to deliver him in good time, exposing him to the effects of developing maternal sepsis\".\n\nPontypridd Coroner's Court heard evidence from Dr Pina Amin, the obstetric lead at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff, who was asked to look at the case.\n\nReferring to the cardiotocography (CTG) reading - a recording of the foetal heartbeat and uterine contractions - Dr Amin indicated a caesarean section delivery should have been offered to the mother about six hours before the baby was actually delivered at 05:20 BST.\n\nThe CTG was \"abnormal\" from 22:21 on 20 June which Dr Amin said \"would tell me this baby is not happy\".\n\nThe Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil has been at the centre of a damning report about maternity services\n\nShe suggested CTG training in Cwm Taf health board \"needs to be such that it's actually fit for purpose\".\n\nShe told the hearing \"ineffective communication\" resulted in \"a dysfunctional team without a clear leader\".\n\nDr Amin interviewed staff on the maternity unit ahead of the inquest and said they appeared to have a reluctance to ask for help because \"maybe they might be seen as not being able to cope\".\n\nAnother independent expert who was asked to review the case said there were \"systemic issues\" which led to baby Jenson's death.\n\nDr Helen Claire Francis, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at UHW, said \"incorrect interpretation\" of the CTG readings \"played a big role\".\n\nDr Francis said when a second opinion on the CTG readings was sought, \"it wasn't always correct\".\n\nShe also raised concerns that there was \"no thought\" to escalate to senior members of the clinical team.\n\nAlthough she acknowledged a midwife might not have been as skilled as senior member of the team, Dr Francis said the CTG \"should have been picked up\" over the course of the evening.\n\nThe inquest also heard from Cwm Taf health board's head of midwifery, Kerri Eilertsen-Feeney.\n\nShe told the inquest that training for her staff \"is the same as what is offered across Wales\", adding that a number of changes had been implemented prior to the publication of the critical report.\n\nMs Eilertsen-Feeney said work was under way to change the culture within the health board so junior staff would feel able to \"jump call or query senior staff\".\n\n\"But cultural changes can't happen over night,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All landing cards for international passengers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from Monday.\n\nLanding cards are currently filled in by passengers arriving by air or sea from outside the European Economic Area.\n\nBorder Force director general Paul Lincoln, in a letter to staff, said it would \"help meet the challenge of growing passenger numbers\".\n\nAround 16 million landing cards are issued every year and they are used to record what is said to border staff on arrival, as well as the reasons for travel and conditions of entry.\n\nThe Home Office had agreed to scrap them for seven countries, including the US and Australia, from June, but has now decided to go further.\n\nA document from officials to Border Force staff, seen by the BBC, says much of the data collected by paper landing cards will soon be available digitally.\n\nIt adds that the withdrawal of the cards will enable staff to \"focus more on your interaction with passengers\".\n\nBut Immigration Service Union general secretary, Lucy Moreton, accused the Home Office of \"ignoring\" warnings from experienced staff as to the longer-term impact of getting rid of landing cards.\n\nShe said that the union had been assured that scrapping them would not happen until new technology was in place to record international arrivals.\n\n\"Although in most cases landing cards are retained for purely statistical reasons they do contain the only record of what was said to an officer on arrival,\" she said.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Lincoln said he recognised concerns about the scheme.\n\nBut he added: \"These changes will enable frontline officers to focus their skills and time on border security issues and on cohorts who present the greatest risk of immigration abuse.\"\n\nThe decision to scrap landing cards comes after the government announced it was extending the use of e-gates at UK borders to citizens of the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.\n\nCurrently the gates, which scan e-passports, are reserved for European Economic Area citizens.", "Online fashion brand Oh Polly has said sorry for making a separate Instagram account for plus-sized models.\n\n\"Oh Polly Inclusive\" was spotted by people including YouTuber Alissa Ashley, who called it \"segregation\".\n\nThe company initially defended the decision in a tweet, saying it was \"celebrating a wider range of people in our community\".\n\nBut the new account has now been taken down and the brand has apologised for \"a serious error of judgement\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alissa Ashley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlissa, who has almost two million subscribers on YouTube, tweeted: \"What makes these women not suitable for your main page @ohpolly? Ohpollyinclusive?? Who approved this?\n\n\"Like imagine calling yourselves inclusive and not wanting to post women that don't fit your 'aesthetic' on your brand page lmao,\" she wrote.\n\nAnother Twitter user commented: \"If you wanted to be 'inclusive' wouldn't you put these beautiful women on your main page? Just a question.\"\n\nAnother felt that the brand had missed the point of diversity entirely.\n\n\"This is soo bizarre!! @ohpolly @ohpollyhelp you could have just done without the page? If you truly wanted to be inclusive you would feature them on your main page?? It's disgusting. People are so focused on appearing to be inclusive that they miss the point.\"\n\nOh Polly have dressed celebrities like Jordyn Woods\n\nThe Oh Polly Inclusive account also featured the phrase \"Zero % Tolerance, 100% inclusive\", which left some confused.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow beauty guru Jackie Aina simply tweeted the phrase \"Zero% tolerance\" - and in a different post said: \"I see what they're trying to do but I'm not a fan of this... strategy.\"\n\nIn a statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, a spokesperson for Oh Polly said: \"We established a new page with the specific aim of allowing our customers to discuss a wider range of issues.\n\n\"Improving diversity remains an absolute priority for us across all of our channels.\n\n\"We promise to continue listening to everyone in the Oh Polly community and, most importantly, learn from this mistake.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jeremy Kyle at MediaCityUK in Salford, where his show was filmed\n\nThe welfare of guests on TV shows is to be scrutinised by MPs and regulators in the wake of the death of a man who appeared on The Jeremy Kyle Show.\n\nITV has cancelled the daytime programme following the death of Steve Dymond.\n\nThe Commons media select committee is to investigate whether TV companies give guests enough support and media regulator Ofcom is examining whether to update its code of conduct.\n\nMr Kyle told the Sun he was \"utterly devastated by the recent events\".\n\nIn a statement he said: \"Myself and the production team I have worked with for the last 14 years are all utterly devastated by the recent events.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Steve's family and friends at this incredibly sad time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Jeremy Kyle guest Danny Fuller: \"You've been used and abused and that's it\"\n\nMr Dymond was found dead on 9 May, a week after filming the show, during which he took a lie detector test.\n\nOfcom has told ITV to report back the initial findings from its investigation into Mr Dymond's participation in programme by Monday.\n\n\"While ITV has decided to cancel the programme, its investigation into what happened is continuing and we will review the findings carefully,\" the Ofcom spokesperson said.\n\nITV announced on Wednesday that The Jeremy Kyle Show had been axed permanently. Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the decision was a result of the \"gravity of recent events\".\n\nShe said: \"The Jeremy Kyle Show has had a loyal audience and has been made by a dedicated production team for 14 years, but now is the right time for the show to end.\"\n\nThere are now questions about how participants are looked after across the TV industry. Love Island, another ITV show, has also come under scrutiny after the deaths of two former contestants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Love Island contestant Zara Holland on what it's like inside the villa\n\nDamian Collins MP, chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, said: \"There needs to be an independent review of the duty of care TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows.\n\n\"Programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show risk putting people who might be vulnerable on to a public stage at a point in their lives when they are unable to foresee the consequences, either for themselves or their families.\n\n\"With an increasing demand for this type of programming, we'll be examining broadcasting regulation in this area - is it fit for purpose?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe committee will scrutinise the psychological support provided to participants and ask who should be responsible for monitoring whether duty of care policies are being effectively applied.\n\nIt will also look at whether shows put pressure on participants to exhibit \"more extreme behaviour\".\n\nOfcom said it was \"vital\" that people taking part in reality and factual shows were properly looked after, and its broadcasting code of conduct could include new protections for them.\n\n\"We're examining whether more can be done to safeguard the welfare of those people, similar to the duty of care we have in the broadcasting code to protect under-18s,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations in the UK which offer advice and support, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Andy Murray receives his knighthood from Prince Charles at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace\n\nSir Andy Murray has received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace - more than two years after he was awarded the honour.\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion was named in the Queen's New Years Honours in 2016, following his second Wimbledon win and second Olympic gold.\n\nSir Andy said he was \"very proud\" to receive the honour.\n\nThe 32-year-old added: \"It's a nice day to spend with my family - my wife and parents are here.\"\n\nHe said he would like to have brought his children to the ceremony, but felt that three-year-old Sophia Olivia and 18-month-old Edie were too young.\n\n\"I'll show them the medal when I get home,\" he said.\n\nSir Andy plans to retire after this year's Wimbledon because of injury.\n\nHowever, it is still unclear if the former world number one will compete in the tournament in London as he continues his rehabilitation following a successful hip surgery.\n\nSir Andy has said he feels no pressure to return to the game while his mother Judy said her son was \"cautiously optimistic\" about returning to action.\n\nThe Dunblane tennis star collected the award at an investiture ceremony conducted by the Prince of Wales.\n\nMurray has twice won Wimbledon as well as Olympic gold in London and Rio\n\nSir Andy, who is a Unicef UK ambassador, received the knighthood for services to tennis and charity.\n\nThursday's ceremony also featured novelist Sir Philip Pullman, who was knighted for his services to literature.\n\nBroadcaster Chris Packham was awarded a CBE for services to nature conservation.\n\nThe BBC Springwatch presenter said the honour was a \"silent thanks\" from the animals he has defended, after he was named on the New Years Honours list in 2018.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA record number of footballers are seeking mental health support, according to the Professional Footballers' Association.\n\nPFA director of player welfare Michael Bennett expects the organisation to help \"double or treble\" the number of players in 2019 than it did in 2018.\n\nSince January, 355 professionals have accessed therapy - the highest number ever recorded by the end of a season.\n\nThe figure for the whole of 2018 was 438, having risen from 160 in 2016.\n\nBennett says the increase is \"a good thing\" - as it shows increased trust in the PFA - rather than a growing problem.\n\nHe expects to see a spike in the number of players seeking help in the coming weeks as clubs decide who will not be retained for next season.\n\n\"When players go back to pre-season, that's when those who haven't got contracts realise they're struggling mentally, emotionally and financially,\" Bennett, who played professionally for several clubs, including Charlton Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion, told The Next Episode podcast.\n\nSo what's it like to get released? And what support is out there when you do?\n• None Listen to The Next Episode on BBC Sounds\n\n'I think they thought I was going to kill myself'\n\nOlu Maintain was released by a Premier League side at 18. He'd been with the club since he was seven.\n\n\"I went crazy, because I thought it was a done thing,\" he says. \"I was training with the first team. I wasn't even playing with a youth team.\n\n\"I'd spent my whole life at one place. How the hell do you expect me to mentally prepare?\"\n\nMaintain was told after a training session that he was not going to be kept on.\n\n\"It was a blur. I just remember walking out, I didn't even shower, just walked out,\" he says.\n\n\"I got my clothes on, got in my car and drove off. Then the head of the academy rang me because I think he thought I was going to kill myself or do something crazy.\n\n\"I spent my whole life there. They'd watched me grow up. I just couldn't accept it.\"\n\nMaintain says he did get support from the club's coaches, but still found it tough.\n\n\"Mentally I wasn't in the space to hear anything from anyone,\" he says.\n\n\"That was the root of why my life spiralled out of control. A lot of my depression, a lot of mental health and all that stuff was me not dealing with rejection then.\"\n\nAlthough Maintain went on to sign for Norwich and Falkirk, he feels the impact of that early rejection stayed with him.\n\n\"You're rubbish - that's how I took it. Point blank, you're not good enough for anything. Relationships, friendships, jobs,\" he adds.\n\n\"I'll start something now and never finish it. I can never see stuff through because I'm thinking it's just too good to be true.\n\n\"I'm worried about what people think. Worried about how people perceive me.\"\n\nSince leaving the professional game, Maintain has begun writing a comedy series.\n\nHe still plays semi-professional football for Woking - who have just been promoted to the National League - but says the game still has a long way to go in tackling the mental health problems of some of its players.\n\n\"No-one wants to talk about emotions, and if you do you're soft,\" he says.\n\n'I've seen players my age go to jail'\n\nAndy Ali has been at the academies of four different clubs.\n\n\"I never actually had a contract,\" says the 21-year-old. \"I was one of those players who was in for maybe two or three months.\"\n\nAt 16, Ali was at the academy of a Championship club and thought he had finally done enough to earn a pro contract.\n\n\"I thought this was finally the one that was going to pay off, so when they eventually told me [he was being released], I honestly I couldn't see a way forward,\" he says.\n\n\"I was thinking, 'how am I going to tell people what's happened?'\n\n\"No-one's your friend. One or two people might take a liking to you, but the system isn't there for you.\"\n\nAbout 12,000 boys are in academies at any one time, and mental health provisions are being stepped up.\n\nAny 16-year-old at a club has to carry on with some kind of education, and the PFA visits all 92 English league clubs to give workshops on mental health and emotional well-being.\n\nThe English Football League is halfway through a two-year partnership with mental health charity Mind, and on Wednesday the Football Association launched a new campaign using football to \"generate the biggest ever conversation around mental health\".\n\nAli is all too aware of the impact rejection can have on young players' lives.\n\n\"I've seen friends who were probably the best at football in my area go to jail,\" he says.\n\n\"I know one guy who made it as a pro at 18 and now he's in jail because he got released. He just couldn't accept that.\"\n\n'You have to be strong mentally to play the game'\n\nMaz Bettache manages Rising Ballers, a Sunday league team in west London including several players released by professional clubs.\n\n\"I was lucky enough to be part of a Premier League club from the age of nine up to 18 but unfortunately I didn't get a professional contract,\" he says.\n\n\"It didn't work out, but I bounced back and it's only made me a better person on and off the pitch.\"\n\nThe players at Rising Ballers say it feels a lot different to the professional academies they were at, in terms of the support network.\n\n\"When players get released, their life changes very, very quickly and it's hard to take,\" Bettache says.\n\n\"I'm just trying to create an environment for players to enjoy their football, showcase their talent and put it out there for the whole world to see.\"\n\nRising Ballers film all their games and upload them to YouTube. Their social media following is growing, and more and more scouts from professional clubs are watching the team, who are on a 21-game unbeaten run.\n\n\"That time when players have been told that they're not getting a professional contract is very crucial,\" says Bettache.\n\n\"It's about getting them opportunities with other clubs, opportunities away from football, different career paths and helping them, really helping them build up as a person again.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by mental health issue, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline", "But the paragraph tucked into the short formal letter from Sir Graham Brady to Tory MPs all but marks the end of Theresa May's premiership and the beginning of the official hunt for the next leader of the country.\n\nAfter the lines in the short note restate the prime minister's determination to get Brexit done, it confirms in black and white that after the next big vote, in the first week of June, the prime minister will make plans with the party for choosing a successor.\n\nRight now, the expectation is that vote will be lost (although it is not impossible, of course, that Number 10 could turn it round).\n\nAnd the conversation that's been arranged won't just be a gentle chat about what to do next.\n\nSenior sources have told me that means, even though the letter doesn't spell it out, that if her Brexit plan is defeated again, Mrs May will announce she is going.\n\nOne source said it was \"inconceivable\" to imagine that she could stay on in those circumstances.\n\nA cabinet minister told me it would be \"out of the question\".\n\nAnd one of her fiercest allies said: \"I don't want her to, but the pressure will be absolutely immense.\"\n\nOne insider close to Mrs May told me they hoped under this timetable that the prime minister could avoid the humiliation of the grassroots of her party meeting to express their lack of confidence in her at a huge meeting planned for the middle of June, which would be \"horrendous\".\n\nA minister said all they wanted now was to make sure \"they find a dignified exit for her\".\n\nGiven that politics moves at hyperspeed, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the prime minister will find some way of passing the Brexit bill.\n\nMrs May has survived through almost impossible circumstances, time and time again.\n\nAs you know, if you've been paying attention to what we've been discussing here in the last couple of weeks (!), some of her inner circle still believe that there is a chance, even if it's slim, of agreeing some kind of process with the Labour party that allows the bill to pass.\n\nAnd some ministers hope that terrible results for both the main parties in the European elections could spook MPs, somehow, into getting behind the bill in the end.\n\nBut, given that one of the main obstacles to Labour agreeing a deal with Mrs May was its fear that she wouldn't hang around for long, the fact that she has all but confirmed her departure before the summer makes an agreement even harder to see.\n\nWe are witnessing, therefore, the Tories' decades-old agonies over Europe ending the time in Number 10 of another prime minister.\n\nAnd like it or not, it's the issue that's likely over the next few months to shape how the party selects the next.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe family of a County Down baby waiting for a heart transplant are asking parents to consider registering their children as organ donors.\n\nSeven-month-old Ollie Grant has spent most of his life in hospital after being diagnosed with a heart condition.\n\nHis mother Riona Grant said they will do \"everything we can to get him a new heart and a new life\".\n\nSome 181 children in the UK are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and 42 are waiting for a new heart.\n\nNHS Blood and Transplant said 17 children died in 2017/18 while waiting for an organ donor.\n\nOllie's father Damien said thinking about registering a child was something many parents would not think about.\n\n\"But from the point of view of a child needing a transplant, maybe people would consider it,\" he added.\n\nWhile not wishing such a tragedy on any family, Riona said she never thought they would be in this position.\n\n\"No one ever does, but we have to do everything we can for Ollie because he's just a baby and we have to speak for him,\" she added.\n\nPaediatric surgeon Tim Jones said more needs to be done to increase availability of organs\n\nAbout 57 donors were found last year leading to 200 transplant operations.\n\nTim Jones, a consultant paediatric surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital who has been treating Ollie, said more had to be done to increase the availability of organs.\n\n\"The biggest problem we have is that there are far fewer children donating organs,\" he explained.\n\n\"If we had more, then children like Ollie would have a better chance.\n\n\"The problem is we are asking families to do that at a time of great tragedy so we would appeal to people to have the conversation now.\n\n\"For most people it will never be an issue, but it would make a difference.\"\n\nOllie has already had two heart operations and suffered a stroke but his family said he has fought back.\n\n\"We have been on that tightrope so many times,\" said Mr Grant.\n\n\"He is a happy and smiling baby and such a character, but we know that it could go the other way.\n\n\"That's always in the back of your mind and it means you can never settle,\" he said.\n\nMrs Grant said the condition was diagnosed at her 20-week scan and they have been in shock since, experiencing the highs and lows of looking after a sick baby.\n\n\"It's the rollercoaster but the staff at the hospital and our families have been brilliant.\n\n\"It's Ollie who keeps us going,\" she explained.\n\nYou can find out more information about organ donation on 0300 123 23 23 or at nidirect.gov.uk.\n\nSee more of Ollie's story on BBC Newsline on BBC One NI at 18:30 BST on 16 May.", "Talks to avert the collapse of British Steel will resume later on Friday after the firm secured funds to stay afloat until the end of May.\n\nSources close to owners Greybull Capital say its future will be discussed at \"ministerial level\".\n\nBritish Steel has admitted it needs further financial support from the government to help it address \"Brexit-related issues\".\n\nOne possibility is a £75m government lifeline to the company.\n\nOtherwise, ministers can decide to nationalise the firm or see it fall into administration.\n\nOn Thursday, British Steel said it had the backing of shareholders and lenders and that operations continued as usual while it sought a \"permanent solution\" to its financial troubles.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"As the business navigates the significant uncertainties caused by Brexit, and explores options to strengthen the business for the long term, we are pleased to confirm that we have the required liquidity while we work towards a permanent solution.\"\n\nBritish Steel is the UK's second largest steel firm, employing 4,500 people and about 20,000‎ indirectly via its supply chain.\n\nIn April, the firm was forced to borrow £100m from the government to pay an EU carbon bill, so it could avoid a steep fine.\n\nHowever, concerns about its future were raised this week after Sky News reported that insolvency experts had been lined up in case the firm could not secure further government funding.\n\nIt is understood that along with administration, nationalisation or a management buyout are being discussed as fall-back options for the company.\n\nBritish Steel's troubles have been linked to a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over the Brexit process.\n\nThe firm has also been struggling with the weakness of the pound since the EU referendum in June 2016 and the escalating trade US-China trade war.\n\nGreybull Capital, a private equity firm, rescued Tata Steel's long products business during the depths of the steel crisis in 2016, saving more than 4,000 jobs.\n\nIt has since rebranded the company as British Steel and recently returned it to profit.\n\nThe concerns come days after Tata signalled its planned merger with German rival Thyssenkrupp was off, raising fresh doubts about its Port Talbot site.\n\nTata, which admitted it is facing tough operating conditions in the UK, promised to keep its UK plants running, but only if they could be profitable.", "Darcy-May Elm has been described as an \"fun ray of sunshine\"\n\nA four-year-old girl was killed when her father crashed the family car while trying to cross a dual carriageway.\n\nDarcy-May Elm from Dorset died in the two-car crash on the A40 between Carmarthen and St Clears in October.\n\nThe inquest was told the primary cause of the accident was driver error by her father, Daniel Elm.\n\nHe had crossed over from the westbound carriageway to an unclassified road next to the eastbound carriageway.\n\nHe then performed a U-turn and attempted to rejoin the westbound carriageway by crossing the eastbound road, but was struck by a Skoda car before reaching the central reservation.\n\nThe court in Milford Haven heard evidence from Aled Thomas, a forensic collision investigator, who said the other driver had \"very little time to react\" before the crash.\n\nMr Elm subsequently told police he had not spotted the Skoda travelling down the eastbound carriageway.\n\nThe weather and road conditions were good on the day of the crash, the inquest heard.\n\nDarcy-May died from a blunt injury to her neck and chest, which caused a fracture dislocation of her neck.\n\nShe was sitting the rear offside passenger seat of the Micra and her mother was in the front passenger seat.\n\nCoroner Mark Layton described her death as a \"dreadful tragedy\" and concluded she had died as a result of a road traffic collision.\n\nHe said that the collision occurred from a \"misjudged manoeuvre\".\n\nDarcy-May was taken to Glangwili Hospital but later passed away.\n\nThe coroner's officer, Hayley Rogers, told the court that Daniel Elm suffered life-changing injuries in the \"high impact collision\" and his wife, Danielle, had suffered \"life-threatening injuries\" for which she is still in hospital.\n\nIn a family tribute read to the court, Darcy-May was described as a \"beautiful, loving, caring girl who was much loved, adored by her grandparents.\n\n\"She is, and will be, missed. She was our fun ray of sunshine.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLucky diners were accidentally served a £4,500 bottle of red wine at a restaurant.\n\nHawksmoor Manchester said on Twitter it hoped the customers had enjoyed their evening after being given the pricey 2001 bottle of Chateau le Pin Pomerol.\n\nThe diners ordered a £260 Bordeaux but received the bottle \"of the same vintage\" which was 17 times the price.\n\nA \"mortified\" staff member who made the error has been urged to keep their \"chin up\" as \"one-off mistakes happen\".\n\nIt was only afterwards that the restaurant's manager realised the mistake, a spokesman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe customers ordered a bottle of the 2001 Chateau Pichon Longueville Contesse de Lalande, which costs £260.\n\nHawksmoor founder Will Beckett said a manager from another branch had been helping out and offered to find the wine for a waitress, but picked up the wrong bottle.\n\nThe restaurant has subsequently posted a picture on Twitter of the two offending bottles side by side, with the caption \"they look pretty similar OK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Hawksmoor Manchester This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe diners, who were eating at the bar, were lucky enough to be served \"something spectacular\" and ordered a second bottle so clearly enjoyed it, according to Mr Beckett.\n\n\"At that kind of level you're into a rarity, a flavour profile you won't find anywhere else,\" he said.\n\nThey did not realise they had quaffed a £4,500 bottle, while the second bottle they asked for was unavailable.\n\nMr Beckett said the staff member involved was \"brilliant, and we know she is brilliant\" so there was no point criticising her for a one-off mistake.\n\n\"I am going to tease her for this when she stops being so mortified,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Cult Wines online tasting guide, only 500 cases of the 2001 Chateau le Pin Pomerol were made.\n\nIt describes the vintage as a \"tremendous effort\", adding: \"Its deep ruby/plum/purple colour is accompanied by an extraordinary perfume of creme de cassis, cherry liqueur, plums, liquorice, caramel, and sweet toast.\"\n\nReviews on the vivino.com website say the wine is \"legendary\" and \"mythical\".\n• None How can wine be worth £4,500?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oritse Williams has denied raping the woman after a concert in December 2016\n\nA woman who claims she was raped by ex-JLS star Oritse Williams has denied going to his hotel room and asking him to have sex.\n\nThe singer, 32, denies raping the woman after a concert in Wolverhampton in December 2016.\n\nGiving evidence, the victim said she had \"bits and pieces\" memory of the night after drinking.\n\nThe former boy band member is standing trial alongside his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, 32.\n\nNagadhana, of Hounslow, west London, denies charges of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nProsecutors allege Williams, of Croydon, south London, \"jumped on the woman\" when she went to look for her phone.\n\nAt Wolverhampton Crown Court, Mark Cotter QC, representing Williams, asked the woman whether she could order her memories from the night.\n\nThe woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: \"It's not impossible, I could give it a good guess. The memories I do have, I know took place.\"\n\nShe said she remembered kissing a female friend in the nightclub and her friend \"grinding\" on Williams' lap, but had no memory of sitting on his lap herself before they travelled in a taxi to his hotel.\n\nThe complainant told jurors she returned to the singer's room to find her phone and not because she wanted to have sex with him.\n\nShe also rejected claims from Mr Cotter that it was a consensual encounter that ended when he was \"unable to perform\" sexually.\n\nThe court heard her friend asked somebody to get help, leading to police attending the hotel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four people have been killed after a small plane crashed three miles to the south of Dubai International Airport.\n\nThree Britons and a South African were aboard the UK-registered DA42 plane, UAE authorities said.\n\nThe four-seat plane was owned by Flight Calibration Services which is based at Shoreham Airport, in West Sussex.\n\nThe firm flies staff around the world to inspect and calibrate navigation aids - which include radars and landing systems for airports and airfields.\n\nThe General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says an investigation is under way.\n\nAccording to local media reports, the plane came down at approximately 19:30 local time, killing a pilot, a co-pilot and two passengers.\n\nFlights were delayed and diverted as the airport - one of the world's busiest, based on international passenger traffic - was closed for 45 minutes.\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"We are working closely with the Emirati authorities following reports of a small aircraft crash in Dubai.\"\n\nUS engineering and aerospace company Honeywell said it had hired Flight Calibration Services and the DA42 plane for work in Dubai.\n\nIn a statement, Honeywell said: \"We are deeply saddened by today's plane crash in Dubai, and our heartfelt condolences are with the victims' families.\"", "Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has announced plans to create 500 high-skilled jobs at a new digital tech hub in Edinburgh.\n\nThe bank has started recruiting software engineers and data scientists for the hub, which will be based at its Scottish Widows' headquarters.\n\nThe new roles will be phased in over the next 18 months.\n\nLBG said it was responding to a shift in customer behaviour towards digital services.\n\nThe hub will be used to develop new technology for Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Scottish Widows customers.\n\nThe move is part of a £3bn investment announced by Lloyds last year to overhaul its digital services.\n\nPhilip Grant said the group's tech labs were \"designing what customers will need in the future\"\n\nMost high street banks, including Lloyds, have been shutting branches in recent years as more customers conduct their banking through apps or on the internet.\n\nLast year, the group earmarked more than 60 branches for closure, while in 2017 it closed dozens of Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax branches.\n\nLloyds said some of the roles at its new hub would be taken up by existing staff looking to upskill.\n\nPhilip Grant, chairman of LBG's Scottish executive committee, said the group was working to \"strengthen our tech-based talent pool in Scotland\".\n\nHe said: \"People's expectations are rising rapidly as they want the same experience they're used to with established digital brands.\n\n\"In our tech labs, we are designing what customers will need in the future, making products and services that can adapt to their lives and making it easier for them to connect with their finances.\"\n\nHe said: \"Edinburgh is fast becoming one of the UK's most competitive tech hubs, with growth in agile start-ups, offerings from its world-leading universities and new digital academies providing greater scale and choice for careers in the industry.\n\n\"Lloyds' investment will be a major boost towards growing the workforce of the future in Scotland, helping create a more dynamic and innovative side to its thriving financial sector.\"\n\nLloyds is already actively involved in the Edinburgh tech scene, regularly hosting digital academies and meet-ups including CodeClan and CodeBar, as well as partnerships with Fintech Scotland and HackerX.", "The activists are calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nClimate activists inside five large containers have blocked the entrances to BP's head office in central London.\n\nThe Greenpeace protesters used cranes to transport the heavy boxes into place at St James's Square in the early hours of the morning.\n\nOther campaigners abseiled down the side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nGreenpeace says those inside the containers have enough food and water to last them for several days.\n\nThe aim is to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said. BP's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nThe five containers were put in place during the early hours of the morning\n\nGreenpeace said it was carrying out the action to call on BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nOne campaigner, Morton Thaysen, told the BBC the group was planning a \"long-term occupation of BP's headquarters\".\n\nFour people have been arrested for aggravated trespass after some protesters scaled the building.\n\nOfficers from the Met Police are in St James's Square and said there had been no reported injuries.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nAs far as protests go, this doesn't have the energy of the recent Extinction Rebellion demonstrations that closed off main arteries in central London. Then, it was very difficult to avoid the sound systems and banners.\n\nThis time it's a very quiet protest tucked down a side street just off a main road leading to Piccadilly Circus. This has meant little disruption to businesses, shoppers and tourists.\n\nHowever it has disrupted the protesters' intended target, BP, as staff are unable to enter the building and have been told to work from home.\n\nThe boxes have been custom made to fit perfectly in the space in front of every entrance to BP's offices, other than the fire exit.\n\nInside each box are two Greenpeace protesters with more sitting on top, looking around.\n\nBut as the police have cordoned off the entire road, it is very difficult for people to see what's going on so you wonder how long the protest will have an impact.\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nA company employee said staff had not been told what was happening.\n\n\"I'm thinking to go home because it will take the police a while to get the protesters abseiling off the building,\" the staff member said.\n\nThe boxes were put in place using cranes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US decision to ban its companies from using foreign telecoms providers regarded as a security risk is the latest salvo apparently directed against Chinese tech giant Huawei.\n\nThe US has been at the forefront of an effort to restrict the use of Huawei equipment in 5G mobile networks, citing serious security issues.\n\nHuawei is now facing resistance from other governments over the risk that its technology could be used for espionage.\n\nSo which other countries are blocking Huawei's 5G technology, and which are allowing it to operate?\n\nThis is new technology, in its very early stages of implementation, and many countries are still deciding what role - if any - Huawei should play.\n\nBut Huawei says it has now signed more than 40 commercial 5G contracts around the world, including in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.\n\nAustralia effectively banned Huawei and another Chinese telecom firm, ZTE, last year when it applied national security rules to companies supplying equipment to telecoms firms.\n\nNew Zealand has blocked Huawei from supplying one mobile network with 5G equipment, but has not yet ruled out all Huawei 5G contracts completely.\n\nThese two countries, along with the UK and Canada, make up the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network with the US.\n\nThe UK is still reviewing its 5G telecoms policy and may allow Huawei to supply \"non-core\" 5G components, such as antenna masts.\n\nCanada is still weighing up its decision over Huawei.\n\nThe United States has effectively blocked all Huawei involvement in its 5G networks.\n\nSo far, no European country has formally blocked Huawei, and the majority of the company's current global 5G contracts are with companies operating within Europe.\n\nThe EU in March issued recommendations about 5G security, asking member states to review their networks by the end of June and report their findings to the EU Commission.\n\nDespite pressure from the United States, Germany has resisted a ban, and France has not indicated it plans to follow a tough line against the Chinese company.\n\nThe Netherlands' largest telecom firm, KPN, has already made clear that it would not allow Huawei to build its \"core\" 5G infrastructure, but it could supply other equipment considered less sensitive.\n\nThe Dutch government is expected to make a decision on using Huawei equipment by the end of June.\n\nA telecoms firm in Russia signed a deal with Huawei on 5G technology during a visit to the country in June by the Chinese president.\n\nSouth Korea launched commercial 5G services last month, and one of its three carriers has used 5G equipment supplied by Huawei.\n\n5G trials are due to be carried out in India later this year with Huawei one of the companies invited to take part.\n\nHowever, there are reports that India may limit Huawei's involvement in developing its 5G infrastructure.\n\nMalaysia has already made clear that Huawei can be involved in developing its 5G networks, with the prime minister visiting the company's office in Beijing in April.\n\nIn Indonesia, the country's telecoms minister said earlier this year that it could not afford to be \"paranoid\" over using Huawei technology.\n\nIn Thailand, Huawei has already launched a 5G test project.\n\nVietnam, which is developing a 5G network, has not officially banned Huawei, although one of the largest largest telecoms carriers is currently using Ericsson technology.\n\nJapan has blocked the use of Huawei equipment for 5G over security fears, although as in other countries, Huawei kit is part of the existing 4G network.\n\nThe growth of 5G is likely to lead to other opportunities for Huawei around the world.\n\nThe company says it already has 10 confirmed 5G contracts in the Middle East.\n\nThe African continent has not been in the forefront of early 5G adoption, but its more advanced economies provide potentially fertile markets.\n\nIn South Africa, for example, Huawei has already announced its involvement in a commercial 5G network in Johannesburg with the mobile data provider, Rain.\n\nAccording to one industry-wide body, there were more than 200 operators in 85 countries investing in 5G networks in some form or another by March this year.", "Robert F Smith, a technology investor and one of America's most prominent black philanthropists, was giving an address at Morehouse College, a historically all-male black college when he made the life-changing announcement.", "Children in Bishopbriggs are no longer banned from playing hopscotch\n\nResidents are claiming a victory for common sense after a ban on children drawing hopscotch grids was reversed.\n\nPeople living at a housing development in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, were stunned by a letter sent on Friday from factor Speirs Gumley.\n\nIt was from a local inspector who had noticed chalk drawings on the ground.\n\nThey were told \"if these children belong to your family they (should) refrain from this practice immediately.\"\n\nIt said the markings detracted from the overall appearance of the property.\n\nParents were angry that their children were being discouraged from playing outside and that such a harsh stance was being taken over a seemingly harmless game.\n\nDonald Macdonald, chairman of the local Woodhill Residents Group, told the BBC Scotland news website: \"It seemed to be a bit mean-spirited.\n\n\"We want children to be outdoors not stuck in front of a screen. This would have just been another reason not to be outdoors.\"\n\nSpeirs Gumley is a sponsor of Glasgow-based charity Peek (Play for Each and Every Kid) whose mission it is to improve the lives of children and young people by unlocking their potential through play and by being creative.\n\nOn Monday, following a meeting at the Glasgow HQ of the property firm, an apology was issued.\n\nAn inspector had seen children draw in chalk on a tarmac path between properties\n\nThe company's director, Tom McKie, said; \"I have to say I am disappointed that such a letter was issued by Speirs Gumley, and it was a poor judgment call on our part to do so.\n\n\"Admittedly, we do get these type of complaints from time to time in housing developments that we manage and, of course, we recognise that clients in the same development can hold differing views on how to resolve things.\n\n\"My view is that common sense should have prevailed, and it should have been dealt with more sensitively by us.\n\n\"We will of course be apologising to our clients for the handling of this.\"\n\nMr Macdonald was pleased with the U-turn.\n\nHe added: \"We are delighted Speirs Gumley have realised the value of children having outdoor fun.\"\n\nLocal MP Jo Swinson said: \"Parents of Bishopbriggs are absolutely right to be outraged. If anything, children playing outdoors enhances the local community and they should be encouraged to have active, healthy fun as much as possible.\n\n\"I'm pleased Speirs Gumley have come to their senses and issued an apology, and hope they will take this opportunity to continue to support initiatives that get children out and about.\"\n• None The school activities on the banned list", "Mr Coveney suggested many British politicians do not understand the complexity of NI politics\n\nIreland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal if Theresa May is replaced as UK prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on RTÉ, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said \"the personality might change but the facts don't\".\n\nHe described Mrs May as a \"decent person\" and strongly criticised Conservative MPs at Westminster.\n\nMrs May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote.\n\nMr Coveney described political events at Westminster as \"extraordinary\", as he questioned the logic of politicians who believed a change of leader would deliver changes to the agreement struck by Mrs May.\n\nHe said Conservative MPs were \"impossible\" on the issue of Brexit.\n\n\"The EU has said very clearly that the Withdrawal Agreement has been negotiated over two-and-a-half years, it was agreed with the British government and the British cabinet and it's not up for renegotiation, even if there is a new British prime minister,\" he said.\n\nHe told RTÉ's This Week programme that many British politicians \"don't, quite frankly, understand the complexity of politics in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"They have tried to dumb this debate down into a simplistic argument whereby it's Britain versus the EU, as opposed to two friends tying to navigate through the complexity of a very, very difficult agreement,\" he added.\n\nMr Coveney also said the Irish government would continue to focus significant efforts and financial resources towards planning for a no-deal Brexit scenario, following Friday's collapse of Brexit talks in the UK.\n\nHe said time was of the essence for the UK to get a deal through Parliament, adding that he was concerned Britain would not \"get its act together over summer\" and leave without a deal.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mrs May announced that MPs would vote on the bill that would pave the way for Brexit in the week beginning 3 June.\n\nIf the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March.\n\nBut the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said her party has been the most consistent anti-Brexit voice during the European election campaign.\n\nLabour's Scottish deputy leader Lesley Laird said a new vote on Brexit was becoming more likely.\n\nConservative MP Colin Clark said next month's Brexit bill will be \"different\" from what has gone before.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Vince Cable said his party could support it, if the public were given the final say.\n\nUK voters take part in elections to the European parliament on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One that putting the Brexit issue back to people in a second vote would be the right way forward.\n\nShe added: \"There is nobody I think in Scotland or across the UK that could doubt that the SNP is unequivocally and unambiguously anti-Brexit.\n\n\"Scotland's not for Brexit. Scotland is for Europe and people in Scotland have an opportunity by voting SNP on Thursday to send that message very loudly and very clearly.\"\n\nLesley Laird told Gordon Brewer that a new referendum is possible\n\nSpeaking later on Sunday Politics Scotland, Ms Laird said a new referendum on Brexit was becoming more likely, but not certain.\n\n\"That is absolutely now the direction that we see this ending up,\" she said. \"You cannot yet say.\"\n\n\"We're going to have these indicative votes. We don't know what Theresa May will bring forward and we don't know therefore what that final deal will look like.\"\n\nColin Clark believes the prime minister will bring new ideas on Brexit before MPs\n\nMr Clark told the programme that the Brexit proposition being brought to the Commons was not simply a re-run of the measure which had previously been rejected by MPs.\n\nHe said: \"The bill will be different when it comes back. It has to be different when it comes back and has to bring more of the party together.\n\n\"And I believe if Labour were given a free vote, the bill would pass.\"\n\nVince Cable believes the voters should have the final say\n\nMr Cable said the Liberal Democrats could back the prime minister, but only if the public were given the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe said his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nPatrick Harvie thinks the European vote should be about more than Brexit\n\nPatrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens said voters on Thursday should not simply look at a party's stance on Brexit.\n\n\"Electing a Green MEP for Scotland will electing someone who'll stand up not just for Scotland's place in Europe,\" he said, \"but also for the issues like the climate emergency and tackling the refugee crisis in a humane and decent manner.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party the issue of making Brexit happen comes before everything else.\n\nTheir representative Louis Stedman-Bryce added: \"The message really is that we have to focus on democracy before we can focus on anything else.\n\n\"We have to make Brexit happen.\"\n\nLouis Stedman-Bryce of the Brexit Party wants leaving the EU to be an overriding priority", "Thousands of teenagers are living in supported or semi-supported accommodation, which can often be a house on a residential street\n\nThousands of teenagers in care are being \"dumped\" in unregulated homes and \"abandoned to organised crime gangs\", the BBC has been told.\n\nThe number of looked-after children aged 16 and over living in unregistered accommodation in England has increased 70% in a decade, Newsnight has found.\n\nPolice forces have raised concerns, saying criminals see the premises as an easy target for recruitment.\n\nThe government said children in care \"deserve good quality accommodation\".\n\nThe Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) said local authorities do \"many things\" - including unannounced checks and DBS checks - to monitor provision.\n\nAs part of a special series of reports, Britain's Hidden Children's Homes, Newsnight has learned that - according to figures from the Department for Education - around 5,000 looked after children in England are living in so-called 16+ supported or semi-supported accommodation - up from 2,900 10 years ago.\n\nThis type of accommodation is not inspected or registered by Ofsted, even though residents are in the care of the state.\n\nBut because they are deemed to be receiving support, rather than care, the accommodation is not subject to the same checks and inspections as registered children's homes.\n\nLocal authorities can pay to place children in unregistered accommodation if they deem it is in a child's best interests. This can often be simply a house on a residential street, with staff on site or visiting for as little as a few hours a week.\n\nAmy - now 19 - was moved to one of these homes in Bedfordshire, when she was 16 years old.\n\n\"There was a mattress but no bed sheets, it was freezing cold and I had to use my coat and blanket as a duvet. It made me feel sort of desperate and very alone.\"\n\nAmy - not her real name - said there were times she was frightened living in the home.\n\n\"I was hit in the face by one of the staff members,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on serious violence, said that more than half of the 60 homes for looked-after children in Bedfordshire are unregulated.\n\n\"They are the ones that we have the majority of the children going missing from because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\nJackie Sebire, assistant chief constable at Bedfordshire Police, said care is 'inconsistent'\n\nAmy was among these missing children, taking the train to \"meet random men in London, as anywhere is better than this\".\n\n\"We'd just get random men off the internet and then sometimes they would come and pick us up at the home and they'd take us places. A lot of them were just strange men who just wanted younger girls and they were very, very dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"They wanted sex and they wanted drugs and because they would buy you alcohol they would think you owed them something.\"\n\nAmy says she was not sexually assaulted.\n\nThe home Amy lived in told Newsnight it investigates complaints thoroughly and operates with high standards. It said it would support the 16+ sector being regulated.\n\nA Bedford Borough Council spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the concerns raised which were fully investigated at the time.\n\n\"Semi-independent living accommodation for young people over 16 is not regulated by an inspection regime and this is an issue across the country. Many local authorities share our concerns and this has been discussed in parliament.\"\n\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group for Missing Children and Adults has been looking into the issue, and wrote to 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nThirty-four responded, with at least three-quarters expressing concern.\n\nNewsnight has been given exclusive access to this research, which the group's chairwoman, Ann Coffey, described as painting an overall picture \"of dumping children in a twilight world and leaving them to fend for themselves and take their chances\".\n\nCambridgeshire Police said premises are often \"well known to local criminals\" and seen as \"an easy target location for recruitment of new children\".\n\nThis was echoed by Hertfordshire Police. The force said it had seen examples where young adults had been targeted and \"girls have been groomed and trafficked to other areas\".\n\nMs Coffey said \"we should be very concerned\" about this growing sector.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential that that market is regulated in a way that meets the needs of children,\" she said. \"If you don't have regulation then what will happen is it will meet the needs of the providers - the people who are basically making a profit out of this kind of accommodation.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't place my 16 or 17-year-old in this accommodation,\" she added.\n\n\"Why should we be placing other 16 and 17-year-olds in this twilight world where, at a very vulnerable age where they need the greatest level of support, we are abandoning them to paedophiles and organised crime gangs?\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"Exposing children to greater risks of criminalisation and exploitation isn't just wrong: it makes a mockery of joined-up government.\"\n\nThe Department for Education \"should be reviewing the situation urgently\", he added.\n\nJackie Sebire and the NPCC also want action from government.\n\n\"If you think about all the places we regulate the fact that we don't regulate those 16+ settings - it's just wrong and it really needs to change now… because the care is so inconsistent,\" she said.\n\n\"Ofsted could have a duty to regulate if the legislation and their remit changed and that is one solution we have proposed.\"\n\nBut ADCS said it would not advocate for total regulation, as it \"would limit flexibility\".\n\nThey added: \"We are keen to see providers of accommodation take their responsibilities to provide suitable accommodation seriously and to have open and transparent ways in which this can be assured.\"\n\nChildren and families minister Nadhim Zahawi said: \"Semi-independent living can act as a stepping-stone for young people about to come out of care...\n\n\"Local authorities are required to make sure that children in care and care leavers are given suitable accommodation to meet their needs, including that they are safe and secure which is why I recently wrote to all Directors of Children's Services to remind them of this obligation.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Last updated on .From the section Scotland\n\nSteve Clarke says he wants to \"emulate the success\" of the Scotland women's team after being named the country's new head coach.\n\nThe 55-year-old replaces Alex McLeish on a three-year deal a day on from guiding Kilmarnock to third in the Scottish Premiership.\n\nScotland sit fifth in their Euro 2020 qualifying group after two games while Shelley Kerr's side are set for next month's Women's World Cup.\n\n\"It is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I firmly believe we have a talented group of players who can achieve success on the international stage. I look forward to working with them and helping them to fulfil those ambitions.\n\n\"I appreciate the Scotland supporters have waited a long time for the national team to qualify for a major tournament. Now we have a Women's World Cup to look forward to in France this summer and it's my motivation to emulate the success of Shelley Kerr and her squad by leading us to Euro 2020.\n\n\"I believe we can qualify and look forward to that journey with the players and the fans, starting against Cyprus and Belgium next month.\"\n• None Reaction as Steve Clarke is unveiled as Scotland boss\n• None Clarke would bring 'buzz' and 'aura' to Scotland job\n• None Clarke 'sorry for not winning trophy' at Kilmarnock\n• None Quiz: How well do you know the new Scotland boss?\n\nClarke, given a two-match ban by the Scottish FA on Thursday for criticising referee Steven McLean, starts with a home European qualifier against Cyprus on 8 June, with a visit to Group I leaders Belgium three days later.\n\nCapped six times as a player, the former West Bromwich Albion and Reading manager had a year to go on his Rugby Park contract. His assistant Alex Dyer is staying at Killie.\n\nArriving in October 2017, Clarke steered Kilmarnock from second bottom of the Premiership to fifth place with a record points tally.\n\nThe Ayrshire side surpassed that total this year on their way to third in the top flight. He was this season's PFA Scotland and Scottish Football Writers' Association manager of the year.\n\n\"I am delighted that we now have the country's deserved manager of the year to lead the Scotland national team and his experience over the past two decades will be integral to rejuvenating our Euro 2020 qualifying campaign,\" said Scottish FA chief executive Ian Maxwell.\n\n\"It was important that we undertook the recruitment process diligently and respectfully, especially given the importance of the final games of the domestic season for Kilmarnock, Steve and his players.\"\n\nMcLeish was sacked in April two weeks after opening the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a 3-0 defeat in Kazakhstan, followed by an unconvincing win in San Marino.\n\nScotland topped their Nations League section during the 14-month tenure of McLeish, which guarantees a play-off semi-final place if a top-two spot cannot be secured in qualifying.\n\nKilmarnock have confirmed their search for a new manager will start straight away, with director Billy Bowie paying tribute to Clarke and his legacy.\n\n\"While we're naturally disappointed to lose such a talented manager, I understand the lure of managing Scotland is a powerful one,\" he said.\n\n\"Steve leaves an incredible legacy, delivering our best campaign in over half a century and providing European football for the first time since 2001. His place in this club's illustrious history is assured and he will always be welcomed back to Rugby Park with open arms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage said his party was mostly funded via donations of £25\n\nThe Electoral Commission is visiting the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.\n\nA spokesperson said Tuesday's visit was part of its \"active oversight and regulation\" of donations.\n\nEx-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small \"undeclared, untraceable payments\".\n\nAn Electoral Commission spokesman said if there was \"evidence that the law may have been broken\", it would consider it \"in line with our enforcement policy\".\n\nThe watchdog said the visit was arranged on Monday, adding that it does meet regularly with parties both during and outside campaigns to verify their processes.\n\nUnder the rules governing donations to political parties, amounts below £500 do not have to be declared.\n\nAn official donation of £500 or more must be given by a \"permissible donor\", who should either be somebody listed on the UK electoral roll or a business registered at Companies House and operating in the UK.\n\nThe Brexit Party has updated its website to say that those making donations or becoming registered supporters must comply with those requirements.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gordon Brown wants the Electoral Commission to investigate Brexit Party funding\n\nAt an event in Glasgow on Monday, Mr Brown said there was no way of telling whether donations to The Brexit Party - which can be made through PayPal - come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system was being abused.\n\nOther political parties - including the Conservatives and Labour - also use PayPal to collect donations on their websites.\n\n\"You can pay to this party in Russian roubles or American dollars,\" Mr Brown said.\n\n\"Democracy is ill served, and trust in democracy will continue to be undermined, if we have no answers as to where the money is coming from,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant has also said the system is open to abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Mr Brown's comments, Mr Farage said: \"Most of our money has been raised by people giving £25 to become registered supporters.\"\n\n\"And over 110,000 of them now have done that. And frankly, this smacks of jealousy because the other parties simply can't do this.\"\n\nWhen asked if the party took donations in foreign currency, Mr Farage replied: \"Absolutely not, we only take sterling - end of conversation.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell called for \"a full and open and transparent, independent inquiry into the funding of Mr Farage\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons.\n\nOn Monday, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice told Radio 4's Today programme the party applied \"the appropriate Electoral Commission rules\" to amounts above £500.\n\nAsked if he could confirm whether the party takes cash from foreign citizens, Mr Tice said: \"I don't sit in front of the PayPal account all day so I don't know what currencies people are paying in, but, as I understand it, the PayPal takes it in sterling.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said it required people to give their name and address before contributing £500 or more.\n\nChange UK said: \"We identify all donors, including those under the £500 threshold, so that we can conduct a permissibility check should the aggregate of donations per donor exceed the £500 threshold.\"\n\nIn 2013, the Electoral Commission issued guidance to parties that \"if a donor makes regular payments for an unspecified donation and towards an unspecified total amount, our view is that these payments should be treated as separate donations.\"\n\nAs you might expect, the world of party funding and finance is a complicated one. But an interesting element to pin-point is this issue of smaller donations.\n\nUnder UK law a donation to a political party that's under £500 does not have to be reported to the Electoral Commission. In fact, that kind of financial contribution doesn't even count as a donation. So, for example, the usual rules around the money having to come from a UK elector or UK-registered company don't apply.\n\nWhat wouldn't be allowed are repeated small donations, from the same source, in order to dodge the donation limits.\n\nSignificantly, these rules originate from legislation that's nearly 20 years old - the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Back then, they probably didn't worry about the risk that parties might be able to crowdfund from foreign donors, and one academic's told me that the law is no longer \"fit for purpose\".\n\nMeanwhile, when it comes to the Electoral Commission's plan to visit The Brexit Party's offices - I understand that officials and the party have been in dialogue for several weeks and that's it's not necessarily unusual for the commission to meet parties to ensure that their systems are up to scratch. However, it appears that the commission hasn't yet visited any others during this particular campaign.\n\nDuring his speech, Gordon Brown also attacked Mr Farage for receiving £450,000 from Leave campaigner Arron Banks while still a member of the European Parliament.\n\nMr Brown said The Brexit Party leader should have declared the payments he was receiving \"to avoid a conflict of interest\".\n\nAsked about it following an investigation by Channel 4 News, Mr Farage said he did not declare it to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nLib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder has written to the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani calling for an investigation into the matter. Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said she had also referred Mr Farage to the European Anti-Fraud Office.\n\nMeanwhile, a man has been charged with assaulting Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake at him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had given a speech in Newcastle on Monday ahead of the European elections when the incident happened.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Princess Charlotte and her brothers explore the garden their mother designed\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has unveiled her garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.\n\nShe visited the woodland wilderness garden with schoolchildren a day after Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis also enjoyed it.\n\nThe royal children spent an hour on Sunday playing in the Back to Nature Garden, which has a tree house, stream and swing.\n\nThe site was co-created with landscape architects Andree Davies, Adam White and the Royal Horticultural Society.\n\nCharlotte was pictured on a swing, while a barefoot George paddled in a stream and Louis ran about with a stick.\n\nOne-year-old Louis enjoys the plot the Duchess of Cambridge co-created for the Chelsea Flower Show\n\nOver the past months, George, Charlotte and Louis helped their mother collect leaves, moss and twigs, which were then incorporated into the garden.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge was seen playing with his family in pictures released by Kensington Palace and taken by photographer Matt Porteous.\n\nHazel sticks collected by the royals were used to make the garden's den\n\nCatherine has been closely involved in the project and been at the site ahead of the event, which opens to the public on Tuesday.\n\nThe garden includes a tree house, waterfall, rustic den and a campfire as well as tree stumps, stepping stones and a hollow log for children to play on.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was joined by local schoolchildren at her garden\n\nIt also features Princess Diana's favourite flowers, forget-me-nots, among the geraniums, blue periwinkle, astrantias, ferns, strawberry plants and rhubarb.\n\nReclaimed timber from Southend Pier was used to create the decking.\n\nThe duchess was keen to show her children the project she had been working on\n\nWilliam and Louis enjoy the multi-sensory garden designed by Kate\n\nThe duchess's woodland wilderness plot forms part of her work on early childhood development.\n\nThe garden is intended to highlight the benefits the natural world brings to mental and physical well-being.\n\nOne of the people she chatted with while touring the garden on Monday was fellow mother Alison Shockledge.\n\nMs Shockledge said: \"She was talking about it from a mum's perspective: put your devices down, let's go out. Be relaxed with your children, let them get muddy.\"\n\nKate hopes to pass on her passion for the outdoors to her children\n\nThe duchess also chatted to Colette Morris and Rebecca Beale.\n\nMs Morris said: \"She said children played very differently. In a way she didn't anticipate.\"\n\nMs Beale added: \"Children are often sat still looking at screens. She said it was important to be multi-sensory.\"\n\nThe duchess told the BBC: \"I really feel that nature and being interactive outdoors has huge benefits on our physical and mental well-being, particularly for young children.\n\n\"I really hope this woodland that we have created inspires families, kids and communities to get outside, enjoy nature and the outdoors, and spend quality time together.\"\n\nHer interview will air on Monday 20 May at 19.30 BST on BBC One.", "Vodafone has denied a report saying issues found in equipment supplied to it by Huawei in Italy in 2011 and 2012 could have allowed unauthorised access to its fixed-line network there.\n\nA Bloomberg report said that Vodafone spotted security flaws in software that could have given Huawei unauthorised access to Italian homes and businesses.\n\nThe US refuses to use Huawei equipment for security reasons.\n\nHowever, reports suggest the UK may let the firm help build its 5G network.\n\nThis is despite the US wanting the UK and its other allies in the \"Five Eyes\" intelligence grouping - Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to exclude the company.\n\nAustralia and New Zealand have already blocked telecoms companies from using Huawei equipment in 5G networks, while Canada is reviewing its relationship with the Chinese telecoms firm.\n\nIn a statement, Vodafone said: \"The issues in Italy identified in the Bloomberg story were all resolved and date back to 2011 and 2012.\n\n\"The 'backdoor' that Bloomberg refers to is Telnet, which is a protocol that is commonly used by many vendors in the industry for performing diagnostic functions. It would not have been accessible from the internet.\n\n\"Bloomberg is incorrect in saying that this 'could have given Huawei unauthorised access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy'.\n\n\"In addition, we have no evidence of any unauthorised access. This was nothing more than a failure to remove a diagnostic function after development.\n\n\"The issues were identified by independent security testing, initiated by Vodafone as part of our routine security measures, and fixed at the time by Huawei.\"\n\nA Huawei spokesperson said: 'We were made aware of historical vulnerabilities in 2011 and 2012 and they were addressed at the time.\n\n\"Software vulnerabilities are an industry-wide challenge. Like every ICT [information and communications technology] vendor, we have a well-established public notification and patching process, and when a vulnerability is identified, we work closely with our partners to take the appropriate corrective action.\"\n\nSeveral European telecoms operators are considering removing Huawei's equipment from their networks.\n\nBut the firm's cyber-security chief, John Suffolk, has described the firm as \"the most open [and] transparent company in the world\".\n\nIn January, Vodafone \"paused\" the deployment of Huawei equipment in its core networks in Europe until Western governments resolved their security concerns about the company.\n\nHuawei has been accused of being a potential security risk and of being controlled by the Chinese government - allegations it has always firmly denied.\n\nWith the introduction of the 5G network in the UK approaching, telecoms operators say the way it would work, in a highly integrated system alongside 4G, means that excluding Huawei is not realistic without significant cost and delay,\n\nThat would include potentially removing existing hardware, leading to the UK falling behind other countries.\n\nThe company is the world's third-largest supplier of mobile phones, behind Samsung and Apple.", "A Nottinghamshire man has been handed a three-year football ban after he shouted racial abuse at a Manchester City fan at a match in 2019.\n\nChelsea fan Antony Crump, 28, was found guilty of intentional racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Tameside Magistrates' Court on 9 June, after his trial was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCrump, of Hereford Close, Worksop, was banned from attending games for three years and fined £1,700.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the offence related to a match at the Etihad stadium between Manchester City and Chelsea on 23 November 2019.\n\nThe force said the incident was reported to a steward but the exchange continued, and the racial slur was repeated again, this time witnessed by another steward and another Manchester City supporter.\n\nSupt Suk Verma, strategic lead for hate crime at Nottinghamshire Police, said the force was determined to stamp out racial abuse and treat all reports seriously.\n\n\"No member of society should face such abuse wherever they are, especially when at their place of work - and this applies for anyone, whether they are a professional sports player or otherwise,\" he said.\n\n\"With fans hopefully continuing to return to stadiums in the coming weeks and months, this conviction is a reminder to anyone who thinks of engaging in such intolerable abuse that we will work robustly to prosecute perpetrators of hate crime and bring them to some justice.\"", "Rescue workers with the man, whose motivation was unclear\n\nA man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on Monday was taken into custody by police after reaching the top.\n\nThe tower and the esplanade at its base were closed after the man was spotted scaling the structure in the afternoon.\n\nVideo footage showed him close to the observation deck at the top of the tower. His motivation for climbing the 1,000ft (300m) tower was unclear.\n\nThe man, who has not yet been identified, clung to the Parisian landmark for more than six hours.\n\nAn Eiffel Tower spokeswoman told Reuters: \"The man entered the tower normally and started to climb once he was on the second floor.\"\n\nStreets surrounding the landmark were cleared and closed to the public.\n\nThe first two floors of the tower can be reached by lift or stairs, but to go higher than that visitors need to take a lift.\n\nThe tower will reopen to the public at 09:30 local time on Tuesday.", "Too many children in England are being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily, according to a report.\n\nResearch for the Children's Commissioner for England found children were often unable to get appropriate support at school and in the community.\n\nThis was contributing to children ending up in institutions, sometimes for months or years, the report found.\n\nChildren with learning disabilities or autism were being particularly let down by the system, it added.\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield's report says successive governments have tried to tackle the problem, but the number of children in mental health hospitals remains \"unacceptably high\".\n\nResearch shows a clear need to \"focus on children's journeys before they are admitted into inpatient care\", the report says, but often this is not happening.\n\n\"Children, families and staff working in this area spoke again and again about how the failure to provide appropriate support to children when they are in school and living in the community, and particularly when they reach a crisis point, has contributed to inappropriate hospital admissions and delayed discharges,\" it says.\n\nThe review says there were 250 children identified as having a learning disability or autism in mental health hospitals in England in February 2019, compared with 110 in March 2015.\n\nAccording to the report, NHS England said the figure of 110 was due to under-identification of these children in the past.\n\nBut even using adjusted figures from NHS England, the number has still not come down in the last four years, the report says.\n\nIt says it is \"particularly concerning\" that these findings come after NHS England's Transforming Care programme, which sought to improve the quality of care for people with a learning disability or autism.\n\nMs Longfield said: \"They are some of the most vulnerable children of all, with very complex needs, growing up in institutions usually far away from their family home.\n\n\"For many of them this is a frightening and overwhelming experience. For many of their families it is a nightmare.\"\n\nMs Longfield said she had spoken to parents whose children had been \"locked away in a series of rooms for months\".\n\n\"Others have to listen as they are told by institutions that their child has had to be restrained or forcibly injected with sedatives,\" she said.\n\n\"They feel powerless and, frankly, at their wits' end as to what to do.\"\n\nMs Longfield is calling for a national strategy to \"address the values and culture of the wider system across the NHS, education and local government so that a failure to provide earlier help is unacceptable, and admission to hospital or a residential special school is no longer seen as almost inevitable for some children\".\n\nA spokesman for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said some of the most vulnerable children were being \"horribly failed\".\n\nHe said: \"No child should be left to languish alone and it's important that the government takes urgent action to provide high quality, community-based care that can prevent the need for children to be placed in secure hospitals.\"\n\nTim Nicholls, head of policy at the National Autistic Society, said autistic children and adults were \"being failed by a broken system\".\n\nWherever possible, autistic people should get the mental health support they need in their own community, he added.\n\nThe government said it was determined to reduce the number of people with autism or learning disabilities who are in mental health hospitals.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The NHS is committed to reducing numbers of people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health hospitals by 35% by the end of March 2020, and through the Long Term Plan we will reduce numbers even further by investing in specialist services and community crisis care and giving local areas greater control of their budgets to reduce avoidable admissions and enable shorter lengths of stay.\n\n\"The CQC [Care Quality Commission] is also undertaking an in-depth review into the use of seclusion, segregation and restraint - which should only be used as a last resort - in order to improve standards across the system.\"", "The vandals ransacked the hall, smashing years of work\n\nThousands of pounds worth of model railway exhibits have been destroyed in an act of \"total wanton destruction\".\n\nMarket Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work in the raid at Welland Academy in Stamford on Saturday.\n\nIts chairman Peter Davies, 70, said exhibits were smashed, thrown around and stamped on, including a locomotive unit worth about £8,500.\n\nFour youths have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage.\n\nA funding page set up to raise £500 for the club has made more than £32,000 in a matter of hours.\n\nOne contributor, Barry Cave, posted on the page: \"Horrendous act of vandalism, hope my donation helps a little.\"\n\nClub members had worked on their projects for many years - but found this damage\n\nSome of the exhibits were worth thousands of pounds\n\nThe club had set up the exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday.\n\nMr Davies, who trained as a teacher and youth worker, said he was in \"total confusion\" over the vandalism.\n\n\"Models that were made over years were trodden on and thrown around. It's a total wanton destruction of the highest order.\n\n\"I've never experienced anything like it. A hurricane would have done less damage.\"\n\nThe club had set up an exhibition in the school for viewing on Sunday\n\nMr Davies said club members were \"devastated and distraught\".\n\n\"Can you imagine your life's work wrecked?\" he said.\n\n\"One guy spent 25 years on his work and it's wrecked, it's just horrendous.\n\n\"We will never have the time to build the sort of layouts again, that's where the anger comes from.\"\n\nHe said the club had received support from \"all over the world - as far away as New Zealand\".\n\nHe added: \"We will rise from this, no question, we will be bigger and better. But we'll never get the years back it took to build those exhibits.\"\n\nThe vandals did \"more damage than a hurricane\"\n\nThe models and buildings were stamped on and thrown around the hall during the attack\n\nLincolnshire Police said: \"On arrival at the school we arrested four youths, who were on the premises, for burglary and criminal damage.\n\n\"We are continuing our investigation and confirm damage was done to model railway exhibits which had been set up in the school for a display today [Sunday].\"\n\nThe youths were released on Saturday evening on conditional bail pending further inquiries.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nNew footage has emerged showing the moment Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of the country ahead of the European elections.\n\nA man was taken away by a police community support officer and later seen in handcuffs.", "Fire crews were called to Bury St Edmunds town centre at 17:00 on 29 September 2017\n\nTwo \"stupid\" and \"bored\" workers set fire to a mouse that led to a blaze in a cycle shop.\n\nThe fire at Cycle King Shop in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, caused £1.6m of damage, Ipswich Crown Court heard.\n\nAshley Finley, 25, of Elmswell, and Dysney Sibbons, 23, of Stowmarket, admitted arson by reckless behaviour on the first day of their trial.\n\nTwo neighbouring buildings were also damaged in the fire on Angel Hill. The pair will be sentenced next month.\n\nJudge David Pugh said the fire was an \"act of sheer stupidity\" by the two defendants, who had tried to \"alleviate what they appeared to have found a boring day by cremating a mouse\".\n\nThe court heard some form of accelerant was used in the deliberate act on 29 September 2017.\n\nFinley, of Borley Crescent, and Sibbons, of Elmsett Close, have been released on bail pending sentencing.\n\nA number of onlookers gathered on Angel Hill while firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Foreign spies in the UK might have to add their names to a register under a new espionage bill, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nIt would aim to tackle threats from hostile states, he said in a speech at New Scotland Yard in London.\n\nHe also said Syria and parts of west Africa could be designated as banned countries, with Britons who travelled there breaking the law.\n\nThe new bill would update the Official Secrets Act and the laws on treason.\n\nHe has also appointed Jonathan Hall QC as a watchdog to monitor the new terror laws.\n\nA register would act as a deterrent to spying and make it easier to take action against those involved, Mr Javid said.\n\nThe home secretary said the tempo of terrorist activity was increasing, with 19 plots foiled in the UK in two years.\n\nNo, the proposed Foreign Agents Register isn't an attempt to get spies to cough up - that would be ridiculous.\n\nThe purpose, it appears, is to regulate legitimate political and government lobbying by people acting on behalf of overseas states and interests and ensure it's carried out in a more transparent way.\n\nSuspicion would inevitably fall on those who don't register; they'd face prosecution. Equally, those who have made a declaration but don't comply with the rules could also face sanctions.\n\nThe US has had similar legislation for more than 80 years and in December 2018 Australia introduced a \"Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme\" with a register available to see at the click of a button.\n\nAlthough the home secretary's plans are at an early stage, it's hoped they could help the authorities identify and take action against those intent on undermining the country's way of life through tactics of subversion and disinformation.\n\nThe changes come after Britons in Syria asked to return to the UK.\n\nShamima Begum - who had her UK citizenship revoked by Mr Javid in February - was found in a Syrian refugee camp after leaving London to join the Islamic State group when she was 15.\n\nMr Javid said people travelling to, or remaining in, certain areas of Syria without good reason could face up to 10 years in prison.\n\nSpeaking to senior security figures in central London, Mr Javid set out for the first time how he expects to use the new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act.\n\nHe said there were \"real gaps\" in legislation concerning so-called 'hostile states'.\n\nHe said: \"I've asked my officials to work closely with the police and intelligence agencies to urgently review the case for exercising this power in relation to Syria, with a particular focus on Idlib and the north east.\n\n\"Anyone who is in these areas without a legitimate reason should be on notice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shamima Begum: \"I got tricked and I was hoping someone would have sympathy with me\"\n\nThe north-western Syrian province of Idlib is the last remaining stronghold controlled by forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nMr Javid said police and security services \"have worked tirelessly\" to identify people intending to join the Islamic State group overseas and prevent them from leaving the country.\n\nHe told the House of Commons in February that 900 people people from the UK were estimated to have joined the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.\n\nOf those, 40% were estimated to still be somewhere in the region, 40% to have returned, and 20% to have been killed in battle.\n\nMr Javid also emphasised the importance of international co-operation in combating terrorism.\n\n\"As these threats become more global we all rely on an international system of defence, policing, security and intelligence - a safety net based upon co-operation and unity,\" he said.\n\n\"These structures rely upon free, democratic nations to pool information, co-ordinate law enforcement action and surrender suspected criminals across borders.\"\n\nSir Peter Fahy, former counter-terrorism lead for the Association of Chief Police Officers said the changes had been \"a long time coming\" but there would be complications over who it covered.\n\nSir Peter agreed there was a \"tremendous need\" to reassure allies, adding: \"The world is a very uncertain place at the moment... the whole issue about Brexit, this issue about Huawei and the situation with Iran is creating tension with the United States.\n\n\"People involved in counter-terrorism will be looking to see if that does affect the level of co-operation.\"", "Huawei is the poster child for China's dynamic tech sector. It has grown phenomenally in recent years, from a small manufacturer of telephone exchange switches, to become a global leader in the tech industry.\n\nWhile the brand is familiar to many from its mobile phone handsets, Huawei has its finger in many other pies - from cloud services to artificial intelligence.\n\nAnd despite increasing controversy around whether using Huawei telecoms equipment poses a security risk, the block on its business deals in some countries, and the arrest in Canada of one of its executives, the company itself has continued on its steady path of global growth.\n\nThat growth has come against the backdrop of China's continued rise, on its way to becoming the world's second largest economy, providing the firm with a huge base upon which to build its initial market as a springboard to international expansion.\n\nMost noticeably for consumers, Huawei has swept into the market for consumer electronics, in particular with smartphones.\n\nEarlier this year it overtook Apple in the number of handsets it was shipping worldwide.\n\nShipments don't always translate into phones reaching consumers, but the uptick in production and distribution still reflects a rise in Huawei's popularity, including for both premium models and its lower-priced Honor brand.\n\nExpanding sales of smartphones comes despite political hostility towards the brand in some parts of the world, especially the US. There, no carriers support Huawei, so while consumers can buy a Huawei phone, they aren't widely marketed.\n\nBut it's in telecoms network equipment, which forms the largest part of Huawei's business, that is having its greatest impact on the company.\n\nThe US has banned the use of Huawei equipment in communications networks, warning of security risks and has called for other governments to follow suit. Nevertheless, in all parts of the world, even in the Americas, the market for Huawei products has grown over the past three years.\n\nWashington's decision to block the use of Huawei equipment in telecommunications infrastructure on security grounds has been emulated in New Zealand, Australia and Japan.\n\nWith the US pressing for other governments to follow suit, that raises questions over whether the firm's global expansion is set to be curtailed in some regions in the near future.\n\nCurrently though, Huawei is holding its own in one of the largest parts of its business, the sale of mobile telecommunications infrastructure equipment, such as that needed to support the roll-out of faster 5G networks.\n\nBut how much Huawei continues to grow, won't depend only on political attitudes in Western capitals.\n\nIt will depend on how well the Chinese tech giant's products compare with its competitors. In the past, the firm has been accused - like many Chinese companies - of copying technology developed in the West and then undercutting rivals on prices.\n\nBut Huawei is currently outspending many other global players in research and development in a bid to gain a future edge.\n\nProspects may not be as bright for Huawei now as they used to be, given the political squeeze from the West.\n\nBut, the firm went through the financial crisis largely unaffected thanks to a powerful domestic market in China, IHS Markit industry analyst Stephane Teral points out.\n\nThe same could happen again if it loses more contracts in the West.\n\n\"Huawei went through this unfazed with no problems, because they were able to diversify at a time when China was just taking off, including telecoms restructuring, that really helped Huawei,\" he said.", "More women are seeking liposuction, possibly to get a body that looks good in trendy gym clothing, according to a leading cosmetic surgeon.\n\nRajiv Grover, from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, says latest UK data shows procedures have gone up 12% in a year, from 2,039 in 2017 to 2,286 in 2018.\n\nHe warned that there was no quick fix to fighting flab.\n\nSurgery has risks as well as benefits and should be a \"last resort\", he said.\n\nAccording to the new figures, more than 28,000 plastic surgery procedures took place in 2018, a small increase of 0.1% on 2017.\n\nAs in 2017, the three most popular procedures for women were breast augmentation, breast reduction and blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery).\n\nThe biggest increases for women were for liposuction, which rose 12%, and facelifts, which rose 9%.\n\nMr Grover, who runs the audit, said: \"The rise comes at a time where a fashion trend for women is athleisure clothing, showing what kind of physique you have rather than covering up.\"\n\nAthleisure includes figure-hugging clothing, such as leggings and bra tops, suitable for exercise and everyday wear.\n\nHe said that the rise in liposuction could also be more women seeking fat loss surgery over less invasive fat freezing methods (although the audit data does not include non-surgical procedures).\n\n\"People should know that liposuction is not risk-free,\" he said.\n\n\"An operation is not something that can simply be returned to the shop if you have second thoughts.\"\n\nHe gave the example of footballer's wife Denise Hendry, who died in 2009 during one of several operations carried out to correct complications caused by botched liposuction.\n\n\"People need to be aware that liposuction is an invasive procedure that carries risks. And it is not a cure for being overweight. There is no shortcut, although it can help with stubborn areas of fat.\n\n\"My advice? Eat a healthy diet and exercise if you want to get that gym body.\"\n\nKate Dale, from Sport England's This Girl Can campaign said: \"We understand the pressures women feel under - our research shows that a fear of being judged is the number one reason stopping many women from getting active.\n\n\"It doesn't matter what you look like or how good you are, what matters is that you're getting active for you.\"\n\nOverall, male cosmetic surgery dropped by 4.7% in 2018.\n\nThe top surgical procedures in 2018 (for both men and women, in order of popularity):\n• None What's the best way to get rid of belly fat?", "Fabrice Muamba collapsed while playing for Bolton Wanderers in 2012\n\nScientists say a new scan technique could identify people at risk of collapsing and dying suddenly from a hidden heart condition.\n\nNormally, in people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, signs of structural changes in the heart can only be picked up after death.\n\nBut University of Oxford researchers used microscopic imaging to spot the same patterns in living patients.\n\nThe condition is the top cause of sudden cardiac death in young people.\n\nIt is a common, inherited condition, affecting one in 500 people in the UK, which can be fatal in small numbers of people.\n\nYet many of those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, have few or no warning symptoms - and some are able to lead perfectly normal lives.\n\nThe research team focused on detecting those at risk of sudden death, by looking for abnormal fibre patterns in the heart which could lead to potentially deadly heart rhythms.\n\nThis is thought to affect around 1% of people with the condition.\n\nThey can then have a small device implanted in their heart to kick-start it into beating again when an abnormal heart rhythm is detected.\n\nDr Rina Ariga, study author and cardiologist at University of Oxford, said: \"We're hopeful that this new scan will improve the way we identify high-risk patients, so that they can receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator early to prevent sudden death.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now need to work on making this scan shorter and faster for patients so that we can test its utility in a large multi-centre study.\"\n\nAn almost complete ring of muscle fibres in a normal heart (yellow on the left) is broken or missing in a heart with HCM because of fibre disarray\n\nCurrently, calculating a patient's risk is based on the thickness of their heart wall, their family history, plus any unexplained collapses and abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe difference with the Oxford researchers' approach is that they used MRI scans to look at detailed images of the structure of the heart muscle to check for \"muscle fibre disarray\".\n\nThis suggests that heartbeats are not allowed to spread evenly across the heart's muscle fibres.\n\nThe study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, scanned 50 patients with HCM and 30 healthy volunteers and were able to see \"disarray\" in living patients with the heart condition that had previously only been found in patients after sudden cardiac death.\n\nThese patients were also more likely to have abnormal heart rhythms.\n\nThe technique, called diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging, is normally used on the brain - but advances mean it can now be used on the heart.\n\nDr Steven Cox, chief executive of charity Cardiac Risk in the Young, said: \"It is fantastic to think in the future these clinical findings could be identified in patients living with HCM and used to help in their routine diagnostic and treatments pathways.\"\n\nDr Cox said the key to identifying those at risk in the general population was through cardiac screening \"using the cost effective and non-invasive ECG [electrocardiogram] test\".\n\nThis is available to book for under 35s via the charity's Test My Heart website.\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped to fund the research, said: \"Although further work is needed to refine and test this scan, its potential benefit to patients with HCM is huge.\n\n\"This work is an excellent example of cutting-edge, research-led technology that could change the way we diagnose and treat heart and circulatory diseases.\"\n• None How it feels to have a faulty heart gene and how to find out if you have a problem - BBC Newsbeat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone around a primary school at the centre of protests over LGBT rights teaching.\n\nIn a feisty exchange with a protester, the Labour MP for Yardley said she wanted to protect the children attending Anderton Park, in Birmingham, which has seen demonstrations outside its gates for seven weeks.\n\nSome parents and other protesters without a connection to the school are calling on the head to end its teaching about same sex relationships.", "Young people in Singapore say they would be wary of buying Huawei phones after Google barred the firm from some updates to the Android operating system.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nExperiencing street harassment is \"part of puberty\" for some girls, according to an 18-year-old from Cardiff.\n\nTrin said she has been followed by men \"several times\", once by one who appeared drunk and got on to a bus with her, making comments about her looks.\n\nShe described being \"paralysed with fear\" with no passengers helping.\n\nCharity Plan International UK has accused the Welsh Government of taking \"no clear action\" on tackling the issue.\n\nA government spokeswoman responded by saying its strategy was \"aiming to tackle all forms of abuse\".\n\nRecalling her experience on the bus, Trin - not her real name - said: \"I didn't want to make him angry or tell him to go away.\n\n\"I just wanted to make sure that I kept him happy in that moment because if he wasn't then I didn't know what else would happen and it's so easy for things to escalate and I didn't want that to happen to me.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been accused of not doing enough to tackle the issue\n\nShe said her friends have had similar experiences of being harassed in public, adding she was \"disappointed it's 2019 and people don't know how to respect people and young girls\".\n\nTrin added: \"If this happens to my friends and me then this definitely happens to people and girls nationally, so this isn't just isolated.\n\n\"It's really horrifying to think that you grow up and it's kind of a quintessential part of puberty now. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth.\"\n\nHalf of the 98 teenagers aged 14 to 21 who the charity interviewed in Wales reported being sexually harassed in public.\n\nSome 17% said they experienced sexual or physical contact like grabbing and groping at least once a month and 37% said they had been followed.\n\nStreet harassment is intimidating and unwanted behaviour faced by girls and women in public places and can include unwanted whistling, staring, comments, shouts, sexual name-calling, persistently talking to someone, or asking for their name and phone number, even when they have said no.\n\nIt can include being photographed, filming, upskirting, being followed, flashing, public masturbation, groping, sexual assault and rape.\n\nThe average age girls experienced sexual harassment in public in Wales was 14, according to the survey.\n\nPlan International UK has launched a petition, asking the Welsh Government to include street harassment in its violence against women strategy.\n\nGwendolyn Sterk, the charity's programme manager in Wales, wants the government to work with local authorities and police to address the issue, as well as better education on the issue.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it felt street harassment was already covered in its violence against women strategy, which includes sexual harassment.\n\nIt added that while it did not deal with street harassment specifically, it was \"aiming to tackle all forms of abuse\".\n\nHalf of the 98 girls and young women interviewed admitted being harassed in public\n\nChief whip Jane Hutt said it was \"shocking\" that young women were experiencing \"this absolutely unacceptable level of violence in public\".\n\nShe added the government wanted to make sure street harassment was \"clearly recognised\" as being part of its strategy.\n\nHowever, Plan International UK said the current approach had a \"heavy focus on tackling domestic abuse rather than all forms of violence against women\".\n\nIt said: \"There is no clear action in either the strategy or the subsequently published delivery framework on tackling street harassment, specifically the harassment we know girls and young women experience.\"\n\nPlan International UK's petition has received more than 1,000 signatures.", "What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nUS President Donald Trump has always hated the Iran nuclear deal. Now Iran is threatening to stop complying with some of its obligations under the agreement.\n\nHow did we get here? And is the deal crumbling?", "The peer insists the Conservative Party remains his \"natural home\"\n\nThe veteran Conservative politician Lord Heseltine has had the whip removed after saying he will vote for the Lib Dems in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThe former deputy prime minister said he would not back the Tories because of the party's pro-Brexit stance.\n\nA Tory Party spokesperson said the peer's views on European matters were \"longstanding and sincerely held\".\n\nBut he added that endorsing another party was \"not compatible with taking the Tory whip\".\n\n\"As a result, the Chief Whip in the House of Lords has informed Lord Heseltine that he will have the Conservative whip suspended. This will be reviewed if he is willing to support Conservative candidates at future elections,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nHaving the whip taken away means a parliamentarian is effectively expelled from their party and that they must sit in Parliament as an independent until the whip is restored.\n\nLord Heseltine revealed he would be voting for the Lib Dems in an article for the Sunday Times.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live that he was \"lending\" his support to the Lib Dem candidate in his area as he was \"not prepared to indulge in this act of national sacrifice by voting for Brexit\".\n\nThe 86-year old, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was also an adviser to David Cameron, said he was following his conscience and the Conservative Party remained his \"natural home\".\n\nReacting to his sanction, he told Sky News: \"They can take away the whip but they cannot take away my integrity, my convictions or my experience. I am a Conservative.\"\n\nHis announcement angered Brexiteers in his party, with MPs suggesting he had broken internal rules by endorsing another party.\n\nSpeaking to Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 live, Andrew Bridgen suggested \"there really is no place for someone with his views in the Conservative Party\".\n\n\"I find Lord Heseltine's arrogance that he knows better than the majority of the electorate really quite breathtaking.\"\n\nHowever Conservative former minister Sir Nicholas Soames told Channel 4 News withdrawing the whip from Lord Heseltine was \"a really stupid, bovine thing to do\".\n\nHe said he would make his feelings about the matter known to chief whip Julian Smith.\n\nLord Heseltine has been a vocal opponent of Brexit and has spoken at a number of rallies in favour of another referendum.\n\nIt is not the first time he has been at odds with his party over Brexit. In March 2017 he was sacked as a government adviser after rebelling in a Brexit vote in the Lords.\n\nThe UK will take part in the elections for the European Parliament on 23 May after the government was unable to agree a Brexit deal.", "Michael O'Leary says profits could suffer for the next couple of years\n\nRyanair chief Michael O'Leary has said he expects the airline to benefit from any price war in the industry.\n\nMr O'Leary said \"artificially low prices\" and \"attritional fare wars\" could dent profits for a year or two.\n\nHe was speaking after the airline reported that profits fell by nearly a third last year to €1bn (£880m) because fuel costs rose and fares fell.\n\nProfits at Europe's biggest discount airline might also be lower this year, as fares could fall by up to 2%.\n\nFor last year, Ryanair's average one-way fare was €37, down 6%, although this was offset by spending on services such as hotels and car hire.\n\nFor the current financial year, the carrier said it was \"cautious\" on pricing and had \"zero\" visibility for the second half of the year.\n\nIt said that while bookings in the first half of this year were slightly ahead of last year, \"fares are lower and we expect this trend will continue through 2019\".\n\nMr O'Leary said: \"Frankly, if we are in a period where there's going to be attritional fare wars for a year or two that's good for Ryanair... as... we have the lowest cost base... profits will suffer for a year or two and I think that is what our shareholders should expect.\n\n\"However it is clear in my mind that within the next four to five years you are seeing the emergence of four or five large European airline groups,\" he said.\n\nHe referred to Ryanair, Lufthansa, IAG (owner of British Airways), Air France-KLM and, probably, Easyjet.\n\nMergers of other airlines would lead to \"some upward pressure on pricing,\" he said.\n\n\"[Fares] will begin to rise again because they are artificially low at the moment,\" Mr O'Leary said.\n\nDespite a 7% increase in passenger numbers, earlier this year Ryanair was named the UK's least-liked short-haul airline for the sixth year running in a survey by consumer body Which?.\n\nNeil Sorahan, Ryanair's chief financial officer, told the BBC that the airline did not spend too much time worrying about surveys and that the most important thing was being on time.\n\n\"Our customers enjoyed an average fare of €37 which was down 6% on last year. At the same time, however, they continue to spend money on our ancillary products [car hire etc] which helps offset that,\" he said.\n\nMr Sorahan said there was too much capacity in the market, and pointed to a wave of airline failures - such as Primera, Flybmi and WOW - caused by higher oil prices and lower fares.\n\nLast week, EasyJet reported a loss of £275m in the six months to the end of March, compared with a £68m loss a year earlier, while troubled travel operator Thomas Cook is attempting to sell its airline to plug a gap in financing after reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nFuel prices are also an important factor to airline profitability and Ryanair said its bill for this year is expected to rise by €460m.\n\nThe airline said its forecasts will also depend on last-minute fares and any impact from Brexit, but it estimated that profits could range between €750m and €950m.\n\nRyanair is delaying deliveries of five of the Boeing 737 Max planes, which have been grounded because of two fatal crashes, but said it had the \"utmost confidence\" in the aircraft.\n\nThe delay to deliveries from the spring will lead it to cut capacity by one million passengers this year, but it ultimately expects the planes to drive down costs and, Ryanair said, lead to lower prices for passengers.\n\nThe airline expect the 737 Max planes to return to the air in July or August in the US, and September or October in the EU.\n\nRyanair also announced it was buying back €700m of its shares, which analysts at Liberum said would support the share price in the short-term despite the \"disappointing\" guidance on profits for this year.\n\n\"Ryanair remains the long-term winner in the European airline industry, based on its leading market position, extensive network, low unit costs and strong balance sheet,\" Liberum said.\n\n\"We see tougher market conditions in the short term as positive for the stronger airlines in the long term, since this clears out weaker competitors and aids consolidation in the market.\"\n\nShares in Ryanair fell 6% in early trading, before recovering to stand 1% lower.\n\nRyanair's profit figure excludes the loss of €139m from the Austrian airline Lauda it took over last year.", "The victims of the attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nAn off-duty doctor begged to be let out of a restaurant on lockdown during the London Bridge attacks so that he could help injured victims, an inquest heard.\n\nStaff at Lobos tapas bar locked the door to the restaurant as three men stabbed people on Borough High Street on 3 June 2017, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nBut junior doctor Jonathan Moses said he persuaded staff to let him out when he said: \"I can't watch them die.\"\n\nDr Moses said he then told one of the wounded: \"I'm going to save you.\"\n\nThe medic, who at the time had four months' experience as an accident and emergency medic, had been having dinner with a friend when he heard people \"shouting and screaming\" in the street outside.\n\n\"I could hear people saying 'Oh God, oh God, help, help, they've been stabbed, they've been stabbed',\" he told the inquest into the deaths of eight people killed in the attacks.\n\nDr Moses said he ran downstairs to the restaurant door after seeing two people lying on the pavement outside.\n\n\"The place was in a panic - people running away from the door, people screaming,\" he said.\n\nHe said he told a member of staff who was guarding the door to let him out because he was a doctor.\n\n\"He said 'There's people being attacked, I can't let you out',\" Dr Moses said.\n\n\"I said 'I can't watch them die. You have to let me out and just lock the door after me to keep people safe'.\"\n\nThe court saw footage of Ignacio Echeverría on a Santander bike moments before he was killed\n\nDr Moses looked visibly relieved as he finished giving his evidence. He had only been a junior doctor for about 18 months when he found himself at the centre of the horror unfolding at London Bridge.\n\nHe briefly became upset as he shakily recounted persuading the manager of Lobos to let him go and help.\n\nThe court heard him recall that he was calm and on \"autopilot\" when he rushed out of the restaurant.\n\nHe went on to treat other victims including Ignacio Echeverría. He helped to carry him across London Bridge and continued chest compressions while running.\n\nHe then remembered being told by an air ambulance doctor at the scene: \"You have to treat this like a warzone.\"\n\nThe court was shown a triage sheet from the scene, listing the victims and grading their priority for being taken to hospital.\n\nIt was a stark reminder of the decisions doctors had to take that night.\n\nOnce outside, Dr Moses approached a wounded woman, now known to have been Marie Bondeville.\n\n\"She kept saying she's going to die,\" he told the court.\n\n\"I held her hand. I told her 'You are not going to die. I'm going to save you',\" he said.\n\nMs Bondeville was one of 48 people hurt when Rachid Redouane, Youssef Zagbha and Khuram Butt drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people at random.\n\nDr Moses said he spent about four or five minutes with Ms Bondeville before moving on to help perform CPR on Ignacio Echeverría.\n\nMr Echeverría, 39, had run towards the attackers and tried to beat them with his skateboard when he saw one of them stab Ms Bondeville, according to testimony from his friend Guillermo Sanchez-Montisi.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'My son did what he had to do'\n\nMr Echeverría, Mr Sanchez-Montisi and another friend were cycling along Borough High Street after a day's skateboarding on the South Bank when they saw an injured man running away from London Bridge.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Spaniard Mr Echeverría getting off his bike and running to join PC Wayne Marques and off-duty PC Charles Guenigault who were trying to intervene as the attackers stabbed Ms Bondeville and Oliver Dowling.\n\nMr Echeverría, who worked for HSBC as part of a team fighting money laundering, could then be seen swinging his skateboard at Redouane.\n\nRedouane made a stabbing motion towards Mr Echeverría, who fell to the ground. The footage then showed Zagbha and Redouane attacking him.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said in a statement read in court: \"From the way they were attacking people it was clear that their intentions were to kill everyone.\"\n\nHe said there was a woman, now known to be Ms Bondeville, on the floor being stabbed repeatedly.\n\nMr Echeverría's parents accepted their late son's George Medal from the Queen in October last year\n\nDescribing the moment Mr Echeverría grabbed his skateboard and approached the attackers, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said: \"It was like he didn't even think about it, but reacted immediately.\"\n\n\"One of the attackers was covering his head as Ignacio was hitting him with the skateboard... then suddenly Ignacio was on the floor,\" he added.\n\nMr Sanchez-Montisi said his friend then attempted to fend off the attackers' blows with his skateboard before one of them stabbed him.\n\nMr Echeverría was posthumously awarded the George Medal for his actions.\n\nHis father, Joaquín Echeverría, said the family has not attended the inquest as \"a gesture to show we have complete faith in the justice system in England\".\n\nContinuing his evidence, Mr Sanchez-Montisi said the knifemen looked \"prepared, professional\".\n\nHe said he had to run away because he felt he might become their next target after one attacker \"looked straight at me\".\n\n\"When he was looking at me, his face, he looked like the devil,\" he added. \"It was very painful to leave my friend but we were going to be next.\"\n\n\"I would not wish the feeling impotence, of not being able to do anything, on anyone, even my worst enemy\", he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "International Development Secretary Rory Stewart says Labour and the Conservative are not far apart on what they want from a Brexit deal.", "The US has deployed the aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe message to Tehran is clear: any attack on a US target from whatever source, be it Iran or one of its many proxies or allies in the region, will be met by a significant military response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nIran - not surprisingly - holds to this view, but so too do many domestic critics of the Trump administration's approach.\n\nIndeed, to varying degrees many of Mr Trump's key European allies share some of these concerns.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity.\n\nTheir goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran. And if maximum economic pressure does not work then they believe, military action is not ruled out in the appropriate circumstances.\n\nReinstated US sanctions have pushed Iran's economy towards a deep recession\n\nThese two narratives reflect different interpretations of the reality and, as so often, they play up certain facts and ignore others to make their case.\n\nBut perceptions here matter just as much as reality. Indeed, in many ways they produce the reality.\n\nAnd that reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nTensions in the Middle East are certainly mounting.\n\nIran, its economy suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, is pushing back.\n\nIt has warned that it may no longer abide by the restrictions on its nuclear activities.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has said it does not want to pull out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe arrival of Mr Trump was a turning point.\n\nThe president pulled the US out of the nuclear deal a year ago and embarked upon a policy of maximum pressure against Tehran.\n\nIran has had enough. It is pushing the Europeans to do more to help its ailing economy and threatening if they do not - and it is hard to see what they can do - it will go ahead and breach the nuclear deal.\n\nThat would only give the Trump administration additional ammunition.\n\nJohn Bolton, the US national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran\n\nMuch now depends upon the dynamics inside the Trump administration and also on Tehran's assessment of what is going on there.\n\nThe president himself has sought to play down the idea that his officials are divided regarding Iran, and reports indicate that he has little enthusiasm for war.\n\nHis opposition to military entanglements abroad is well-known. However Mr Trump is unlikely to back down if US forces or facilities are attacked.\n\nHowever this is not necessarily the way things may be seen in Tehran.\n\nMight Iran think that it can play off Mr Bolton against his boss; raising tensions enough for the national security adviser's perceived designs to be revealed perhaps precipitating his downfall?\n\nIf that is Tehran's assessment, then it is a high-risk strategy.\n\nSpain withdrew a frigate from the US carrier strike group amid differences over Iran\n\nWhile Washington's key Middle Eastern allies - Israel and Saudi Arabia - may be applauding from the sidelines, Mr Trump's European partners are uneasy at the way things are heading.\n\nSpain, Germany and the Netherlands have all taken steps to suspend military activities in the region alongside the Americans, citing the rising tensions.\n\nThis is not the moment to rehearse what a conflict between Iran and the US would look like. But comparisons between such a conflict and the 2003 Iraq war are unhelpful.\n\nIran is a very different proposition to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nA full-scale invasion of Iran is not going to be on the cards.\n\nRather, this would be an air and maritime conflict with a huge dose of asymmetry in Iran's responses. It could set the whole region ablaze.\n\nThere were those who predicted a major foreign policy catastrophe when Mr Trump took office.\n\nInstead, there is an unfolding and multi-dimensional crisis that has many elements and the Iran situation illustrates them all: an antipathy to international agreements; an over-reliance on regional allies with their own agendas to pursue; rising tensions with long-standing Nato partners; and, above all, an inability to determine and to prioritise Washington's real strategic interests.\n\nWith the revival of great power competition, when the US is seeking to re-orientate its deployments and to bolster its armed forces to face a rising China and an emboldened Russia, where should Iran rate in Washington's strategic priorities?\n\nThe US sees the thousands of Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary fighters in Iraq as a threat\n\nDoes the Iran threat really merit a major conflict? Many US strategic pundits would say no.\n\nMany accept that containing Tehran and, yes, threatening severe reprisals if US interests are attacked, may be necessary. But the steady drumbeat towards war is not.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.", "A petition calling for soldiers who served in Northern Ireland to be immune from prosecution will be debated by MPs amid reports No 10 has vetoed calls for legislation to protect veterans.\n\nSeveral Tory MPs are expected to urge an end to what they say are \"abhorrent\" proceedings against elderly veterans.\n\nThe petition says criminal probes into historical incidents should be outlawed \"after a certain period of time\".\n\nMinisters are consulting on how to deal with \"legacy\" cases fairly.\n\nSome victims' groups and politicians in Northern Ireland believe that no-one should be above the law.\n\nSix former soldiers are currently facing prosecution over Troubles-era killings, although not all the charges are murder.\n\nThey include Soldier F, who is facing murder charges over the killing of two people - James Wray and William McKinney - on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972.\n\nThere has been increasing political controversy over the extent to which soldiers accused of crimes in the line of duty in Northern Ireland should be investigated.\n\nVeterans protested against historical prosecutions in several UK cities on Saturday\n\nTory MP and ex-soldier Johnny Mercer, who served in Northern Ireland, has withdrawn his support from the government over the issue and called for legislation to limit the scope for further prosecutions.\n\nThe petition being debated on Monday, launched by Karen Webb-James, urges the authorities not to \"prosecute the military for its work in Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe document, which has obtained more than 146,000 signatures, calls for a statute of limitations on prosecutions although it does not specify at what point this should apply.\n\nAny petition with more than 100,000 signatories has to be considered for debate in Westminster Hall - the secondary debating chamber in the Commons.\n\nMr Mercer told Sky News that due legal process had to be followed but the \"endless chase of people to their graves\" did not represent justice.\n\nHe suggested unconfirmed reports in the Sunday Telegraph that the Theresa May had personally blocked legislation giving greater protection to veterans was \"devastating\".\n\nWhile he did not support a blanket amnesty or statute of limitations, he said a presumption against prosecution after 10 years, with a higher evidential threshold, was reasonable.\n\nDefence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said service personnel should not be \"victims of unfounded allegations\"\n\nThe government announced last week that soldiers and veterans will be given stronger legal protections against prosecution for alleged offences committed in action abroad.\n\nThis would not apply to alleged offences in Northern Ireland although Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said she wanted to end the \"chilling effect\" of repeated prosecutions.\n\nDefence minister Tobias Ellwood said legacy cases had not been handled in the best way but the government had to act within the law.\n\n\"You can't give an amnesty just to armed forces personnel, you'd have to share that with terrorists as well,\" he told Sky News. \"[Mrs May] was unwilling to do that. That's international law. That's what we have to abide by.\"\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland said that of 26 so-called legacy cases it has taken decisions on since 2011, 13 related to republicans, eight to loyalists, and five are connected to the Army.\n\nSinn Féin has insisted said there could be \"no immunity or impunity\" for British forces \"guilty of crime, collusion and murder in Ireland\".\n\nIn its formal response to the petition last month, the Northern Ireland Office said no-one could be immune from prosecution, however long ago the alleged offences took place.\n\n\"Where there is evidence of wrongdoing it is right that this should be investigated and, where the evidence exists, for prosecutions to follow,\" it said.\n\nIn response to the Sunday Telegraph story, it said the outcome of the consultation into the current system would be announced as soon as possible.", "Last updated on .From the section Motorsport\n\nBilly Monger has claimed his first victory since having both his legs amputated after a crash two years ago.\n\nMonger, who is competing in Euroformula Open races, won the Pau Grand Prix.\n\n\"Can't believe it, I didn't think two years on I'd be winning races,\" said the 20-year-old Briton.\n\nThe Carlin driver - in a specially adapted car - dropped to last after switching to wet-weather tyres, a strategy which paid off as he surged past other drivers in France.\n\nWhen Motopark duo Julian Hanses and Liam Lawson collided and took each other out, Monger - who had qualified 11th - inherited the lead and held on for victory.\n• None 'I lost my legs but not my daredevil spirit'\n\nHe was seriously injured during a Formula 4 race at Donington Park in April 2017 but returned to racing less than a year after the accident at the British Formula 3 Championship.\n\nMonger and his family had successfully appealed to the sport's international governing body, the FIA, to change its regulations restricting disabled drivers.\n\n'Billy Whizz' became the first disabled driver to race a single-seater car and claimed his maiden British F3 pole position on his return to Donington Park in September 2018.\n\nHe finished sixth overall in the 2018 British F3 Championship, taking two pole positions and three podiums.\n\nMonger's remarkable fortitude saw him recognised with the Helen Rollason Award for courage in the face of adversity at the BBC Sports Personality show in December.\n\nBackstage, the lifetime achievement award winner Billie-Jean King - a tennis icon and equality campaigner - sought out the young racing driver and asked him for a selfie.\n\n\"I'm in awe of his tenacity. It was an honour to meet him,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of fans gathered to cheer on the team\n\nThousands of Manchester City fans lined the city's streets to celebrate their club's historic domestic treble.\n\nAn open-top bus parade left the Town Hall at about 18:15 BST before making its way down Peter Street and along Deansgate.\n\nThe parade finished at the cathedral where the players appeared in front of the huge crowds.\n\nA 6-0 win over Watford in Saturday's FA Cup final followed Premier League and Carabao Cup triumphs this season.\n\nPep Guardiola's side became the first English men's team to complete the domestic treble.\n\nHe told the crowd at the victory parade it was time for \"good dinners and wine\" and \"to enjoy what we have done\" this season.\n\nThe bus was cheered on both sides as it travelled in the city centre\n\nSupporters waved flags in the crowds on a sunny evening in Manchester\n\nPep Guardiola's team secured the Premier League title on the final day of the season\n\nFour generations of the Conlan family, from Cheshire, went to Peter Street for a glimpse of their treble-winning heroes.\n\n\"After 40 years of disappointment this is just fantastic,\" said 76-year-old Mike Conlan.\n\nThe Conlan family from Cheshire brought four generations to celebrate the triumph\n\nFans young and old watched the parade\n\nAdding the Community Shield to the treble, the club have banners and T-shirts calling themselves \"The Fourmidables\".\n\nFans cheered on Vincent Kompany during the celebration parade, a day after he announced he was to become player-manager of Anderlecht.\n\nHe thanked fans and said he had \"given everything\" during 11 years at the club and was proud of that\".\n\nKompany said when he scored from 25 yards against Leicester earlier this month he knew \"I couldn't do anything better\".\n\n\"We were always a great club, with silverware or not, but now we've got it. I'm so proud that we've been able to give you something that was long coming.\"\n\nIn the heart of Manchester, thousands of proud City fans, both young and old, lined the streets to celebrate a historic moment - a day they will never forget.\n\nThe city was painted blue and the excitement was palpable as supporters celebrated the treble triumph.\n\nBlue and white flags adorned the buildings with pride and the deafening chanting, cheering and trumpet playing grew louder as each minute ticked by.\n\nIn a fitting tribute, the blue sky even made an appearance - a rare sight in a typically rainy Manchester - for a celebration City fans will hope they will witness again next season.\n\nThe Gartside family said it was a season to remember\n\nRoy Gartside was joined by his brothers and 12-year-old nephew to watch his beloved team during the city centre parade.\n\nThe 55-year-old said: \"I'm just over the blue moon. It's just fantastic. It tops everything.\"\n\nJames Swindells has followed Manchester City since 1965. The 58-year-old, who was accompanied by his wife and children to the parade, said: \"It's our time now.\"\n\nManchester City women's team, who won the FA Cup and League Cup double this year, showed off their silverware too.\n\nJill Scott and Steph Houghton of Manchester City lift the SSE Women's FA Cup trophy\n\nCaptain Steph Houghton said it was \"incredible\" to be part of the parade.\n\n\"Wow. It's unbelievable,\" she said.\n\n\"We have never been a part of something like this. Some of the girls are only 18, 19, so it pushes us to do well next season.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Belfast woman has said her life was ruined after she was given infected blood in a transfusion.\n\nMarie Cromie found out she had hepatitis C in 2005 and has had to have two liver transplants.\n\nShe spoke ahead of the public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal starting to hear evidence from people in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nThousands are believed to have been infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses through contaminated blood products.\n\nOthers who had blood transfusions after surgery in the 1970s and 1980s were also exposed to contaminated blood.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI, Ms Cromie described her shock and anger at being told she was infected and said it \"took away part of my life with my children, with my grandchildren\".\n\nThe public inquiry into contaminated blood arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday\n\nMeanwhile, a letter has been sent by party leaders and senior MPs to the prime minister, calling for compensation.\n\nAmong those who signed it are Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Nigel Dodds.\n\nThe public inquiry will hear evidence in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast over four days.\n\nSome of the Northern Ireland victims and their families will give evidence - among them will be Mrs Cromie's daughter Danielle Mullan.\n\nMrs Mullan said the family's world had been \"turned upside down\" by the diagnosis.\n\nShe said: \"It was really hard because I was no longer a daughter, I was more a carer to my mum.\"\n\nShe said that as the years went on it became harder as she saw the complications her mother was having to endure.\n\nMrs Cromie has traced the hepatitis back to a blood transfusion she had to have when her son was born in 1981.\n\nUntil she began to feel very unwell in 2005, she was unaware she had been infected.\n\nAfter testing, a consultant told her she had hepatitis C, that it had already begun to affect her liver and that she would eventually need a transplant.\n\nShe has since undergone two transplants, the second of which took place in 2015 at King's College Hospital in London.\n\nMrs Cromie described being at \"death's door\" waiting for a suitable liver and said it was \"horrible\" having to say goodbye to Mrs Mullan in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I just looked at her and thought: 'I mightn't see you again.'\"\n\nMarie Cromie has had two liver transplants\n\nThe problem dates back to the 1970s when blood-clotting products imported from the US caused some patients to be infected with HIV and hepatitis.\n\nThat is because some of the human blood plasma used to make the products came from donors such as prisoners and prostitutes, who sold their blood.\n\nThe blood products were made by pooling plasma from up to 40,000 donors and concentrating it.\n\nWarnings were raised as early as 1974.\n\nEight years later as the Aids crisis unfolded, the Department of Health in Westminster received expert advice that they should be withdrawn but that was not heeded until 1986.\n\nFamilies want to know why and who within the NHS and the government knew what and when.\n\nFor Mrs Mullan, the seriousness of her mother's condition became clear after a particularly frightening incident when she began to vomit up blood at home.\n\nShe said: \"I went into the bedroom and turned on the light and there was just gallons of blood. Blood after blood. It just kept coming up, wouldn't stop.\n\n\"We phoned for an ambulance, got her to the hospital.\n\n\"They told us it was touch and go for the night and that for me was when it really hit home.\"\n\nDanielle Mullan will give evidence to the inquiry\n\nShe said at that moment she realised her mother was battling something \"way beyond\" a normal infection.\n\nThe public inquiry into what's been called the \"biggest treatment scandal in NHS history\" was announced in 2017.\n\nThe first witness evidence began to be heard in London in April 2019.\n\nBoth women said they would like answers and for someone to take responsibility.\n\nMrs Cromie said: \"Why did somebody take the decision to buy infected blood? To take infected blood from America, from prisoners, drug addicts and give it to us innocent people who needed the blood?\"\n\nMrs Mullan said she would also like better understanding.\n\nShe said: \"I want to kill the stigma that comes with the disease, so many people over the years, you mention the word hepatitis and automatically people think - they must have been a drug user, they were an alcoholic.\n\n\"That's not the case, my mum and all the people who were involved in this inquiry were victims in this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Derek Martindale's brother was also infected with HIV: \"He knew he was dying... I wasn't there for him\"\n\nFor Mrs Cromie, the public inquiry hearings in Belfast are another step on a long road.\n\nShe said: \"At the start when I got it I was told by a couple of nurses, hepatitis nurses, not to tell too many people.\n\n\"I just had to say: 'Oh I caught a virus.'\n\n\"That's what I said instead of being able to say: 'I got hepatitis C through infected blood.'\"\n\n\"But now, I will say to people when they say about, you know, your transplants and things, I say: 'Yeah I got it through contaminated blood.'\n\n\"And my husband says the same to people. Through no fault of my own, I got it.\"", "Brooks Koepka held off world number one Dustin Johnson to retain his US PGA Championship title and win a fourth major on a dramatic day at Bethpage.\n\nThe 2017 and 2018 US Open champion, who had a seven-shot lead at the start of the final round, saw that cut to one after four bogeys from the 11th.\n\nBut Johnson dropped shots on the 16th and 17th as Koepka, who carded a four-over 74, won by two on eight under.\n\nEngland's Matt Wallace tied for third, earning his best finish at a major.\n\nThe 29-year-old signed for a two-over 72 to finish on two under, alongside Americans Jordan Spieth (71) and Patrick Cantley (71).\n\nThe top six were the only golfers to finish the tournament under par at the brutal Black Course, which was made even harder on the final day with the wind gusting up to 35mph.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Ireland's Shane Lowry were among those to finish joint eighth on one over after both ended with 69s.\n\nWorld number three Koepka, who earned a winner's cheque of $1.98m (£1.56m) and became the first person to successfully defend the US PGA Championship and the US Open, said: \"I'm just glad we didn't have to play any more holes. That was a stressful round of golf.\n\n\"I'm glad to have this trophy back in my hands. With the 'DJ' chants, I was aware of what was going on. He did an unbelievable job of putting pressure on me.\n\n\"When they started chanting for DJ on the 14th, it actually helped. It helped me focus. I think it was the best thing that could've happened.\"\n\nWhen asked if it surprised him, Koepka replied: \"It's New York. What do you expect when you're half-choking it away?\"\n\nFinal round comes to life at Bethpage\n\nAfter an almost processional opening three rounds at the Long Island course in New York state where Koepka dominated, the tournament came to life during the final round as the wind stiffened and Johnson, playing a couple of groups ahead, finally applied pressure.\n\nKoepka's stern demeanour looked unshakeable as he set the lowest 36-hole score in majors to take a seven-shot lead, a margin which remained after the third round when he shot a level-par 70 because his rivals were unable to mount a serious challenge.\n\nBut on Sunday's back nine his driving was erratic and his approach play and putting withered.\n\nJohnson, who holed three birdies on the front nine, closed within one with another birdie on the 15th. However, the 2016 US Open champion then handed the advantage back to Koepka with bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes and he has now finished runner-up at each of golf's four men's majors.\n\nIt was still a nervy finish for Koepka, who also bogeyed the 17th to hold a two-shot lead with one to play.\n\nHe then hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker down the last.\n\nHowever, a good recovery to the middle of the fairway and a chip on to the green helped him finish with a par to win the Wanamaker Trophy.\n\nKoepka, who led from start to finish, has now won four majors in his previous eight starts - only legends Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods can match or better that record.\n\nQuestions will remain about 34-year-old Johnson's ability to add to his solitary major, given the back nine collapse from Koepka.\n\nOnce the leader chalked up a fourth straight bogey on the 14th, Johnson almost immediately faltered on the 16th, failing to hole a seven-foot par putt as he also dropped a shot.\n\nHe then missed the green on the par-three 17th, which resulted in another bogey and that was the end of his challenge.\n\nKoepka found his range from the tee to par the 15th and 16th holes, and although another dropped shot followed on the 17th, by then Johnson was in the scorer's hut checking his card.\n\n\"With this golf course and this amount of wind, it's definitely one of the tougher days we've played,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"I'm happy with the way I played, I knew it was going to be a big feat to catch Brooks but I definitely gave him a run so I'm happy with that.\"\n\nThe tournament was also a return to form for Spieth, who needs to win the US PGA Championship to complete a career Grand Slam.\n\nThe 25-year-old was the last player to win a major from start to finish, at the 2015 Masters, but has failed to post a top-10 finish on the PGA Tour since finishing tied ninth at the 2018 Open Championship.\n\n\"This is the best I've felt in quite a while,\" he said. \"I put in more hours over the last five months than I ever have, just trying to get to where I can be out here on a major championship Sunday and contending.\"\n\nAlthough McIlroy and Lowry shone over the course of the weekend with successive under-par rounds, Wallace was the only genuine European contender down the final nine holes.\n\nHaving almost won at the British Masters in Southport last weekend, where he apologised for showing his frustration after a missed putt on the last, the three-time European Tour winner proved that he can compete with the world's best.\n\nDespite being a player who likes to chase a score, rather than stay patient as many advised at Bethpage's Black Course, he reached the turn at five under and looked set to improve on that after negotiating the tough 10th and 11th holes in par.\n\nBut a double bogey on the 12th was a round-spoiler and a further bogey on 17 denied him a possible third-place finish on his own.\n\nFellow Englishmen Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and Danny Willett all started the day on level par, but Rose's 75, Fleetwood's 78 and Willett's 77 meant they all finished way down the leaderboard.\n\nWillett, who had been two under after eight holes, then triple bogeyed the ninth before a double bogey on 11.\n\n\"That was hard,\" Wallace told Sky Sports. \"I had a little wobble on 12 mentally and had to knuckle down. It was tough at the end, I don't think I hit a green in regulation but it was satisfying for sure.\n\n\"I'm buzzing for the next major. I've shown that I can compete. I'm a little bit far away from the leaders but that's a few putts here and there. I feel I'm right there mentally. The approach is going right and hopefully I can do that at the next tournament.\"\n\nMcIlroy added: \"I'm proud of myself, I didn't let my head drop and I tried to the very end.\n\n\"Today was a nice way to finish. It was a really hard day to putt because of the wind, so there was a little less expectation. I just sort of let it go.\"", "Chris Smalling was approached about 70 minutes into the match at the Emirates Stadium\n\nA man has admitted assaulting Manchester United defender Chris Smalling during a Premier League match at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.\n\nGary Cooper, 30, ran onto the pitch about 70 minutes into the 10 March match, which Arsenal won 2-0.\n\nCooper, of Styventon Place, Chertsey, Surrey, changed his plea to guilty to an assault charge on Thursday.\n\nMagistrates fined him £235, ordered him to pay £100 compensation and he was given 120 hours unpaid work.\n\nHe had previously admitted invading the pitch and also received a football banning order for four years at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court.", "Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson described protests over lessons at her school as aggressive\n\nA head teacher at a primary school giving lessons on LGBT equality has received threatening emails and phone calls.\n\nPolice are investigating messages sent to Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson at Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham.\n\nThere have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which \"hundreds\" of pupils were kept away on Monday.\n\nBirmingham MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone at the school to limit where people can demonstrate.\n\nThe city council is looking into Ms Phillips' request, with the authority's leader saying some outside the school are \"peddling hatred\".\n\nThe complaints at Anderton Park, mainly from Muslim protesters, focus on lessons for which pupils have been given books featuring cross-dressing children and gay families.\n\nThe protests' leader says that amounts to \"social engineering\".\n\nSimilar teaching has been opposed in letters sent predominantly by conservative Muslims to schools across England, BBC Newsnight reported last week.\n\nRailings at Anderton Park Primary School have been adorned with heart-shaped messages of support\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said of the protests: \"There's a whole variety of emotions: embarrassment for lots of our community and our parents who think this is just awful what's happening; frustration that it's going on so long; frustration that great British laws like 'you can protest peacefully' actually are causing us a problem.\n\n\"It's interesting what a normal person on the street would think peaceful means and what actually is peaceful outside here.\"\n\nShe described the scene in the Sparkhill area of the city as \"very loud, it's very aggressive, it's tiresome\".\n\nMs Hewitt-Clarkson said she was \"meeting lots of parents\", with a series of 12 meetings set up between now and the end of June.\n\nShe also denied a claim from some parents that she is Islamophobic, saying she believed in \"equality for everybody\".\n\nIn England, relationships education will be compulsory for all primary pupils from September 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and campaigners have been protesting for seven weeks.\n\nShakeel Afsar is the leader of the Anderton Park protests, although he has no children at the school.\n\nHe said the school had pulled \"the shutters down\" on parental engagement and was promoting LGBT lifestyles to children.\n\nHe said 600 pupils were kept from school on Monday \"to make it crystal clear we will not have our children indoctrinated or participating in any social engineering programmes which undermine our family values by promoting child sexualisation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is in the books that parents are protesting about?\n\nAnderton Park said more than half of the 700-strong student body had attended school. The council has been contacted to confirm attendance figures.\n\nOvernight, counter-protesters adorned the site with heart-shaped messages featuring the words \"love is the answer\".\n\nWest Midlands Police, which is investigating the threats against Ms Hewitt-Clarkson, said officers were also looking into \"disorder\" outside the school in which eggs were thrown at the counter-protesters.\n\nThe force said it was investigating three reports of assault and two of criminal damage.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOutside the school earlier, Mr Afsar was involved in a stand-up disagreement with Ms Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley.\n\nShe said protesters could not \"pick and choose\" which equality they could and could not have.\n\nSaying the worst thing about the protests was damage \"to the reputation of a peaceful\" community, she called for an exclusion area \"to protect the 700 children in this school\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, said he had asked authority officers to see whether they could use a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to counter the protests.\n\nHe said: \"If a PSPO is not appropriate, then we will look at alternative options, because the children and staff at Anderton Park have a right to attend school without this daily disruption.\n\n\"It's one thing for parents to ask questions about elements of a school curriculum, it's quite another for others to pounce on the situation as an excuse to peddle hatred and misinformation.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said PSPO proposals would normally go out to public consultation and, based on response, a decision made by the authority and \"police leads\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thomas Cook is trying to sell its fleet of planes\n\nTroubled travel firm Thomas Cook has been reassuring customers who contacted the firm with concerns about holiday trips, after its share price crashed.\n\nIts share price fell sharply at the end of last week, and it dropped a further 14% on Monday to just 10p.\n\nThomas Cook has been reassuring people on social media, and in a statement at the weekend, telling customers that it is \"business as usual\".\n\nThe firm also said it was looking to strengthen its financial position.\n\nOn Sunday, Thomas Cook said: \"We have the support of our lending banks and major shareholders, and just this week we agreed additional funding for our coming winter cash low period.\n\n\"We have ample resources to operate our business and at the same time, as usual, our liquidity position continues to strengthen into the summer period.\"\n\nThomas Cook also said: \"We're responsible for taking over 20 million people abroad on holiday every year and we take that responsibility very seriously. As an ATOL-protected business, our customers can have complete confidence in booking their holiday with us.\"\n\nProtection under the ATOL - or Air Travel Organiser's Licence - scheme means UK travellers on an air package holiday do not lose their money or become stranded abroad if a holiday firm collapses.\n\nIt also covers many charter flights and means that, if the operator collapses while people are away, they can finish their holiday and be flown home at no extra cost.\n\nIf the business collapses before they go away, the scheme will provide a replacement holiday of equal value, or a refund.\n\nWhen flights are booked on their own, or when people book flights and accommodation separately, the ATOL scheme does not usually come into effect. However, the ATOL scheme does now cover more custom-built holidays than it used to.\n\nIf a holiday is ATOL-protected it will be clearly marked with a certificate on holiday documents. The scheme is run by the UK Civil Aviation Authority and is backed by the UK government.\n\nThomas Cook released its statement after concerned customers asked the firm on social media if it was \"about to go under\" or \"going into administration\".\n\nOthers had queried if the firm was \"in danger of collapsing\", and if their holiday flights and packages were safe.\n\nBut on Twitter, Thomas Cook said: \"We have been taking customers on their holidays with us for 175 years and we plan to do so for a very long time.\"\n\nIt also said: \"We are very much trading as normal and we aren't going into administration\".\n\nOn Friday, analysts at Citigroup said the travel firm's shares were \"worthless\".\n\nThe bank's damning conclusion came a day after Thomas Cook issued its third profit warning in less than a year and reported a £1.5bn half-year loss.\n\nCitigroup analysts also pointed to a warning from auditor EY in Thomas' Cook's results which warned of \"material uncertainties\" over the group's sale of its airline, on which a new £300m bank facility depends.\n\nThomas Cook is in the process of seeking bidders for its fleet of 105 jets as it tries to raise funds for the business. It says it has received \"multiple bids\" for the fleet.\n\nThe company is also seeking to cut costs. It has closed 21 of its High Street stores, its currency arm Thomas Cook Money is under review and more \"cost efficiencies\" are planned.\n\nIt has blamed a series of problems for its profit warnings, including political unrest in holiday destinations such as Turkey, last summer's prolonged heatwave and customers delaying booking holidays due to Brexit. But it has also suffered from competition from online travel agents and low-cost airlines.", "The activists were calling on BP to end exploration for oil and gas\n\nA climate change protest which blocked entrances to BP's head office in central London has now ended.\n\nThe Greenpeace activists had placed five large steel containers outside each of the entrances to the building in St James's Square.\n\nKitted out with food, a chemical toilet and internet access, each box contained two protesters who were expected to remain in place for several days.\n\nBut Met Police officers removed them in the early evening, making 10 arrests.\n\nEarlier, four people were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after protesters abseiled down side of the building to block windows and display banners.\n\nThe aim of the protest was to keep BP's headquarters closed \"for at least the whole of this AGM week\", Greenpeace said.\n\nThe company's annual general meeting is set to take place in Aberdeen on Tuesday.\n\nActivists want BP to end exploration for oil and gas, and only invest in renewable energy.\n\nSome campaigners abseiled down the building in St James's Square\n\nIn a statement, BP said: \"We welcome discussion, debate, even peaceful protest on the important matter of how we must all work together to address the climate challenge, but impeding safe entry and exit from an office building in this way is dangerous and clearly a matter for the police to resolve as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK rail passengers lost an estimated 3.9 million hours to delays in 2018, according to consumer group Which?\n\nThe data covers trains which arrived at their destination 30 minutes or more late, and is based on 8.1 million such journeys in the year.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said \"rail companies are working together to improve punctuality\".\n\nAnother 660 trains per day were cancelled.\n\nIt was the highest figure for cancellations since comparable records began in 2011, according to Which?, which used Office of Rail and Road data to compile its results.\n\nPassenger groups are keen to avoid last year's chaos, when thousands of trains were cancelled amid a change of timetables.\n\nWeather, strikes and signalling failures last year also brought down train reliability.\n\n\"Passengers have faced a torrid time on the trains since the beginning of last year where the rail industry has fundamentally failed on punctuality and reliability,\" the group's head of campaigns Neena Bhati said.\n\n\"People then face a messy and complex compensation system which puts them off claiming when things go wrong.\"\n\nMuch of the information needed for a claim is on a standard rail ticket.\n\n1. Class of seat | 2. Peak or non-peak | 3. Single, return, or monthly | 4. Date the ticket is valid | 5. Ticket number, and adjacent reference number | 6. Where ticket is from and to | 7. End date | 8. Price | Other details can include the fact it is a paper ticket, any connections, proof of purchase, and how it was paid for\n\nWhich? said that 36% of passengers do not claim delay compensations they are owed, and suggested that the payments should be automatic.\n\n\"We know that services on some routes weren't good enough last year and rail companies are working together to improve punctuality and tackle delays across the country,\" said Robert Nisbet, regional director of industry body the Rail Delivery Group.\n\n\"Train companies want to make it simple and easy for customers to claim compensation if they've experienced a delay.\"\n\n\"Half of the franchises managed by the Department for Transport pay compensation after 15 minutes and some operators have introduced automatic refunds, helping claims to increase by 80% over the last two years.\"\n\nA review of the rail industry was commissioned last year, following criticism of the way the franchising model is run.\n\nIt is being led by former chief executive of British Airways, Keith Williams, who said it will consider all options, including renationalisation.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said the Rail Review is \"focused on reforms to put passengers at the heart of the railway and will consider all submissions closely\",\n\nPassenger satisfaction with rail services fell to a 10-year low, according to a report published in January by the independent transport watchdog, Transport Focus.\n\nA survey of 25,000 people found 79% were satisfied overall with services, the lowest since 2008, with more than one in five passengers not satisfied.", "The good will of nurses in England is being abused by politicians who have failed to get to grips with a desperate shortage of staff, nurse leaders say.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Dame Donna Kinnair will call for safe staffing levels to be enshrined in law in a speech on Monday.\n\nThere are currently nearly 40,000 nurse vacancies - one in nine posts.\n\nHowever, the government says it is committed to increasing the number of nurses in training.\n\nBut Dame Donna, in an address to the RCN's annual conference in Liverpool, will say this is not enough.\n\nA report earlier this year by three leading think tanks warned vacancies could rise to 70,000 within five years and 100,000 in 10 if action was not taken.\n\nDame Donna will say the situation has been made worse by the removal of a student bursary for trainees and the introduction of tuition fees in 2016.\n\nShe will also say the good will of nurses is being abused - and that ministers need to consider the financial and human cost of leaving jobs unfilled.\n\nShe will demand tougher rules on safe staffing be introducing, criticising the \"vague metric\" currently used which does not distinguish between care provided by registered nurses or healthcare assistants.\n\nDame Donna will point to the new staffing law in Scotland, which cleared its final parliamentary hurdle earlier this month, as evidence of how legislation can be introduced.\n\nScotland is now the second country in the UK to set staffing accountability in law after Wales became the first in Europe to legislate in 2016.\n\nShe will say: \"We will not stop until people are held to account for the desperate shortages each and every one of us has witnessed. Politicians must stop short-changing the public.\n\n\"They must stop the rot and put an end to the workforce crisis in nursing.\n\n\"Rather than only looking at the cost of educating and employing nurses, the government must think about the true cost - financial and human - of not doing it.\n\n'Employers, decision-makers and ministers with the power to change things should not let individual nurses take the blame for systemic failings.\n\n\"The goodwill of nursing staff is being abused and politicians must know it is running out. I will not stand by while this profession is denigrated.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has already announced plans to increase training places by 25% - and the NHS in England is now working on a long-term plan for the workforce.\n\nA spokeswoman praised the \"commitment\" of nurses and said the government would \"secure\" the staff the service needed.", "A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting who later became a prominent advocate for fighting addiction has been found dead at his Colorado home.\n\nAustin Eubanks, 37, was shot in the hand and knee in the 1999 Columbine attack, in which 12 of his classmates and a teacher were killed.\n\nHe became addicted to drugs after taking pain medication while recovering from his injuries.\n\nOfficials say there were no signs of foul play in his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Columbine changed my life: Samantha Haviland was a student at when the 1999 shooting happened\n\nEubanks's body was discovered on Saturday at his home in Steamboats Springs, Colorado, Routt County Coroner Robert Ryg said.\n\nA post-mortem examination to establish the cause of death was planned for Monday.\n\nHis family said he had \"lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face\".\n\n\"As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened and request that our privacy is respected at this time,\" they added in a statement reported by local TV station KMGH.\n\nEubanks told the BBC in 2017 of how the attack, which killed his best friend, led him to addiction.\n\n\"I was medicated on a variety of substances that were intended to sedate and to relieve pain,\" he said.\n\n\"I became addicted before I even knew what was happening.\"\n\nEubanks later worked at an addiction treatment centre and travelled the US telling his story and working to improve addiction recovery and prevention.\n\nThe Columbine High School shooting took place on 20 April, 1999 when two students killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher. They then killed themselves.\n\nIt was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in US history.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is not defining voters on how they voted in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, he rejected claims that his party does not have a clear position on Brexit.", "The boss of Lloyds Bank in Scotland has predicted traditional branches will still be around in 30 or 40 years, as he announced a digital expansion.\n\nPhilip Grant said the banking group was creating 500 high-skilled tech jobs in Edinburgh because customers wanted more access to financial services online.\n\nMr Grant said he understood concerns about branch closures.\n\nBut he said Lloyds was committed to maintaining face-to-face services for vulnerable and other customers.\n\nThe bank's new tech hub will be based at its Scottish Widows headquarters, with the new jobs phased in over the next 18 months.\n\nThe hub will develop technology for a number of the bank's brands\n\nIt will develop new technology for Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Scottish Widows customers.\n\nThe announcement comes after a £3bn investment was announced last year to overhaul digital services.\n\nMost high street banks, including Lloyds, have been shutting branches in recent years as more customers conduct their banking through apps or on the internet.\n\nLast year, the group earmarked more than 60 branches for closure, while in 2017 it closed dozens of Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax branches.\n\nMr Grant told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that Lloyds Banking Group ran one in five UK bank branches, but now also operated Britain's biggest digital bank, with 16 million users.\n\nAnd he said 70% of new products offered by Lloyds were acquired online.\n\nPhilip Grant said the group's tech labs were \"designing what customers will need in the future\"\n\nOn branch closures, Mr Grant said: \"While I understand the concern at a local level about changes we're making to that part of our service, we have a responsibility to invest in our new growing part of our business at the same time.\n\n\"The move towards digital is helping us be much more efficient, but there are lots of times when our customers need a space to come and talk to us.\n\n\"We have vulnerable customers who need that attention, and there are 'moments of truth' in our life experience where you need to speak to an individual.\n\n\"We're also making that available digitally as well, through digital videos on our app.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think there is still a place for branch and if I was a betting man, I would say in 30 or 40 years, we'll still have bank branches in Scotland.\"\n\nMr Grant, who has just been named as the new chairman of the industry body Scottish Financial Enterprise, said Scotland was a great place to grow a business, despite some challenges.\n\n\"Right now the whole sector is focussing on readiness for Brexit - supporting customers in whatever the next weeks and months bring,\" he said.\n\n\"Beyond that, the biggest challenge we have is skills and talent and ensuring in the rapid changes in our business that we can anticipate them.\"\n\nMr Grant said there was now a drive to attract software engineers, designers and other people with technology skills who would not have previously thought of a career in financial services.\n\nHe said: \"I think that's one of our biggest challenges - keeping pace with that.\"\n\nFor the latest business news as it happens, follow BBC presenter Andrew Black's updates each weekday morning on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme between 0600 and 0900.", "MPs who want to deliver the referendum result should vote for the government's Brexit bill and worry about the detail afterwards, a senior minister has said.\n\nA vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that will implement Brexit - is expected early next month.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said MPs should back it \"no matter the details\" they want in a future relationship.\n\nBut ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis says if the bill passes, the PM's successor will \"have their hands tied\".\n\nTheresa May announced last week that MPs would vote on the bill in the week beginning 3 June. If it is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says the vote \"really is the last roll of the dice\" for the prime minister, who has had her withdrawal agreement with the EU rejected three times in the Commons.\n\nMrs May last week promised to set out the timetable for her own departure after the vote.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"If you want, as an MP, to leave the European Union and deliver on the result of referendum - no matter the details you want to see in terms of the future relationship - you need to vote for legislation and then have the debate in the committee stages later on exactly what the details are.\n\n\"No doubt there will be votes on really big issues, on whether to have a 'People's vote' or whether to have a customs union, both of which I'm against.\"\n\nThe committee stage is where a bill is considered line-by-line by MPs and is an opportunity for changes to be made to the wording or new clauses to be added.\n\nAny fresh demands that Parliament came up with at that stage - for example, for a customs union with the EU - would then need to be taken back to Brussels.\n\nThe EU has said it will not re-open negotiations on the withdrawal agreement, but could make changes to the political declaration - a non-binding document that sketches out the shape of the future relationship between it and the UK.\n\nTheresa May insists that the Brexit plan she'll discuss with her cabinet on Tuesday is \"new\" - and not to be confused with the deal that went down to defeat three times in the Commons.\n\nAnd some of it will represent a fresh approach - further moves on workers' rights to try to appeal to Labour MPs, for example. But some of it will be familiar, including the controversial Northern Ireland backstop which the DUP and Conservative Brexiteers, in particular, loathe.\n\nIrrespective of the specifics, Matt Hancock gave a sneak preview of the argument the prime minister will make herself.\n\nShe plans to deliver a speech later this week spelling out that this could be the last chance of leaving the EU with a deal.\n\nVote down the latest legislation, and both no deal and no Brexit at all become more likely.\n\nThe trouble is, some MPs find the former attractive and others are willing to gamble on the latter.\n\nMr Hancock, who is tipped as a potential centrist candidate for next Tory leader, insisted Mrs May's Brexit plan would include \"new proposals\" for MPs to vote on - those are expected to include enhanced protection for workers' rights and the environment.\n\nBut prominent Brexiteer Mr Davis, who is firmly on the right of the party, told BBC Radio 4's Today he would not support the bill and rejected the idea it was \"a great new offer\".\n\n\"If we pass that act, it opens things up so that a successor to the prime minister, the next prime minister, will have their hands tied,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the next prime minister must have the right to reset the negotiation on their terms.\"\n\nChange UK's interim leader Heidi Allen told Today she believed the issue of Brexit was going \"around and round in circles\" and Mrs May's plan would fail in the Commons once again.\n\n\"I just don't believe that deal will go through, nor have we for many, many months now,\" she said.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would consider any new proposals \"very carefully\", but he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nAs things stand, Labour MPs will vote against it, he said.\n\nTalks between the government and Labour - to see if they could find a compromise Brexit deal, despite differences over issues including membership of a customs union and a further referendum - lasted six weeks before ending on Friday without agreement.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer blamed the collapse of talks on the inability to \"future proof\" any agreement against an \"incoming Tory leader\", and said although the two sides had conducted the talks \"in good faith\", they were \"a long way apart\" on substance.\n\nBut Mrs May blamed the lack of a \"common position\" within Labour, and said she would consider putting different Brexit options to MPs to see which ones \"command a majority\".\n\nDowning Street said the cabinet would discuss the merits of holding such indicative votes at its meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock, when asked whether he would run for Tory leadership, said he didn't \"rule out\" standing in a future contest but added: \"There isn't a vacancy as yet.\"\n\n\"I find it flattering that a lot of people have asked me to put my name forward,\" he said.", "The Wikileaks founder was holed up in Ecuador's London embassy for seven years to avoid extradition to Sweden\n\nEcuador has seized some of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange's possessions left behind following his stay in its London embassy.\n\nAn Ecuadorean judge authorised the seizure after a request for assistance by the US.\n\nWikileaks said Ecuador was allowing US prosecutors to \"help themselves to Assange's belongings\".\n\nThe material includes manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment, Wikileaks said.\n\nMr Assange's lawyer called it \"completely unprecedented in the history of asylum\".\n\n\"Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee's personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from,\" added lawyer Aitor Martinez.\n\nForeign Minister José Valencia said last week that the decision which items to share with US authorities should be taken by the Ecuadorean prosecutor's office and that any handover would be carried out \"in full compliance with the law\".\n\nWikileaks' Editor-in-Chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in a statement that there was \"no doubt that Ecuador has tampered with the belongings it will send to the United States\".\n\nThe US is seeking Assange's extradition from the UK over his alleged role in the release of classified military and diplomatic material by Wikileaks in 2010.\n\nMr Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh prison for skipping his extradition order to Sweden\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the US. He is accused of participating in one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets, which could result in a prison term of up to five years.\n\nThe 47-year-old whistleblower is already facing moves to extradite him to Sweden.\n\nIn 2010, a Swedish woman accused him of rape after they met at a WikiLeaks conference in Stockholm. Assange has always denied the allegations, and sought refuge in Ecuador's embassy for seven years to avoid a British extradition order to Sweden.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London\n\nThe charges were dropped in 2017, but on Monday prosecutors issued a renewed request to hold Mr Assange on suspicion of rape - a first step towards seeking his extradition.\n\nSwedish deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, said in a statement a request had been filed with the Uppsala district court to have Assange detained in his absence.\n\nShe added that once the court had granted the request, she would then ask British authorities to transfer Assange to Sweden.\n\nMr Assange was arrested on 11 April after being handed over to British authorities by Ecuador. He is serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh prison for skipping his extradition order.\n\nCorrection 21 May 2019: A previous version of this article stated that Julian Assange's possessions had been handed over to the US. This has been amended to clarify that they have been seized by the Ecuadorean authorities following a US request.\n\nCorrection 4th June 2019: This article has been amended to remove a reference to \"rape charges\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart: \"Part of the bold offer will be around workers' rights\"\n\nTheresa May has said a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal will be put to MPs when they vote on the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Mrs May said the bill will be a \"bold offer\".\n\nCabinet minister Rory Stewart told the BBC he hoped extra guarantees on workers' rights would enable \"sensible\" Labour MPs to support the government.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill and it was \"very difficult\" to see it making progress.\n\nWhile he would consider new proposals \"very carefully\", he said what was being talked about did not appear \"fundamentally different\" from what was already on the table.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said support in Scotland for staying in the EU had strengthened since the 2016 referendum - when 62% of voters backed Remain - and voters should send a clear message about this in Thursday's European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"Every other party is ...defining everybody on 2016. We're not\"\n\nMrs May announced this week that MPs would vote on the bill - which would bring the withdrawal agreement into UK law - in the week beginning 3 June. If the bill is not passed, the default position is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal.\n\nLabour has said it will vote against the bill after talks with the government on trying to agree a compromise acceptable to its MPs broke down.\n\nThe bill risks failing to clear its first parliamentary hurdle, with many Conservative Brexiteers, as well as the DUP, SNP and Liberal Democrats, also opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The SNP has been clear and straight with people: We want to keep Scotland in the EU\"\n\nBut in her Sunday Times piece, Mrs May said she will \"not be simply asking MPs to think again\" on the same deal that they have repeatedly rejected - but on \"an improved packaged of measures that I believe can win new support\".\n\nThe PM said she wanted MPs to consider the new deal \"with fresh pairs of eyes - and to give it their support\".\n\nWith any sales pitch that sounds like it's too good to be true, it's important to check the small print.\n\nAnd so with Theresa May's promise of a \"new and improved\" Brexit deal - MPs will be wondering what exactly has changed.\n\nA promise of a further referendum would win plenty of support from Labour but Downing Street's ruled that out.\n\nChanges to the Withdrawal Agreement, including the Northern Ireland backstop, would sway the DUP and many of her own MPs, but the EU won't agree to that.\n\nAdditions on workers' rights and environmental protections might be enough to sway a few Labour votes.\n\nAnd there may be - after a series of votes in Parliament - some movement on the UK's future customs relationship with the EU, but that is as likely to turn off Tory MPs as it is to woo the opposition.\n\nNot for the first time there appear to be no good options for Theresa May.\n\nBut a \"bold offer\" is quite a promise to make, and if her deal has a hope of passing, she will somehow have to live up to it.\n\nRory Stewart, who is the international development secretary, suggested the two main parties were \"about half an inch apart\" on the three main issues under discussion - protecting employment rights and environmental standards and having a strong trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.\n\n\"None of us want to remain in the European Union, none of us want a no-deal Brexit which means logically there has to be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the territory of a deal and where we need to focus is Parliament and particularly getting Labour votes across - maybe not Jeremy Corbyn's vote but there are many other moderate, sensible Labour MPs that we should be able to bring across.\"\n\nWhile Labour \"reserved the right\" to consider new proposals, Mr Corbyn said the official talks were at an end and he would not hand ministers a \"blank cheque\"\n\nAny agreement, he said, must include the scope for future governments to exceed the EU's employment and environmental standards not just keep pace with them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Vince Cable: \"It's absolutely clear that no Brexit is where we should be going\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"Faced with no-deal or revocation, you've got to revoke\"\n\nOn the issue of another referendum, he said Labour had kept the option on the table but any vote would have to be on a \"credible\" deal - which he suggested did not exist right now.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said he would be prepared to support the bill if the government agreed to give the public the final say on the terms of exit in a referendum.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr his party had discussed the \"practicalities\" of holding another public vote and it was possible before the 31 October deadline.\n\n\"We need a proper referendum that will come to a resolution on the issue, with remain on the ballot paper.\"\n\nBut Change UK spokesman Chuka Umunna said there was \"simply not enough time\" to hold a referendum before 31 October.\n\nGiven it was \"almost certain\" the Withdrawal Agreement Bill would be defeated, he said the only option was for the the UK to stop Brexit by revoking Article 50.\n\n\"We are facing a national emergency,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\n\"What would be undemocratic would be imposing a no-deal Brexit on the British people that there is not a mandate for.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives jostling to be the next prime minister\n\nA cabinet meeting on Tuesday is to consider plans for another series of \"indicative votes\" by MPs to establish which proposals could command a majority.\n\nAsked if he would accept anything backed by Parliament, which has so far failed to unite behind an alternative, Mr Corbyn said it was \"very unlikely\" to resolve the impasse.\n\n\"The government has to come up with legislation, through negotiation with the EU,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea that they can produce a bill at the beginning of June and get it through all its stages by the end of July is very very unlikely.\"\n\nBrexit had been due to take place on 29 March. But the UK was given an extension until 31 October after MPs three times voted down the withdrawal agreement Mrs May had negotiated with the EU - by margins of 230, 149 and 58 votes.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Royal Mail has announced plans for the UK's first-ever parcel postboxes.\n\nThe company said 1,400 of the new postboxes would be installed across the country in more than 30 locations over a six-month period, starting in August.\n\nCustomers will be able to post parcels in the same way that they currently post a letter, provided that postage has been pre-paid using Royal Mail's own online labelling service.\n\nExisting letter postboxes were introduced in the 1850s and Royal Mail said the new move represented the first major change in the system since then.\n\n\"The launch of parcel postboxes is also one of the biggest innovations in parcels since the launch of Parcel Post in 1883,\" it added.\n\nThe rollout follows a successful trial of the idea last year.\n\nRoyal Mail will be converting existing meter boxes, which it said had a larger aperture and a secure design.\n\nMark Street, head of campaigns at Royal Mail, said: \"We hope that the wider roll-out gives added flexibility to online sellers who might be running a business in their spare time and not keeping regular office hours.\"\n\nPeople will also be able to return parcels using the system, as long as they have a Royal Mail barcode attached.\n\nThe full list of locations is:", "Jude Morrow found it difficult to understand his son Ethan's facial expressions.\n\nBecoming a parent for the first time is a life-changing moment for anyone but it can pose extra challenges when you have autism.\n\nJude Morrow has Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, and he struggled with becoming a father when his son Ethan was born.\n\nThe Londonderry man has trouble interpreting and expressing feelings, as well as experiencing sensory issues and he dislikes disruption to his routine.\n\nThat posed a big challenge when he found out he was going to be a father.\n\n\"Adapting to and managing change isn't easy for me at the best of times,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I would always try to avoid any change but I couldn't avoid becoming a dad.\n\n\"I just wanted to know everything right away that was going to happen. I spent hours dwelling on it and thinking about what I could do to prepare for it.\n\n\"It was a drastic life change - it was a downward spiral and I had a very tough time.\"\n\nJude Morrow had just qualified as a social worker when his son was born\n\nAn unpredictable sleeping and eating pattern is expected with a newborn but some people with autism like Mr Morrow depend on a strict sense of order.\n\n\"The constant change with a new baby is something I really had difficulty with because it went against my routine and it really unsettled me.\n\n\"The worst thing is it was hard for me to tell how Ethan was feeling by looking at him because I don't pick up facial cues.\n\n\"I kept staring at him and wondering if he was OK.\"\n\nAlthough becoming a parent was one of the darkest times in his life, it helped the 28-year-old to accept his autism.\n\n\"At that time, my condition was so difficult to live with and I was so difficult to live with that Ethan could see it,\" he said.\n\n\"I kept thinking I would grow out of it but I had to come to terms with it and make peace with myself.\n\n\"I now see it as a difference to be celebrated - I'm proud of my autism now.\"\n\nHe has developed many coping mechanisms since becoming a dad but he still experiences daily challenges with parenting.\n\nJude Morrow hopes sharing his experiences can help new parents who have autism\n\n\"It's things most people don't even consider but I can't handle chaotic situations like children's play areas because of my sensory issues.\"\n\nHe said he still finds it difficult to explain how he is feeling.\n\n\"It can overwhelm me,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't always have an appropriate response to a situation.\"\n\nAlthough his family and friends have been very supportive, Mr Morrow found very few resources for autistic parents.\n\n\"There is a wealth of information for parents of children with autism but not much for parents with autism themselves.\n\n\"I couldn't find anyone who is on the spectrum using their voice to support other people like them so I decided to write a book about my story.\"\n\nMr Morrow has dedicated the book to his son and took the title from something Ethan asked his grandmother.\n\n\"My mum was looking after Ethan and he asked her: 'Why does daddy always look so sad?'\n\n\"I decided to use that as the title for the book.\n\n\"Even at the age of five, Ethan had picked up that I have trouble showing emotion and often have a blank face.\n\n\"Autism is something I never thought I would talk about but I am glad I did because I want it to be a beacon of hope for parents who have autism.\"\n• None 'I was diagnosed with autism at 32'", "The world's biggest salmon farming company is one of a number of firms under investigation for possible misreporting of chemical use.\n\nThe BBC can reveal Mowi, formerly known as Marine Harvest, is among those being investigated by Scottish regulators.\n\nFarmed salmon are treated with medications to ward off disease and infestations, such as sea lice, but there are limits on how much is used.\n\nMowi denied any wrongdoing and said it used medications sparingly.\n\nChemicals such as hydrogen peroxide, used to wash the fish, and emamectin benzoate, which is put in the salmon's feed, are used across the industry to tackle problems such as sea lice, which has become a major issue for producers.\n\nFarmed salmon has become one of the UK's biggest food exports\n\nThere are concerns that the large amounts of pesticides, as well as faeces and food waste coming from the thousands of salmon in the fish farm nets, could be damaging the environment in some of Scotland's lochs.\n\nMowi, the Norwegian-owned global company which produces up to 60,000 tonnes of salmon each year in the UK alone, said it had \"confidence\" in the numbers it had provided on medication use.\n\nIt said it was supporting regulators with a six-month audit.\n\nWe have confidence in what we're reporting for medications, it is used sparingly\n\nThe BBC's Panorama has been examining the salmon farming industry.\n\nIt learned that Mowi is one of a number of companies under investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).\n\nThe BBC has been told Sepa's enforcement team removed documents during an unannounced inspection of Mowi's UK head office in Fort William earlier this month.\n\nThe company said the visit was part of an audit and was not unannounced.\n\nMowi's head of communications, Ian Roberts, said: \"We have confidence in what we're reporting for medications, it is used sparingly.\n\n\"We, of course, vaccinate our fish to protect them from fish health challenges.\"\n\nSepa is increasing its inspections across the industry and taking a tougher approach following criticism of how salmon farming is regulated.\n\nIt will publish new guidelines on salmon farming in the next two weeks.\n\nSepa chief executive, Terry A'Hearn, said: \"If companies do the right thing, then they have nothing to worry about.\n\n\"If companies do the wrong thing, we are there to find that out and make sure they improve their game. If that's going to take tough action, you can be assured we'll take it.\"\n\nMowi produces up to 60,000 tonnes of salmon each year in Scotland\n\nScotland has more than 200 fish farms in sea lochs around the west coast and Orkney and Shetland, where hundreds of thousands of salmon are reared in open-net pens.\n\nEach farm has a licence restricting the total weight of fish it can hold and the amount of chemicals it can use at any one time because too much harms the environment and kills creatures on the seabed.\n\nSepa uses samples from the seabed to test the impact of salmon farms.\n\nThe industry said salmon farming was a sustainable way to produce food and a great way to provide jobs in remote rural areas.\n\nMr Roberts, of Mowi, said: \"I wouldn't be doing this if I thought that we had a strong negative impact on the environment.\n\n\"It is farming at the end of the day, so, no matter what you're farming, you have some level of impact. We also need to manage these local impacts around the farms.\"\n\nJulie Hesketh-Laird said sustainable growth was in everybody's interests\n\nJulie Hesketh-Laird, from the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, said sustainable growth was in \"everybody's interests\".\n\nShe added: \"We want consumers, we want the public and anybody with an interest in Scottish salmon to be confident that the salmon farming sector is doing absolutely everything that it can to grow sustainably.\"\n\nThe industry plans to double in size by 2030 but campaigners wants it to pause and consider alternative ways of farming.\n\nThey believe the damage to the environment of open-net farming is too high.\n\nSally Campbell, a marine ecologist and campaigner, told Panorama: \"I certainly think we need to feed people healthy food. I have no problem with that.\n\n\"What I do think is that healthy food should not be produced at the cost of our environment on which ultimately we all depend.\"\n\nA spokesman for Sepa said an enforcement unit was created in November to review data and carry out \"enhanced environmental monitoring\" across the industry.\n\nHe said it advised Mowi of an audit on 23 April and carried out an \"unexpected inspection\" on 1 May.\n\nA further \"announced\" inspection was conducted on 7 May to obtain more information.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Sepa is unable to comment further on its current audit and unannounced inspection programme under way at present.\"\n• None Is there a problem with salmon farming?", "The boy was found injured in the Somerford Grove area of Hackney\n\nA teenage boy has been stabbed to death in an attack in Hackney, east London.\n\nThe 15-year-old victim was found injured in Somerford Grove at about 21:00 BST on Wednesday and died shortly after, police said.\n\nA shopkeeper said a boy ran into his store pleading for help, saying he had been stabbed in the back.\n\nA second boy, aged 16, found nearby Shacklewell Road, was also stabbed but did not sustain life-threatening injuries.\n\nA man from Elif Food Centre, who did not want to be named, told BBC London he tried to help one of the victims.\n\nHe said: \"One boy came running into the shop last night saying 'I have been stabbed in the back. Help me. Help me.'\n\n\"We called an ambulance and now police have seized our CCTV.\"\n\nTwo friends of the victim spoke of their shock after visiting the crime scene.\n\nOne said: \"It came as a surprise to us because he was a good guy.\n\n\"We did music together. He didn't only produce afrobeats, he made drill music as well. He also sold some beats to some big artists.\n\n\"I never thought that any of my friends would be murdered. I'm shocked.\"\n\nThe other friend added: \"I saw him the day before yesterday. He was a good friend, a nice lad.\n\n\"I'm so done. It doesn't feel safe any more.\"\n\nThe 15-year-old boy is one of the youngest victims to be stabbed to death in London so far this year\n\nPolice said a Section 60 stop-and-search order had been put in place for the whole of Hackney. No arrests have been made in connection with the killing.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\" as the force revealed statistics showing a drop in homicides compared to the previous financial year.\n• None 311Fewer knife crime victims under the age of 25\n\nSpeaking about the latest stabbing in Hackney, Ms Dick said the two boys were with a group of other boys and a girl, adding there was \"some sort of confrontation with another group\".\n\nAnother boy, aged 16, was found stabbed near the crime scene\n\nJust off a busy main road there is a huge cordon surrounding the Somerford Grove estate.\n\nElif Food Centre, a 24-hour off-licence, is also taped off as police officers stand guard.\n\nRight in the middle of the cordon a big blue tent can be seen - the spot where the victim died.\n\nResidents have been telling me they are shocked and scared as only six days ago another person was stabbed to death in Hackney.\n\nHours later, officers were called to another, unrelated, stabbing near Camden Town Tube station.\n\nA man suffered \"life-threatening\" injuries in the attack on Camden Road shortly after midnight.\n\nSo far this year, more than 40 murder investigations have been launched in the capital by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police.\n\nTwenty-nine of those cases are stabbing investigations.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the latest killing.\n\n\"This horrific violence has absolutely no place on our streets,\" he said.\n\nMotives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to voting in the local elections\n\nThe polls have closed in the elections for 462 new members of Northern Ireland's 11 district councils.\n\nEarlier the Electoral Office described voting as \"steady\". A total of 819 candidates were standing.\n\nPolling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00 BST in the proportional representation election.\n\nTurnout reports from polling stations at 17:00 BST ranged from a low of 15% in east Belfast to as high as 36% in one venue in the north of the city.\n\nThe final turnout in the last council elections five years ago was just over 51%.\n\nFull lists of the candidates standing in each council area can be found on the Electoral Office's website.\n\nA total of 1,305,553 people were eligible to vote.\n\nThe single transferable vote (STV) system is used in council elections, in which voters rank candidates by numerical preference.\n\nVoters marked their ballot with 1, 2, 3 and so on and could indicate as many or as few preferences as they wanted.\n\nVoters will decide who takes the 462 seats that are available across 11 councils\n\nCandidates are then elected according to the share of the vote they receive.\n\nIn advance of this election there had been some concern expressed that the turnout might be down, perhaps due to public disenchantment with politics, perhaps because for the first time in more than two decades these council elections were not happening in tandem with another contest.\n\nIn the event the good weather seems to have brought the voters out in force, with reports of people having to queue to get into some polling stations.\n\nSo it may be we will match the turnout in the last council election five years ago, which was 51%.\n\nCounting begins in the morning, and results will start to be declared during the afternoon. But the full makeup of our new councils won't be clear until Saturday.\n\nThe number of candidates was down from the 905 people who put their names forward for the previous council elections five years ago.\n\nCounting in the elections will begin on Friday morning.\n\nBBC News NI will cover the latest election results and analysis on its website, mobile app and on Facebook and Twitter on Friday and throughout the weekend.\n\nThere will also be special election programmes on BBC Radio Ulster from 16:00 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday and on BBC Radio Foyle from 17:00 on Friday.\n\nTelevision coverage will be on BBC One Northern Ireland at 15:30 on Friday, BBC Two Northern Ireland at 19:30 on Friday and 10:00 on Saturday, with an hour-long Sunday Politics programme on the same channel at 11:00 on Sunday.", "Charlotte was born at London's St Mary's Hospital on 2 May 2015\n\nPrincess Charlotte's birthday has been marked with the release of three photographs taken by her mother.\n\nCharlotte, who turns four on Thursday, was captured by the Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace and their Norfolk home of Anmer Hall.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent their best wishes to their niece.\n\nThe couple, awaiting the birth of their own child, replied to a Kensington Palace Instagram post: \"Happy Birthday Charlotte! Lots of love, H and M.\"\n\nIn one of the new images, Charlotte can be seen in a blue flower-print summer dress as she sits on grass at the palace.\n\nThe other pictures show her running and smiling as she holds a flower and sitting on a wooden fence.\n\nCharlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne, was born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London, at 08:34 BST on 2 May 2015.\n\nTwo photographs were taken at Anmer Hall, on the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has released pictures she has taken of her three children on a number of occasions in the past.\n\nLast week, she released three images of her youngest son Prince Louis to mark his first birthday.\n\nAnd she broke with tradition in 2015 by issuing the official photographs of her newborn daughter.\n\nThe series of four pictures were taken just weeks after Princess Charlotte was born and showed her being cradled by her elder brother Prince George.\n\nPrincess Charlotte is the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pacer Liz Ayres says slower runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors.\n\nOne of the official pacers at the London Marathon has said she and fellow runners were treated \"horrifically\" during the race.\n\nLiz Ayres was asked to run the course in 7.5 hours to aid participants.\n\nShe said runners were called \"fat\" and \"slow\" by contractors and volunteer marshals - and one woman received chemical burns from the clean-up operation that began around them.\n\nMarathon organisers said they were \"very sorry to hear\" of her experience.\n\nLike many other marathons, London asks volunteers to run at specific paces during the race as a timing aid for those participating.\n\nThis was the first year the London Marathon had recruited people to run at paces slower than six hours.\n\nMs Ayres said the clean-up operation had begun before all runners had passed\n\nMs Ayres told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that organisers had intended to make the run \"more inclusive\", with about 200 runners finishing the course at the same time or later than her.\n\nBut, she said, despite running at the requested speed, the clean-up operation had begun around her and other runners and they had been \"told to hurry up\".\n\nShe added that abuse had also been directed towards them by official marathon representatives, such as cleaning contractors and marshals.\n\nThis included comments such as: \"If you weren't so fat, you could run,\" and: \"This is a race, not a walk.\"\n\nLiz Ayres says some runners wanted \"to go home and quit\"\n\nMs Ayres said she would \"rather the race was cancelled than people being spoken to like that\".\n\n\"I had runners that were crying - ones saying they were going to go home and quit,\" she said.\n\nThose affected had been running for charities.\n\nSome had been slower due to injuries, or not having been able to train due to family circumstances, Ms Ayres added.\n\nMs Ayres said similar issues had also been reported by other pacers ahead of her.\n\n\"The 6.5-hour pacer said she experienced this, too,\" she said.\n\n\"If you look at the timings of people who finished, that means about 1,000 people were affected.\n\n\"That's almost one in every 40 runners.\"\n\nMs Ayres said runners on Tower Bridge had also had to \"dodge round sewage collection lorries\" and run through chemical spray used to clean the streets.\n\nOne woman, Sarah Benjafield-Clarke, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that her GP had confirmed that a blister she had developed from running during the race had developed into a chemical burn.\n\nMs Ayres also said that as early as the three-mile mark, water stations had been packed away and she had called the London Marathon team only to be told she was lying and that the water stations were still open.\n\nMs Ayres said water stations along the course had been packed away by the time she had reached them\n\nJames Miller, 35, had been running for a dementia charity.\n\nHe finished in just over eight hours and told the BBC it was \"really demotivating to see the course being dismantled around us\".\n\n\"The worst part was the clocks and timing mats being taking away, so when I passed the 30 and 35km points my time wasn't recorded and I wasn't able to keep track of the progress I was making towards the finish line.\n\n\"I even had to ask for directions at a couple of points as the route wasn't obvious.\n\n\"It was like you were forgotten about.\"\n\nLondon Marathon event director Hugh Brasher said: \"We work hard to provide the best possible experience for every runner in the London Marathon and we were very sorry to hear about the experience of Elizabeth and a small number of other runners on Sunday.\n\n\"A senior member of our team called Elizabeth yesterday to find out more and we are now looking into this in detail as part of a full investigation.\n\n\"We'll be talking to the people involved to find out what happened and we'll also be contacting the runners who were in the group being paced by Elizabeth.\"\n\nThis year's marathon was completed by a record 42,549 runners.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Tuesday, before he was sacked by Theresa May, Gavin Williamson said in a BBC interview that he had never leaked anything from the NSC\n\nGavin Williamson has been sacked as defence secretary following an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting.\n\nDowning Street said the PM had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and Penny Mordaunt will take on the role.\n\nThe inquiry followed reports over a plan to allow Huawei limited access to help build the UK's new 5G network.\n\nMr Williamson, who has been defence secretary since 2017, \"strenuously\" denies leaking the information.\n\nIn a meeting with Mr Williamson on Wednesday evening, Theresa May told him she had information that provided \"compelling evidence\" that he was responsible for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nIn a letter confirming his dismissal, she said: \"No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\"\n\nResponding in a letter to the PM, Mr Williamson said he was \"confident\" that a \"thorough and formal inquiry\" would have \"vindicated\" his position.\n\n\"I appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry into the National Security Council leak began after the Daily Telegraph reported on the Huawei decision and subsequent warnings within cabinet about possible risks to national security over a deal with Huawei.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said sources close to the former defence secretary had told her Mr Williamson did meet the Daily Telegraph's deputy political editor, Steven Swinford, but, she pointed out \"that absolutely does not prove\" he leaked the story to him.\n\nAccording to Sky News defence and security correspondent Alistair Bunkall, Mr Williamson swore on his children's lives that he was not responsible for the leak.\n\nSecurity correspondent Frank Gardner said the BBC had been told \"more than one concerning issue\" had been uncovered regarding Mr Williamson during the leak inquiry and not just the Huawei conversation.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nThe National Security Council (NSC) is made up of senior cabinet ministers and its weekly meetings are chaired by the prime minister, with other ministers, officials and senior figures from the armed forces and intelligence agencies invited when needed.\n\nIt is a forum where secret intelligence can be shared by GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 with ministers, all of whom have signed the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThere has been no formal confirmation of Huawei's role in the 5G network and No 10 said a final decision would be made at the end of spring.\n\nHuawei has denied there is any risk of spying or sabotage, or that it is controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nMrs May said the leak from the meeting on 23 April was \"an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one\".\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our armed forces, our security and intelligence agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\n\"That is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\n\"I am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the prime minister had no alternative but to sack Mr Williamson, but he said on a personal level he was \"very sorry about what happened\".\n\nWhen asked whether there should be a criminal inquiry into the NSC leak, new defence secretary Ms Mordaunt said: \"The prime minister has made her decision.\n\n\"What I'm focused on is getting on with the job.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has called for a police inquiry to investigate whether or not Mr Williamson breached the Official Secrets Act.\n\nThat sentiment was echoed by former national security adviser Lord Ricketts. He told BBC Newsnight that on the face of it, the leak was a breach of the official secrets act and therefore the police ought to be considering an inquiry.\n\nLib Dems leader Vince Cable said Mr Williamson's sacking was \"absolutely extraordinary\" and the PM did it in \"such a forthright way\".\n\nHe added that he believed it was \"clearly a police matter\". His deputy, Jo Swinson, has asked the police to open an investigation.\n\nBut Scotland Yard said in a statement that it was a matter for the National Security Council and the Cabinet Office, and it was not carrying out an investigation.\n\nDefence Committee chairman Julian Lewis told the BBC that Mr Williamson's sacking was a \"loss\" when looked at \"purely\" from the point of view of defence.\n\nHe said he thought \"very highly\" of Ms Mordaunt - the first woman to take the role of defence secretary.\n\nRory Stewart has been confirmed as the new international development secretary, taking over from Ms Mordaunt.\n\nMr Stewart said he believed the prime minister and national security adviser had \"made the right decision\" in sacking Mr Williamson.\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "The Xiahe mandible was found in 1980 in Baishiya Karst Cave\n\nScientists have found evidence that an ancient species of human called Denisovans lived at high altitudes in Tibet.\n\nThe ability to survive in such extreme environments had previously been associated only with our species - Homo sapiens.\n\nThe ancient ancestor seems to have passed on a gene that helps modern people cope at high elevations.\n\nDetails of the study are published in the journal Nature.\n\nThe Denisovans were a mysterious human species living in Asia before modern humans like us expanded across the world tens of thousands of years ago.\n\nUntil recently, the only fossils came from a few fragments of bone and teeth from a single site in Siberia - Denisova Cave.\n\nBut DNA had shown that they were a distinct branch of the human family.\n\nNow, scientists have identified the first Denisovan fossil from another site. It's a mandible (lower jawbone) discovered in 1980 at Baishiya Karst Cave, 3,280m up on the Tibetan Plateau.\n\nA technique called uranium-series dating was used on carbonate deposits on the bone. This yielded a date of 160,000 years ago for the mandible.\n\nCo-author Jean Jacques Hublin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said finding evidence of an ancient - or archaic - species of human living at such high elevations was a surprise.\n\n\"When we deal with 'archaic hominins' - Neanderthals, Denisovans, early forms of Homo sapiens - it's clear that these hominins were limited in their capabilities to dwell in extreme environments.\n\n\"If you look at the situation in Europe, we have a lot of Neanderthal sites and people have been studying these sites for a century-and-a-half now.\n\n\"The highest sites we have are at 2,000m altitude. There are not many, and they are clearly sites where these Neanderthals used to go in summer, probably for special hunts. But otherwise, we don't have these types of sites.\"\n\nAn autumn view of Jiangla River Valley, where Baishiya Karst Cave is located\n\nOf the Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau, he said: \"It's a plateau... and there are obviously enough resources for people to live there and not just come occasionally.\"\n\nWhile the researchers could not find any traces of DNA preserved in this fossil, they managed to extract proteins from one of the molars, which they then analysed applying something called ancient protein analysis.\n\n\"Our protein analysis shows that the Xiahe mandible belonged to a hominin population that was closely related to the Denisovans from Denisova Cave,\" said co-author Frido Welker, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\nThe discovery may explain why individuals studied at Denisova Cave had a gene variant known to protect against hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) at high altitudes. This had been a puzzle because the Siberian cave is located just 700m above sea level.\n\nPresent-day Sherpas, Tibetans and neighbouring populations have the same gene variant, which was probably acquired when Homo sapiens mixed with the Denisovans thousands of years ago.\n\nIn fact, the gene variant appears to have undergone positive natural selection (which can result in mutations reaching high frequencies in populations because they confer an advantage).\n\n\"We can only speculate that living in this kind of environment, any mutation that was favourable to breathing an atmosphere impoverished in oxygen would be retained by natural selection,\" said Prof Hublin.\n\n\"And it's a rather likely scenario to explain how this mutation made its way to present-day Tibetans.\"", "Craig Orr is the only male nurse on his ward\n\nCraig Orr used to be a police officer but after retiring early he retrained as a nurse.\n\nHis new career means the 46-year-old, who works at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, is \"surrounded by women\".\n\nCraig told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There are approximately just over 50 members of staff and I'm the only male nurse here.\"\n\nIt is a similar story at hospitals across Scotland.\n\nLast year the number of male nurses fell to a seven-year low, accounting for about 10% of the 65,000 nursing staff across the country.\n\nCraig's ex-police officer colleagues can't believe his new career\n\nStudies have suggested that men view nursing as a worthwhile career with good progression opportunities.\n\nBut they perceive a strong societal link between nursing and femininity which deters them from taking it up.\n\nAn NHS study last year said there was still a \"stigma\" attached to men in nursing and there were not enough role models to challenge this.\n\nIt also said that focus groups suggested men take longer to mature than women and do not realise that nursing is a suitable career for them at a young age.\n\nCraig Orr says that when he bumps into ex-colleagues from the police, they ask what he is doing now.\n\n\"They say 'Oh really, I didn't expect that'.\"\n\nLee Ormiston is one of five men on his university nursing course\n\nHe is one of just five men in his year at Dundee University's School of Nursing in Fife.\n\n\"I think it is seen as a primarily feminine occupation,\" he says.\n\n\"Every TV programme or film you see, it is always a female nurse and you are not so 'macho' being in a nursing profession.\"\n\nLee says nursing is not considered 'macho'\n\nOver the past decade the number of male nursing students across the country has remained stagnant at about 10%.\n\nRecent figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show male applicants for nursing courses in Scotland were up this year to 410 but they are still down from 460 in 2010.\n\nLee says: \"Because there are not a lot of males already in the profession, that is causing the ones that want to do it not to come into it, because they feel it is not for them.\"\n\nDundee University School of Nursing lecturer Richard Craven has been doing research into why men are not applying to do nursing.\n\nUniversity lecturer Richard Craven asked football fans about their attitudes to males in nursing\n\nLast weekend he went to Raith Rovers against Brechin City to talk to male football fans about nursing.\n\nSome said the career was considered feminine and they would not go into it but others agreed there should be more men involved.\n\nMr Craven said: \"From a person-centred care point of view, it gives people choice.\n\n\"I'm thinking particularly of experiences I have had in care of older adults, for example, where men of older generations, perhaps affected by things like dementia, might identify more strongly with younger men than they would with a woman carer.\"\n\nGlasgow Caledonian University is also campaigning to address the gender imbalance in nursing.\n\nThe message could not be simpler - men are nurses too.\n\nStudent nurse Lee Ormiston says: \"You can be a man, you can be empathetic, get a career in nursing, help people. Definitely.\"\n• None School of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Dundee The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Windsor and Maidenhead are selecting their councillors, and Finn the cocker spaniel \"wanted to show his snout at the polling station\"\n\nIt is that time of year when our canine friends take centre stage.\n\nAs voters in England and Northern Ireland go to the polls our dogs often join us for the walk and, sometimes, a photo opportunity.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland. There are no local elections in Scotland and Wales.\n\nSince the polls opened at 07:00 BST many a dog has been snapped outside a polling station and, as has been popular on polling days over recent years, shared across social media.\n\nLabradoodles Hotch and Penny were up early this morning for a trip to the polling station at Folkestone Central in Shepway\n\nMartha from Brighton says five-year-old Nelly, a border terrier cross, was \"promised cheese\" if she stood nicely for a picture\n\nBarney the Labrador \"exercised his democratic right\" this morning in Wallasey, Merseyside, according to owner Ben Murphy\n\nAnne Rawson's cockerpoo Scooby is \"a friend to all\" whose favourite kind of polling station is one where he gets petted and given treats\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nDarren says his dog Woody the dachshund \"had fun voting\" and \"was welcomed by the team\" at the polling station in Brighton\n\nSam says Phoebe the pug \"just loves the taste of democracy in the morning\" in Chorlton, Manchester\n\nMichi is a Japanese spitz and \"a very friendly and convivial chap, and everyone smiles when they see him,\" according to owner Inbali\n\nPoppy the chocolate Labrador joined Louise at a polling station for a \"walk in the sunshine\" in Hull this morning", "Hundreds of people may have missed out on voting in this year's council elections because of pilot schemes requiring them to prove their identity.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said the trial project saw 2,083 voters refused a ballot paper because they weren't carrying the necessary ID, with up to 758 of them not returning to cast their vote.\n\nBroxtowe, Derby and North West Leicestershire were three of the 10 areas involved in the pilot.\n\nCraig Westwood, director of communications, policy and research for the Electoral Commission, said \"nearly everyone\" in the pilot areas was able to vote and showed the correct ID \"without difficulty\", but said government needs to \"consider carefully the available evidence about the impact of different approaches\".\n\nQuote Message: Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\" from Craig Westwood Electoral Commission director of communications, policy and research Important questions remain about how an ID requirement would work in practice, particularly at a national poll with higher levels of turnout.\"", "Mr Vincent's relatives arrived in South Park Crescent with flowers, cards, balloons and a banner\n\nRelatives of a burglar who was killed during a raid on a pensioner's home have marked his birthday at the crime scene in south-east London.\n\nA group of women brought flowers, balloons and a banner to where Henry Vincent was stabbed in South Park Crescent, Hither Green.\n\nHomeowner Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, was arrested on suspicion of murder but released with no further action.\n\nTributes to Mr Vincent have sparked outrage in the community.\n\nBut one relative said today: \"We don't want to cause any violence.\"\n\nOfficers tried to stop people stapling banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners\n\nMr Vincent, who would have turned 38 on Sunday, is suspected of burgling Mr Osborn-Brooks's home on 4 April with Bill Jeeves.\n\nThe women marking his birthday were escorted by five police officers, who tried to stop them stapling the banners and balloons to the garden fences of homeowners.\n\nEventually, the tributes were attached to a street sign and a lamp-post.\n\nA 37-year-old woman, who did no want to be named, said: \"We're here because it's his birthday, we just want to lay flowers. We don't want to cause any violence.\n\n\"We're not all criminals. We don't all do wrong.\"\n\nAnother woman said: \"We all loved him.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving an elderly victim\n\nSince his death, residents have branded the tributes left to Mr Vincent an \"insult\" and repeatedly tore them down - prompting Met deputy commissioner Sir Craig Mackey to appeal for respect on both sides.\n\nMr and Mrs Osborn-Brooks are reportedly living in a safe house and plan to sell their property.\n\nFloral tributes were pulled down from a fence opposite the home of Richard Osborn-Brooks last week\n\nMr Vincent, who was from the travelling community, would have turned 38 on 15 April\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London's Gay Men's Chorus performed outside the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho to remember the victims of a deadly nail bomb attack on 30th April 1999.\n\nThe attack, which killed three people and injured 79, was the third bomb attack in a fortnight by a self-confessed homophobe and racist.", "The ship is reportedly the Freewinds, shown here docked in Aruba in 2014\n\nA US cruise ship has been placed in quarantine by the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a case of measles was reported on board, the island's chief medical officer said.\n\nDr Merlene Fredericks James said there was a confirmed case of measles on board and \"thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship\".\n\nNo-one aboard was allowed to leave.\n\nThe ship is reportedly the Freewinds, which is said to be owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.\n\nDr Fredericks James said in a video statement posted on YouTube on Tuesday that the ministry learned of the confirmed measles case from \"two reputable sources\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nShe cited the fact that measles was a highly infectious disease as a factor in the decision.\n\n\"One infected person can easily infect others through coughing, sneezing, droplets being on various surfaces, etc. So because of the risk of potential infection - not just from the confirmed measles case, but from other persons who may be on the boat at the time - we thought it prudent to make a decision not to allow anyone to disembark.\"\n\nShe also cited the current situation in the US, where cases of the disease are at a 25-year high, as another factor.\n\nNBC News, citing a St Lucia Coast Guard, reported that the boat is the Freewinds, a 440ft (134m) vessel owned and operated by the Church of Scientology, thought to have some 300 passengers on board.\n\n\"The ship's doctor has the confirmed case in isolation on the ship,\" Dr Fredericks James was quoted as saying by NBC. \"The individual is in stable condition.\"\n\nThe St Lucian authorities do not have the authority to keep the ship from leaving, and it is currently due to leave the island at 23:59 (03:59 GMT) on Thursday, NBC reports officials as saying.\n\nThe ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com shows a ship called SMV Freewinds docked in Castries, the country's capital.\n\nThe Church of Scientology has so far not publicly commented on the case.\n\nEarlier this week, US health officials reported that more than 700 people had been infected by measles this year, marking a 25-year high for cases of the infectious disease in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCases had been recorded in 22 states and were mostly affecting unvaccinated children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.\n\nOfficials said the increase in cases is the largest since 1994, including 78 reported in the past week.\n\nSome parents are said to have chosen to leave their children unvaccinated due to the unscientific claim that vaccines cause illnesses such as autism, or on religious grounds.\n\nMost cases occurred in 13 outbreak zones, including in New York City's orthodox Jewish communities.\n\nAre you on the ship? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Last updated on .From the section Leeds United\n\nLeeds striker Patrick Bamford has been banned for two matches by the Football Association after being found guilty of \"successful deception of a match official\" in the draw with Aston Villa.\n\nBamford went down as though he had been hit in the face by Anwar El Ghazi after Leeds' controversial opening goal.\n\nReplays showed Villa's Dutch winger had made no contact with the head of the 25-year-old.\n\nEl Ghazi was sent off but had the red card rescinded on Tuesday.\n\nBamford will miss Sunday's Championship trip to Ipswich and the first leg of Leeds' play-off semi-final tie.\n\nLeeds said in a statement that although Bamford did not deny the charge they had requested a hearing to \"contest the penalty imposed on the player\".\n\nThey added: \"The club felt that given the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the extraordinary act of sportsmanship which saw our head coach Marcelo Bielsa demand our team to allow Aston Villa to score an uncontested equaliser, we could have a sensible discussion around the sanction.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the FA panel did not feel that to be reasonable and the club therefore joins Patrick in accepting the two-match ban.\"\n\nThe melee, in which the Bamford incident occurred, was sparked after Mateusz Klich scored for Leeds with Villa players appealing for the ball to be played out after Jonathan Kodjia had gone down injured in the centre circle.\n\nAfter clashes between the players and an exchange between the two benches, Leeds boss Bielsa ordered his team to allow Villa to walk in an equaliser from kick-off, which was scored by winger Albert Adomah. Sunday's game finished 1-1.\n\nOn Tuesday both clubs were charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion in the aftermath of Leeds' goal. They have until 18:00 BST on Friday to respond to their respective charges.\n\nLeeds' failure to win saw Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United promoted to the Premier League and they will now feature alongside Villa in the play-offs.", "Police found the women's remains at a flat in Vandome Close\n\nA man has been charged with preventing the lawful burial of two women whose bodies were found in a freezer.\n\nThe pair's remains were found clothed and on top of each other at a flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on Friday.\n\nDetectives have said it may take a week before the women are formally identified.\n\nZahid Younis, 34, of Vandome Close, is due to appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.\n\nHe faces two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Det Ch Insp Simon Harding said a chest freezer, measuring a few feet wide, had been removed from the crime scene.\n\nWork to identify the women was ongoing, he said, and post-mortem examinations would be carried out on Friday.\n\nThere are fears for Mary-Jane Mustafa, 37, who went missing last May.\n\nThe Met has appealed for anyone who has visited the flat in the last year to contact them.\n\nA 50-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grassfires spread quickly, especially during the dry summer months\n\nArsonists were responsible for a 75% spike in grassfires in the past year, new figures have shown.\n\nA total of 2,850 fires were started from April 2018 to March 2019, compared with 1,627 in the 12 months previously.\n\nFire chiefs said these figures were \"very disappointing\", and attributed it to last year's hot and dry summer.\n\nWales' fire services have developed an educational programme in a bid to tackle the problem, resulting in 60,000 speeches to schoolchildren.\n\nKelvin Griffiths, 65, a farmer from Carmel, Gwynedd, lost grazing land in a grassfire on Cilgwyn Mountain last year, which shares common land on Ywch Gwyrfai.\n\n\"There was a huge fire stretching for a mile long. I have cattle and sheep that graze there,\" he said.\n\n\"There are houses on the common nearby who were really worried.\"\n\nLisa Jones - who lives nearby - took this picture of the fire in Carmel\n\nOperation Dawns Glaw was set up in 2016 to tackle deliberate grassfires, involving all three of Wales' fire services.\n\nThe UK heatwave of 2018 - one of the driest and warmest summers in Wales since 1995 - also meant more fires.\n\nThe operation's chairman Mydrian Harries said: \"Sadly in the last year we've seen that increase and predominantly attributed it to the hot weather in June, July and August.\n\n\"When the weather starts drying, any fire that commences does spread rapidly.\n\n\"Add to that some warm currents and prevailing winds and we do find the fire spreads rapidly. Unfortunately there's a sector out there who do see this as opportunities to burn.\"\n\nMr Harries said about 50% of all last year's grassfires were recorded as deliberate.\n\n\"While these statistics are very disappointing, they should not take away from the overall success of Operation Dawns Glaw,\" he said.\n\nFire officers are also looking to tackle fly-tipping and countryside rubbish fires, which can spread to grassland, starting huge fires.\n\nNatural Resources Wales says land can take \"decades\" to recover from severe grassfires\n\nLand owners and farmers are allowed to do controlled burns on their land between October and March, but only if they have created a specific plan for starting and containing the fire.\n\nAnyone carrying out one of these burns outside of these months or without a plan is committing arson.\n\nHowever, Mr Griffiths believes these strict regulations mean farmers' land becomes overgrown, making it more at risk of spreading grassfires.\n\n\"Now there are so many restrictions on burning, if you want to burn, you have to inform the police, create fire barriers and have an army of people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not feasible. It overgrows and then it becomes a threat and cattle and sheep can't access the grazing.\n\n\"Once you ignite it just goes 'whoosh' and if there's a strong wind behind, it takes no time at all.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it was not its legislation to police.\n\nA spokesman said: \"What we're doing with the Welsh government and partners in Dawns Glaw is to tell people to burn within the prescribed periods.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"irresponsible\" to set a fire in open land \"without proper controls and safeguards, or outside the permitted season\".\n\n\"Such fires can very easily spread out of control, for example if the wind strengthens or changes direction, and can take days or even weeks to extinguish, especially if they spread into peat,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"This in turn ties up fire crews who might well be needed to attend other incidents. The regulations are designed to greatly reduce these risks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Beyond Meat boss Ethan Brown is not worried about the competition\n\nShares of vegan burger maker Beyond Meat soared on their Wall Street debut as investors bet on the growing popularity of plant-based foods.\n\nThe stock closed up 163% on the first day of trading, valuing the California company at close to $3.8bn.\n\nBeyond Meat's shares were priced at $25 each at the start of trading, but touched $72 during the trading day before closing at $65.75.\n\nThe company has aggressive plans to expand sales outside the US.\n\nMoney raised from the listing will give Beyond Meat the firepower to compete with other rivals in the increasingly crowded fake meat market, which includes Silicon Valley start-up Impossible Foods.\n\nSpeaking at the stock market launch on the Nasdaq exchange, Beyond Meat founder and chief executive Ethan Brown called plant-based meat an \"enormous opportunity for economic growth in rural America and throughout the world\".\n\nHe said: \"We understand the composition of meat, we understand the architecture and year after year we collapse the gaps between our product and animal protein.\"\n\nBeyond Meat counts actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates among its investors.\n\nTyson Foods, the biggest US meat processor, owned a 6.5% stake in Beyond Meat, but last week said it sold its holding, as it looks to develop its own line of alternative protein products.\n\nBurger King and Impossible Foods last month started selling their vegan burger Impossible Whopper in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri, with nationwide sales expected by the end of the year.\n\nBeyond Meat creates substitutes for meat by using ingredients that mimic the composition of animal-based meat, like proteins from peas, fava beans and soy.\n\nAbout 70% of the company's revenues are generated by its flagship Beyond Burger patties, and it also sells imitation sausages and vegan ground beef.\n\nBeyond Meat, which has yet to make a profit, has started selling products in the UK as more supermarkets fill their shelves with meat alternatives. Beyond Burger was originally due to be introduced in the UK at 350 Tesco stores last August, but that was delayed by three months because of supply issues.\n\nWaitrose started a dedicated vegan section in more than 130 shops last year and Iceland reported sales of its plant-based foods rising by 10% in a year.\n\nResearch conducted by the Vegan Society in 2016 estimated there were around 540,000 vegans across the UK, compared with around 150,000 in 2006.\n\nIn 2018, some $50m of Beyond Meat's revenues came from retail sales, including at Amazon's Whole Foods Market and Kroger Co supermarkets, while some $37m was generated at restaurants.\n\nAccording to regulatory documents ahead of the stock market debut, Beyond Meat's net loss narrowed marginally to $29.9m in the year ended 31 December, from $30.4m a year earlier. Net revenue more than doubled to $87.9m in the same period.", "Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked by the prime minister after information from a National Security Council meeting was leaked to a newspaper. Here is Theresa May's full letter dismissing him.\n\nThank you for your time this evening. We discussed the investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of information from the National Security Council meeting on 23 April.\n\nThis is an extremely serious matter, and a deeply disappointing one.\n\nIt is vital for the operation of good government and for the UK's national interest in some of the most sensitive and important areas that the members of the NSC - from our Armed Forces, our Security and Intelligence Agencies, and the most senior level of government - are able to have frank and detailed discussions in full confidence that the advice and analysis provided is not discussed or divulged beyond that trusted environment.\n\nThat is why I commissioned the cabinet secretary to establish an investigation into the unprecedented leak from the NSC meeting last week, and why I expected everyone connected to it - ministers and officials alike - to comply with it fully. You undertook to do so.\n\nI am therefore concerned by the manner in which you have engaged with this investigation.\n\nIt has been conducted fairly, with the full co-operation of other NSC attendees.\n\nThey have all answered questions, engaged properly, provided as much information as possible to assist with the investigation, and encouraged their staff to do the same. Your conduct has not been of the same standard as others.\n\nIn our meeting this evening, I put to you the latest information from the investigation, which provides compelling evidence suggesting your responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure.\n\nNo other credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified.\n\nIt is vital that I have full confidence in the members of my cabinet and of the National Security Council. The gravity of this issue alone, and its ramifications for the operation of the NSC and the UK's national interest, warrants the serious steps we have taken, and an equally serious response.\n\nIt is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you as secretary of state for defence and a minister in my cabinet and asked you to leave Her Majesty's government.\n\nAs you do so, I would like to thank you for the wider contribution you have made to it over the last three years, and for your unquestionable personal commitment to the men and women of our Armed Forces.\"\n\nIt has been a great privilege to serve as Defence Secretary and Chief Whip in your government. Every day I have seen the extraordinary work of the men and women of our armed forces, who go to incredible lengths to defend our country.\n\nI am sorry that you feel recent leaks from the National Security Council originated in my department. I emphatically believe this was not the case. I strenuously deny that I was in any way involved in this leak and I am confident that a thorough and formal inquiry would have vindicated my position.\n\nI have always trusted my civil servants, military advisers and staff. I believe the assurances they have given me.\n\nI appreciate you offering me the option to resign, but to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.\n\nRestoring public confidence in the NSC is an ambition we both share. With that in mind I hope that your decision achieves this aim rather than being seen as a temporary distraction.\n\nAs I said there has been no greater privilege than working with our armed forces and I will continue to stand up for our service personnel and the superb work they do.\"\n• None Inquiry to be held into Huawei leak", "Julian Assange pumped his fist at photographers as he arrived at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday\n\nWikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has said he does not consent to being extradited to the US over charges related to leaking government secrets.\n\nHis extradition hearing came a day after he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching the Bail Act following his arrest last month.\n\nThe 47-year-old appeared by video link at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nThe court heard that the \"extradition process will take many months\". The case was adjourned until 30 May.\n\nAssange told the court: \"I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people.\"\n\nOutside the court dozens of his supporters, many holding posters and banners demanding his freedom, blocked the road in protest.\n\nAssange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he has denied.\n\nThe UK will decide whether to extradite him to the US in response to allegations that he conspired with former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases.\n\nAustralian-born Assange faces up to five years in a US prison if convicted.\n\nWikileaks has published thousands of classified documents covering everything from the film industry to national security and war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Star Wars star Harrison Ford has paid an emotional tribute to Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, who has died aged 74, saying: \"I loved him.\"\n\nFord, who played Han Solo, praised the \"kind and gentle man\" for his \"great dignity and noble character\".\n\nMayhew died at his home in Texas on 30 April with his family by his side, a statement said.\n\nThe British-US actor played the giant Wookiee warrior in several Star Wars films from 1977 until 2015.\n\n\"He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame,\" his family said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Mayhew This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLondon-born Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, episode three of the prequels, and shared the role in 2015's The Force Awakens.\n\nFord and Mayhew's characters were close friends and piloted the Millennium Falcon. \"We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,\" said Ford.\n\n\"He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, described Mayhew as \"the gentlest of giants\".\n\nHamill said: \"What was so remarkable about him was his spirit and his kindness and his gentleness was so close to what a Wookiee is.\n\n\"He just radiated happiness and warmth. He was always up for a laugh and we just hit it off immediately and stayed friends for over 40 years.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Hamill: Peter Mayhew was 'as kind and gentle as a Wookiee'\n\nStar Wars creator George Lucas had wanted a tall actor to play Chewbacca and initially considered 6ft 6in (1.98m) David Prowse for the role.\n\nHowever, Prowse wanted to play Darth Vader, so Lucas then turned to Mayhew, who at 7ft 2in (2.18m) was chosen purely for his height. His face was never seen.\n\n\"He fought his way back from being wheelchair-bound to stand tall and portray Chewbacca once more in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,\" his family said.\n\nMayhew also consulted on The Last Jedi, released in 2017, in an attempt to pass on the secrets of the role to his successor, Finland's Joonas Suotamo.\n\nMayhew's family said \"the Star Wars family meant so much more to him than a role in a film\".\n\nLucas said: \"Peter was a wonderful man. He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature - and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend, and I'm saddened by his passing.\"\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy added: \"Peter's iconic portrayal of the loyal, lovable Chewbacca has been absolutely integral to the character's success, and to the Star Wars saga itself.\n\n\"When I first met Peter during The Force Awakens, I was immediately impressed by his kind and gentle nature.\n\n\"Peter was brilliantly able to express his personality through his skilful use of gesture, posture, and eyes. We all love Chewie, and have Peter to thank for that enduring memory.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joonas Suotamo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSuotamo played Chewbacca's body double in Force Awakens and went on to play the Wookiee in 2017's The Last Jedi and 2018's A Star Wars Story.\n\nHe added to the warm tributes, saying Mayhew was \"an absolutely one-of-a-kind gentleman and a legend of unrivalled class\".\n\nRobert Iger, head of The Walt Disney Company, tweeted that the \"beloved\" star was \"a gentle giant playing a gentle giant\".\n\nThe Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson added their voices.\n\nIn a handwritten note posted on Twitter, Abrams said: \"Peter was the loveliest man... kind and patient, supportive and encouraging. A sweetheart to work with and already deeply missed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Rian Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Elijah Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared a photograph of himself with the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSan Diego Comic-Con said he was their \"beloved companion\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by San Diego Comic-Con This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe family's statement also said the actor had been \"heavily involved\" with non-profit organisations and had launched his own foundation, which they said supported \"everything from individuals and families in crisis situations to food and supplies for children of Venezuela\".\n\nThey did not reveal the cause of death. A memorial service for friends and family will be held on 29 June, while a separate memorial for fans will take place in December, the statement said.\n\nThe actor is survived by his wife Angie and three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hundreds of wives and children of former Islamic State group fighters who are detained in camps in northern Syria are stuck as their countries of origin are reluctant to take them back.\n\nIn many European countries, their relatives are campaigning for their return.\n\nFatiha, 47, is the grandmother of 6 children aged between 1 and 7 who are being kept in Ain Issa camp in Syria, years after their parents left Europe to join the so-called Islamic State group.\n\nShe hopes she will soon be able to welcome the children back to her home near Antwerp in Belgium.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nCaster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) rejected the South African's challenge against the IAAF's new rules.\n\nBut Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nOlympic 800m champion Semenya, 28, said in response to the ruling that the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\nNow she - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\n\"For a decade the IAAF has tried to slow me down, but this has actually made me stronger. The decision of Cas will not hold me back,\" said Semenya in a statement.\n\n\"I will once again rise above and continue to inspire young women and athletes in South Africa and around the world.\"\n\nPreviously, she had said that she wanted to \"run naturally, the way I was born\".\n\nCas found that the rules for athletes with DSD were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nHowever, Cas set out serious concerns about the application of the rules, including:\n• None Worries that athletes might unintentionally break the strict testosterone levels set by the IAAF;\n• None Questions about the advantage higher testosterone gives athletes over 1500m and the mile;\n• None The practicalities for athletes of complying with the new rules.\n\nCas has asked the IAAF to consider delaying the application of the rules to the 1500m and one mile events until more evidence is available.\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n• None 'Nobody has truly won - one side has just lost less than the other'\n\nWhat are disorders/differences of sex development (DSD)?\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines.\n\nTheir hormones, genes, reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance.\n\nThe term \"disorders\" is controversial with some of those affected preferring the term \"intersex\" and referring to \"differences in sex development\".\n\nThe new rules come into effect on 8 May, which means athletes who want to compete at September's World Championships - also in Doha - will have to start taking medication within one week.\n\nThose affected by the rules will have to have a blood test on 8 May to test their eligibility. A statement from the IAAF said that no athlete \"will be forced to undergo any assessment\" and that any treatment was up to the individual athlete.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) have higher levels of natural testosterone, which the IAAF believes gives them a competitive advantage - findings that were disputed by Semenya and her legal team.\n\nHer lawyers had previously said her \"genetic gift\" should be celebrated, adding: \"Women with differences in sexual development have genetic variations that are no different than other genetic variations in sport.\"\n\nThey have also suggested that Semenya \"does not wish to undergo medical intervention to change who she is and how she was born\".\n• None Semenya Q&A - why is this case so pivotal?\n• None What Semenya ruling means for women and sport\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n\nWhat next for Semenya?\n\nOn Friday, Semenya won 5,000m gold at the South African Athletics Championships - a new distance for her, and one outside the scope of the IAAF rule change.\n\nIt was only the second time Semenya had run the distance and she finished more than 100m ahead of defending national champion Dominque Scott.\n\nHowever, Scott said she was unsure whether Semenya could be a serious Olympic contender over the longer distance.\n\nSemenya is national and Commonwealth champion at 1500m, and also broke the African 400m record in August.\n\nWhat is the difference between transgender and intersex?\n\nWe have heard a lot about transgender over the past year. Obviously that's a natural discussion that's going to take place, but Semenya is not transgender.\n\nIntersex is a term used to refer to differences of sexual development in individuals. It can relate to men and women and can manifest itself externally, with varied external genitalia or characteristics, or internally in relation to chromosomes and testosterone.\n\nIt can have health repercussions on athletes. Individuals can live their life not knowing they have any DSD.\n\nTransgender describes a person whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nThey may have reassignment to make that transition or they may wish to identify themselves as male or female without making any physiological transitions.\n\nEighteen-time Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova: \"The verdict against Semenya is dreadfully unfair to her and wrong in principle. She has done nothing wrong and it is awful that she will now have to take drugs to be able to compete. General rules should not be made from exceptional cases and the question of transgender athletes remains unresolved.\"\n\nMarathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe: \"I understand how hard a decision this was for Cas and respect them for ruling that women's sport needs rules to protect it.\"\n\nMegha Mohan, BBC Gender and Identity reporter: \"The spectrum of identity stretches far beyond the binary, say human rights activists, so shouldn't Semenya's physical abilities be celebrated the same way as Usain Bolt's height and Michael Phelps's wingspan are? Either way this verdict does not signal the end of the debate.\"\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "Adam Price said Wales \"doesn't matter one bit\" in Westminster's corridors of power\n\nEuropean elections are a chance to draw a line under \"grief\" over the current \"lack of leadership in politics\", Plaid Cymru's leader has said.\n\nLaunching the party's campaign, Adam Price urged anyone in Wales wanting another EU poll to back Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe said the party was targeting Welsh Labour voters who felt let down on Brexit.\n\nPlaid was the only Welsh party \"with a chance of winning seats\" unequivocally backing a further referendum, he said.\n\nPlaid says Wales should hold an independence referendum if Brexit occurs without a further EU referendum.\n\nLast Friday's announcement by Mr Price on an independence vote went further than his party conference speech in March.\n\nAt the Plaid Cymru campaign launch for the European election in Cardiff on Thursday, Mr Price said thousand of Labour supporters across Wales were living in a \"state of permanent despair\".\n\nEuropean elections, on 23 May, offered a chance to draw a line \"under your grief\" over the \"lack of leadership in politics in general at the moment\", he said.\n\n\"These elections are a bridge across which thousands of people can venture to make the change that Wales needs,\" he said.\n\n\"If we want a European future for Wales we have to vote for Plaid Cymru - the only party that unequivocally in that future.\"\n\nA vote for Plaid Cymru was \"our chance\" to \"make Wales matter in Europe and the world\" he said.\n\n\"We know that Wales matters. Wales matters to millions of our people, in their daily lives. But in the corridors of power in Westminster it doesn't matter one bit.\n\n\"This election is not just about putting Wales - our lives, our problems and our dreams - at the heart of Europe, but bringing in Wales from the margins, out from the cold.\"\n\nLead Plaid candidate Jill Evans said Wales needs a voice in Europe \"more than ever\"\n\nPlaid has previously said that a cross-party deal between anti-Brexit parties \"could have been an opportunity to offer the voters the clearest possible choice at the ballot box\" and blamed the Greens in Wales for the two parties failing to work together in the European election.\n\nThe Green Party has said no approach had been made to it by other parties.\n\nIn the last European Parliament election in 2014, the four Welsh seats were split between Plaid, Labour, UKIP and the Conservatives.\n\nMr Price said: \"We are the only party in Wales with a chance of winning seats in the European Parliament that is unequivocally supporting a People's Vote.\n\n\"For that reason we are appealing for support across the parties. We are saying to progressive people across the political spectrum - join us.\n\n\"Our appeal is especially to [Welsh] Labour supporters who, for years, have been in a state of permanent disappointment with the leadership of their party.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's lead candidate, Jill Evans, first elected an MEP in 1999, said she was \"proud and thankful\" to be standing for a fifth time.\n\n\"Because now, more than ever, Wales needs a voice in Europe and because there is so much potential to build a better future for our nation in Europe.\"\n\n\"We are the only realistic choice for voters who are looking for a different and a constructive way forward,\" she added.\n\nThere are eight parties fighting for four Welsh seats in the planned European elections on 23 May.\n\nWelsh Labour, the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Green Party are joined by Change UK and the Brexit Party.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drake gave a Game of Thrones shout-out while accepting one of his awards\n\nDrake has broken the record for the number of Billboard Music Awards received by an artist - after picking up another 12 at Wednesday's event.\n\nIt means the rapper now has a total of 27 Billboard Awards to his name.\n\nHe won the biggest prize of the night - the award for top artist - beating the likes of Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott.\n\nDrake thanked his mum for her \"relentless effort\" in his life during his acceptance speech.\n\nHe said: \"No matter how long it took me to figure out what I wanted to do, you were always there to give me a ride and now we're all on one hell of a ride.\"\n\nDrake also won top male artist, top streaming songs artist, top rap artist and top Billboard 200 album for Scorpion as well as seven others.\n\nBTS were named social artists of the year for the third time in a row\n\nOther winners on the night included Ariana Grande, who picked up the award for top female artist, BTS, who took home the top duo/group award, and Luke Combs, who won top country artist.\n\nCardi B won 12 awards, including the top 100 song prize for Girls Like You - which features Maroon 5.\n\nHer speech is well worth a watch.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by XXL Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEd Sheeran and Ella Mai were among the British winners. Ed won top touring artist while Ella Mai won top R&B artist.\n\nPicking up her award, Ella - who was born in London - thanked God and her fans, as well as her family.\n\nShe said: \"My mum, my brother and my grandma, for always being my number one supporters.\"\n\nElla Mai's song Boo'd Up was a massive hit in the US\n\nImagine Dragons won the award for top rock group and its lead singer Dan Reynolds used his acceptance speech to speak out against the use of gay conversion therapy in the US.\n\nHe said: \"I just want to take this moment to say that there are 34 states that have no laws banning conversion therapy.\n\n\"And on top of that 58% of our LGBTQ population live in those states.\n\n\"This can change but it's going to take all of us talking to our state legislation, pushing forward laws to protect our LGBTQ youth.\"\n\nMariah performed a medley of her greatest hits at the event\n\nThe event saw performances from a range of artists including Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Madonna and Mariah Carey - who won the icon award,\n\nDuring her acceptance speech, Mariah said she'd \"always felt like an outsider\" and \"someone who doesn't quite belong anywhere\".\n\nShe added: \"Icon? I really don't think of myself in that way. I started making music out of a necessity to survive and to express myself.\"\n\nClick here for the full list of winners.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pair of 100-year-olds are still in love after 76 years\n\nNellie Graham is celebrating her 100th birthday and she is in good company.\n\nHer husband, Joe, marked the same milestone last August.\n\nThe County Antrim pair, who still live independently at their Randalstown bungalow, are thought to be Northern Ireland's oldest married couple.\n\nMarried on 23 September 1942 in the middle of World War Two, this year marks their 77th wedding anniversary.\n\nThey met at school and have been inseparable ever since.\n\nMrs Graham celebrated her century at a family party at the weekend - surrounded by her 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.\n\nSo what's the answer to the question everyone wants to know - the secret to such a long and healthy life?\n\n\"I don't know any secret, just hard work,\" she says.\n\nA keen baker, Mrs Graham still does all the cooking and cleaning for the couple, but takes a break every Friday to get her hair done.\n\nMrs Graham says she and her husband always make up after a row\n\nShe has spent just one night in hospital for a minor ailment in her 10 decades.\n\nMr Graham is in poorer health, so his wife cares for him every day, and gets up at 07:00 every day to make him porridge for breakfast.\n\nDoes she have any tips for a long and happy marriage?\n\n\"I hear tell of these ones saying that they never had a row, but I couldn't take that in,\" she says.\n\nThe couple have 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren\n\n\"There could be a row between now and bedtime.\n\n\"But you always make up, certainly you do.\"\n\nOn how she feels to be one of very few married couples to have reached 100, Mrs Graham says: \"Well anyone we would talk to have never known a couple, they've known one, but not a couple, so this will go down in the records.\n\n\"It doesn't make us feel any different - doesn't make us feel any younger or any older.\n\nDavid Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life\n\n\"You're as young as you feel,\" she adds.\n\nThe couple's eldest son David is a very youthful looking 76.\n\nHe says he couldn't be prouder of his parents: \"I suppose we're one of the most unique families in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nOf his parents' marriage that has spanned more than seven decades, he says: \"Father has slowed down a bit, but he never gets a chance to talk, she does all the talking for him and her both.\"\n\nMr Graham says he has picked up some advice from his mother and father on living a long life.\n\n\"Just keep going no matter what befalls you, just keep motoring on, do what you do every day and get on with it,\" he says.\n\n\"A doctor told me one day I'd live to 150.\n\n\"I said: 'I don't think so, unless there's a miracle cure along the way.'\n\n\"But I suppose the genes are quite strong.\"\n\nCould living in Randalstown be the secret behind those strong genes?\n\n\"I don't know if there's something in the air or what, but it seems to work for this pair anyway,\" says Mr Graham.\n\n\"They're unbelievable and we don't know how lucky we are to have them.\"\n• None Secrets of living to a ripe old age", "Ella Kissi-Debrah lived 25m from the South Circular Road in south London\n\nA fresh inquest will be held into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose fatal asthma attack may have been linked to air pollution near her home.\n\nElla Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south east London, died in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nThe High Court granted a new inquest after Ella's mother said more evidence had come to light.\n\nRosamund Kissi-Debrah said she was \"delighted\" by the ruling.\n\nIn a statement, she said she was looking forward to \"finally getting the truth\".\n\n\"The past six years of not knowing why my beautiful, bright and bubbly daughter died has been difficult for me and my family, but I hope the new inquest will answer whether air pollution took her away from us,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is proved that pollution killed Ella then the government will be forced to sit up and take notice that this hidden but deadly killer is cutting short our children's lives.\"\n\nElla had 27 visits to hospital for her asthma attacks\n\nElla was first taken to hospital in 2010 after a coughing fit and subsequently admitted to hospital 27 times.\n\nAn inquest in 2014, which focused on Ella's medical care, concluded her death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.\n\nBut a 2018 report said it was likely unlawful levels of pollution, which were detected at a monitoring station one mile from Ella's home, contributed to her fatal asthma attack.\n\nRuling with two other judges that the 2014 conclusions should be quashed, Judge Mark Lucraft QC said: \"In our judgment, the discovery of new evidence makes it necessary in the interests of justice that a fresh inquest be held.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Ella's family's lawyers had argued the new evidence demonstrated there was an \"arguable failure\" by the state to comply with its duties under the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to life.\n\nElla may become the first person in the UK for whom air pollution is listed as the cause of death.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "Henry Vincent and another man broke into Richard Osborn-Brooks's home in Hither Green\n\nA 79-year-old man who killed an armed burglar with a kitchen knife acted lawfully, an inquest has decided.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks stabbed Henry Vincent with a knife in Hither Green, south-east London, in April last year.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks told Southwark Coroner's Court the 37-year-old had threatened him with a screwdriver, then \"rushed forward\" and \"ran into the knife I was holding\".\n\nSpeaking by videolink, Mr Osborn-Brooks told the inquest he still believed the intruder was \"intending to do me harm\" during the break-in on 4 April 2018.\n\nHe said two men had knocked on his door, grabbed him and pushed him inside.\n\nBoth then demanded money as one then shoved him toward the kitchen and the other ran upstairs.\n\nHe told the hearing that when he grabbed the knife, Mr Vincent's accomplice fled out of the front door but the intruder came down the stairs holding the screwdriver and saying \"get out of my way or I'll stick you with this\".\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said he had then warned Mr Vincent that his weapon was \"bigger than yours\".\n\n\"I thought he would look at my knife... and he would take the opportunity to run out the front door which was open.\n\n\"He definitely didn't try to get out of the front door, he came towards me,\" Mr Osborn-Brooks said.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks said Mr Vincent threatened him with a screwdriver during the raid\n\nMr Vincent's cause of death was given as an incised wound to the chest.\n\nHis sister had told the hearing her brother was \"not a violent person\".\n\n\"He was a father, he was a son, he was a brother. No one deserves to die,\" Rosie Vincent said.\n\nIn a statement, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination said a toxicology report indicated \"a recent use of both cocaine and heroin\".\n\nHe said Mr Vincent \"may have been experiencing the effects\" at the time of the raid.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Harris said: \"The interaction that led to the stabbing was the simultaneous approach of the deceased with a small screwdriver and the forward movement of the householder with a kitchen knife, leading to moderate force being applied by the knife to Mr Vincent's chest, and its penetration.\n\n\"The householder was terrified and asserted he acted in self-defence after an assault by the other intruder. He was close to, but not obstructing, the exit by the intruder.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The future of 1p and 2p coins may be in doubt - but it seems their use goes way beyond simply paying for things.\n\nTreasury officials are seeking views on the future mix of UK notes and coins as we increasingly move towards digital and mobile payments.\n\nIt conjures up the image of people throwing their smartphones, rather than coppers, into a fountain for good luck - although Downing Street has backed away from a plan to scrap copper coins.\n\nAccording to BBC News readers, viewers and listeners there are many other uses for these coins, from home improvements to baking. Here is a selection.\n\nMany flower sellers and lovers swear by the use of pennies in a vase to keep them from drooping.\n\nReader Chris Stone says: \"The question the government should really be asking is if they end copper coins, what will we put in our vases with tulips? Is this part of their strategy to restrict growth?\"\n\nThey say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof.\n\nFrom pretty penny to penny-wise, there are dozens of phrases in the English language in which pennies play a part.\n\nA number of people have said this is part of British culture.\n\nIf they are replaced by digital payments, will the language become less elegant?\n\n\"A crypto-currency for your thoughts\" just isn't poetic.\n\nVarious uses have been found for pennies among DIY enthusiasts.\n\nSome have used thousands of pennies as flooring or to tile walls, although it takes quite a bit of patience and glue to achieve the desired effect.\n\nOthers have found more practical uses.\n\nOn Twitter, DogKick says they are \"great as a standby screwdriver for slot-headed screws\".\n\nTeachers swear by coins when it comes to helping youngsters learn to count and add up. It is best to start with ones and twos, and considerably more challenging if they could only use fives and tens.\n\nBBC News website readers have also expressed their worries over the future of games using pennies.\n\nPaul Watts says: \"I save 2p coins during the year and my family use them to play the card game Newmarket at Christmas.\n\n\"There is a lot of joy in everyone's faces when the kitty builds up. But when it is won it, only amounts to around £2.40, but then it hasn't cost anyone a lot of money if they lose!\n\n\"Imagine no 2p coins and having to play with 5p coins. That would then be potentially an expensive card game at Christmas -unless you won.\"\n\nOthers have spoken of switching coins to play the game variously known as penny up, or penny up the wall, or penny pitching - where players try to rebound their coins onto the coins of their opponents.\n\nThe leisure theme continues with an appeal from one reader over the future of a traditional game in the UK's amusement arcades.\n\n\"Snooker Bob\", from Aylesbury, writes: \"We love the 2p coin and save them up every year for our trip to the seaside. These would not be the same without a visit to the arcades with their 'penny falls'.\n\n\"A couple of pounds of these coins can give pleasure to adults and children alike. What is the alternative? Five pence pieces are too small and 10 pence coins too expensive. Please do not take this pleasure away and also jeopardise the jobs of those who work in them.\"\n\nJohn White, chief executive of the amusement industry trade body Bacta, agrees, saying that other coins would not work in these machines.\n\n\"Generations of British families know and love them. This will destroy the product and a number of seaside arcades in the UK,\" he says.\n\nThere is another geographical concern, expressed by Linda Wooldridge on Twitter.\n\n\"Cities can work with contactless cards, rural and village shops not so - they work on real money,\" she says.\n\nThe phrase \"unexpected item in the bagging area\" remains one of the most annoying in the English language.\n\nSo, to get their revenge, or simply for good money management, many shoppers use their stock of pennies to pay at a supermarket self-service checkout machine.\n\nMariama on Twitter says: \"I only ever use the self-service checkout.\"\n\nOthers worry about the effect on prices.\n\nBBC News website reader Denise Ellis says: \"I would be sorry to see the 1p and 2p go - it would be yet another sign of inflation if all prices were rounded up to the nearest 5p or 10p. Having said that though, the pricing of lots of things at £x.99 is annoying.\"\n\nDavid Barber, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire. says: \"We must not get rid of 1p and 2p coins. It would be another kick in teeth for those in our country who have very little income, be it pension or benefits. Price increases would need to be a minimum of 5p if there are no lower denomination coins.\"\n\nBut Gillian Crawley, from Kingswood in Surrey, says: \"Of course 1p and 2p coins should be discontinued - they are now pointless, weigh down purses and pockets, and their loss might discourage the ridiculous habit of pricing most things at, for example, £2.99 rather than £3. That fools no one and has been going on for far too long.\"\n\nMike Cherry, the national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says: \"It is important for a proper impact assessment to be carried out before any actions which might restrict the availability of 1p and 2p coins.\n\n\"While growing numbers of transactions are paid for electronically, cash is still an essential part of the mix for many small businesses. A retailer wanting to charge 99p should still be able to hand a penny change to a customer who pays with a £1 coin.\"\n\nSarah Fox, on Twitter, says pennies are \"good for blind baking\".\n\nBBC Good Food explains that this is the process of pre-cooking a pastry base - a sure-fire way to avoid the dreaded soggy bottom.\n\nApparently, the unbaked pie crust is lined with scrunched-up parchment, which can then be weighed down with pennies.\n\nMany readers were concerned with the potential loss for charities, as many pop coins in a jar and donate when the jar is full.\n\nThomas says: \"How many other people also deposit this 'shrapnel' into charity tins and if we withdrew the coins, how much would income would they lose?\"\n\nAndy, from Marlow, says: \"I put all my 1p and 2p pieces in charity jars. It isn't much, but everyone doing it would surely make a difference.\"\n\nCharities do face the cost of processing coins, so would no doubt prefer donations by direct debit or in bigger denominations. The question is, whether this would make up for the money lost if there were no coppers to donate?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May on local election results: \"Simple message... just get on and deliver Brexit\"\n\nThe Conservatives have lost 1,334 councillors, with Theresa May saying voters wanted the main parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nLabour also lost 82 seats in the English local elections, in which it had been expected to make gains.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 703 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Greens and independents also made gains, as UKIP lost seats.\n\nAll 248 English councils holding elections have now announced their full results.\n\nWhile the scale of the Conservative election losses is larger than expected, Labour had predicted it would gain seats, having suffered losses the last time these council seats were contested, in 2015.\n\nThe Green Party has added 194 councillors, while the number of independent councillors has risen by 612.\n\nResults from Northern Ireland's 11 councils are also being announced. No local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nAfter nine years in government it's not surprising that the Conservatives have lost a significant chunk of seats.\n\nBut the sheer number that have disappeared and the loss of control of authorities will hurt - especially with so many activists identifying Theresa May's handling of Brexit as a root of the problem, not just a general malaise.\n\nThe perceived personal nature of the failure is more of an indignity than an encounter with a heckler in tweeds.\n\nAnd for Jeremy Corbyn, it is surprising and disappointing that Labour has simply failed to make any significant capital from such a divided and chaotic government.\n\nHowever ardently his devotees swear loyalty, the party has fallen back - on this set of results at least - seeming further, rather than closer, from winning power in a general election he so often claims to crave.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nMPs have yet to agree on a deal for leaving the European Union, and, as a result, the deadline of Brexit has been pushed back from 29 March to 31 October.\n\nWhile local elections give voters the chance to choose the decision-makers who affect their communities, the national issue has loomed large on the doorstep.\n\nMrs May, appearing at the Welsh Conservative conference, said voters had sent the \"simple message\" that her party and Labour had to \"get on\" with delivering Brexit.\n\n\"These were always going to be difficult elections for us,\" the prime minister added, \"and there were some challenging results for us last night, but it was a bad night for Labour, too.\"\n\nA heckler shouted at the prime minister: \"Why don't you resign?\" He was then ushered out of the conference hall in Llangollen, North Wales, as the audience chanted: \"Out, out, out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vince Cable: Lib Dems are \"success story of the night\"\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said that while the Conservatives had lost \"more than 10 times as many councillors\", it was \"remarkable\" that Labour, \"around the mid-term of a not-very-popular government - has not made net gains\".\n\nSpeaking in Greater Manchester, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he \"wanted to do better\" and conceded voters who disagreed with its backing for Brexit had deserted the party.\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince, attending a rally in Chelmsford, Essex, where his party took control of the council, said it had been a \"brilliant\" result and that \"every vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC projects that, if the local election results it analysed were replicated across Britain, both the Conservatives and Labour would get 28% of the total vote.\n\nThe data, based on 650 wards in which detailed voting figures were collected, suggests the Lib Dems would get 19% and other parties and independents 25%.\n\nPolling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said the days of the Conservatives and Labour dominating the electoral landscape, as happened in the 2017 election when they won 80% of the vote between them, \"may be over\".\n\nHe said it was only the second time in history that the two main parties' projected national share of the vote had fallen below 30%.\n\nThe only other occasion was in 2013, when UKIP performed strongly in local elections.\n\nProf Curtice also said the Conservatives and Labour had both lost ground since last year's local elections when both were estimated to be on 35%.\n\nWhile the Lib Dem figure was the highest since 2010, when they agreed to join the coalition government with the Conservatives, he said it was still well below the 24% the party regularly achieved in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Sian Berry told the BBC the Greens were not simply benefiting from a protest vote over Brexit - their gains reflected \"huge new concerns\" about climate change as well as the strength of their local campaigning on a range of issues.\n\nFor UKIP, Lawrence Webb, a former London mayoral candidate who is standing in this month's European elections, said the party's \"fortunes were on the up\", despite the fall in its number of councillors.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested. A further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nSix mayoral elections have also taken place, with Labour's Jamie Driscoll winning the contest to become the first ever North of Tyne mayor.\n\nLabour candidates also won in Leicester and Mansfield but the party out lost to independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.", "Trans woman Stephanie Hayden claimed a Catholic journalist harassed her in a series of tweets\n\nA judge has told a transgender lawyer and a Catholic journalist involved in an \"out of control\" Twitter row not to mention each other online.\n\nTrans woman Stephanie Hayden has been granted an injunction against Caroline Farrow after a \"barrage\" of tweets.\n\nAt a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Bryan also asked Ms Hayden to not mention Mrs Farrow, and she agreed.\n\nThe judge said tweets sent by mother-of-five Mrs Farrow, whose husband is a priest, had \"crossed the line\".\n\nAn interim injunction bans Mrs Farrow from mentioning Ms Hayden, in particular from \"misgendering\" her, by referring to her as male when she is legally female.\n\nThe judge said: \"The tweeting… has got out of control. Each have said things in those tweets which, in the cold light of day in this court, I would anticipate they would rather wish they had not done.\"\n\nRepresenting herself, Ms Hayden told the judge the debate with Mrs Farrow had been going on since January.\n\nShe claimed Mrs Farrow harassed her in a series of tweets, suggesting she was violent, misgendering her and posting a photograph of her.\n\nMrs Farrow denied this and her lawyers argued she had been subjected to \"a positive avalanche of abuse over a number of months\" from Ms Hayden.\n\nThe two have previously been involved in Twitter rows over similar issues, the court heard.\n\nMrs Farrow was investigated by police after the founder of transgender support charity Mermaids, Susie Green, accused the commentator of misgendering her daughter on Twitter.\n\nMs Green later withdrew the complaint and Surrey Police announced in March they would take no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe aerospace firm, Bombardier, is putting its Northern Ireland operation up for sale as part of a reorganisation of the business.\n\nThe Canadian aircraft manufacturer employs about 3,600 people across several locations in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe company said it would be working closely with employees and unions, through any future transition period.\n\nUnions said it caused \"uncertainty\" for workers at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing employer.\n\nIt is selling off its aerospace operations in Belfast, Newtownabbey, Newtownards and Dunmurry. The company's Moroccan operation is also being sold off.\n\nIn a statement, Bombardier said it was consolidating all aerospace assets into a \"single, streamlined and fully integrated business\".\n\nThe statement added: \"Our sites in Belfast and Morocco have seen a significant increase in work from other global customers in recent years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\n\"We are recognised as a global leader in aerostructures, with unique end-to-end capabilities - through design and development, testing and manufacture, to after-market support.\"\n\nIt said Bombardier was committed to finding the right buyer.\n\nIt added: \"We understand that this announcement may cause concern among our employees, but we will be working closely with them and our unions as matters progress, and through any future transition period to a new owner.\n\n\"There are no new workforce announcements as a result of this decision.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark spoke to representatives of the company before the announcement was made.\n\n\"The Belfast plant is one of our most important aerospace facilities in the country and a vital asset in the UK's leading aerospace sector,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"The government will work with potential buyers to take this successful and ambitious business forward.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Gavin Robinson, MP for East Belfast, said that, in recent years, Bombardier workers have not been able to \"get a break\".\n\nHe said that \"government has a role to ensure that all avenues are explored\" in relation to the sale.\n\nIt is not yet clear who could buy the Belfast operation but it may be attractive to global engineering firms who are 'Tier 1' aerospace suppliers.\n\nIndustry watchers point to firms like Spirit Aerosystems or GKN.\n\nThe Belfast plants don't just make parts for Bombardier, they also supply external customers such as Airbus.\n\nBombardier Belfast director, Michael Ryan, previously said the Belfast factory would be capable of functioning as an outside supplier to Bombardier's business-jets division.\n\nSusan Fitzgerald, the regional co-ordinating officer with Unite trade union, said that the Bombardier workforce have been \"bracing for a shock announcement every morning\".\n\n\"The sale causes significant uncertainty for workers and members,\" she said.\n\nStephen Kelly of Manufacturing NI warned that, between workers and Bombardier suppliers, the sale will have a direct impact on 12,000 jobs in the Northern Ireland economy.\n\n\"It's deeply worrying for the suppliers... and it is deeply worrying for the workers,\" said Mr Kelly.\n\nBombardier, which is based in Montreal, has more than 68,000 employees in 28 countries.\n\nLast month, it slashed its full-year revenue forecast from $18bn (£13.7bn) to $17bn (£13bn) due to timing of aircraft deliveries, production challenges in its train-making division and unfavourable currency conversions.\n\nThe rail unit is meant to generate $10bn (£7.6bn) but Bombardier has cut its full-year revenue forecast for the division by almost 8% to $8.75bn (£6.7bn).\n\nBombardier's president and chief executive Alain Bellemare said that the company expected to meet its aircraft delivery and financial performance targets for the year in its aerospace businesses.", "The polls have just closed. A phrase we're perhaps quite accustomed to these days.\n\nAll day, voters in many parts of England and in Northern Ireland have been casting their ballots, expressing their views on the politicians who had put themselves up for scrutiny, stepping forward for the chance to be part of important decisions about our communities - on housing, the transport we use, the care provided to the youngest and oldest in our society.\n\nEach and every area will have its own many stories, each of us our own motivations for which box, or none, we tick. What happens in towns, villages and cities, and the decisions made by town halls and councillors has a huge bearing, of course, on these results.\n\nThese elections are not taking place everywhere, so the results can't and won't give us a complete geographical picture. Turnout tends to be low in council elections, so in that sense too, the results are not representative of the whole voting public in the same way as a general election, where many millions more of us take part.\n\nNot all of the parties are even standing. Neither of the two new arrivals, Change UK and the Brexit Party, are taking part.\n\nAnd quite fittingly in a country like ours, there are plenty of quirks. In one Surrey borough for example, the residents' association party has held control for years and years and anyone else can pretty much forget their chances of getting a look in. In Cheshire West and Chester, the kind of area where general elections are traditionally won and lost, the lines of the map have been redrawn this time round, so it's still a fight between Labour and the Tories, but in a different way.\n\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours as the results emerge, bear in mind that the results of these local elections are not a beautifully clear, let alone reliable, crystal ball that will reveal the future. But these contests are an enormous set of elections, much bigger than the normal set of local ballots, and an important chance to test how the craziness of our national politics right now is going down with the public.\n\nPolling matters of course, and goodness knows, there is plenty of that about. Recent surveys are certainly not pretty reading for the government, nor do they suggest their main opponents, Labour, streaking ahead. They are a useful but only hypothetical guide to the currents of the public's thinking.\n\nReal votes in real elections are what count, and tonight's a real chance to get a flavour of what the Great British voting public really thinks.\n\nWe'll be on air as the results come in overnight, on BBC One and BBC News, with loads of coverage online too.\n• None What to look out for in the local elections", "Clashes have broken out between police and protesters as \"yellow vest\" demonstrators and labour unions held a traditional May Day rally.\n\nDozens of people were injured and more than 300 arrested, as so-called \"black block\" protesters in dark clothes and face masks also took to the streets.\n\nSome protesters smashed shop windows and threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.\n\nIt follows months of demonstrations by the \"yellow vests\" or \"gilets jaunes\", whose original protests about fuel prices have expanded to wider complaints about economic inequality.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has made a series of concessions to the movement - most recently with a wave of tax cuts.", "With the results for Waverley and Mansfield now in, every council in England has declared.\n\nThe Conervatives have suffered huge defeats, losing more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils.\n\nAnd Labour, who had been expected to make gains, instead lost 81 councillors and six councils.\n\nTheresa May has said the results show the public want both parties to \"get on\" with Brexit.\n\nBut the strongly pro-EU Lib Dems gained 700 seats, with leader Sir Vince Cable calling every vote received \"a vote for stopping Brexit\".\n\nThe Green Party - who are also pro-EU - have picked up an additional 194 seats in comparison to 2015.\n\nYou can read a full breakdown of all the results here.", "New International Development Secretary Rory Stewart has said he intends to stand for the Conservative leadership after Theresa May steps down.\n\nHe told the BBC's Political Thinking With Nick Robinson podcast he could \"help bring the country together\".\n\nMr Stewart also said he wanted to move \"beyond my brief\", laying out his opinions on \"other issues\".\n\nMrs May has told Conservative MPs she will stand down if her Brexit deal is passed by Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and Andrea Leadsom are among those who have been touted as possible replacements.\n\nIn March Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told The Sunday Times if she were leader she would use money saved by Brexit to fund tax cuts for businesses and young people.\n\nJustine Greening told the same paper she would be tempted to enter the race to ensure the Conservatives bring a modern approach and equality of opportunity.\n\nAnd Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has said it is \"entirely possible\" she will launch a bid for the Tory leadership once Mrs May steps down.\n\nMr Stewart was promoted to international development secretary, his first cabinet role, on Wednesday, having previously served as prisons minister.\n\nThis followed the sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who was replaced by Penny Mordaunt, who moved from the international development job.\n\nSpeaking to Political Thinking, Mr Stewart said: \"I think it's important at this time when the prime minister's said she's going to step down to have a voice that's arguing for being radical - but radical in the centre of British politics, not radical on the extreme right of British politics.\n\n\"A voice that's prepared to say I do want to bring this country together.\"\n\nMr Stewart campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum campaign. But he told Political Thinking that \"of course I accept Brexit; I'm a Brexiteer, but I want to reach out to Remain voters as well to bring this country together again.\n\n\"And the only way I can do that is by moving beyond my brief and beginning to lay out, whether it's on climate change or any of these other issues, what I think it would mean to be a country we can be proud of.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said he had \"to get the balance right because my primary job is to look after my department and that's what I really want to focus on day-in, day-out.\n\n\"But ultimately the prime minister is going to step down and if we're going to have a leadership contest we might as well be open about it and candidates might as well explain what they're about.\"\n\nMr Stewart also paid tribute to Mr Williamson, who was sacked by Mrs May after she said she had information that suggested he was responsible for leaking details of a National Security Council meeting.\n\nHe called Mr Williamson \"an extremely energetic secretary of state for defence\", adding that \"whatever happened in those last days and whatever he did wrong at the end, we owe him huge respect for what he did before that\".\n\nMr Williamson strenuously denies being the source of the leak.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nAthletics South Africa (ASA) says it is \"reeling in shock\" after Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya lost a landmark case against athletics' governing body.\n\nThe South African, 28, challenged new IAAF rules which attempt to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.\n\nAthletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) must now take medication to compete in some track events or change to another distance.\n\nASA said the decision \"goes to lengths to justify\" discrimination.\n\nSemenya had challenged the IAAF's new rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) but on Wednesday it announced it had rejected the appeal.\n\n\"We believe their decision is disgraceful,\" ASA added.\n\nAnd it said by justifying discrimination, Cas had \"seen it fit to open the wounds of apartheid\" - the South African political system which enforced white rule and racial segregation until 1991 - which it pointed out was \"condemned by the whole world as a crime against humanity\".\n• None 'Nobody has truly won in Semenya case - one side has just lost less than the other'\n• None Semenya Q&A: Why is her case pivotal?\n\nCas found the rules for athletes with DSD, like Semenya, were discriminatory - but that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nBut, in making the ruling on Wednesday, Cas said it had \"serious concerns as to the future practical application\" of the regulations.\n\nSemenya, a multiple Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion, said she believed the IAAF \"have always targeted me specifically\".\n\n\"We are reeling in shock at how a body held in high esteem like Cas can endorse discrimination without flinching,\" said ASA in a statement on Wednesday.\n\n\"For Cas does not only condone discrimination but also goes to lengths to justify it, only undermines the integrity that this body is entrusted with.\n\n\"We are deeply disappointed and profoundly shocked.\"\n\nSemenya is still eligible to compete at the Diamond League meet in Doha on Friday and can make an appeal against the Cas ruling to the Swiss Tribunal Courts within the next 30 days.\n\nASA said it was \"encouraged to take the matter further\" because of some of the observations raised by Cas in the ruling.\n\n\"ASA was confident of a favourable outcome given the human rights, medico-legal and scientific arguments and evidence that we believe invalidated the regulations,\" it added.\n\n\"It is these facts that have left ASA shocked that Cas rejected these compelling factors in favour of the IAAF.\n\n\"ASA reiterates that this may not be the end of the matter.\"\n\nWhat are the proposed changes?\n\nThe rules, applying to women in track events from 400m up to the mile, require athletes to keep their testosterone levels below a prescribed amount \"for at least six months prior to competing\".\n\nHowever, 100m, 200m and 100m hurdles are exempt, as are races longer than one mile and field events.\n\nFemale athletes affected must take medication for six months before they can compete, and then maintain a lower testosterone level.\n\nThe rules were intended to be brought in on 1 November 2018, but the legal challenge from Semenya and Athletics South Africa caused that to be delayed until 26 March.\n\nThe United Nations Human Rights Council has called the plans \"unnecessary, harmful and humiliating\" and South Africa's sports minister called them a \"human rights violation\".\n• 31 July 2009: 18-year-old Semenya runs fastest 800m time of the year to win gold at the Africa Junior Championships.\n• August 2009: Semenya undertakes a gender test before the World Championships in Berlin. She is unaware of the purpose of the test, with Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene telling her it is a random doping test.\n• 19 August 2009: Semenya wins 800m world gold, breaking the world-leading mark she set in July. After her victory, the news of Semenya's gender test is leaked to the press.\n• November 2009: There are reports that Semenya's test has revealed male and female characteristics. The results are not made public.\n• 6 July 2010: Semenya is cleared by the IAAF to compete again.\n• 22 August 2010: Semenya wins the 800m at an IAAF event in Berlin.\n• 11 August 2012: Semenya wins 800m silver at the 2012 London Olympics. This is later upgraded to gold after Russian winner Mariya Savinov is given a lifetime ban for doping violations. Semenya is also upgraded to 2011 world gold.\n• July 2014: India sprinter Dutee Chand, 18, is banned from competing after a hormone test shows natural natural levels of testosterone normally only found in men.\n• 27 July 2015: Chand is cleared to compete; the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspends, for two years, the introduction of an earlier version of IAAF rules requiring female athletes to take testosterone-suppressing medication.\n• 20 August 2016: Semenya wins 800m gold at the Rio Olympics, but the decision to allow her to compete is\n• 4 July 2017: Research commissioned by the IAAF finds female athletes with high testosterone levels have a \"competitive advantage\".\n• 26 April 2018: The IAAF introduces new rules for female runners with naturally high testosterone.\n• 19 June 2018: Semenya says she will challenge the \"unfair\" IAAF rules.", "The boy told the inquest he did not know how serious allergies could be\n\nA boy who flicked a piece of cheese at a teenager with a dairy allergy who later died did not mean to harm him, an inquest has heard.\n\nKaranbir Cheema, 13, who also had other allergies and asthma, suffered from a severe reaction at his school in west London on 28 June 2017.\n\nHe was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition and died two weeks later.\n\nAn inquest into Karanbir's death heard a piece of cheese landed on his neck.\n\nA boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Poplar Coroner's Court he did not know why he threw the cheese, describing it as \"immature behaviour.\"\n\nThe court heard he was given it by a friend during break time at William Perkin Church of England High School in Ealing.\n\nHe then threw the piece of cheese at Karanbir - but said he was not specifically his target.\n\n\"After that he just said 'I am allergic to cheese',\" the boy said.\n\n\"I apologised and went to class after.\"\n\nThe boy admitted he did not know how serious allergies could be and thought they could simply cause a rash or fever.\n\n\"I didn't mean to hurt him and obviously I feel bad now\", the boy said.\n\nIn a statement, Karanbir's mother Rina said her son was \"extremely diligent\" at managing his allergies.\n\nInformed that cheese had been put down his neck, she said a consultant at the hospital questioned this because contact through the skin would not cause such a bad reaction.\n\nGiving evidence, Rajvnder Saini who worked at the school, said an Epipen kept in the school for Karanbir had expired in July 2016.\n\nAn email was sent to the boy's mother in February 2017 to inform her, the court heard.", "A public inquiry has been hearing from victims of the contaminated blood scandal.\n\nThroughout the 80s and 90s thousands of people developed hepatitis C and HIV as a result of 'the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS'.\n\nStephen Nicholls and Carolyn Challis are just two of hundreds that are expected to give evidence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services attend the scene of the fatal accident near Ecclefechan\n\nThree men have died in two separate crashes in the space of less than 10 hours on the A74(M) motorway.\n\nCraig McLaren, 22, from Eastriggs, was killed in the first accident at about 21:05 on Wednesday near Ecclefechan.\n\nA 57-year-old van driver and his 17-year-old passenger died in a second crash at 06:15 near Kirkpatrick-Fleming.\n\nThe road was closed for several hours after both accidents but has since reopened.\n\nCraig McLaren died in the first accident near Ecclefechan\n\nEmergency services were called to the first accident involving a Ford Fiesta on the southbound carriageway on Wednesday night.\n\nThe driver Craig McLaren, who was a serving soldier, died and an 18-year-old male passenger was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nTwo female passengers were taken to Dumfries Infirmary. All three passengers suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe road was in the process of being reopened when the second crash took place at about 06:15.\n\nThe road was closed for a second time following the van and lorry collision\n\nIt happened near Kirkpatrick-Fleming and involved a van and a lorry on the northbound carriageway.\n\nThe van driver and his passenger were killed. The lorry driver was unhurt.\n\nThere were significant tailbacks in the area for some time as the route was closed and accident investigations were carried out.\n\nTraffic Scotland reported that the road had fully reopened by about 12:30.", "There is no clear understanding of what is needed to deliver welfare payments to Scotland's expected 1.4 million claimants, Audit Scotland has said.\n\nThe warning from the spending watchdog comes as the Scottish government prepares to take over control of 11 benefits from the UK government.\n\nSo far almost £90m has been spent on delivering the new benefits system.\n\nHowever, Audit Scotland said it was still unclear what the overall cost would be.\n\nIn its report, the spending watchdog said that while the delivery of the first two benefits to be taken on by Social Security Scotland had gone well, the real challenge lay ahead.\n\nThe new benefits - the carer's allowance supplement and best start grants - began being given to claimants in 2018.\n\nFigures from Audit Scotland show that £33m was paid to 77,000 people receiving the carer's allowance supplement, while £2.7m was paid to 7,000 people receiving best start grants.\n\nThe Scottish government has also spent £87m implementing the new system.\n\nHowever, in the report Scotland's auditor general Caroline Gardner warned that while the Scottish government had done a \"good job\" delivering the first two benefits, its second phase of delivery included the most complex and highest risk benefits\n\nShe also highlighted the difficulties that Social Security Scotland, which is headquartered in Dundee, had encountered employing adequately skilled staff, both in project management and in IT.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said seven benefits would be implemented by the end of 2019\n\nMs Gardner said the vacancy rate was 30%, prompting a reliance on agency staff and contractors and pushing up costs.\n\nShe said: \"The government has done well to date but has had to work flat out to reach this point, leaving little time to draw breath and plan for the challenges ahead.\n\n\"The social security team is doing the right things to address that issue, but it hasn't yet got a clear understanding of what's needed to deliver the more complex benefits to come, or how much it will cost.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"To put it in context, the benefits that have been delivered so far are about 2% of the total £3.5bn that will be involved when it's fully rolled out.\n\n\"The government deliberately focused on the benefits that were easier to implement first of all - the one-off payments, the relatively small caseloads and where people's eligibility is easy to assess, new parents for example.\n\n\"The disability benefits are very different. More people are involved, assessing eligibility is much more complex and there are regular payments that people will rely on for their living costs, so scaling that up really is a very significant move from the success that has been achieved so far.\"\n\nMinisters have previously denied their timetable for implementing the new benefits' rollout was unrealistic.\n\nSocial Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said that the government was already taking action to respond to the Audit Scotland report.\n\nShe said that they aimed to have delivered three of the 11 devolved benefits by the end of 2019, as well as four new ones to the Scots in most need.\n\nShe told Good Morning Scotland: \"I very much welcome the report from Audit Scotland. It has recognised that we've done very well to deliver at that very high pace and with significant challenges.\n\n\"The evidence from last year shows that we have been able to establish a new public service for Scotland, we are delivering benefits - there's over £197m delivered by Social Security Scotland already directly to low income families and to carers.\n\nMs Somerville said that she recognised there were challenges ahead for the service but that plans to meet them were already well underway.\n\nShe also said that progress was being made on the department's vacancy rate, which had dropped from 30% to 15% in mid April.\n\nOn the overall costs of the service, Ms Somerville said: \"The financial memorandum from the social security bill, that was only passed last year, show that the implementation costs were around £308m.\n\n\"The steady-state running costs for the agency were estimated to be between £144m-£156m and that replicates and shadows very well what happens within the current system.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservative spokeswoman for social security, Michelle Ballantyne, said the SNP had spent years complaining about the UK government's approach to benefits but was now finding out how difficult it was to create a fair and sustainable welfare system.\n\nShe added: \"This report shows that 98% of the annual expenditure on devolved benefits have yet to be delivered.\n\n\"They have spent a fortune just to get to this point, and the costs appear to be rising still.\"\n\nMark Griffin, Scottish Labour's social security spokesman, said: \"This damning report means that vulnerable people in Scotland will continue to suffer at the hands of the Tories while they wait for a devolved system that was meant to bring dignity and respect.\n\n\"The SNP have already chosen to leave Scotland's social security powers at the whims of a Tory government, with some disabled people having to wait up to 2024 for their payments to transfer.\"", "Voters are continuing to head to the polls for council and mayoral elections across England and Northern Ireland.\n\nElections are being held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.\n\nPolling stations for the votes - spanning metropolitan and district councils and unitary authorities - are open until 22:00 BST.\n\nNo local elections are taking place in Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis is the biggest set of local elections in England's four-year electoral cycle, with more than 8,400 seats being contested.\n\nA further 462 seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland.\n\nFind the result of your council election Enter your postcode or council name to find out By-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nVoters in 10 local authorities in England need to either show ID or produce their polling card before they can vote as part of a trial scheme.\n\nThose in Braintree, Broxtowe, Craven, Derby, North Kesteven, Woking and Pendle have to show ID before they can vote.\n\nVoters in Mid Sussex, North West Leicestershire, and Watford local authorities are required to show their polling card.\n\nEveryone else in England can vote as usual, with no need to bring along a polling card or any proof of ID.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, voters need photo ID, the polling card received through the post being for information purposes only.\n\nResults for about 108 English councils are expected to be declared before 06:00 on Friday.\n\nThe remaining 140 are scheduled to come in throughout Friday, mostly between midday and 1800 BST.\n\nThe Northern Irish results will take longer to come through because of a more complicated voting system.", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned\n\nFacebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as \"dangerous individuals\".\n\nThe social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech.\n\nLouis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded.\n\nFacebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First.\n\nThe latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns.\n\n\"We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” the company said in a statement.\n\n\"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\n\nThe banned group also includes Paul Nehlen, a white supremacist, and Laura Loomer, an anti-Islamic activist with a large social media presence.\n\nIn November, Ms Loomer handcuffed herself to a Twitter building in New York in protest at being banned from that platform.\n\nLaura Loomer is among those banned from the platform\n\nWhite supremacist Paul Nehlen, right, has twice run in Republican primaries\n\nHowever, Facebook has been criticised for giving forewarning of the bans, giving those affected a chance to redirect their followers to other services.\n\nFor a brief time on Thursday, Alex Jones was broadcasting, on Facebook, about his impending ban.\n\n“I’m about to be banned,\" wrote Mr Yiannopoulos to his followers on Instagram. \"Please sign up for my mailing list before this account disappears.\"\n\nA spokesperson at Facebook said the ban will apply to all types of representation of the individuals on both Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe firm said it would remove pages, groups and accounts set up to represent them, and would not allow the promotion of events when it knows the banned individual is participating.\n\nIn an email, Facebook explained its rationale for banning the users:\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the \"reprehensible\" security leak from the National Security Council as she accused Gavin Williamson of behaving for his \"own selfish political ends\".\n\nThe Scottish first minister said the leak from the National Security Council was a \"sign of the complete dysfunction at the heart of the UK government\".\n\nAsked, during today's First Minister's Questions, whether anyone who breaks the Official Secrets Act should be prosecuted, she said it should be a matter for the police.\n\nShe added: \"I think any minister that has been found guilty in such a way I think that they lose their job.\n\n\"All politicians in government should recognise the responsibility and the privileges we carry and should not be behaving in the way it appears Gavin Williamson was behaving - for their own selfish political ends.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The drone had to be custom-built\n\nA donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.\n\nMany see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Africa.\n\nThe US flight required a specially-designed drone which was able to maintain and monitor the organ.\n\nIt is hoped that it can pave the way for longer flights and address safety issue with current transport methods.\n\nThe recipient, a 44-year-old from Baltimore, had waited eight years for the transplant.\n\nShe said of the unusual delivery method: \"This whole thing is amazing. Years ago, this was not something that you would think about.\"\n\nAccording to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages organ transplants in the US, in 2018 there were nearly 114,000 people on waiting lists, with 1.5% of organs not making it to the destination and nearly 4% being delayed by two hours or more.\n\nThe drone took off at night\n\n\"Delivering an organ from a donor to a patient is a sacred duty with many moving parts. It is critical that we find ways of doing this better,\" said Joseph Scalea, assistant professor of surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and one of the surgeons who performed the transplant.\n\n\"As a result of the outstanding collaboration among surgeons, engineers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), organ procurement specialists, pilots, nurses, and, ultimately, the patient, we were able to make a pioneering breakthrough in transplantation.\"\n\nThe three-mile journey required a lot of new technology, including a custom-made drone capable of carrying the additional weight of an organ, which also needed on-board cameras and organ tracking, and communications and safety systems for a flight over an urban, densely-populated area.\n\nIt also had a parachute recovery system in case the aircraft failed.\n\nThe drone's mission was a success and the patient has now left hospital\n\n\"There's a tremendous amount of pressure knowing there's a person waiting for that organ, but it's also a special privilege to be a part of this critical mission,\" said Matthew Scassero, part of the engineering team based at the University of Maryland.\n\nCharlie Alexander, chief executive of The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland, a charity working to increase organ donation, said: \"If we can prove that this works, then we can look at much greater distances of unmanned organ transport.\n\n\"This would minimise the need for multiple pilots and flight time and address safety issues we have in our field.\"", "Free-to-use cash machines have been disappearing at a rapid rate across the UK, according to a study by Which?\n\nNearly 1,700 machines started charging for withdrawals in the first three months of the year, with the majority starting to charge in March, according to the consumer lobby group.\n\nCardtronics, which runs most of those, and fellow provider NoteMachine are both likely to charge at more machines.\n\nThat could mean the country losing 13% of its free ATMs in only a few months.\n\nThe changes come after a reduction in the fee operators receive from banks each time an ATM is used.\n\nLink, which oversees ATMs, began to cut the fee, known as the interchange rate, last year. So far it has reduced the charge from 25p to 23p per withdrawal.\n\nLink said at the time that the move was aimed at protecting the ATM network. It left the fee for free-to-use ATMs - which are 1km or more from the next nearest cash machine - unchanged.\n\nAshleigh Cooper from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire has seen the number of cash machines dwindle from six down to two.\n\nMr Cooper, aged 60, said: \"It causes real problems especially on bank holidays. There are no banks here anymore. We have a mobile bank that visits every few weeks but that's no good to me.\n\n\"Hebden Bridge is quite a touristy area and there's usually a problem with one of the cash machines going out of order because it's run out of cash.\n\n\"The local cinema here was always a cash business but they're now having to accept digital payments or lose punters.\n\n\"For me it's like going back to the dark ages, it's crazy.\"\n\nATM operators receive the interchange fee from banks each time one of their cash machines is used.\n\nNoteMachine, which operates 7,000 cash machines across the UK, said the cut in the interchange rate meant it was considering introducing fees at up to 4,000 of its machines.\n\n\"Unless urgent action is taken to reduce the pressure on ATM operators by reversing the interchange fee reductions, NoteMachine will be forced to begin converting ATMs to surcharging,\" said chief executive Peter McNamara.\n\nRival ATM machine operator Cardtronics has said it is likely to convert another 1,000 of its ATMs over the coming months. It said it \"had been forced into charging a fee for cash withdrawals on some of our machines where Link's cuts have left us with no choice\".\n\nThere were about 52,000 free cash machines in the country at the start of the year.\n\nGareth Shaw, head of money at Which?, said: \"Communities are being stripped of free access to cash at an alarming rate that could hit the most vulnerable in our society the hardest, while denying millions of people free withdrawals.\n\n\"A regulator is desperately needed to get a grip of these rapid changes across the cash landscape and ensure all those still reliant on this important payment method aren't suddenly shut out from accessing the cash they need in their daily lives.\"\n\nReported charges range from 50p to £1.99 and the situation angered some of the respondents to the Which? survey.\n\nAnita Brakewell, from Blackpool, said: \"Being disabled means I don't have the option of walking to the next free cash machine, so these charges shut me out of cash that's important to my daily life.\n\n\"My town has also suffered from bank branch closures, making it hard to access the cash and financial services I need.\"\n\nAnd Robin Farnsworth, from Kirkcaldy, said: \"I stopped using the local cashpoint when it started charging me just to access my cash. I'm on a very tight budget and can't afford to be spending out just to get the money I need for everyday life.\"\n\nBank of England figures show that 2.2 million people are almost entirely reliant on cash.\n\nAnd last year's Access to Cash study, published in December, found that more than eight million people would struggle to cope in a cashless society, which would present real challenges for 25 million UK residents.\n\nHowever, cash use has halved in the past 10 years and in 2017, debit cards overtook notes and coins as the UK's most popular payment method.\n\nThere is a fierce, three-way, struggle going on over the future of our network of free-to-use cash machines.\n\nThe upstarts are independent operators like Cardtronics and Note Machine which now have the most ATMs.\n\nThen there are the banks. They have to pay the operators each time their customers use a non-bank machine.\n\nFinally, we have Link which runs the network and has been trying to get the operators to accept lower payments from the banks.\n\nTwo cuts to the payments have been pushed through, prompting Cardtronics to say it is being \"forced\" to charge the customer instead.\n\nAnd the backdrop is that we are using less cash, which means fewer withdrawals and less chance that a cash machine will pay its way.\n\nSo it's not clear where this will end.\n\nBut more charging will cause anger and frustration amongst those who depend heavily on cash.", "MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency.\n\nThis proposal, which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was \"a huge step forward\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove acknowledged there was a climate \"emergency\" but did not back Labour's demands to declare one.\n\nThe declaration of an emergency was one of the key demands put to the government by environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, in a series of protests over recent weeks.\n\nAddressing climate protesters from the top of a fire engine in Parliament Square earlier, Mr Corbyn said: \"This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.\n\n\"We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to US President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis.\"\n\nThousands of Scottish school pupils took part in climate protests last month\n\nDozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared \"a climate emergency\".\n\nThere is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.\n\nSome councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.\n\nIt's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.\n\nLabour's motion also calls on the government to aim to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050 and for ministers to outline urgent proposals to restore the UK's natural environment and deliver a \"zero waste economy\" within the next six months.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments have both already declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.", "Network Rail's former properties are home to a wide variety of businesses\n\nNetwork Rail only considered tenants of its arches \"late in the process\" when it sold its commercial property portfolio, the spending watchdog says.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) said the £1.46bn generated by the deal in September was \"more than expected\".\n\nBut it said that tenants got no legal guarantees on the amount of rent they pay from the new owners.\n\nThe government says all tenants' rights have been protected - but campaigners warned firms could be priced out.\n\nLeni Jones, director of Guardians of the Arches, said: \"[The NAO's] report confirms that tenants' interests were only considered during the sale process because we forced Network Rail and the government to listen.\n\n\"That was a major dereliction of duty by both Network Rail and the government,\" she said.\n\nMs Jones added: \"If [the new owners] try to impose further crippling rent increases at the scale suggested by Network Rail, they can expect organised opposition.\"\n\nAccording to the NAO, Network Rail valued the portfolio at £1.17bn prior to the sale, but a competitive bidding process meant it fetched more.\n\nIt said the track operator also sold the property on a leasehold basis, so it could continue to safely maintain the UK's railway infrastructure.\n\nBut the NAO also said that Network Rail had \"not explicitly\" considered issues such as tenant protection or community regeneration during the sale.\n\nAnd while the new owners - Blackstone Group and Telereal Trillium - have adopted a charter to guide their dealings with tenants, it has no legal basis.\n\nAmyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: \"Network Rail achieved value for money in terms of the price paid... However, it is concerning that tenants as stakeholders did not form part of the aims of the sale and that they were only fully considered late in the process.\"\n\nBlackstone and Telereal have taken on Network Rail's existing lease agreements, meaning tenants' contractual obligations are unchanged.\n\nBut National Rail has always set rents based on market conditions and the new owners plan to continue this practice.\n\nPrior to the sale, Network Rail suggested buyers could expect a 54% rise in rent over the next three to four years.\n\nMs Jones said this was what arches tenants \"feared the most\".\n\n\"We are the backbone of our communities, driving local economic development and bringing variety and vitality to urban neighbourhoods all over the country. Big rent increases will kill that vitality stone dead.\"\n\nDavid Biggs, managing director at Network Rail Property, said: \"Our role is to safely run, improve and grow the railway for everyone that relies on it.\n\n\"The sale has enabled us to deliver a number of schemes, while at the same time tenants and communities will benefit from investment in the estate by the new owner.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Transport said: \"The rights of all tenants have been protected and all current agreements fully honoured. A charter commits the new owner to engage in an open and honest manner with their tenants and the community, as well as work with long-standing small business tenants to resolve financial pressures.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The tables turned on the online trolls\n\nTottenham striker Harry Kane has invited a fan subjected to online abuse to be a mascot at the club's last Premier League match of the season.\n\nNeil Markham posted a video of his daughter Ella dancing at the club's new stadium after Spurs lost to West Ham.\n\nAs a result Ella and her father received a slew of online abuse from fans upset about the result.\n\nBut that was followed by messages of support that Mr Markham said left him \"overwhelmed\".\n\nOn Saturday Mr Markham, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, posted a video of Ella dancing at the stadium on Twitter with the caption \"the result is never the most important thing\".\n\nAfter posting the video Ella, who has Down's syndrome, was ridiculed online, and Mr Markham was also subjected to abuse for posting the video.\n\nHe said: \"Ella was being called all sorts of names, [people were] laughing at her in terms of the way she was dancing and the way she looked.\n\n\"I was getting abuse in terms of having a child with Down's syndrome.\"\n\nBut Mr Markham said the response from people in support of Ella \"has been absolutely phenomenal\".\n\nMost importantly for Ella, her favourite player Harry Kane sent his own video of support to the family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lilywhite Spurs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn it he said: \"I just want to thank you for your amazing support. Your family are proud of you as well.\n\n\"We know you're a big fan and we'd love for you to come down and be a mascot for the last game of the season.\n\n\"Keep dancing and keep doing what you're doing, lots of love.\"\n\nA Tottenham Hotspur spokesperson confirmed Ella would be a mascot at Spurs' final Premier League game against Everton on 12 May.\n\nThey added the club was doing all it could \"to identify those responsible for these posts and take the appropriate action\".", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 2 May 2019.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has signalled she could ditch plans to cut air departure tax.\n\nThe Scottish government has promised to legislate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2045.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was challenged on proposals for a devolved air departure tax - which would be 50% lower than the current air passenger duty.\n\nAlison Johnstone and Richard Leonard both called on the first minister to scrap the plans.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the government would have to review every policy in order to meet the new climate change targets.\n\n\"Setting targets is one thing, having the policy programme in place to meet them is what matters,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nThe king of Thailand has married the deputy head of his personal security detail, and given her the title of queen, a royal statement has said.\n\nThe surprise announcement about his long-time consort comes before his elaborate coronation ceremonies begin on Saturday.\n\nKing Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, became the constitutional monarch after the death of his much-loved father in 2016.\n\nHe has been married and divorced three times before and has seven children.\n\nA royal statement said: King Vajiralongkorn \"has decided to promote General Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya, his royal consort, to become Queen Suthida and she will hold royal title and status as part of the royal family\".\n\nQueen Suthida is King Vajiralongkorn's long-term partner and has been seen with him in public for many years, though their relationship has never before been officially acknowledged.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida\n\nFootage from the wedding ceremony was shown on Thai TV channels late Wednesday, showing other members of the royal family and palace advisers in attendance.\n\nThe king is seen pouring sacred water on the head of Queen Suthida. The couple then sign a marriage registry.\n\nShe and others are prostrated before the monarch, as is customary in Thailand.\n\nIn 2014 Vajiralongkorn appointed Suthida Tidjai, a former flight attendant for Thai Airways, as the deputy commander of his bodyguard unit. He made her a full general in the army in December 2016.\n\nThe previous king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, ruled for 70 years, making him the longest-reigning monarch in the world when he died in 2016.", "In World War Two members of the Royal Sussex Regiment got the chance to film messages to their loved ones back home.\n\nThe film was screened at cinemas in Brighton and was eventually archived at the Imperial War Museum.\n\nNow North West Film Archive and Screen Archive South East are collaborating to try and trace the families of the veterans featured in the film.", "Sir Gavin Williamson is in the spotlight again, after he resigned from the government amid accusations of bullying and harassment.\n\nFormer chief whip Wendy Morton has handed over a series of expletive-laden text messages from Sir Gavin to Parliament's bullying watchdog and made a complaint to Tory HQ about his conduct.\n\nFollowing a report in the Guardian that Sir Gavin told a senior civil servant to \"slit your throat\" and \"jump out of the window\" when he was defence secretary, No 10 said it would be conducting its own informal investigation.\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Gavin said allegations about his \"past conduct\" were becoming a distraction for the government - even though he \"refutes the characterisation of these claims\" and has apologised to the recipient of some text messages.\n\nThis is the third time Sir Gavin has had to leave government, having already been sacked from cabinet twice previously - as education secretary and defence secretary.\n\nHis rise through the Conservative ranks has been blown off course by a number of separate scandals.\n\nHowever, he has been widely seen as a political survivor, serving under four different prime ministers.\n\nThe 46-year-old was raised near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, by Labour-supporting parents.\n\nEducated at state schools, he became involved in Tory politics while studying at Bradford University and later went on to become a county councillor in North Yorkshire.\n\nA former fireplace salesman, he also ran a pottery firm, making and selling ceramic tableware, before being elected as MP for South Staffordshire in 2010.\n\nSir Gavin began his parliamentary career as a ministerial aide to David Cameron, acting as the then-prime minister's bag carrier and eyes and ears at Westminster.\n\nHe remained in this important role until Mr Cameron left office in June 2016.\n\nAfter Theresa May became prime minister, he was made chief whip, responsible for keeping MPs in line and enforcing party discipline.\n\nIn the aftermath of the disastrous 2017 election, he played a crucial role in paving the way for the Conservatives' agreement with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May's minority government.\n\nSir Gavin Williamson (right) shakes hands with the DUP's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, after the party signed a deal to prop up Theresa May's government\n\nIn his role as chief whip he was known for keeping a tarantula called Cronus on his desk.\n\nDescribing his methods in the whips office, he told the Conservative Party conference in 2017: \"We take a carrot and stick approach... Personally I don't much like the stick, but it is amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot.\"\n\nNick Timothy - a senior adviser to Mrs May - described Mr Williamson as an \"excellent\" chief whip, who was \"a shrewd tactician\" and \"a judge of character\".\n\n\"Even MPs who don't like him admit that he was the best chief whip the party has had in decades - and he did it through some of the hardest years,\" he said in a tweet.\n\nSir Gavin's promotion to defence secretary in November 2017 came as a surprise to some within the Tory Party and the armed forces. He had no military background and little opportunity to build up a public profile because his role in the whips office meant he did not speak in Parliament.\n\nWhile at the Ministry of Defence he lobbied successfully for more funding for the military, often to the irritation of the Treasury.\n\nBut he was derided in the press for telling Russia to \"shut up and go away\", and for suggestions the UK should respond in kind to \"acts of warfare\" by the Kremlin.\n\nHis downfall came after an inquiry into a leak from a top-level National Security Council meeting about whether to allow Chinese firm Huawei to help build the UK's 5G network.\n\nSir Gavin denied leaking information from the meeting, but Mrs May said she had \"lost confidence in his ability to serve\" and sacked him in May 2019.\n\nSir Gavin faced protests from pupils in the summer of 2020 after their A-level results were downgraded\n\nHe was not on the backbenches for long and returned to cabinet as education secretary in July the same year, when Boris Johnson became prime minister.\n\nWhen the Covid pandemic broke out in 2020, the role became even more high profile, with Sir Gavin responsible for tricky areas including home-learning and managing the return to classrooms and exams when schools fully reopened.\n\nHe was widely criticised for U-turning over getting all primary school pupils back in school after lockdown and there were also clashes with footballer Marcus Rashford over his campaign to provide children with free meals during holidays.\n\nPerhaps the biggest debacle was the chaos of the 2020 school exam period, with multiple U-turns over how to grade pupils after examinations were cancelled because of the pandemic.\n\nThis resulted in his department's most senior civil servant and the head of the exams watchdog both leaving their roles.\n\nSir Gavin stayed put until September 2021, when he was replaced by Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nSome argued he had been made a political fall guy - used as a lightning rod for the criticism of how the government had dealt with the challenges Covid posed to education and taking the blame for decisions that were never down to an individual minister.\n\nBut in March, the news he would receive a knighthood for his political and public service prompted anger from some teachers and parents, who blamed him - at least in part - for the mistakes on schools policy during the pandemic.\n\nSir Gavin returned to cabinet as a minister without portfolio under Mr Sunak in October. But it took less than two weeks for concerns to be raised about his appointment following claims he had bullied a fellow Conservative MP.\n\nIn texts sent to then-Chief Whip Ms Morton in the run-up to the Queen's funeral in September he appeared to complain that MPs who were not favoured by Prime Minister Liz Truss were being excluded from the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.\n\nIn the messages, published by the Sunday Times, Sir Gavin reportedly warned Ms Morton \"not to push him about\" and that \"there is a price for everything\".\n\nHe was quoted by the paper as saying he regretted \"getting frustrated\" and was happy to \"work positively with [Ms Morton] in the future as I have in the past\".\n\nNo 10 described the messages as \"unacceptable\" but the prime minister's official spokesman insisted Mr Sunak had full confidence in Sir Gavin.\n\nWhen he resigned, the prime minister said he accepted his resignation with \"great sadness\" but understood his decision to step back.\n\nSeparately an unnamed official at the Minister of Defence said Sir Gavin \"deliberately demeaned and intimidated\" them.\n\nThe official said they raised concerns to the Ministry of Defence's human resources department, but did not make a formal complaint at the time.\n\nSir Gavin did not deny using the language attributed to him but said he \"strongly\" rejected allegations of bullying.\n\nHowever, the pressure of multiple accusations and inquiries became too great, and Sir Gavin was forced to step down.\n\nWriting in his resignation letter, he said he would \"clear my name of wrongdoing\" but it remains to be seen if this consummate Westminster operator can, once again, bounce back.", "Richard Osborn-Brooks had been held on suspicion of murder\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar has been released without charge.\n\nRichard Osborn-Brooks discovered two intruders at his home in South Park Crescent Hither Green, south-east London, on Wednesday.\n\nThe 78-year-old was arrested after Henry Vincent, 37, from Kent, was fatally stabbed during a struggle in the kitchen.\n\nThe Met said Mr Osborn-Brooks had been released and would face no action.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said: \"This is a tragic case for all of those involved.\n\n\"As expected with any incident where someone has lost their life, my officers carried out a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the death.\"\n\nHenry Vincent was under investigation over a separate burglary involving another elderly victim\n\nPolice said they were called at about 00:45 BST to the property over reports of a burglary when they found Mr Vincent collapsed in nearby Further Green Road.\n\nA witness said an accomplice dragged Mr Vincent toward a van before leaving him for dead. A second suspect fled the scene and is still being hunted by police.\n\nWhen we look at the law it is all down to what is considered to be \"reasonable force\" when someone is defending their home.\n\nThe law was clarified in 2013 to say if it was a highly stressful situation and if someone was under a great deal of pressure, then it would not be against the law to act using reasonable force.\n\nIt's always debateable what reasonable force actually is. But there was an assumption that if someone entered your house and if you were genuinely petrified and you did take some action, such as we had in this case, then that could be considered reasonable.\n\nMr Osborn-Brooks was held on suspicion of murder and released following a consultation between Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nHis arrest had provoked outcry from neighbours and an online fundraising campaign.\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding said: \"While there might be various forms of debate about which processes should be used in cases such as this, it was important that the resident was interviewed by officers under the appropriate legislation; not only for the integrity of our investigation but also so that his personal and legal rights were protected.\"\n\nForensic officers investigate the drains near the scene in South Park Crescent\n\nIn January, Mr Vincent was named and pictured by Kent Police investigating a distraction burglary on a man in his 70s.\n\nFamily and friends paid tribute to him on social media.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As a relatively new defence secretary, Gavin Williamson once said that Russia should \"go away and shut up\".\n\nWell, the prime minister has told him to go away because in her view, he did not shut up.\n\nIn a leak investigation, that has broken the precedent of most leak investigations that end up with precisely no result at all, a rapid hunt of just a few days has resulted in the sacking of one of the most senior ministers in government, and one of the few ministers frankly, that the prime minister could more or less rely on.\n\nMr Williamson was for a while chief whip too, the keeper of the government's secrets.\n\nAnd, crucially, one of the few ministers who had good relations with the DUP. Indeed, brokering a deal on Theresa May's behalf in the wreckage of the 2017 general election.\n\nBut there was also a lot of resentment and frustration in government circles at how he sometimes behaved, suspicion often that he was too quick to seek his own political advantage, too interested in his own future, too entertained by the dark arts of Westminster.\n\nThat meant that as soon as the Huawei story broke, fingers were being privately pointed to him as the source of the leak. \"Operation get Gav\", as one of his allies described it.\n\nMinisters were quick to write to Number 10 demanding a full inquiry, some of them privately fuming that \"it must have been Williamson\".\n\nNumber 10 now says there was \"compelling evidence\" to prove that it was him.\n\nOfficials carrying out the inquiry did look at his phone.\n\nHe did, by his own admission, have a conversation on the particular day with the journalist who broke the story.\n\nDowning Street has made a very serious accusation and is sure enough to carry out this sacking.\n\nFor the prime minister's allies, it will show that she is, despite the political turmoil, still strong enough to move some of her ministers around - to hire and fire.\n\nMr Williamson is strenuously still denying that the leak was anything to do with him at all.\n\nThere is nothing fond, or anything conciliatory, in either the letter from the prime minister to him, or his reply back to her.\n\nAnd having had a fractious relationship with the National Security Adviser and Cabinet Secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, some of Mr Williamson's friends believe that those looking into the affair were simply too quick to conclude the former defence secretary was responsible, treating him differently in this short investigation, compared to others who were on the list.\n\nOne senior Conservative also points out a rich irony here, saying: \"A government that governs by open leaking then sacks someone for not being open about their leaking. We have surely moved from the incompetent to the theatre of the absurd!\"\n\nThese are strange times indeed.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPedro scored an away goal as Chelsea recovered from an early setback against Eintracht Frankfurt to set up an exciting Europa League semi-final return leg at Stamford Bridge.\n\nEintracht took the lead through their top scorer Luka Jovic, who superbly steered in Filip Kostic's ball.\n\nThe Blues, who started with Eden Hazard on the bench, equalised when Pedro thrashed home just before half-time.\n\nDavid Luiz also went close when his dipping free-kick came off the bar.\n\nThe draw means that Chelsea become the first team to go 16 successive Europa League matches without defeat, breaking the record set by Atletico Madrid from 2011 to 2012. They will have the chance to make it 17 in next Thursday's second leg.\n• None Football Daily: Arsenal and Chelsea close in on Baku final\n\nDid leaving Hazard on the bench pay off?\n\nThere was a great deal of surprise when the Chelsea teamsheet showed Hazard's name among the substitutes.\n\nManager Maurizio Sarri told BT Sport that he rested his 19-goal forward because of fixture congestion, with the Belgian having played 10 matches in a row. So it was a penny for Hazard's thoughts when he was shown watching his team struggle and a goal down after 23 minutes.\n\nHowever, Sarri did not rush on his key attacker and instead kept faith with what he had on the pitch, and was repaid with an excellent display thereafter.\n\nRuben Loftus-Cheek, brought back into the XI, led the fightback. After Pedro went close with a strike that drifted past Kevin Trapp's left-hand post, the England player kept the goalkeeper on his toes with a strike that also flirted with the woodwork.\n\nThe pair then combined for the goal. Eintracht's defenders lost possession after dawdling on the ball in the area, and Loftus-Cheek carved out an opening for Pedro to do the rest.\n\nThe Blues midfielder went close twice more, first with an effort that swept over the bar and then with a stinging shot with the outside of his boot that tested Trapp.\n\nBrazilian Luiz went even closer with an blockbuster of a free-kick that dipped wickedly and crashed off Trapp's bar. Hazard, who came on in the 61st minute, then set up another opportunity for the defender, but this time he headed straight at the German keeper.\n\nThey should have won the game but will no doubt be content with how they began their ninth major European semi-final since the Roman Abramovich era began in 2003. A repeat display at Stamford Bridge should see them reach their sixth European final.\n\nPrior to kick-off, Eintracht supporters produced a spectacular display by holding up black and white cards in the team's colours, while at one end a giant tifo covered the entire stand.\n\nCoach Ade Hutter's team lived up to the lavish introduction in the opening half hour, and underlined why they were unbeaten in 11 home games in the competition.\n\nKey to their success so far has been the forward combination of Kostic and 21-year-old Serb Jovic, who is likely to be courted by several top European sides in the close season.\n\nJovic has been in outstanding form this season, during which he made his move from Benfica permanent, and gave Bundesliga's fourth-placed side the lead with a deft header from Kostic's delivery.\n\nHowever, as Chelsea grew into the match, his team-mates appeared to lose their way. Eintracht's only clear-cut chance after the break fell to captain and defender David Abraham, who headed over from eight yards.\n• None Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 16 Europa League games, a record in the competition since it was rebranded in 2009-10.\n• None Eintracht Frankfurt have played 11 Europa League games at home, winning eight and drawing three. They haven't been behind for a single minute in those games.\n• None Just one of the six teams to draw the first leg of a Europa League semi-final away from home has been eliminated, Celta Vigo in 2016-17 (knocked out by Manchester United).\n• None Chelsea have scored the most goals (31) and had the most shots (217) in the Europa League this season.\n• None Pedro has been directly involved in seven goals in his last six starts for Chelsea in the Europa League (four goals, three assists).\n• None Jovic scored his ninth goal in this season's Europa League, only Olivier Giroud (10) has scored more.\n• None Offside, Chelsea. Kepa Arrizabalaga tries a through ball, but Olivier Giroud is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gonçalo Paciência (Eintracht Frankfurt) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. David Abraham (Eintracht Frankfurt) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Sebastian Rode with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Voters have delivered a stinging rebuke to the two main parties at Westminster in the local elections in England, with ballots still being counted in Northern Ireland.\n\nSee the results below in our interactive map.\n\nEither search using your postcode or council name or click around the map to show local results.\n\nBy-elections can take place in some council wards even if that council is not scheduled for elections this year. Check your council website for details.\n\nWith all the results declared in England the Conservatives have lost over 1,300 councillors while Labour has also seen dozens of losses. The Lib Dems and Greens have both made significant gains, with the Lib Dems gaining more than 700 councillors and the Greens nearly 200.\n\nIndependent candidates have also made unusually large gains, as shown by the rise of \"Others\" in the above chart.\n\nProfessor Sir John Curtice has calculated how Thursday's vote would translate across Britain. This projection of the national vote share puts Labour and the Conservatives both on 28%.\n\nThe Lib Dems were the big winners in terms of councils, taking over 10, seven of which were at the expense of the Conservatives. Their most impressive victory was in Chelmsford where they flipped a majority of 23.\n\nThe Conservatives saw big losses in the south west, particularly the new councils of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole and Somerset West & Taunton. Labour suffered its biggest loss in Ashfield, where it lost 20 councillors and the control of the council passed to Independents.\n\nLabour won seats in many parts of the country, and the party's largest gain was 16 councillors in the former UKIP stronghold of Thanet. The Conservatives' largest gain was in North East Derbyshire.\n\nSupport for the major parties fell more heavily in their heartlands, according to Prof Curtice, with Tories losing most seats in the south of England and Labour in the north.\n\nThe Green Party were one of the beneficiaries of the main parties' misfortune, gaining nearly 200 new councillors across the country and only failing to defend seats in two areas.\n\nMeanwhile, UKIP lost councillors in many areas. The biggest loss came in their old heartland of Thanet, where former-leader Nigel Farage campaigned unsuccessfully to become an MP in 2015.\n\nSeveral mayoral elections have also taken place across England. Middlesbrough and Copeland returned independent mayors, while the North of Tyne returned a Labour mayor as did Leicester. 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